a rock and a hard place, page-2

Marwoode, good choices. I believe it's a combination of 1, 2, and 3. A management buy back would stop the games.

So would them announcing a stock buy back plan. That puts a floor on the stock price, takes out the shorters, and the other game players. A lot of companies don't even act on it, or do so for a smaller % than they announce, because just the threat of it eliminates the bot trading and shorters below that level. Suddenly it's too expensive for them to play in that sand box so they move along to pick on another stock.

I've said it before, even countries central banks do that to protect the value of thier currency. Management needs to wise up on this one. There is no "free" market only manupulated ones.