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Short squeeze is starting in shares of QMCO at $14, after crossing above the $13.93 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-19 11:45:03 - 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 Quantum Corporation (QMCO), 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 Quantum Corporation at $14, after crossing above the $13.93 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
2025-05-161,152,2601,784,45064.5711.0312,709,428
2025-05-15590,7511,046,48656.4510.426,155,625
2025-05-14680,8671,560,76543.6211.347,721,032
2025-05-13397,424763,97252.0210.844,308,076
2025-05-12679,6821,250,17754.3711.097,537,673
2025-05-09669,3261,193,58556.0811.027,375,973
2025-05-08671,0111,416,49247.3711.387,636,105
2025-05-07314,989485,06464.9410.823,408,181
2025-05-06164,923321,85051.2411.011,815,802
2025-05-05181,450389,50146.5910.861,970,547
2025-05-02225,777618,66236.4911.392,571,600
2025-05-01163,393341,71447.8211.081,810,394
2025-04-30143,789319,97844.9410.631,528,477
2025-04-29186,531351,64053.0511.332,113,396
2025-04-28301,749644,66046.8111.913,593,831
2025-04-25313,272667,99046.911.763,684,079
2025-04-24392,304932,09342.0911.514,515,419
2025-04-23281,762742,27537.9610.843,054,300
2025-04-22189,610383,45249.459.811,860,074
2025-04-21200,515309,46164.799.771,959,032
2025-04-17185,355294,94862.8410.31,909,157
2025-04-16243,948463,13952.6710.642,595,607
2025-04-15214,705541,92439.62122,576,460
2025-04-14228,210528,72943.1611.972,731,674
2025-04-11166,599349,59947.6510.971,827,591
2025-04-10441,289811,03054.4111.234,955,675
2025-04-09386,627742,71052.0611.614,488,739
2025-04-08269,503560,84948.0511.283,039,994
2025-04-07222,900735,54830.311.392,538,831
2025-04-04251,622643,68739.0911.352,855,910
2025-04-03247,448510,58148.4612.163,008,968
2025-04-02571,634982,54558.1813.257,574,151
2025-04-01255,913583,15843.8814.533,718,416
2025-03-31298,568649,93045.9413.654,075,453
2025-03-28276,140562,84549.0614.54,004,030
2025-03-27596,0571,156,70151.5315.829,429,622
2025-03-26643,9561,187,48054.2315.7710,155,186
 
Total288,233,020693,886,28741.5413.934,014,707,666
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.