Sphere 3D Glassware 2.0 Containers for Application Delivery Available Now in Microsoft Azure Marketplace was announced on 12/10, 2015.
Fantastic news for Sphere 3D.
Unfortunately there is a little behind the scenes activity taking place by a group or groups to discredit all the good news for Sphere 3D.
Short and distort is what some call it and it goes like this:
So you have invested in or were thinking of investing in a stock but noticed very strange occurrences in trading, such as selling of more shares than are available to be freely traded. Or despite buying at the offer, the offer moves lower. Or perhaps then strange and alarming amount of negative comments, innuendoes and predictions of doom and gloom....
Yet we have more good news like 1/11/2016 “Sphere 3D’s Collaboration With Microsoft to Bring SnapCLOUD™ Adopters to Microsoft Azure Marketplace is an Immediate Success”
Yet the stock goes down, why?
The short answer is market makers, hedge funds and others with the ability to short securities start by selling stock they do not own. After a substantial position is obtained, i.e. sold a desired amount of shares, they then start a smear campaign against the company, its management, the security and even the industry they are in.
While they are doing this, the short traders offer stock below the lowest quoted offer. Known as "low offering". They might then start to sell more shares of the stock hitting the bid. Again with shares they likely do not even own. Then, through another trader or market maker, they low offer the last offer. Then continue to do this to make it appear people are rushing to get out of this stock. All the while messages are posted saying things like "I told you, insiders are dumping", "SEC halt pending" or "big sell off again"
Yet we have not seen any insider selling on Sphere 3D so what happens after we get more great news on 1/19/2016:
“Multi-Site National Call Center Selects Sphere 3D’s Hybrid Cloud Solutions” yet the number of negative comments increases dramatically because the shorts cannot let the stock run higher. Why, you ask?
If the short position is big enough ie has enough money on the line they may even hire dubious writers to write propaganda on the company and then increase the trading tactics described above.
All this is designed for us to panic and sell our shares we bought much higher so the shorts can buy these shares back and cover the short position for a hefty profit. ie sell high buy low. They make the spread in the middle.
While this almost always works, when it fails it often fails for the shorts with disastrous consequences. The short squeeze starts, the stock runs way up, much higher than it did in the first place, and the broker makes them buy back all the shares at any price. Meaning the shorts loose serious money. The long shareholders celebrate.
We recently saw a great video produced by VMWare with none other than Sphere 3D’s Eric Kelly as a star speaker.
This is why there has been increased attempts at negative information by a group or groups of individuals trying to discredit a great company on the verge of huge success.
I suggest that anyone interested in this company called Sphere 3D look to reputable news releases and make you decision based on all information. Of course this is all IMHO and GLTA
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