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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FBNC at $37.575, after crossing above the $37.191 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-08 10:30:50 - 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 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-07161,893332,43248.736.235,865,383
2025-04-04120,807243,61049.5935.974,345,428
2025-04-0384,887224,08437.8837.473,180,716
2025-04-0264,944146,00044.4840.312,617,893
2025-04-0181,749165,46649.4140.113,278,952
2025-03-3154,083144,32737.4740.062,166,565
2025-03-2864,676165,26239.1440.282,605,149
2025-03-2740,564111,72136.3141.311,675,699
2025-03-2667,009129,93551.5741.292,766,802
2025-03-2569,281139,57349.6441.452,871,697
2025-03-2457,844147,61039.1941.522,401,683
2025-03-21155,127493,37631.4440.446,273,336
2025-03-2096,325226,63642.540.663,916,575
2025-03-1975,327187,61940.1540.623,059,783
2025-03-1859,091187,69931.4840.342,383,731
2025-03-1757,099142,42140.0940.252,298,235
2025-03-1469,336138,30450.1339.792,758,879
2025-03-1354,914127,95842.9239.32,158,120
2025-03-1293,690205,55245.5839.133,666,090
2025-03-11102,372314,61132.5438.783,969,986
2025-03-1057,514182,69531.4838.92,237,295
2025-03-0754,696139,32539.2640.192,198,232
2025-03-0669,597196,72735.3840.142,793,624
2025-03-05116,638244,62747.6840.334,704,011
2025-03-0471,377165,42743.1540.422,885,058
2025-03-0346,430129,20635.9341.781,939,845
2025-02-2870,744159,25144.4241.892,963,466
2025-02-2750,002151,77932.9441.232,061,582
2025-02-2684,857243,03234.9240.963,475,743
2025-02-2563,821184,35634.6241.512,649,210
2025-02-2472,066166,88443.1841.62,997,946
2025-02-2194,137203,73346.2142.123,965,050
2025-02-2078,367158,30749.542.53,330,598
2025-02-1946,009136,65533.6742.91,973,786
2025-02-1861,129159,22338.3943.272,645,052
2025-02-1442,28084,99049.7543.291,830,301
2025-02-1358,371120,09748.643.232,523,378
 
Total84,548,269209,916,82340.2837.23,145,086,249
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.