A call to Finra will provide you with an explanation of the daily short totals, what they mean and more importantly, what they don't mean.
They're used all the time to insinuate a true short position in a stock. Wrongly.
The facts are available to anyone who wishes to find them.
Of course, the easiest way to prove the Finra numbers theory wrong is to see that no short covering comes along to boost the sp.
If there's no short covering in GEAR this week, will that show that the OTCshortreport site's data failed to indicate a short squeeze and should not be relied upon as accurate?
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