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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BTE at $1.755, after crossing above the $1.721 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:07 - 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 Baytex Energy Corp. (BTE), 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 Baytex Energy Corp. at $1.755, after crossing above the $1.721 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
2025-05-0924,789,97340,733,50260.861.6240,159,756
2025-05-0824,365,88836,883,77966.061.5838,498,103
2025-05-0730,082,33152,398,92957.411.4844,521,850
2025-05-0638,415,38765,746,02558.431.557,623,081
2025-05-0521,385,73632,653,72065.491.5833,789,463
2025-05-0225,532,52948,556,08452.581.6542,128,673
2025-05-0140,049,13469,091,48657.971.6264,879,597
2025-04-3033,166,37154,563,34760.791.5451,076,211
2025-04-2919,791,50832,423,69461.041.6131,864,328
2025-04-2811,742,71521,867,87953.71.6519,375,480
2025-04-2516,902,91026,730,17563.241.6527,889,802
2025-04-2417,333,37727,263,75663.581.6528,600,072
2025-04-2334,119,86856,360,42860.541.6656,638,981
2025-04-2219,755,66131,803,21862.121.733,584,624
2025-04-2116,123,71828,206,39057.161.6726,926,609
2025-04-1720,747,24536,720,74556.51.7436,100,206
2025-04-1621,785,40735,557,00461.271.6736,381,630
2025-04-1518,600,95928,643,32864.941.6330,319,563
2025-04-1431,212,48954,137,68457.651.6250,564,232
2025-04-1115,702,36129,815,19052.671.625,123,778
2025-04-1020,594,65638,213,47553.891.5932,745,503
2025-04-0930,593,00074,084,11641.291.648,948,800
2025-04-0844,666,67573,327,33260.911.5870,573,347
2025-04-0728,861,65257,348,79850.331.6246,755,876
2025-04-0436,379,81358,890,89261.771.6660,390,490
2025-04-0342,039,10167,568,02062.222.0485,759,766
2025-04-0218,678,32332,097,91758.192.2241,465,877
2025-04-0127,832,44147,424,63958.692.1960,953,046
2025-03-3126,398,17545,096,31958.542.258,075,985
2025-03-2818,519,86134,136,65054.252.240,743,694
2025-03-2721,707,67137,795,47057.432.2448,625,183
2025-03-2630,984,89553,196,45458.252.2970,955,410
2025-03-2521,194,68141,494,23151.082.2848,323,873
2025-03-2415,673,18832,069,49848.872.2234,794,477
2025-03-2122,174,80254,449,96340.732.1547,675,824
2025-03-2021,073,66639,899,61152.822.1946,151,329
2025-03-1923,837,71144,195,58553.942.1851,966,210
 
Total1,327,795,1042,418,409,78554.91.722,283,797,591
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.