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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FAF at $58.22, after crossing above the $58.185 Trigger Price


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Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 at 11:45 GMT by WOPRAI   Print publication without navigation


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 American Financial Corporation (FAF), 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 American Financial Corporation at $58.22, after crossing above the $58.185 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
2025-04-21189,4961,039,68718.2357.0510,810,747
2025-04-17182,528592,15230.8259.3810,838,513
2025-04-16176,3281,083,17216.2859.3110,458,014
2025-04-15184,1791,019,26418.0760.9111,218,343
2025-04-1496,803544,58217.7860.925,897,239
2025-04-11188,5921,222,43815.4358.8311,094,867
2025-04-10242,1411,415,73417.160.1614,567,203
2025-04-09380,6811,857,17920.559.5822,680,974
2025-04-08271,3151,475,95718.3859.2816,083,553
2025-04-07292,3101,669,92417.558.4217,076,750
2025-04-04385,1021,439,31026.7661.7523,780,049
2025-04-03244,6152,127,04011.565.3815,992,929
2025-04-02102,130634,60416.0966.836,825,348
2025-04-01150,472766,49419.6366.4810,003,379
2025-03-31170,168876,39419.4265.6811,176,634
2025-03-28155,606589,57926.3965.6810,220,202
2025-03-27179,547634,52528.366.3711,916,534
2025-03-26126,762562,70122.5365.888,351,081
2025-03-25138,237748,35518.4765.799,094,612
2025-03-2499,477531,81618.7165.866,551,555
2025-03-21280,0721,512,04718.5264.9818,199,079
2025-03-20131,414765,06017.1865.538,611,559
2025-03-19163,3851,131,04914.4565.3810,682,111
2025-03-18124,356735,26416.9165.148,100,550
2025-03-17109,897787,76013.9564.757,115,831
2025-03-14209,1871,190,09917.5863.5613,295,926
2025-03-13204,3341,064,46319.262.6312,797,438
2025-03-12175,211859,83820.3862.1610,891,116
2025-03-11373,4281,476,86525.2963.0423,540,901
2025-03-10235,3381,306,22118.0262.8714,795,700
2025-03-07221,443972,76622.7664.0414,181,210
2025-03-06210,0451,081,14419.4363.8913,419,775
2025-03-05233,2281,409,31316.5564.2414,982,567
2025-03-04179,868828,46321.7163.7511,466,585
2025-03-03186,041985,51718.8865.212,129,873
2025-02-28237,012751,38331.5465.3215,481,624
2025-02-27144,556648,17622.364.359,302,179
 
Total269,978,437978,048,36127.658.215,712,530,949
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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