Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Amid Retail Investor Awareness

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 Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (BHF), 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 Brighthouse Financial, Inc. at $52.25, after crossing above the $47.633 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
2025-07-15	349,024	613,717	56.87	47.86	16,704,289
2025-07-14	306,975	681,091	45.07	49.05	15,057,124
2025-07-11	720,293	1,589,414	45.32	49.14	35,395,198
2025-07-10	220,294	644,097	34.2	52.14	11,486,129
2025-07-09	283,725	564,816	50.23	52.14	14,793,422
2025-07-08	317,943	797,974	39.84	52.28	16,622,060
2025-07-07	386,871	782,486	49.44	51.35	19,865,826
2025-07-03	359,944	750,588	47.95	53.32	19,192,214
2025-07-02	517,996	1,131,366	45.79	53.2	27,557,387
2025-07-01	303,237	746,456	40.62	54.02	16,380,863
2025-06-30	272,971	775,382	35.2	53.92	14,718,596
2025-06-27	334,618	986,487	33.92	54.36	18,189,834
2025-06-26	260,493	876,264	29.73	53.74	13,998,894
2025-06-25	420,320	1,443,233	29.12	52.95	22,255,944
2025-06-24	1,142,691	3,301,080	34.62	55.98	63,967,842
2025-06-23	200,925	589,405	34.09	58.64	11,782,242
2025-06-20	351,676	1,152,281	30.52	59	20,748,884
2025-06-18	296,722	720,438	41.19	58.88	17,470,991
2025-06-17	265,522	527,906	50.3	57.97	15,392,310
2025-06-16	118,484	360,710	32.85	58.5	6,931,314
2025-06-13	214,665	437,152	49.11	57.19	12,276,691
2025-06-12	164,118	378,390	43.37	57.52	9,440,067
2025-06-11	198,920	454,053	43.81	57.23	11,384,192
2025-06-10	183,607	454,932	40.36	58.08	10,663,895
2025-06-09	163,419	427,869	38.19	58.89	9,623,745
2025-06-06	186,513	340,130	54.84	59.16	11,034,109
2025-06-05	238,561	440,524	54.15	58.02	13,841,309
2025-06-04	235,017	499,273	47.07	58.31	13,703,841
2025-06-03	221,177	472,923	46.77	59.18	13,089,255
2025-06-02	407,919	798,584	51.08	58.73	23,957,083
2025-05-30	583,357	1,202,405	48.52	59.47	34,692,241
2025-05-29	282,201	654,416	43.12	58.94	16,632,927
2025-05-28	320,378	579,647	55.27	59.35	19,014,434
2025-05-27	271,885	687,891	39.52	60.21	16,370,196
2025-05-23	318,361	780,102	40.81	58.15	18,512,692
2025-05-22	347,983	680,517	51.14	58.67	20,416,163
2025-05-21	426,512	775,340	55.01	58.99	25,159,943

Total	257,545,453	719,927,958	35.77	47.65	12,270,848,467

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-17 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.