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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FMBH at $33.665, after crossing above the $33.616 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-01 11:00:04 - 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 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 $33.665, after crossing above the $33.616 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
2025-04-3014,75457,54125.6433.42493,079
2025-04-2922,79344,41151.3233.89772,455
2025-04-2823,49446,9895033.43785,404
2025-04-2525,45848,80752.1633.41850,552
2025-04-2429,71060,23549.3233.861,005,981
2025-04-2333,74481,46541.4233.771,139,535
2025-04-2228,42955,87850.8833.12941,568
2025-04-2116,79355,14130.4532.04538,048
2025-04-1727,84254,60350.9932.23897,348
2025-04-1619,22745,63042.1432615,264
2025-04-1525,11553,25247.1631.95802,424
2025-04-1429,45157,30651.3931.24920,049
2025-04-1128,10363,89243.9930.98870,631
2025-04-1041,978101,51841.3531.21,309,714
2025-04-0976,026158,76747.8932.252,451,839
2025-04-0823,33072,86832.0231.15726,730
2025-04-0724,896126,34719.730.43757,585
2025-04-0426,76074,73035.8131.32838,123
2025-04-0320,97163,03733.2732.47680,928
2025-04-0218,41254,99733.4834.84641,474
2025-04-0111,76451,55122.8234.68407,976
2025-03-3114,23171,64719.8634.93497,089
2025-03-2810,35343,41023.8535.15363,908
2025-03-2739,56193,19942.4535.981,423,405
2025-03-2624,29861,17739.7235.76868,896
2025-03-2519,32164,08730.1535.76690,919
2025-03-2424,11163,07338.2335.91865,826
2025-03-2139,679176,34922.535.051,390,749
2025-03-209,98536,83727.1135.37353,169
2025-03-1911,02437,13129.6935.57392,124
2025-03-1813,48160,12222.4235.27475,475
2025-03-1724,12560,99139.5635.36853,060
2025-03-1413,50040,77733.1135.41478,035
2025-03-1315,53842,97936.1535.15546,161
2025-03-1223,95564,58737.0935.06839,862
2025-03-1119,53252,20937.4135.07684,987
2025-03-1018,86760,95430.9535.43668,458
 
Total21,100,47455,785,86737.8233.62709,498,507
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.