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To: kech who wrote (195047)	8/2/2025 9:58:43 AM
From: pheilman_	1 Recommendation Recommended By BDAZZ Respond to of 196783

There is a short selling person in Berkeley that puts out reports on companies to take down their stock value and shorts them down. He specializes in biotech firms. Scorpion reports. He took down Gingko Bioworks, Berkeley Lights and tried to take down Twist Bioscience. Here is his published record: scorpioncapital.com The reports are cleverly written and contain a nugget of truth. The biotech field has many frothy valuations.

To: kech who wrote (195047)	8/2/2025 10:11:46 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 196783

Elroy- I did not claim to know in this case. I said it was possible. Ok, but your initial post didn't seem to say "It's possible that when a company has bad news somebody sells a lot immediately and then tries to buy it back lower a few hours later, maybe". Of course that's possible. Your post sounded more like there were large hedge funds employing the strategy you described, and I would think (but also have no evidence) that it's not the case that some hedge fund trader waits for bad news, then sells $10m of a stock which has already declined in value due to that news, and then tries to buy back the sold stock for $9.9 million soon after. That sounds very random, rather than strategic. In trading, almost anything is "possible". Anyways, it's the weekend, so lets hope QCOM gets acquired by SIMO next week......