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Short squeeze is starting in shares of HLX at $7.071, after crossing above the $6.636 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:00:22 - 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 Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (HLX), 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 Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. at $7.071, after crossing above the $6.636 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
2025-05-09788,6032,091,72837.76.595,196,894
2025-05-081,215,6773,006,47640.446.748,193,663
2025-05-071,060,0472,569,84441.256.526,911,506
2025-05-061,117,9612,777,02140.266.557,322,645
2025-05-051,359,5972,867,03847.426.478,796,593
2025-05-02895,1382,409,09937.166.545,854,203
2025-05-011,415,1184,108,42734.446.278,872,790
2025-04-301,479,7694,144,01935.716.078,982,198
2025-04-291,571,1913,256,66348.256.239,788,520
2025-04-282,009,4204,241,61247.376.1512,357,933
2025-04-251,263,3183,476,90136.336.327,984,170
2025-04-241,222,4574,827,01625.336.437,860,399
2025-04-231,520,5043,133,04248.536.610,035,326
2025-04-22898,5431,999,97544.936.525,858,500
2025-04-21815,2422,117,43138.56.565,347,988
2025-04-17801,2681,534,27952.226.815,456,635
2025-04-16693,9382,029,14934.26.544,538,355
2025-04-15558,2271,723,38632.396.433,589,400
2025-04-14772,1761,441,05153.586.515,026,866
2025-04-11829,9102,202,84937.676.45,311,424
2025-04-10786,2792,572,22730.576.274,929,969
2025-04-09771,4463,140,19824.576.65,091,544
2025-04-081,101,6962,312,86347.636.186,808,481
2025-04-071,543,1074,446,91234.76.5410,091,920
2025-04-041,425,7613,546,90640.26.779,652,402
2025-04-03990,2112,471,06240.077.627,545,408
2025-04-02533,9081,473,04436.258.454,511,523
2025-04-01842,7412,009,31241.948.457,121,161
2025-03-31538,5651,685,71931.958.334,486,246
2025-03-28843,9071,776,74747.58.367,055,063
2025-03-27599,2691,640,89836.528.595,147,721
2025-03-261,386,8602,607,46553.198.8112,218,237
2025-03-25765,6222,341,16532.78.646,614,974
2025-03-24678,3201,877,73236.128.625,847,118
2025-03-214,065,79715,929,46125.528.6135,006,512
2025-03-20521,0321,255,09141.518.634,496,506
2025-03-19690,4492,564,11826.938.655,972,384
 
Total950,143,9192,789,545,01334.066.656,315,984,161
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.