Regulatory Scrutiny of Short Selling Grows Since 2005 RegSho Act

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 Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS), 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 Worthington Steel, Inc. at $31.05, after crossing above the $30.548 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	52,492	153,713	34.15	29.8	1,564,262
2025-08-08	68,331	174,137	39.24	30.01	2,050,613
2025-08-07	97,288	217,099	44.81	29.65	2,884,589
2025-08-06	113,096	246,486	45.88	29.93	3,384,963
2025-08-05	124,851	274,572	45.47	30.2	3,770,500
2025-08-04	98,342	227,965	43.14	29.79	2,929,608
2025-08-01	216,816	317,619	68.26	29.88	6,478,462
2025-07-31	140,842	323,013	43.6	30.39	4,280,188
2025-07-30	137,891	240,738	57.28	30.63	4,223,601
2025-07-29	107,053	231,369	46.27	30.8	3,297,232
2025-07-28	91,122	180,162	50.58	31.42	2,863,053
2025-07-25	138,821	291,159	47.68	31.79	4,413,120
2025-07-24	154,737	243,700	63.49	31.82	4,923,731
2025-07-23	196,078	400,569	48.95	33.03	6,476,456
2025-07-22	151,778	266,004	57.06	32.04	4,862,967
2025-07-21	145,751	328,890	44.32	31.98	4,661,117
2025-07-18	164,066	247,310	66.34	31.94	5,240,268
2025-07-17	132,474	233,683	56.69	32.18	4,263,013
2025-07-16	131,925	233,310	56.54	31.77	4,191,257
2025-07-15	135,668	321,578	42.19	31.82	4,316,956
2025-07-14	91,737	180,605	50.79	32.24	2,957,601
2025-07-11	160,957	360,605	44.64	32.67	5,258,465
2025-07-10	127,477	248,156	51.37	32.58	4,153,201
2025-07-09	100,539	255,726	39.32	31.66	3,183,065
2025-07-08	125,992	265,059	47.53	31.76	4,001,506
2025-07-07	127,562	338,981	37.63	31.47	4,014,376
2025-07-03	166,153	308,862	53.8	32.28	5,363,419
2025-07-02	287,995	495,262	58.15	31.75	9,143,841
2025-07-01	206,596	404,201	51.11	30.77	6,356,959
2025-06-30	207,732	718,842	28.9	30.22	6,277,661
2025-06-27	403,912	1,449,499	27.87	31.99	12,921,145
2025-06-26	539,264	1,023,924	52.67	30.85	16,636,294
2025-06-25	283,286	453,760	62.43	25.96	7,354,105
2025-06-24	80,756	178,733	45.18	25.59	2,066,546
2025-06-23	104,523	385,465	27.12	24.89	2,601,577
2025-06-20	225,824	688,060	32.82	24.59	5,553,012
2025-06-18	72,958	255,093	28.6	25.36	1,850,215

Total	44,972,790	126,882,910	35.44	30.55	1,373,803,615

* Totals include all data records back to 2023-12-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.