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Short squeeze is starting in shares of WBS at $48.29, after crossing above the $46.439 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-23 10:31:25 - 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 Webster Financial Corporation (WBS), 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 Webster Financial Corporation at $48.29, after crossing above the $46.439 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-22742,7511,519,89448.8745.6733,921,438
2025-04-21472,8261,424,06633.244.3420,965,105
2025-04-17643,5181,184,01554.3545.1529,054,838
2025-04-16527,3391,052,77550.0944.2423,329,477
2025-04-15515,5591,208,64642.6644.5922,988,776
2025-04-14545,3161,431,97738.0843.1923,552,198
2025-04-11557,7252,310,76524.1441.9323,385,409
2025-04-101,215,4322,348,86751.7542.1651,242,613
2025-04-091,463,9543,226,75145.3744.7665,526,581
2025-04-08931,7042,644,87435.2342.0939,215,421
2025-04-07675,5562,661,63525.3842.0828,427,396
2025-04-04473,2242,354,05520.141.2719,529,954
2025-04-03574,2453,014,28519.0545.0125,846,767
2025-04-02281,571875,75332.1551.2914,441,777
2025-04-01506,3161,298,68438.9950.6525,644,905
2025-03-31640,1231,366,89146.8351.3532,870,316
2025-03-28519,2681,405,13236.9651.0726,519,017
2025-03-27389,695971,40740.1252.0920,299,213
2025-03-26268,733886,68230.3152.4814,103,108
2025-03-25292,9431,198,19824.4552.7515,452,743
2025-03-24253,0161,965,88812.8752.6713,326,353
2025-03-21712,2082,152,98833.0851.536,678,712
2025-03-20477,4461,158,95841.251.8524,755,575
2025-03-19651,5881,599,93940.7351.933,817,417
2025-03-18611,8561,765,72734.6551.0431,229,130
2025-03-17548,7322,083,78726.3350.9727,968,870
2025-03-14473,5701,701,52827.8349.9823,669,029
2025-03-13666,8682,605,92225.5948.8232,556,496
2025-03-12509,0691,428,53435.6449.7225,310,911
2025-03-11740,6832,283,16632.4448.6536,034,228
2025-03-10843,0303,391,82324.8548.1340,575,034
2025-03-07614,4512,354,48026.151.0331,355,435
2025-03-06595,9092,128,63827.9951.9430,951,513
2025-03-05526,4702,139,24224.6152.8327,813,410
2025-03-04552,2411,343,26341.1152.528,992,653
2025-03-03399,6651,809,63122.0955.1822,053,515
2025-02-28335,3621,368,51424.5156.118,813,808
 
Total436,408,7401,488,171,20629.3346.4520,269,316,598
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.