Short squeeze is starting in shares of BANC at $14.02, after crossing above the $13.977 Trigger Price

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 Banc of California, Inc. (BANC), 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 Banc of California, Inc. at $14.02, after crossing above the $13.977 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-04-22	857,733	2,750,710	31.18	13.29	11,399,272
2025-04-21	941,641	2,859,728	32.93	12.9	12,147,169
2025-04-17	1,420,268	3,066,958	46.31	13.2	18,747,538
2025-04-16	1,830,282	4,319,567	42.37	12.95	23,702,152
2025-04-15	1,347,628	3,530,885	38.17	12.97	17,478,735
2025-04-14	2,004,709	5,651,804	35.47	12.42	24,898,486
2025-04-11	1,176,037	3,821,635	30.77	12.11	14,241,808
2025-04-10	3,326,253	6,691,739	49.71	12.13	40,347,449
2025-04-09	2,153,368	7,382,936	29.17	12.46	26,830,965
2025-04-08	1,673,660	4,314,543	38.79	12.38	20,719,911
2025-04-07	2,415,616	6,133,649	39.38	12.27	29,639,608
2025-04-04	2,414,614	6,679,645	36.15	12.23	29,530,729
2025-04-03	1,917,330	4,990,887	38.42	13.01	24,944,463
2025-04-02	1,426,550	3,024,317	47.17	14.16	20,199,948
2025-04-01	1,810,305	3,951,697	45.81	14.13	25,579,610
2025-03-31	1,000,917	2,065,597	48.46	14.13	14,142,957
2025-03-28	1,251,773	2,721,123	46	14.16	17,725,106
2025-03-27	1,553,352	3,118,992	49.8	14.55	22,601,272
2025-03-26	864,288	2,355,679	36.69	14.7	12,705,034
2025-03-25	1,301,740	3,371,162	38.61	14.71	19,148,595
2025-03-24	1,171,523	3,878,519	30.21	14.62	17,127,666
2025-03-21	1,838,339	7,724,730	23.8	14.08	25,883,813
2025-03-20	921,764	2,227,683	41.38	14.19	13,079,831
2025-03-19	1,017,132	2,703,351	37.62	14.16	14,402,589
2025-03-18	1,036,406	2,254,534	45.97	14.03	14,540,776
2025-03-17	1,131,793	2,736,967	41.35	14.19	16,060,143
2025-03-14	1,691,180	3,402,148	49.71	13.85	23,422,843
2025-03-13	1,188,335	2,499,648	47.54	13.56	16,113,823
2025-03-12	1,842,319	3,554,851	51.83	13.71	25,258,193
2025-03-11	1,372,062	3,673,454	37.35	13.22	18,138,660
2025-03-10	1,110,454	3,370,282	32.95	13.12	14,569,156
2025-03-07	941,557	2,626,119	35.85	13.78	12,974,655
2025-03-06	797,925	3,360,620	23.74	13.88	11,075,199
2025-03-05	681,825	1,964,747	34.7	14.14	9,641,006
2025-03-04	1,560,153	3,818,305	40.86	14.27	22,263,383
2025-03-03	703,538	2,240,308	31.4	14.79	10,405,327
2025-02-28	476,711	1,490,247	31.99	14.85	7,079,158

Total	513,325,374	1,428,806,248	35.93	13.98	7,174,357,510

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BANC at $14.02, after crossing above the $13.977 Trigger Price