Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.51, after crossing above the $18.993 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 Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), 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 Photronics, Inc. at $19.51, after crossing above the $18.993 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	372,980	995,698	37.46	17.25	6,433,905
2025-04-07	416,994	1,083,881	38.47	17.3	7,213,996
2025-04-04	313,937	924,941	33.94	17.39	5,459,364
2025-04-03	283,161	724,313	39.09	18.5	5,238,479
2025-04-02	243,299	474,473	51.28	20.42	4,968,166
2025-04-01	225,661	525,580	42.94	20.27	4,574,148
2025-03-31	365,867	792,253	46.18	20.6	7,536,860
2025-03-28	291,754	652,110	44.74	20.65	6,024,720
2025-03-27	321,286	597,755	53.75	21.38	6,869,095
2025-03-26	272,873	565,083	48.29	21.54	5,877,684
2025-03-25	145,799	371,305	39.27	21.59	3,147,800
2025-03-24	204,275	592,339	34.49	21.62	4,416,426
2025-03-21	468,597	2,264,721	20.69	21.03	9,854,595
2025-03-20	176,616	620,416	28.47	21.4	3,779,582
2025-03-19	120,296	409,340	29.39	21.53	2,589,973
2025-03-18	189,622	553,504	34.26	21.49	4,074,977
2025-03-17	209,681	571,148	36.71	21.51	4,510,238
2025-03-14	265,964	603,541	44.07	21.3	5,665,033
2025-03-13	286,984	651,286	44.06	20.92	6,003,705
2025-03-12	282,484	704,584	40.09	20.97	5,923,689
2025-03-11	283,560	782,164	36.25	20.91	5,929,240
2025-03-10	300,312	715,653	41.96	21.1	6,336,583
2025-03-07	230,539	567,213	40.64	21.5	4,956,589
2025-03-06	277,499	834,040	33.27	21.02	5,833,029
2025-03-05	262,191	827,866	31.67	20.78	5,448,329
2025-03-04	264,572	825,954	32.03	20.16	5,333,772
2025-03-03	260,325	732,219	35.55	20.29	5,281,994
2025-02-28	264,978	785,436	33.74	20.78	5,506,243
2025-02-27	290,968	822,561	35.37	20.78	6,046,315
2025-02-26	430,310	1,119,782	38.43	21.3	9,165,603
2025-02-25	240,250	757,164	31.73	20.77	4,989,993
2025-02-24	169,808	539,380	31.48	21.7	3,684,834
2025-02-21	142,655	441,281	32.33	22.02	3,141,263
2025-02-20	113,594	418,854	27.12	22.55	2,561,545
2025-02-19	180,412	577,320	31.25	22.62	4,080,919
2025-02-18	101,264	389,302	26.01	22.39	2,267,301
2025-02-14	120,475	247,903	48.6	22.34	2,691,412

Total	237,104,857	683,986,655	34.67	18.99	4,503,621,412

* 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 PLAB at $19.51, after crossing above the $18.993 Trigger Price