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Short squeeze is starting in shares of SM at $23.83, after crossing above the $23.56 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-01 10:15:06 - 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 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 $23.83, after crossing above the $23.56 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
2025-04-30784,3663,106,07625.2522.7917,875,701
2025-04-29394,2452,133,04218.4823.189,138,599
2025-04-28553,6831,695,67632.6523.6213,077,992
2025-04-25619,2481,368,98945.2323.4114,496,596
2025-04-241,088,3842,460,75044.2323.1625,206,973
2025-04-231,247,9503,081,77440.4922.9228,603,014
2025-04-22800,1751,653,52848.3922.9318,348,013
2025-04-211,018,9332,478,35341.1122.0722,487,851
2025-04-17831,4212,060,53040.3523.0219,139,311
2025-04-161,060,8001,936,46154.7822.2823,634,624
2025-04-15780,5762,173,22535.9221.817,016,557
2025-04-141,524,1952,707,47656.321.933,379,871
2025-04-11869,1452,913,21029.8321.3118,521,480
2025-04-101,263,6402,924,46443.2121.427,041,896
2025-04-091,792,2785,526,56532.4323.3741,885,537
2025-04-081,704,9344,311,39939.5420.8635,564,923
2025-04-071,471,0845,630,28926.1321.7632,010,788
2025-04-041,677,4365,350,33231.3522.1137,088,110
2025-04-031,884,7034,459,11042.2725.8648,738,420
2025-04-02688,9102,227,53230.9330.3820,929,086
2025-04-01740,7831,979,42237.4229.5721,904,953
2025-03-311,122,9802,579,52443.5329.9333,610,791
2025-03-28486,1111,760,90127.6129.3514,267,358
2025-03-27616,0811,800,81034.2130.3318,685,737
2025-03-261,047,3232,584,62640.5230.7932,247,075
2025-03-251,162,2992,793,18541.6130.835,798,809
2025-03-24652,1122,347,02527.7831.7420,698,035
2025-03-212,871,37220,415,10114.0630.6888,093,693
2025-03-201,113,6172,540,51443.8330.8734,377,357
2025-03-191,100,0022,664,66941.2831.0334,133,062
2025-03-181,103,2482,940,98237.5130.1633,273,960
2025-03-171,228,5652,781,87944.1630.2637,176,377
2025-03-141,065,6482,680,23839.7629.6931,639,089
2025-03-131,224,4782,773,28144.1528.9235,411,904
2025-03-121,556,6502,867,61554.2829.7546,310,338
2025-03-111,907,5873,867,28949.3328.8354,995,733
2025-03-101,498,9203,486,75642.9927.4841,190,322
 
Total1,285,915,6333,678,532,00034.9623.730,480,785,189
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.