Wed, April 23, 2025
Tue, April 22, 2025

Short squeeze is starting in shares of ISTR at $18.28, after crossing above the $17.965 Trigger Price


//stocks-investing.news-articles.net/content/202 .. ter-crossing-above-the-17-965-trigger-price.html
Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 at 10:30 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 Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR), 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 Investar Holding Corporation at $18.28, after crossing above the $17.965 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-2122,11867,76432.6416.68368,928
2025-04-177,81715,65349.9416.16126,323
2025-04-166,55315,75641.5916.09105,438
2025-04-156,94923,66729.3616.03111,392
2025-04-1413,18344,04229.9315.73207,369
2025-04-119,94546,03921.615.61155,241
2025-04-1017,74845,80338.7516.16286,808
2025-04-0916,81159,06028.4616.31274,187
2025-04-0810,27644,61123.0316.02164,622
2025-04-0710,69638,02328.1316.36174,987
2025-04-0418,12084,63021.4116.25294,450
2025-04-0321,89847,89945.7216.81368,105
2025-04-026,84049,74813.7517.39118,948
2025-04-0110,75746,49323.1417.39187,064
2025-03-316,74730,14322.3817.62118,882
2025-03-286,85420,87532.8317.89122,618
2025-03-278,04221,61337.2118.08145,399
2025-03-266,42217,43736.8317.83114,504
2025-03-254,33523,29418.6117.8877,510
2025-03-2455,44381,37168.1418.131,005,182
2025-03-2111,72757,79720.2917.58206,161
2025-03-204,69712,73736.8817.3881,634
2025-03-194,87434,15314.2717.3184,369
2025-03-188,63753,67716.0917.12147,865
2025-03-175,00618,36027.2717.0685,402
2025-03-147,21018,59138.7817.08123,147
2025-03-135,07019,83725.5616.8485,379
2025-03-127,18125,93027.6916.89121,287
2025-03-119,80532,98929.7216.93165,999
2025-03-107,42032,40022.917.27128,143
2025-03-077,48430,04624.9117.66132,167
2025-03-0614,86530,42348.8617.85265,340
2025-03-0513,59835,62338.1717.72240,957
2025-03-048,00438,98320.5318.08144,712
2025-03-035,63821,42926.3118.6104,867
2025-02-286,75033,39220.2118.64125,820
2025-02-274,49113,22433.9618.5183,128
 
Total10,056,60236,045,93527.917.97180,691,789
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

Publication Contributing Sources