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Short squeeze is starting in shares of XELB at $3.65, after crossing above the $2.276 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-25 10:30:31 - 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 Xcel Brands, Inc. (XELB), 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 Xcel Brands, Inc. at $3.65, after crossing above the $2.276 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
2025-03-24139,911338,52741.330.3447,570
2025-03-21264,147391,04767.550.2873,961
2025-03-2013,30332,62940.770.293,858
2025-03-1943,545180,17024.170.2611,322
2025-03-184,51816,21227.870.271,220
2025-03-173,67212,18730.130.281,028
2025-03-143,27829,11411.260.28918
2025-03-135,2416,36382.370.291,520
2025-03-1244,93672,20462.230.2913,031
2025-03-1176,878104,40873.630.2619,988
2025-03-1018,62839,99746.570.285,216
2025-03-0737,17074,58149.840.2910,779
2025-03-063,75824,57615.290.281,052
2025-03-052,97625,79411.540.28833
2025-03-0410,93326,30141.570.272,952
2025-03-0322,135224,2399.870.286,198
2025-02-2821,50361,61634.90.36,451
2025-02-27100,788162,28162.110.3131,244
2025-02-268,73144,16319.770.332,881
2025-02-2536,525104,21335.050.3412,419
2025-02-2415,12754,31227.850.365,446
2025-02-217,62063,42412.010.382,896
2025-02-2028,36051,87354.670.3810,777
2025-02-1979,391136,02958.360.3830,169
2025-02-1824,21665,32837.070.49,686
2025-02-1434,28561,31055.920.3913,371
2025-02-131,17228,6004.10.38445
2025-02-1216,09455,89128.80.365,794
2025-02-1114,99137,44340.040.395,846
2025-02-1050,417113,32544.490.3819,158
2025-02-071,60724,8506.470.38611
2025-02-0627,64433,93281.470.3910,781
2025-02-052,71311,23324.150.41,085
2025-02-0420,78668,99030.130.418,522
2025-02-032,64911,65722.720.421,113
2025-01-314189,8354.250.43180
2025-01-305,89016,23736.280.442,592
 
Total139,759,523353,301,96039.562.27317,864,963
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-26 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.