Short squeeze is starting in shares of DES at $29.5, after crossing above the $28.63 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 WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund (DES), 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 WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund at $29.5, after crossing above the $28.63 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	136,336	312,564	43.62	28.43	3,876,032
2025-04-07	376,054	602,738	62.39	28.75	10,811,553
2025-04-04	256,148	532,928	48.06	29.12	7,459,030
2025-04-03	77,971	231,680	33.65	30.59	2,385,133
2025-04-02	40,247	142,983	28.15	32.05	1,289,916
2025-04-01	23,896	155,502	15.37	31.92	762,760
2025-03-31	36,902	83,641	44.12	31.85	1,175,329
2025-03-28	46,861	118,856	39.43	31.97	1,498,146
2025-03-27	29,013	87,373	33.21	32.37	939,151
2025-03-26	23,502	75,848	30.99	32.37	760,760
2025-03-25	25,373	82,105	30.9	32.56	826,145
2025-03-24	63,255	174,648	36.22	32.63	2,064,011
2025-03-21	20,339	67,294	30.22	32.12	653,289
2025-03-20	31,163	109,876	28.36	32.55	1,014,356
2025-03-19	16,429	86,582	18.98	32.53	534,435
2025-03-18	20,754	102,618	20.22	32.35	671,392
2025-03-17	19,756	106,162	18.61	32.43	640,687
2025-03-14	13,250	141,222	9.38	32.05	424,663
2025-03-13	28,078	123,577	22.72	31.71	890,353
2025-03-12	14,686	88,239	16.64	32	469,952
2025-03-11	11,528	116,630	9.88	32.22	371,432
2025-03-10	22,253	136,226	16.34	32.58	725,003
2025-03-07	22,896	95,457	23.99	32.72	749,157
2025-03-06	26,814	117,018	22.91	32.45	870,114
2025-03-05	15,046	100,413	14.98	32.57	490,048
2025-03-04	13,425	150,189	8.94	32.66	438,461
2025-03-03	7,862	102,551	7.67	33.45	262,984
2025-02-28	2,991	90,702	3.3	33.5	100,199
2025-02-27	9,460	91,992	10.28	33.52	317,099
2025-02-26	1,847	79,652	2.32	33.82	62,466
2025-02-25	3,418	81,478	4.19	33.87	115,768
2025-02-24	11,151	103,892	10.73	33.9	378,019
2025-02-21	9,933	114,330	8.69	34.05	338,219
2025-02-20	9,086	92,225	9.85	34.3	311,650
2025-02-19	7,755	117,754	6.59	34.53	267,780
2025-02-18	1,980	79,009	2.51	34.6	68,508
2025-02-14	4,182	56,296	7.43	34.5	144,279

Total	95,948,068	266,203,979	36.04	28.64	2,748,012,778

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of DES at $29.5, after crossing above the $28.63 Trigger Price