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


Published on 2025-04-23 10:30:18 - 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 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-22857,7332,750,71031.1813.2911,399,272
2025-04-21941,6412,859,72832.9312.912,147,169
2025-04-171,420,2683,066,95846.3113.218,747,538
2025-04-161,830,2824,319,56742.3712.9523,702,152
2025-04-151,347,6283,530,88538.1712.9717,478,735
2025-04-142,004,7095,651,80435.4712.4224,898,486
2025-04-111,176,0373,821,63530.7712.1114,241,808
2025-04-103,326,2536,691,73949.7112.1340,347,449
2025-04-092,153,3687,382,93629.1712.4626,830,965
2025-04-081,673,6604,314,54338.7912.3820,719,911
2025-04-072,415,6166,133,64939.3812.2729,639,608
2025-04-042,414,6146,679,64536.1512.2329,530,729
2025-04-031,917,3304,990,88738.4213.0124,944,463
2025-04-021,426,5503,024,31747.1714.1620,199,948
2025-04-011,810,3053,951,69745.8114.1325,579,610
2025-03-311,000,9172,065,59748.4614.1314,142,957
2025-03-281,251,7732,721,1234614.1617,725,106
2025-03-271,553,3523,118,99249.814.5522,601,272
2025-03-26864,2882,355,67936.6914.712,705,034
2025-03-251,301,7403,371,16238.6114.7119,148,595
2025-03-241,171,5233,878,51930.2114.6217,127,666
2025-03-211,838,3397,724,73023.814.0825,883,813
2025-03-20921,7642,227,68341.3814.1913,079,831
2025-03-191,017,1322,703,35137.6214.1614,402,589
2025-03-181,036,4062,254,53445.9714.0314,540,776
2025-03-171,131,7932,736,96741.3514.1916,060,143
2025-03-141,691,1803,402,14849.7113.8523,422,843
2025-03-131,188,3352,499,64847.5413.5616,113,823
2025-03-121,842,3193,554,85151.8313.7125,258,193
2025-03-111,372,0623,673,45437.3513.2218,138,660
2025-03-101,110,4543,370,28232.9513.1214,569,156
2025-03-07941,5572,626,11935.8513.7812,974,655
2025-03-06797,9253,360,62023.7413.8811,075,199
2025-03-05681,8251,964,74734.714.149,641,006
2025-03-041,560,1533,818,30540.8614.2722,263,383
2025-03-03703,5382,240,30831.414.7910,405,327
2025-02-28476,7111,490,24731.9914.857,079,158
 
Total513,325,3741,428,806,24835.9313.987,174,357,510
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.