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Short squeeze is starting in shares of HRI at $133.21, after crossing above the $130.791 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:30:36 - 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 Herc Holdings Inc. (HRI), 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 Herc Holdings Inc. at $133.21, after crossing above the $130.791 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
2025-05-09269,295478,32156.3121.7832,794,745
2025-05-08449,119746,17860.19123.3455,394,337
2025-05-07471,1431,138,61341.38114.3253,861,068
2025-05-06141,342286,02249.42112.2615,867,053
2025-05-05300,970504,51659.66114.6834,515,240
2025-05-02237,843451,49452.68115.7827,537,463
2025-05-01238,420481,57149.51111.8226,660,124
2025-04-30216,169535,53640.36108.4323,439,205
2025-04-29258,202604,42842.72106.8927,599,212
2025-04-28208,600379,26355110.523,050,300
2025-04-25215,906540,89839.92108.1623,352,393
2025-04-24305,919574,33553.26111.0333,966,187
2025-04-23443,732946,61146.88108.0147,927,493
2025-04-22612,4611,184,01351.73102.1162,538,393
2025-04-21386,742747,15651.76110.9342,901,290
2025-04-17337,915593,22456.96117.4939,701,633
2025-04-16219,023661,22833.12115.8425,371,624
2025-04-15138,412281,34249.2117.8216,307,702
2025-04-14239,574455,14252.64118.428,365,562
2025-04-11332,964768,74743.31114.5538,141,026
2025-04-10232,734437,46653.2118.6427,611,562
2025-04-09426,517959,83544.44122.6952,329,371
2025-04-08327,514620,30652.8115.4437,808,216
2025-04-07378,464759,78149.81118.1644,719,306
2025-04-04448,031872,18951.37120.4553,965,334
2025-04-03347,854731,94247.52130.3245,332,333
2025-04-02181,388374,20548.47140.725,521,292
2025-04-01236,497496,50247.63136.6732,322,045
2025-03-31309,989785,05939.49134.2241,606,724
2025-03-28750,7991,083,82869.27137.59103,302,434
2025-03-27259,080458,42356.52139.7836,214,202
2025-03-26273,755475,37257.59140.6238,495,428
2025-03-25293,705636,39146.15142.9541,985,130
2025-03-24270,771556,87848.62142.3138,533,421
2025-03-21504,9891,093,23546.19135.0568,198,764
2025-03-20298,430473,73962.99135.0640,305,956
2025-03-19286,075588,32648.63131.2537,547,344
 
Total118,488,733372,387,43431.82130.8415,503,501,244
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.