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To: Patentlawmeister who wrote (24779)	11/9/2006 1:57:16 AM
From: jayt	Respond to of 37387

PLM - Thanks for putting that together. Whoever that poster is has got his facts together. We've been saying it from day one about the stocklemon....they are a short and distort outfit. I just wish there was a way to foil their plans, and squeeze every last penny out of them. They are playing with fire with BRLC as the float is about 28m shares. I would say that their report has had no effect on the stock except spooking some longs who were sitting on huge profits. Taking advantage of a short term overbought condition is one thing, but if they outstay their welcome they could be very sorry. The thing is they may have plenty of capital to not have to cover, and then bear raid it again when the buyside institutions take a break from their buying programs. We shall see. RGRDS - JT

To: Patentlawmeister who wrote (24779)	11/9/2006 4:32:07 AM
From: Crossy	Respond to of 37387

Patentlawmeister, thanx for the kudos on KEYW but I can rather do without these shortterm 20% gains in favour of multibaggers in the 1-2 year horizon.. my tax system here penalizes shortterm gains even more heavily than in the U.S. on Stocklemon, I think you are 100% on target. I view their operation as a short and distort website, conveniently spawning their BS most of the time while posing as "investigators". For many us longs it's at least offering consolence that shorters can lose more than they risked. I hope that will happen to Mr. Left once in a while CROSSY

To: Patentlawmeister who wrote (24779)	11/9/2006 10:06:02 AM
From: enrico99	Respond to of 37387

PLM, Mr. Left certainly screwed this one up: stocklemon.com stocklemon.com stocklemon.com He shorted MIX around $5. Later he put this out: stocklemon.com Basically saying, by the time MIX had reached $8 or $9, that maybe it wasn't the right stock to short. A couple of months later MIX got acquired for $12. He probably made plenty of mistakes. Despite that, I like to read information on sites like stocklemon or sharesleuth. Why? "84.51% of manipulation cases involve the inflation of stock prices while less than 1% of cases involve the deflation of stock prices. Stabilization accounts for 2%. For about 13% of cases we do not have enough information to classify the type of manipulation." (Stock Market Manipulation — Theory and Evidence finance-old.bi.no. I figure that, after getting exposed to pump and dump information 84% of the time ("buy this pink sheeter! I got paid $40'000 to say that"), reading short and distort 1% of the time helps somewhat to put things into perspective. As a sidenote, I'm sure this board has a lot of contrarians, trying to pick up beat-up stocks of great quality, and often successful at that. With so many contrarians, I'm surprised at how much heat this stocklemon guy is taking, while some posters who are VERY optimistic about future prospects of some small stocks will never get criticized. Are we going to stop buying shares because of one percent of the manipulators are trying to deflate stocks? Are we going to devote 40% of our energy discussing about one percent of the information out there, just because we don't like it? Despite Left's attacks against HSOA, I'm still long. To paraphrase a great quote: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."