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Short squeeze is starting in shares of EFC at $13.29, after crossing above the $13.269 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-01 11:45:12 - 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 Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC), 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 Ellington Financial Inc. at $13.29, after crossing above the $13.269 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
2025-03-31449,3111,052,51942.6913.225,939,891
2025-03-28628,2941,008,39362.3113.228,306,047
2025-03-27442,664728,17560.7913.355,909,564
2025-03-26547,628889,67961.5513.257,256,071
2025-03-25639,278983,19765.0213.388,553,540
2025-03-24540,3351,133,13347.6913.387,229,682
2025-03-21836,5332,738,46530.5513.2711,100,793
2025-03-20387,631765,17750.6613.435,205,884
2025-03-19433,3371,002,94143.2113.425,815,383
2025-03-18290,580929,68731.2613.443,905,395
2025-03-17364,264929,41939.1913.464,902,993
2025-03-14290,069822,80735.2513.373,878,223
2025-03-13388,2311,011,17338.3913.195,120,767
2025-03-12590,7181,293,88245.6513.157,767,942
2025-03-11540,9821,571,53034.4213.137,103,094
2025-03-10795,8082,078,62338.2913.410,663,827
2025-03-07639,7151,982,76532.2613.628,712,918
2025-03-06442,0551,386,80231.8813.55,967,743
2025-03-05491,7641,959,74225.0913.616,692,908
2025-03-04479,6821,832,20826.1813.626,533,269
2025-03-03984,1103,230,23730.471413,777,540
2025-02-281,267,5443,846,11732.9614.0617,821,669
2025-02-27682,5881,094,29962.3813.339,098,898
2025-02-26596,4121,250,82347.6813.367,968,064
2025-02-25951,8451,907,24549.9113.2712,630,983
2025-02-24636,0751,293,74749.1713.128,345,304
2025-02-21783,0511,588,59149.2913.110,257,968
2025-02-20451,012919,57149.0513.095,903,747
2025-02-19561,2601,168,56848.0313.077,335,668
2025-02-18666,4861,431,76446.5513.098,724,302
2025-02-14467,1851,025,34545.5612.956,050,046
2025-02-13534,0631,188,53744.9312.826,846,688
2025-02-12394,498794,71949.6412.654,990,400
2025-02-11323,123756,38342.7212.74,103,662
2025-02-10418,130915,14045.6912.75,310,251
2025-02-07414,182865,17447.8712.675,247,686
2025-02-06503,9651,044,95648.2312.716,405,395
 
Total434,359,9621,046,482,51941.5113.285,767,218,263
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-03 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.