Pyrrhonian,
Mr. Woodford appears to have signed an NDA or is in a similar situation if considered an insider. He also has an obligation to his shareholders that must be fulfilled and part of that is being done with his investigation and not financing NWBO until his investigation report is published or he at least makes public comments about its findings. This is "professional" behavior.
Now let's consider the various forces at work in all of this. Let's assume for the sake of argument that there are only 2 extreme takes on Linda Powers' motivations. The bear argument is that Linda is only in this for herself and she knows that DCVax-L will fail and that DCVax-Direct is no better than grapefruit juice. The bears believe she has known this for at least 3-4 years (history of negative articles). The extreme long argument is that Linda Powers has 2 major long term goals for NWBO and they are to get DCVax (which she believes works) approved and to maintain personal control of the company. These longs believe the 1st goal is not left to chance if she maintains control of the company and that investors and traders who are waiting for validation of the science will be well rewarded when that day comes. With these 2 positions in place let's look at what happened last year.
NWBO was supposed to be in the process of failing as per the April 2015 puts that you are well aware of. The bears had been on a roll until Mr. Woodford became involved and put a monkey wrench into their time table. Mr. Woodford it seems had plans of his own which did not necessarily align with those who had been glad to see the stock price collapsing, nor with Linda's later on when the rift occurred. Mr. Woodford stated that he liked the science but remember, the bears stated case is that the science does not work. Bummer. Mr. Woodford had an interest in AZN, which is a British company, but has since sold that position after the Phase 5 report came out and his comments gave it legs which led to a rift with Linda. Even before Phase 5, the stock price had been in decline and so Mr. Woodford spoke with company management to satisfy his concerns. He stated nothing untoward was going on with regard to the company or its trials. So what forces were at work that had him so concerned in the first place? Evidently normal market shenanigans that he should have been aware of because he did not start an investigation at that point. Only after his embarrassing disclosure that Phase 5 had made him aware of something that he was not previously aware of did he start a public rift between himself and NWBO. So here we are, waiting for his report to be published or an all clear public announcement. Linda will not publish her report first because it is his move. I suspect Mr. Woodford will make that move if he is forced to by price action or at his convenience when the science is validated. By the way, the price action can be controlled by those extreme bears with Mr. Woodford on the sidelines. They need to be careful though, because Mr. Woodford might be leading them into another April 2015 type trap. Let's see when the next financing takes place. Musical chairs.
