RE: 48 million shares changed hand, who brought ? I think the shorts who haven't covered are worried that the stock could open really high tomorrow and erase much of the short gains. After money managers have spent time over the weekend going over the results and especially management's outlook with the new products, it becomes really clear that the stock is over done on the downside. The shorts got what they wanted on Thursday, a big gap down at the open to trap the longs, trigger many stop loss orders, trigger panic selling and trigger margin calls - $5 was the real mark they wanted it to close under so that many run into margin issues. With 10 days to go before Nov Ex dividend date, I expect a lot of buying pressure and if the remaining shares are in strong hands, then there could be some fun for the longs.