This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't see much purpose in...

This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't see much purpose in watching the shorts. For some reason on this stock there seems to be a lot of shorts monitoring. The shorters will come and go daily as they do on all stocks. If you are confident in your FA\TA and have your investment strategy, then the shorts and manipulation don't matter. If you have performed your analysis correctly then the share price should head to your price target regardless of any hedge fund funny business.
The instos will be up to their usual tricks but looking at the charts and TA can cut through their...

I also don't reckon that all gaps need to be filled. Sometimes gaps do get filled, but often after an announcement they don't.

Take a look at ASN which I mentioned earlier.


That bottom gap which was after an announcement only got filled years later when the share price had completed it's pattern. The top gap got filled on the downtrend after the uptrend had finished.