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Short squeeze is starting in shares of LGND at $106.5, after crossing above the $106.423 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 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 $106.5, after crossing above the $106.423 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
2025-06-0537,23581,77445.53103.753,863,131
2025-06-0453,386129,29441.29102.995,498,224
2025-06-0342,55883,24751.12102.224,350,279
2025-06-0242,83799,87642.89101.774,359,521
2025-05-3079,648164,24548.49101.988,122,503
2025-05-2971,014124,66656.96100.537,139,037
2025-05-2841,751114,22336.5599.964,173,430
2025-05-2758,992122,64448.1101.756,002,436
2025-05-2343,317107,08740.45101.384,391,477
2025-05-2241,89276,65954.65101.74,260,416
2025-05-2144,24084,55052.32102.64,539,024
2025-05-2055,114108,80050.66104.065,735,163
2025-05-1938,30695,37140.17104.083,986,888
2025-05-1636,13979,45045.49104.233,766,768
2025-05-1543,82083,76052.32103.914,553,336
2025-05-1468,943164,05342.02105.547,276,244
2025-05-1372,112136,13352.97105.697,621,517
2025-05-1276,330141,25154.04106.38,113,879
2025-05-0987,316148,63158.75104.649,136,746
2025-05-08101,706169,96159.84103.7510,551,998
2025-05-0774,742146,57150.99105.397,877,059
2025-05-0650,18395,79352.39103.935,215,519
2025-05-0554,422120,45545.18106.455,793,222
2025-05-0236,61681,14045.13109.824,021,169
2025-05-0138,24177,67049.24109.174,174,770
2025-04-3043,847104,93541.78110.064,825,801
2025-04-2951,66983,89261.59111.195,745,076
2025-04-2850,66384,54759.92108.555,499,469
2025-04-2556,227102,67354.76106.896,010,104
2025-04-2440,97680,41850.95107.964,423,769
2025-04-2384,877171,21749.57107.189,097,117
2025-04-2250,110102,53848.87106.555,339,221
2025-04-2148,61988,38655.01104.625,086,520
2025-04-1756,549105,13053.79104.835,928,032
2025-04-1634,89977,43245.07104.613,650,784
2025-04-1525,28259,88142.22106.622,695,567
2025-04-1455,844114,28948.86104.875,856,360
 
Total91,323,894214,278,93642.62106.429,718,851,297
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-06-08 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.