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Short squeeze is starting in shares of NIE at $23.25, after crossing above the $23.227 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-21 10:15:02 - 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 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 $23.227 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
2025-05-2015,00444,52133.723.22348,393
2025-05-1915,46449,01131.5523.18358,456
2025-05-1611,16236,77930.3523.28259,851
2025-05-159,51828,66733.223.21220,913
2025-05-1415,68648,01832.6723.12362,660
2025-05-1312,19644,53227.3923.03280,874
2025-05-1227,41480,91733.8822.88627,232
2025-05-098,78223,74036.9922.31195,926
2025-05-0814,42249,52129.1222.34322,187
2025-05-0728,13272,99238.5422.21624,812
2025-05-0625,42056,27745.1722.09561,528
2025-05-0514,94547,34731.5622.21331,928
2025-05-0219,93758,04834.3522.29444,396
2025-05-0124,43468,36735.7422.1539,991
2025-04-3020,99559,11235.5221.7455,592
2025-04-2912,30636,82433.4221.87269,132
2025-04-2815,85533,24647.6921.68343,736
2025-04-2517,17538,99944.0421.61371,152
2025-04-2413,65058,59723.2921.44292,656
2025-04-2319,27368,10328.321.31410,708
2025-04-2247,49499,05647.9520.7983,126
2025-04-2121,48084,19025.5120.23434,540
2025-04-1712,02947,82225.1520.83250,564
2025-04-1611,52643,06526.7620.8239,741
2025-04-1527,15060,92644.5621.11573,137
2025-04-1445,871108,22642.3821.01963,750
2025-04-119,43562,57915.0820.74195,682
2025-04-1017,93989,80319.9820.58369,185
2025-04-0935,156175,7732020.35715,425
2025-04-0830,869138,18622.3420.11620,776
2025-04-0752,273244,05121.4219.291,008,346
2025-04-0464,975195,16733.2920.351,322,241
2025-04-0350,444125,30540.2621.481,083,537
2025-04-0229,12289,24032.6322.15645,052
2025-04-0126,31974,69635.2322.08581,124
2025-03-3143,895110,45639.7421.97964,373
2025-03-2881,479196,34841.522.361,821,870
 
Total33,825,19495,671,57235.3623.23785,723,595
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-22 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.