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Short squeeze is starting in shares of WAFD at $30.46, after crossing above the $30.354 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:00:32 - 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 WaFd, Inc. (WAFD), 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 WaFd, Inc. at $30.46, after crossing above the $30.354 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
2025-05-09299,297568,62352.6428.888,643,697
2025-05-08258,317513,89650.2729.067,506,692
2025-05-07289,720464,87462.3228.658,300,478
2025-05-06154,588307,38750.2928.474,401,120
2025-05-05229,614400,67757.3128.986,654,214
2025-05-02175,507346,15150.729.085,103,744
2025-05-01205,131387,24152.9728.655,877,003
2025-04-30278,057554,80950.1228.487,919,063
2025-04-29407,858764,52753.3528.5911,660,660
2025-04-28198,129357,83755.3728.215,589,219
2025-04-25149,123301,86749.428.194,203,777
2025-04-24182,030400,97245.428.55,187,855
2025-04-23302,858502,76060.2428.618,664,767
2025-04-22237,929429,94555.3428.356,745,287
2025-04-21364,340673,86254.0727.9710,190,590
2025-04-17493,623751,45865.6927.9113,777,018
2025-04-16607,1771,096,41255.3827.516,697,368
2025-04-15467,829814,09757.4727.3912,813,836
2025-04-14549,049891,09961.6126.414,494,894
2025-04-11271,360545,95449.724.436,629,325
2025-04-10253,433643,86339.3624.446,193,903
2025-04-09508,716953,87753.3325.8913,170,657
2025-04-08348,242682,46251.0325.048,719,980
2025-04-07346,112756,58145.7525.098,683,950
2025-04-04409,917815,45650.2725.1410,305,313
2025-04-03400,341822,63648.6726.710,689,105
2025-04-02215,175436,31049.3228.626,158,309
2025-04-01252,797529,59147.7328.237,136,459
2025-03-31217,334514,47942.2428.546,202,712
2025-03-28200,494356,85956.1828.35,673,980
2025-03-27183,474395,76346.3628.745,273,043
2025-03-26273,631493,99155.3928.927,913,409
2025-03-25293,617533,02455.0928.758,441,489
2025-03-24393,455760,87451.7128.7211,300,028
2025-03-211,980,9034,925,95840.2127.7154,890,822
2025-03-20207,788528,29339.3328.395,899,101
2025-03-19264,748573,98646.1228.617,574,440
 
Total207,762,360572,081,71936.3230.366,307,494,146
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.