Crossing the 200 MA daily will be a very bullish signal and will make it harder to rationalize that the uptrend is not sutainable. Many investors will look at that as a strong signal to buy increasing buying pressure that will help break the resistance at $3.00 making it less desireable to be short in GTE, hence to maximize profits or minimize loses shorts will cover and look for a new point to take a short position. There will always be shorts it's a fact that we'll have to deal with part of what creates the buying and selling pressure. Since short reports are still new to the stock learning what is a good number for that position and what is not is something we'll have to do, at some point a short position of 4 million shares might be looked at as an excellent number.
Don't let your prejudices, assumptions and ego cause you to come to conclusions which on the surface seem sound and correct but in reality are flawed