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Short squeeze is starting in shares of STK at $29.7, after crossing above the $29.113 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:31:00 - 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 Seligman Premium Technology Growth Fund (STK), 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 Seligman Premium Technology Growth Fund at $29.7, after crossing above the $29.113 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
2025-05-0918,45529,62762.2928.52526,337
2025-05-0824,86763,86938.9328.39705,974
2025-05-0718,75844,22942.4128.09526,912
2025-05-0615,34834,62644.3328.09431,125
2025-05-0514,50329,86448.5628.09407,389
2025-05-0218,09534,99851.728.2510,279
2025-05-0112,89830,36342.4828.05361,789
2025-04-3019,32125,30676.3527.39529,202
2025-04-2923,37939,70358.8827.6645,260
2025-04-2812,83128,03045.7827.36351,056
2025-04-2518,06327,16366.527.33493,662
2025-04-2418,46045,91240.2126.83495,282
2025-04-2340,01276,82252.0826.661,066,720
2025-04-2230,44368,02544.7525.6779,341
2025-04-2123,62648,34848.8725.29597,502
2025-04-1717,71838,77245.726.22464,566
2025-04-1626,41760,66543.5526.43698,201
2025-04-1531,37864,04748.9927.05848,775
2025-04-1439,60563,01362.8527.131,074,484
2025-04-1126,66245,87158.1226.9717,208
2025-04-1061,98382,96674.7126.731,656,806
2025-04-0965,813150,76643.6525.81,697,975
2025-04-0858,563105,39155.5725.531,495,113
2025-04-0790,761203,24044.6624.312,206,400
2025-04-0453,390133,21240.0825.421,357,174
2025-04-0340,74294,40143.1627.291,111,849
2025-04-0216,51733,06749.9528.2465,779
2025-04-0124,68059,69641.3427.95689,806
2025-03-3121,34062,99233.8827.92595,813
2025-03-2823,80464,80136.7328.4676,034
2025-03-2718,70334,47654.2529.03542,948
2025-03-2614,13838,72436.5129.43416,081
2025-03-2519,45250,28338.6930.01583,755
2025-03-2412,27833,1873729.83366,253
2025-03-217,99124,08633.1829.3234,136
2025-03-2012,00722,02654.5129.52354,447
2025-03-1924,54644,10755.6529.38721,161
 
Total23,461,65659,600,30239.3629.16684,138,701
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.