To: Yahoot who wrote (88791 ) 12/20/2004 11:53:51 PM From: Graystone Respond to of 122087 Nice theory or Pluvia on a white horse You post may contain interesting material for many but I was particularly struck by the picture of Pluvia on a white horse <g>. I maintain that Anthony's record in regard to his stock calls makes this thread valuable SI real estate. The testimony I have seen reported does little to dispel the notion that Anthony was making calls that were very good. The types of calls that Anthony was making on stocks will create enemies, this should also be apparent to readers that are following the trial. The people who stood to benefit from the types of promotions that Anthony was scrutinizing do not like to be thwarted. The trial progresses and the charges are serious, I suspect energy will be directed towards discrediting his calls by undermining his person. How that plays out is one matter but the value of this real estate is another entirely. As the trial progresses it becomes much clearer that Anthony's calls were good, good enough to secure cooperation from several levels of authority, however oblique. Whatever the outcome for Anthony, white or black, the reader would do well to focus on the fact that the calls made on this thread were of value to the small investor and that in the process of making those calls Anthony made himself some powerful enemies. The people that Anthony thwarted are probably still active in the securities industry, making more stock available for unsuspecting investors, some may be active on an investment related website near you. Anthony's real enemies need to be separated from the large contingent of pissed off investors who thought Anthony was personally attacking them when he called one of their bad investments a bad investment. The ensuing dialogue often got heated and then it did get personal. The investors who had the ability to short stocks realized the fact that Anthony's calls were very valuable, this was what allowed Anthony to create a website for subscribers. The trial is about things going south some time after this website was formed and that may be the case, that is why there is a trial. By the time Anthony created his website he already had some powerful determined enemies, this is a guess of course, all the people who set up these scam companies may sort of drift into it, I am not sure, they may not be determined.Yahoot, you have made several errors in constructing your theory, most of which could be corrected by reading more Star Trek and reading more SI for that matter. You usually find bears in a berry patch but you have failed to identify a single bozo , that is a networked person with no direct interest but ephemeral ties to real money. There are a lot of side issues that are just muddying the water here. Anthony isn't on trial for going to Kosovo during the crisis, nor is he on trial for terrorism. He isn't being tried for being a loud and outspoken. He is being tried for extortion and insider trading. Even if he is completely guilty his calls on SI were still good for small investors, the enterprises he destroyed are still destroyed, they were never of any value. Your theory that HITT may have been a planned hit is worthy of pursuit, perhaps it was set up to take a fall, maybe the FBI and the SEC will investigate but I don't think Tony called that one.