TotalEnergies SE Faces Potential Short Squeeze: Data Reveals Market Maker Abuse

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 6th 2025 at 10:30 GMT by 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 TotalEnergies SE (TTE), 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 TotalEnergies SE at $61.2, after crossing above the $60.331 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
2025-08-05	666,759	1,139,037	58.54	60.09	40,065,548
2025-08-04	725,994	1,779,452	40.8	59.54	43,225,683
2025-08-01	692,183	1,605,996	43.1	59.09	40,901,093
2025-07-31	684,997	1,354,608	50.57	59.55	40,791,571
2025-07-30	522,149	1,099,993	47.47	59.99	31,323,719
2025-07-29	818,540	2,150,530	38.06	61.08	49,996,423
2025-07-28	696,814	1,634,853	42.62	60.81	42,373,259
2025-07-25	742,251	1,724,907	43.03	60.37	44,809,693
2025-07-24	804,134	2,691,738	29.87	60.55	48,690,314
2025-07-23	504,800	1,962,785	25.72	62.57	31,585,336
2025-07-22	418,564	1,339,868	31.24	61.93	25,921,669
2025-07-21	669,374	1,383,068	48.4	61.59	41,226,745
2025-07-18	584,072	1,013,258	57.64	61.8	36,095,650
2025-07-17	501,249	1,238,274	40.48	61.39	30,771,676
2025-07-16	926,382	1,613,840	57.4	62.02	57,454,212
2025-07-15	553,975	1,069,678	51.79	62.07	34,385,228
2025-07-14	499,271	1,094,866	45.6	62.44	31,174,481
2025-07-11	471,735	1,179,883	39.98	62.99	29,714,588
2025-07-10	279,439	970,651	28.79	62.38	17,431,405
2025-07-09	449,856	965,481	46.59	62.5	28,116,000
2025-07-08	586,143	1,238,036	47.34	61.82	36,235,360
2025-07-07	791,390	1,896,612	41.73	60.71	48,045,287
2025-07-03	424,908	1,314,711	32.32	62.9	26,726,713
2025-07-02	469,790	1,468,299	32	63.08	29,634,353
2025-07-01	341,101	920,951	37.04	61.7	21,045,932
2025-06-30	615,819	1,322,403	46.57	61.31	37,755,863
2025-06-27	768,085	1,689,717	45.46	61.42	47,175,781
2025-06-26	527,212	1,215,357	43.38	61.32	32,328,640
2025-06-25	836,107	1,803,167	46.37	61.03	51,027,610
2025-06-24	1,168,359	2,094,876	55.77	60.87	71,118,012
2025-06-23	947,088	1,948,211	48.61	61.89	58,615,276
2025-06-20	1,094,343	2,779,758	39.37	62.7	68,615,306
2025-06-18	569,806	1,287,310	44.26	62	35,327,972
2025-06-17	1,198,911	2,428,736	49.36	63.87	76,574,446
2025-06-16	1,038,431	2,892,487	35.9	62.92	65,338,079
2025-06-13	1,883,343	3,822,980	49.26	63.34	119,290,946
2025-06-12	960,119	1,726,682	55.6	63.12	60,602,711

Total	618,721,761	1,632,458,786	37.9	60.33	37,327,955,311

* Totals include all data records back to 2022-01-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.