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Short squeeze is starting in shares of APTO at $3.41, after crossing above the $2.556 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-26 10:00:02 - 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 Aptose Biosciences Inc. (APTO), 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 Aptose Biosciences Inc. at $3.41, after crossing above the $2.556 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-02-251,634,2173,329,43549.080.117191,203
2025-02-241,197,3052,952,02740.560.144172,412
2025-02-213,618,7248,671,16241.730.159575,377
2025-02-2064,533,193179,930,31035.870.2113,551,971
2025-02-191,716,4635,077,19933.810.143245,454
2025-02-181,278,8524,570,65927.980.191244,261
2025-02-14861,2682,381,32536.170.176151,583
2025-02-132,332,4447,396,25131.540.203473,486
2025-02-1235,024,727127,441,74727.480.2328,125,737
2025-02-1183,615327,03825.570.17914,967
2025-02-10111,780256,78143.530.17920,009
2025-02-07106,468317,97833.480.17919,058
2025-02-06126,642400,01631.660.18823,809
2025-02-0591,334253,01836.10.18316,714
2025-02-0457,616244,74623.540.1810,371
2025-02-0393,900265,17835.410.17516,433
2025-01-31128,489455,91128.180.17622,614
2025-01-30112,503552,01920.380.17219,351
2025-01-29282,588827,22034.160.17449,170
2025-01-28214,465584,17936.710.1940,748
2025-01-2775,338390,85819.280.20415,369
2025-01-24165,232574,48828.760.20233,377
2025-01-23110,614520,42521.250.20722,897
2025-01-2257,251382,86214.950.21112,080
2025-01-21130,897302,64643.250.2228,797
2025-01-17118,148261,06745.260.20624,338
2025-01-16127,006263,11448.270.20526,036
2025-01-15174,555486,96035.850.20435,609
2025-01-14359,202750,65547.850.20372,918
2025-01-13307,757685,60444.890.21465,860
2025-01-10446,1391,733,71325.730.2298,151
2025-01-08366,420825,29344.40.21679,147
2025-01-07167,480715,25723.420.22637,850
2025-01-06521,9141,630,02332.020.233121,606
2025-01-03643,2721,953,43132.930.231148,596
2025-01-02256,527792,28232.380.23159,258
2024-12-31400,475918,04543.620.2392,109
 
Total581,884,8031,565,287,32637.172.541,480,310,479
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-27 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.