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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PEGA at $77.61, after crossing above the $77.289 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-28 14:00:02 - 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 Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA), 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 Pegasystems Inc. at $77.61, after crossing above the $77.289 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
2025-02-27247,945745,73233.2577.3319,173,587
2025-02-26209,467503,38241.6179.1416,577,218
2025-02-25334,366885,92037.7477.5825,940,114
2025-02-24372,2101,001,57337.1677.9429,010,047
2025-02-21301,837866,70834.8378.8423,796,829
2025-02-20425,4201,077,14739.582.0934,922,728
2025-02-19421,921984,20442.8784.1835,517,310
2025-02-18668,0771,392,39947.9885.6157,194,072
2025-02-14629,8682,019,66431.1983.9252,858,523
2025-02-131,360,0673,286,77441.3888.11119,835,503
2025-02-12517,8121,521,92834.02104.9754,354,726
2025-02-11448,2041,660,63526.99103.3846,335,330
2025-02-10251,141718,56934.95105.3226,450,170
2025-02-07254,897785,41632.45105.526,891,634
2025-02-06272,570792,38334.4106.2728,966,014
2025-02-05336,787846,18839.8108.6836,602,011
2025-02-04224,155439,69750.98108.4224,302,885
2025-02-03272,273494,02855.11107.5529,282,961
2025-01-31613,8891,023,72859.97108.1566,392,095
2025-01-30303,850885,02134.33106.8532,466,373
2025-01-29388,086857,79945.24107.5141,723,126
2025-01-28746,1391,124,11766.38111.5983,261,651
2025-01-27347,671728,36747.73106.6637,082,589
2025-01-24326,201815,33840.01108.8235,497,193
2025-01-23690,8541,121,55961.6108.1374,702,043
2025-01-22341,581638,16353.53106.4636,364,713
2025-01-21492,637775,27763.54105.451,923,940
2025-01-17554,838960,30557.78103.657,481,217
2025-01-16757,1361,303,78758.07102.5277,621,583
2025-01-15870,6981,245,70969.999.286,373,242
2025-01-14189,268447,83842.2693.8817,768,480
2025-01-13278,912657,10042.4592.0625,676,639
2025-01-10574,618960,46659.8394.954,531,248
2025-01-08335,816645,38752.0395.3532,020,056
2025-01-071,024,8291,471,04169.6794.3396,672,120
2025-01-06193,154566,37534.19418,156,476
2025-01-03205,555531,31338.6994.3719,398,225
 
Total181,339,117506,503,26335.877.2814,013,404,717
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-02 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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