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Short squeeze is starting in shares of HOVNP at $17.56, after crossing above the $17.517 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-26 10:00:05 - 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 Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. PFD DEP1/1000A (HOVNP), 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 Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. PFD DEP1/1000A at $17.56, after crossing above the $17.517 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
2025-03-251,3631,60984.7117.4823,825
2025-03-2435,93656,25463.8817.44626,724
2025-03-211086,9461.5517.611,902
2025-03-2082515,7225.2517.4814,421
2025-03-193,15013,33423.6217.555,125
2025-03-1876228,5752.6717.5113,343
2025-03-174,87014,33333.9817.5585,469
2025-03-143,63710,00236.3617.4863,575
2025-03-136,50011,37657.1417.27112,255
2025-03-128102,51332.2317.3214,029
2025-03-113,69010,05336.7117.2463,616
2025-03-103,91313,66728.6317.2467,460
2025-03-071,4986,64322.5517.426,065
2025-03-065,9098,72567.7217.36102,580
2025-03-059576,18415.4817.2816,537
2025-03-042,97211,35326.1817.1651,000
2025-03-031,7247,43923.1817.2629,756
2025-02-281,2312,47349.7817.2121,186
2025-02-275,33324,94021.3817.1691,514
2025-02-261014,9612.0417.141,731
2025-02-259,64025,20438.2517.02164,073
2025-02-246,31624,30625.9917.05107,688
2025-02-211,82311,61215.717.1531,264
2025-02-206625,23612.6417.2811,439
2025-02-191,85113,48413.7317.2731,967
2025-02-182001,91610.4417.323,464
2025-02-141201,4528.2617.342,081
2025-02-139703,93624.6417.2316,713
2025-02-122583,3137.7917.234,445
2025-02-112471,64814.9917.294,271
2025-02-102,1937,26430.1917.1737,654
2025-02-071,4205,88124.1517.1724,381
2025-02-062787,1863.8717.234,790
2025-02-051,8383,82348.0817.3131,816
2025-02-041661,32012.5817.232,860
2025-02-035012,74418.2617.168,597
2025-01-318364,1792017.1714,354
 
Total1,773,8419,486,04618.717.5331,099,635
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.