Short squeeze is starting in shares of AAOI at $14.11, after crossing above the $13.997 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 $14.11, after crossing above the $13.997 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
2025-05-07	939,826	2,024,962	46.41	13.73	12,903,811
2025-05-06	928,591	2,506,413	37.05	13.79	12,805,270
2025-05-02	1,504,485	4,193,744	35.87	14.85	22,341,602
2025-05-01	1,853,480	5,048,678	36.71	14.48	26,838,390
2025-04-30	850,085	1,927,692	44.1	12.49	10,617,562
2025-04-29	698,609	1,816,114	38.47	12.84	8,970,140
2025-04-28	933,417	3,000,388	31.11	12.98	12,115,753
2025-04-25	640,426	1,841,680	34.77	12.7	8,133,410
2025-04-24	1,155,691	3,118,676	37.06	12.6	14,561,707
2025-04-23	1,873,110	4,682,608	40	12.21	22,870,673
2025-04-22	1,039,740	2,707,682	38.4	10.79	11,218,795
2025-04-21	1,020,405	2,343,582	43.54	9.96	10,163,234
2025-04-17	900,242	2,054,222	43.82	10.53	9,479,548
2025-04-16	1,033,272	3,245,635	31.84	10.53	10,880,354
2025-04-15	723,692	2,071,499	34.94	11.5	8,322,458
2025-04-14	1,505,596	3,355,480	44.87	11.38	17,133,682
2025-04-11	1,237,659	2,794,748	44.29	11.13	13,775,145
2025-04-10	1,664,824	4,175,401	39.87	12.27	20,427,390
2025-04-09	3,619,147	6,843,911	52.88	12.49	45,203,146
2025-04-08	3,247,344	6,300,144	51.54	11.81	38,351,133
2025-04-07	1,587,723	6,687,549	23.74	11.3	17,941,270
2025-04-04	1,815,531	6,518,593	27.85	11	19,970,841
2025-04-03	2,302,606	6,022,597	38.23	13.6	31,315,442
2025-04-02	1,343,487	3,073,798	43.71	15.84	21,280,834
2025-04-01	1,080,845	2,657,070	40.68	14.99	16,201,867
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

Total	800,892,707	1,922,438,781	41.66	14	11,212,921,823

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AAOI at $14.11, after crossing above the $13.997 Trigger Price