Short squeeze is starting in shares of CIVB at $19.5, after crossing above the $19.289 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 Civista Bancshares, Inc. (CIVB), 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 Civista Bancshares, Inc. at $19.5, after crossing above the $19.289 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
2025-04-07	23,408	48,353	48.41	18.92	442,879
2025-04-04	22,727	52,799	43.04	18.25	414,768
2025-04-03	28,206	56,347	50.06	18.77	529,427
2025-04-02	12,391	34,609	35.8	19.89	246,457
2025-04-01	10,586	37,073	28.55	19.52	206,639
2025-03-31	19,177	87,298	21.97	19.61	376,061
2025-03-28	8,141	33,529	24.28	19.56	159,238
2025-03-27	9,671	29,085	33.25	19.88	192,259
2025-03-26	8,710	25,506	34.15	19.63	170,977
2025-03-25	7,820	27,056	28.9	19.45	152,099
2025-03-24	4,626	19,974	23.16	19.8	91,595
2025-03-21	9,632	72,613	13.26	19.5	187,824
2025-03-20	11,901	30,254	39.34	19.7	234,450
2025-03-19	10,486	22,498	46.61	19.9	208,671
2025-03-18	11,948	38,427	31.09	19.6	234,181
2025-03-17	10,077	26,464	38.08	19.61	197,610
2025-03-14	7,527	32,621	23.07	19.38	145,873
2025-03-13	7,456	22,128	33.69	19.28	143,752
2025-03-12	9,658	35,569	27.15	19.06	184,081
2025-03-11	18,217	53,454	34.08	18.94	345,030
2025-03-10	9,221	45,803	20.13	19.29	177,873
2025-03-07	15,319	35,469	43.19	19.77	302,857
2025-03-06	9,528	31,156	30.58	19.67	187,416
2025-03-05	10,338	29,376	35.19	19.81	204,796
2025-03-04	10,760	29,819	36.08	20.15	216,814
2025-03-03	15,143	34,925	43.36	20.9	316,489
2025-02-28	6,349	42,632	14.89	20.67	131,234
2025-02-27	5,770	19,164	30.11	20.57	118,689
2025-02-26	10,572	26,650	39.67	20.61	217,889
2025-02-25	9,531	39,144	24.35	20.84	198,626
2025-02-24	9,427	39,372	23.94	20.71	195,233
2025-02-21	14,575	45,311	32.17	20.98	305,784
2025-02-20	12,062	32,792	36.78	20.9	252,096
2025-02-19	13,674	29,075	47.03	21.22	290,162
2025-02-18	11,659	28,511	40.89	21.39	249,386
2025-02-14	11,046	35,956	30.72	21.24	234,617
2025-02-13	7,802	24,044	32.45	21.39	166,885

Total	15,187,440	48,361,399	31.4	19.29	293,036,415

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of CIVB at $19.5, after crossing above the $19.289 Trigger Price