- Approximately 23 Million Shares Have Been Shorted Since August 2009
- Short Squeeze Expected Above $12.17
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BUYINS.NET, http://www.buyins.net, a leading provider of Regulation SHO compliance monitoring, short sale trading statistics and market integrity surveillance, has updated coverage on Houston American Energy (AMEX:HUSA) after releasing the latest short sale data through August 6, 2010. The total aggregate number of shares shorted since August 2009 is approximately 23 million shares. The SqueezeTrigger price for all shares shorted is $12.17. The next short squeeze is expected when HUSA closes above $12.17.
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Friction Factor is used to calculate if a fair market is being made in the shares of HUSA. 50% of the previous 38 trading days are positive or bullishly-biased and 50% of the trading days are negative or bearishly-biased.
Regulation SHO requires bona-fide market-making activities to include making purchases and sales in roughly comparable amounts. The Commission has stated that bona-fide market-making DOES NOT include activity that is related to speculative selling strategies or investment purposes of the broker-dealer and is disproportionate to the usual market-making patterns or practices of the broker-dealer in that security. Likewise, where a market-maker posts continually at or near the best offer, but does not also post at or near the best bid, the market-maker's activities would not generally qualify as bona-fide market-making. Moreover, a market-maker that continually executes short sales away from its posted quotes would generally not be considered to be engaging in bona-fide market-making.
BUYINS.NET monitors HUSA market-makers daily for compliance with Fair Market-Making Requirements.
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