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Biotech / Medical : Vivus: into single digits -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zebra 365 who wrote (310)	4/22/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: AlienTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1016

>>I have a complaint for the management. Seeing the scenario playing out, I sold some VVUS on April 2, to lock in a tax loss. Now I have 10 days to go before buying it back. I would like to ask you all to please keep shorting every time VVUS pokes its neck above 8. I was encouraged by today's action but someone obviously failed to keep selling and we closed at 8. Not what I expect from the "short to zero" crowd.<< Rofl.. Actually that was me :), I would have tried to push it to 8 1/4 but woudnt have done any good so sold out at 8 1/16 instead, although some sale did go through at 8 which was not a real sale but an MM to MM inside. Also you cant short except on an UPTICK. So someone does have to buy at a price higher than the bid and you can then short the share at the price or higher, This is very hard to do at the current price but there was a 10k block at 8 5/16 and another at 8 3/8. Both got taken out but the price did fall again. They also buy a few shares and I do mean a few, A 50k buy would push this stock 1/2 to 1 point. And then dump it at opertune moments, just like some of us buy at opertune moments to push the price up. Even te MM's dont short the stock to you here. The only players in this stock right now are the longs and the shorts. The longs cant win without some good news. The shorts can try pushing the price down. Like offering 10k at 7 7/8 at the open. This one act alone says quite a bit about the shorts. Now why would you want to try to sell just this small tad amount at a price lower than the bid? I have seen this for the last 3 days in fact. In fact the shorts are running out of shares to dump. Its all just a matter of time so you better hurry. In fact even the so called shorts due to a number of reason on here have not answered my questions, The do rehash the same old news when the stock was at 30+. Thats all fine, but we are not at 30+ any more, We are at 8, which is 25% of where it was. The same trash news just dont make as much sence as it once did unless you are part of something else.. Yes I am just trying to get some more people to buy this stock so the price does go up and trying to remove some of the mis conceptions of bad press and bias. And I definetely am not VLad, I have been on SI for a while and others do know me, who I am and how I post.