Short squeeze is starting in shares of STEL at $26.4, after crossing above the $26.114 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 Stellar Bancorp, Inc. (STEL), 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 Stellar Bancorp, Inc. at $26.4, after crossing above the $26.114 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	140,349	367,721	38.17	25.2	3,536,795
2025-04-07	173,631	657,882	26.39	24.91	4,325,148
2025-04-04	218,308	579,749	37.66	24.7	5,392,208
2025-04-03	162,480	380,155	42.74	25.71	4,177,361
2025-04-02	109,393	271,103	40.35	27.6	3,019,247
2025-04-01	106,920	237,241	45.07	27.55	2,945,646
2025-03-31	120,655	281,333	42.89	27.65	3,336,111
2025-03-28	112,159	293,561	38.21	27.51	3,085,494
2025-03-27	112,625	304,507	36.99	27.92	3,144,490
2025-03-26	104,023	288,509	36.06	27.88	2,900,161
2025-03-25	85,925	277,027	31.02	27.83	2,391,293
2025-03-24	94,477	255,902	36.92	27.78	2,624,571
2025-03-21	161,809	1,249,486	12.95	27.14	4,391,496
2025-03-20	97,274	196,667	49.46	27.57	2,681,844
2025-03-19	108,894	242,425	44.92	27.5	2,994,585
2025-03-18	96,519	297,672	32.42	27.34	2,638,829
2025-03-17	104,364	275,043	37.94	27.47	2,866,879
2025-03-14	102,615	260,322	39.42	27.51	2,822,939
2025-03-13	124,240	292,355	42.5	27.27	3,388,025
2025-03-12	131,472	246,798	53.27	27.16	3,570,780
2025-03-11	161,763	452,248	35.77	27.08	4,380,542
2025-03-10	108,744	402,948	26.99	27.03	2,939,350
2025-03-07	85,177	265,954	32.03	27.76	2,364,514
2025-03-06	100,934	310,601	32.5	27.67	2,792,844
2025-03-05	107,134	258,183	41.5	27.94	2,993,324
2025-03-04	101,549	267,889	37.91	28.41	2,885,007
2025-03-03	82,207	234,733	35.02	29.06	2,388,935
2025-02-28	99,611	207,695	47.96	29.02	2,890,711
2025-02-27	71,680	251,523	28.5	28.62	2,051,482
2025-02-26	95,706	222,927	42.93	28.59	2,736,235
2025-02-25	98,097	333,430	29.42	28.82	2,827,156
2025-02-24	80,405	282,903	28.42	28.64	2,302,799
2025-02-21	99,971	191,524	52.2	28.85	2,884,163
2025-02-20	80,880	227,691	35.52	28.92	2,339,050
2025-02-19	41,201	176,862	23.3	29.05	1,196,889
2025-02-18	78,255	159,400	49.09	29.18	2,283,481
2025-02-14	69,185	115,717	59.79	29.17	2,018,126

Total	22,632,651	67,325,746	33.62	26.11	590,909,009

* Totals include all data records back to 2024-01-25 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of STEL at $26.4, after crossing above the $26.114 Trigger Price