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Short squeeze is starting in shares of COLB at $25.48, after crossing above the $25.364 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:23 - 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 Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB), 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 Columbia Banking System, Inc. at $25.48, after crossing above the $25.364 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
2025-05-091,108,3231,584,37469.9523.9926,588,669
2025-05-081,525,8172,463,02961.9524.0336,665,383
2025-05-071,579,2462,332,89067.6923.4837,080,696
2025-05-06853,3251,941,65743.9523.3519,925,139
2025-05-051,331,8352,177,21261.1723.7731,657,718
2025-05-021,103,8551,817,67260.7323.6226,073,055
2025-05-011,364,2622,333,06258.4822.9731,337,098
2025-04-301,078,5971,852,85758.2122.3524,106,643
2025-04-29983,3631,718,33457.2322.722,322,340
2025-04-281,005,2612,111,56447.6122.5322,648,530
2025-04-251,830,2303,089,48159.2422.8941,893,965
2025-04-244,015,1908,053,65749.8622.8791,827,395
2025-04-231,100,5402,042,86753.8723.5425,906,712
2025-04-22522,7661,203,34343.4422.6711,851,105
2025-04-21612,8081,296,33547.2721.9613,457,264
2025-04-17551,201991,74155.5822.1712,220,126
2025-04-16479,3211,493,38732.121.910,497,130
2025-04-15592,4321,199,28549.421.9613,009,807
2025-04-141,057,8471,932,64054.7421.3122,542,720
2025-04-11680,9381,918,56635.4920.6114,034,132
2025-04-10813,5371,985,73240.9720.7116,848,351
2025-04-091,353,5634,007,44533.7821.7629,453,531
2025-04-08864,2911,978,70443.6821.0918,227,897
2025-04-071,188,8892,650,62444.8520.9624,919,113
2025-04-04958,7962,468,45438.8420.6419,789,549
2025-04-031,257,3853,076,32340.8722.227,913,947
2025-04-02571,7821,026,87855.6825.0214,305,986
2025-04-01570,3231,398,13440.7924.6614,064,165
2025-03-31697,3331,327,82352.5224.8817,349,645
2025-03-28607,4001,149,05052.8624.7215,014,928
2025-03-27550,238974,65956.4525.3613,954,036
2025-03-26714,3261,400,10551.0225.6318,308,175
2025-03-25414,080901,48045.9325.6510,621,152
2025-03-24390,4071,025,54138.0725.569,978,803
2025-03-211,531,6423,859,58539.6824.6837,800,925
2025-03-20380,9801,252,35730.4224.769,433,065
2025-03-19436,5121,147,39038.0424.8910,864,784
 
Total653,545,4791,567,293,10441.725.3616,574,029,838
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.