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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FDUS at $18.56, after crossing above the $17.853 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-08 10:30:51 - 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 Fidus Investment Corporation (FDUS), 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 Fidus Investment Corporation at $18.56, after crossing above the $17.853 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
2025-04-07192,650486,75639.5817.863,440,729
2025-04-04247,341626,50539.4819.184,744,000
2025-04-0394,962293,49232.3620.241,922,031
2025-04-0267,694221,42230.5720.531,389,758
2025-04-0178,509227,51834.5120.581,615,715
2025-03-3197,029338,53028.6620.391,978,421
2025-03-28132,084275,31147.9820.532,711,685
2025-03-27248,471580,97742.7720.75,143,350
2025-03-26190,632291,86565.3220.93,984,209
2025-03-25131,787263,5675020.82,741,170
2025-03-24105,429226,06546.6420.752,187,652
2025-03-2198,321389,51525.2420.492,014,597
2025-03-20101,273316,77931.9720.512,077,109
2025-03-19117,978326,33236.1521.172,497,594
2025-03-18108,934305,72135.6321.182,307,222
2025-03-17179,630445,44740.3321.253,817,138
2025-03-14123,444437,66228.2121.182,614,544
2025-03-13127,425309,21541.2121.082,686,119
2025-03-12195,647342,41057.1421.354,177,063
2025-03-11104,871361,06229.0521.492,253,678
2025-03-10126,417262,69048.1221.862,763,476
2025-03-07204,619299,21568.3922.024,505,710
2025-03-06117,857227,27151.8621.882,578,711
2025-03-05140,363306,15545.8522.23,116,059
2025-03-04142,424276,29051.5522.63,218,782
2025-03-03103,244217,56847.4523.142,389,066
2025-02-2875,961156,71748.4723.181,760,776
2025-02-27167,972280,15659.9622.843,836,480
2025-02-2686,301154,78055.7622.831,970,252
2025-02-2556,738125,07345.3622.941,301,570
2025-02-2439,799153,41925.9422.98914,581
2025-02-2146,353111,57441.5423.151,073,072
2025-02-2070,375130,21954.0423.251,636,219
2025-02-1982,601194,39442.4923.311,925,429
2025-02-1875,105150,26549.9823.391,756,706
2025-02-1463,917125,3215123.271,487,349
2025-02-1390,526168,38653.76232,082,098
 
Total76,345,219191,508,23839.8717.871,364,417,118
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.