Aethlon Holds Shareholder Call on Merger Plans
No new options positions or trading flow data are available to compare against the call's messaging.
Seeking Alpha · 10/01
Undercurrent · Money-flow snapshot
AEMD Max Pain, Dark Pool & Options Flow
What the institutional money is doing on AEMD right now — dark pool, options positioning, and where the news and the money disagree. Free.
The money right now
Dark pool share
62.7% (market avg 50%)
Dark pool volume vs its norm
0.1×
Short share of that
28.5% (norm 50%)
Price
$6.53
Dark pool share: Off-exchange volume was quiet at 0.1× its norm
Off-exchange prints never touch the public book, so they move size without moving the quote. That is the point of using them. Large players were quiet in this name that day. The share (62.7%) may look normal, but the absolute size behind it was thin.
Source: FINRA · Mon 10/5 close
What it means: Off-exchange volume is unusually quiet (0.05× normal) despite a 62.7% dark-pool share, and short activity there is well below this stock's own 20-day average (28.5% vs. 49.9%), suggesting minimal institutional positioning either way right now. No new options positions, put/call ratios, or squeeze pressure are visible in the data.
News vs the money
Aethlon Stock Retreats After 300% Surge
Off-exchange activity is muted and short positioning is below normal, so the pullback does not appear to be driven by institutional short-selling or heavy hedging.
Benzinga · 09/18
Law Firm Flags Aethlon as Subject of Shareholder Investigation
No options positioning data is available; off-exchange volume is subdued and short share is low, so institutional traders are not actively hedging or trimming exposure in response.
GlobeNewsWire · 09/17
⚡ DIVERGENCEAethlon Surges on All-Stock Merger with North Immunology
No new options positions are recorded; off-exchange activity is light and short positioning is well below normal, indicating limited institutional hedging or new bets despite the transformational news.
Benzinga · 09/17
⚡ DIVERGENCEAethlon and North Immunology Detail Merger and IL-13 x IL-18 Antibody Program
No new options positions or flow data are visible; off-exchange volume remains quiet and short positioning is below normal, so institutional traders have not yet built significant new hedges or directional bets on the science.
PRNewsWire · 09/17
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A divergence is when the news narrative and the institutional money flow point in opposite directions — a bearish headline while large call premium is bought, or heavy dark-pool selling under a bullish story. It signals the crowd and the desks may disagree.
How to read these numbers
Dark-pool volume — The share of trading executed off-exchange, at wholesalers and dark pools. About half of all US share volume prints there on an ordinary day, so the level by itself says almost nothing. What carries information is the distance from this name’s own recent norm, and whether the off-exchange size ran above its usual.
Off-exchange short share — How much of that off-exchange volume was sold short. The median across all listed names is about 49%, because wholesalers filling retail buy orders sell short and cover later. A reading near half is plumbing, not a bearish vote — compare it to the same name’s own 20-day norm.
Max pain — The price where the most options expire worthless — positioning often gravitates toward it near expiry.
Call wall / Put floor — Strikes with the heaviest call/put open interest — they often act as short-term resistance and support.
Put/Call ratio — Below ~0.7 leans bullish (more calls); above ~1 leans defensive (more puts).
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