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Short squeeze is starting in shares of KWEB at $32.44, after crossing above the $31.654 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-23 10:30:58 - 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 KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB), 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 KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF at $32.44, after crossing above the $31.654 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
2025-04-2217,572,11634,667,43150.6931.2548,250,019
2025-04-218,718,31317,710,15649.2330.06262,072,489
2025-04-178,270,80516,582,78749.8830.47252,011,428
2025-04-1610,762,66527,447,44339.2130.23325,355,363
2025-04-156,169,78614,678,69042.0331.15192,188,834
2025-04-1413,152,86333,092,67439.7531.58415,367,414
2025-04-1121,464,34045,540,02647.1330.09645,861,991
2025-04-1025,564,28151,886,44049.2729.97766,161,502
2025-04-0936,099,58969,125,84552.2229.251,055,912,978
2025-04-0822,815,63641,460,73055.0328.9659,371,880
2025-04-0725,691,18774,014,38834.7129.55759,174,576
2025-04-0424,114,53974,850,13732.2231.33755,508,507
2025-04-0311,267,13427,015,72641.7134.49388,603,452
2025-04-026,096,70512,611,89948.3434.91212,835,972
2025-04-014,614,07110,848,02642.5334.97161,354,063
2025-03-316,668,50119,668,64333.934.74231,663,725
2025-03-2811,108,50522,276,25149.8735.1389,908,526
2025-03-2710,213,46118,511,45955.1736.23370,033,692
2025-03-269,189,41420,124,64845.6635.35324,845,785
2025-03-258,681,51817,999,44448.2335.36306,978,476
2025-03-2410,067,86522,087,80545.5835.71359,523,459
2025-03-2112,934,30527,036,24047.8435.56459,943,886
2025-03-2015,869,21629,928,44153.0236.35576,846,002
2025-03-198,771,69715,293,10557.3637.71330,780,694
2025-03-1810,575,06320,978,92450.4137.81399,843,132
2025-03-1718,163,51033,245,32654.6338690,213,380
2025-03-1414,702,12128,819,60351.0136.64538,685,713
2025-03-137,741,72814,938,04451.8335.67276,147,438
2025-03-129,572,88519,616,15448.835.59340,698,977
2025-03-1112,376,29626,251,97847.1436.15447,403,100
2025-03-1016,233,41436,202,30344.8435.58577,584,870
2025-03-0714,617,66330,018,93948.6937.06541,730,591
2025-03-0618,818,37535,232,41053.4137.1698,161,713
2025-03-0523,540,78041,743,15756.3936.18851,705,420
2025-03-0412,890,31226,942,89847.8433.99438,141,705
2025-03-0312,218,73926,793,66945.633.7411,771,504
2025-02-2814,480,37932,688,67244.333.8489,436,810
 
Total8,919,706,83920,539,935,45343.4331.65282,331,770,903
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.