West Bancorporation (WTBA) Short Squeeze Potential Signals Buying Opportunity

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 West Bancorporation, Inc. (WTBA), 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 West Bancorporation, Inc. at $21.67, after crossing above the $21.584 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
2025-07-07	10,568	32,222	32.8	20.64	218,124
2025-07-03	8,824	21,641	40.77	20.97	185,039
2025-07-02	10,310	23,628	43.63	20.66	213,005
2025-07-01	11,621	34,051	34.13	20.38	236,836
2025-06-30	8,285	26,508	31.25	19.64	162,717
2025-06-27	13,583	113,314	11.99	19.88	270,030
2025-06-26	7,883	20,924	37.67	19.62	154,664
2025-06-25	7,693	17,234	44.64	19.34	148,783
2025-06-24	3,625	16,004	22.65	19.49	70,651
2025-06-23	8,087	23,866	33.89	19.17	155,028
2025-06-20	25,241	71,079	35.51	18.73	472,764
2025-06-18	6,717	13,632	49.27	18.85	126,615
2025-06-17	10,117	21,799	46.41	18.78	189,997
2025-06-16	15,834	28,496	55.57	18.88	298,946
2025-06-13	17,073	27,475	62.14	18.92	323,021
2025-06-12	14,715	22,198	66.29	19.51	287,090
2025-06-11	13,860	27,029	51.28	19.61	271,795
2025-06-10	14,047	27,807	50.52	19.75	277,428
2025-06-09	17,481	30,634	57.06	19.28	337,034
2025-06-06	10,275	27,037	38	19.1	196,253
2025-06-05	20,650	32,718	63.12	18.75	387,188
2025-06-04	16,316	35,886	45.47	18.92	308,699
2025-06-03	11,488	24,082	47.7	19.26	221,259
2025-06-02	12,116	27,433	44.17	19.25	233,233
2025-05-30	15,402	29,535	52.15	19.39	298,645
2025-05-29	10,891	21,065	51.7	19.49	212,266
2025-05-28	7,852	24,297	32.32	19.49	153,035
2025-05-27	13,105	31,972	40.99	19.6	256,858
2025-05-23	17,704	30,978	57.15	19.32	342,041
2025-05-22	7,942	16,785	47.32	19.47	154,631
2025-05-21	13,592	31,556	43.07	19.87	270,073
2025-05-20	11,149	23,576	47.29	20.23	225,544
2025-05-19	5,625	17,260	32.59	20.12	113,175
2025-05-16	10,894	30,806	35.36	20.18	219,841
2025-05-15	16,676	40,128	41.56	20.22	337,189
2025-05-14	14,427	34,399	41.94	19.83	286,087
2025-05-13	6,782	22,548	30.08	19.98	135,504

Total	14,279,543	35,279,877	40.48	21.59	308,322,000

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.