By Elliot Gulliver-Needham Finding US companies to short can be hard when it feels like the stock market can only go up, but some stock pickers make a living off of it. “It’s a year where the markets have been on the tear,” Scott Utzinger, partner at Crawford Fund Management and manager of its US long/short fund, told City AM. The fund run by Utzinger has seen its long positions rise 18 per cent since the start of the year, compared to the S&P 500’s 21 per cent gain and the smaller-company focused Russell 2000’s nine per cent. However, the fund has been dragged down slightly by its short posit…