NEW SHORT SELLING DATA Date VolShorted HighLow Close ShortVol RegularVol Apr 22 64.70% NA NA NA 1,919,800 2,967,182 Apr 21 17.00% NA NA NA 443,357 2,608,109 Apr 17 43.63% 0.0015 0.0013 0.0014 1,847,525 4,234,120 Apr 16 30.67% 0.0016 0.0014 0.0015 2,068,000 6,743,000 Apr 15 5.07% NA NA NA 341,580 6,733,332 Apr 14 24.32% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,315,507 5,409,214 Apr 13 18.25% 0.00 0.00 0.00 397,437 2,177,530 Apr 10 70.71% NA NA NA 10,335,576 14,616,576 Apr 09 64.99% NA NA NA 1,763,800 2,713,800 Apr 08 29.33% NA NA NA 610,000 2,080,018 Apr 07 42.42% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,061,000 2,501,000 Apr 06 27.25% 0.00 0.00 0.00 822,617 3,019,096 Apr 01 27.51% NA NA NA 2,104,500 7,648,723 Mar 31 56.25% NA NA NA 1,921,293 3,415,523 Mar 30 58.70% NA NA NA 1,863,300 3,174,505 Mar 27 45.95% NA NA NA 2,842,937 6,187,044 Mar 26 33.51% NA NA NA 761,000 2,271,000 Mar 25 48.85% NA NA NA 3,343,800 6,844,900 Mar 24 76.61% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,319,666 1,722,666 Mar 23 89.34% 0.00 0.00 0.00 253,000 283,200 Mar 20 16.12% 0.00 0.00 0.00 404,625 2,510,392 Mar 19 34.13% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,100,580 3,224,580 Mar 18 26.22% 0.00 0.00 0.00 526,967 2,010,000 Mar 17 20.27% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,628,000 8,031,528 Mar 16 23.28% 0.00 0.00 0.00 6,354,840 27,294,365 Mar 13 26.13% 0.00 0.00 0.00 981,692 3,757,142 Mar 12 13.05% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,561,060 11,958,978 Mar 11 38.40% 0.00 0.00 0.00 5,992,460 15,605,858 Mar 10 47.10% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,772,400 3,763,184 Mar 09 85.51% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,364,000 1,595,101 Mar 06 41.27% 0.00 0.00 0.00 773,000 1,872,942 Mar 05 14.37% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,375,000 9,567,476 Mar 04 46.76% 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,210,000 2,587,489
Mar 03 69.34% 0.00 0.00 0.00 760,000 1,096,028 Mar 02 6.10% 0.00 0.00 0.00 887,698 14,554,051 Feb 27 3.38% NA NA NA 719,000 21,282,499 Feb 26 6.29% NA NA NA 570,911 9,076,786 Feb 25 4.20% NA NA NA 1,180,837 28,117,989 Feb 24 15.50% NA NA NA 8,146,300 52,552,303
Feb 23 17.22% NA NA NA 2,925,006 16,986,469
Feb 20 17.72% NA NA NA 1,587,093 8,956,636 Feb 19 7.87% NA NA NA 341,000 4,333,100 Feb 18 53.45% NA NA NA 1,888,300 3,532,580 Feb 17 31.90% NA NA NA 1,530,332 4,797,330
Feb 13 54.92% NA NA NA 1,284,000 2,338,000 Feb 12 30.50% NA NA NA 2,325,845 7,624,988 Feb 11 68.78% NA NA NA 2,120,123 3,082,447 Feb 10 50.52% NA NA NA 2,301,977 4,556,486 Feb 09 11.95% NA NA NA 703,849 5,889,907 Feb 06 39.77% NA NA NA 1,720,000 4,325,071 Feb 05 33.78% NA NA NA 1,532,029 4,534,940 Feb 04 9.09% NA NA NA 1,233,800 13,572,328 Feb 03 37.03% NA NA NA 3,779,178 10,206,464 Feb 02 52.52% NA NA NA 6,082,887 11,581,444
here is some additional things to understand when reading this information, READ EVERY WORD CAREFULLY - I AM PUTTING the last section FIRST - so you can see how these SHARES ARE SHORTED !!!!!
IN MY OPINION - A SHORT SQUEEZE IS BREWING
1.3 What it is and is not It is highly contested whether or not the daily RegSHO reports that a security has been "shorted", as having a short position, or if it is just a type of reporting requirement for market making activities. It is both. Transactions that have shares marked as "short" can very well be an investor selling a short position or a market maker allocating shares in order to provide liquidity but not in their possession.
Regulation SHO requires brokers and dealers that are participants of a registered clearing agency to take action to "close-out" failure-to-deliver positions ("open fails") in threshold securities that have persisted for 13 consecutive settlement days. Closing out requires the broker or dealer to purchase securities of like kind and quantity.
1. What is REGSHO
Regulation SHO was introduced in the Securities Exchange Act Release No. 50103 and became effective as of on September 7, 2004 but did not become mandatory until January 3, 2005. REGSHO was adopted to provide market transparency, regulation, and specifically prevention of "Naked Short Selling". REGSHO has two specific parts, Rule 200 and Rule 203.
Rule 200 - Definitions and Marking Requirements. This rule provides a few technical requirements for market makers and broker-dealers but has a major requirement concerning the marking of shares sold. It specifies shares sold during trading to be identified and marked as being sold "long," "short," or "short exempt."
Rule 203 - Locate and Delivery Requirements. This rule clearly defines that broker-dealers, before making short sales in any equity securities, must locate the securities available first, before borrowing. This is in order to be able to deliver the securities on the settlement date. The second part of this rule imposes requirements on broker-dealers which have had substantial amounts of failures to deliver for securities.
1.2 Understanding the Daily REGSHO report
At the end of each trading day, a RegSHO report is submitted to FINRA by each of its Trade Reporting Facilities (TRF). A TRF, according to FINRA, "provides FINRA members with a mechanism for the reporting of transactions effected otherwise than on an exchange." More information about them can be found here. FINRA Trade Reporting Facility
Simply put, a TRF is a way to report security transactions that happen on registered national exchanges, quotation systems, or other platforms. Currently there are 3 RegSHO reports generated for the NASDAQ, NYSE, and OTC Markets and Others.
Each report lists the total amount of volume of shares traded for each identification marker, "short", "short exempt", and "long" per security.