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Short squeeze is starting in shares of USMT at $3.7, after crossing above the $3.665 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-18 11:45:09 - 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 US Metro Bancorp, Inc. (USMT), 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 US Metro Bancorp, Inc. at $3.7, after crossing above the $3.665 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-03-171,2013,60133.353.634,354
2025-03-144,90010,001493.5417,361
2025-03-078071,45055.663.622,918
2025-03-063,0004,000753.6610,980
2025-03-032002001003.7740
2025-02-131,0002,05048.783.773,765
2025-02-07250500503.77941
2025-02-052,0004,75042.113.747,474
2025-01-314,5007,500603.716,664
2025-01-306,50011,50056.523.7124,115
2025-01-069002,000453.733,360
2024-12-192,0002,40083.333.577,134
2024-12-108,52211,11676.663.5229,997
2024-12-048013,6780.583.57286
2024-11-2222042052.383.74823
2024-11-181785,0203.553.99711
2024-10-282,9333,45085.013.9911,700
2024-10-2510071114.063.95395
2024-10-184,90010,73745.643.818,605
2024-09-20100200503.78378
2024-07-3020030066.673.95790
2024-07-241,0002,000503.683,680
2024-07-221,0001,30076.923.563,559
2024-07-181,9007,20026.393.416,477
2024-07-159001,59456.463.162,844
2024-07-1270081585.893.152,206
2024-06-281,7774,77837.193.065,438
2024-06-271001,8005.563.06306
2024-06-24355,0900.693.06107
2024-06-12436007.173.19137
2024-06-05535719.283.08163
2024-05-21363309,6420.123.21,162
2024-05-1045,170329,62513.73.23146,080
2024-05-0811051021.573.1341
2024-05-0615019576.923.12468
2024-04-3010013076.923.14314
2024-04-23207,7730.263.1262
 
Total984,8792,656,95237.073.663,609,302
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.