Alphabet (GOOGL) Faces Potential Short Squeeze: Data Reveals Market Maker Abuse

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 Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), 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 Alphabet Inc. at $201.09, after crossing above the $199.16 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

You can find the full report at https://www.woprai.com/

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-08-07	10,414,415	25,836,076	40.31	196.16	2,042,891,646
2025-08-06	10,297,278	21,240,930	48.48	195.56	2,013,735,686
2025-08-05	14,334,238	30,867,703	46.44	195.4	2,800,910,105
2025-08-04	11,798,508	31,237,676	37.77	194	2,288,910,552
2025-08-01	7,697,563	34,570,401	22.27	189	1,454,839,407
2025-07-31	10,473,971	50,290,308	20.83	192.55	2,016,763,116
2025-07-30	9,974,394	31,720,353	31.44	196.4	1,958,970,982
2025-07-29	9,880,585	40,599,994	24.34	194.57	1,922,465,423
2025-07-28	10,470,031	37,863,973	27.65	192.17	2,012,025,857
2025-07-25	13,827,599	39,508,665	35	193.2	2,671,492,127
2025-07-24	26,411,152	74,510,904	35.45	193.47	5,109,765,577
2025-07-23	13,365,873	46,917,146	28.49	190.14	2,541,387,092
2025-07-22	12,063,951	42,449,119	28.42	190.34	2,296,252,433
2025-07-21	15,037,641	44,241,796	33.99	189.3	2,846,625,441
2025-07-18	12,239,008	33,636,257	36.39	185.06	2,264,950,820
2025-07-17	10,135,193	31,817,974	31.85	182.68	1,851,497,057
2025-07-16	11,340,103	32,795,277	34.58	183.31	2,078,754,281
2025-07-15	9,441,017	32,825,231	28.76	182.85	1,726,289,958
2025-07-14	9,024,656	32,312,824	27.93	181.23	1,635,538,407
2025-07-11	10,327,967	34,092,829	30.29	179.56	1,854,489,755
2025-07-10	6,351,820	28,910,048	21.97	176.72	1,122,493,630
2025-07-09	11,952,745	42,864,130	27.89	176.66	2,111,571,932
2025-07-08	8,842,918	38,769,916	22.81	174.58	1,543,796,624
2025-07-07	9,353,208	33,488,114	27.93	176.97	1,655,237,220
2025-07-03	7,293,334	21,569,154	33.81	178.81	1,304,121,053
2025-07-02	9,414,182	28,996,832	32.47	177.75	1,673,370,851
2025-07-01	11,262,453	35,621,070	31.62	175.22	1,973,407,015
2025-06-30	23,686,004	62,969,361	37.62	177.01	4,192,659,568
2025-06-27	32,492,646	94,509,389	34.38	176.53	5,735,926,798
2025-06-26	8,689,090	31,510,382	27.58	172.47	1,498,607,352
2025-06-25	9,486,063	34,349,697	27.62	170.47	1,617,089,160
2025-06-24	11,123,111	40,132,005	27.72	167.16	1,859,339,235
2025-06-23	12,544,108	54,577,668	22.98	164.47	2,063,129,443
2025-06-20	20,494,223	74,148,400	27.64	168.72	3,457,785,305
2025-06-18	9,750,313	28,495,662	34.22	174.68	1,703,184,675
2025-06-17	8,127,736	24,845,348	32.71	176.17	1,431,863,251
2025-06-16	6,703,083	27,270,897	24.58	176.08	1,180,278,855

Total	6,967,772,033	24,160,626,956	28.84	199.16	1,387,672,161,642

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-10 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.