RE:RE:RE:Short position Nov 15??The dramatically higher short position isn't likely to matter much because most of those shorts will be part of a hedge underlying ownership of QTRH convertible debentures.
If an Apple win were announced and the stock went shooting up then, yes, the short positions would be clobbered but the debentures (also held by the hedgers) would go up to more or less offset the short position losses. So you'd be unlikely to see any kind of short squeeze.