"In EGOC the short lose your shirt ..." There is no short interest worth talking about on EGOC: "Short Selling Data Short Interest 25,000 (-94.63%) Jan 31, 2012 Significant Failures to Deliver No" http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/EGOC/company-info Just a bunch of FTDs, which is not surprising given that EGOC, like so many other scam penny stocks, is on the DTC chill list: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=68901502