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LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK), Up By 5.64% ($1.43) After BUYINS.NET SqueezeTrigger Report Released on Wednesday, January 18


Published on 2012-01-19 05:42:30 - WOPRAI
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January 19, 2012 / 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 Wednesday, January 18th 2012 at 07:16:00 PST stating that LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK) was expected to be Up After it crossed above its SqueezeTrigger Price of 25.37 on Wednesday, January 18th 2012. Click here to view the BUYINS.NET report: http://www.buyins.net/releases/?sym=luk&id=232651

From August 2009 to December 2011, an aggregate amount of 159865568 shares of LUK have been shorted for a total dollar value of $3996639200. The LUK SqueezeTrigger price of $25.37 is the volume weighted average price that all shorts are short in shares of LUK. There is still approximately $128,295,400 of potential short covering in shares of LUK.

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 .

LEUCADIA NATIONAL CORP (NYSE:LUK) - Leucadia National Corporation engages in manufacturing, telecommunications, land based contract oil and gas drilling, property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate activities, medical product development, and winery operations in the United States. Its manufacturing operations include remanufacturing dimension lumber, home center boards for large retailers, pine decking, and other specialty wood products, as well as lightweight plastic netting used in building and construction, erosion control, packaging, agricultural, carpet padding, filtration, and consumer products. The companys telecommunications business provides international prepaid phone cards and other telecommunications services in the United States. Its land based contract oil and gas drilling operations include drilling services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the Mid-Continent Region of the United States. Its property management and services business offers property management and other services to vacation properties in beach and mountain resort locations, as well as involves in real estate brokerage services, and other rental and property owner services in resort locations. The companys gaming entertainment operations consist of owning the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi located in Biloxi, Mississippi. Leucadias real estate activities include commercial properties, residential land development projects, and other unimproved land. The companys medical product development operations comprise the development of MP4OX, which is a solution of cell-free hemoglobin administered intravenously to provide oxygen delivery to oxygen deprived tissues. Its winery operations comprise the production and sale of wines. Further, Leucadia involves in mortgage origination and mortgage servicing business, through its joint venture company, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC. The company was founded in 1854 and is based in New York, New York.

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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