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To: isopatch who wrote (183132)	3/20/2014 8:51:16 PM
From: Salt'n'Peppa	1 Recommendation Recommended By Old_Sparky Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206179

I wish I could recommend this post 5 times. Everybody knows it. Nobody talks about it. Just look at the insane market caps of TSLA, Z, SCTY, P to name just a tiny few. It is the Wall Street hedge fund and brokerage big boys that have bid these marginal companies up to nosebleed levels, through the dubious use of internal analyst reports (no conflict of interest there!!!) and with the full support of media groups such as CNBC, Forbes, Bloomberg, etc. Meanwhile, real companies with real assets, such as our beloved oil and gas E&P companies, get trodden down and put on the back burner. IOC trades at 55-60% of current NAV. TSLA trades at 800% of 2020 imaginary NAV. S&P

To: isopatch who wrote (183132)	3/20/2014 9:17:08 PM
From: JimisJim	1 Recommendation Recommended By Dennis Roth Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206179

That should be required reading for everyone with any money in the markets. I've always disliked ETFs. They've been marketed to people as safe ways to diversify, but under the cloak, there are so many hidden risks, especially the leveraged ones... and now this... as soon as I read it, viscerally I knew it was true -- common sense -- and it jives so precisely with what many here have observed in terms of retail investors sitting this one out while big money uses the ETFs to drive entire market sectors. We all knew retail volume is not what it used to be. We've all known the game is rigged, but understanding how it is rigged is crucial to surviving it. Thx for posting this.