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Short squeeze is starting in shares of CMTV at $18, after crossing above the $17.836 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-20 15:45:01 - 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 Community Bancorp (CMTV), 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 Community Bancorp at $18, after crossing above the $17.836 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
2025-05-1910080012.517.81,780
2025-05-164341,05940.9818.017,814
2025-05-138101,33660.6317.9914,571
2025-05-0912914588.97182,322
2025-05-066001,36344.0217.810,679
2025-05-057001,20258.241812,601
2025-05-022,5002,55297.9617.8544,625
2025-05-011,3651,54588.3518.1324,745
2025-04-302,1062,21095.2917.336,434
2025-04-293005006017.35,190
2025-04-283,7804,32287.4617.2365,118
2025-04-227,32411,42064.1317.03124,691
2025-04-172,0043,00866.6217.0334,120
2025-04-1512328942.5617.192,114
2025-04-1410,76810,99897.9117.2185,167
2025-04-112,0932,30990.6517.1935,977
2025-04-093003,0059.9817.065,117
2025-04-088002,69529.6817.1713,739
2025-04-0712224549.817.252,105
2025-04-031001,2008.3317.311,731
2025-04-021021,5256.6917.571,792
2025-04-0110496710.7517.661,837
2025-03-283,4003,41099.7117.6760,071
2025-03-262,5916,30041.1317.6745,793
2025-03-252,1122,21395.4417.6237,213
2025-03-242,5003,10080.6517.7544,365
2025-03-214002,56315.6117.587,032
2025-03-2020033260.2417.73,540
2025-03-199001,2007517.5415,785
2025-03-187001,10663.2917.6212,335
2025-03-176041,48440.717.3910,504
2025-03-131,8082,01089.9517.531,640
2025-03-122041,71111.9217.383,545
2025-03-059001,0009017.6715,902
2025-03-041,2002,20554.4217.5921,106
2025-02-272,10210,08420.8417.7737,355
2025-02-262,0043,70354.1217.7835,625
 
Total309,111769,99840.1417.845,513,499
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-29 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.