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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BHLB at $23.65, after crossing above the $23.57 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-22 10:30:15 - 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 Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (BHLB), 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 Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. at $23.65, after crossing above the $23.57 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
2025-04-21163,169509,18632.0523.333,806,733
2025-04-17172,545461,16337.4223.634,077,238
2025-04-16274,217638,68842.9323.456,430,389
2025-04-15202,699473,83242.7823.624,787,750
2025-04-14294,900652,18545.2223.086,806,292
2025-04-11354,071723,76348.9222.798,069,278
2025-04-10447,633919,14548.722.910,250,796
2025-04-09448,692941,76047.6423.8310,692,330
2025-04-08428,769863,20549.6723.3510,011,756
2025-04-07711,0291,224,46758.0723.5116,716,292
2025-04-04496,8251,137,60443.6723.2711,561,118
2025-04-03428,920967,05744.3524.4510,487,094
2025-04-02148,745358,69541.4726.133,886,707
2025-04-01266,100656,15040.5525.956,905,295
2025-03-31181,205550,04032.9426.074,724,014
2025-03-28137,586346,10839.7526.133,595,122
2025-03-2788,282340,80425.926.672,354,481
2025-03-26146,981336,29543.7126.713,925,863
2025-03-25123,875434,43128.5126.763,314,895
2025-03-24117,434558,55421.0226.853,153,103
2025-03-21739,0472,710,48727.2726.1219,303,908
2025-03-20112,523401,45328.0326.382,968,357
2025-03-19136,440544,00325.0826.393,600,652
2025-03-18174,369731,76823.8326.184,564,980
2025-03-17153,656550,17727.9326.184,022,714
2025-03-14221,522823,94626.8926.225,808,307
2025-03-13149,138402,60937.0425.913,864,166
2025-03-12209,557541,01638.7325.985,444,291
2025-03-11254,4851,038,21524.51266,616,610
2025-03-10226,8371,064,94821.326.015,900,030
2025-03-07147,743786,43918.7926.433,904,847
2025-03-06173,609668,98525.9526.654,626,680
2025-03-05234,023673,43334.7527.086,337,343
2025-03-04166,767915,54018.2227.054,511,047
2025-03-03165,054524,26931.4828.174,649,571
2025-02-28180,903433,08741.7728.425,141,263
2025-02-27252,471730,93734.5428.127,099,485
 
Total124,192,243480,613,91825.8423.582,928,316,722
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.