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

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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
2025-04-21	22,118	67,764	32.64	16.68	368,928
2025-04-17	7,817	15,653	49.94	16.16	126,323
2025-04-16	6,553	15,756	41.59	16.09	105,438
2025-04-15	6,949	23,667	29.36	16.03	111,392
2025-04-14	13,183	44,042	29.93	15.73	207,369
2025-04-11	9,945	46,039	21.6	15.61	155,241
2025-04-10	17,748	45,803	38.75	16.16	286,808
2025-04-09	16,811	59,060	28.46	16.31	274,187
2025-04-08	10,276	44,611	23.03	16.02	164,622
2025-04-07	10,696	38,023	28.13	16.36	174,987
2025-04-04	18,120	84,630	21.41	16.25	294,450
2025-04-03	21,898	47,899	45.72	16.81	368,105
2025-04-02	6,840	49,748	13.75	17.39	118,948
2025-04-01	10,757	46,493	23.14	17.39	187,064
2025-03-31	6,747	30,143	22.38	17.62	118,882
2025-03-28	6,854	20,875	32.83	17.89	122,618
2025-03-27	8,042	21,613	37.21	18.08	145,399
2025-03-26	6,422	17,437	36.83	17.83	114,504
2025-03-25	4,335	23,294	18.61	17.88	77,510
2025-03-24	55,443	81,371	68.14	18.13	1,005,182
2025-03-21	11,727	57,797	20.29	17.58	206,161
2025-03-20	4,697	12,737	36.88	17.38	81,634
2025-03-19	4,874	34,153	14.27	17.31	84,369
2025-03-18	8,637	53,677	16.09	17.12	147,865
2025-03-17	5,006	18,360	27.27	17.06	85,402
2025-03-14	7,210	18,591	38.78	17.08	123,147
2025-03-13	5,070	19,837	25.56	16.84	85,379
2025-03-12	7,181	25,930	27.69	16.89	121,287
2025-03-11	9,805	32,989	29.72	16.93	165,999
2025-03-10	7,420	32,400	22.9	17.27	128,143
2025-03-07	7,484	30,046	24.91	17.66	132,167
2025-03-06	14,865	30,423	48.86	17.85	265,340
2025-03-05	13,598	35,623	38.17	17.72	240,957
2025-03-04	8,004	38,983	20.53	18.08	144,712
2025-03-03	5,638	21,429	26.31	18.6	104,867
2025-02-28	6,750	33,392	20.21	18.64	125,820
2025-02-27	4,491	13,224	33.96	18.51	83,128

Total	10,056,602	36,045,935	27.9	17.97	180,691,789

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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