Southwest Airlines Stock May Face Short Squeeze

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 Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), 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 Southwest Airlines Co. at $36.155, after crossing above the $35.071 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-07-09	5,159,988	9,571,689	53.91	34.5	178,019,586
2025-07-08	4,691,357	7,678,193	61.1	34.03	159,646,879
2025-07-07	5,585,970	11,033,215	50.63	33.79	188,749,926
2025-07-03	2,294,744	3,722,326	61.65	34.06	78,158,981
2025-07-02	4,426,358	9,981,366	44.35	33.83	149,743,691
2025-07-01	6,471,620	15,868,149	40.78	33.29	215,440,230
2025-06-30	6,153,019	11,525,191	53.39	32.32	198,865,574
2025-06-27	8,497,934	33,012,100	25.74	32.17	273,378,537
2025-06-26	3,875,460	6,293,049	61.58	31.55	122,270,763
2025-06-25	4,485,232	6,950,804	64.53	31.45	141,060,546
2025-06-24	6,532,845	10,129,751	64.49	31.95	208,724,398
2025-06-23	5,868,976	15,631,264	37.55	31.65	185,753,090
2025-06-20	6,851,942	33,052,877	20.73	31.39	215,082,459
2025-06-18	4,930,144	7,946,265	62.04	31.27	154,165,603
2025-06-17	7,615,684	15,769,442	48.29	31.59	240,579,458
2025-06-16	5,700,671	12,781,989	44.6	32.29	184,074,667
2025-06-13	7,914,932	11,202,874	70.65	31.85	252,090,584
2025-06-12	6,078,370	10,198,920	59.6	32.69	198,701,915
2025-06-11	7,149,345	12,342,426	57.92	33.66	240,646,953
2025-06-10	6,453,853	11,391,716	56.65	34.28	221,238,081
2025-06-09	6,724,622	9,746,123	69	33.56	225,678,314
2025-06-06	5,912,329	10,005,932	59.09	33.23	196,466,693
2025-06-05	6,236,377	11,634,251	53.6	32.6	203,305,890
2025-06-04	6,047,794	10,931,784	55.32	32.41	196,009,004
2025-06-03	6,094,747	13,792,489	44.19	32.68	199,176,332
2025-06-02	7,316,016	14,449,913	50.63	33.13	242,379,610
2025-05-30	7,534,873	19,812,826	38.03	33.38	251,514,061
2025-05-29	7,153,311	14,133,326	50.61	33.79	241,710,379
2025-05-28	7,683,886	14,059,308	54.65	32.87	252,569,333
2025-05-27	8,833,267	16,599,198	53.22	32.52	287,257,843
2025-05-23	5,381,923	10,560,370	50.96	30.95	166,570,517
2025-05-22	11,344,449	17,742,389	63.94	31.18	353,719,920
2025-05-21	6,734,629	10,732,510	62.75	31.99	215,440,782
2025-05-20	4,236,307	8,226,041	51.5	32.56	137,934,156
2025-05-19	4,849,256	14,349,477	33.79	32.57	157,940,268
2025-05-16	6,287,781	12,347,275	50.92	32.48	204,227,127
2025-05-15	5,558,031	10,706,039	51.91	31.79	176,689,805

Total	4,099,065,730	11,242,467,052	36.46	35.07	143,757,283,855

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.