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Short squeeze is starting in shares of XPH at $43.91, after crossing above the $43.77 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-19 08:30:20 - 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 SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH), 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 SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF at $43.91, after crossing above the $43.77 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
2025-03-1819,52528,57068.3443.74854,024
2025-03-1720,47830,37167.4343.53891,407
2025-03-141,2197,87015.4942.8352,210
2025-03-1341,18349,68682.8942.961,769,222
2025-03-1213,22817,32476.3643.18571,185
2025-03-117,09822,59931.4143.25306,989
2025-03-1069,22797,03471.3443.923,040,450
2025-03-0779,596118,10867.3944.443,537,246
2025-03-0615,17628,05954.0944.11669,413
2025-03-0532,77752,64462.2644.121,446,121
2025-03-0432,32761,80652.343.811,416,246
2025-03-0310,84035,41430.6144.03477,285
2025-02-2812,17920,78358.644.28539,286
2025-02-2725,32538,02066.6144.171,118,605
2025-02-2650,545101,06950.0144.532,250,769
2025-02-256,49732,38820.0644.28287,687
2025-02-246,04220,86428.9644.61269,534
2025-02-2116,66540,94940.744.97749,425
2025-02-205,27216,15132.6444.93236,871
2025-02-199,65529,30632.9544.94433,896
2025-02-182,86914,69319.5345.02129,162
2025-02-149,44421,08044.845.01425,074
2025-02-1312,07930,12840.0945.29547,058
2025-02-1247,36783,67856.6144.912,127,252
2025-02-111,65014,37611.4844.6573,673
2025-02-101,04016,0026.544.7946,582
2025-02-077,37320,10836.6744.77330,089
2025-02-065,97732,33818.4845.58272,432
2025-02-052,12614,39714.7745.5896,903
2025-02-047,01420,25634.6344.83314,438
2025-02-036,07272,2018.4144.77271,843
2025-01-317,65036,01321.2445.23346,010
2025-01-3018,17936,37549.9845.8832,598
2025-01-294,91213,65635.9745.42223,103
2025-01-2833,61448,36069.5145.441,527,420
2025-01-2726,943124,57221.6345.61,228,601
2025-01-241,36918,7707.2945.0161,619
 
Total28,312,61172,735,94138.9343.791,239,867,190
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.