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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PEBK at $26.45, after crossing above the $26.074 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-17 10:31:40 - 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 Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. (PEBK), 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 Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. at $26.45, after crossing above the $26.074 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
2025-04-162,4686,31839.0626.0764,341
2025-04-151,7874,68138.1826.3247,034
2025-04-148,30018,77644.2126.22217,626
2025-04-117,42826,77527.7426.1193,871
2025-04-104,9208,30259.2626.2128,904
2025-04-092,5897,15036.2127.1770,343
2025-04-081,4648,58117.0625.9137,932
2025-04-072,9277,22840.526.0876,336
2025-04-044,0769,84241.4124.68100,596
2025-04-031,7735,44732.5524.9544,236
2025-04-022,9076,83542.5327.2779,274
2025-04-011,3803,48039.6626.9237,150
2025-03-313,43413,05326.3127.3393,851
2025-03-288324,99316.6627.6823,030
2025-03-271,7905,51832.4428.4950,997
2025-03-262,8726,09147.1528.0780,617
2025-03-251,2884,15630.9927.4235,317
2025-03-248962,76232.4428.3225,375
2025-03-214,22820,20820.9227.4115,847
2025-03-201,2042,27952.8327.6833,327
2025-03-193,1787,05645.0427.5187,427
2025-03-181,7604,10142.9227.2547,960
2025-03-177503,48421.5327.0920,318
2025-03-142,7585,97646.1527.2275,073
2025-03-132,0824,94542.126.7155,610
2025-03-121,0004,43122.5726.7726,770
2025-03-112,6655,70046.7526.5270,676
2025-03-104,2556,24868.126.52112,843
2025-03-073,0456,49646.8826.6881,241
2025-03-063,0966,53847.3526.5782,261
2025-03-051,5566,08125.5926.3941,063
2025-03-042,6387,44435.4426.2369,195
2025-03-032,5117,49733.4926.4866,491
2025-02-282,30511,07620.8126.4861,036
2025-02-272,2675,99937.7926.8460,846
2025-02-262,2066,56833.5926.6458,768
2025-02-252,3078,08028.5526.8862,012
 
Total3,643,06612,499,02729.1526.0895,012,257
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.