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Short squeeze is starting in shares of CATY at $38.65, after crossing above the $38.466 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-17 10:30:24 - 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 Cathay General Bancorp (CATY), 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 Cathay General Bancorp at $38.65, after crossing above the $38.466 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
2025-04-16410,130723,84856.6638.3415,724,384
2025-04-15215,101394,92054.4738.378,253,425
2025-04-14288,707462,12562.4737.810,913,125
2025-04-11286,769537,62153.3437.2310,676,410
2025-04-10337,149573,87858.7537.5912,673,431
2025-04-09459,228857,35453.5639.2318,015,514
2025-04-08419,412669,08162.6838.1315,992,180
2025-04-07398,470742,03353.737.9315,113,967
2025-04-04464,0431,357,83834.1837.2417,280,961
2025-04-03260,046658,00039.5239.0410,152,196
2025-04-02119,377273,18143.742.85,109,336
2025-04-01214,105389,02455.0442.759,152,989
2025-03-31313,383515,36960.8142.813,412,792
2025-03-28113,265225,11350.3142.644,829,620
2025-03-27105,076226,41946.4143.514,571,857
2025-03-26134,360310,96243.2143.675,867,501
2025-03-25153,314328,71646.6444.16,761,147
2025-03-24114,155321,84735.4744.235,049,076
2025-03-211,038,4012,584,52740.1843.2344,890,075
2025-03-20137,284352,55838.9443.335,948,516
2025-03-19144,289325,26244.3644.16,363,145
2025-03-18154,522374,34141.2843.756,760,338
2025-03-17316,335700,22845.1844.1313,959,864
2025-03-14128,150264,84448.3943.235,539,925
2025-03-1399,911266,16137.5442.414,237,226
2025-03-12125,909320,53039.2842.535,354,910
2025-03-11183,040424,82343.0942.77,815,808
2025-03-10175,679406,78843.1943.667,670,145
2025-03-07109,354287,28338.0644.614,878,282
2025-03-06133,519326,27340.9244.315,916,227
2025-03-05139,472386,02236.1344.646,226,030
2025-03-04229,937447,46151.3945.3110,418,445
2025-03-03230,487422,71754.5347.2710,895,120
2025-02-28209,757462,67145.3446.99,837,603
2025-02-27135,105275,7064946.116,229,692
2025-02-26194,572380,06751.1946.158,979,498
2025-02-25280,209506,58855.3146.5313,038,125
 
Total162,103,408425,790,77338.0738.486,237,462,402
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.