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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FWRG at $18.59, after crossing above the $18.352 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 10:00:06 - 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 First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (FWRG), 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 Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. at $18.59, after crossing above the $18.352 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions. You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-01-16275,464502,71954.7918.345,052,010
2025-01-15395,736621,30163.6919.157,578,344
2025-01-14272,972461,63659.1319.225,246,522
2025-01-13192,680376,66451.1518.63,583,848
2025-01-10348,063604,84157.5519.096,644,523
2025-01-08177,203331,05653.5319.233,407,614
2025-01-07261,161466,54955.9819.725,150,095
2025-01-06195,516442,99144.1419.73,851,665
2025-01-03214,371393,65754.4619.444,167,372
2025-01-02274,202522,87552.4418.895,179,676
2024-12-31316,540458,7436918.765,938,290
2024-12-30210,958361,15358.4118.523,906,942
2024-12-27224,874364,42461.7118.734,211,890
2024-12-26259,645419,64661.8719.154,972,202
2024-12-24142,621241,20859.1319.122,726,914
2024-12-23348,156666,38952.2518.66,475,702
2024-12-20388,274664,05458.4718.577,210,248
2024-12-19275,995487,58056.6118.465,094,868
2024-12-18359,315574,79962.5119.156,880,882
2024-12-17178,268443,98440.1519.633,499,401
2024-12-16135,757496,20627.3619.92,701,564
2024-12-13191,770353,22954.2919.523,743,350
2024-12-12172,883298,83557.8519.523,374,676
2024-12-11428,339910,72347.0319.848,498,246
2024-12-10347,735596,54858.2919.536,791,265
2024-12-09284,419602,97947.1718.925,381,207
2024-12-06467,7351,057,08444.2519.439,088,091
2024-12-05703,2491,314,54753.519.4813,699,291
2024-12-04452,9811,128,43740.1418.968,588,520
2024-12-03258,184441,90858.4218.64,802,222
2024-12-02392,001860,46445.5618.957,428,419
2024-11-29141,816296,50247.8319.032,698,758
2024-11-27238,657539,10544.2718.754,474,819
2024-11-26354,958674,80852.618.436,541,876
2024-11-25382,781789,12748.5118.727,165,660
2024-11-22413,196876,12747.1618.17,478,848
2024-11-21229,657687,33333.4117.74,064,929
 
Total126,951,892297,253,41142.7118.352,329,858,211
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2021-10-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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