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Short squeeze is starting in shares of OZK at $39.425, after crossing above the $38.798 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-15 10:30:35 - WOPRAI
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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 Bank OZK (OZK), 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 Bank OZK at $39.425, after crossing above the $38.798 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-14537,1441,982,34427.138.2720,556,501
2025-04-11569,1382,060,58527.6237.5221,354,058
2025-04-10811,7381,989,88740.7937.6330,545,701
2025-04-091,048,3222,912,2013639.2141,104,706
2025-04-08902,2161,816,43249.6738.1334,401,496
2025-04-07871,8512,309,34537.7538.233,304,708
2025-04-04830,4523,117,05726.6437.2530,934,337
2025-04-03949,1182,707,68835.0539.6337,613,546
2025-04-02759,9642,265,97233.5443.3232,921,640
2025-04-01440,3471,365,14932.2643.219,022,990
2025-03-31382,6541,301,08429.4143.3516,588,051
2025-03-28396,5361,978,19320.0543.817,368,277
2025-03-27131,204590,71222.2145.055,910,740
2025-03-26206,022735,29728.0245.529,378,121
2025-03-25244,546950,25125.7345.3211,082,825
2025-03-24359,9301,009,54335.6545.1716,258,038
2025-03-211,085,4242,778,94739.0644.2448,019,158
2025-03-20249,3111,040,56023.9644.3511,056,943
2025-03-19284,630968,74629.3844.5312,674,574
2025-03-18324,9431,034,93931.444.1314,339,735
2025-03-17399,1951,394,37028.6344.1917,640,427
2025-03-14283,788868,54032.674412,486,672
2025-03-13326,599823,54339.6643.214,109,077
2025-03-12489,5151,042,47846.9643.9321,504,394
2025-03-11559,3541,473,05437.9743.8624,533,266
2025-03-10852,3112,127,96940.0544.8138,192,056
2025-03-07419,0101,240,38233.7845.1818,930,872
2025-03-06389,3941,241,65631.3644.6917,402,018
2025-03-05370,3581,064,23834.845.2216,747,589
2025-03-04597,8531,306,57845.7645.9427,465,367
2025-03-03288,541851,58033.8847.3613,665,302
2025-02-28220,557780,30228.2747.9510,575,708
2025-02-27258,059710,07136.3447.7812,330,059
2025-02-26657,9991,188,43055.3747.9631,557,632
2025-02-25654,7171,411,45646.3947.8531,328,208
2025-02-24483,5861,115,72343.3447.4622,950,992
2025-02-21315,2361,115,21928.2747.7315,046,214
 
Total535,486,1821,283,509,71941.7238.8320,790,585,054
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-16 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.