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Most and Least Shorted Stocks in the Russell 1,000

Heavily shorted stocks that have had positive YTD activity are those that deserve special note, including: YRCW, BIG, PNRA, and ETFC. These are the stocks that are in a bullish condition but that still have heavy short positions.

This condition is indicative of a "short squeeze" stock price pop; especially with ETFC since it just moved in to secure an exclusive BlackBerry Mobile Streaming Platform yesterday.

Positive exclusive technology position on top of several other positive brokerage metrics over the past two months; and yet a heavy short position condition.