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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ISTR at $18.07, after crossing above the $17.842 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-03-05 08:32:33 - 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 Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR), 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 Investar Holding Corporation at $18.07, after crossing above the $17.842 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
2025-03-048,00438,98320.5318.08144,712
2025-03-035,63821,42926.3118.6104,867
2025-02-286,75033,39220.2118.64125,820
2025-02-274,49113,22433.9618.5183,128
2025-02-2612,26333,53636.5718.56227,601
2025-02-256,97330,45322.918.59129,628
2025-02-248,30325,36532.7318.61154,519
2025-02-2110,47633,89630.9118.7195,901
2025-02-205,67840,72113.9418.9107,314
2025-02-1912,70953,81023.6218.82239,183
2025-02-185,45232,94016.5519.16104,460
2025-02-144,95917,63128.1319.4396,353
2025-02-136,32237,99716.6419.26121,762
2025-02-128,38628,85229.0719.32162,018
2025-02-116,80327,38624.8419.54132,931
2025-02-106,49524,79026.219.27125,159
2025-02-075,20925,75620.2219.42101,159
2025-02-068,13728,07928.9819.58159,322
2025-02-057,07931,27422.6419.1135,209
2025-02-048,69631,74627.3918.81163,572
2025-02-0315,39038,09440.418.66287,177
2025-01-3116,90955,32030.5719.12323,300
2025-01-3010,67245,41523.519.27205,649
2025-01-299,07132,77527.6819.24174,526
2025-01-286,20039,97115.5119.2119,040
2025-01-275,95726,39322.5719.32115,089
2025-01-245,09418,07828.1819.5599,588
2025-01-237,56128,89126.1719.75149,330
2025-01-227,55925,79729.320.15152,314
2025-01-215,66716,1923520.37115,437
2025-01-1711,24726,85641.8819.89223,703
2025-01-167,11523,44530.3519.63139,667
2025-01-154,69111,68040.1619.9893,726
2025-01-1413,52125,48753.0519.56264,471
2025-01-1310,29829,22135.2418.99195,559
2025-01-106,49423,26127.9218.68121,308
2025-01-087,69935,06021.9619.68151,516
 
Total9,986,23436,152,34527.6217.84178,147,140
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.