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Market Makers Abuse Short Selling Exemption, Covering Gaps Exposed

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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 Zymeworks Inc. (ZYME), 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 Zymeworks Inc. at $12.94, after crossing above the $12.915 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
2025-08-11178,663462,72738.6112.272,192,195
2025-08-08224,370872,72425.7111.912,672,247
2025-08-07150,825393,61438.3212.151,832,524
2025-08-06369,612765,83348.2612.294,542,531
2025-08-05156,703380,25241.2112.511,960,355
2025-08-04114,098289,94939.3512.61,437,635
2025-08-01132,272637,97320.7312.461,648,109
2025-07-31102,708335,71730.5912.631,297,202
2025-07-30163,544401,36840.7513.322,178,406
2025-07-29128,329357,39635.9113.431,723,458
2025-07-28112,786285,29039.5313.531,525,995
2025-07-2585,487248,38834.4213.491,153,220
2025-07-24145,079318,68645.5214.082,042,712
2025-07-2395,454242,75639.3214.331,367,856
2025-07-22156,382339,89046.0114.362,245,646
2025-07-21171,051388,38144.0414.292,444,319
2025-07-18167,093422,90139.5114.382,402,797
2025-07-17268,074729,41536.7514.593,911,200
2025-07-16172,094537,50732.0213.362,299,176
2025-07-1591,154325,19128.03131,185,002
2025-07-14131,196355,07436.9513.371,754,091
2025-07-11128,522362,80135.4213.491,733,762
2025-07-1099,802503,60819.8213.621,359,303
2025-07-09139,358437,09031.8813.551,888,301
2025-07-08121,599395,14330.7712.961,575,923
2025-07-07164,405373,57544.0113.022,140,553
2025-07-03109,379285,96938.2513.021,424,115
2025-07-02107,526288,51137.2712.851,381,709
2025-07-01124,876372,90933.4912.421,550,960
2025-06-30139,661420,69533.212.61,759,729
2025-06-27384,3021,498,99725.6412.454,784,560
2025-06-26101,151301,42033.5612.451,259,330
2025-06-25111,883310,19736.0712.721,423,152
2025-06-24225,857453,04249.8512.812,893,228
2025-06-23193,847384,81950.3712.442,411,457
2025-06-20338,160821,85641.1512.484,220,237
2025-06-18163,897474,07534.5712.62,065,102
 
Total259,735,974829,536,49231.3112.913,353,170,454
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.