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Short squeeze is starting in shares of EFC at $13.221, after crossing above the $13.209 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-25 10:00:02 - WOPRAI
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In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of Ellington Financial Inc. at $13.221, after crossing above the $13.209 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-02-24636,0751,293,74749.1713.128,345,304
2025-02-21783,0511,588,59149.2913.110,257,968
2025-02-20451,012919,57149.0513.095,903,747
2025-02-19561,2601,168,56848.0313.077,335,668
2025-02-18666,4861,431,76446.5513.098,724,302
2025-02-14467,1851,025,34545.5612.956,050,046
2025-02-13534,0631,188,53744.9312.826,846,688
2025-02-12394,498794,71949.6412.654,990,400
2025-02-11323,123756,38342.7212.74,103,662
2025-02-10418,130915,14045.6912.75,310,251
2025-02-07414,182865,17447.8712.675,247,686
2025-02-06503,9651,044,95648.2312.716,405,395
2025-02-05386,365797,90348.4212.654,887,517
2025-02-04457,7151,054,05843.4212.575,753,478
2025-02-03624,9981,173,68053.2512.487,799,975
2025-01-31488,2501,171,81141.6712.586,142,185
2025-01-30596,8261,043,29257.2112.587,508,071
2025-01-29764,7971,429,30453.5112.549,590,554
2025-01-28565,910940,34560.1812.687,175,739
2025-01-27743,5911,402,53653.0212.619,376,683
2025-01-24302,125594,64550.8112.523,782,605
2025-01-23331,878634,00152.3512.474,138,519
2025-01-22328,514723,40045.4112.544,119,566
2025-01-21431,259797,46254.0812.595,429,551
2025-01-17441,230721,08261.1912.535,528,612
2025-01-16579,0601,143,94250.6212.467,215,088
2025-01-15333,149738,11445.1412.34,097,733
2025-01-14380,179830,45045.7812.194,634,382
2025-01-13541,5401,061,04951.0412.036,514,726
2025-01-10662,9071,040,63263.712.088,007,917
2025-01-08448,247817,80854.8112.155,446,201
2025-01-07643,8741,093,18658.912.197,848,824
2025-01-06459,052779,07058.9212.315,650,930
2025-01-03482,9781,212,84639.8212.35,940,629
2025-01-02455,868855,08853.3112.145,534,238
2024-12-31689,3711,342,91151.3312.118,348,283
2024-12-30507,802832,4686112.116,149,482
 
Total428,350,2271,045,928,13240.9513.25,656,105,130
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-26 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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