A few thoughts on the short side strategy:
IMO they have, and are, throwning everything at the short side effort, starting with the AF article, bashers flooding every board, teams of law firms floating fake investigations, and manipulating the actual trading with strategies such as fades,, naked shorts and having committed a lot of capital to shorting in general..... and to me the stock still looks like it want to go up with all the short side head winds... Here is a scenario ...if a large pharma wants to buy this company if they commit a large amount of capital to say short up to 1/3 of the total shares, and then they make there offer to buy the company, they succeed in lowering the price of all the shares by a huge amount even though say they loose 50% on the portion shorted.... Then layer on say, a hedge fund and blog poster piggy backing with this strategy and adding more shorting and bashing and calling law firm buddies and the magnitude of the short head winds increases ... If this scenario is happening, remember to think about what the shares are worth when it "unwinds" soon..... in other words all the committed cap it on the short side is temporary... and the quoted stock price means absolutely zero... remember too these short side cartels have egos and reputations the size of baseball stadiums , ...they will commit lots of capital to show how good they are..... and show their co-conspirators how powerful they are, so they will follow them into the next deal...
