SI

G0D5M0N3Y

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

MathematicianVivid1

Short interest could have been covered today during the run up. Unless you’re seeing updated SI numbers I haven’t seen yet

Miserable_Ad_728

HTZ 700M MC on a 2.4B revenue with profitable quarter and >50 SI dont seem to match up. Something is brewing here

DreCapitanoII

1/3 of SI is the hedge.

suckerball_


Narrow_Vast7950

$POET SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally from $6 and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming…. Be careful

Narrow_Vast7950

$POET SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally from $6 and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming…. No brainer

Narrow_Vast7950

$POET? SI is something like 17% despite a steady rally and positive earnings and potential catalysts upcoming

Successful_Car1670

Also the SI but you can blame me. Could have had pre-ipo price smh

Serious_Pound9936

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

aporter0131

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.

version-two

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

snack-trades


WesternExcuse3837

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.

G0D5M0N3Y

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.

G0D5M0N3Y

Wait wait wait....isnt this Shortsqueeze sub? Shouldnt things have a high SI for SS?

TallTelevision4121

Welcome home loser! 

al-aSak

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.

tradeflexd

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.

apeserveapes

This is crazy. SI is off the charts ffs.

FrankCastle2020

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

hsilva83

No ones talking about BYND? It just had a reverse split today. Smaller float, high SI and off its lows. 🚀🚀🚀

FrankCastle2020

\*\*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

G0D5M0N3Y

Why would you buy something with an 11% SI? Htz has a 70% SI....thats the only play right now.

NoOneMan79

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?

SpunkySprinkle

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?

fickle-phenom


G0D5M0N3Y

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.

DreCapitanoII

No because he sold in early July and SI actually went up after that.

sidereal_drift

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.

Additional_Pop_5225

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.

G0D5M0N3Y

I dont look at a stocks price. You need to look at market cap and SI.

EquivalentMobile7883

$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

FrankCastle2020

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.

Wandering_Thoughts

> 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

EquivalentMobile7883

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

-ATLSUTIGER-

MicroVision technical breakout post split with decent SI. Watch this name!

SmallCapsOnly

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.

Strict-Drama-3973

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

MoldovanProduct

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.

FrankCastle2020

**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|

Emergency_Froyo_3030

229 Million Shares Short @44% SI 👀

EquivalentMobile7883

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

NoOneMan79

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.

EquivalentMobile7883

$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

EquivalentMobile7883

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

EquivalentMobile7883

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

EquivalentMobile7883

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

EquivalentMobile7883

Like ya what do you mean 80 SI and no float could cause a squeeze dummy? Lol shorts are so dumb

Emergency_Froyo_3030

ONDS 229,000,000 shares short @ 44% SI 👀

version-two

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.

SoulForTrade

Not mentioning WEN with 37% SI and HTZ'a 60% is sus.

SoulForTrade

The fact this list doesn't include WEN and HTZ while including random micro caps and mega daps with barely any SI is sus.

TimeTravelingChris

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.

FrankCastle2020

It’s on there \*\*ONDS\*\* 31 (fuel 79 / ignition 30) — SI 49.5%, DTC 2.7, borrow 9.4%

volt2218

$ONDS and $SOUN - highest SI, they have good business model. I wonder why are they highest shorted. What are the short sellers betting on?

FrankCastle2020

WLDS is **SI 5.6% / DTC 1.13** 

LowWind7998

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 .

NoOneMan79

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.*

chellavalleykid

It didn't moon at all lol SI is over 40%, thing has a lot more powder in the keg

Capital-Row6633

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

Bluecoregamming

21% SI 🥱 pump your bags elsewhere

Eric142

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.

EquivalentMobile7883

Lol giga shitter with 80SI, 116% institutional ownership and borrow rates raising like crazy

Fun-Journalist2276

$SOUN gonna squeeze soon, great earnings with 41% SI

ZealousidealLack29

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

TheBestCanadianGoose

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ZealousidealLack29

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.

Disastrous-Age-9292

Htz does have 75% SI just so yk

EquivalentMobile7883

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

Bluecoregamming

SI 16.5% that's nothing

Ok_Ground9015


Visua1Mod

>❯ Does pumping shorted stocks means liquidity levels are at the beginning stages of a rally or at the end of a rally. > >Short-covering surges show up at both ends, so the squeeze itself doesn't date the rally — what's around it does. > >Why it's ambiguous > >A squeeze is not liquidity entering the market. It's forced demand against a shrinking float: reflexive, self-extinguishing, and gone permanently once the shorts are out. So "heavily shorted names are ripping" tells you about velocity, not about the depth of the bid underneath. It's a coincident indicator of positioning stress, not a measure of liquidity. > >Beginning-of-rally version > >Off a washed-out low, short covering is the first buyer — before any fundamental buyer will step in. It follows capitulation: forced selling, vol spike, credit stress peaking. Low-quality/high-beta leads because it fell the most and is the most liquidity-sensitive. The confirmation is what happens next: the move broadens into cyclicals and credit-sensitives, HY spreads narrow alongside it, earnings revisions stop falling, and quality participates within a few weeks. Real money follows the squeeze. > >End-of-rally version > >Late in an advance, the same tape means the opposite. Breadth is narrowing, the only thing working is unprofitable/heavily-shorted/meme-adjacent, quality lags, credit stops confirming, and retail call volume is elevated. Here the squeeze is the last marginal buyer, not the first — liquidity being redistributed among existing holders rather than added. Nothing follows through after the covering exhausts. > >Tells that separate them > >\- Credit, not equities. HY/IG spreads are the liquidity read. Confirming → early. Diverging while junk equity rips → late. >\- Fuel gauge. Rising short interest into the move = more fuel. High-and-falling SI with collapsing borrow fees and days-to-cover = fuel spent; that bid can't repeat. >\- Sequencing. Squeeze after capitulation and rising volatility = bottom. Squeeze after extended calm, record leverage/margin, and a long uptrend = distribution. >\- Follow-through window. Does the index make a new high 4–8 weeks after the covering, and does leadership rotate to quality/cyclicals? Squeeze-only moves round-trip. >\- Quality spread. Junk outperforming with improving revisions = early. Junk outperforming on nothing = late. > >Short answer: heavily-shorted stocks leading is most often a late-stage / speculative-phase marker within an existing uptrend, and an early marker only when it comes immediately out of forced liquidation. Judge it by credit spreads and breadth follow-through, not by the squeeze's magnitude. > >This is market mechanics, not a recommendation — and short-interest signals are among the least reliable standalone indicators, so they're best used as confirmation rather than as a trigger. > >✻ Worked for 34s

TherealCarbunc

I expect that a lot of Shorts covered today into the liquidity. it had a 25% SI per fintel's last reporting.

Successful_Car1670

You’ll make so much money shorting a penny stock with over 50% SI

AwakenedBeast616

I'll always take a lotto on something with SI this high I think tomorrow the broader market rugs tho. Whenever WSB starts chasing memes it usually heralds that VIX is near

chird_

Is the 70% SI real? I see 30 online

ImpossibleForm

Expires tomorrow, the SI should pop o/n if these paper handed bitches would stop selling

Temporary_Scene2469

Saw more than 2 paragraphs and 75% SI and bought 30 😭😭🫡

DudeManBroGuy9

75% SI on HTZ. Buy shares. Hold. Go to Valhalla. Sell.

DudeManBroGuy9

All we need is the 80% SI on HTZ to exit in 1 single day and we can all retire

Fun-Journalist2276

SOUN +30% with 41% SI... DAMN 2 digits soon

Fun-Journalist2276

Good earnings + 41% SI.. $SOUN PUMP IT HIGHERRR

MoldovanProduct

Interesting - SI 24%, Days to cover 9; borrow fee quite low (2%); apparently very good FDA feedback so far I think I'll enter with a few thousands. Txs

NotAHost

Yeah I mean, I'm not saying CPUs are easier, but that HBM has it's own challenges related to SI/etc that takes a while to debug/reverse engineer/etc. I'm not an HBM/IC designer (even if I do have a wafer at my desk from ~15 years ago), but where I do work for SI our fabrication is trivial in comparison and even that has challenges for reverse engineering between us and our competitors because a chunk of it matters on materials, surface roughness, etching properties, surface finishes, etc. We're on a macroscale compared to ICs. Admittedly if you send a design to the fab house they typically tune/offer specific parameters to get certain performance, and with HBM4 switching to TSMC rather than in-house, it might be easier to replicate I assume, but that's speaking outside of my level of expertise.

Successful_Car1670

Almost 50% SI and double digit borrowing costs why?

JocoLabs

Joking, but its the shorts covering because the SI is over 30%

NoOneMan79

Hey, Im about 1/4 of work though trading agent. Right now its simply RAGs (8000 entries among 25 books), uses quant and trading heuristic tools, and can pull live data. Nothing special yet. Just want a gut check on AI slop and would love any feedback: HTZ Short-Squeeze Investigation 1. The Squeeze Claim — What the Data Actually Shows Metric Value Verdict Short Float 28.66% (97.54M shares) High — above the \~20% threshold where squeezes become possible, but far below GME-style extremes (>100%) Days-to-Cover 5.95 days Elevated, not extreme. Shorts can exit in \~6 days of avg volume — a squeeze would burn fast and short Institutional Own 104.88% Consistent with heavy shorting (borrowed shares re-lent) Price $1.61, at 52-wk low ($1.55), −80% from high Deeply beaten down — 52% below SMA50, 66% below SMA200 RSI(14) 29.1 Oversold — fuel for a reflexive bounce Catalyst Earnings Aug 6 BMO (3 days) The binary event that would ignite or kill the squeeze The fundamentals are genuinely ugly: −$637M net income, negative book value (−$2.49/sh), EV of $19.8B against a $579M market cap (massive leverage), active securities class-action lawsuits, and a −40% single-day crash on June 24. Analysts are mostly Sell-rated, though the mean target is $3.09 (\~2× spot). A July 7 FT piece noted shorts covering has actually been propping the stock up — some of the squeeze fuel is already spent. Verdict on the claim: This is a speculative squeeze candidate, not a high-quality one. High SI + oversold + tiny price + earnings catalyst = real squeeze potential, but you're betting against a violent downtrend in a company with a non-trivial bankruptcy tail. 2. The Options Market — Where the Trap Is I computed IV from Friday's closing option prices and realized vol from 3 months of daily candles: Contract IV Aug 7 weeklies (post-earnings) 245–262% Aug 21 122–148% Sep 18 125–157% Dec 18 114–124% Term structure is inverted — the market is charging you 2× the vol for the earnings window. Buying Aug 7/21 calls is the classic retail trap: even if HTZ pops +10% on earnings, the post-earnings IV crush (my model: −0.05 to −0.12 per contract on a 30–40pt crush) plus theta (−0.45 to −0.53¢/day on Aug 21s) can make a correct directional bet lose money. The December calls are the cheapest vol on the board (114–124%, roughly in line with realized) — that's where you want to be. The rules engine (818 rules evaluated) largely agrees: it fired low-price-call-preference (Graham: sub-$10 stocks favor long calls, 0.7) and pre-earnings-backspread (0.7), while warning against weeklies (avoid-trading-near-earnings, 0.8) and against fighting the downtrend (avoid-long-call-on-non-up-trend, 0.7) — which is why sizing discipline below matters. 3. Recommendation If you play the squeeze, the December bull call spread is the best risk-adjusted structure (Friday closing prices, verify live Monday): Structure Cost Break-even Max Profit Core: Dec 18 $1/$2 call spread $0.43 $1.43 — below current price $0.57 (+133%) Kicker: Dec 18 $2/$3 call spread $0.14 $2.14 (+33%) $0.86 (+614%) Alt: Dec 18 $2 call outright $0.33 $2.33 (+45%) Uncapped The $1/$2 spread minimizes break-even exactly as you asked: $1.43 is \*under\* spot, its long leg is 0.85 delta with minimal net vega, and it shrugs off the earnings IV crush. The $2/$3 kicker keeps the explosive upside for 14¢. What to avoid: \- ❌ Aug 7/Aug 21 calls — 245%+ IV, theta, and crush will gut them \- ❌ Buying 1,000s of shares — no theta, but unlimited downside in a downtrend with a binary event in 3 days; options cap your loss at the debit \- ❌ Selling puts for "income" — assignment risk into a potential delisting/bankruptcy scenario \- ❌ Puts — the honest bear case exists (terrible fundamentals, downtrend), but that's the opposite of your squeeze thesis and IV makes them expensive too Timing: Split entry. \~½ Monday Aug 3 (before the Aug 6 BMO earnings — you must hold through it for the squeeze pop, and the Dec structure limits crush damage), \~½ reserved to add post-earnings either on the squeeze continuation or on the IV-crushed dip. Use limit orders at mid or better — these quotes are Friday's closes and spreads on $0.10–0.70 options are wide. Sizing (this is a lottery ticket — treat it as one): Risk 0.5–1% of portfolio maximum. On a $100k account: \~12× Dec $1/$2 spreads ($516) + \~14× Dec $2/$3 spreads ($196) ≈ \*\*$712 total risk\*\*. Never add to a loser here. Exit plan: Squeezes are measured in days, not weeks — scale out ⅓ at +50%, ⅓ at +100%, trail the rest. Hard stop if HTZ breaks \*\*$1.00\*\* (NASDAQ delisting threshold changes the game entirely) or if it closes below $1.43 pre-earnings on heavy volume. If earnings pass with no squeeze, exit within a week — the thesis is dead.

MrBrett17

They will always 1) work to flush out retail. 2) still SI here...Citadel, Hudson Bay and Suquahana have shares and I don't trust any of them. Trust the DD. Everything else will fall into place.

uber_pro

0 kelvin. no degrees in kelvin its SI

GetGodmodeon


Kind-Platform-1294

"Naver, Nvidia, and Brookfield plan $10B Korea AI infrastructure push" https://www.investing.com/news/assorted/naver-nvidia-and-brookfield-plan-10b-korea-ai-infrastructure-push-432SI-4813948 Pump the casino.

ThanksDependent1001

Don’t forget you are getting blown by the SI robot while having your ass wiped at the same time. Or is that 2084?

unowhut4

Common sense tells you that it's hedge funds and plunge protection team pumping the market ... remember covid no one had money because most lost their jobs ... then literally within a year the top 7 stocks and spy all booming ? Yea right .... also remember Gamestop ? Why two years later does main stream media STILL TELL RETAIL to sell ? SI was 226% not a single charge for equity manipulation nor abusive naked shorting ever happened ... Cmon Gabe Plotkin the guy that lost 25% of Micheal Jordons money on Gamestop bought his Damm basketball team for the money he lost not the value of the team .. why ? How too because he went under but somehow can afford an NBA team ... great job regulators keep doing nothing and get paid it's clearly the American way

ComprehensiveUsual13

My worst dip buying is SI earlier this year. I started buying it around $50 and kept “DCAing” into it all the was to $20. At that point with the writing on the wall I watched an interview with the CEO Alan Lane. He sat in what looked like his house with crucified Jesus behind him on the wall. He deliberately sat down in a way that crucified Jesus was in the full view right over his shoulder whilst all the time lying through his teeth on the risks his bank was facing. I remember seeing on Fintwit someone say something along the lines never trust a man who has to use religion to show their honesty. Within weeks Si literally dropped all the way to $2 and I literally lost every single dime I invested in the company. The lesson I learnt: never invest in something that you don’t understand.

DrWorstCaseScenario

I see people asking this exact question… but no actual posts anywhere calling out a catalyst or SI…

AllFactualStatements

 TTOO every bone in your non existent body wants to reach $1 so just do it and boost papa’s bank account!

ThereIsNoSpoon14

$5-$15 with approval. There has been so much volume lately, can’t even imagine how much naked SI is involved. ⤴️💰🚀📈

FreeTrade101

Spoke to roaring kitty. He told me wait until SI% tops 68%. That’s the time to buy 250K shares or more to trigger MOASS.

zerg_001

I don't usually play memestonks, but after seeing YELL and TUP this week... AMC has earnings Tuesday. Should be meh, but the forecast will be good. Record box-office sales for July with Barbie and Oppenheimer. Also a good list coming out this month. High SI as always. The stock already has a floor around $4.