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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ESRT at $8.65, after crossing above the $8.551 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-05 08:32:05 - 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 Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT), 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 Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. at $8.65, after crossing above the $8.551 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
2025-03-04332,4012,242,85214.828.652,875,269
2025-03-03252,9551,060,44523.858.982,271,536
2025-02-28521,2671,241,60741.989.254,821,720
2025-02-271,107,1252,752,22940.239.1610,141,265
2025-02-26656,7051,924,36034.138.95,844,675
2025-02-25487,6841,811,52426.928.724,252,604
2025-02-24221,3501,288,62617.188.721,930,172
2025-02-21452,2631,481,82030.528.673,921,120
2025-02-201,765,4093,462,62550.988.8315,588,561
2025-02-19288,0251,190,62624.1992,592,225
2025-02-18191,836906,95121.159.051,736,116
2025-02-14232,8961,348,30117.279.12,119,354
2025-02-13221,0951,173,87818.839.162,025,230
2025-02-12432,1661,635,66826.429.193,971,606
2025-02-11197,002760,59825.99.361,843,939
2025-02-10286,4121,008,27028.419.462,709,458
2025-02-07331,773807,21541.19.633,194,974
2025-02-06306,3221,043,18129.369.672,962,134
2025-02-05735,6052,495,60829.489.67,061,808
2025-02-04463,5181,292,65235.869.474,389,515
2025-02-03384,5431,327,29228.979.483,645,468
2025-01-31388,2911,315,90929.519.513,692,647
2025-01-30326,0861,503,85421.689.513,101,078
2025-01-29411,0882,316,78517.749.173,769,677
2025-01-28294,9341,187,75924.839.412,775,329
2025-01-27742,2672,242,02333.119.587,110,918
2025-01-24332,2341,339,18624.819.633,199,413
2025-01-23320,138684,51046.779.653,089,332
2025-01-22391,096859,98045.489.723,801,453
2025-01-21363,4431,035,70835.099.843,576,279
2025-01-17398,606956,73341.669.643,842,562
2025-01-16373,842655,98456.999.613,592,622
2025-01-15453,6111,274,35035.69.594,350,129
2025-01-14719,9152,006,87635.879.536,860,790
2025-01-13517,9531,660,42131.199.424,879,117
2025-01-10623,9651,755,83835.549.555,958,866
2025-01-08284,4931,036,10427.469.782,782,342
 
Total715,715,6192,171,121,80532.978.556,118,200,889
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.