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Short squeeze is starting in shares of NWBI at $12.855, after crossing above the $12.618 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:49 - 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 Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NWBI), 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 Northwest Bancshares, Inc. at $12.855, after crossing above the $12.618 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
2025-05-09308,326506,90160.8312.443,835,575
2025-05-08284,780649,11943.8712.513,562,598
2025-05-07604,3551,085,55655.6712.577,596,742
2025-05-06322,877606,16253.2712.524,042,420
2025-05-05295,440569,66351.8612.623,728,453
2025-05-02448,748852,42352.6412.585,645,250
2025-05-01622,5491,165,44253.4212.47,719,608
2025-04-30556,2651,068,70452.0512.326,853,185
2025-04-291,112,9851,949,95757.0812.4513,856,663
2025-04-28457,447811,20556.3911.795,393,300
2025-04-25519,177886,94958.5411.716,079,563
2025-04-24339,770701,89048.4111.753,992,298
2025-04-23500,907932,58753.7111.715,865,621
2025-04-22415,280870,57647.711.494,771,567
2025-04-21302,636786,34038.4911.233,398,602
2025-04-17462,133927,23249.8411.375,254,452
2025-04-16389,323865,96544.9611.34,399,350
2025-04-15215,714771,51327.9611.242,424,625
2025-04-14444,496882,34950.3810.974,876,121
2025-04-11396,287993,80939.8810.894,315,565
2025-04-10642,8581,252,77451.3111.017,077,867
2025-04-09697,3521,680,52341.511.347,907,972
2025-04-08512,2781,151,44744.4911.155,711,900
2025-04-07543,7721,364,94939.8411.136,052,182
2025-04-04626,4681,529,50340.9611.116,960,059
2025-04-03543,3911,374,20039.5411.576,287,034
2025-04-02328,557673,89248.7612.13,975,540
2025-04-01377,224778,60548.4512.034,538,005
2025-03-31260,639922,44228.2612.013,130,274
2025-03-28202,256455,05844.4511.982,423,027
2025-03-27215,371505,40942.6112.152,616,758
2025-03-26111,954396,20628.2612.161,361,361
2025-03-25202,996561,76736.1412.152,466,401
2025-03-24148,734523,66128.412.151,807,118
2025-03-21804,7332,232,81236.0412.039,680,938
2025-03-20207,818615,56533.7612.062,506,285
2025-03-19189,011724,37626.0912.162,298,374
 
Total381,729,521863,463,69744.2112.624,818,413,614
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.