Short squeeze is starting in shares of ISTR at $18.225, after crossing above the $18.171 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 Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR), 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 Investar Holding Corporation at $18.225, after crossing above the $18.171 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
2025-06-17	3,741	14,647	25.54	18.13	67,824
2025-06-16	6,840	17,181	39.81	18.5	126,540
2025-06-13	7,269	16,399	44.33	18.52	134,622
2025-06-12	5,762	18,400	31.32	19.14	110,285
2025-06-11	7,235	20,934	34.56	19.38	140,214
2025-06-10	5,379	17,992	29.9	19.49	104,837
2025-06-09	7,848	21,789	36.02	19.27	151,231
2025-06-06	6,405	15,303	41.85	19.1	122,336
2025-06-05	6,967	15,142	46.01	18.69	130,213
2025-06-04	6,875	18,670	36.82	18.75	128,906
2025-06-03	4,445	15,477	28.72	18.94	84,188
2025-06-02	9,046	29,960	30.19	18.69	169,070
2025-05-30	11,691	42,924	27.24	19	222,129
2025-05-29	3,519	12,477	28.2	18.86	66,368
2025-05-28	4,499	15,480	29.06	18.89	84,986
2025-05-27	3,980	11,475	34.68	19.27	76,695
2025-05-23	9,082	18,285	49.67	18.75	170,288
2025-05-22	7,099	24,350	29.15	18.8	133,461
2025-05-21	5,694	26,352	21.61	18.97	108,015
2025-05-20	3,242	11,732	27.63	19.4	62,895
2025-05-19	3,613	16,496	21.9	19.49	70,417
2025-05-16	5,682	15,836	35.88	19.49	110,742
2025-05-15	3,329	10,438	31.89	19.66	65,448
2025-05-14	5,550	10,994	50.48	19.49	108,170
2025-05-13	4,643	15,097	30.75	19.79	91,885
2025-05-12	12,033	33,062	36.4	19.89	239,336
2025-05-09	10,215	28,876	35.38	19.57	199,908
2025-05-08	3,308	13,300	24.87	19.4	64,175
2025-05-07	8,727	22,440	38.89	19.53	170,438
2025-05-06	7,534	25,731	29.28	19.39	146,084
2025-05-05	14,826	21,408	69.25	19.56	289,997
2025-05-02	4,293	9,702	44.25	19.3	82,855
2025-05-01	6,913	27,334	25.29	18.98	131,209
2025-04-30	15,823	49,760	31.8	19.2	303,802
2025-04-29	12,497	29,509	42.35	18.95	236,818
2025-04-28	10,561	25,363	41.64	18.37	194,006
2025-04-25	7,933	23,210	34.18	18.25	144,777

Total	10,037,041	35,849,403	28	18.17	182,408,084

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-06-19 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.