ecp1976; They will never admit to short selling their clients! That would be incriminating, there are certain laws against this kind of manipulation. Cornell works in the GRAY area. I suggest you do some searches on the net about Cornell Capital and short selling, you'll find a bunch. Cornell has a team of lawyers that work their deals so some of them are right on the hairy edge between legal and illegal, so don't expect any admission from him, rather, play him like you already know whats up, your already informed, act like you know whats going on and see if you can get him to comment on it? What is Cornell going to do with all these short sold shares, now that Michelex has broken the ties? Myself I am looking for his reaction, I want to see what kind of B/S he tries to hand me. Does he talk a little jittery about it? Things like that tell alot. The main thing is that they get the message that they are not only dealing with the company, but Investment groups ready to buy up shares really cheap in an undervalued company, undervalued because of their short selling. If they get that message, they should cover and quick before they get stuck. Just my opinion.