Short squeeze is starting in shares of SM at $23.17, after crossing above the $22.304 Trigger Price

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 SM Energy Company (SM), 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 SM Energy Company at $23.17, after crossing above the $22.304 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
2025-04-08	1,704,934	4,311,399	39.54	20.86	35,564,923
2025-04-07	1,471,084	5,630,289	26.13	21.76	32,010,788
2025-04-04	1,677,436	5,350,332	31.35	22.11	37,088,110
2025-04-03	1,884,703	4,459,110	42.27	25.86	48,738,420
2025-04-02	688,910	2,227,532	30.93	30.38	20,929,086
2025-04-01	740,783	1,979,422	37.42	29.57	21,904,953
2025-03-31	1,122,980	2,579,524	43.53	29.93	33,610,791
2025-03-28	486,111	1,760,901	27.61	29.35	14,267,358
2025-03-27	616,081	1,800,810	34.21	30.33	18,685,737
2025-03-26	1,047,323	2,584,626	40.52	30.79	32,247,075
2025-03-25	1,162,299	2,793,185	41.61	30.8	35,798,809
2025-03-24	652,112	2,347,025	27.78	31.74	20,698,035
2025-03-21	2,871,372	20,415,101	14.06	30.68	88,093,693
2025-03-20	1,113,617	2,540,514	43.83	30.87	34,377,357
2025-03-19	1,100,002	2,664,669	41.28	31.03	34,133,062
2025-03-18	1,103,248	2,940,982	37.51	30.16	33,273,960
2025-03-17	1,228,565	2,781,879	44.16	30.26	37,176,377
2025-03-14	1,065,648	2,680,238	39.76	29.69	31,639,089
2025-03-13	1,224,478	2,773,281	44.15	28.92	35,411,904
2025-03-12	1,556,650	2,867,615	54.28	29.75	46,310,338
2025-03-11	1,907,587	3,867,289	49.33	28.83	54,995,733
2025-03-10	1,498,920	3,486,756	42.99	27.48	41,190,322
2025-03-07	1,364,448	3,033,687	44.98	27.81	37,945,299
2025-03-06	1,071,961	2,592,931	41.34	27.12	29,071,582
2025-03-05	1,712,303	3,689,811	46.41	27.39	46,899,979
2025-03-04	1,212,819	3,416,275	35.5	28.91	35,062,597
2025-03-03	1,536,334	2,826,850	54.35	30.48	46,827,460
2025-02-28	1,001,513	1,724,599	58.07	32.63	32,679,369
2025-02-27	1,320,445	2,642,208	49.98	32.7	43,178,552
2025-02-26	1,659,982	2,957,028	56.14	32.59	54,098,813
2025-02-25	1,560,212	3,694,454	42.23	33.57	52,376,317
2025-02-24	1,683,106	2,964,741	56.77	34.02	57,259,266
2025-02-21	3,169,856	5,086,562	62.32	34.77	110,215,893
2025-02-20	2,475,669	4,987,710	49.64	37.34	92,441,480
2025-02-19	1,144,919	2,638,723	43.39	38.67	44,274,018
2025-02-18	801,779	2,120,643	37.81	38.78	31,092,990
2025-02-14	691,617	2,065,209	33.49	38.61	26,703,332

Total	1,353,977,387	3,861,730,343	35.06	22.42	30,354,876,979

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of SM at $23.17, after crossing above the $22.304 Trigger Price