CMCSA, DPTR, DNDN, SNDK, CTIC, AAPL With Highest Daily Short Volume On NASDAQ Monday
September 15, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, has reviewed the NASDAQ Daily Short Volume Report for Monday, September 11th, 2009 and come to the following statistical conclusions. There were 6,687 stocks with daily short volume reported and total NASDAQ trading volume of 1,570,693,883 shares. Total Daily Short Volume was 783,752,070 shares. 49.89% of all trading on the NASDAQ Monday was short selling. The chart below highlights 6 stocks that had the highest daily short volume yesterday. Comcast Corp (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Delta Petroleum (NASDAQ: DPTR), Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN), SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK), Cell Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CTIC) and Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL). To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.
DATE SYMBOL SHORT VOLUME TOTAL VOLUME MARKET PERCENT
20090914 CMCSA 3,670,396 6,045,716 Q 60.71%
20090914 DPTR 2,888,646 5,468,711 Q 52.82%
20090914 DNDN 2,123,990 4,026,789 Q 52.75%
20090914 SNDK 1,984,931 3,316,295 Q 59.85%
20090914 CTIC 1,957,371 5,239,627 Q 37.36%
20090914 AAPL 1,945,074 3,487,670 Q 55.77%
In late October 2008 the SEC updated Regulation SHO requiring that all short sellers must locate, borrow and deliver any shares they have shorted, no exceptions, by T+3 settlement date. If not, a buy-in must be forced by the broker dealer that the short seller transacted through by the opening of the market on T+4. Since a company first appears on the naked short list when short sellers have been failing to deliver for 5 consecutive trading days, stocks should theoretically never be on the naked short list again. BUYINS.NET will monitor the exchangesa� naked short lists daily and issue an alert and notify the SEC and FINRA should short sellers fail to deliver on any short sales.
Reg SHO Rule 204 (i) requires brokers to deliver shares on long and short sales of publicly traded equity securities by settlement date, (ii) continues to require brokers to close-out fails to deliver by the beginning of trading on T+4 for short sales and T+6 for long sales, (iii) precludes clearing brokers and their introducing brokers from selling short a security, other than on a pre-borrowed basis, if a fail to deliver in that security is not timely closed out until the fail is closed out and that close-out transaction settles, (iv) allows clearing brokers to allocate fails to introducing brokers and (v) continues to permit brokers to rely upon pre-fail credit to satisfy Rule 204's close-out requirement to avoid the pre-borrow requirements when a fail at a clearing broker has not been closed out. However, the SEC liberalized certain of these provisions in several regards. For example, permanent Rule 204 now allows a broker to close-out a fail on a long sale by borrowing the security, whereas Rule 204T had only permitted closing out long fails by buying-in, which should alleviate some of the buy-in risk for investors that experience long fails. Similar relief was extended to close-outs for market maker fails, so that a fail from a bona fide market making transaction (including short and long fails) can now be closed out by the beginning of trading on T+6 by borrowing the security. Further, Rule 204 now permits a broker to borrow securities to obtain pre-fail credit for early close-outs, whereas temporary Rule 204T only permitted pre-fail credit to be obtained by purchases of securities.
The SEC refused requests to extend the close-out deadline for fails to deliver to the close of business on the close-out deadline, choosing instead to retain the requirement that all fails be closed out by the beginning of trading on the applicable close-out deadline. The Commission also rejected requests for a fail to deliver exception that would have provided an exception from the close-out requirements if a clearing broker's fail position was below a certain amount but said that it would continue to monitor whether a de minimis or odd lot exception could be warranted.
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), together with its subsidiaries, provides cable services in the United States. It offers various consumer entertainment, information, and communication products and services to the residential and commercial customers. The company operates in two segments, Cable and Programming. The Cable segment manages and operates cable systems, including video, high-speed Internet, and phone services, as well as regional sports and news networks. Its video services include basic and digital cable, video on demand, high-definition television, digital video recorder, premium channel programming, and pay-per-view programming services. This segmenta�s high-speed Internet service consists of an interactive portal, Comcast.net, which provides multiple email addresses and online storage, as well as various proprietary content, and value-added features and enhancements. Its phone services include voice over Internet protocol digital phone service that provides local and domestic long-distance calling with various features, such as voice mail, caller ID, and call waiting services. The Programming segment operates consolidated national programming networks consisting of E!, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, and Style. The company also develops and operates Comcasta�s Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, thePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo, and DailyCandy; and owns two professional sports teams and two multipurpose arenas, as well as manages other facilities for sporting events, concerts, and other events. As of December 31, 2008, Comcast Corporation served approximately 24.2 million video customers, 14.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million phone customers, as well as approximately 50.6 million homes in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Delta Petroleum Corporation (NASDAQ: DPTR) engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, production, and sale of natural gas and crude oil in the United States. It owns producing and non-producing oil and natural gas interests, undeveloped leasehold interests, and related assets in 17 states, as well as interests in a producing Federal unit offshore California and undeveloped offshore Federal leases near Santa Barbara, California. The company also engages in contract drilling operations, as well as marketing trucking services in the Casper, Wyoming area. As of December 31, 2008, it had approximately 827.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 9.5 Mmbbls of crude oil. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN), a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutics to enhance cancer treatment options for patients. The companya�s product portfolio includes active cellular immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody, and small molecule product candidates to treat various cancers. Its product candidates comprise Provenge (sipuleucel-T), an active cellular immunotherapy that has completed two Phase III trials for the treatment of asymptomatic, metastatic, and androgen-independent prostate cancer; and Neuvenge (lapuleucel-T), an investigational active immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with breast, ovarian, and other solid tumors expressing HER2/neu. The company also has a range of products in preclinical studies, which include CEA for the treatment of breast, lung, and colon cancer; CA-9 (MN) for the treatment of kidney, colon, and cervical cancer; Anti-Serine Protease for the treatment of multiple cancers; and Anti-HLA-DR for the treatment of hematologic malignancies, as well as TRPM8 for the treatment of lung, breast, prostate, and colon cancer. Dendreon Corporation, formerly known as Activated Cell Therapy, Inc., was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets NAND-based flash storage card products that are used in various consumer electronics products. Flash storage technology allows data to be stored in a compact format that retains the data after the power has been turned off. The company offers removable data storage solutions, universal serial bus flash drives, embedded flash memory drive solutions for data and code storage, flash-based digital media players, and MP3 players. Its products are used in various consumer electronics devices, such as digital cameras, mobile phones, gaming devices, laptop computers, other portable devices, and digital audio and video players, as well as in personal computing and network servers. The company also provides embedded flash storage products that are used in various systems for the enterprise, industrial, military, and other markets. It offers its products through retail and original equipment manufacturer distribution channels in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. The company was formerly known as SunDisk Corporation and changed its name to SanDisk Corporation in August 1995. SanDisk Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in Milpitas, California.
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTIC), a biopharmaceutical company, develops, acquires, and commercializes oncology products for cancer treatment. Its development portfolio includes Pixantrone, a phase III trial product, for non-Hodgkina�s lymphoma; Brostallicin, which is in first-line Phase II study for the treatment of sarcoma; and OPAXIO, a chemotherapeutic agent for the potential treatment of non-small cell lung, ovarian, and other cancers. It has collaboration and licensing arrangements with Novartis International Pharmaceutical, Ltd.; and PG-TXL Company, L.P. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, and sell various related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, it sells various third-party Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores, and digital content through the iTunes Store. The company sells its products to consumer, small and mid-sized business, education, enterprise, government, and creative customers. As of December 27, 2008, it had 251 retail stores. Apple Inc., formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc., was founded in 1976. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
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