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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ALRS at $22.49, after crossing above the $22.213 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-15 10:15:01 - 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 Alerus Financial Corporation (ALRS), 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 Alerus Financial Corporation at $22.49, after crossing above the $22.213 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
2025-05-1321,54581,49826.4422.14477,006
2025-05-1254,291222,07224.4521.991,193,859
2025-05-0926,957128,44220.9921.01566,367
2025-05-0815,80988,48017.8721.08333,254
2025-05-0734,097101,47533.621.08718,765
2025-05-0622,27573,91030.1420.99467,552
2025-05-0536,231108,22833.4820.99760,489
2025-05-0227,750106,84225.9720.42566,655
2025-05-0127,70292,15530.0620.03554,871
2025-04-3025,73982,87931.0619.94513,236
2025-04-2944,210133,12433.2119.69870,495
2025-04-2813,26149,66026.717.67234,322
2025-04-2514,25943,37232.8817.63251,386
2025-04-2416,25657,17728.4317.79289,194
2025-04-2322,34463,79135.0317.66394,595
2025-04-2221,61268,29331.6517.28373,455
2025-04-2120,79655,45637.516.77348,749
2025-04-1726,01671,76636.2516.95440,971
2025-04-1617,34350,86434.116.7289,628
2025-04-1515,18949,90230.4416.77254,720
2025-04-1425,88370,43536.7516.34422,928
2025-04-1117,35597,07917.8816.05278,548
2025-04-1022,30768,39732.6116.15360,258
2025-04-0938,160144,43926.4216.63634,601
2025-04-0831,937104,30730.6216.36522,489
2025-04-0734,768168,38120.6516.52574,367
2025-04-0435,407147,98723.9316.52584,924
2025-04-0319,595109,36217.9217.31339,189
2025-04-0216,14550,62731.8918.36296,422
2025-04-0113,06036,70135.5818.37239,912
2025-03-3110,74154,31419.7818.46198,279
2025-03-287,75638,97019.918.35142,323
2025-03-278,30534,35824.1718.68155,137
2025-03-2610,87036,20130.0318.6202,182
2025-03-2511,50649,11023.4318.54213,321
2025-03-2413,06759,21022.0718.78245,398
2025-03-2129,000139,02920.8618.56538,240
 
Total19,651,03553,173,81036.9622.22436,570,798
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-18 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.