Phil: Your question is beyond my area of wisdom. I'm a rookie, unfortunately. "Pirate" seems to have much more insight into these things than I do, and from his staying power here today ... I would say HE doesn't seem to think it's that big of a deal.
Remember though ... MM's can put endless naked shorts on a Pinky and no one will be the wiser. I'm fully confident that if they want this stock to go to $.01, they can easily get it there if buyers start drying up. I'm betting buyers aren't going to dry up.
That's why I posted late afternoon that if we could get more posters here posting on Ragingbull's NIZ board ... it could only help. I'm kind of a one-man-show over there today, which looks a bit hookey.
I believe we have a very lucrative play here right now. Normally I would NOT enter a stock like ECFL like I did - today, after a four day run. Haven't been in it before.
BUT ... I see the wisdom and tenacity that this CEO has about using news FULLY to his advantage. Shorts are not use to such a tactic. They are used to one or two or three PR's, and then the PR's stop, and then the share price tumbles, until the next PR blitz, which can be months away.
This CEO isn't going to stop with one, or two, or three, or 30 PR's ... until shorts get the message loud and clear that they need to jump on another Pinky that doesn't have news to PR like this company has.
This company has a magical mix right now that is putting shivers in shorts, I can tell you that. MM's aren't going to try to take him on. Too much to lose. They don't KNOW exactly WHO and WHAT they are having to deal with here, because of the promise of more and more PR's and the QUALITY of those PR's ... (yet never letting out enough information to give the shorts the edge, until its advantageous to do so for upward momentum).
I've been at these pennies long enough to know that we have a "one-of-a-kind" here that cannot be underestimated IMO.
I know this sounds like a pump, but it really isn't. I think MakeSumGravy hit it right on the head when he says we have a RGNO here as long as people don't start unloading shares and new investors keep putting money down on the table. This stock could go past $.20 so quickly we would all go into shock - seriously.
See ... the CEO holds a LOT of ace cards here, and that is what makes shorts cover faster than anything.
Once shorts cover ... and big pockets jump on this stock ... NONE of us fully know how high this can run in the weeks ahead, simply because WE do not know the news that is going to get released - not yet anyway. Neither do the shorts.
Lucky, so far.
