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Short squeeze is starting in shares of UBSI at $34.31, after crossing above the $34.12 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-12 08:30:23 - 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 United Bankshares, Inc. (UBSI), 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 United Bankshares, Inc. at $34.31, after crossing above the $34.12 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
2025-03-11198,818973,69120.4234.26,799,576
2025-03-10335,3741,027,73032.6334.5511,587,172
2025-03-07194,696658,68329.5635.046,822,148
2025-03-06206,831706,99129.2635.127,263,905
2025-03-05169,698670,02225.3335.275,985,248
2025-03-04290,4991,038,22427.9835.2910,251,710
2025-03-03205,574798,99025.7336.257,452,058
2025-02-28183,319825,95022.1936.096,615,983
2025-02-27177,147891,99519.8635.66,306,433
2025-02-26318,5392,265,20314.0635.1811,206,202
2025-02-25333,2831,341,49124.8435.5111,834,879
2025-02-24151,596698,89321.6935.535,386,206
2025-02-21518,0781,263,90640.9935.9518,624,904
2025-02-20206,792748,03727.6436.877,624,421
2025-02-19157,235542,08229.0137.755,935,621
2025-02-18135,801512,89126.4838.145,179,450
2025-02-1484,011341,35724.6138.063,197,459
2025-02-13121,185399,82630.3138.174,625,631
2025-02-12147,612478,99130.8237.965,603,352
2025-02-11121,196381,15831.838.854,708,465
2025-02-10172,221444,70338.7338.366,606,398
2025-02-07158,628404,79439.1938.626,126,213
2025-02-06149,163395,22137.7439.175,842,715
2025-02-05131,767407,48532.3438.615,087,524
2025-02-04177,769491,15636.1938.336,813,886
2025-02-03211,854479,31244.237.677,980,540
2025-01-31288,4311,215,80523.7238.5211,110,362
2025-01-30212,721473,83344.8938.538,196,140
2025-01-29234,138605,70838.6638.328,972,168
2025-01-28288,227668,32943.1338.6311,134,209
2025-01-27334,849706,41447.438.9213,032,323
2025-01-24258,615634,64140.7538.339,912,713
2025-01-23407,146800,26150.8838.2815,585,549
2025-01-22223,440496,95244.9638.298,555,518
2025-01-21243,912498,47548.9338.789,458,907
2025-01-17272,399618,95344.0138.4910,484,638
2025-01-16373,243714,43152.2438.0814,213,093
 
Total335,610,880794,210,79842.2634.1411,457,568,236
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.