BP p.l.c. Faces Potential Short Squeeze

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 5th 2025 at 15:00 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 BP p.l.c. (BPAQF), 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 BP p.l.c. at $5.57, after crossing above the $5.551 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
2025-08-04	7,018	9,767	71.85	5.36	37,631
2025-08-01	19,391	22,397	86.58	5.32	103,063
2025-07-31	6,789	14,955	45.4	5.38	36,532
2025-07-30	1,636	12,971	12.61	5.3	8,663
2025-07-29	18,343	18,633	98.44	5.45	99,914
2025-07-28	26,140	28,643	91.26	5.47	143,038
2025-07-25	4,980	8,267	60.24	5.33	26,553
2025-07-24	15,005	16,061	93.43	5.44	81,687
2025-07-23	5,241	6,230	84.13	5.47	28,642
2025-07-22	8,568	9,220	92.93	5.38	46,053
2025-07-21	4,991	6,363	78.44	5.41	26,981
2025-07-18	9,715	10,108	96.11	5.46	53,083
2025-07-17	2,907	4,987	58.29	5.31	15,445
2025-07-16	3,990	5,790	68.91	5.3	21,160
2025-07-15	414	1,477	28.03	5.3	2,193
2025-07-14	25,499	26,029	97.96	5.38	137,210
2025-07-11	33,394	38,785	86.1	5.38	179,493
2025-07-10	6,139	7,520	81.64	5.22	32,064
2025-07-09	1,703	2,640	64.51	5.21	8,878
2025-07-08	4,753	23,298	20.4	5.18	24,630
2025-07-07	38,450	41,210	93.3	5.08	195,288
2025-07-03	6,160	11,717	52.57	5.16	31,779
2025-07-02	3,327	7,803	42.64	5.13	17,068
2025-07-01	3,217	8,718	36.9	5	16,075
2025-06-30	26,216	34,347	76.33	5.05	132,338
2025-06-27	11,651	22,734	51.25	5.07	59,059
2025-06-26	2,634	19,955	13.2	5	13,157
2025-06-25	5,503	16,022	34.35	4.99	27,454
2025-06-24	2,257	4,508	50.07	4.99	11,260
2025-06-23	33,477	46,221	72.43	5.33	178,499
2025-06-20	16,598	30,877	53.76	5.24	86,974
2025-06-18	9,721	18,134	53.61	5.14	49,956
2025-06-17	23,106	28,909	79.93	5.23	120,914
2025-06-16	9,053	62,111	14.58	5.18	46,858
2025-06-13	4,405	15,874	27.75	5.22	23,003
2025-06-12	6,029	33,997	17.73	5.09	30,700
2025-06-11	7,612	12,166	62.57	5.04	38,364

Total	12,049,137	36,749,298	32.79	5.55	66,885,344

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-07 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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BP p.l.c. Faces Potential Short Squeeze