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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BABAF at $14.715, after crossing above the $13.8 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-22 10:30:11 - 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 Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABAF), 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 Alibaba Group Holding Limited at $14.715, after crossing above the $13.8 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
2025-04-212231,47415.1313.192,942
2025-04-17288,306309,26993.2213.683,943,738
2025-04-162396,954014.0128
2025-04-1583272.4513.97112
2025-04-14280,265282,72399.1313.753,853,644
2025-04-11308,6042,310,97813.3512.994,008,766
2025-04-10200,500444,56745.112.552,517,077
2025-04-09173,528176,58998.2713.352,316,252
2025-04-083133,07810.1713.064,086
2025-04-073,4701,148,7680.313.1945,780
2025-04-045553,898,5180.0114.357,965
2025-04-03424280,5840.1516.016,788
2025-04-02158126,2080.1316.282,572
2025-04-01120,007121,12299.0816.882,025,718
2025-03-31232,000234,09199.1116.283,777,424
2025-03-28525599.316.87877
2025-03-271,384119,6961.1616.823,257
2025-03-2654,40088,26261.6316.5897,600
2025-03-25132,374199,83066.2416.622,199,394
2025-03-241,6263,70643.8717.2728,088
2025-03-213,302112,8882.9316.5154,516
2025-03-2057356,6831.0117.19,798
2025-03-18645119,9970.5418.0711,656
2025-03-172,4156,76135.7218.2243,989
2025-03-145,5165,98592.1617.6397,236
2025-03-13258,577258,58210017.394,496,654
2025-03-12241,274244,45598.717.114,128,922
2025-03-11314,449316,08499.4817.235,418,271
2025-03-101,4145,91723.916.8823,864
2025-03-07136,371147,67492.3517.062,326,762
2025-03-0613,506119,62011.2917.29233,465
2025-03-05132,856150,99187.9916.952,251,378
2025-03-043002,35612.7316.294,888
2025-03-03120,000128,63393.2916.431,971,960
2025-02-28629320,4940.216.6910,497
2025-02-27174,087185,62093.7917.393,027,547
2025-02-26202,974205,85198.617.573,566,862
 
Total28,780,837116,774,74224.6513.8397,163,292
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-11-25 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.