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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.3, after crossing above the $19.26 Trigger Price

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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 Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), 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 Photronics, Inc. at $19.3, after crossing above the $19.26 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
2025-07-16133,533515,07825.9219.052,543,804
2025-07-15182,295463,14039.3619.313,520,116
2025-07-14152,355420,24636.2519.272,935,881
2025-07-11123,347400,23630.8219.532,408,967
2025-07-10157,104422,71237.1719.943,132,654
2025-07-09167,296462,15536.219.853,320,826
2025-07-08205,411488,52042.0519.924,091,787
2025-07-07249,951546,20345.7619.444,859,047
2025-07-03111,049334,98933.1520.242,247,632
2025-07-02241,835651,04937.1520.174,877,812
2025-07-01376,935950,11139.6719.667,410,542
2025-06-30250,113516,58148.4218.844,712,129
2025-06-27284,894820,41434.7318.795,353,158
2025-06-26138,668370,17137.4619.012,636,079
2025-06-25170,761442,39538.618.943,234,213
2025-06-24157,836377,66241.7918.892,981,522
2025-06-23199,191465,18042.8218.253,635,236
2025-06-20306,000887,49634.4818.265,587,560
2025-06-18217,859451,95248.218.363,999,891
2025-06-17214,625417,23151.4418.473,964,124
2025-06-16227,617491,02246.3618.74,256,438
2025-06-13334,587653,31851.2118.466,176,476
2025-06-12287,601588,58048.86195,464,419
2025-06-11484,8261,094,93944.2819.149,279,570
2025-06-10221,689489,14545.3218.574,116,765
2025-06-09288,054624,01346.1618.375,291,552
2025-06-06225,038525,51042.8218.054,061,936
2025-06-05357,159795,85044.8817.896,389,575
2025-06-04357,050859,66841.5317.966,412,618
2025-06-03420,010971,75543.2217.737,446,777
2025-06-02552,2061,249,40744.217.169,475,855
2025-05-30575,0381,422,24640.4316.859,689,390
2025-05-29770,2251,988,52838.7317.3713,378,808
2025-05-281,472,7363,201,8904617.5225,802,335
2025-05-27265,827670,62839.6420.055,329,831
2025-05-23155,396380,58140.8319.453,022,452
2025-05-22142,852445,68732.0519.892,841,326
 
Total244,258,877700,140,81634.8919.264,705,195,574
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.