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Short squeeze is starting in shares of VLO at $110.28, after crossing above the $110.122 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-22 10:31:24 - 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 Valero Energy Corporation (VLO), 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 Valero Energy Corporation at $110.28, after crossing above the $110.122 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
2025-04-211,058,8752,273,99546.56108.47114,856,171
2025-04-171,063,6102,654,07140.07110.09117,092,825
2025-04-161,764,7274,021,80243.88107.97190,537,574
2025-04-151,500,7853,060,88849.03108.33162,580,039
2025-04-141,771,9663,132,78156.56110.3195,447,850
2025-04-112,261,1384,754,85547.55110248,725,180
2025-04-103,146,6424,809,49365.43108.65341,882,653
2025-04-094,104,9339,232,31444.46109.78450,639,545
2025-04-083,454,2186,312,42054.72106.99369,566,784
2025-04-073,543,2067,451,85947.55105.62374,233,418
2025-04-043,298,5048,819,44937.4105.64348,453,963
2025-04-034,908,3609,297,07152.79117.53576,879,551
2025-04-021,359,2242,391,96856.82133.17181,007,860
2025-04-011,414,0792,332,36960.63132.42187,252,341
2025-03-311,315,8842,748,09247.88132.24174,012,500
2025-03-281,026,9652,479,23541.42132.26135,826,391
2025-03-27983,8373,211,75830.63133130,850,321
2025-03-261,223,4893,482,06535.14134.83164,963,022
2025-03-251,647,3545,682,72728.99132.14217,681,358
2025-03-241,986,9467,520,76926.42132.31262,892,825
2025-03-212,283,7086,689,08934.14131.71300,787,181
2025-03-201,431,6242,853,49650.17134.66192,782,488
2025-03-192,072,4243,935,94952.65133.74277,165,986
2025-03-181,980,4404,002,72649.48132.89263,180,672
2025-03-171,693,3184,497,58537.65132.64224,601,700
2025-03-141,565,2643,489,88744.85128.72201,480,782
2025-03-131,974,7464,113,58148.01125.59248,008,350
2025-03-121,871,9073,452,87554.21125.17234,306,599
2025-03-111,801,5684,427,79740.69124.22223,790,777
2025-03-101,823,8384,705,30538.76127.7232,904,113
2025-03-071,497,9043,757,55539.86127.5190,982,760
2025-03-062,311,5114,133,33655.92124.48287,736,889
2025-03-052,852,6417,032,05840.57121.95347,879,570
2025-03-042,155,3784,879,25144.17127.47274,746,034
2025-03-031,909,3794,353,60943.86128.45245,259,733
2025-02-281,306,2233,847,68733.95130.28170,174,732
2025-02-271,013,2602,651,03138.22130.34132,068,308
 
Total1,690,558,6965,434,063,52131.11110.17186,253,922,079
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.