A very, very wise and spot on post indeed.
No like life itself, the stock market isn't perfect, and sometimes things don't work out as we wish.
Sadly also, sometimes things are beyond our control and especially so in the stock market where money and greed are involved, the self serving human element can and does enter into the equation.
Also some of these big forces are big and are connected to other big powerful forces which renders the individual investor helpless.
Equally bad is the fact that when it appears things are unravelling as has been the case with Ocata for a while, some of the folks who stand to be adversely affected can and will go into denial mode and then come up with fantasy positive conclusions to try to shut the reality of the situation out.
Imo all of this talk about bidding wars, Mario, Astellas raising the bid substantially, etc. are all clear examples of that.
When that fails or even before, then we see another aspect of this stage 2 which in this case is trying to change things by going to court, writing letters to every BP and government on the face of the earth, etc. imploring them to buy Ocata and now taking over the Ocata Headquarters with a sit-in hopefully to bring national attention to the shareholder's plight.
None of this hardly ever works, and it is unlikely to work here either for the simple reason that it is a legal deal and in any cases, the forces to beat as stated, are just to strong and powerful.
As you say/imply also, Ocata is far from a lock in any event with all of the monetary and testing obstacles in front of it and not marketable product for probably five years,
Thus as you, Captain Kirk and farviewhill say, we should all be very grateful for this gift of $8.50 a share, count our blessings, just learn from this experience, move on and invest somewhere else where there is a good opportunity and in a company without a shady and corrupt reputation such as is the case with Ocata.
