Short squeeze is starting in shares of ESRT at $8.56, after crossing above the $8.555 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 Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT), 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 Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. at $8.56, after crossing above the $8.555 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
2025-06-23	1,378,359	2,570,682	53.62	8.49	11,702,268
2025-06-20	1,202,508	3,278,665	36.68	8.61	10,353,594
2025-06-18	660,892	2,287,506	28.89	8.59	5,677,062
2025-06-17	1,003,907	2,061,327	48.7	8.61	8,643,639
2025-06-16	768,370	1,793,421	42.84	8.66	6,654,084
2025-06-13	1,221,759	2,750,966	44.41	8.53	10,421,604
2025-06-12	1,858,042	3,178,702	58.45	8.66	16,090,644
2025-06-11	701,686	1,734,147	40.46	8.52	5,978,365
2025-06-10	733,786	1,484,133	49.44	8.52	6,251,857
2025-06-09	824,828	1,466,500	56.24	8.47	6,986,293
2025-06-06	1,170,032	2,507,004	46.67	8.38	9,804,868
2025-06-05	1,109,754	2,643,390	41.98	8.04	8,922,422
2025-06-04	359,969	1,034,684	34.79	7.92	2,850,954
2025-06-03	309,671	942,103	32.87	7.87	2,437,111
2025-06-02	757,540	1,847,745	41	7.69	5,825,483
2025-05-30	517,094	1,500,063	34.47	7.67	3,966,111
2025-05-29	374,878	895,773	41.85	7.84	2,939,044
2025-05-28	1,515,723	3,084,057	49.15	7.7	11,671,067
2025-05-27	406,777	1,438,044	28.29	7.54	3,067,099
2025-05-23	407,851	1,375,496	29.65	7.27	2,965,077
2025-05-22	219,638	923,525	23.78	7.28	1,598,965
2025-05-21	401,512	1,089,812	36.84	7.43	2,983,234
2025-05-20	314,176	928,987	33.82	7.61	2,390,879
2025-05-19	256,543	977,298	26.25	7.65	1,962,554
2025-05-16	403,048	1,466,570	27.48	7.81	3,147,805
2025-05-15	630,006	1,741,386	36.18	7.96	5,014,848
2025-05-14	648,874	2,080,848	31.18	7.86	5,100,150
2025-05-13	1,258,773	3,680,430	34.2	7.86	9,893,956
2025-05-12	364,924	1,322,335	27.6	7.72	2,817,213
2025-05-09	343,289	993,730	34.55	7.34	2,519,741
2025-05-08	202,676	872,887	23.22	7.38	1,495,749
2025-05-07	399,125	1,558,555	25.61	7.34	2,929,578
2025-05-06	276,833	920,767	30.07	7.36	2,037,491
2025-05-05	432,765	1,153,107	37.53	7.42	3,211,116
2025-05-02	292,181	1,354,048	21.58	7.37	2,153,374
2025-05-01	379,496	1,826,149	20.78	7.18	2,724,781
2025-04-30	639,006	2,876,717	22.21	7.05	4,504,992

Total	700,268,246	2,082,070,982	33.63	8.56	5,994,578,866

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-06-25 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.