A ticking time bomb. 30 million shorts trapped on a rock-solid support at $0.18?
Hey everyone,
I've been watching the price action on Gossamer Bio ($GOSS) for a few months now, and there's a major anomaly in the short interest data that deserves some attention. A lot of people are talking about the upcoming FDA catalyst, but the real story is happening right now in the order book.
Here are the raw numbers regarding the short interest evolution compared to the price action:
Mid-May: The price was hovering around $0.30. The number of shares shorted was around 40 million.
Early June to today (Mid-August): The price hit a floor and has been bouncing between $0.17 and $0.19.
Today: The short interest has exploded to roughly 94 million shares.
🚨 The takeaway is striking:
Since early June, short sellers have dumped over 30 million newly shorted shares onto the market. Normally, this kind of selling pressure would completely crush the stock price. Yet, the price has stopped dropping. It has found a massive support level, hitting a brick wall at $0.18.
What this means mathematically:
The selling supply has been completely absorbed by buyers (or by existing shareholders refusing to sell at a loss). The direct consequence: these 30 million new short positions opened recently have an extremely low break-even price (around $0.17 - $0.19).
If the stock moves up by just 2 or 3 cents (towards $0.21 or $0.22), all 30 million of these shares will instantly be underwater (in the red).
With a very thin ask/sell order book above $0.20 (bagholders aren't going to sell at an 80% loss), the slightest influx of volume tied to the September catalyst (Official NDA submission to the FDA for seralutinib) could force these recent short sellers to panic cover.
The reverse split risk remains the elephant in the room, but in the very short term, the risk/reward ratio for an opportunistic squeeze looks mathematically explosive.
What do you guys think? Is anyone else tracking the volume behavior on this $0.18 support?