This is comical. The more that Trump tries to Jawbone his way out of the oil crises, the more shorts get trapped. Look at these stats and tell me that a squeeze won't happen the second the market decides they need to reposition long...
USO Short Interest & Squeeze Potential (as of latest data - May 15, 2026)
- Short Interest: 18.73 million shares
- Short % of Float: 138.54% (extremely high)
- Days to Cover: ~2.1 days (based on average daily volume)
$USO has more shares sold short than actually exist in the float. This is a classic setup for a short squeeze if buying pressure increases.
Retail.. you know what to do.
@CashCompounding Its not a 1:1 like a typical stock (you are correct) but the short interest being high can still be a squeeze factor. Creating more shares requires the APs to deliver actual oil futures contracts
@The_Jolly_Co It doesn't matter if you aren't short dated with your trade (which I unfortunately am but I will adjust this or next week on the next pump) - eventually the price of oil "should" go up when the market is ready to face reality.
@ActuallyClimber New short report information should be coming today or tomorrow I think. Maybe that'll help clear things up
When i go to that link I dont see "tesla" so that is definitely weird.
Pop the short interest question into grok and it might find other sources for you to verify
I think I'm retarded being long oil... in the largest oil crisis we've ever seen... with no real leadership except a shitposting president who uses his own social platform to talk about peace deals minutes before the market opens that aren't actually happening..
Oil narrative: trump will get a deal before we hit tank bottoms.
Oil truth: absolutely not
Market needs to get a report bad enough to wake up. Nothing can stop the algo shorting from winning short term
@ActuallyClimber Only a matter of time. Breakout is either here, or more shorts trapping themselves for later. There is no way out from this price spike imo. Oil will make record highs this summer.
Reminder:
Nothing has changed and today’s oil price action is fake.
- No ships through the SOH in last 24 hours.
- No real deal on the table to open it.
- It will take months, after a deal, to open it and get ships insured properly to cross it.
The market is still pricing oil as if there will be a deal and the SOH will open. Oil and Energy are going to absolutely rip when there are no more reserves (or manufactured headlines) to prolong the inevitable.
Translation: I fucked the world energy market and now I’m just saying anything I can to calm the stock market while I try to luck my way into a solution
Current positions in $USO:
- July 17 $200 (I am going to roll this out and down probably if no move by Wednesday next week)
- Sep 18 $175
Sold my MSTR puts yesterday. Had $100 strikes for July that went from about 1.05 a contract to 4.60 ish when i closed. I'm looking to possibly go long in MSTR or ASST when Bitcoin drops a bit more but focused on Oil and energy right now.