Short squeeze is starting in shares of AAOI at $14.17, after crossing above the $14.017 Trigger Price

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 Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AAOI), 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 Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. at $14.17, after crossing above the $14.017 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-04-08	3,242,403	6,300,144	51.47	11.81	38,292,779
2025-04-07	1,586,898	6,687,549	23.73	11.3	17,931,947
2025-04-04	1,815,331	6,518,593	27.85	11	19,968,641
2025-04-03	2,300,798	6,022,597	38.2	13.6	31,290,853
2025-04-02	1,343,087	3,073,798	43.69	15.84	21,274,498
2025-04-01	1,079,870	2,657,070	40.64	14.99	16,187,251
2025-03-31	837,937	2,803,976	29.88	15.4	12,904,230
2025-03-28	994,582	3,527,268	28.2	16.38	16,291,253
2025-03-27	1,085,061	2,917,550	37.19	18.05	19,585,351
2025-03-26	1,332,470	2,927,489	45.52	20.15	26,849,271
2025-03-25	1,173,433	2,485,932	47.2	21.5	25,228,810
2025-03-24	1,556,919	4,041,825	38.52	22.19	34,548,033
2025-03-21	1,313,075	2,988,272	43.94	20.33	26,694,815
2025-03-20	1,153,135	2,878,947	40.05	21.16	24,400,337
2025-03-19	921,359	2,678,781	34.39	20.81	19,173,481
2025-03-18	2,367,082	4,654,934	50.85	20.77	49,164,293
2025-03-17	2,288,336	6,430,092	35.59	22	50,343,392
2025-03-14	5,985,987	16,900,739	35.42	21.87	130,913,536
2025-03-13	1,532,076	3,876,228	39.52	16.02	24,543,858
2025-03-12	3,660,073	7,312,456	50.05	17.28	63,246,061
2025-03-11	872,968	2,982,731	29.27	14.77	12,893,737
2025-03-10	923,528	3,417,659	27.02	14.37	13,271,097
2025-03-07	1,051,567	3,576,091	29.41	15.6	16,404,445
2025-03-06	1,196,440	4,694,004	25.49	16.08	19,238,755
2025-03-05	1,268,510	3,198,620	39.66	17.76	22,528,738
2025-03-04	1,702,066	6,783,067	25.09	17.55	29,871,258
2025-03-03	2,344,455	7,908,959	29.64	19.21	45,036,981
2025-02-28	1,769,380	5,814,224	30.43	21.76	38,501,709
2025-02-27	2,390,641	7,199,906	33.2	24.23	57,925,231
2025-02-26	1,845,082	5,404,030	34.14	25.91	47,806,075
2025-02-25	3,136,703	8,254,954	38	24.53	76,943,325
2025-02-24	2,910,048	5,786,030	50.29	28.49	82,907,268
2025-02-21	3,051,145	7,037,289	43.36	29.3	89,398,549
2025-02-20	1,922,451	3,746,089	51.32	28.03	53,886,302
2025-02-19	2,977,198	6,091,729	48.87	28.03	83,450,860
2025-02-18	1,418,777	3,211,163	44.18	26.87	38,122,538
2025-02-14	806,342	2,082,722	38.72	26.25	21,166,478

Total	784,251,256	1,877,918,260	41.76	14.01	10,987,818,306

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AAOI at $14.17, after crossing above the $14.017 Trigger Price