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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ACST at $3.34, after crossing above the $0.596 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 08:30:09 - 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 Acasti Pharma Inc. (ACST), 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 Acasti Pharma Inc. at $3.34, after crossing above the $0.596 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions. You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2024-10-2510,23027,69236.943.3534,271
2024-10-244,377118,8643.683.414,882
2024-10-2325,405192,69113.183.3284,345
2024-10-227,92420,57438.513.2325,595
2024-10-219,02721,10842.773.1828,706
2024-10-188,17430,11327.143.2826,811
2024-10-171,13411,00110.313.293,731
2024-10-1610,77439,34027.393.3636,201
2024-10-151,6106,63624.263.35,313
2024-10-148,81418,18548.473.3529,527
2024-10-117,23215,62946.273.3324,083
2024-10-1023,88453,34244.783.3980,967
2024-10-099,33234,83226.793.1929,769
2024-10-082,1269,20623.093.096,569
2024-10-076,95812,05857.73.121,570
2024-10-046,13323,35926.263.0718,828
2024-10-033,4579,28937.223.0310,475
2024-10-025363,58014.973.021,619
2024-10-0122,72436,34962.522.9867,718
2024-09-306,88113,88749.553.0220,781
2024-09-2739,31275,95951.753.13123,047
2024-09-2654,060104,95351.513.04164,342
2024-09-2567,819160,98542.132.96200,744
2024-09-2431,27040,44977.312.6181,615
2024-09-2310,77633,28332.382.6628,664
2024-09-209,22440,95922.522.724,905
2024-09-1925,02355,16945.362.8771,816
2024-09-1819,04832,37358.842.7652,572
2024-09-1716,76132,40351.732.7245,590
2024-09-1613,67568,10920.082.5334,598
2024-09-135,10715,41733.132.2511,491
2024-09-126,25720,22930.932.2614,141
2024-09-112,1798,49525.652.335,077
2024-09-101,97512,91315.292.394,720
2024-09-096,61623,44828.222.4416,143
2024-09-063,58112,20329.352.428,666
2024-09-054,69231,88614.712.4511,495
 
Total2,422,513,2095,358,616,38845.210.5961,443,008,346
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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