Mike, I appreciate your support of open forum protocol, and I certainly apologize to any and all that feel simply because this is public, comments pertaining to extremely questionable trade timing ought not to be mentioned. Along those lines of reasoning we would eliminate all newspaper reporting of similar questions, and no questions would be allowed to arise. Yes indeed, I grew up at the Fool, and grew up adequately to understand they are not running their business as an altruistic enterprise, therefore I keep that uppermost when reading their material.
I agree, this is not G&K discussion, however vetting of source and information is G&K material. I have written what I have seen, and my understanding is increased by working through to a reasonable explanation of those events.
One more word of caution, have you ever seen, publicly, the personal portfolios with trade dates of either of the brothers? Therein lies my concerns, whether they ride a stock down to zero or not in the real-money ports. Certainly this is not going to happen, but until I see some sort of verification contrary to the circumstantial evidence, the best apology I can offer is I did use too strong language in saying "obvious insider knowledge".
Perhaps, "obviously insiders, the timely trade for Ebay days prior to the AOL contract causes me suspicion".
I promise to try to keep the objectivity more important than my opinion, to all here.
Martin Thomas |
