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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FISI at $24.06, after crossing above the $23.816 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-23 10:30:48 - 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 Financial Institutions, Inc. (FISI), 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 Financial Institutions, Inc. at $24.06, after crossing above the $23.816 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
2025-04-2265,752144,70945.4423.111,519,529
2025-04-2151,184141,61536.1422.221,137,308
2025-04-1788,477241,05236.722.41,981,885
2025-04-1648,809126,63538.5422.381,092,345
2025-04-1580,896201,33740.1822.371,809,644
2025-04-1493,674210,68444.4621.742,036,473
2025-04-11124,404295,85942.0521.642,692,103
2025-04-10118,555240,27149.3422.032,611,767
2025-04-09157,727335,88046.9622.53,548,858
2025-04-08124,762220,66056.5422.032,748,507
2025-04-07137,972293,00747.0922.083,046,422
2025-04-0493,184338,43627.5321.722,023,956
2025-04-03132,458309,43242.8123.113,061,104
2025-04-0255,664145,23238.3325.121,398,280
2025-04-0139,938104,35838.2724.84992,060
2025-03-3146,137165,68227.8524.961,151,580
2025-03-2845,882110,08941.6825.111,152,097
2025-03-2757,113126,46545.1625.631,463,806
2025-03-2645,66995,51047.8225.871,181,457
2025-03-2559,474133,19344.6526.031,548,108
2025-03-2471,559147,64548.4726.21,874,846
2025-03-21509,0031,053,50648.3225.412,928,676
2025-03-2048,416172,76928.0225.921,254,943
2025-03-1948,364191,81225.2125.991,256,980
2025-03-1883,005226,31636.6825.832,144,019
2025-03-1751,629164,79531.3325.91,337,191
2025-03-14111,662283,18539.4325.972,899,862
2025-03-1388,047228,89138.4726.142,301,549
2025-03-1286,100215,2504026.222,257,542
2025-03-11131,991296,65944.4925.843,410,647
2025-03-10149,440307,55548.5926.083,897,395
2025-03-0783,613181,52046.0626.92,249,190
2025-03-0679,691175,55745.3926.912,144,485
2025-03-0570,880149,62547.3726.991,913,051
2025-03-0455,902171,70832.5627.031,511,031
2025-03-0333,857119,14928.4227.98947,319
2025-02-2824,025112,35921.3827.99672,460
 
Total23,844,04174,924,92631.8223.82567,905,132
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.