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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PFS at $18.095, after crossing above the $18.049 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-25 11:15:06 - 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 Provident Financial Services, Inc. (PFS), 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 Provident Financial Services, Inc. at $18.095, after crossing above the $18.049 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
2025-02-24256,836719,40235.717.854,584,523
2025-02-21498,321898,52455.4618.249,089,375
2025-02-20292,931630,10046.4918.275,351,849
2025-02-19188,749507,36837.218.53,491,857
2025-02-18237,526829,03528.6518.674,434,610
2025-02-14169,003684,68924.6818.633,148,526
2025-02-13198,935462,28043.0318.853,749,925
2025-02-12221,186850,19426.0218.824,162,721
2025-02-11188,580524,87235.9319.443,665,995
2025-02-10284,029741,43538.3119.235,461,878
2025-02-07302,761918,26432.9719.225,819,066
2025-02-06304,123548,04455.4919.455,915,192
2025-02-05237,365621,30638.219.024,514,682
2025-02-04341,5831,643,12420.7918.786,414,929
2025-02-03274,875725,46237.8918.255,016,469
2025-01-31324,8441,150,97528.2218.566,029,105
2025-01-30365,798915,54539.9518.576,792,869
2025-01-29851,9061,744,46848.8318.2515,547,285
2025-01-28283,546776,17136.5319.185,438,412
2025-01-27205,4421,063,73219.3119.123,928,051
2025-01-24154,846535,66328.9118.982,938,977
2025-01-23161,259473,42534.0618.993,062,308
2025-01-22185,794576,28332.2419.043,537,518
2025-01-21202,115620,66732.5619.483,937,200
2025-01-17198,887388,47951.219.323,842,497
2025-01-16229,193429,67653.3419.224,405,089
2025-01-15184,502445,19041.4419.373,573,804
2025-01-14297,761900,22333.0819.025,663,414
2025-01-13319,287851,06737.5218.285,836,566
2025-01-10312,758766,23440.8217.985,623,389
2025-01-08178,773655,03627.2918.543,314,451
2025-01-07259,280850,61130.4818.444,781,123
2025-01-06178,068484,38936.7618.83,347,678
2025-01-03201,296619,34232.518.813,786,378
2025-01-02285,198885,30632.2118.675,324,647
2024-12-31184,287441,22941.7718.863,475,653
2024-12-30164,057451,32436.3518.843,090,834
 
Total219,429,154729,020,12230.118.053,960,265,518
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-26 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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