Hey Bill: Not to mention the number of shares a holder has, but it does hurt quite a bit to have paid over a dime like many may have, without the opportunity to trade the share price fluctuations and to profit from them. (Keogh or IRA account). And there may be a few of us out here who bought in at .17 cents a share who are forced to sell for tax reasons, and are praying that no news for that thirty day period! It's hard to ascribe a true cost to an investors holdings, because you and I and the other Bill (Gates) may consider a total wipeout on one stock in our portfolio (at a cost of thousands) to be a non event. Others who are invested here may be in a different position and every penny invested may have been a sacrifice. I do not criticize your comment as such, and realize you referred to a manipulator with limited holdings, but we should never forget that some of the players here are investing hard earned and important funds into this dream. Rest assured there is some one out there who paid more than they should have and is now down 75% of his funds in an IRA. If they believe in DNAP, well they will be rewarded, but right now, looking at that balance sheet, well it really hurts. It's nice to have the luxury of playing in these stocks, but some of our fellow posters may have more than they should in this one stock, and the games played by manipulators are very grating.
I wish I was sophisticated enough time my buy and sell at the right moment but I usually end up acting in the wrong way at the worst possible time. So just accumulate and average down. For some investors, the fluctuations have been a gift, but for a lot of us, it's just an annoyance. Those with the IRA accounts can't contribute more money except as the law allows, and so even averaging down can be impossible. It's sort of difficult to open your mouth and say the exact right thing without risking offense to someone, but I guess since we can apologize and trust the understanding nature of out fellow posters to let us off with a "nevermind", we can keep calling them like we see them.
(My daughter opened her first IRA with a Max contribution allowed for her, and of course wanting to have a firm base in the account populated it with WCOM and GE as her broker suggested.) Live and learn.
Stakddek
