Yep. Go look up the trading volume for those two days. Then look at the size of the float. Then read all the letters from Ameritrade, where they freely admit they made a mistake by authorizing the sales. THEN you can examine the cusip numbers of the shares Ameritrade gave their customers - they did not match the restricted cusips.Then pop over to the SEC, and read how neither Paivis nor the DTC had issued any merger shares yet.
What's best is - I don't have to a dam thing. All of that wonderful, wonderful information - is available free of charge right here on this board. You better get cracking! Lotta posts to dig through!
Good stocks are obvious. Extensive DD is how you convince yourself to buy a bad one.