MEDIAALPHA, INC. (MAX) Suffering Unusually High Daily Short Selling at 29.81%

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 12th 2025 at 4:11 GMT by WOPRAI
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The chart below shows ALL of the short selling each day in MEDIAALPHA, INC. (MAX). We have consolidated the tape of ALL US stock exchanges and dark pools (this means we get the TRADE IDENTIFIER showing whether the trade was a buy, sell or sell short). The data below shows just the short sales each day in your stock. It includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales in MEDIAALPHA, INC.. An average of 29.81% of the daily trading in MAX is short selling. This is abnormally high and implies there is illicit trading taking place in your stock. We run automated surveillance and reporting algorithms that report manipulative market making and short selling (to FINRA, SEC, Whistleblower's Office and Dept of Treasury FINCEN). We then issue FINRA COMPLIANT research to our large user base to counteract this activity that is driving MAX lower unfairly.

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

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-08-11	245,738	992,718	24.75	9.87	2,425,434
2025-08-08	383,669	963,892	39.8	11.04	4,235,706
2025-08-07	604,133	1,188,943	50.81	11.29	6,820,662
2025-08-06	254,474	497,006	51.2	10.33	2,628,716
2025-08-05	162,777	358,700	45.38	10.19	1,658,698
2025-08-04	155,109	357,987	43.33	10.36	1,606,929
2025-08-01	266,923	587,965	45.4	9.85	2,629,192
2025-07-31	129,312	325,365	39.74	10.07	1,302,172
2025-07-30	145,505	296,215	49.12	10.08	1,466,690
2025-07-29	211,136	544,024	38.81	10.1	2,132,474
2025-07-28	174,503	564,082	30.94	10.56	1,842,752
2025-07-25	159,039	433,568	36.68	10.88	1,730,344
2025-07-24	167,451	413,133	40.53	10.81	1,810,145
2025-07-23	153,216	458,667	33.4	10.45	1,601,107
2025-07-22	171,021	476,303	35.91	10.3	1,761,516
2025-07-21	145,522	355,702	40.91	10.43	1,517,794
2025-07-18	162,043	388,390	41.72	10.33	1,673,904
2025-07-17	132,038	447,295	29.52	10.44	1,378,477
2025-07-16	136,922	359,312	38.11	10.38	1,421,250
2025-07-15	126,272	371,264	34.01	10.37	1,309,441
2025-07-14	110,067	312,299	35.24	10.41	1,145,797
2025-07-11	107,777	439,192	24.54	10.45	1,126,270
2025-07-10	105,092	283,348	37.09	10.71	1,125,535
2025-07-09	240,295	536,558	44.78	10.8	2,595,186
2025-07-08	156,874	376,255	41.69	10.27	1,611,096
2025-07-07	138,495	496,737	27.88	10.28	1,423,729
2025-07-03	83,663	157,702	53.05	10.49	877,625
2025-07-02	141,970	482,522	29.42	10.52	1,493,524
2025-07-01	125,815	338,781	37.14	10.95	1,377,674
2025-06-30	116,669	386,578	30.18	10.94	1,276,359
2025-06-27	267,396	1,698,926	15.74	10.81	2,890,551
2025-06-26	113,391	272,774	41.57	10.83	1,228,025
2025-06-25	183,341	395,258	46.39	10.86	1,991,083
2025-06-24	113,477	298,335	38.04	10.89	1,235,765
2025-06-23	215,010	589,677	36.46	10.73	2,307,057
2025-06-20	319,585	1,836,247	17.4	10.62	3,393,993
2025-06-18	105,023	287,097	36.58	10.56	1,109,043

Total	137,615,203	460,898,868	29.86	15.73	2,164,554,775

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-10-29 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.