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Short squeeze is starting in shares of USB at $44.155, after crossing above the $42.397 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:31:07 - 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 U.S. Bancorp (USB), 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 U.S. Bancorp at $44.155, after crossing above the $42.397 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
2025-05-091,857,2848,548,24121.7342.0178,024,501
2025-05-082,576,58614,498,51917.7742.1108,474,271
2025-05-072,713,1008,286,96732.7441.39112,295,209
2025-05-061,951,9347,472,32426.1241.0880,185,449
2025-05-051,497,5845,179,11828.9241.6562,374,374
2025-05-022,182,5848,154,00326.7741.490,358,978
2025-05-012,887,6709,091,48231.7640.64117,354,909
2025-04-303,855,39710,553,70736.5340.1154,601,420
2025-04-293,256,1548,322,59539.1240.35131,385,814
2025-04-281,359,0586,748,82320.1440.0754,457,454
2025-04-251,879,8566,426,44929.2539.8874,968,657
2025-04-243,235,3409,443,91734.2639.96129,284,186
2025-04-234,233,17816,845,62825.1339.92168,988,466
2025-04-222,125,8458,272,84825.738.7882,440,269
2025-04-213,740,53811,150,50633.5537.65140,831,256
2025-04-174,884,47312,537,91238.9638.3187,075,316
2025-04-166,941,21317,315,27340.0938.06264,182,567
2025-04-152,936,59511,625,89425.2638.86114,116,082
2025-04-143,376,92612,808,72526.3638.3129,336,266
2025-04-114,866,15921,759,90822.3637.36181,799,700
2025-04-104,473,22020,027,03622.3437.29166,806,374
2025-04-095,059,56625,508,11619.8437.83191,403,382
2025-04-084,911,21822,005,06022.3237.01181,764,178
2025-04-076,516,94424,880,76626.1936.59238,454,981
2025-04-045,504,22625,400,46821.6736.72202,115,179
2025-04-034,847,47416,171,75129.9739.53191,620,647
2025-04-022,737,21110,375,39626.3842.72116,933,654
2025-04-012,329,4879,499,26724.5241.7297,186,198
2025-03-312,120,21510,540,48820.1142.0289,091,434
2025-03-281,913,5589,903,84019.3242.3981,115,724
2025-03-271,470,10810,870,04013.5243.3963,787,986
2025-03-261,834,44613,811,14913.2843.8380,403,768
2025-03-251,654,83710,635,89915.5643.7872,448,764
2025-03-241,667,05610,677,63615.6143.6672,783,665
2025-03-2114,863,64368,969,50621.5542.79636,015,284
2025-03-205,113,1679,203,01255.5642.73218,485,626
2025-03-194,874,52811,694,81641.6842.59207,606,148
 
Total3,945,431,10212,341,453,86931.9742.41167,328,150,973
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.