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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jman who wrote (5984)	3/19/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: VLAD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

VVUS--todays trading. Well folks it looks like the WSJ article helped push vivus down some more. After todays trading I can say for sure that 2 days ago Smith Barney was manipulating the stock price. SB sat at 11 1/2 on the ask for half the day--I didn't know if he was selling or shorting but after today I know that he was shorting. As soon as the price dropped to 10 11/16 SB upped the bid to 10 3/4 (currently our short term support level) and sat on the bid for a long time. SB obviously made a ton of money and currently is the main market manipulator. Just think SB shorted tens of thousands of shares 2 days ago and today made 3/4 of a point on all those shares--thats mucho mula for SB in 48 hours. Towards the end of the day SB switched to the ask at 10 7/8 and 10 15/16 shorting again thus preventing a move back to the 11's. Anyway I conclude that we can all thank Smith Barney for the lack of a significant price gain (I think we all expected a point if not a couple of points) Tuesday when the MCA approval announcement was released. Brokerage firms such as SB are no better than the lawyers suing vivus. They see that the poor vivus rhino is severeley wounded, recumbent in the hot African sun and what do they do? They take advantage of our beautiful rhino and proceed to club him over the head. The question is: will the market manipulators finish him off or does he still have some fight left in him? I still think our beloved rhino will eventually come back with a vengence. When I honestly believe that this company is toast because of Viagra I will humanely euthanise my Vivus shares and put the rhino and myself out of our misery. Until then SCREW YOU SB AND ALL THE REST OF THE MANIPLULATORS/SHORTS!!! I hope the Vivus rhino rears his head up and you wind up with a horn in your crotch. The buzzards can then eat your remains after you slowly bleed to death following your free castration (even Viagra won't help). Sorry all--I need to vent big time and typing this garbage certainly beats throwing my monitor across the room. Note--at 6pm EST CNBC will discuss the miracle pill. PFE sure knows how to pull all the PR ropes. If Viagras PR does indeed create a significant increase in impotent men seeking treatment then I believe that it will help vivuses bottom line significantly. It can't take that long (maybe just a free sample) for individual effectiveness to be determined. Vivus may lose those mildly or psychogenic effected patients but Viagra will hopefully lead significant numbers of moderately to severely impotent men to their doctor's office and a MUSE script can be written along with a free Viagra sample--if the Viagra doesn't work then Vivus gets a new patient. Thats the way I view the MUSE/VIAGRA situation. Can any MDs please comment of the possibility of using both Viagra and Muse for men who don't respond well to just MUSE or Viagra alone. Calling DR BOND--script data PLEASE. Thanks.