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Biotech / Medical : ARIAD Pharmaceuticals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: testad who wrote (4320)	6/17/2016 4:00:13 PM
From: civic08801	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4474

There is no Mr. Market when it comes to ARIA,just HedgeScums, GS and MM who have FO this stock since 10/13..Better the Last Smile than the First Laugh Mr Basher From the Ihub Message Board. I am not a conspiracy theorist in any way, shape or form and these are my observations/questions in the first hour or so of trading today: - There is a battle royale going on to reduce price approximately 7-10 cents with over 3M in trading volume when the average for a day is currently just above 4.5M - How many more shares did they have to go "more" short in order to keep the pps within this range? Will never know that one. - On the Bid/Ask as usual there are a LOT of 100-300 share transactions yet every once in a while you see a trade of 5000 or more (usually at the ASK price) which I think are others accumulating (true longs) at the same time the shorts are fighting like crazy to keep the pps down. - I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Short Interest as reported on 6/15 (6/24 is when we will find out) to have increased from the 31M from 5/31. Therefore, in order to keep the pps where it (over the past couple of weeks) they actually have to short more when in fact they absolutely realize that they need to cover. Such a dilemma. - All of this action, actually is adding fuel to the eventuality when the day of reckoning arrives when the pain is too great or they run out of ammunition. So, they are presently holding ground yet at a great expense and when the retreat happens, it will NOT be orderly. Days like this are “just buying time” (for some literally) for the inevitable. It is so wonderful to have better fundamentals that will ultimately drive the pps up. Of course, IMHO