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HERTZ GLOBAL (HTZ) - Bull flag update! Short Squeeze next week?
CHPT - Chargepoint the next Carvana?
PLCE Due Diligence - The next Meme Run After GPRO
Hertz Global- HTZ , decision time, time count, bull flag breakout inc?
Lets revisit EDBL. The data is interesting. Anyone?
$WOLF (Wolfspeed) : Short Interest hit 85.2% of Free Float.
$WOLF : SI sits at 85% of free float — up another 4 points this week — and shares have lost half their value in three months.
Charter Communications potential rerate $CHTR
Short Squeeze on Hertz - HTZ (updated 8/13).
$SOUN squeeze bound to happen with recent great earnings and 41% SI !!!
75% SI on a float of 17.7M. 10.6 days to cover. Active repurchase program. Solid earnings report just dropped. GRPN my 🍆
$NXTC - Squeeze metrics are looking fantastic with (~109% SI / ~400% borrow)
Hertz Global Holdings - HTZ just going to leave this here!
Hertz (HTZ) earnings tomorrow pre-market. Huge SI.
3D Systems Corp - (DDD) breakout, catalysts, short squeeze, bazooka play!
$250K YOLO on Allogene $ALLO High SI right now
Why is no one paying attention to $LOVE?? 30% SI, 100% ownership, 15 mil. OS. Ticking time bomb?
Why can't we get real time data on short selling?
Next big short squeeze stock #C3.ai
Next big short squeeze stock #C3.ai
Any one know what RKT is up almost 10% in the last 2 days
Analysts upgrade Nintendo & lift operating profit forecast after meeting with management and CEO multiple times
RAD's Cost to Borrow Ratcheted Up to 9.3% Today. With 25% SI on a 54m Share Float & an $82m Market Cap, Something has to Give. Trolls/Penny Posters Working on Behalf of the Short Cabal, have been Panic Posting in Droves in Recent Weeks. The APES Need to Pile in to Claim Our Overdue Pay Day. 🗜🦍🤑🚀
RAD's Cost to Borrow Ratcheted Up to 9.3% Today. With 25% SI on a 54m Share Float & an $82m Market Cap, Something has to Give. Trolls/Penny Posters Working on Behalf of the Short Cabal, have been Panic Posting in Droves in Recent Weeks. The APES Need to Pile in to Claim Our Overdue Pay Day. 🗜🦍🤑🚀
💙 $BBBYQ 💙 “We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
Carvana will be profitable this quarter, increase margin per vehicle sold and expired private exchange of notes. Up 35% today with a 60% SI
Why aren't we hitting CVNA hard
Forecasting Short-Interest -- Anyone try this? Is this a good idea?
Cvna got their debt extended and could squeeze soon
Forecasting a stock's short interest -- Any value doing this?
$XELA In-depth DD: Is its 229%SI true? I did a lot of research and found something extremely interesting.
cheap stock, cheap options, low float, high SI.
$OCTO - Low float & volume, high CTB, high SI, 0 shares to barrow
I really thought KSS would have been way more interesting today.
Digimarc ($DMRC) squeeze thesis, tops the list according to S3 partners
MICS has had their Short Interest on Ortex go from 15% last Monday to 125% last Thursday. INSANE increase in 4 days...👀 👀
I can’t stop and won’t stop. NEGG is the sleeper
Trading Nvidia earnings next week: Analysts say ‘AI gold rush’ should boost outlook
$LAZR - Luminar Technologies - Heavily shorted, Massive insider buying, Artificial intelligence play
M&A catalyst for APRN - ~20% SI
BGFV Earnings AH! 41% SI, LOW FLOAT, Dividend (shorts have to pay), possible hostile buyout to go private!
BTBT looking real juicy with 50% SI and shorts running out of shares.
PROG ortex update, bet SI will increase even more with next update
Could anyone send me/comment the SI data for $PIXY. Thanks in advance
My sentiment to a tie #PROG. Sub 3 by Friday. 😎 Short interest keeps coming down.
BGFV earnings tomorrow after close. They moved it up from its original date to early in the week. Bullish. And here’s why.
AGC - Quick notes on why this is almost a sure deal to 100% increase in your portfolio.
***$CRXT - BIG Opportunity with Break-Out and LEGENDARY Short Squeeze Potential
In case you didn’t know BGFV’s earnings is tomorrow. Here’s some info: LOW outstanding shares & float (no dilution from institutions & insiders), 41% SI. Only shorted because no one believed they would continue killing it. They WILL beat earnings again. Supply chain hits in Q4, Q3 safe.
What would happen if someone randomly decided to buy a companies entire float stock. Let’s assume the stock is being also shorted at 50% SI
NXTD! Low float, high SI, good volume! Price went up 25% Friday, headed up today again!!
35% SI before earnings. CTB also climbing. Also called BGFV hope y’all listened positive earnings tomorrow will send it to 35-40
$AGC - 40 percent SI - Partners with Disney - Expands into crypto with wallets and trading
$GWH 4.2 Million Float with 2.1 Million Shares shorted ~51% SI
Fam, so many plays this week. Observe: $LCID has consolidated & if not for dark pools would be over $40. $OCGN has a sick bullish trend & WHO catalyst Wed. $AMC & GME equally bullish & Earnings out today for $AMC. $BTBT halted in AH. $PLUG up 17% last 5D & 11.49 SI. You know wat to do.😂 YW. 🚀💹💸
$SALM Salem media group earnings will send this stock parabolic. Revenue is much higher than the market cap! High SI! No options.
ATER 55.6% SI, more FTD and potential 8 Nov ER catalyst
Somebody asked for something else then Prog (I bought Prog too)
EARTH SHATTERING DD - Athyrium is not the shorter (PROG)
It’s gonna be a BGFV party next week. Float 19m. 45% SI. Earnings Tuesday. This stock has beaten earnings in the last 3 quarters. Let’s see a continuation.
$BTBT halted right before close. Over 50% SI. Next week’s squeeze play.
$BTBT jumped 42 percent right before closed and halted . Down 18 percent and consolidate in after hour . 52 percent shorted , highest SI in the market . Long term hold for me because I love bitcoin as well . NOT A FINANCIAL ADVICE . I like bitcoin and I like the stock ! 💰💰
$BTBT getting that heat. SI is currently over 50%, being the most shorted stock. Next week should be fun.
I have no idea what I’m talking about. BUT I posted about $BTBT and 3 hours later! Dropping after hours but… keep an eye out. 52%SI
Two plays for next week that will quadruple your portfolio.
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Overall its truly undervalued 100 times smaller than CVNA. Only 700mil cap SI highest pushing over 60% not to mention WORLD BRAND IN OVER 160 COUNTRIES unreal how all this liquidity pumping trillions into AI and HTZ turn around company at $2. These markets kinda scary when you see such divergence.
This is considered a micro cap stock. Its easier to move a sub 1B stock with even a 30% si than most plays out there. I dont see another play with a high SI bull flagging....
Im a pure technical analysis dude, so yes the chart doesnt lie. People can DM me and ask me to pump their stocks, and i will never do that. Why? Because the chart is the truth teller. Anyone with technical analysis will call my bluff if i pump something that lies on the chart. But like i said 70% of my call outs play out. If this one choose not to play out it's fine. But with this pattern and such a high SI, it should.... If theres other stocks with a good technical pattern, and high SI, let me know and i will look at it.
It’s going to be hilarious when GPRO passes your %30 SI rental car company. I’ll take a picture with my GoPro so we can see how happy you are for the normal people
Gopro SI 16% Htz SI 30-60% Wtf you talking about. Do so research before you speak.
We are in Short Squeeze sub you smart smart fellow.... short squeeze is for high SI short squeezes... go to a different merger sub.
Do you have the data? Maybe SI can generate a table ?
AKAN moving...no news, just a nano with high SI
And...HTZ has a 60% SI... theres only 1 play dude
SI is completely unreliable
Did SI on USO really drop \~30%? RH showing it wayyy down
HTZ. 65% SI and 7 DTC. CTB needs to climb though.
HTZ is more primed for a squeeze. Current DTC is over 7 and SI is 65% and climbing.
Gopro is ok, but has a tiny short interest of only 16%.... Htz can squeeze hard. It has a high SI of 60%!
He won’t rugpull, free float is minimal now, SI was already 20~ before he bought
Nope. 1. Too much has been invested in CaPex. Mag 7 and many others have large debts to pay off, and huge depreciation walls coming. 2. Mag 7 profit growth is largely due to circular financing arrangements and AI demand that will likely be interrupted if we say goodbye to Anthropic and/or AI. 3. Q2 profits were artificially boosted by tariff refunds across multiple sectors. 4. Q2 profits were synthetically boosted by company's investments in SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI, etc. There's no way the SI bubble fades away with a whimper without impacting the greater market and economy.
CTB and SI is nowhere near $HTZ though.
VNRX real play with real volume. PM and AH today formed your cup. Handle forming in the over night. Real news with strong earnings leaves the shorts and their aixi algo sequence busted. Strong support below .42....should fill the gap tomorrow. Last fall this time it was ATCH & OPEN...Is it VNRX time to shine? Don't simply grab the SI off RH...smh. Use chart exchange and dark pool(if you have access) activity (dailies). Heavily shorted(not 10% from end of July) more like 110%...zero shares, no offering, no RS(amex), CTB is going to rocket.
Super random and probably nothing. APLD SI dropped like 8% yesterday no clue why.
HTZ again with no short covering during the rally following latest SI report from FINDEL. The short squeeze hasn’t began yet. Will probably start when the high volume of shorted dated call expires in a couple of weeks and then we can moon
HTZ again with no short covering during the rally following latest SI report from FINDEL. The short squeeze hasn’t began yet. Will probably start when the high volume of shorted dated call expires in a couple of weeks and then we can moon
Hertz $HTZ. SI increased to 31+% of float. 110 million shares sold short.
HTZ is getting interesting again. Reported short interest just went from 103.2M to 110.1M shares (+6.6%). What surprises me is that SI increased despite all the recent volume.
Impressive recent ER, with high SI.. I'm still HODL to see it explode
Dilution sure Reverse split I understand consolidation. But, both of them to the 1:200 1:250 scale it is just a legalized scam that works for everyone but the investor. EPPUR SI MUOVE Good luck to not being scammed.
It could yes. I will keep an eye on it as well and if it moves maybe get a nice scalp off of it. Not the type of stock I'd buy in advance and hope for a rip on, the chart doesn't look to hot. It could move on the news about if it's not priced in, but I'm not sure of that, so for me it's more a, " jump on and scalp if it moves, if not I'm safe anyways" , type of play. The float is fairly low, so is the SI, so we need some decent news and volume and it could move a bit. We shall see! I see news set for the 25th, so I will keep it on my watchlist and scanner and see what happens! Not my usual play, but hey, doesn't hurt to watch and see right?!
there is no stock on earth where CTB is so low while SI is so high. SI is delayed and calculated value while CTB is live time. Up to you to believe what but honestly if you based current trading on delayed calculated data, no one can help you out. you are just way too dumb then
* "Construction, power, cooling, networking, or acceptance delays." \-They're delivering, they have the nearterm grid energized and secured in Texas and are not effected by the recent audit. NVDA partnership de-risks GPU supply * Further large equity raises or dilutive financing without clear high-ROI deployment. \-Capex models have returned \~ 2 to 5x per $1 spent on GPUs, 7.6B cash on hand current. contracts are coming in with 40-45% GPU prepayments included. the $500B financing NVDA is lining up should be a tailwind to not resort to dilutive financing coming up. This is financing specifically for NVDA DSX architecture, which sweetwater 1's 1.4GW site is a flagship for - Iren is likely to be a direct beneficiary of this. * Weaker-than-expected AI revenue mix, higher costs, or guidance that pushes the ramp later. \-possible if there are delays * Negative industry developments (GPU shortages, hyperscaler spending pauses, competitive losses, regulatory/power issues). \-regulatory should not be a problem per rebuttal to point 1. Demand is outpacing supply, GPU shortages could be an issue. Hyperscaler CAPEX actually is only loosely tied to $IREN - entirely dependent on if they are seeking a hyperscaler contract or continuing to increase their diversified mix they already have contracted for 2.8B. While Hyperscalers a large part of the demand, a lot of compute is still needed outside of their demand: healthcare field, etc * Short-driven volatility or broader market risk-off (especially for high-beta names) \-always a risk "high valuation" is debatable when they're under the MC for current backlog, have 7.6B cash on and have 2x capacity coming online in 2027 to be contracted. I always recommend right sizing a position to your risk for it. With 30% SI in a highly volatile name and one thats gone through a slight recovery after Leopold got liquidated to trade at what's been support to launch off of for \~10 months But outside of the investment thesis: this is shortsqueeze and what matters more is unleveraged longs tying up the float to squeeze the shorts when they can;t find panic/forced sellers
Fintels number is wrong. True SI is 30%.
I believe 3 things: 1. Company is going to make a turn around. 2. That 2.00 was the bottom or very close to the bottom. 3. SI is one of the highest i ever seen since GME. Now what it decides to do from here only time will tell. Short term i could care less. I hold Leaps! https://preview.redd.it/wmeiv10tspkh1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dbe731d00c55c8f2a74553ab522fee3b3fa999b
Short interest could have been covered today during the run up. Unless you’re seeing updated SI numbers I haven’t seen yet
HTZ 700M MC on a 2.4B revenue with profitable quarter and >50 SI dont seem to match up. Something is brewing here
$POET SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally from $6 and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming…. Be careful
$POET SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally from $6 and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming…. No brainer
$POET? SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming
Also the SI but you can blame me. Could have had pre-ipo price smh
SI: 11.27% Off exchange: 56.07% Just last week earning calls, NAV improved to $3.22. Waiting for buyback to happen. Also another to watch closely. https://preview.redd.it/bq1k7li16yjh1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=625d1146102e263c0838ec9ec5fb0fd5651d06d5
I’m watching HTZ to see if it pumps later today. It’s been a later in the day mover. I think it will move up I just don’t know if it’ll be a fast move. RUM has been very strong. Idk about a full on squeeze or not but I am holding some of that. It’s got a decent SI though.
Uh oh. So there are bag holders ✔️ I just looked at RH and then fintel says 70%+ SI?? Is this right? Did he send me to a meme stock or is something happening
LFS Shorts chose to hold overnight over the weekend with 700k+ SI. If we hold, they might be forced to switch to LONG. Watching this play out will be interesting.
Maybe, kinda, what if, possibly, sorta, etc. I see the SI is low, so i dont buy it because i believe it cant squeeze. But i see a 70% SI on HTZ and i will gamble with it.
Wait wait wait....isnt this Shortsqueeze sub? Shouldnt things have a high SI for SS?
Welcome home loser! 
Still not selling. There's a whole lot of red in today's market and while borrow fees have been coming down, there still 10x what they were last week. Share availability seems to rise, but no update for the last few hours, and a million shares can dry up quite quickly. Considering that SI is still high, I'm going to hold this into next week.
I was literally thinking same after $3 would've been some painful margin kicking on your doors and then Akman comes out of woodwork out of goodness in his heart to notify the world specifically HTZ he sold out few million and all the media picked it up BARRON, BLOOMBERG, CNBC few million shares where its been trading over 100 million like nothing. Cant make this up complete crook st ponzi pumping billions think Sandisk went up Billions yesterday just out of nowhere but TINY BEATEN DOWN HERTZ with unexpected turn around gets ALL THE MEDIA ATTENTION not to mention some questioning 70% SI seems abit stretched considering MARKET ALL TIME HIGHS on few pumped merry circle go round funding. LUNACY when you see HTZ being shorted to oblivion with such huge turn around at measly 800 million cap. Semis Ai sneeze and go up billions but hey HTZ being shorted to dollars not enough more. Complete lunacy in this one sided scripted AI market.
This is crazy. SI is off the charts ffs.
thanks, i just added it to my scanner. here is the report: Price**$4.79**, +4.3% (Aug 14) · pre-market −4.0% → $4.60**SI % float20.7%** (as-of Jul 15, outstanding-like basis)Days to cover**2.5**Borrow (live)**11.1%** — elevatedMarket cap\~$57M → micro tier
No ones talking about BYND? It just had a reverse split today. Smaller float, high SI and off its lows. 🚀🚀🚀
\*\*CAPR\*\* squeeze 87 SI as-of 2026-07-15 (FINRA, 30d old, not recomputed) · borrow live \*\*CAPR\*\* 87 (fuel 89 / ignition 96) — SI 32.3% of free float, DTC 10.8, borrow 0.5% Gamma n/a · thrust +9.4% · 3.1× · call-buy n/a · dilution low
Why would you buy something with an 11% SI? Htz has a 70% SI....thats the only play right now.
Looks like an ok pick with sustained retail pressure. I'm not seeing anything squeezey happening yet (SI rising could be a setup). Also, no real pump and no real dump either. Just a good stock pick. Im happier with my ABCL hold, but neither is a squeeze yet. Maybe there will be a catalyst next week or beyond?
No that was me asking the same question (and for the record I only asked twice) because I’m seriously not understanding. There hasn’t been news on this stock for months. From the comments here I guess it doesn’t have enough SI to be a squeeze. It’s now up to 85% and I’m genuinely not understanding what could cause that big of a swing. Could it be a big institutional investment?
No its not. With any simple google search you can see it has NO short interest. Only stock with a high SI and likely to squeeze is Hertz.
No because he sold in early July and SI actually went up after that.
You're missing the convert arb. In June, Hertz did a $350M exchangeable note deal and lent out 37,037,037 shares at $2.70 explicitly to facilitate hedging and short selling. A large chunk of the short interest everyone is quoting is convertible arbitrage — delta-hedged against a long bond position, not directional bears who have to panic cover. Those shorts adjust mechanically. They don't squeeze. That's also why the SI figures are all over the place — 31%, 50%, 74% depending where you look. FINRA settlement data and share-lending estimates measure different things on different lags, and some quote float while others quote shares outstanding. On your actual question, how much bad news is priced in: Q2 was genuinely good. $64M GAAP net income, revenue $2.4B up 10%, adjusted corporate EBITDA $81M against $18M a year ago and above the top of guidance. FY26 guide is $225-275M, 2027 target is ~$1B. What keeps me cautious is the capital structure. ~$870M market cap against ~$21B of debt and negative book equity around -$786M. Most of that debt is non-recourse fleet financing and adjusted corporate EBITDA already strips vehicle costs, so a headline EV/EBITDA multiple overstates it. But the equity is still a thin option on a very levered structure, and that cuts hard in both directions. There's also ~148M shares issuable on conversion against 356M outstanding. Shares were sold at $2.70 in June. It's $1.89 now. So directly: I don't think fleet economics are what you're missing, you had that part right. It's that the squeeze framing is mostly structural short interest, and the dilution overhang is real. If this works, it's the 2027 EBITDA ramp and deleveraging, slowly. Not a gamma event. Long HTZ. Happy to be wrong on timing.
HTZ (Hertz) remains a market favourite for bears. SI sits at **69.2% FF**, with a punishing cost-to-borrow of 7.7%. The stock has fallen 53% in three months.
I dont look at a stocks price. You need to look at market cap and SI.
$htz BORROW RATE SKY RISING, 150K Borrowable shares left, 120% IO, 80%SI and almost all of it synthetic, WE ARE GOING TO UNEXPLORED LEVELS OF BANKING
Added it, but it won't show on the squeeze list. There's no FINRA short interest data for BMM at all. No SI%, no days-to-cover, no borrow rate. The scanner ranks on those three things, so there's nothing to score it on. I could force it on but the row would be blank across every column, which just looks like I'm tracking it when I'm not. Probably not a FINRA-reporting listing (no market cap coming through either, usually means Canadian or OTC). It's on my watchlist for price, and if SI data ever shows up it'll hit the squeeze board on its own.
> the off chance there really is a SI breakthrough I think those hedge fund dinosaur boomers just wanted to latch onto anything that could extend their lifespan and they view AI as the only thing that remotely has a chance of achieving this before they die off otherwise it wouldn't make sense the amount of money they throw into this
So no more shares to borrow again, borrow rate still in double digits and reaching 30% again, SI still 75%, breaking 2.60 again and you are telling me you don’t believe in $htz LOL
MicroVision technical breakout post split with decent SI. Watch this name!
I’m not talking about Hertz. I’m talking about $LENZ 60% SI NAV of stock is $8 they have 400 mill cash and zero debt.
I was just about to come here and say heads-up since ONDS did this last earnings: This time SI is higher, and when the stock runs like this a lot of shorts will get re-called from the owners wanting to sell. ONDS is going to blow up the earnings because of bolt-on acquistions and therefore also needs to raise guidance. Analysts are aiming for 63-69M up from 6,3M a year ago. That is a headline that will pull in momentum movers no matter what! NFA DYOR :D https://preview.redd.it/twunxl6uswih1.png?width=897&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6a49976dc201e93c58b66f4fe1b84435a73eb78
Entered long at 8.75, then doubled down at 9.4 - this is one of the best candidates for swing trading I've seen in a while on this community. This is a legit, growing (and recently profitable) business that is about to grow exponentially over the next few years. Fundamentals are there. SI is there, CTB is there. This has a lot of juice. I don't understand people's obsession with the likes of HTZ, Jack in the box, WEN as potential short squeeze candidates. Those are struggling businesses, might invest for long term turnaround, but every squeeze NEEDS a catalyst. Growing, profitable businesses have a much better chance of producing these catalysts compared to declining ones. Good luck everyone and don't invest your own money in something other strangers are simply hyping on the internet, including me. Always do your own DD.
**30.9% is arithmetically correct, but it's short interest over** ***shares outstanding*****, not over the true tradable float. im looking to change that so 60% is accurate.** ||SI %|DTC|Borrow|Short vol|Board| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |**HTZ**|**30.9%**|3.9d|**30.8% ↑ tightening**|49%|**#2** · standard| |WEN|30.2%|3.8d|6.0% ↑ tightening|59%|\#32 · standard|
229 Million Shares Short @44% SI 👀
So 0 shares to borrow, 75% SI still, over 120% IO and waiting for bill ackman to report maximum on Friday, borrow rate reaching 40% and no shares to borrow and you are still selling $htz? Lol you don’t want money I guess
First off, most stocks that are highly shorted do not squeeze. All the conditions can be perfect, and sometimes a business just sucks and it should be shorted. SPCX is at 25% SI. But not all the ingredients are there. It does have a very small available float because 95% of the shares are owned be insiders. The biggest problem with the setup is that it only takes 1.3 days to cover. Just like with HTZ, there is no scarcity. That doesn't mean it wont go back up. There are some signals that it will. But thats probably not because the shorts will be tripping over themselves to cover, unless something dramatically changes.
$htz over 2.60 again, two hours dancing up and down 5 cents and bears think is over, no more shares to borrow, SI still massive, IO significantly over 100% meaning a lot of artificial shorting, volume massive, what can I say
Low momentum about to close for the 4 straight day around 5x volume (some even 10x) borrow rates double digits from 29 to 50%, SI 75%, institutional ownership 120%, no shares to borrow, lol some of you are just haters
Borrow rate 29% and climbing, showing higher in other places, still +75% SI and no shares to borrow, institutional ownership over 120%, lol DO NOT SELL
Shorts are doubling down because they need to but still 75% SI more than 120% Institutional ownership, almost 3-4 on massive volume, we are FLYING AND ITS STILL EARLY $htz
Like ya what do you mean 80 SI and no float could cause a squeeze dummy? Lol shorts are so dumb
ONDS 229,000,000 shares short @ 44% SI 👀
IV crush is gonna hurt either way but you should be fine. I think. There’s not enough call OI to make this thing rip on gamma I.e mm’s don’t have to buy into upward moves to hedge against call volume. If that changes though, it could get interesting. Idk - volume was still high yesterday so gonna largely depend on today and tomorrow. SI looks like it dropped a bit in RH so you may catch an organic move past $3. Idk it’s always hard to predict tickers like this. Open took a few weeks though.
Not mentioning WEN with 37% SI and HTZ'a 60% is sus.
The fact this list doesn't include WEN and HTZ while including random micro caps and mega daps with barely any SI is sus.
I think on at least some level they want to keep the music going on the off chance there really is a SI breakthrough. Right now it REALLY looks like people start going broke next year.
It’s on there \*\*ONDS\*\* 31 (fuel 79 / ignition 30) — SI 49.5%, DTC 2.7, borrow 9.4%
$ONDS and $SOUN - highest SI, they have good business model. I wonder why are they highest shorted. What are the short sellers betting on?
WLDS is **SI 5.6% / DTC 1.13**
My man. It was 70-80% short interest. Stock went up about that from when people jumped on board. Stock is up 70-80%, what are expecting to happen? Genuinely curious, like what is your exit point? I could see a few spikes on a good company but we’re talking hertz. In debt and outdid by all competitors (Autonomous, Uber, Turo, and other similar rental car agencies). The SI alone ain’t worth it after the jump. Put a stop loss and pray homie .
Im going to paste AI Slop from my agent. It **DOES NOT make decisions/determinations**. All numbers come programmatically and the trade heuristics are deterministic. It simply narrates/explains the 800+ heuristic trading signals in combination with the prompt, stock news, and text books by subject matter experts. In the future, I will try to make the agent a bit more involved in choosing reranking the signals contextually. ====== ## Bottom Line Up Front **This is a live social-media pump attempt riding on genuinely elevated short interest — not a confirmed short-squeeze setup, and not obviously becoming one.** There's real fuel: **29.7% of float shorted**, ~10 days-to-cover at current volume, **~$328M net cash, $0 debt**, and a pending Nasdaq compliance decision. But the three ingredients that turn a candidate into a squeeze — **volume ignition, a tape-moving catalyst, and crowd coordination** — are all absent. Friday's restatement + earnings release (the "biggest news in months") bought the stock just **+5.9% on one-third of its average volume**. And the options market has already priced the squeeze in: **IV ~123% vs realized 64%**. You'd be paying 2–7× "fair" volatility for a lottery that is fighting a down-trend. ## Market Context - Price: **$1.61** (+5.9% Friday) · 52W range: $1.30 – $7.43 (**−78%**) - IV: **122.7%** (Aug 21 ATM), 104.8% (Aug 28) — **inverted term structure** - Realized vol (20-day Parkinson): **64.4%** → IV/RV ratio ≈ **1.9×** - Daily 1σ expected move: **$0.124 (±7.7%)** - Below SMA50 ($2.00) and SMA200 ($2.92) — primary trend is down - Avg volume 10.6M (50-day) · Friday volume 3.6M (**RelVol 0.34**) - Open interest: $2.00 Aug 21 calls **3,820** · $3.00 Sep 18 calls **9,013** · $3.00 Jan 2027 calls **13,661** **Volume is the story:** it has collapsed from 30M+/day in May to 3–6M/day. The reversal is unconfirmed. ## The Financial Reality Check | Metric | Value | Read | |---|---|---| | Market cap | ~$360M | vs $4.93M TTM sales → **P/S ≈ 73** | | FQ2 revenue / net | $1.5M / −$276K | Tiny; negative margins (-417% TTM) | | Net income TTM | −$20.6M | Op margin −524% | | Cash + ST investments (restated 8/7) | ~$328M | Cash/sh $1.47 vs price $1.61 | | Debt / total liabilities | $0 / $7.4M | Balance sheet genuinely clean | | Book value | $1.59/sh | Trading essentially at book | | Employees | 55 | IPO Nov 2023 | **What the Reddit DD got right:** the cash pile is real (~89% of market cap — the market values the whole operating business at ~$40–46M). A "runs out of money" short thesis is weak. **What it glosses over:** - **SEPA (Standby Equity Purchase Agreement)** — named in the restatement itself. A death-spiral facility: the company can print shares at a discount into any rally. May's $38.7M offering at $2.60–3.20 shows management will absolutely sell into strength. **This caps squeezes.** - **Class action** over allegedly misleading Microsoft-partnership statements. Restatement of FY2024/FY2025 + multiple quarters. **Nasdaq delisting notice pending** on the 7/20 compliance plan. - **Insiders have been distributing the entire ride:** COO sold ~$1.3M at $2.48–5.11 (2025); former officers sold at $2.68–3.00 in Feb 2026. Zero insider buys. - History (from an ex-holder in the threads): the "NVIDIA collaboration" — hype tweets before Jensen's keynote, then no mention, no partner-board listing. A repeated pattern of statement-driven pumps, now the subject of litigation. ## The "DD" — What's Actually In Those Four Threads Same author, same essay pasted **verbatim into 4 subreddits in 5 days**, self-described: *"I write this all to increase exposure of course."* No position disclosure. An "update" version went up 2 hours before I priced this. | Claim in the DD | What the data says | |---|---| | SI 37.64% / 63.81% of active float | Official: **29.72%**. "Active float" math is self-inconsistent (84.6M in part 1, 125M in part 2) | | 11.8 days to cover | 5.08 on trailing volume; **~10.3 on current 20-day volume** (partial credit — volume did dry up) | | "$2.00 call → $0.15–0.25 if RR hits $1.85" (4–7x) | Black-Scholes at 110% IV: **$0.10**. At realized 64%: **$0.04** — overstated 2–5× | | 2,394 contracts at $2.00 | Actually **3,820** (they undercounted) | | Cash: "$35M" → "$250M + $110M" → "$328M" | $328M is real — but the story changed 3 times in a week | | "Gamma ramp forming" | Call OI is real but small: full delta-hedge of the $2.00 stack = ~80K shares vs **54M short** vs 10M daily volume. Gamma is a spark, not the engine | | "OBV/ADL mathematically proving accumulation" | Unverifiable; author admits AI-generated analysis | | "450 deployments, 100% renewal, global retail giant MSA" | Unverifiable PR claims, none in filings | **Community reception is the tell:** total engagement across all four threads is ~60 upvotes. The DeepFuckingValue one scored **1 point (55%)**. Top comments are skeptical ex-holders ("hobby projects cobbled together with Temu parts", "repeatedly misleading statements", "same BS every few days"), Glassdoor complaints, and one r/Shortsqueeze user calling it out directly — *"write an article to convince people to throw money at my bagholder stock, then I'll buy calls, then spend 2 weeks spamming forums."* One commenter admitted buying $50 "because this came on my feed." That's the cohort these pumps farm — and there aren't enough of them yet. ## Squeeze Scorecard (against the standard screening framework) - ✅ Short interest / float: 29.7% (≥20% = candidate, >30% = extreme) - ✅ Days to cover: ~5–10 (elevated-to-high) - ⚠️ Cost to borrow: unknown — not verifiable - ✅ Float concentration: 31% institutional + 18.7% insider → shorts may be ~43% of actively traded float - ✅ Dense call OI near/OTM ($2 and $3 strikes) - ❌ **Catalyst moving the tape: restatement + earnings → +6% on ⅓ volume** - ❌ **Volume ignition: RelVol 0.34, 3 months of declining volume** - ❌ **Coordination: ~60 upvotes, skeptical comments, 4 crossposts** - ❌ **Dilution machinery: SEPA + demonstrated ATM selling** Most heavily shorted stocks **do not** squeeze: without a catalyst, high SI gets absorbed gradually; and IV on high-SI names already prices in squeeze probability, eating the edge. RR matches the profile of a candidate that never ignites — and it's down 78% for real reasons (litigation, delisting risk, restatement, fake-partner history). The systematic read (819 trading-rule heuristics evaluated on live data): **trend DOWN, strategy affinity: long puts > long calls**, top fired rules: exit longs in a bear trend, prefer the short side in a downtrend, use a probability calculator, keep positions small. The play being pitched (naked near-the-money calls) is **counter-trend**. ## The Long Call Menu — Premiums and Break-Evens Prices are last-trade 8/7. ⚠️ **Bid/ask is essentially absent on this board** — expect brutal spreads; the DD's own $0.03/$0.04 quote is the only live two-sided market I saw. | Expiry | Strike | Prem | Break-even | Move needed | Δ | Note | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 8/21 | $1.50 | $0.20 | **$1.70** | +5.6% | 0.67 | closest to money; 5 sessions; theta + IV crush risk | | 8/21 | $2.00 | $0.04 | **$2.04** | +26.7% | 0.21 | the DD's example — fair value at $1.85 is ~$0.10, not $0.15–0.25 | | 8/28 | $2.00 | $0.06 | **$2.06** | +28% | 0.26 | | | 9/18 | $2.00 | $0.15 | **$2.15** | +33.5% | 0.39 | best outright-call risk/reward | | 9/18 | $3.00 | $0.04 | **$3.04** | +88.8% | 0.13 | pure lottery | | 11/20 | $2.00 | $0.28 | **$2.28** | +41.6% | 0.49 | | | Jan'27 | $2.00 | $0.36 | **$2.36** | +46.6% | 0.54 | longest cushion | | Jan'27 | $3.00 | $0.22 | **$3.22** | +100% | 0.36 | fair at 123% IV, **7× its 64%-vol fair value** | **The math behind the warning:** at $1.85 — the DD's own "if" — the 8/21 $2.00 call is worth **$0.10** even with IV held at 110% (a 2.5×, not 4–7×). If IV mean-reverts to the 64% realized level on the bounce — the normal sequence on these names — it's worth **$0.04, exactly what you paid, after the stock rallied 15%**. The squeeze scenario is already in the option prices. ### If you still want to be long the squeeze Defined-risk structures only (this is also the standard guidance for squeeze participation): - **Sep 18 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.11 · break-even **$2.11** (+31%) · max profit $0.89/contract · max loss $0.11 → **~8:1 reward:risk** - **Jan 2027 $2.00/$3.00 bull call spread** — debit ~$0.14 · break-even **$2.14** (+33%) · max profit $0.86/contract · max loss $0.14 → **~6:1** - 8/14 $1.50/$2.00 (6 DTE) — debit ~$0.16 · BE $1.66 · max profit $0.34 — tempting, but that's a 6-day gamma/theta lottery Position size: **1–2% of the account, one spread, predefined exit.** Squeezes end abruptly and reverse sharply — most commonly within days of the peak. Don't hold a winner through the top. ## Verdict - **Pump-and-dump in the making? Yes — and a weak one.** Same author, four subreddits in a week, undisclosed position, self-admitted exposure motive, AI-generated "741/GME" numerology bait, inflated and self-contradicting stats, and a comment section full of people this company's press-release game already burned. - **Real short-squeeze setup? Not yet.** Genuine SI fuel and a genuinely cashed-up balance sheet — but no volume, no catalyst confirmation, no crowd, insider selling, and a SEPA sitting ready to sell into any rally. Friday was the tell: the single best news in three months produced a 6% bounce on sleeping volume. - **The flip that changes the call:** a Nasdaq compliance **approval** announcement *with* volume >30M and a weekly close above **$1.70**. Then $2.00–2.05 (SMA50 / max-pain / volume-node confluence — the only part of the DD I'd credit) becomes live gamma territory. Until that prints, the odds are on the side of the stock doing what it's been doing. *Data: last-trade option quotes 8/7 (illiquid board — confirm executable prices before committing), Finviz snapshot cached ~10h, 20-day Parkinson realized vol from daily candles. Not financial advice — and the "DD" author's own closing line applies: don't get attached to a stock.*
It didn't moon at all lol SI is over 40%, thing has a lot more powder in the keg
Your DD is built upon the outdated numbers of SI which cant even cross 50%? Really? Someone is trying to pump their bags as i see
21% SI 🥱 pump your bags elsewhere
Issue with this "short interest" is that it's misleading. I mean yes it's high (though I've seen it say 30% SI not 75% which is weird) But besides that, the insituonal shorters are heavily hedged, so it's not like they're only shorting it. They have convertible notes offering from their share lending deal 2ish months ago with JPM for about 37 million shares at $2.7. Which is why I believe (though I may be wrong) there was a massive well off at the bell today when it was at/near $2.7. Anyways, my main point is that this is not normal shorting. Institutions, (not all) are heavily hedged and will win either way if it goes up or down. Their risk isn't nearly as high and are in no rush to cover their shorts if it goes up , unless massively shoots up. So if you're hoping for a GME type of squeeze, doubt it's happening.
Lol giga shitter with 80SI, 116% institutional ownership and borrow rates raising like crazy
$SOUN gonna squeeze soon, great earnings with 41% SI
My buyin is $3.35 but I'm planning to hold till 11th august and wait for SI data release. This one needs some time. It's a pressure cooker for shorts. The setup is intact
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FINRA data from 15th July says SI is at 57% with a tradable float of only 94k shares. This does not include shorts, which may have entered after the share offering which is now halted by court. Some shorts probably entered after the offering, thinking that the price will drop which is supported by the increase in ctb to roughly 700%. The cost increased so much because many shorts wanted to jump in after the announced dilution, hoping the price will drop on that announcement. Then it didnt happen, as they thought and now they're trapped with 950%ctb and rising price.
Htz does have 75% SI just so yk
Sure, it’s over, it only still has 80% SI and 106% institutional ownership, nothing to see here guys, lol these naked shorts wanting to mess with people. $HTZ TO THE MOON