Market Makers Exploit Exemptions to Accumulate Massive Uncovered Short Positions in Viridian Therapeutics

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 13th 2025 at 10:30 GMT by WOPRAI
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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 Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. (VRDN), 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 Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. at $18.965, after crossing above the $18.65 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
2025-08-12	445,160	923,866	48.18	17.49	7,785,848
2025-08-11	379,874	757,963	50.12	16.69	6,340,097
2025-08-08	403,561	879,392	45.89	16.18	6,529,617
2025-08-07	468,445	818,422	57.24	16.57	7,762,134
2025-08-06	697,386	1,298,058	53.73	16.91	11,792,797
2025-08-05	423,603	939,273	45.1	17.32	7,336,804
2025-08-04	269,219	504,922	53.32	16.86	4,539,032
2025-08-01	380,819	662,619	57.47	17.4	6,626,251
2025-07-31	477,244	762,494	62.59	17.61	8,404,267
2025-07-30	685,312	1,140,102	60.11	18.08	12,390,441
2025-07-29	208,784	401,057	52.06	16.85	3,518,010
2025-07-28	367,331	650,185	56.5	17.42	6,398,906
2025-07-25	208,525	588,387	35.44	17.23	3,592,886
2025-07-24	299,185	624,542	47.9	17.67	5,286,599
2025-07-23	360,195	746,741	48.24	18	6,483,510
2025-07-22	173,764	390,136	44.54	16.99	2,952,250
2025-07-21	316,830	661,264	47.91	16.97	5,376,605
2025-07-18	257,709	498,494	51.7	16.71	4,306,317
2025-07-17	235,817	419,239	56.25	17.05	4,020,680
2025-07-16	299,894	584,454	51.31	16.8	5,038,219
2025-07-15	313,371	663,653	47.22	16.35	5,123,616
2025-07-14	339,444	1,014,722	33.45	17.16	5,824,859
2025-07-11	213,285	462,708	46.09	17.03	3,632,244
2025-07-10	248,799	556,531	44.71	17.09	4,251,975
2025-07-09	453,280	938,750	48.29	16.98	7,696,694
2025-07-08	465,526	806,885	57.69	16.01	7,453,071
2025-07-07	561,532	934,571	60.08	15.85	8,900,282
2025-07-03	221,201	396,632	55.77	15.68	3,468,432
2025-07-02	502,512	895,698	56.1	15.21	7,643,208
2025-07-01	417,568	825,273	50.6	14.41	6,017,155
2025-06-30	247,102	470,310	52.54	14.17	3,501,435
2025-06-27	384,833	1,163,607	33.07	14.36	5,526,202
2025-06-26	277,338	464,473	59.71	14.48	4,015,854
2025-06-25	288,479	560,604	51.46	14.62	4,217,563
2025-06-24	222,474	551,586	40.33	14.73	3,277,042
2025-06-23	248,812	536,258	46.4	14.72	3,662,513
2025-06-20	751,583	1,402,327	53.6	14.75	11,085,849

Total	298,886,567	711,879,475	41.99	18.65	5,573,751,732

* Totals include all data records back to 2021-10-28 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Market Makers Exploit Exemptions to Accumulate Massive Uncovered Short Positions in Viridian Therapeutics