Ready for this>>>>>Largest one month spike in Short open interest ever for March 07 versus last month....850 Million shares! Pretty much got our answer as to the trading anomaly which began Feb 27 thru March 3.
THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET ANNOUNCES OPEN SHORT INTEREST POSITIONS IN NASDAQ STOCKS FOR MARCH 2007
New York, NY, March 26, 2007 — As of mid-March, short interest in 2,758 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,707,876,747 shares compared with 6,876,984,991 shares in 2,759 Global Market issues for the month of February.
The March short interest represents 3.58 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.24 days in February. Short interest in 529 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 186,106,783 shares for March, compared with 167,312,022 shares in 533 securities for the month of February. This represents 2.34 days average daily volume, compared with last month's figure of 2.36.
In summary, short interest in all 3,287 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,893,983,530 shares for March, compared with 3,292 issues and 7,044,297,013 shares in February. This is 3.54 days average daily volume, compared with last month's average of 3.21 days.
The open short interest positions reported for each NASDAQ security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
The monthly NASDAQ short interest figures are current as of the 14th of the month and are released to the media after the market close on the seventh business day following that date. The figures this month include all short-interest positions reported from February 12, 2007 through March 12, 2007 and settled as of March 15, 2007.
The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 12 months and current month follow:
March 26, 2007 7,893,983,530 3,287
February 27, 2007 7,044,297,013 3,292
January 12, 2007 6,884,364,389 3,279
December 15, 2006 6,924,409,737 3,288
November 15, 2006 7,004,368,041 3,311
October 24,2006 7,414,701,519 3,312
September 15,2006 7,353,774,333 3,294
August 15, 2006 7,268,106,428 3,286
July 14, 2006 7,139,899,294 3,300
June 15, 2006 7,188,384,593 3,299
May 15, 2006 6,451,337,395 3,301
April 15, 2006 6,286,025,884 3,282
March 15, 2006 6,198,926,815 3,295
February 15, 2006 5,801,377,970 3,305
January 13, 2006 5,885,355,970 3,312
December 27, 2005 5,882,483,998 3,311
November 25, 2005 5,913,634,842 3,302
October 25, 2005 5,944,351,614 3,316
September 15, 2005 5,811,842,432 3,337
August 15, 2005 5,821,353,067 3,353
July 15, 2005 5,748,318,831 3,352
June 15, 2005 5,840,614,782 3,344
May 13, 2005 5,716,066,911 3,354
April 15, 2005 5,609,077,523 3,347
March 15, 2005 5,577,053,459 3,357
February 15, 2005 5,357,779,121 3,371
January 15, 2005 5,041,477,963 3,357
December 15, 2004 5,095,006,234 3,393
November 15, 2004 5,024,315,108 3,391
October 15, 2004 5,130,673,030 3,413
September 15, 2004 5,248,399,985 3,398
August 13, 2004 5,157,706,325 3,400
July 15, 2004 5,109,696,729 3,405
June 15, 2004 5,170,987,973 3,430
May 14, 2004 4,958,452,082 3,416
April 15, 2004 4,993,345,137 3,443
March 15, 2004 4,855,579,913 3,443
February 13, 2004 4,593,580,829 3,463
January 15, 2004 4,687,305,136 3,454
December 15, 2003 4,713,016,555 3,440
November 14, 2003 4,563,123,033 3,456
October 15, 2003 4,584,107,664 3,474
September 15, 2003 4,521,740,414 3,497
August 15, 2003 4,404,472,224 3,472
July 15, 2003 4,683,497,070 3,504
June 13, 2003 4,604,557,148 3,569
May 15, 2003 4,386,454,785 3,566
April 15, 2003 4,456,502,765 3,592
For more information on NASDAQ Short-Interest positions, including publication dates, visit www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp. |
