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Short squeeze is starting in shares of SMTC at $38.07, after crossing above the $37.579 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:58 - 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 Semtech Corporation (SMTC), 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 Semtech Corporation at $38.07, after crossing above the $37.579 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
2025-05-09282,762859,74832.8935.169,941,912
2025-05-08417,3681,319,59931.6334.8114,528,580
2025-05-07550,5641,348,60840.8233.8718,647,603
2025-05-06816,3221,962,66241.5933.9927,746,785
2025-05-05978,5792,633,84637.1534.5733,829,476
2025-05-021,336,1972,950,45945.2933.9845,403,974
2025-05-011,218,8172,746,15944.3832.7839,952,821
2025-04-30951,6102,191,40743.4230.6429,157,330
2025-04-291,093,6952,663,04941.0730.7433,620,184
2025-04-28741,4491,909,83038.8229.8722,147,082
2025-04-25713,8801,789,44739.8929.8721,323,596
2025-04-24948,8612,172,94843.6728.9827,497,992
2025-04-231,163,9963,119,26637.3227.4331,928,410
2025-04-22475,1111,906,31624.9224.8911,825,513
2025-04-21702,9192,503,66528.0824.3517,116,078
2025-04-171,015,4221,919,08552.9126.1726,573,594
2025-04-16769,2542,759,27727.8825.9719,977,526
2025-04-15648,0901,581,87240.9727.517,822,475
2025-04-14703,4232,464,45928.5427.1119,069,798
2025-04-11713,6403,005,12023.7526.2918,761,596
2025-04-10937,2183,225,03029.0627.4525,726,634
2025-04-091,580,8624,548,22334.7629.0545,924,041
2025-04-081,702,1833,999,53642.5626.6545,363,177
2025-04-071,501,2623,015,75249.7828.0542,110,399
2025-04-041,406,4083,812,25636.8927.0338,015,208
2025-04-032,028,5294,202,45648.2730.6262,113,558
2025-04-02842,4931,671,20350.4136.4530,708,870
2025-04-01941,6872,267,99341.5234.6232,601,204
2025-03-311,255,4162,853,67743.9934.1842,910,119
2025-03-28832,0832,153,84438.6335.1129,214,434
2025-03-27783,5071,886,75541.5337.4829,365,842
2025-03-26591,0161,472,98140.1238.622,813,218
2025-03-25628,2051,754,53835.840.0525,159,610
2025-03-24439,3741,424,49430.8440.6717,869,341
2025-03-211,379,1993,291,03941.9139.6154,630,072
2025-03-20541,2692,458,37922.0240.7622,062,124
2025-03-191,228,7333,152,67038.9741.2950,734,386
 
Total498,082,1361,431,219,15134.837.5718,711,558,426
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.