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Short squeeze is starting in shares of MBCN at $25.155, after crossing above the $25.141 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-25 08:31:08 - 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 Middlefield Banc Corp. (MBCN), 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 Middlefield Banc Corp. at $25.155, after crossing above the $25.141 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
2025-02-241,7985,1373525.0645,058
2025-02-213,18310,52330.2525.1279,957
2025-02-209806,25115.6825.7425,225
2025-02-191,3395,81223.0425.9434,734
2025-02-149414,48720.9726.7725,191
2025-02-132,84810,39427.425.5572,766
2025-02-122,00912,40716.1925.0750,366
2025-02-112,6976,24443.1925.8769,771
2025-02-102,0956,83030.6726.5455,601
2025-02-075074,33711.6925.3812,868
2025-02-061,0794,87822.1226.1628,227
2025-02-054,40411,37538.7226.08114,856
2025-02-042,6017,76733.4925.8267,158
2025-02-035,95212,53547.4825.55152,074
2025-01-314,22313,38531.5526.11110,263
2025-01-301,5777,36221.4227.9544,077
2025-01-292,0935,65836.9927.5857,725
2025-01-282,79410,77425.9326.6274,376
2025-01-278,24316,13851.0825.27208,301
2025-01-242,24014,35215.6124.5354,947
2025-01-231,2797,50917.0324.3831,182
2025-01-222,90714,02720.7225.0272,733
2025-01-211,7319,92517.4424.7342,808
2025-01-171,9706,91228.525.0549,349
2025-01-161,9815,64335.1125.5850,674
2025-01-152,1216,52632.525.9855,104
2025-01-141,7676,38627.6725.5545,147
2025-01-131,54811,09913.9525.0138,715
2025-01-102,84610,89426.1224.8370,666
2025-01-083,40728,93811.7726.2989,570
2025-01-073,91712,94230.2727.12106,229
2025-01-061,8867,11726.527.551,865
2025-01-032,5425,66944.8427.3969,625
2025-01-029525,53617.227.8326,494
2024-12-311,0284,76221.5928.128,887
2024-12-306263,80216.4728.0717,572
2024-12-272,27012,29718.4628.2664,150
 
Total5,193,20716,376,70431.7125.14130,561,804
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-26 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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