Daily crowding read · Wednesday 30 September 2026 US close · updates every market day
IBM IBM — daily crowding read
$219.93 -0.0%IBM — enterprise IT, hybrid cloud, and consulting.
leaning short
WHY Short-side flow running above its monthly norm with price soft (-5.5% on the week) — a bearish tilt, not yet extreme.
Momentum from daily closes. Short interest is FINRA’s twice-monthly count of shares actually held short (a standing position), which is a different thing from the daily flow above — days to cover is that position divided by average daily volume.
FLOW VS PRICE — LAST TEN SESSIONS
▬ short-side flow share (left axis) ┄ price (right axis)
Five days of short-side flow share (and close). Red = heavier than this name’s own monthly norm, green = lighter.
HOW WE READ IBM
Every trading day, FINRA publishes how much of IBM’s volume traded on the short side. We rank today’s share against this name’s own trailing month (71 sessions of history): today sits at the 75th percentile. Flow is then read with price — heavy short flow into a falling price is pressure; the same flow into a rally is mostly market-maker machinery. Days with volume shocks (earnings, news) are flagged post-shock and never read as clean signals. The result is the state badge above — a description of the crowd, never a buy or sell call.
WHAT THE PRE-MARKET BRIEF ADDS FOR IBM
- Exact watch levels for IBM — the price and flow marks that would flip this read
- The historical base rate: what happened the day after setups like today’s, with sample size
- The full 50-name state grid with filters — see this name in market context
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Green = buyers/long side dominant, red = short side pressing; darker = more crowded. Single days are context — persistence is signal. Full reading guide →
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Positioning data describes what large traders held as of the report date, published with a lag. It is a crowding and context gauge, not a trade recommendation. Nothing here is investment advice. Source: CFTC (public domain). Daily flow data: FINRA Reg SHO (short volume is not short interest and is partly market-maker activity); prices: public market data.