Short squeeze is starting in shares of FMBH at $34.12, after crossing above the $33.586 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 First Mid Bancshares, Inc. (FMBH), 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 Mid Bancshares, Inc. at $34.12, after crossing above the $33.586 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
2025-04-22	28,429	55,878	50.88	33.12	941,568
2025-04-21	16,793	55,141	30.45	32.04	538,048
2025-04-17	27,842	54,603	50.99	32.23	897,348
2025-04-16	19,227	45,630	42.14	32	615,264
2025-04-15	25,115	53,252	47.16	31.95	802,424
2025-04-14	29,451	57,306	51.39	31.24	920,049
2025-04-11	28,103	63,892	43.99	30.98	870,631
2025-04-10	41,978	101,518	41.35	31.2	1,309,714
2025-04-09	76,026	158,767	47.89	32.25	2,451,839
2025-04-08	23,330	72,868	32.02	31.15	726,730
2025-04-07	24,896	126,347	19.7	30.43	757,585
2025-04-04	26,760	74,730	35.81	31.32	838,123
2025-04-03	20,971	63,037	33.27	32.47	680,928
2025-04-02	18,412	54,997	33.48	34.84	641,474
2025-04-01	11,764	51,551	22.82	34.68	407,976
2025-03-31	14,231	71,647	19.86	34.93	497,089
2025-03-28	10,353	43,410	23.85	35.15	363,908
2025-03-27	39,561	93,199	42.45	35.98	1,423,405
2025-03-26	24,298	61,177	39.72	35.76	868,896
2025-03-25	19,321	64,087	30.15	35.76	690,919
2025-03-24	24,111	63,073	38.23	35.91	865,826
2025-03-21	39,679	176,349	22.5	35.05	1,390,749
2025-03-20	9,985	36,837	27.11	35.37	353,169
2025-03-19	11,024	37,131	29.69	35.57	392,124
2025-03-18	13,481	60,122	22.42	35.27	475,475
2025-03-17	24,125	60,991	39.56	35.36	853,060
2025-03-14	13,500	40,777	33.11	35.41	478,035
2025-03-13	15,538	42,979	36.15	35.15	546,161
2025-03-12	23,955	64,587	37.09	35.06	839,862
2025-03-11	19,532	52,209	37.41	35.07	684,987
2025-03-10	18,867	60,954	30.95	35.43	668,458
2025-03-07	43,942	92,559	47.47	36.62	1,609,156
2025-03-06	16,907	45,543	37.12	36.49	616,936
2025-03-05	16,217	58,801	27.58	36.79	596,623
2025-03-04	20,219	63,815	31.68	37.28	753,764
2025-03-03	18,946	60,354	31.39	38.16	722,979
2025-02-28	36,680	141,449	25.93	38.02	1,394,574

Total	21,038,528	55,637,441	37.81	33.59	706,757,490

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FMBH at $34.12, after crossing above the $33.586 Trigger Price