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Short squeeze is starting in shares of WLKP at $23.37, after crossing above the $23.368 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:00:34 - 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 Westlake Chemical Partners LP (WLKP), 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 Westlake Chemical Partners LP at $23.37, after crossing above the $23.368 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
2025-05-095,22639,47213.2423.03120,355
2025-05-084,21115,87526.5323.1797,569
2025-05-076,69117,94337.2922.99153,826
2025-05-0610,44523,35144.7322.97239,922
2025-05-0514,36026,79953.5823.2333,152
2025-05-0212,15137,69232.2423.19281,782
2025-05-0114,79628,92851.1523.58348,890
2025-04-306,63025,78825.7123.42155,275
2025-04-297,40116,37045.2123.71175,478
2025-04-283,43113,01826.3623.7181,349
2025-04-254,62314,33732.2523.63109,241
2025-04-243,43315,26222.4923.6481,156
2025-04-235,28518,58428.4423.71125,307
2025-04-227,83025,37830.8523.55184,397
2025-04-214,96622,17522.3923.12114,814
2025-04-173,95715,06526.2722.9890,932
2025-04-166,81522,39730.4323.01156,813
2025-04-1519,04436,09352.7622.88435,727
2025-04-146,33143,03014.7122.45142,131
2025-04-1111,71344,22226.4922.53263,894
2025-04-104,09520,99319.5122.2190,950
2025-04-0924,93693,31526.7222.18553,080
2025-04-0818,12581,33322.2821.93397,481
2025-04-0734,162125,08427.3122.39764,887
2025-04-0430,15392,96032.4422.96692,313
2025-04-0311,16021,93250.8823.2258,912
2025-04-023,99311,28735.3823.2392,757
2025-04-014,40519,58522.4923.19102,152
2025-03-312,25013,51816.6423.151,975
2025-03-287,82827,42528.5423.17181,375
2025-03-274,40528,49315.4623.29102,592
2025-03-265,03917,06229.5323.2116,905
2025-03-255,81919,32330.1123.17134,826
2025-03-248,82434,84325.3323.28205,423
2025-03-216,16528,19021.8723.28143,521
2025-03-205,95424,95423.8623.4139,324
2025-03-193,01313,80421.8323.4870,745
 
Total15,143,89265,867,56422.9923.38354,099,799
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.