Well, when you buy stock in a company wherein the CEO has been lying and stealing like Alto has , you most often get the result you have gotten here. It is a risk everyone takes when they buy a stock, but it usually helps mitigate the damages if you sell after the lies have become extraordinarily obvious.
With respect to USXP/Altomare's, that happened with the stock at about 20 cents (and that was a long time ago). All the false statements from the crook for the past 5 or 6 years since had made it clear that buying this stock was taking on worse odds than a coin flip. Even if you were just looking to try to flip it fast. Longs here have no excuse. I doubt that many of them really believed the nonsense coming from Altomare.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it. --Patrick Henry, Patriot and Hero of the American Revolution