Short squeeze is starting in shares of FRME at $37.41, after crossing above the $37.278 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 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 $37.41, after crossing above the $37.278 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
2025-08-01	77,155	240,012	32.15	37.16	2,867,080
2025-07-31	94,795	273,389	34.67	38.16	3,617,377
2025-07-30	90,255	243,868	37.01	38.97	3,517,237
2025-07-29	108,893	276,620	39.37	39.8	4,333,941
2025-07-28	65,915	258,213	25.53	40.04	2,639,237
2025-07-25	91,688	321,506	28.52	39.78	3,647,349
2025-07-24	115,261	313,412	36.78	40.04	4,615,050
2025-07-23	151,284	421,575	35.89	41.07	6,213,234
2025-07-22	189,485	577,476	32.81	41.36	7,837,100
2025-07-21	90,371	295,815	30.55	40.86	3,692,559
2025-07-18	190,405	1,008,644	18.88	40.61	7,732,347
2025-07-17	157,777	336,472	46.89	40.69	6,419,946
2025-07-16	175,764	500,986	35.08	40.26	7,076,259
2025-07-15	120,649	258,785	46.62	40.58	4,895,936
2025-07-14	82,557	279,243	29.56	41.51	3,426,941
2025-07-11	82,278	211,323	38.93	41.06	3,378,335
2025-07-10	114,719	292,031	39.28	41.58	4,770,016
2025-07-09	80,035	229,249	34.91	40.96	3,278,234
2025-07-08	108,907	340,901	31.95	40.79	4,442,317
2025-07-07	109,292	294,393	37.12	40.3	4,404,468
2025-07-03	45,358	142,201	31.9	40.76	1,848,792
2025-07-02	116,033	330,670	35.09	40.23	4,668,008
2025-07-01	99,280	220,267	45.07	39.54	3,925,531
2025-06-30	126,584	321,033	39.43	38.39	4,859,560
2025-06-27	375,467	913,333	41.11	38.55	14,474,253
2025-06-26	61,215	224,842	27.23	37.9	2,320,049
2025-06-25	99,554	266,054	37.42	37.12	3,695,444
2025-06-24	46,026	221,761	20.75	37.32	1,717,690
2025-06-23	76,667	286,234	26.78	36.75	2,817,512
2025-06-20	196,996	1,034,658	19.04	35.93	7,078,066
2025-06-18	105,582	306,115	34.49	35.73	3,772,445
2025-06-17	126,624	301,236	42.03	35.44	4,487,555
2025-06-16	126,755	368,010	34.44	35.88	4,547,969
2025-06-13	127,794	289,091	44.21	36.08	4,610,808
2025-06-12	72,588	144,205	50.34	36.98	2,684,304
2025-06-11	71,317	210,030	33.96	37.41	2,667,969
2025-06-10	80,501	233,973	34.41	37.78	3,041,328

Total	102,033,345	271,793,842	37.54	37.29	3,804,735,160

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of FRME at $37.41, after crossing above the $37.278 Trigger Price