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[Alyssa]

I have looked everywhere for answers to my questions regarding FINRA's daily list, and if someone here could either answer my questions or point me in the right direction towards finding the answers, I would appreciate it. Of course, the possibility exists that I could be missing something BIG and/or that these are really stupid questions! OK, so here goes:

The “short volume” on EXPU on Friday was 423,000 on total volume of 477,000, leaving only 54,000 shares that are NOT considered short. If this is correct then how is that possible when I purchased long 75,000 shares that day? Am I interpreting these numbers supplied by FINRA wrong? Isn’t it odd that more that 88% of the day’s volume were short sales? This seems to happen on a daily basis on this stock and others as well.

Thanks in advance to anyone out there who will comment or provide answers and/or explanations... :)

http://regsho.finra.org/FORFshvol20100716.txt