Short squeeze is starting in shares of BUSE at $23.165, after crossing above the $23.121 Trigger Price

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 First Busey Corporation (BUSE), 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 First Busey Corporation at $23.165, after crossing above the $23.121 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
2025-06-23	206,209	465,732	44.28	22.81	4,703,627
2025-06-20	385,238	1,095,784	35.16	22.42	8,637,036
2025-06-18	206,523	522,210	39.55	22.5	4,646,768
2025-06-17	161,010	468,014	34.4	22.28	3,587,303
2025-06-16	308,872	673,584	45.86	22.44	6,931,088
2025-06-13	268,862	601,993	44.66	22.37	6,014,443
2025-06-12	252,178	880,706	28.63	22.66	5,714,353
2025-06-11	126,522	550,021	23	22.77	2,880,906
2025-06-10	111,894	407,677	27.45	23.17	2,592,584
2025-06-09	226,280	735,720	30.76	22.87	5,175,024
2025-06-06	136,877	444,083	30.82	22.63	3,097,527
2025-06-05	95,266	491,651	19.38	22.2	2,114,905
2025-06-04	127,260	541,309	23.51	22.33	2,841,716
2025-06-03	159,310	654,962	24.32	22.64	3,606,778
2025-06-02	119,034	693,550	17.16	21.9	2,606,845
2025-05-30	139,033	605,826	22.95	22.1	3,072,629
2025-05-29	274,261	749,100	36.61	22.13	6,069,396
2025-05-28	243,985	694,475	35.13	22.1	5,392,069
2025-05-27	95,622	320,088	29.87	22.15	2,118,027
2025-05-23	127,434	420,898	30.28	21.61	2,753,849
2025-05-22	174,560	457,114	38.19	21.81	3,807,154
2025-05-21	201,249	564,292	35.66	21.92	4,411,378
2025-05-20	107,399	315,283	34.06	22.51	2,417,551
2025-05-19	73,708	272,783	27.02	22.46	1,655,482
2025-05-16	144,260	394,573	36.56	22.47	3,241,522
2025-05-15	118,884	401,495	29.61	22.53	2,678,457
2025-05-14	137,679	356,270	38.64	22.41	3,085,386
2025-05-13	81,146	385,587	21.04	22.48	1,824,162
2025-05-12	143,206	508,948	28.14	22.52	3,224,999
2025-05-09	91,871	298,608	30.77	21.88	2,010,137
2025-05-08	109,316	405,369	26.97	22.06	2,411,511
2025-05-07	187,891	461,921	40.68	21.7	4,077,235
2025-05-06	134,814	349,373	38.59	21.59	2,910,634
2025-05-05	128,660	310,179	41.48	21.77	2,800,928
2025-05-02	116,069	393,174	29.52	21.64	2,511,733
2025-05-01	167,241	510,958	32.73	21.06	3,522,095
2025-04-30	123,516	434,961	28.4	20.77	2,565,427

Total	96,221,693	255,946,242	37.59	23.13	2,225,186,947

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-06-25 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.