Zion Oil & Gas Inc (ZNOG)

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pps began rising upon Mar 5 news re extension of license-the extension was no surprise to longs here or anybody who does their dd

then as is normal after a rise due to news pps began to fall again before 10k

then when 10k came out mar 12 out pps rose considerably more

on mar 12 pps rapidly went from .90 to 1.20 during a small portion of the trading day on big block buying that took out sell orders-the opposite of mm games to take out stop loss orders
8.6mil traded mar 12-then volume rapidly dried to 4.5 mil next day i believe and 1.2 mil? next day?-which would naturally, due to market forces/games, result in a pps fall

some big buyer or buyers may have seen something in the 10k to spur them into action-
as jryan and i discussed we dont what bc nothing in the 10k was a surprise to us

[in fact from my perspective the raise raised considerably less than zn was hoping for-at a bad time for fundraising]

but as jryan stated,the mar 12 activity etc may indicate something good that we cant put our finger on yet- it may very well be indicative of insider trading by big boys based on info we dont have yet-that would be my guess=this often occurs in the market -sometimes it feels like the whole market runs on insider trading

i have never flipped zn but i considered selling a portion of my position at 1.10 to 1.20 and re-buying at a lower pps but i was told not to -dont know why-so i did not-
could be for reasons beyond pps considerations or it could be bc something good is coming -and once it does it may take ppl by surprise and for ppl like me who seldom have time to watch the ticker live during a trading session, result in the loss of value if i sold part of my position -bc u never know when another sudden rise may occur -and such a rise -depending on the news -could last for months

so the big buying could have been precipitated by something that the big buyer(s) already knew-insider knowledge is a good possibility bc there was nothing in the 10k to explain the rapid pps rise

so insider knowledge of something good coming by big buyers could be just a coincidence as to timing or it could be a planned occurrence -timed to coincide with the 10k to give such big buyers plausible deniability[re insider trading, as in, "oh mr sec, i didn't buy bc of insider knowledge; i bought bc of the 10k" type of thing]

i have no insider knowledge but logic supports the above


https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ZN/overview

that big buying mar 12 -8.6 million shares traded that day- sent pps to 1.20 before falling to ca .90
that is a normal pattern when there is big buying-day traders and flippers etc doing their thing
once news and big buying is over it's normal for pps to fall again-as it was already doing BEFORE john browns new missive

so who did such missive affect -only those who singed up for zn mail or who drilled zn's website[navigating zn/'s website is NOT intuitive to me and even finding jb's archive of missives is not easy -let alone the last one -which i didnt see on the web site that day]

but anybody who visits the website is immediately hit w zn's picture w a superscription detailing zn's purpose to bless israel based on verses.

big boys do a lot of dd-more than most retail can imagine-almost all if not all zn PR's contain verses
so anybody who has done their dd on zn should not be surprised by jb's latest missive-they know its a xtian co in israel based on verses-so no surprise to anybody-so that should not have negatively had much effect on pps.

the very name zion imparts the companies purpose- a natural consequence of laws which require companies to name their business as per their purpose

when zn rose above a dollar shorts also shorted more stock-AS IS USUAL\
https://shortvolume.com/

pps had already fallen quite a bit by the time of jb's missive and given all the above i dont see that jb's missive should have much effect on pps-in fact he obviously intended the opposite but no person can control the short term patterns of trading.
naturally those of a different philosophy may not like the subject matter of jbs blog but it is nothing that should be surprising to investors,especially anybody who does their dd,as big boys do.

it does show an iron determination of some 30 years - 1/2 of which were knowledge and contact building before incorporating zn- things generally considered a positive.