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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Naked Shorting-Hedge Fund & Market Maker manipulation? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (3441)	5/11/2008 2:19:13 AM
From: ravenseye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5034

i've often wondered why so many of them are in what seems to be a perpetual attack mode, and the following might be an explanation: Competition The Hedge Fund Striptease Susan Kitchens 05.08.08, 6:00 PM ET If you can't market, then gossip. That's what hedge funds, bound by Securities & Exchange Commission's Regulation D not to solicit investments from the general public, have resorted to as they compete to raise money from institutions and wealthy individual investors.... forbes.com ...Then of course, there is the blogosphere. What's to keep a small fund with very impressive numbers but no visibility from anonymously posting a quick story on a well-trafficked Web site? Like a virus, blog posts spread from one site to the next. In this way, funds are having their cake and eating it, too--in big, tasty oversized bites--since there is no direct solicitation, but the word is out. Too bad for reporters trying to confirm the story: Regulation D gets in the way....