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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ITW at $228.53, after crossing above the $228.118 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-07 08:30:13 - 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 Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), 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 Illinois Tool Works Inc. at $228.53, after crossing above the $228.118 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
2025-04-04966,2292,298,23942.04228.28220,570,756
2025-04-03910,0781,828,51749.77241.95220,193,372
2025-04-02426,6851,305,28732.69251.58107,345,412
2025-04-01430,9301,378,87431.25248.47107,073,177
2025-03-31652,7942,314,38728.21247.07161,285,814
2025-03-28427,1401,084,26439.39247.59105,755,593
2025-03-27872,9081,713,39850.95252.12220,077,565
2025-03-26407,2711,029,22539.57255.82104,188,067
2025-03-25396,222918,84243.12255.15101,096,043
2025-03-24307,073841,41836.49255.2178,368,100
2025-03-21595,8342,256,60326.4251.16149,649,667
2025-03-20455,448841,66454.11253.73115,560,821
2025-03-19488,7861,223,41839.95256.05125,153,655
2025-03-18425,945964,07644.18254.84108,547,824
2025-03-17396,7151,072,86436.98255.82101,487,631
2025-03-14450,768999,82745.08254.05114,517,610
2025-03-13563,8841,271,42044.35251.56141,850,659
2025-03-12855,4081,717,19849.81251.47215,109,450
2025-03-11942,5251,988,63547.4257.11242,332,603
2025-03-101,063,6082,113,13650.33271.04288,280,312
2025-03-071,443,4792,532,92656.99273.23394,401,767
2025-03-06653,9591,731,27737.77262.93171,945,440
2025-03-05650,6192,017,49732.25260.15169,258,533
2025-03-04732,0641,706,63442.9256.97188,118,486
2025-03-03521,2861,275,88540.86263.19137,197,262
2025-02-28581,9871,437,76140.48263.13153,138,239
2025-02-27492,508911,55554.03261.66128,869,643
2025-02-26629,9971,454,11643.33261.85164,964,714
2025-02-25734,0341,461,12850.24264.77194,350,182
2025-02-24686,8401,309,64052.44262.76180,474,078
2025-02-21455,4481,100,89641.37264.2120,329,362
2025-02-20407,0391,064,13538.25264.93107,836,842
2025-02-19372,612976,51538.16263.5498,198,166
2025-02-18361,2611,020,86035.39261.5694,491,427
2025-02-14346,9361,103,86631.43258.4989,679,487
2025-02-13445,845985,69945.23259.64115,759,196
2025-02-12371,8611,274,32229.18255.7595,103,451
 
Total479,325,1511,544,089,97631.04228.36109,460,012,432
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-08 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.