Short squeeze is starting in shares of CWBC at $17.52, after crossing above the $17.28 Trigger Price

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 Community West Bancshares (CWBC), 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 Community West Bancshares at $17.52, after crossing above the $17.28 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-04-08	13,955	43,380	32.17	16.59	231,513
2025-04-07	16,775	58,995	28.43	16.67	279,639
2025-04-04	17,450	57,861	30.16	16.49	287,751
2025-04-03	26,021	57,257	45.45	17.26	449,122
2025-04-02	13,301	41,631	31.95	18.39	244,605
2025-04-01	9,680	34,195	28.31	18.41	178,209
2025-03-31	13,667	49,834	27.43	18.49	252,703
2025-03-28	9,604	35,979	26.69	18.45	177,194
2025-03-27	10,068	47,711	21.1	18.62	187,466
2025-03-26	14,093	48,803	28.88	18.58	261,848
2025-03-25	13,783	36,620	37.64	18.57	255,950
2025-03-24	18,301	52,032	35.17	18.59	340,216
2025-03-21	24,971	111,617	22.37	18.05	450,727
2025-03-20	8,970	22,852	39.25	18.36	164,689
2025-03-19	18,137	63,867	28.4	18.25	331,000
2025-03-18	12,880	39,399	32.69	18.06	232,613
2025-03-17	12,958	45,361	28.57	18.03	233,633
2025-03-14	14,495	40,577	35.72	18.04	261,490
2025-03-13	10,425	36,565	28.51	17.88	186,399
2025-03-12	16,740	54,319	30.82	17.97	300,818
2025-03-11	16,438	74,006	22.21	18.04	296,542
2025-03-10	26,843	82,447	32.56	18.36	492,837
2025-03-07	13,245	50,984	25.98	18.47	244,635
2025-03-06	8,651	48,295	17.91	18.49	159,957
2025-03-05	13,281	59,337	22.38	18.64	247,558
2025-03-04	16,025	62,819	25.51	18.86	302,232
2025-03-03	8,268	53,521	15.45	19.31	159,655
2025-02-28	17,326	49,157	35.25	19.27	333,872
2025-02-27	8,006	31,043	25.79	18.86	150,993
2025-02-26	10,229	68,757	14.88	18.82	192,510
2025-02-25	19,838	93,164	21.29	18.84	373,748
2025-02-24	12,315	47,219	26.08	18.74	230,783
2025-02-21	14,816	54,885	26.99	18.84	279,133
2025-02-20	7,622	59,120	12.89	18.87	143,827
2025-02-19	6,000	46,879	12.8	18.95	113,700
2025-02-18	6,154	36,715	16.76	19.05	117,234
2025-02-14	6,292	24,295	25.9	19.04	119,800

Total	6,560,533	20,720,886	31.66	17.28	113,392,858

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of CWBC at $17.52, after crossing above the $17.28 Trigger Price