Regulatory Scrutiny of Short Selling Since RegSho's 2005 Introduction

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 13th 2025 at 10:30 GMT by WOPRAI
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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 Camden National Corporation (CAC), 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 Camden National Corporation at $39.825, after crossing above the $39.543 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
2025-08-12	28,438	77,763	36.57	38.97	1,108,229
2025-08-11	28,346	57,452	49.34	37.61	1,066,093
2025-08-08	18,668	43,640	42.78	37.27	695,756
2025-08-07	26,160	51,869	50.43	36.76	961,642
2025-08-06	43,622	89,666	48.65	37.19	1,622,302
2025-08-05	32,348	103,914	31.13	36.84	1,191,700
2025-08-04	35,558	67,098	52.99	36.95	1,313,868
2025-08-01	54,835	125,764	43.6	36.84	2,020,121
2025-07-31	89,859	192,045	46.79	37.92	3,407,453
2025-07-30	64,370	155,140	41.49	37.53	2,415,806
2025-07-29	57,546	163,305	35.24	37.68	2,168,333
2025-07-28	22,927	70,106	32.7	41.37	948,490
2025-07-25	26,501	55,715	47.57	40.95	1,085,216
2025-07-24	24,227	53,645	45.16	41.08	995,245
2025-07-23	12,090	38,118	31.72	41.9	506,571
2025-07-22	15,860	42,321	37.48	42.25	670,085
2025-07-21	17,280	41,418	41.72	42.39	732,499
2025-07-18	18,664	62,556	29.84	42.31	789,674
2025-07-17	44,428	117,045	37.96	42.35	1,881,526
2025-07-16	22,065	51,846	42.56	41.85	923,420
2025-07-15	29,265	62,809	46.59	41.93	1,227,081
2025-07-14	21,242	61,194	34.71	43.32	920,203
2025-07-11	24,181	89,214	27.1	42.83	1,035,672
2025-07-10	27,639	74,473	37.11	43.5	1,202,297
2025-07-09	25,446	69,994	36.35	43.14	1,097,740
2025-07-08	40,004	94,455	42.35	43.39	1,735,774
2025-07-07	45,627	99,384	45.91	43.06	1,964,699
2025-07-03	19,488	38,129	51.11	43.17	841,297
2025-07-02	31,563	76,765	41.12	42.38	1,337,640
2025-07-01	25,016	54,986	45.5	41.67	1,042,417
2025-06-30	26,649	65,516	40.68	40.61	1,082,216
2025-06-27	44,186	114,096	38.73	40.72	1,799,254
2025-06-26	18,137	45,101	40.21	40.26	730,196
2025-06-25	29,044	57,459	50.55	39.76	1,154,789
2025-06-24	24,443	49,633	49.25	40.22	983,097
2025-06-23	17,916	45,843	39.08	39.43	706,428
2025-06-20	38,141	94,928	40.18	38.61	1,472,624

Total	20,905,653	59,309,925	35.25	39.55	826,729,407

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Regulatory Scrutiny of Short Selling Since RegSho's 2005 Introduction