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Short squeeze is starting in shares of LGI at $16.22, after crossing above the $16.204 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-05 08:32:44 - 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 Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc. (LGI), 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 Lazard Global Total Return and Income Fund, Inc. at $16.22, after crossing above the $16.204 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
2025-03-0422,51586,16726.1316.15363,617
2025-03-0326,10296,40327.0816.34426,507
2025-02-2842,887130,64232.8316.35701,202
2025-02-2730,15485,88635.1116.6500,556
2025-02-2613,47850,48926.6916.76225,891
2025-02-2518,20850,07736.3616.71304,256
2025-02-2416,60647,72034.816.86279,977
2025-02-2138,185116,84432.6817.04650,672
2025-02-2021,47755,27238.8616.97364,465
2025-02-1920,79558,37235.6216.88351,020
2025-02-1818,97641,47945.7516.87320,125
2025-02-148,72028,70430.3816.87147,106
2025-02-1317,52953,22732.9316.78294,137
2025-02-127,58438,04619.9316.58125,743
2025-02-1122,68650,47844.9416.59376,361
2025-02-1011,62628,28841.116.57192,643
2025-02-0720,24684,80423.8716.77339,525
2025-02-0614,00228,90048.4516.84235,794
2025-02-0511,58040,81028.3816.7193,386
2025-02-0422,82660,12837.9616.67380,509
2025-02-0324,75280,98330.5616.58410,388
2025-01-3127,26561,21344.5416.79457,779
2025-01-3024,33864,84637.5316.76407,905
2025-01-2918,68246,26540.3816.64310,868
2025-01-2811,24945,70524.6116.76188,533
2025-01-2718,89352,62135.916.65314,568
2025-01-2414,36649,59228.9716.73240,343
2025-01-2312,51763,23019.816.6207,782
2025-01-2220,46565,86031.0716.48337,263
2025-01-2116,64757,38529.0116.23270,181
2025-01-1712,09942,51028.4616.14195,278
2025-01-1625,39153,68747.2916.01406,510
2025-01-1519,60248,40440.515.98313,240
2025-01-1411,74670,13516.7515.75185,000
2025-01-1310,09565,74015.3615.67158,189
2025-01-1022,14175,78929.2115.76348,942
2025-01-0814,49271,01020.4115.93230,858
 
Total17,853,56854,690,99832.6416.21289,325,075
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.