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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (67129)	2/16/2001 11:13:05 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 122088

Very true. There are excesses both ways. You don't have to convince me of scamming management that rapes shareholders. However, there are many companies that may very well be non-scams. Some people will think they are undervalued, others will think they are over valued. That's the nature of markets. I object to short swarms blasting this type of company as POS, crap, etc. just as I object to bulls with their "to the moon" and accusing shorts of everything under the sun. We both know that there is scammy trading and manipulation on both sides. We both know how it is done. I like to see a level playing field and I commend your efforts against market makers, Nasdaq and scammy management. What I don't like is where there are differences of opinions that get elevated to personal attacks or claims that are unsubstantiated. Couple that with manipulative trading and disclosure tactics and there are potential problems that can get serious, often times leading to retaliatory attacks or regulatory intervention. As I've posted before, I'd like to see more effort getting shareholders and investors to have more rights. After all, they really are the owners of the companies in which they have shares. When management is stealing from their shareholders, directly or indirectly, I agree with you that shorts are probably the most effective way of righting this wrong. Perhaps the government or policy should be there to protect shareholders, but, in reality, there are very few Arthur Leavitts.