Short squeeze is starting in shares of FBNC at $37.575, after crossing above the $37.191 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 First Bancorp (FBNC), 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 Bancorp at $37.575, after crossing above the $37.191 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	161,893	332,432	48.7	36.23	5,865,383
2025-04-04	120,807	243,610	49.59	35.97	4,345,428
2025-04-03	84,887	224,084	37.88	37.47	3,180,716
2025-04-02	64,944	146,000	44.48	40.31	2,617,893
2025-04-01	81,749	165,466	49.41	40.11	3,278,952
2025-03-31	54,083	144,327	37.47	40.06	2,166,565
2025-03-28	64,676	165,262	39.14	40.28	2,605,149
2025-03-27	40,564	111,721	36.31	41.31	1,675,699
2025-03-26	67,009	129,935	51.57	41.29	2,766,802
2025-03-25	69,281	139,573	49.64	41.45	2,871,697
2025-03-24	57,844	147,610	39.19	41.52	2,401,683
2025-03-21	155,127	493,376	31.44	40.44	6,273,336
2025-03-20	96,325	226,636	42.5	40.66	3,916,575
2025-03-19	75,327	187,619	40.15	40.62	3,059,783
2025-03-18	59,091	187,699	31.48	40.34	2,383,731
2025-03-17	57,099	142,421	40.09	40.25	2,298,235
2025-03-14	69,336	138,304	50.13	39.79	2,758,879
2025-03-13	54,914	127,958	42.92	39.3	2,158,120
2025-03-12	93,690	205,552	45.58	39.13	3,666,090
2025-03-11	102,372	314,611	32.54	38.78	3,969,986
2025-03-10	57,514	182,695	31.48	38.9	2,237,295
2025-03-07	54,696	139,325	39.26	40.19	2,198,232
2025-03-06	69,597	196,727	35.38	40.14	2,793,624
2025-03-05	116,638	244,627	47.68	40.33	4,704,011
2025-03-04	71,377	165,427	43.15	40.42	2,885,058
2025-03-03	46,430	129,206	35.93	41.78	1,939,845
2025-02-28	70,744	159,251	44.42	41.89	2,963,466
2025-02-27	50,002	151,779	32.94	41.23	2,061,582
2025-02-26	84,857	243,032	34.92	40.96	3,475,743
2025-02-25	63,821	184,356	34.62	41.51	2,649,210
2025-02-24	72,066	166,884	43.18	41.6	2,997,946
2025-02-21	94,137	203,733	46.21	42.12	3,965,050
2025-02-20	78,367	158,307	49.5	42.5	3,330,598
2025-02-19	46,009	136,655	33.67	42.9	1,973,786
2025-02-18	61,129	159,223	38.39	43.27	2,645,052
2025-02-14	42,280	84,990	49.75	43.29	1,830,301
2025-02-13	58,371	120,097	48.6	43.23	2,523,378

Total	84,548,269	209,916,823	40.28	37.2	3,145,086,249

* 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 FBNC at $37.575, after crossing above the $37.191 Trigger Price