Regulatory Scrutiny of Market Maker Short Selling Since RegSho

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 Cousins Properties Incorporated (CUZ), 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 Cousins Properties Incorporated at $27.03, after crossing above the $26.852 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
2025-08-11	229,725	1,576,659	14.57	26.63	6,117,577
2025-08-08	980,350	2,531,056	38.73	26.97	26,440,040
2025-08-07	1,282,657	2,317,134	55.36	27.03	34,670,219
2025-08-06	840,593	1,741,391	48.27	26.94	22,645,575
2025-08-05	752,973	2,364,399	31.85	26.58	20,014,022
2025-08-04	872,479	2,932,843	29.75	26.61	23,216,666
2025-08-01	1,211,585	2,972,999	40.75	26.56	32,179,698
2025-07-31	592,446	2,077,481	28.52	27.09	16,049,362
2025-07-30	553,932	1,364,407	40.6	27.38	15,166,658
2025-07-29	393,535	2,298,288	17.12	27.73	10,912,726
2025-07-28	454,167	2,107,268	21.55	27.36	12,426,009
2025-07-25	302,093	1,615,001	18.71	27.76	8,386,102
2025-07-24	507,317	1,811,099	28.01	27.88	14,143,998
2025-07-23	270,222	1,452,688	18.6	28.42	7,679,709
2025-07-22	189,789	1,427,537	13.29	28.51	5,410,884
2025-07-21	318,735	1,249,784	25.5	28.29	9,017,013
2025-07-18	264,288	1,756,115	15.05	28.17	7,444,993
2025-07-17	672,705	1,755,853	38.31	28.22	18,983,735
2025-07-16	609,753	1,311,182	46.5	28.76	17,536,496
2025-07-15	550,516	1,610,230	34.19	28.8	15,854,861
2025-07-14	581,534	1,548,342	37.56	29.09	16,916,824
2025-07-11	511,028	1,649,351	30.98	28.91	14,773,819
2025-07-10	534,642	1,481,424	36.09	29.13	15,574,121
2025-07-09	495,887	1,994,340	24.86	28.93	14,346,011
2025-07-08	568,017	2,977,042	19.08	29.06	16,506,574
2025-07-07	530,058	2,235,016	23.72	29.14	15,445,890
2025-07-03	434,632	1,388,816	31.3	29.7	12,908,570
2025-07-02	794,471	2,564,634	30.98	29.5	23,436,895
2025-07-01	630,954	2,234,692	28.23	29.98	18,916,001
2025-06-30	401,909	1,565,045	25.68	29.95	12,037,175
2025-06-27	874,639	2,551,543	34.28	30.12	26,344,127
2025-06-26	658,861	2,609,977	25.24	29.98	19,752,653
2025-06-25	776,506	1,703,467	45.58	29.97	23,271,885
2025-06-24	674,840	1,287,882	52.4	30.27	20,427,407
2025-06-23	534,525	1,577,692	33.88	30.38	16,238,870
2025-06-20	1,032,537	2,852,474	36.2	30.52	31,513,029
2025-06-18	979,593	2,569,819	38.12	30.51	29,887,382

Total	551,049,044	1,708,698,255	32.25	26.85	14,795,852,903

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