Short Sellers See the Light (HLF) (FSLR) (NFLX) (TLSA)

A pulse was found on short sellers Wednesday after the first real day of profit-taking in week's following Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's "bubbles" mention and comments from the FOMC minutes that "A number of participants expressed willingness to adjust the flow of purchases downward as early as the June meeting..."

While shorts clearly have not gotten their mojo back, the face-ripping short squeezes witnessed in various stocks may also be a thing of the past.

"It has been brutal," one short seller exclaimed. "It's like 1999 all over again. This is going to end badly, but in the meantime it just keeps getting worse."

While one day does not make a trend, if short sellers fortunes have indeed taken a turn for the better, below is a list of stocks that have high short interest and have seen some of the biggest short squeezes:

Stocks with high short interest:

MLMs:
Herbalife (NYSE: HLF)
USANA (NASDAQ: USNA)
NuSkin (NYSE: NUS)

Solars:
First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR)
SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR)
Solar City (NASDAQ: SCTY)
JA Solar (NASDAQ: JASO)
LDK (NYSE: LDK)

Education:
ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI)

Retail:
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP)
Restoration Hardware (NYSE: RH)
RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH)
Vera Bradley (NYSE: VRA)
hhgregg, Inc. (NYSE: HGG)

Others:
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX)
Uni-Pixel, Inc. (Nasdaq: UNXL)
Molycorp (NYSE: MCP)
InterOil Corporation (NYSE: IOC)
Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: UBNT)
Green Mountain Coffee (Nasdaq: GMCR)
Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA)

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