How weird. I'm supposed to explain the minutae of a practice that in theory is OK which is substantially misused. The grossest extreme of it is naked short selling, which goes on and can be seen on charts and data.
However a pattern of attack which includes killing off positive sentiment in public discussion boards and spreading fear and disinformation behaviour has been prolific against MSB. I've called it out often enough in posts. Perhaps you could use your considerable research skills to find them?
Regulators are way behind and I'm actively interested in closing that gap. A stock like MSB is complex in terms of the technology and the FDA process, even without the Trump corruption factors and the variables in the FDA.
There being no real counter argument, the cynical capitulation is that we should be grateful to the shorters and get on board with 'the smart money'.
That's a divide and conquer mentality and the hounding out of valuable and informed posters like @ecoool2 shows what a serious threat he was and his remaining posts still are, to those in on the game.
The developments in the US in relation to GME should be of interest to any regulator or any holder of a stock that's been smashed and held down by persistent shorters and a barrage of negative and misleading commentary.
They certainly are to me. In particular how after the naked shorts were being exposed in a short squeeze by mere retail buyers (aka. dumb money/muppets who don't know their place). They were then stymied by the short ladder attacks and the fear campaigns attacks (this bit should be familiar to MSB holders).
Then the claims that the short squeeze was supposedly "over", plus the halt on buying of SME by certain brokers who had a stranglehold on retail investors who went for the free brokerage only to find their data was being sold. There you have a really interesting, combination to serious regulators.
Under increasing surveillance, now reddit has sacked many of its moderators. The chilling effect of investigations and regulators mean everyone is covering, not just shorters who I speculate haven't actually been able to cover much at all, but instead have issued more shorts in the downward run, which has similarities with what happened to MSB after Craig Collie let loose with his misleading reports, and then Seeking Alpha with the Nasdaq listing. The benefit if that is not just profits from the short calls, but also cheap acquisitions made as the stock is down and held down in a foot to the throat campaign.
None of this sounds familiar to you?
The similarities and differences between the stocks and forums are very interesting indeed.
Truth is the first casualty in war. But you know that. I'm a patient person.
MSB Price at posting:
$2.58 Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held
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