Nike, you said this smells fishy
Check out the amount of short interest that went into all gold stocks right around the period the short ban began in financials. The only nice thing is that KRY and GRZ were about THE only gold stocks that did not show an increase in short interest. What that tells me is that it was to risky to short at the time the gold short theme began for the hedgies.
Use this link and type in your favorite gold stock and look at what the short interest was as of Sept 25:
http://shortsqueeze.com/
By the By the new short interest report comes out tomorrow after the bell.