Short squeeze is starting in shares of ITW at $228.51, after crossing above the $228.423 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 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 $228.51, after crossing above the $228.423 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	902,048	2,075,387	43.46	221.68	199,966,001
2025-04-07	1,003,445	2,708,722	37.04	221.63	222,393,515
2025-04-04	966,229	2,298,239	42.04	228.28	220,570,756
2025-04-03	910,078	1,828,517	49.77	241.95	220,193,372
2025-04-02	426,685	1,305,287	32.69	251.58	107,345,412
2025-04-01	430,930	1,378,874	31.25	248.47	107,073,177
2025-03-31	652,794	2,314,387	28.21	247.07	161,285,814
2025-03-28	427,140	1,084,264	39.39	247.59	105,755,593
2025-03-27	872,908	1,713,398	50.95	252.12	220,077,565
2025-03-26	407,271	1,029,225	39.57	255.82	104,188,067
2025-03-25	396,222	918,842	43.12	255.15	101,096,043
2025-03-24	307,073	841,418	36.49	255.21	78,368,100
2025-03-21	595,834	2,256,603	26.4	251.16	149,649,667
2025-03-20	455,448	841,664	54.11	253.73	115,560,821
2025-03-19	488,786	1,223,418	39.95	256.05	125,153,655
2025-03-18	425,945	964,076	44.18	254.84	108,547,824
2025-03-17	396,715	1,072,864	36.98	255.82	101,487,631
2025-03-14	450,768	999,827	45.08	254.05	114,517,610
2025-03-13	563,884	1,271,420	44.35	251.56	141,850,659
2025-03-12	855,408	1,717,198	49.81	251.47	215,109,450
2025-03-11	942,525	1,988,635	47.4	257.11	242,332,603
2025-03-10	1,063,608	2,113,136	50.33	271.04	288,280,312
2025-03-07	1,443,479	2,532,926	56.99	273.23	394,401,767
2025-03-06	653,959	1,731,277	37.77	262.93	171,945,440
2025-03-05	650,619	2,017,497	32.25	260.15	169,258,533
2025-03-04	732,064	1,706,634	42.9	256.97	188,118,486
2025-03-03	521,286	1,275,885	40.86	263.19	137,197,262
2025-02-28	581,987	1,437,761	40.48	263.13	153,138,239
2025-02-27	492,508	911,555	54.03	261.66	128,869,643
2025-02-26	629,997	1,454,116	43.33	261.85	164,964,714
2025-02-25	734,034	1,461,128	50.24	264.77	194,350,182
2025-02-24	686,840	1,309,640	52.44	262.76	180,474,078
2025-02-21	455,448	1,100,896	41.37	264.2	120,329,362
2025-02-20	407,039	1,064,135	38.25	264.93	107,836,842
2025-02-19	372,612	976,515	38.16	263.54	98,198,166
2025-02-18	361,261	1,020,860	35.39	261.56	94,491,427
2025-02-14	346,936	1,103,866	31.43	258.49	89,679,487

Total	480,072,561	1,545,344,321	31.07	228.5	109,697,951,616

* 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 ITW at $228.51, after crossing above the $228.423 Trigger Price