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Short squeeze is starting in shares of OPRT at $7.34, after crossing above the $7.272 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:50 - 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 Oportun Financial Corporation (OPRT), 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 Oportun Financial Corporation at $7.34, after crossing above the $7.272 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
2025-05-09284,253890,84331.916.811,935,763
2025-05-08269,578709,499386.061,633,643
2025-05-07109,485307,03635.665.5602,168
2025-05-06111,648296,76837.625.47610,715
2025-05-0599,826271,96236.715.55554,034
2025-05-0271,871195,69436.735.27378,760
2025-05-0177,084234,83532.825.15396,983
2025-04-3059,051223,82226.385295,255
2025-04-2958,299209,25527.865.18301,989
2025-04-2879,413205,50038.645.2412,948
2025-04-2570,945192,77436.85.07359,691
2025-04-2462,594206,77330.274.93308,588
2025-04-2392,457248,42537.224.81444,718
2025-04-2265,863191,08534.474.57300,994
2025-04-21151,370290,90952.034.47676,624
2025-04-17112,216399,30628.14.6516,194
2025-04-16136,701488,92227.964.25580,979
2025-04-1588,460287,78630.744.15367,109
2025-04-1457,877269,95021.444.19242,505
2025-04-11200,908530,34937.884.27857,877
2025-04-10205,898509,85840.384.31887,420
2025-04-09189,877732,05925.944.53860,143
2025-04-08158,880387,91540.964.48711,782
2025-04-07153,985612,12625.164.52696,012
2025-04-04304,1101,058,20728.744.441,350,248
2025-04-03192,028788,82324.345.06971,662
2025-04-0266,080308,73421.45.68375,334
2025-04-0184,225277,39930.365.53465,764
2025-03-31214,325517,39741.425.461,170,215
2025-03-28215,165509,24342.255.631,211,379
2025-03-27132,577421,03131.495.96790,159
2025-03-2683,623313,84426.645.76481,668
2025-03-2564,514305,32821.135.95383,858
2025-03-2450,571304,00916.636.17312,023
2025-03-2174,132441,01616.815.94440,344
2025-03-20132,473554,33723.96.06802,786
2025-03-1972,605469,99615.455.62408,040
 
Total83,633,930278,607,08730.027.27607,947,718
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.