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Humana (HUM) Daily Short Sale Trading Volume Through 10-7-09
October 8, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, has reviewed the NYSE, NASDAQ, BX, CHX and NSX Daily Short Volume Report through Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 and come to the following statistical conclusions. The chart below shows aggregated daily short volume in Humana (NYSE: HUM) for August through October 7th, 2009. To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.
Date Short Volume Total Volume Percent
10/7/2009 270,745 2,046,075 13.23%
10/6/2009 382,836 2,326,300 16.46%
10/5/2009 350,385 2,289,100 15.31%
10/2/2009 577,714 2,907,400 19.87%
10/1/2009 569,181 3,589,400 15.86%
9/30/2009 527,717 3,480,300 15.16%
9/29/2009 932,795 4,598,700 20.28%
9/28/2009 223,048 1,917,500 11.63%
9/25/2009 342,232 2,737,400 12.50%
9/24/2009 316,002 2,170,500 14.56%
9/23/2009 361,733 2,187,600 16.54%
9/22/2009 324,568 1,865,600 17.40%
9/21/2009 374,179 2,086,000 17.94%
9/18/2009 223,934 1,772,600 12.63%
9/17/2009 314,132 1,808,600 17.37%
9/16/2009 642,717 3,001,200 21.42%
9/15/2009 459,338 2,674,300 17.18%
9/14/2009 494,587 2,434,200 20.32%
9/11/2009 318,099 2,135,100 14.90%
9/10/2009 613,761 3,471,800 17.68%
9/9/2009 663,151 3,423,100 19.37%
9/8/2009 508,121 4,079,700 12.45%
9/4/2009 352,002 1,423,900 24.72%
9/3/2009 463,349 2,337,600 19.82%
9/2/2009 587,274 3,198,000 18.36%
9/1/2009 277,359 1,941,200 14.29%
8/31/2009 226,559 1,501,400 15.09%
8/28/2009 242,890 1,516,000 16.02%
8/27/2009 286,112 1,983,200 14.43%
8/26/2009 249,477 2,206,400 11.31%
8/25/2009 414,181 2,025,600 20.45%
8/24/2009 485,003 2,112,100 22.96%
8/21/2009 230,905 1,399,900 16.49%
8/20/2009 353,094 1,786,300 19.77%
8/19/2009 247,729 2,214,100 11.19%
8/18/2009 305,717 2,387,400 12.81%
8/17/2009 953,480 4,588,700 20.78%
8/14/2009 214,619 1,617,900 13.27%
8/13/2009 414,121 1,918,100 21.59%
8/12/2009 209,478 1,793,500 11.68%
8/11/2009 375,963 2,371,200 15.86%
8/10/2009 556,484 2,331,700 23.87%
8/7/2009 357,987 1,824,300 19.62%
8/6/2009 367,678 2,555,700 14.39%
8/5/2009 270,096 1,871,900 14.43%
8/4/2009 310,648 1,735,200 17.90%
8/3/2009 1,103,602 5,114,400 21.58%
Total 19,646,782 114,758,175 17.12%
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.
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) provides various health and supplemental benefit plans for employer groups, government benefit programs, and individuals in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Government and Commercial. The Government segment comprises beneficiaries of government benefit programs. This segment operates in three lines of business: Medicare, Military, and Medicaid. The Medicare programme is a federal program that offers hospital and medical insurance benefits to persons of age 65 and over and some disabled persons under the age of 65. The Military programme provides health insurance coverage to the dependents of active duty military personnel and to retired military personnel and their dependents. The Medicaid programme is a federal program that is state-operated to facilitate the delivery of health care services primarily to low-income residents. The Commercial segment consists of members enrolled in its medical and specialty products marketed to employer groups and individuals. This segment provides various smart plans and other consumer products, including health maintenance organization products that provide prepaid health insurance coverage to its members through a network of independent primary care physicians, specialty physicians, and other health care providers; preferred provider organization products, which are offered primarily to employer groups and individuals; and administrative services only products that are offered to employers who self-insure their employee health plans. It also offers various specialty products, including dental, vision, and other supplemental products, as well as disease management services. As of December 31, 2008, Humana Inc. had approximately 11.6 million members enrolled in medical benefit plans and approximately 6.8 million members enrolled in specialty products programs. It has a strategic alliance with SIHO Insurance Services. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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