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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FRME at $36.73, after crossing above the $36.71 Trigger Price


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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 Merchants Corporation (FRME), 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 Merchants Corporation at $36.73, after crossing above the $36.71 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
2025-05-0180,351227,60735.335.962,889,422
2025-04-30119,954361,85033.1535.534,261,966
2025-04-29156,473348,31244.9235.795,600,169
2025-04-28156,945352,25944.5535.55,571,548
2025-04-2592,191212,19543.4535.63,282,000
2025-04-24258,959482,96253.6236.279,392,443
2025-04-23191,957379,70050.5536.947,090,892
2025-04-22117,412270,82143.35364,226,832
2025-04-2195,040199,49847.6434.923,318,797
2025-04-17233,166415,85756.0735.538,284,388
2025-04-16118,334248,47647.6235.44,189,024
2025-04-15151,828346,06343.8735.165,338,272
2025-04-14130,258276,94847.0334.344,473,060
2025-04-11118,101263,23744.8634.074,023,701
2025-04-10139,673352,22639.6534.574,828,496
2025-04-09168,554393,46542.8436.326,121,881
2025-04-08166,724345,72948.2235.495,917,035
2025-04-07189,359434,74043.5635.646,748,755
2025-04-04200,469482,91741.5135.327,080,565
2025-04-03151,680405,88537.3736.755,574,240
2025-04-0286,250254,74333.8639.973,447,413
2025-04-01128,808279,73546.0540.075,161,337
2025-03-3177,549261,54929.6540.463,137,633
2025-03-2896,194254,94337.7340.453,891,047
2025-03-27117,466425,56927.640.984,813,757
2025-03-2680,840199,71640.4841.093,321,716
2025-03-2549,575191,92125.8340.962,030,592
2025-03-2485,168286,10329.7741.193,508,070
2025-03-21369,8171,573,20623.5140.314,903,625
2025-03-2090,938244,60537.1841.053,733,005
2025-03-1998,675267,30536.9140.764,021,993
2025-03-18101,969376,73027.0740.334,112,410
2025-03-1775,774297,47625.4740.623,077,940
2025-03-1486,224224,91238.3440.133,460,169
2025-03-1352,235216,71524.139.32,052,836
2025-03-1264,582219,56629.4139.442,547,114
2025-03-1181,358227,45235.7739.133,183,539
 
Total99,861,848265,455,04937.6236.713,665,903,418
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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