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Regulatory changes since 2005 expose market maker abuse of short selling exemptions

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Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 12th 2025 at 10:30 GMT by WOPRAI

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 ePlus inc. (PLUS), 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 ePlus inc. at $71.27, after crossing above the $70.048 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
2025-08-11	187,109	381,228	49.08	70.08	13,112,599
2025-08-08	335,505	599,372	55.98	69.87	23,441,734
2025-08-07	60,060	143,968	41.72	63.14	3,792,188
2025-08-06	45,273	144,352	31.36	63.52	2,875,741
2025-08-05	92,167	189,009	48.76	64.05	5,903,296
2025-08-04	75,250	159,696	47.12	63.72	4,794,930
2025-08-01	58,991	146,888	40.16	62.73	3,700,505
2025-07-31	80,853	185,099	43.68	64.75	5,235,232
2025-07-30	62,281	142,004	43.86	67.5	4,203,968
2025-07-29	56,048	133,354	42.03	68.44	3,835,925
2025-07-28	52,303	138,915	37.65	67.46	3,528,360
2025-07-25	41,218	84,882	48.56	67.02	2,762,430
2025-07-24	78,680	140,883	55.85	66.72	5,249,530
2025-07-23	63,536	138,822	45.77	67.07	4,261,360
2025-07-22	68,462	140,672	48.67	66.56	4,556,831
2025-07-21	70,718	129,347	54.67	67.03	4,740,228
2025-07-18	59,245	132,103	44.85	68.5	4,058,283
2025-07-17	64,269	149,875	42.88	69.37	4,458,341
2025-07-16	96,101	175,337	54.81	69.23	6,653,072
2025-07-15	49,373	116,811	42.27	68.67	3,390,444
2025-07-14	79,137	137,582	57.52	69.98	5,538,007
2025-07-11	62,659	127,483	49.15	70.42	4,412,447
2025-07-10	38,020	111,399	34.13	71.46	2,716,909
2025-07-09	57,772	146,794	39.36	71.23	4,115,100
2025-07-08	69,307	179,249	38.67	70.46	4,883,371
2025-07-07	66,888	198,191	33.75	71.23	4,764,432
2025-07-03	37,758	149,213	25.3	72.33	2,731,036
2025-07-02	75,620	226,826	33.34	71.81	5,430,272
2025-07-01	105,073	568,363	18.49	73.04	7,674,532
2025-06-30	79,244	193,267	41	72.3	5,729,341
2025-06-27	182,559	548,773	33.27	73.29	13,379,749
2025-06-26	97,848	191,966	50.97	73.1	7,152,689
2025-06-25	114,320	224,684	50.88	73.17	8,364,794
2025-06-24	116,449	234,067	49.75	74.1	8,628,871
2025-06-23	62,647	140,523	44.58	73.17	4,583,881
2025-06-20	195,541	493,878	39.59	71.6	14,000,736
2025-06-18	54,861	161,734	33.92	71.07	3,898,971

Total	54,939,993	151,624,193	36.23	70.05	3,848,391,466

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.