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Short squeeze is starting in shares of LFT at $2.7, after crossing above the $2.651 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-01 10:00:11 - 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 Lument Finance Trust, Inc. (LFT), 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 Lument Finance Trust, Inc. at $2.7, after crossing above the $2.651 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
2025-04-3019,427100,72519.292.6451,287
2025-04-2920,26589,82322.562.6653,905
2025-04-2859,976141,18842.482.65158,936
2025-04-2519,56688,21022.182.6652,046
2025-04-2431,649122,07825.932.6483,553
2025-04-2332,722166,00919.712.6486,386
2025-04-2225,556185,50013.782.6567,723
2025-04-2142,198125,99433.492.6109,715
2025-04-1721,228100,97721.022.6255,617
2025-04-1618,38483,47022.022.5947,615
2025-04-1551,577204,82225.182.6134,100
2025-04-1452,629138,16638.092.51132,099
2025-04-1138,883158,78824.492.3691,764
2025-04-1018,31189,63520.432.3442,848
2025-04-0969,654309,78222.482.33162,294
2025-04-0854,053237,91522.722.38128,646
2025-04-0779,667251,32631.72.39190,404
2025-04-0482,880238,23534.792.5207,200
2025-04-0341,987150,44027.912.61109,586
2025-04-0231,929141,47522.572.5982,696
2025-04-0134,91084,86541.142.690,766
2025-03-3137,612108,24234.752.6198,167
2025-03-2836,728175,64420.912.799,166
2025-03-2741,95190,54846.332.78116,624
2025-03-2656,167115,95648.442.79156,706
2025-03-2532,00179,80440.12.8290,243
2025-03-2489,526177,65350.392.82252,463
2025-03-2173,739156,64247.072.81207,207
2025-03-20110,733259,16242.732.79308,945
2025-03-1938,673111,62434.652.76106,737
2025-03-1819,32449,03239.412.7352,755
2025-03-1746,392118,77239.062.75127,578
2025-03-1421,98159,53436.922.7360,008
2025-03-135,57237,83214.732.7115,100
2025-03-126,24131,16320.032.6716,663
2025-03-1141,452131,07931.622.69111,506
2025-03-1019,29064,33629.982.7152,276
 
Total26,618,84178,263,95034.012.6570,563,081
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2021-08-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.