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Short squeeze is starting in shares of SNN at $29.11, after crossing above the $29.026 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-26 10:30:39 - 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 Smith & Nephew plc (SNN), 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 Smith & Nephew plc at $29.11, after crossing above the $29.026 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
2025-02-25583,6391,584,23636.8428.0116,347,728
2025-02-24341,768830,65641.1426.288,981,663
2025-02-21238,299561,90942.4126.076,212,455
2025-02-20104,228501,81320.7725.692,677,617
2025-02-19200,889546,83636.7425.655,152,803
2025-02-18513,431836,39161.3925.9813,338,937
2025-02-14305,149689,87744.2325.767,860,638
2025-02-13237,256670,82735.3725.616,076,126
2025-02-12237,204691,77534.2925.36,001,261
2025-02-11339,5181,151,58729.4825.078,511,716
2025-02-10234,432967,79324.2224.785,809,225
2025-02-07207,737847,63824.5124.745,139,413
2025-02-06214,672525,69640.8425.415,454,816
2025-02-05171,937522,28332.9226.084,484,117
2025-02-04215,212523,49841.1125.775,546,013
2025-02-03131,227355,34836.9325.43,333,166
2025-01-31203,702436,88146.6325.545,202,549
2025-01-30164,480544,89630.1925.714,228,781
2025-01-29124,165509,52824.3725.393,152,549
2025-01-28110,160338,40332.5525.562,815,690
2025-01-27164,960710,76923.2125.374,185,035
2025-01-24189,704488,70838.8225.094,759,673
2025-01-23186,657607,77230.7124.974,660,825
2025-01-22245,202675,68936.2925.326,208,515
2025-01-21368,334956,05338.5325.589,421,984
2025-01-171,198,9492,086,68757.4625.6230,717,073
2025-01-16288,043702,79940.9924.997,198,195
2025-01-15415,101815,15250.9224.7110,257,146
2025-01-14395,046835,49647.2823.869,425,798
2025-01-13261,083695,32937.5523.946,250,327
2025-01-10263,175769,59134.224.026,321,464
2025-01-08244,773607,19540.3124.295,945,536
2025-01-07877,3672,219,02539.5424.6521,627,097
2025-01-06544,3071,697,30532.0724.6513,417,168
2025-01-03527,5411,559,84633.8224.4212,882,551
2025-01-02196,957789,32724.9524.524,829,386
2024-12-31210,126535,94339.2124.595,166,998
 
Total357,813,9821,007,470,65735.522910,377,829,992
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-27 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.