No, stocks are added to the threshold list when the short position exceeds certain parameters, I don't recall what they are off the top of my head. So in theory, being removed from the threshold list should be a positive thing. All I know for sure is this:

- there are ways of getting around the short sale reporting requirements

- the sales that are reported give you SOME idea of what is going on (but I suspect it is just the tip of the iceberg)

- the juniors, pretty much across the board, are not acting the way they should, or the way I think they should, with gold behaving so well

- in the past, hedge funds have paired long gold/short gold stock trades

The SEC talks a good game but has done very little of substance that I know of in this area. The Canadian regulators are known to be a laughing stock in terms of pursuing white collar criminals. So yeah, it makes it even tougher for us retail investors.