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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PSX at $104.2, after crossing above the $103.547 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-02 08:30:09 - 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 Phillips 66 (PSX), 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 Phillips 66 at $104.2, after crossing above the $103.547 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
2025-05-01809,5283,290,27424.6104.0584,231,388
2025-04-30971,2194,611,16121.06103.77100,783,396
2025-04-29400,2822,100,75619.05105.8242,357,841
2025-04-281,131,9883,145,96935.98105.48119,402,094
2025-04-251,746,9733,052,57657.23103.23180,340,023
2025-04-241,347,6912,527,29453.33104.44140,752,848
2025-04-231,367,2594,475,93730.55102.94140,745,641
2025-04-221,375,6042,891,91347.57100.48138,220,690
2025-04-21769,7852,294,51433.5596.8874,576,771
2025-04-171,092,2702,437,23544.8299.17108,320,416
2025-04-16836,3351,908,58043.8297.281,291,762
2025-04-15861,9223,262,84926.4296.8583,477,146
2025-04-141,053,4252,523,98141.7498.03103,267,253
2025-04-111,512,6234,693,16532.2396.54146,028,624
2025-04-101,781,3375,735,88631.0696.62172,112,781
2025-04-092,550,30512,956,59619.6899.58253,959,372
2025-04-082,021,1115,676,65435.695.27192,551,245
2025-04-071,680,5227,150,72523.596.75162,590,504
2025-04-042,417,9087,523,34532.1498.61238,429,908
2025-04-032,610,5326,521,21940.03108.91284,313,040
2025-04-02892,8223,287,72827.16123.83110,558,148
2025-04-01972,2921,996,85148.69123.3119,883,604
2025-03-31960,4823,129,70630.69123.38118,504,269
2025-03-28975,7233,547,26027.51122.15119,184,564
2025-03-27731,8872,428,94730.13124.8891,398,049
2025-03-26667,5252,293,17429.11126.7784,622,144
2025-03-25902,2473,475,47525.96125.81113,511,695
2025-03-241,255,9506,782,80718.52126.27158,588,807
2025-03-211,624,9387,987,42320.34125.91204,595,944
2025-03-20942,5472,106,53844.74128.63121,239,821
2025-03-19874,4412,163,18440.42128.69112,531,812
2025-03-181,307,8243,185,68641.05128.8168,447,731
2025-03-171,937,7145,348,10136.23129.01249,984,483
2025-03-141,905,6404,648,86440.99126.1240,301,204
2025-03-132,222,8958,360,09326.59122.94273,282,711
2025-03-122,005,8793,194,48462.79123.87248,468,232
2025-03-112,241,7824,495,56949.87123.37276,568,645
 
Total1,373,333,2214,675,926,59329.37103.55142,204,686,410
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.