"Petition shorter, algo traders stock bashers and pumpers" Now is a good time to challenge these guys, as gold and silver are looking strong. BRICS will take care of the paper gold and silver sellers. Let us agree on criteria for stocks to target....2 or 3. For starters: 1 Heavily shorted ..... over $1 million. 2 Undervalued............fundamental and below 20% of the all time high and within 5% of the low. 3 Low volume.............$100,000 per week.