Short squeeze is starting in shares of NIE at $23.25, after crossing above the $23.221 Trigger Price

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 Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund (NIE), 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 Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund at $23.25, after crossing above the $23.221 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-05-13	12,196	39,797	30.65	23.03	280,874
2025-05-12	27,414	80,917	33.88	22.88	627,232
2025-05-09	8,782	23,740	36.99	22.31	195,926
2025-05-08	14,422	49,521	29.12	22.34	322,187
2025-05-07	28,132	72,992	38.54	22.21	624,812
2025-05-06	25,420	56,277	45.17	22.09	561,528
2025-05-05	14,945	47,347	31.56	22.21	331,928
2025-05-02	19,937	58,048	34.35	22.29	444,396
2025-05-01	24,434	68,367	35.74	22.1	539,991
2025-04-30	20,995	59,112	35.52	21.7	455,592
2025-04-29	12,306	36,824	33.42	21.87	269,132
2025-04-28	15,855	33,246	47.69	21.68	343,736
2025-04-25	17,175	38,999	44.04	21.61	371,152
2025-04-24	13,650	58,597	23.29	21.44	292,656
2025-04-23	19,273	68,103	28.3	21.31	410,708
2025-04-22	47,494	99,056	47.95	20.7	983,126
2025-04-21	21,480	84,190	25.51	20.23	434,540
2025-04-17	12,029	47,822	25.15	20.83	250,564
2025-04-16	11,526	43,065	26.76	20.8	239,741
2025-04-15	27,150	60,926	44.56	21.11	573,137
2025-04-14	45,871	108,226	42.38	21.01	963,750
2025-04-11	9,435	62,579	15.08	20.74	195,682
2025-04-10	17,939	89,803	19.98	20.58	369,185
2025-04-09	35,156	175,773	20	20.35	715,425
2025-04-08	30,869	138,186	22.34	20.11	620,776
2025-04-07	52,273	244,051	21.42	19.29	1,008,346
2025-04-04	64,975	195,167	33.29	20.35	1,322,241
2025-04-03	50,444	125,305	40.26	21.48	1,083,537
2025-04-02	29,122	89,240	32.63	22.15	645,052
2025-04-01	26,319	74,696	35.23	22.08	581,124
2025-03-31	43,895	110,456	39.74	21.97	964,373
2025-03-28	81,479	196,348	41.5	22.36	1,821,870
2025-03-27	42,715	113,450	37.65	22.42	957,670
2025-03-26	20,378	81,042	25.14	22.53	459,116
2025-03-25	15,301	59,025	25.92	22.77	348,404
2025-03-24	24,529	76,740	31.96	22.64	555,337
2025-03-21	5,848	26,506	22.06	22.33	130,586

Total	33,868,772	95,794,194	35.36	23.22	786,525,801

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-18 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of NIE at $23.25, after crossing above the $23.221 Trigger Price