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Short squeeze is starting in shares of MRK at $96.19, after crossing above the $95.037 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-07 10:15:20 - 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 Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), 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 Merck & Co., Inc. at $96.19, after crossing above the $95.037 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
2025-03-062,482,73213,414,28218.5193.32231,688,550
2025-03-053,844,15616,785,50922.992.9357,122,092
2025-03-043,881,06217,719,82121.993.35362,297,138
2025-03-033,496,91815,118,27523.1392.64323,954,484
2025-02-283,582,75715,481,12623.1491.33327,213,197
2025-02-272,423,33511,903,10220.3690.35218,948,317
2025-02-263,143,87813,513,38023.2689.53281,471,397
2025-02-253,687,35820,856,94217.6891.49337,356,383
2025-02-244,423,89421,788,82420.391.12403,105,221
2025-02-213,854,84018,770,82120.5488.93342,810,921
2025-02-203,544,71217,936,21419.7687.05308,567,180
2025-02-193,548,69018,985,74818.6984.7300,574,043
2025-02-182,863,71834,300,1348.3582.78237,058,576
2025-02-143,136,93930,067,04210.4383.17260,899,217
2025-02-133,935,91822,708,86917.3384.93334,277,516
2025-02-121,604,38620,064,587885.94137,880,933
2025-02-112,817,71222,091,59412.7586.38243,393,963
2025-02-103,012,61225,352,70011.8886.81261,524,848
2025-02-073,318,22620,112,26016.587.72291,074,785
2025-02-065,193,39219,252,98526.9788.47459,459,390
2025-02-054,662,82823,507,08019.8489.47417,183,221
2025-02-0414,567,53756,753,31225.6789.591,305,105,640
2025-02-032,862,84115,648,80218.2999.3284,280,111
2025-01-312,680,88515,902,24716.8699.1265,675,704
2025-01-302,873,43811,553,18824.8798.83283,981,878
2025-01-293,170,62314,117,69922.4698.24311,482,004
2025-01-282,532,57914,746,72517.1797.49246,901,127
2025-01-272,698,56519,908,85513.5597.67263,568,844
2025-01-243,073,16514,004,39021.9495.83294,501,402
2025-01-233,437,46611,502,44429.8896.44331,509,221
2025-01-223,076,02214,698,64720.9395.9294,990,510
2025-01-213,697,22720,977,65517.6296.48356,708,461
2025-01-174,536,40515,890,16528.5598.58447,198,805
2025-01-162,689,7387,222,44737.24100.52270,372,464
2025-01-152,606,5668,186,53431.84100.1260,917,257
2025-01-143,222,06914,675,09821.9699.61320,950,293
2025-01-133,206,69011,380,93828.18100.64322,721,282
 
Total3,178,478,45214,354,330,65322.1495.04302,069,323,458
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.