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Light & Wonder (LNW) Faces Potential Short Squeeze as 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 Light & Wonder, Inc. (LNW), 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 Light & Wonder, Inc. at $80.48, after crossing above the $80.358 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-08-073,693,5726,649,10355.5576.64283,075,358
2025-08-06565,281912,80061.9390.7751,310,556
2025-08-05741,7901,206,99661.4689.0366,041,564
2025-08-04581,221891,04265.2394.4554,896,323
2025-08-01289,661519,52055.7694.9427,500,415
2025-07-31243,023456,57153.2396.6523,488,173
2025-07-30211,765360,01558.8297.7220,693,676
2025-07-29308,438503,46761.2698.330,319,455
2025-07-28221,987395,09556.1998.621,887,918
2025-07-25157,714384,94940.9797.5815,389,732
2025-07-24176,911401,61644.0597.7717,296,588
2025-07-23214,888396,79254.1699.321,338,378
2025-07-22247,942494,21750.1797.7624,238,810
2025-07-21269,527454,36059.3297.5226,284,273
2025-07-18210,791370,98856.8297.6220,577,417
2025-07-17414,378727,12456.9998.2940,729,214
2025-07-16271,785518,56252.4198.5226,776,258
2025-07-15264,868401,63765.9597.0525,705,439
2025-07-14174,869328,65353.2197.6517,075,958
2025-07-11241,548455,04753.0898.0123,674,119
2025-07-10237,200602,85739.35100.8423,919,248
2025-07-09355,215620,69657.23100.8135,809,224
2025-07-08404,588703,80957.4999.8540,398,112
2025-07-07713,1381,041,93268.4499.3470,843,129
2025-07-03311,472539,55257.7399.5230,997,693
2025-07-02323,494650,70149.7198.1431,747,701
2025-07-01433,841812,72953.3895.9641,631,382
2025-06-30305,437540,69156.4996.129,352,496
2025-06-27449,5391,050,19042.8195.6442,993,910
2025-06-26421,377765,57155.0495.1640,098,235
2025-06-25771,0911,475,09752.2794.1172,567,374
2025-06-24472,093827,11057.0885.6240,420,603
2025-06-23583,8191,275,29745.7882.6448,246,802
2025-06-201,218,8312,539,2094885.24103,893,154
2025-06-18549,245836,65265.6585.9947,229,578
2025-06-17449,088875,11851.3285.9538,599,114
2025-06-16305,890830,00736.8584.2525,771,233
 
Total241,858,030561,952,56043.0480.319,421,580,730
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2022-05-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.