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TARGACEPT INC (NASDAQ:TRGT), Up By 9.75% ($2.10) After BUYINS.NET SqueezeTrigger Report Released on Friday, May 20th 2011 at a

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June 1, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net , a leading provider of Regulation SHO compliance monitoring, short sale trading statistics and market integrity surveillance, released a report on Friday, May 20th 2011 at 09:17:00 PDT stating that TARGACEPT INC (NASDAQ:TRGT) was expected to be Up After it crossed above its SqueezeTrigger Price of 21.50 on Friday, May 20th 2011. Click here to view the BUYINS.NET report: http://www.buyins.net/releases/?sym=trgt&id=168071

From August 2009 to May 2011, an aggregate amount of 16804228 shares of TRGT have been shorted for a total dollar value of $352888788. The TRGT SqueezeTrigger price of $21.50 is the volume weighted average price that all shorts are short in shares of TRGT. There is still approximately $20,130,495 of potential short covering in shares of TRGT.

SqueezeTrigger.com has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger Price for each stock that has been shorted. The data has then been integrated into an automated trading platform which can be used to connect to a live online broker and automate your trading of short squeeze events. It is extremely powerful with lightening fast execution at a very low price. Both the trading software and SqueezeTrigger data feed are available at http://www.squeezetrigger.com .

TARGACEPT INC (NASDAQ:TRGT) - Targacept, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the design, discovery, and development of novel Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors (NNR) Therapeutics for the treatment of diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. The companys pipeline of clinical-stage product candidates includes TC-5214, which completed Phase II b clinical trial for treating depressive disorders; AZD3480, which completed Phase II clinical trial in adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for the treatment of ADHD; AZD1446 that completed multiple Phase I trial for Alzheimers disease and ADHD; TC-5619, which is in Phase II clinical trial targeting cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and one or more other conditions characterized by cognitive impairment; and TC-6987, which is in Phase I trial targeting disorders characterized by inflammation. It has collaboration agreements with AstraZeneca AB for the development and commercialization of TC-5214 as a treatment for major depressive disorders; and a strategic alliance with GlaxoSmithKline to discover, develop, and market product candidates that selectively target specified NNR subtypes in specified therapeutic focus areas. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The SqueezeTrigger database of approximately 1 billion short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005 and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005 because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like SqueezeTrigger.com to access the data. Total Short Interest is the number of shares shorted but not yet covered, and is different from total short volume. To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.squeezetrigger.com

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