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Short squeeze is starting in shares of CIA at $4.02, after crossing above the $4.004 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:17 - 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 Citizens, Inc. (CIA), 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 Citizens, Inc. at $4.02, after crossing above the $4.004 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
2025-05-09107,804165,71765.053.82411,811
2025-05-0837,44984,20444.474.01150,170
2025-05-0749,569133,76337.063.91193,815
2025-05-0624,35563,17538.554.0999,612
2025-05-0521,35270,35630.354.1488,397
2025-05-0229,49476,55438.534.23124,760
2025-05-0128,18660,10946.894.1115,563
2025-04-3029,913105,77528.284.04120,849
2025-04-2953,335125,78342.44.32230,407
2025-04-2847,53593,22650.994.47212,481
2025-04-2528,94476,169384.27123,591
2025-04-2421,74788,20524.664.3594,599
2025-04-2319,76957,29334.514.5589,949
2025-04-2246,835105,88244.234.47209,352
2025-04-2133,57891,65536.644.29144,050
2025-04-1728,94975,12538.534.39127,086
2025-04-1634,63676,57345.234.29148,588
2025-04-1521,66055,63138.944.2992,921
2025-04-1448,63790,65253.654.22205,248
2025-04-1147,559150,03831.74.03191,663
2025-04-1063,296153,56641.224.1259,514
2025-04-09113,995199,90657.024.17475,359
2025-04-0877,286154,46350.043.92302,961
2025-04-07179,228363,17549.353.69661,351
2025-04-0467,346193,43834.823.75252,548
2025-04-0349,274157,85531.214.3211,878
2025-04-0220,49799,52420.64.7497,156
2025-04-0140,374132,51630.474.55183,702
2025-03-31114,866272,09642.224.54521,492
2025-03-2849,342118,29241.714.7231,907
2025-03-2729,82676,87138.84.91146,446
2025-03-2635,758136,56026.184.92175,929
2025-03-2524,14299,08824.365.15124,331
2025-03-2460,682146,64241.385.2315,546
2025-03-2161,480152,99040.195.15316,622
2025-03-2043,99194,68846.465.21229,193
2025-03-1941,191117,99634.915.13211,310
 
Total33,247,108121,773,90327.34133,015,091
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.