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Short squeeze is starting in shares of WLK at $108.65, after crossing above the $107.363 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-05 10:31:00 - 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 Westlake Corporation (WLK), 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 Westlake Corporation at $108.65, after crossing above the $107.363 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
2025-03-04443,772751,95559.02106.9447,456,978
2025-03-03421,850800,36152.71109.4646,175,701
2025-02-28343,018594,41957.71112.0238,424,876
2025-02-27343,402846,15940.58111.238,186,302
2025-02-26300,510653,69045.97112.2933,744,268
2025-02-25381,121809,65247.07112.5142,879,924
2025-02-24973,5251,748,05355.69108.42105,549,581
2025-02-21391,357983,68939.78109.9243,017,961
2025-02-20362,140825,24843.88111.4740,367,746
2025-02-19379,694865,41543.87113.0542,924,407
2025-02-18343,438884,79838.82116.6540,062,043
2025-02-14482,3181,085,24344.44115.6655,784,900
2025-02-13191,806505,87237.92112.321,539,814
2025-02-12298,421619,89248.14111.2133,187,399
2025-02-11296,6331,043,32128.43112.4133,344,516
2025-02-10159,633477,05833.46111.1517,743,208
2025-02-07145,430352,30241.28111.7116,245,985
2025-02-06239,321513,14746.64112.9427,028,914
2025-02-05196,268451,08243.51110.1921,626,771
2025-02-04323,296771,44941.91110.9635,872,924
2025-02-03357,934692,98351.65110.6639,608,976
2025-01-31597,0402,160,82327.63114.3468,265,554
2025-01-30323,230669,13048.31115.6337,375,085
2025-01-29241,783545,33944.34117.2928,358,728
2025-01-28297,873666,99144.66118.1235,184,759
2025-01-27260,281714,87736.41117.3130,533,564
2025-01-24250,976515,91448.65118.1129,642,775
2025-01-23245,280497,95449.26117.828,893,984
2025-01-2297,046301,36032.2117.9911,450,458
2025-01-21190,142437,67943.44119.0622,638,307
2025-01-17178,301355,39750.17117.9921,037,735
2025-01-16215,092448,62347.94117.4825,269,008
2025-01-15250,906514,66648.75116.8929,328,402
2025-01-14180,675414,55343.58114.7320,728,843
2025-01-13401,525858,23846.78112.5545,191,639
2025-01-10456,151972,61246.9110.4750,391,001
2025-01-08282,279836,91033.73110.5931,217,235
 
Total254,045,902788,515,96832.22107.4127,286,469,452
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.