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LFVN how we feeling? After hours 6/9
Interesting Google results that seem to be intentional for LFVN…
Do you want +50% gains very quickly? LFVN
06/09 Daily Discussion Thread - LFVN
LFVN battle is on. HODL. Fuel our squeeze beast to the moon 🚀🚀🚀
LFVN resistance at $11. We can break it today!
Daily discussion $LFVN, good week ahead of us
SLS as a Squeeze Candidate - Looking for Feedback
LFVN too good to be true? I'm not crazy right?
What I expect from LFVN next week
Why is nobody talking about LFVN ?
LFVN! Are they out of ammo? No financial. Advice
Things to remember for squeez plays like LFVN!
Don't forget: If in doubt, zoom out (LFVN)
$LFVN discussion about $11.00 resistance
NEW Daily Thread since the last one was killed
It’s time for war, it’s time for memes and it’s time for rockets 🚀🚀🚀 LFVN Rock’n’Roll
$LFVN The real thesis is not the squeeze.
This is for LFVN Hodlers. What an opening. Start of a real squeeze of will we holding the bag when things get real.
LFVN 6/4 DISCUSSION AND SQUEEZE CHAT< PLZ UPVOTE TO KEEP PINNED
Why the potential is still there for LFVN
LFVN, new discussion thread from yesterday.
Anybody has updated Data for LFVN? Shares to borrow, CTB, %of Float shorted, dtc,….. maybe optionchain?
LFVN setup just became EVEN BETTER (SEC Rule 201)
LFVN shakeout today, still primed to squeeze hard. If you want in, this is a great entry point.
People to focused on LFVN, and literally missing out on HUBC
LFVN 6/2 Daily Squeeze Chat
LFVN 6/2 DISCUSSION AND SQUEEZE CHAT< PLZ UPVOTE TO KEEP PINNED
Looking at options for LFVN, what do you guys like?
LFVN squeeze has started, here's my play
If your into LFVN ready this please
Stop looking at SPCE, please start paying attention to LFVN
LFVN is squeezing right now! 9$ it explodes
LFVN cost to borrow now 265%, 40% shorted
LFVN- The pressure continues, short position is untenable
LFVN 3.5 - A Game of Tug-of-War (last week's recap)
LFVN - like clockwork.. quick dump last 5 mins of AH. Tomorrow is our day.
LFVN Still squeezing. Large short position still active with dividends coming in a few days.
LFVN might be one of the most overlooked short squeeze setups in the market right now.
LFVN might be one of the most overlooked short squeeze setups in the market right now.
LFVN might be one of the most overlooked short squeeze setups in the market right now.
LFVN might be one of the most overlooked short squeeze setups in the market right now.
How long will we hold LFVN? Tell me your price targets… No financial advice
LFVN - 43.11% shorted, 105% borrow rate, 45 DTC
LFVN could be a much better squeeze than BYND if volume goes up and Apes get to know it. No financial advice!
I think PLUG and LFVN are still got. No financial advice!
Give me your thoughts for LFVN and PLUG for today. Where are the rockets? 🚀🚀🚀
LFVN DD short interest setup after earnings
LFVN just needs some volume and a little bit of momentum and pressure.
LFVN - still viable? Who’s still holding with me?
LFVN Update short squeeze still in play
LFVN post bad earnings call - still viable?
$LFVN DD it is set up to have huge potential if the price gets driven up after earnings
$LFVN DD it is set up to have huge potential if the price gets driven up after earnings
$LFVN DD it is set up to have huge potential if the price gets driven up after earnings
Let‘s Go LFVN! anybody Updates for ctb und dtc?
LFVN Gamma Short Squeeze Check The Numbers!!!
LFVN... The shares to short keep getting smaller and the borrow fee keeps climbing
Life Vantage, 44% Short and same top 3 fund as CAR.
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I see your LFVN! what’s the position size
If anyone wants to not yolo trade get into the shortsqueeze of LFVN
Yeah, I'm buying before the market recovers and LFVN goes up with it
300-500 shares are moving the price upwards of 5-10c. That's a great sign, RSI has cooled off big time, sellers are beginning to look exhausted. We are ready for a big push if we get a reversal candle on the broad market. At the top of the hour we could see some confidence. If you have a stop limit, please be aware, shorts will look to trigger whatever they can to ladder and cascade potential momentum. \*\* Copied from other LFVN thread. \*\*
Good morning everyone! The movement is still very alive, I purchased more this morning and believe the conviction is still the driving factor for folks. Momentum is stalled due to the entire sector bleeding. Yes, we had an up day when the rest of the market was a sea of red but that is/was not typical (An affirmation of the play.) Today is another down day for the Nasdaq and this one hurts as it is far more violent than the first and recovery was being established and many institutions and retail investors are clutching their pearls as they are liquidating to protect losses. There is no play available today that is going to turn the ship around without risking potential life savings. Stay firm, follow through. June 12th is a big day. We have three days to plant our feet, dig in and plan accordingly. This is a long play that is coming to a head, shorts doubling down defiantly suggests that they don't think we have the conviction. Let's prove them wrong. Volume is the only aspect keeping this from going the distance. We will get some green days ahead. Temper our expectations and let's be humble. Onwards and upwards. I'm here with all of you. We will succeed. \*\* Copied from other LFVN thread. \*\*
Not a good day for LFVN and it triggered several of my stop losses. I think the shorts are going to stabilize. I took a small profit on LFVN and i’m moving onto other stocks now.
Yeah, easily refuted. I consider anyone talking shit right now about LFVN as a bitter SPCE investor who needs company in their misery. Ignore.
A dude in another thread said this : “LFVN info from Fintel: CTB has never hit 280%. Current CTB is at 173% and falling. Shares available to short is at 7,000 and rising. Stop lying to get suckers to buy your shit stock.” Is this a mole trying to sew misinformation or valid intel?
Just because it dipped (like every day recently) doesn't mean it's a bad trade. If only LFVN was dipping, I'd get anxious, but looking at the whole market going red, I think we're doing fine
LFVN info from Fintel: CTB has never hit 280%. Current CTB is at 173% and falling. Shares available to short is at 7,000 and rising. Stop lying to get suckers to buy your shit stock.
Look into the LFVN squeeze
Shut up lmao I’m just saying if you leave out any letter in short interest it does NOT pull up LFVN and I verified that. So I’m not wrong this guy ADDED another letter I said forget one so google algorithm has to do a spell revision.
LFVN SHORT SQUEEZE INCOMING!! Conference call was extremely bullish
Did you consider its maybe because Biotech Companies get more coverage from clinical trials + standard coverage stuff and LFVN only gets standard coverage?
I’m trying to say that the Google algorithm is strange as why would it change LFVN if you didn’t misspell that or miss a letter in it. I guess the other ticker has some short squeeze history but still. Just odd
I may but legitimately why would Google switch LFVN -> any other symbol when the spelling error was on LFVN. Especially that LFVN is trending.
Go look up LFVN “shor interest” and please explain to my why Google would change LFVN in the query to LGVN in stead of fixing JUST the obvious spelling error in “short”
Also, yeah I misspelled it because the only thing that ACTUALLY brings up LFVN isn’t you type it out with 0 spelling errors. Anything else leads Google to say “showing results for LGVN Short Interest”
With the 2.4 m float, if this got half the attention of $LFVN it would absolutely rip on retail momo alone. Good news will absolutely send this
It’s not even that slow 100% in like 15 days And 30% in 7 A lot people read the word squeeze and understand that this happens very quickly But the base and support on this stock has been building quickly too LFVN is a monster move waiting to break out
I was there laughing at the guys shorting LFVN
Analysis from my scanner. Not financial advice: $LFVN is loaded but hasn't popped yet. Short interest is FINRA data from May 15, 2026 (updates about twice a month). Not financial advice, just sharing what my scanner flagged. 28.5% of the float is short, around 13.8 days to cover. That's about 3.6M shares of a 12.6M float. Short interest eased off a bit from the last report. There's some live short pressure building. Borrow's held steady around 204.6%. Failures-to-deliver are picking up. It's up +29% on 2.2× volume. Calls are getting bought up (49% of the flow).
20260608|LFVN|445260.706636|9875|760075.788465|B,Q,N From FINRA. 445261 short shares sold. 9875 exempt shorts sold. Total aggregate volume is 760076 from BATS, NASDAQ, NYSE. Short ratio is at 58.6%. Problem is that total trade volume was 1.45M. FINRA only accounts for about 50% of the total trade volume.
Watching LFVN go up a respectable amount again. Probably. Or go crazy either way.
So, I suspect the fireworks will start in a day or two. My thesis is pretty simple. Friday's drop in the market coupled with the increase of LFVN will start triggering margin calls in the next couple of days. LFVN also outperformed the market today as well. When an account falls below the margin threshold, most brokers give the account owners 2-5 business days to deposit funds to get their account in good standing, and if that doesn't happen they start forcing cover. I assume the calls would have went out on Friday, but perhaps today. Forced covering should start tomorrow or possibly Wednesday, and as the price rises, trigger more calls. We'll see I guess, but I think it's going to get spicy here in the next couple of days.
Who cares what will cause LFVN to finally takeoff , if your holding shares or contracts and Reddit regards give it the final push and get it flying to $20 than I will thank them very much from the bottom of my heart , and they can post any AI memes and whatnot and I’ll be very happy , and all of u LFVN holders should feel the same way !!! Your in it to make money ,💴💵💰at least I am , I never knew ppl were so sensitive how they rake in some cash
Oh no. Not this AI slop for LFVN.
I was wondering what are people price targets for LFVN
Check out DD on my page, long and strong $VIVO. Binary catalyst (LOI/agreement targeted for Tier 1 operator of their Mo I Rana datacenter) with target date June 30th. Most tangible catalyst out of all the short squeeze tickers atm, in a hot sector. Float has shrunk, SI is ~143%/ff (per today’s ortex). A decent deal gets this a rerate to $10-13 on fundamentals alone. Squeeze potential is $25+. Same playbook as $APLD at $4 (now $45) or $KEEL at <$1 (now at $6). This sub tends to hyper fixate on a single ticker and while the loyalty is cool, I’ve seen it play out badly many times (been in this sub since GME squeeze). I’m not gonna shit on LFVN but imo shorts really don’t have a reason to cover. They can hold out and eat high borrow fees when the catalyst (ex-div date) has passed and the stock is running on retail momo alone. Both LFVN and VIVO have roughly the same ~3.5 M shares short, except VIVO has roughly 3.5x smaller float and a binary catalyst
I hope we move from LFVN to either SOUND or GRPN afterwards.
What’s the hype behind LFVN
Grabbed atm July LFVN. I like the setup and the volume is decent :3
LFVN come join us squeeze this mf'er
where are you seeing that? [LFVN - LifeVantage Corporation Stock - Share Price, Short Interest, Short Squeeze, Borrow Rates](https://fintel.io/ss/us/lfvn#)
GRPN is a better play than SOUN. The only thing stopping the squeeze is the CTB. Which would naturally decrease as time goes on. The buy back and retail rotating from LFVN into GRPN. I'm not sure when it would squeeze. Maybe in 4 to 5 months. Perhaps before Christmas would be nice.
Arent you the guy who put your house on LFVN? And you said you just do this all off vibes?
Just got off the phone with a pro trader at a major institution. cant name names but he says they are shook. His institution has a huge short position in LFVN and they are predicting a squeeze at a 96.72% chance of happening. Wow.
interesting, might take a look at it. btw intraday shorts on LFVN just got swept, absolutely no volume but went up 1 USD on cascading market orders as it crept up to 10.30-10.40 on no volume incredible stuff not gonna lie
But my milkshake brings all the boys to LFVN.
LFVN = Lets Fucking something something. still working on it
Someone’s gotta start building the gamma ramp further up the option chain so we have the biggest possible launch runway for our LFVN sponsored trip to the moon.
Looks Like FRMM is slowly gaining momentum. Very healthy growth over the Last few weeks, today another 4%+. This is a good sign, No major short attacks, steady growth and promising future for the company. LFVN might go higher but at this point I made enough and didnt want to risk it all.
I’m no fan of MLM anyway so no reason to hold LFVN any longer. I’m tied up this week but next week I’m going to be looking at PCT. Not a squeeze potential now, may be never but I like the business. Also, NTLA has high short interest and they are reporting at the EAACI scientific conference this weekend. I’m long but if there’s a good spike I am not married to it.
Can’t argue with 60% returns. Cool man I’m going to get in heavier once I exit LFVN. I’m holding out though I still think it’ll pop up. We will see
It showed up this morning. $LFVN is loaded but hasn't popped yet. Short interest is FINRA data from May 15, 2026 (updates about twice a month). Not financial advice, just sharing what my scanner flagged. 28.5% of the float is short, around 13.8 days to cover. That's about 3.6M shares of a 12.6M float. Short interest eased off a bit from the last report. There's some live short pressure building. Borrow's held steady around 204.6%. Failures-to-deliver are picking up. It's up +20.1% on 0.7× volume. Calls are getting bought up (55% of the flow).
Again, its not my intention to make people lose their money. I'm just trying to help in any ways. Yes i have had bad calls, but its all matter of time. I called LFVN at 9$ circa and it went 10.50$ as predicted. I pointed put VERU before the alt, when it was at 5$, it reached 7$ before it collapsed in ruins. I got greedy and lost money on VENU but if you invest with caution and attention you can make profit. Same with CXAI last week, I bought at 22 and sold at 29. I went in and out multiple times between 29 and 26, loosing money on that tiny gap but it made me 800€ when it firstly jumped from 22 to 29. As i said before, i just want to help by pointing promising pennystock. I signed up to get help and, possibly, help. I certainly need to earn money, so giving bad advice can only ruin me.
Yeah FRMM is promising and I now own a good amount of shares after taking some nice profits from LFVN (I didnt feel like bag holding any more and got out at 11$, it simply didnt perform as expected but I still Made 60%)
[https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LFVN/](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LFVN/)
Hey man if it works it works! LFVN To the moon babyy
LFVN to $15 today …….. actually today’s coffee was really good ………. It’s going to be a great day for all LFVN holders
Black, one sugar Let's go LFVN 🚀
Just a comment on macro... Macro affects margin. Short selling happens on margin accounts, and the price of LFVN is an obligation on those accounts. When the value of your other assets fall, the percentage of your exposure to LFVN rises. When that percentage hits a magic number, brokers trigger margin calls. While you're right that macro doesn't typically play a role in a short squeeze, I think in this case it may. Momentum stocks were all hit by 10% or more on Friday. That's a lot of blood red portfolios while LFVN rose by a similar amount. Overexposed short sellers aren't going to have a good day today or tomorrow, especially if they start getting forced to cover. I think this is the week we get paid.
Whoever wrote that LFVN DD nailed it 😄👌
the market is very green right now... and so is LFVN.
LFVN short squeeze up ahead!
I’m not talking about the squeeze parameters but I am trying to understand the business model. Also, why the bearish sentiment resulting in all the shorts? I may look at it after LFVN. LVFN is looking hot premarket today.
What about the fact they just appointed Porter Harris from spaceX to support thier pivot into AI and data center battery storage 6 days ago and they just got a bid for an AI data center in Norway at the end of may, I dunno though could be wrong but 130% short interest is alot easier to squeeze than 40% and the after hour spikes with $LFVN are the shorts covering and entering through the dark pool not saying it won’t squeeze but the price has already doubled in a month
LFVN let’s do this today , I’m with the guy who wants to sell 40% at 15$ and than maybe when it dips a bit from profit taking I’ll buy some non rounded numbers of shares , let’s hold and buy and hold and buy till we hit 20 at least in two days the most there
Short interest is low, low borrow fee, no catalyst. LFVN has held steady for a week with strong support right where its at. Squeeze is incoming.
Even with 130% of the float shorted? I’m not jumping into LFVN and bag holding it’s already been going on too long
Looks low probability right now. Just by LFVN, then well find the next one.
where did i propose retail is going to be the primary driver, literally nowhere. read again. momentum/execution algorithms would be mostly responsible for a surge in price is what im trying to say. big no, LFVN CANNOT lend anything because company's own shares are treasury shares. you want lending you need a broker and a third party owner like a fund. they also arent an insitiutional in any shape, jesus. institutional investors are Algorithms are programmed to respond depending on what is their puprose, they are not purely used by market makers. for example you have momentum algorithms that will spam high bids to force a breakout through supply if the volume and different other criteria are met as defined by quants that create and tune them. you also could have an execution algorithm that will try to make a big buy without moving the price hard by dissecting the order into multiple ones and trying to time it. Regarding your last concern, well, Citadel and other big boys operate exactly like that, these control everything but SEC requires them to maintain information barriers, e.g. their market making algorithm shouldnt be able to pass orderflow info to trading desks to frontrun a squeeze or price collapse so theoritically it shouldnt matter whether a squeeze is possible or not but this is a one big closed loop system designed by big boys, so have fun breaking that without other big boys support.
LFVN I think will start the week with a nice lift off !!! I’m guessing will hit 15$ and take a dip intraday especially for the profit takers , but remember regards to hold on to some shares or buy back some with your profits so u can let it ride up nicely
LFVN is the best ongoing squeeze and its not a company that needs one to survive, its profitable.
Advice please, your 'best guess' please. going to buy a lot of LFVN shares, when premarket opens in around 400 minutes 9am British time. Do you think I should put a preorder in or wait 10 minutes after premarket opens to see if it dips. I would really appreciate your advice/best guess. I am new to stock/share picking, only been at it 2 months. Just don't know what to do for the best. Preorder or wait and watch the candles. Thanks Seamus
preorder in the premarket opening at I believe 4am ET. I am new to stock dealing but am going to lump on a large amount on LFVN after reading the different reddits. I am asking for advice, shouldvI put the pre order in now so get in as soon as opening or should I wait 10 or 20 minutes to see if it dips? I know none of you have a crystal ball but what would you do; put the order in now or wait 10/20 minutes until the premarket opens. Thanking you in advance, Seamus
My brokerage allows me to put preorder in the premarket opening at I believe 4am ET. I am new to stock dealing but am going to lump on a large amount on LFVN after reading the different reddits. I am asking for advice, shouldvI put the pre order in now so get in as soon as opening or should I wait 10 or 20 minutes to see if it dips? I know none of you have a crystal ball but what would you do; put the order in now or wait 10/20 minutes until the premarket opens. Thanking you in advance, Seamus
LFVN for a short squeeze hopefully this week. Overnight looking good, but expecting an opportunity to buy at a dip
LFVN going to grab a lot of attention this week I think
I’m in a sense responding to the notion that you proposed that the retail investor is going to be the primary driver of which way the price goes with LFVN. I’m countering by saying it could be the actual primary holder of the shares, which is institutional, not only because they hold the stock but that they also loan it out. The institutions and the company itself LFVN can have the most dramatic effect either by recalling shares or issuing shares respectively. That’s not an algorithm. But how the algorithm is programmed to respond I really don’t know. I assumed it responded in a way that allows the transactions to be made efficiently. Whether that forces the movement in the price in one direction or the other I wouldn’t know but it would seem that it shouldn’t do that but apparently it does. Now if the Institutions holding the shares sit back and LVFN doesn’t reissue shares then it would fall on the actions of the retail investor and the short trader like you have already pointed out. The concern I just realized is that the market maker, brokerage firm and holder of the stocks can all be within the same company. How trades are made in this situation I suspect are in a way that satisfies the SEC.
LFVN is NOT too good to be true. It is a LIFE SAVING play for me. Everything i own is in this and its the past chance at saving my house. I believe
Also, it’s still not making sense. Who’s buying all these millions of shares above 8. Your reasoning makes it sound like it’s the institutions buying the stocks and holding the stocks. Why would they want to sell especially if they’re lending them out at such an high interest rate. It seems to me LFVN is gonna have support above 8.5.
Im deep in LFVN. Definitely believe in the squeeze after watching the support hold strong last week. We aren't budging!
I was conservative with the amount of money I put into LFVN but the more I look into it, the more it seems full port worthy 😭 thinking about going all in tmrw
Not a big concern now imo. Take a look at other companies that diluted during a squeeze. GME in 2021 waited 3 months at over 20x the pre-squeeze price. AMC diluted the most but stock still went up from $2 to $72. CAR actually had an ATM ready in March but the stock still ran and they didn't actually pull the trigger on the ATM until it peaked on April 21st after it ran from $100 to $848. Also, LFVN isn't desperate for cash, they're still profitable. They even have a stock buyback program, which could be symbolic, but it does add a signal that they probably won't dilute until the price shoots up exponentially. Companies are not oblivious that their stock is going through a short squeeze and are most likely incentivized to dilute once it looks like the squeeze is close to exhaustion, which we are nowhere near at the moment
A well balanced portfolio has both exciting shit as well as blue chips and other boring staples as a hedge… …fuck I forgot where I was. Go mortgage your house to buy LFVN tomorrow
This is a pretty intriguing setup ngl. The float is tiny and the short interest is definitely there. My only thing is that the CTB is much lower than LFVN. 16% is high but it's not the kind of borrow rate that's putting shorts under immediate pressure. Fs gonna throw it on the watchlist though. If CTB starts climbing and short interest stays elevated, I could see this getting a lot more interesting
I’ve got 10 calls for GRPN. I will add to my $35 8/21 calls when I can, after LFVN and will buy more ITM stuff when I can. Maybe just some shares so I can pull some CCs on it where I can.
Same with LFVN. No debt, new ceo, buybacks, etc. they won’t dilute until shorts are out.
LFVN appears to be a fundamentally mixed company rather than an obviously failing one. Recent earnings showed declining revenue, margin compression, and weakness in its MINDBODY GLP-1 product line, which helps explain why roughly 40% of the float is sold short. However, the company remains debt-free, continues to generate profits and cash flow, increased its dividend by 11%, authorized a large share buyback program, is investing in new technology and products, and is undergoing a leadership transition that could support a turnaround. The recent 75% rise in the stock price is difficult to explain through fundamentals alone. It may reflect investors betting that current problems are temporary, that the turnaround initiatives will succeed, or that the short position has become overcrowded. The high short interest, small float, rising borrow costs, and buyback authorization create conditions where a short squeeze is possible, but they do not prove one is inevitable. Many of the more dramatic claims about trapped shorts, phantom shares, or guaranteed margin calls are speculative and not supported by the evidence shown. Over the next few trading days, the most important signals to watch are price, volume, and borrow rates. A bullish sign would be the stock continuing to rise on unusually high volume while borrow rates remain elevated or increase, suggesting shorts are still under pressure and unable to exit easily. A bearish sign would be a failed breakout—such as the stock rallying intraday but closing weak—or falling borrow rates and declining short interest, which would suggest shorts are covering in an orderly manner rather than being forced into a squeeze.
Loaded to the tits on ZS calls and LFVN shares
If you look at the chart this is up 350% over the six months. So any negative catalyst and there is a long way to go down. Call IV is bid up by call buyers which tells you the lean on this is that it can pop. The question is whether those positions are held by dumb money based on a simplistic narrative or Institutions. Might be worth looking at unusual whales to see any large trades in options over the last month. If you want to play it I will buy some OTM puts as downside protection and then get long stock. Of course it needs to move quite a bit before you see gains, so that is your tradeoff. High short interest can be a weak indicator, a squeeze may happen but die out. People assume squeezes send stock up 500% but that happens very rarely. A lot of time it is 20-50% etc. The crazy ones like CAR recently were well understood and the high short interest and the chokehold on the float was very well known and it made sense. Read up on it if you haven't, Matt Levine has talked about it. The counterpoint is LFVN, it's hanging in there but it hasn't done anything crazy either. If your thesis relies on positive trial results then it is a bullish bet on the stock based on fundamentals more than the short thesis. Sure the shorts getting out will push it a bit more but the repricing will be more fundamentals driven. So then you gotta call your thesis what it is. The play would be to go long stock and have OTM puts considering the max loss you are willing to bet on it. Picking the right term for your puts will be another thing to consider. Near term loses theta fast. Longer term are expensive in general and they still have the elevated short term IV embedded in it. All in all this is not CAR which if you could have foreseen you would have made a bank.
BTW, Claude using your entire chat history and the way you ask the question to initialize the state. You are just asking for something to produce tokens that largely align with your personality/history. Fuck Claude. Fuck the shorts. Buy LFVN
Here's his answer 😂: Fair catch on the peak — I was wrong on that specific point, and you're right that FTDs topped 53,000. But the 1.5M figure is still wrong, and the reason matters. **What I got wrong:** 53,072 (May 14 settlement) was the *latest* reading, not the peak. Per Fintel's own FTD chart, the highest single-day balance in the trailing year was about **293,008 shares**. So yes, it peaked well above 53k. My mistake. **What's still wrong:** No single-day FTD balance ever came close to 1.5M. The highest on record is ~293k. The 1,505,322 number is what you get by **summing the daily balance column** across many settlement dates — and that's exactly what the SEC says you can't do. Straight from the SEC (and reprinted on the Fintel page linked above): > "The figure is not a daily amount of fails, but a combined figure that includes both new fails on the reporting day as well as existing fails... these numbers reflect aggregate fails as of a specific point in time, and may have little or no relationship to yesterday's aggregate fails." Each daily line is a **standing balance**, not a new flow. The same unsettled shares get re-reported day after day until they clear. Add the column and you count the same fails dozens of times. With LFVN averaging ~24,000 FTDs/day in May, summing a few months of that gets you to ~1.5M easily — but it's the same shares counted over and over, not 1.5M distinct fails. **For scale** (using the ~8.9M float): * 53,072 = ~0.6% of float * ~293,008 peak = ~3.3% of float * 1,505,322 = ~16.9% of float — but only because the share count is fabricated by the summing error The SEC also notes FTDs aren't proof of naked shorting; they happen on both long and short sales for lots of operational reasons. TL;DR: you're right it peaked above 53k (~293k actual, my error). The 1.5M is a summing artifact, not real. High short interest here is real; the 1.5M FTD stat isn't.
I can’t know exactly, but it is possible to get a decent estimate. The basic idea is trying to map together changes in short interest amount and the stock’s historical price at the relevant times. I used AI to review those changes and create the actual estimate. I can look into it for LFVN and follow up.
LFVN is THE play right now.
What’s your method for the cohorts of shorts and do you have an idea how much interest they are paying? Do you also have that type of data for LFVN?
Here is the same thing with Gemini 3.5: This post reads like a classic, retail-driven "short squeeze thesis." While it weaves together actual market metrics (like borrow rates, FTDs, and market maker exemptions), it misunderstands how these indicators function mechanically. It mixes a few real macro events with a lot of speculative assumptions, massive logic leaps, and common data misinterpretations. Let's break down where the post is relatively accurate, where it gets the data wrong, and where the narrative completely falls apart. ## 1. What’s Accurate (The Baseline Data) * **The Basics:** LifeVantage ($LFVN) is indeed a micro-cap consumer health/wellness company. Its market cap hovers right around the $100M mark (roughly $99M to $108M depending on the exact trading day). * **Alua Capital Wind-Down:** This is a real-world anchor in the post. Alua Capital Management (a $2B hedge fund founded by Viking Global and Lone Pine alumni) formally announced in April 2026 that it is shutting down and returning capital to investors by the end of the second quarter (June 30). ## 2. Technical Flaws & Data Misinterpretations ### The "Failures to Deliver" (FTD) Trap > **The Post Claims:** *“1,505,322 confirmed Failures to Deliver... that's 16.9% of the entire float that has never been delivered.”* > **The Flaw:** FTD data is **cumulative, not additive**. When the SEC releases FTD files, the number reported on a specific day is the *total running balance* of undelivered shares as of that date, not a brand-new batch of failed shares. If a company has 1.5 million FTDs on Tuesday and 1.51 million on Wednesday, it means only 10,000 new shares failed to deliver—not 3.01 million. Saying 16.9% of the float has "never been delivered" treats the data as an aggregate pile, which fundamentally misrepresents how clearing works. ### The 1,494:1 "Locate Ratio" Myth > **The Post Claims:** *“746,859 non-exempt shorts executed against 500 shares available to borrow. That's 1,494:1.”* > **The Flaw:** The author is conflating retail borrow availability with institutional locates. The "shares available to borrow" figure displayed on retail trackers (like Fintel or Interactive Brokers) only represents the inventory of *that specific broker* or a small pool available to retail traders. Institutional prime brokers, market makers, and large clearinghouses have access to massive, localized pools of shares, internal inventory, and institutional lending desks that are completely invisible to retail scanners. High daily short volume executed against a low "retail borrow" number is entirely standard for a volatile micro-cap and does not imply illegal naked shorting. ### The "Contractual Fixed Rate" Fantasy > **The Post Claims:** *“June 2nd borrow rate was perfectly flat all day... That's a contractual fixed rate. One entity. One prime broker.”* > **The Flaw:** A flat borrow rate on a tracking widget just means the data provider didn't receive an updated inventory feed or a new tier of pricing from their reporting brokers that day. Prime brokers do negotiate specific borrow rates with hedge funds, but an aggregate internet scraper showing a flat line for 8 hours is an artifact of slow data reporting, not proof of a "single entity's last stand." ## 3. Structural Logic Leaps ### Market Maker Exempt Volumes > **The Post Claims:** *“Exempt market maker volume collapsed 98.3%... Rising rate plus collapsed exempt volume means the market maker arm withdrew but the underlying trapped short is still there...”* > **The Flaw:** Market makers use "bona fide market making exemptions" to provide liquidity when a stock experiences rapid, sudden imbalances. When volume spikes and then dries up, exempt short volume drops naturally because the market maker no longer needs to step in to grease the wheels of an illiquid order book. Attributing a drop in exempt volume to a market maker "withdrawing and leaving a trapped short behind" assigns complex, dramatic intent to what is usually just standard algorithmic volume scaling. ### Dark Pool Paranoia > **The Post Claims:** *“97-99% of all short volume through dark pools versus a normal 40-60%.”* > **The Flaw:** This is statistically incredibly unlikely. While off-exchange volume (Alternative Trading Systems/Dark Pools) frequently accounts for a large percentage of micro-cap retail order routing (often 50-70%), sustaining 98% of all short volume in dark pools over consecutive sessions would represent an unprecedented break in public exchange arbitrage. It's highly probable the AI or the user misread localized exchange feeds for total market volume. ## The Verdict The author tells a highly compelling story about a trapped hedge fund (Alua Capital) being forced to buy back shares of an illiquid micro-cap ($LFVN) before a June 30 deadline. However, because the "grunt work" was outsourced entirely to an AI without a human double-checking the core data logic, the math relies on structural misunderstandings of SEC data (FTDs) and a fundamental misinterpretation of market-maker mechanics. It treats standard data delays and standard retail tracking limitations as a massive institutional conspiracy. **Recommendation:** Treat this narrative as highly speculative fiction. If you are looking at $LFVN, base your decisions on its actual financial health (such as its recent Q3 earnings miss and GLP-1 competitive headwinds) rather than a convoluted short-squeeze model built on flawed data metrics.
So....LFVN is the play for this week I hear?