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Short squeeze is starting in shares of VZ at $45.115, after crossing above the $44.729 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-07 10:32:55 - 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 Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), 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 Verizon Communications Inc. at $45.115, after crossing above the $44.729 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
2025-03-0610,812,04522,653,91747.7343.74472,918,848
2025-03-058,635,70521,987,78739.2842.77369,349,103
2025-03-0415,892,14636,675,70743.3343.46690,672,665
2025-03-039,802,52423,586,86641.5643.66427,978,198
2025-02-2810,215,68125,192,06540.5543.02439,478,597
2025-02-279,207,33024,489,51737.643.17397,480,436
2025-02-2610,122,17718,610,44254.3943.16436,873,159
2025-02-2510,978,15024,645,02644.5543.75480,294,063
2025-02-248,980,75231,137,06428.8443.31388,956,369
2025-02-2111,631,84535,450,45932.8142.84498,308,240
2025-02-209,881,98722,753,14843.4342.31418,106,870
2025-02-199,242,48423,018,35840.1541.81386,428,256
2025-02-185,963,44120,098,21029.6741.08244,978,156
2025-02-145,496,20215,797,97834.7941.08225,783,978
2025-02-137,266,38818,476,31839.3340.93297,413,261
2025-02-126,054,97614,080,4084340.46244,984,329
2025-02-116,674,63120,112,47433.1940.31269,054,376
2025-02-107,438,79320,990,46935.4439.95297,179,780
2025-02-077,490,40219,443,63538.5239.86298,567,424
2025-02-068,412,06415,341,50354.8339.87335,388,992
2025-02-057,534,99318,853,68239.9740.05301,776,470
2025-02-046,884,63224,224,25828.4239.75273,664,122
2025-02-0315,100,11431,461,1444839.86601,890,544
2025-01-3119,366,08179,571,04624.3439.47764,379,217
2025-01-309,702,57029,498,39032.8939.57383,930,695
2025-01-296,792,46724,852,36027.3340.32273,872,269
2025-01-287,205,85220,804,62134.6440.52291,981,123
2025-01-2711,292,10738,356,10129.4440.52457,556,176
2025-01-2411,973,48140,604,63229.4939.76476,065,605
2025-01-2310,437,79023,191,13045.0139.22409,370,124
2025-01-228,813,76934,045,97625.8939343,736,991
2025-01-216,005,25924,720,40224.2939.18235,286,048
2025-01-177,265,26523,980,42930.338.75281,529,019
2025-01-169,988,26424,552,06240.6838.19381,451,802
2025-01-157,185,49927,793,02325.8538.2274,486,062
2025-01-145,309,72219,864,13426.7338.12202,406,603
2025-01-136,062,35826,058,78023.2638.02230,490,851
 
Total8,097,984,33727,552,973,88729.3944.73362,207,177,743
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.