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Regulatory Scrutiny of Short Selling Intensifies Over 20 Years of Market Maker Abuse

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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 BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (BTAI), 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 BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. at $7.94, after crossing above the $7.87 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
2025-08-1121,376,68138,660,30255.295.62120,136,947
2025-08-0823,413,23542,790,18354.724.1797,633,190
2025-08-077,728,32114,456,90753.463.4726,817,274
2025-08-0618,221,11548,364,53837.673.3861,587,369
2025-08-0519,974,95939,508,06550.562.9959,725,127
2025-08-0436,509,19555,788,41365.442.1478,129,677
2025-08-0142,820,424108,680,16839.41.6771,510,108
2025-07-31112,803427,28226.41.35152,284
2025-07-3091,101386,32023.581.47133,918
2025-07-2978,652281,84227.911.64128,989
2025-07-28124,312349,43035.581.72213,817
2025-07-2590,366213,58342.311.78160,851
2025-07-24113,059333,97833.851.76198,984
2025-07-23136,949372,01436.811.82249,247
2025-07-22121,249384,19831.561.82220,673
2025-07-2173,247262,25927.931.92140,634
2025-07-1861,039174,65434.951.92117,195
2025-07-17122,450279,65343.791.92235,104
2025-07-1692,431286,97232.211.92177,468
2025-07-15545,5231,397,30639.042.111,151,054
2025-07-1472,172274,19426.321.99143,622
2025-07-1135,128139,67925.151.9869,553
2025-07-1032,798300,85110.92.0567,236
2025-07-0970,437296,54223.752.03142,987
2025-07-0891,942292,65831.421.95179,287
2025-07-07120,768264,04345.741.9229,459
2025-07-0323,98177,07331.111.9546,763
2025-07-0276,062214,72435.421.93146,800
2025-07-01128,615279,96845.941.92246,941
2025-06-3069,153173,17839.931.77122,401
2025-06-2796,001442,67521.691.85177,602
2025-06-26248,3091,153,88921.521.94481,719
2025-06-25498,2591,290,00038.622.031,011,466
2025-06-2428,47478,21736.41.7349,260
2025-06-2359,277151,36639.161.6497,214
2025-06-2058,833133,02444.231.6798,251
2025-06-1839,88496,65641.261.7569,797
 
Total770,553,2441,643,589,40246.887.86,008,430,374
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.