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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FOR at $24.5, after crossing above the $24.293 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-22 10:30:15 - 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 Forestar Group Inc. (FOR), 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 Forestar Group Inc. at $24.5, after crossing above the $24.293 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
2025-01-21266,699609,66143.7524.626,566,129
2025-01-1769,757161,63343.1626.961,880,649
2025-01-16134,345298,11845.0627.23,654,184
2025-01-1562,722130,17848.1827.111,700,393
2025-01-1458,891216,51327.225.671,511,732
2025-01-1364,743176,36336.7125.571,655,479
2025-01-1069,923189,83936.8325.061,752,270
2025-01-0859,574223,21426.6925.691,530,456
2025-01-07101,685226,22344.9525.912,634,658
2025-01-0673,897159,02846.4725.941,916,888
2025-01-0351,177131,40238.9525.851,322,925
2025-01-0289,376193,24146.2525.72,296,963
2024-12-3142,618110,92938.4225.871,102,528
2024-12-3026,924118,10922.825.54687,639
2024-12-2734,404105,68632.5525.66882,807
2024-12-2645,411127,48835.6226.041,182,502
2024-12-2422,47559,1503826584,350
2024-12-2349,721154,20932.2425.761,280,813
2024-12-20105,672391,09627.0225.862,732,678
2024-12-1953,329159,81433.3725.711,371,089
2024-12-1868,494207,80232.9626.841,838,379
2024-12-1735,591149,16123.8627.09964,160
2024-12-1639,482233,13316.9427.371,080,622
2024-12-1348,969168,69629.0327.761,359,379
2024-12-1266,630225,41929.5628.371,890,293
2024-12-1148,809191,85325.4428.441,388,128
2024-12-1022,389121,08018.4928.38635,400
2024-12-0946,485144,39532.1928.621,330,401
2024-12-0645,257182,33724.8228.111,272,174
2024-12-0545,157122,97436.7228.471,285,620
2024-12-0463,568170,92937.1929.221,857,457
2024-12-0329,064103,38528.1129.74864,363
2024-12-0233,862183,76018.4329.721,006,379
2024-11-2916,92952,48732.2529.94506,854
2024-11-2728,504118,91223.9730.22861,391
2024-11-2645,423116,52038.9830.411,381,313
2024-11-2545,524211,86421.4930.671,396,221
 
Total50,562,861183,910,19127.4924.31,228,447,766
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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