While I agree with you completely on AF, I believe the market itself is far worse as companies make money bringing other companies down. I don't know what the statistics are this year, but a few years ago I read where the top ten hedge fund managers bonuses were nearly a billion each. To them it doesn't matter how the money is made, and much of it is made on the short side, occasionally taking company's all the way to bankruptcy.
I'm old fashioned, I believe that stock investments should be for appreciation, but clearly that's not the market today. I don't know if can ever return to the way it once was as it was pointed out to me, if it weren't legal here in the U.S., trading would just move to a country where it is legal.
AF certainly works with some who're looking to short, but so do so many others, some who in fact may be posting here. In the case of AF, when the results come out, don't bet that he won't try to make it sound like he always believe in NWBO and its vaccines.
I'm not a fan of any analyst that will lower the rating on a stock once it's target price has been met if the stock isn't evaluated and a determination made that it doesn't have further to go. When an analyst sets a target of say $15 on a $10 stock, and rates it a buy. Then the stock suddenly reaches $15 and it's downgraded to a hold, but the stock continues up to $25. The analyst will say he got the gain from $10 to $25, while most clients will sell at $15 to buy into the new buy rated stock. My point is that most people who follow Analysts take a downgrade from Buy to Hold as a reason to sell. I'll respect the Analyst who looks at a stock that makes the target and determines the target should be raised, not simply lowering the rating to Hold.
