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Fri, February 28, 2025

Short squeeze is starting in shares of FITBI at $25.99, after crossing above the $25.967 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-28 10:30:07 - 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 Fifth Third Bancorp (FITBI), 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 Fifth Third Bancorp at $25.99, after crossing above the $25.967 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-02-273,04923,63812.925.9779,183
2025-02-262,02315,82912.7826.0152,618
2025-02-252,86822,07112.9926.174,855
2025-02-242,1209,05223.4226.1455,417
2025-02-214,33614,99128.9226.12113,256
2025-02-203,94013,89228.3626.12102,913
2025-02-196,26513,62645.9826.15163,830
2025-02-185,78615,56037.1926.15151,304
2025-02-143,72211,88831.3126.1797,405
2025-02-139,15323,10339.6226.1238,893
2025-02-129,24316,48356.0825.92239,579
2025-02-118,56024,79334.5326.05222,988
2025-02-107,41720,19536.7326192,842
2025-02-076,52313,06749.9225.98169,468
2025-02-0616,26227,23259.7225.97422,324
2025-02-058,84720,18343.8325.95229,580
2025-02-047,60515,09650.3825.88196,817
2025-02-038,44914,87356.8125.9218,829
2025-01-3114,74947,90530.7925.94382,589
2025-01-3010,77529,31136.7625.96279,719
2025-01-2911,43920,71255.2325.91296,384
2025-01-2811,45532,06635.7225.91296,799
2025-01-2713,03234,46537.8125.83336,617
2025-01-2410,23920,08150.9925.77263,859
2025-01-235,18617,21230.1325.71133,332
2025-01-2211,53821,78452.9725.79297,565
2025-01-219,61628,16534.1425.82248,285
2025-01-178,77221,93339.9925.76225,967
2025-01-164,88122,27621.9125.7125,442
2025-01-155,54522,89424.2225.61142,007
2025-01-147,33414,07152.1225.42186,430
2025-01-1322,14140,95954.0625.38561,939
2025-01-1010,49035,28029.7325.46267,075
2025-01-085,33021,97324.2625.53136,075
2025-01-078,93620,70643.1625.57228,494
2025-01-0610,55422,41047.125.58269,971
2025-01-0314,54944,19232.9225.52371,290
 
Total17,437,59552,952,11332.9325.97452,776,974
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-02 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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