** Shares of medical diagnostics firm PROG.O up ~15% at
$5.54 premarket, set for a three-day winning steak
** PROG was the most touted stock on investor-focused
website stocktwits.com; About 8.03 mln shares have traded hands,
making it the most heavily traded stock before the bell
** Co says on Twitter it is presenting on its novel drug
delivery system at a healthcare conference on Friday (https://bit.ly/30GvLaF)
** About $89 mln or 22.9% of PROG free float shares were in
short position as of Nov. 3, according to S3 Partners
** PROG shares up ~63% this week and 444% since the end of
August
(Reporting by Manas Mishra and Medha Singh)
((Manas.Mishra@thomsonreuters.com;
www.twitter.com/Manasmishra24))