Easyman: My comment was for the situation created by the manipulators who caused the fall of this stock from it's intitial levels. There were those who traded and bashed to dump and then others who traded and pumped to dump. any of the rest of us who have kept the faith with DNAP, (many longer than I) were burned by this manipulative activity. I can't say that DNAP suferred shorting because I don't know. I did see the continued bashing and pumping that occurred on these message boards.
My regret is the manipulation cost all the shareholders in the company, and seemingly, those that had the most faith in the company and didn't trade the stock for all the time they held it have been hurt the worst by the manipulation. Say you had never bought any DNAP, and turned on your computer Monday and decided to take a chance on a penny stock. How much would it cost you to by your ticket to the moon? I have averaged down, but my average is still above the current share price. I'm sure others are in the same boat. We have faith in the company and management, but feel the day to day manipulation of the stock has hurt the long term holders the worst. Maybe I'm just not a smart trader and am alone in this. I'm not able to swing enough dollars in stock to play the game and so I suffer. I see thrash companies bouncing from pennies to dollars and DNAP just languishes or decreases in pps.
I am bitter about the situation and regret that some folks who bought early and held every share have been burned by manipulation that goes beyond market forces. The initial and the continued faith expressed by the long term shareholders is going to be rewarded, but the shares tricked out of the hands of other investors, and the money they lost will go to the manipulators who have paid so much attention to this stock. I am not bitter about DNAP. I am bitter about all the manipulators who probably have and will be rewarded for what they have done. Those who have held the longest and the bravest will be rewarded as well. But no where near what they deserve for that continued faith they have placed in DNAP.
DNAP must do what it has to to stay viable. DNAP has to garner funds for the new purchase and efforts worldwide. The manipulation that has created a skewed picture of the company, it's management, and it's prospects has cost us all and will continue to cost us in the months ahead. Bashers have created an environment friendly to them and harmful to long term investors. Bashers can't be punished and long term holders can't be rewarded at the levels they deserve. That's just the way it is and I express regret for a system that allows such inequity. It almost seems like the greatest monetary reward goes to the least concerned with what the rest of us invested for.
We saw promise of a "new medicine" that would help all mankind. We saw promise of new investigatory techniques that would aid law enforcement in the search for truth. We saw pots of gold for all of us at the end of the rainbow, and we didn't have to invest in some new way to kill or rob people. A lot of idealist populate the DNAP boards, and we hold the dream very dear. We have stayed the course for many years because we see the dream of Doctor Frudakis coming to fruition. But we all know and realize that our early involvement, our continued support has cost us all for keeping that faith. I'm not beyond feeling good about my investment in DNAP. I see bright promise and a pot at the end of the rainbow. I just wish so many people who only used the promise of DNAP as an opportunity to profit hadn't trampled the rest of us on the way to the reward we deserve. I regret they will get no comeuppance, and I especially regret that those who held firm to the dream, no the promise of DNAP, have lost a portion of a just reward to the doomsayers who have continually tried to destroy all our dreams.
Stakddek
