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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FSTR at $18.235, after crossing above the $18.177 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-09 08:30:05 - 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 L.B. Foster Company (FSTR), 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 L.B. Foster Company at $18.235, after crossing above the $18.177 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
2025-05-0811,38429,97437.9818.23207,530
2025-05-0710,01629,52033.9318.44184,695
2025-05-0648,69991,84453.0218.52901,905
2025-05-029,32618,83949.520.62192,302
2025-05-0112,14125,03748.4920.16244,763
2025-04-3014,46342,66633.920289,260
2025-04-298,46225,85232.7320.16170,594
2025-04-2821,84835,70261.220.08438,708
2025-04-258,43923,87235.3519.92168,105
2025-04-2411,40126,84142.4820.07228,818
2025-04-2316,33746,89034.8419.81323,636
2025-04-2212,76436,65034.8319.36247,111
2025-04-2115,76545,11734.9419.37305,368
2025-04-1725,62247,75153.6620.12515,515
2025-04-1613,98028,48049.0919.68275,126
2025-04-1514,26447,47830.0419.89283,711
2025-04-1419,04638,39049.6119.96380,158
2025-04-1113,96832,75042.6519.7275,170
2025-04-1026,21644,70358.6419.58513,309
2025-04-0927,02855,96248.319.56528,668
2025-04-0825,07660,24141.6318.3458,891
2025-04-0748,722118,01241.2918.53902,819
2025-04-0442,32398,94242.7818.35776,627
2025-04-0323,15193,66624.7218.61430,840
2025-04-0221,69948,77444.4920.39442,443
2025-04-0123,60847,65449.5419.9469,799
2025-03-3120,54665,97031.1419.76405,989
2025-03-2815,28740,39737.8420.15308,033
2025-03-2712,86140,51031.7520.59264,808
2025-03-2611,25527,99340.2120.92235,455
2025-03-259,28438,58924.0621.02195,150
2025-03-2410,53350,06921.0420.94220,561
2025-03-2117,64175,77723.2820.44360,582
2025-03-2010,32143,14223.9220.6212,613
2025-03-198,69542,50420.4620.6179,117
2025-03-1814,96464,48623.2120.48306,463
2025-03-1711,50952,69621.8420.31233,748
 
Total15,672,41747,707,56832.8518.18284,881,734
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.