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Short squeeze is starting in shares of TAC at $9.215, after crossing above the $9.182 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-02 14:00:08 - 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 TransAlta Corporation (TAC), 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 TransAlta Corporation at $9.215, after crossing above the $9.182 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
2025-05-01157,697669,36123.569.041,425,581
2025-04-30164,136627,13626.178.911,462,452
2025-04-29117,322624,71318.789.041,060,591
2025-04-28148,485455,31732.618.971,331,910
2025-04-25300,029792,45537.868.952,685,260
2025-04-24224,278648,22934.68.761,964,675
2025-04-23252,102710,02435.518.632,175,640
2025-04-22257,329524,32949.088.552,200,163
2025-04-21269,988663,85840.678.462,284,098
2025-04-17219,952518,59442.418.731,920,181
2025-04-16403,178786,76951.248.643,483,458
2025-04-151,182,9412,106,07156.178.5710,137,804
2025-04-14322,763589,25254.788.792,837,087
2025-04-11305,195629,82548.468.622,630,781
2025-04-10647,4901,083,98459.738.55,503,665
2025-04-09856,7552,015,08542.528.567,333,823
2025-04-08586,5841,291,80445.418.244,833,452
2025-04-07412,5581,028,11540.138.313,428,357
2025-04-04898,6561,857,25048.398.287,440,872
2025-04-03550,931937,48458.779.265,101,621
2025-04-02318,185692,17045.979.493,019,576
2025-04-01346,928638,59254.339.413,264,592
2025-03-31636,3661,005,33463.39.335,937,295
2025-03-28490,474914,32553.649.454,634,979
2025-03-27471,568880,29453.579.464,461,033
2025-03-26542,213926,89158.59.685,248,622
2025-03-25575,223904,63063.599.795,631,433
2025-03-24441,7291,194,98636.979.824,337,779
2025-03-211,221,2923,847,95031.749.7511,907,597
2025-03-20240,325556,60943.189.782,350,379
2025-03-19306,292764,58440.069.722,977,158
2025-03-18316,678798,11939.689.583,033,775
2025-03-17481,2511,130,92542.559.634,634,447
2025-03-14427,430951,95444.99.514,064,859
2025-03-13380,510818,79346.479.473,603,430
2025-03-12452,3481,492,23530.319.614,347,064
2025-03-11739,3192,189,67433.769.156,764,769
 
Total235,149,286571,862,65241.129.182,159,117,129
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.