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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.13, after crossing above the $19.056 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-08 10:00:07 - 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 Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), 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 Photronics, Inc. at $19.13, after crossing above the $19.056 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
2025-05-07163,722929,93317.6118.933,099,257
2025-05-0699,763471,64121.1518.81,875,544
2025-05-02128,268504,70525.4119.192,461,463
2025-05-01166,518670,61824.8318.473,075,587
2025-04-30183,710715,76825.6718.233,349,033
2025-04-29103,779358,83928.9218.471,916,798
2025-04-28142,000467,56330.3718.562,635,520
2025-04-25118,816331,79635.8118.672,218,295
2025-04-24176,597549,89632.1118.633,290,002
2025-04-23256,522693,07137.0118.074,635,353
2025-04-22346,667968,10435.8117.76,136,006
2025-04-21381,215808,50247.1517.576,697,948
2025-04-17262,266690,56737.9817.744,652,599
2025-04-16239,636715,08833.5117.654,229,575
2025-04-15196,818723,02327.22183,542,724
2025-04-14151,741494,02830.7218.012,732,855
2025-04-11134,284549,46324.4417.882,400,998
2025-04-10284,6131,195,84223.817.765,054,727
2025-04-09424,9811,407,17830.218.817,993,893
2025-04-08372,980995,69837.4617.256,433,905
2025-04-07416,9941,083,88138.4717.37,213,996
2025-04-04313,937924,94133.9417.395,459,364
2025-04-03283,161724,31339.0918.55,238,479
2025-04-02243,299474,47351.2820.424,968,166
2025-04-01225,661525,58042.9420.274,574,148
2025-03-31365,867792,25346.1820.67,536,860
2025-03-28291,754652,11044.7420.656,024,720
2025-03-27321,286597,75553.7521.386,869,095
2025-03-26272,873565,08348.2921.545,877,684
2025-03-25145,799371,30539.2721.593,147,800
2025-03-24204,275592,33934.4921.624,416,426
2025-03-21468,5972,264,72120.6921.039,854,595
2025-03-20176,616620,41628.4721.43,779,582
2025-03-19120,296409,34029.3921.532,589,973
2025-03-18189,622553,50434.2621.494,074,977
2025-03-17209,681571,14836.7121.514,510,238
2025-03-14265,964603,54144.0721.35,665,033
 
Total238,600,748689,369,88334.6119.064,547,495,903
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.