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Short squeeze is starting in shares of COLB at $25.69, after crossing above the $25.52 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-05 08:31:34 - 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 Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB), 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 Columbia Banking System, Inc. at $25.69, after crossing above the $25.52 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
2025-03-041,247,0552,799,57944.5425.5531,862,255
2025-03-03553,6311,300,06142.5926.4614,649,076
2025-02-28759,6201,614,44047.0526.6620,251,469
2025-02-27739,3351,686,40943.8426.7619,784,605
2025-02-26977,1602,253,62443.3626.5225,914,283
2025-02-25894,2571,884,25247.4626.6723,849,834
2025-02-24739,8181,533,87848.2326.5219,619,973
2025-02-21478,0361,032,29246.3126.6212,725,318
2025-02-20425,0961,080,80239.3327.0311,490,345
2025-02-19512,753886,92957.8127.5414,121,218
2025-02-18480,295901,51353.2827.7613,332,989
2025-02-14451,367951,63847.4327.5112,417,106
2025-02-13386,862921,95041.9627.3110,565,201
2025-02-12500,3051,031,39948.5127.3913,703,354
2025-02-11578,4491,196,56148.3427.8716,121,374
2025-02-10780,5651,402,48455.6627.4821,449,926
2025-02-07461,8831,057,17443.6927.8912,881,917
2025-02-06465,5901,259,50436.9728.4513,246,036
2025-02-05529,1821,324,88339.9428.2814,965,267
2025-02-04577,5431,172,23949.2727.9616,148,102
2025-02-031,034,0141,831,81856.4527.3928,321,643
2025-01-31544,0151,119,53848.5927.9215,188,899
2025-01-30548,1531,060,03151.7128.0515,375,692
2025-01-29728,7571,267,98257.4727.7620,230,294
2025-01-28522,4001,076,78948.5127.8914,569,736
2025-01-27921,6451,892,65548.728.1125,907,441
2025-01-24962,7961,934,86949.7628.127,054,568
2025-01-231,166,0752,151,64354.1928.4133,128,191
2025-01-22898,1381,342,68966.8928.7325,803,505
2025-01-211,161,3172,116,25254.8828.8133,457,543
2025-01-17676,9041,312,77351.5628.4719,271,457
2025-01-16715,1751,160,05961.6528.0820,082,114
2025-01-151,079,1382,152,81450.1328.6330,895,721
2025-01-14710,7071,465,11548.5127.6319,636,834
2025-01-13692,9441,371,78050.5126.418,293,722
2025-01-10583,5781,176,33749.6126.2115,295,579
2025-01-08472,8451,084,23743.6127.1112,818,828
 
Total618,393,5641,499,184,40041.2525.5115,778,021,991
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.