Juniors have been slaughtered and on top of it mid to late Sept they saw huge up swings on their short interest right about the time the financial short ban started. The last short interest report (Oct 9) looks like there was some large short covering (can't blame them they made a ton). Does this mean now that the shorts are done with this sector...lets hope. Here is a few junior golds and the change in short interest from Sept to Oct. Note how big of an increase some of these short position were Sept 25. IMO this was all a concerted effort by somebody to cause real damage to junior gold stocks. Some of the short interest for these stocks suddenly junped double and on some 5 fold or more.

NXG
09 Oct 2008 409,761
25 Sep 2008 2,480,828
10 Sep 2008 469,728

NSU
09 Oct 2008 398,529
25 Sep 2008 900,862
10 Sep 2008 407,196

GSS
09 Oct 2008 5,509,275
25 Sep 2008 7,513,725
10 Sep 2008 6,423,675

OZN
09 Oct 2008 449,422
25 Sep 2008 5,330,307
10 Sep 2008 715,966

TRE
09 Oct 2008 1,935,523
25 Sep 2008 2,504,043
10 Sep 2008 1,376,748

UXG
09 Oct 2008 798,679
25 Sep 2008 911,368
10 Sep 2008 1,032,623

NGD
09 Oct 2008 666,066
25 Sep 2008 5,528,789
10 Sep 2008 1,557,435

AZK
09 Oct 2008 401,535
25 Sep 2008 1,268,689
10 Sep 2008 492,690

GBN
09 Oct 2008 1,225,580
25 Sep 2008 2,444,255
10 Sep 2008 1,299,063