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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BPAQF at $5.75, after crossing above the $5.492 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 11:15:02 - 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 $5.75, after crossing above the $5.492 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions. You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-01-1637,97457,00266.625.27200,275
2025-01-152258,8512.545.141,156
2025-01-144,1446,48963.865.2121,586
2025-01-13294,200295,86199.445.31,558,672
2025-01-10236,969239,05199.135.441,289,822
2025-01-08193,0880.625.31101
2025-01-06198,365236,21583.985.21,030,903
2025-01-0321,97639,56255.555.09111,924
2025-01-0212,79057,12122.395.0464,423
2024-12-3012,268153,5477.994.8859,819
2024-12-2710,19272,33214.094.8749,676
2024-12-268,62079,04110.914.8741,979
2024-12-23741111,8420.664.823,568
2024-12-2020,53087,81523.384.7697,620
2024-12-1911,337124,8659.084.8154,474
2024-12-18100683,4440.014.86486
2024-12-1710098,2270.14.84484
2024-12-1684,241174,04848.44.95416,740
2024-12-139,34265,29314.314.9846,533
2024-12-1214,82486,85817.074.9573,334
2024-12-111,028137,3040.754.985,114
2024-12-10435160,9420.274.912,136
2024-12-09172,211318,38654.094.98857,783
2024-12-0648,352191,74325.224.81232,718
2024-12-0515,780107,06814.744.8576,596
2024-12-041,21452,6142.314.835,867
2024-12-032,08677,2882.74.8310,084
2024-12-0275,100120,79762.174.86364,911
2024-11-2915,56184,06718.514.8174,802
2024-11-274,15746,4308.954.7519,737
2024-11-26171,22704.835
2024-11-2550,95796,45352.834.87248,212
2024-11-2217,46140,87542.724.8885,245
2024-11-2117,98959,79130.094.8186,552
2024-11-204,94531,31315.794.7223,345
2024-11-191,14629,5683.884.815,507
2024-11-1848,07383,04357.894.84232,818
 
Total11,355,82633,247,21034.165.4962,361,418
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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