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Life Partners Holdings, Inc. SqueezeTrigger Price is $34.36. Approximately 1.5 Million Shares Shorted Since October 2005 According to Buyins.net Research Report

Business Wire, Sept 13, 2007

WACO, Texas -- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ GM: LPHI) announced today that BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, is initiating coverage of Life Partners Holdings, Inc. after releasing the latest short sale data to September 2007. From October 2005 to September 2007 approximately 27.5 million total aggregate shares of LPHI have traded for a total dollar value of nearly $943.1 million. The total aggregate number of shares shorted in this time period is approximately 1.5 million shares. The LPHI SqueezeTrigger price of $34.36 is the volume weighted average short price of all short selling in LPHI. A short squeeze began when shares of LPHI closed above $34.36. There is approximately $60 million of short sales that still need to cover and short sellers are down approximately $8 million as of today's price of $39.80. Naked short sellers (shorts that have not borrowed shares correctly) have also reached the 13th consecutive trading day of failure to deliver. Brokerage firms are required to force short sellers to buy-in on the 14th day of failure to deliver, which is tomorrow. To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.

Month        >              >  Total Vol.  >              >     Short Vol.

Avg. Price

Short $ Value
             >              >              >              >




October '05  >              >     334,443  >              >          3,200

$3.75

$11,985
November     >              >     396,817  >              >         22,525

$4.01

$90,375
December     >              >     486,873  >              >         29,734

$5.26

$156,472
January '06  >              >     836,092  >              >          4,100

$5.42

$22,224
February     >              >     326,589  >              >          1,900

$5.67

$10,772
March        >              >     492,713  >              >          1,025

$5.77

$5,914
April        >              >     175,875  >              >            200

$5.68

$1,135
May          >              >     123,211  >              >            200

$5.66

$1,132
June         >              >     259,763  >              >            600

$5.05

$3,030
July         >              >     189,841  >              >            100

$5.13

$513
August       >              >     169,509  >              >            100

$5.29

$529
September    >              >     190,552  >              >            100

$5.83

$583
October      >              >     244,875  >              >            500

$6.76

$3,381
November     >              >     392,400  >              >          9,100

$7.67

$69,761
December     >              >     599,293  >              >         10,007

$10.05

$100,565
January '07  >              >     400,558  >              >         10,913

$10.59

$115,553
February     >              >   1,258,972  >              >          4,400

$10.56

$46,478
March        >              >     267,452  >              >         23,546

$11.85

$278,952
April        >              >     583,093  >              >         79,448

$13.09

$1,040,109
May          >              >   1,712,600  >              >         51,812

$17.62

$912,824
June         >              >   5,099,350  >              >        181,029

$32.00

$5,793,037
July         >              >   5,889,044  >              >        204,309

$44.40

$9,071,013
August       >              >   4,870,108  >              >        485,914

$44.14

$21,448,243
September    >              >   2,150,163  >              >        426,232

$45.56

$19,419,129
             >              >              >              >




Total:       >              >  27,450,186  >              >      1,550,993

$34.36

$58,603,709

*short volume is exact through July 2007 and approximated thereafter using a proprietary algorithm.

**average short price is calculated using a volume weighted average short price.

***short volume is the total short trade volume and does not account for covers.

Life Partners Holdings has been on the NASDAQ Naked Short Threshold list for 8 consecutive trading days and short sellers have been failing to deliver for 13 consecutive trading days. Regulation SHO took effect January 3, 2005, and provides a new regulatory framework governing short selling of securities. It was designed with the objective of simplifying and modernizing short sale regulation and providing controls where they are most needed. At the conclusion of each settlement day, data is provided on securities in which: 1) there are at least 10,000 shares in aggregate failed deliveries for the security for five consecutive settlement days, and 2) these failures constitute at least 0.5% of the issuer's total shares outstanding. SEC Regulation SHO, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, mandates that, if a clearing agent has had a fail-to-deliver position for 13 consecutive settlement days, that clearing agent, and the broker/dealer it clears for, must purchase securities to close out its fail to deliver position.

About Life Partners Holdings, Inc.

Life Partners Holdings, Inc. is the world's oldest and one of the most active companies in the United States engaged in the secondary market for life insurance, commonly called "life settlements". Since its incorporation in 1991, Life Partners has completed over 50,000 transactions for its worldwide client base of over 15,000 high net worth individuals and institutions in connection with the purchase of over 5,700 policies totaling over $850 million in face value.

About BUYINS.NET

WWW.BUYINS.NET is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight naked short selling. Naked short selling is the illegal act of short selling a stock when no affirmative determination has been made to locate shares of the stock to hypothecate in connection with the short sale. Buyins.net has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the naked short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted and naked shorted. This information is valuable in determining the precise point at which short sellers go out-of-the-money and start losing on their short and naked short trades.

BUYINS.NET has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 1,550,000,000 short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005 and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005 because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like Buyins.net to access the data.

The SqueezeTrigger database collects individual short trade data on over 7,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks and general short trade data on nearly 8,000 OTCBB and PINKSHEET stocks. Each month the database grows by approximately 50,000,000 short sale transactions and provides investors with the knowledge necessary to time when to buy and sell stocks with outstanding short positions. By tracking the size and price of each month's short transactions, BUYINS.NET provides institutions, traders, analysts, journalists and individual investors the exact price point where short sellers start losing money and a short squeeze can begin.

 

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