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Short squeeze is starting in shares of VTWO at $84.21, after crossing above the $82.673 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:31:09 - 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 Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund (VTWO), 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 Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund at $84.21, after crossing above the $82.673 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
2025-05-09386,817641,34160.3181.2231,417,277
2025-05-08679,1861,011,26567.1681.0155,020,858
2025-05-07510,583957,50153.3279.8240,754,735
2025-05-06508,801951,41753.4879.6740,536,176
2025-05-05328,470707,12446.4580.6526,491,106
2025-05-02660,6841,151,71557.3780.8153,389,874
2025-05-01611,5721,019,98159.9679.3448,522,122
2025-04-30951,4731,545,78361.5578.274,405,189
2025-04-29558,294930,03860.037944,105,226
2025-04-281,281,4862,337,59054.8278.85101,045,171
2025-04-253,991,2494,862,80382.0878.15311,916,109
2025-04-24402,899751,83853.5977.8931,381,803
2025-04-231,065,2781,844,91257.7477.8582,931,892
2025-04-22518,7891,105,87046.9175.3239,075,187
2025-04-21486,6561,136,09042.8473.7735,900,613
2025-04-17701,4471,277,81654.8975.252,748,814
2025-04-16739,1251,434,01751.5474.6555,175,681
2025-04-15468,5811,431,64732.7375.6635,452,838
2025-04-14600,6621,487,21240.3975.0945,103,710
2025-04-11947,3331,975,80847.9573.5169,638,449
2025-04-102,164,7253,613,49759.9173.25158,566,106
2025-04-092,654,7096,047,64643.973.47195,041,470
2025-04-082,351,8074,104,54657.372.22169,847,502
2025-04-073,525,6407,175,44549.1372.5255,608,900
2025-04-042,415,2504,470,64954.0273.09176,530,623
2025-04-033,828,6745,268,06572.6877.26295,803,353
2025-04-021,397,0473,323,00042.0481.52113,887,271
2025-04-011,461,5541,957,93574.6580.46117,596,635
2025-03-31634,5921,099,58357.7180.2750,938,700
2025-03-28702,7351,459,14848.1681.6357,364,258
2025-03-27935,3882,212,90842.278377,637,204
2025-03-261,513,1561,900,46479.6283.52126,378,789
2025-03-25712,706982,64572.5384.260,009,845
2025-03-24564,0131,497,17237.6784.3547,574,497
2025-03-211,011,9331,284,33878.7982.383,282,086
2025-03-20492,728929,06353.0383.5341,157,570
2025-03-19641,3011,236,79251.8583.2853,407,547
 
Total970,032,4751,756,454,19855.2382.6780,189,590,021
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.