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Short squeeze is starting in shares of OKTA at $118.725, after crossing above the $118.633 Trigger Price


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Published in Stocks and Investing on Thursday, May 8th 2025 at 10:30 GMT by WOPRAI   Print publication without navigation


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 Okta, Inc. (OKTA), 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 Okta, Inc. at $118.725, after crossing above the $118.633 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
2025-05-071,160,1712,108,82755.01117.3136,088,058
2025-05-061,503,9462,755,05254.59116.8175,660,893
2025-05-021,404,5002,521,44055.7113.16158,933,220
2025-05-012,135,3814,040,56552.85112.18239,547,041
2025-04-3010,715,92825,512,96042111.581,195,683,246
2025-04-294,179,66710,044,81341.61112.07468,415,281
2025-04-28925,6251,880,36649.23104.2396,477,894
2025-04-25624,1801,514,25741.22102.9864,278,056
2025-04-24751,0511,591,28347.2101.5176,239,187
2025-04-231,132,6922,369,39147.8199.23112,397,027
2025-04-22958,9271,777,05253.9694.2290,350,102
2025-04-21975,0472,235,31443.6292.790,386,857
2025-04-17959,6341,887,91350.8398.2294,255,251
2025-04-161,218,8332,334,96652.2100.1122,005,183
2025-04-15769,5812,315,47833.24100.7377,519,894
2025-04-14963,3212,249,19942.83101.7397,998,645
2025-04-111,133,6952,261,83950.12101.28114,820,630
2025-04-101,925,4524,258,45545.21100.85194,181,834
2025-04-091,618,0044,151,10438.9898.79159,842,615
2025-04-081,995,0604,705,82642.493.46186,458,308
2025-04-071,186,5244,679,29925.3691.46108,519,485
2025-04-042,407,3747,536,52831.9492.33222,272,841
2025-04-03924,2113,250,52128.43100.0992,504,279
2025-04-02595,0501,512,26339.35105.4562,748,023
2025-04-01354,5121,840,37819.26104.737,117,406
2025-03-31750,1252,759,22027.19104.7278,553,090
2025-03-28964,3602,869,64133.61108.55104,681,278
2025-03-27642,3901,702,23937.74111.8871,870,593
2025-03-26718,2632,315,82431.02114.4982,233,931
2025-03-25964,7993,011,37432.04116.44112,341,196
2025-03-241,524,0953,677,46441.44116.7177,861,887
2025-03-211,256,0823,466,67036.23113.85143,004,936
2025-03-20912,4902,321,54639.31113.23103,321,243
2025-03-19849,8453,623,95023.45114.0796,941,819
2025-03-18731,1882,032,79935.97113.1382,719,298
2025-03-172,203,8703,964,08855.6115.22253,929,901
2025-03-142,165,0184,418,55649112.33243,196,472
 
Total1,094,568,2282,977,595,00536.76118.59129,802,092,272
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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