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Short squeeze is starting in shares of LGND at $107.1, after crossing above the $106.169 Trigger Price


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Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 at 10:31 GMT by WOPRAI   Print publication without navigation


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 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (LGND), 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 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated at $107.1, after crossing above the $106.169 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
2025-04-2148,61988,38655.01104.625,086,520
2025-04-1756,549105,13053.79104.835,928,032
2025-04-1634,86477,43245.03104.613,647,123
2025-04-1525,23859,88142.15106.622,690,876
2025-04-1455,844114,28948.86104.875,856,360
2025-04-1134,95670,65349.48103.913,632,278
2025-04-1060,943115,66052.69100.886,147,930
2025-04-0971,060160,93144.16100.327,128,739
2025-04-0899,022159,79961.9798.359,738,814
2025-04-0792,217201,60145.7498.469,079,686
2025-04-0476,387165,62246.1299.427,594,396
2025-04-0356,695115,18849.22103.545,870,200
2025-04-0241,685104,78539.78107.634,486,557
2025-04-0142,89397,78243.87104.934,500,762
2025-03-3149,038153,34031.98104.55,124,471
2025-03-2834,12768,23450.01107.813,679,232
2025-03-2766,459131,08950.7110.697,356,347
2025-03-2651,70986,31359.91109.25,646,623
2025-03-2581,580164,75849.52110.138,984,405
2025-03-2447,89096,78249.48111.515,340,214
2025-03-21101,137266,53537.95108.3810,961,228
2025-03-2045,15994,79747.64109.544,946,717
2025-03-1941,316100,24641.21107.484,440,644
2025-03-1852,233128,58540.62106.035,538,265
2025-03-1794,586166,91556.67110.7510,475,400
2025-03-1454,669147,29137.12106.95,844,116
2025-03-1348,474120,75940.14105.865,131,458
2025-03-1261,668167,00536.93108.356,681,728
2025-03-1163,084171,29036.83106.936,745,572
2025-03-1052,293130,53940.06108.995,699,414
2025-03-0752,786119,41044.21114.846,061,944
2025-03-0637,94687,38443.42115.54,382,763
2025-03-0547,14999,68447.3115.195,431,093
2025-03-0454,116127,20442.54114.726,208,188
2025-03-0360,408164,09036.81113.436,852,079
2025-02-2886,363149,28357.85120.9310,443,878
2025-02-2779,537155,75651.07118.649,436,270
 
Total94,009,552220,050,67742.72106.189,981,811,115
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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