Chuck, You are so right.
Take this for example:
"For your order to buy 80000 shares of OSEE at 0.0155 limit, good for today:
You bought 3000 shares of OSEE at $0.014 on 04/18/2005.
This is a notification of a partial fill."
When I set the order this morning, Level II was at 0.015/0.016. I yet have to see where it ended, but at noon I saw the Level II sitting at 0.013/0.014, yet the remaining of the shares didn't got fill. This is totally insane. Since I only had this much change available (that was not enough to buy enough CIRT), I wanted to buy some more OSEE instead. I hope something is going to happen with these MM's, and the market in general; otherwise it can't continue the way it is manipulated right now. Most people that I know (old market players) lost all the confidence in the market, and I don't blame them. If after all these outstanding news CIRT goes down rather than going up, oh well... it looks like these people are right to try alternative ways to invest their money.
If CIRT is not to blame (somehow) either directly (lets hope not) or indirectly (via Cornell) in the manipulation of this stock, then the only culprits I can think about are either some rotten MM's, or some organized "tribes" that deliverately play down good stocks so they can load more. On my MOBL stock a certain "guru" (Tobin), was advicing his ship to buy 1/3-rd of their position @ below 0.2, another 1/3-rd at below 0.16, and I forgot about the other 1/3-rd. When his instructions came out (he even posted them), MOBL (after a great Q numbers and forward looking statements) was at 0.25. Now, it was taken down to around 0.15. Just insane. No wonder why several companies (that I know about - who knows how many others are there) wish to get out of being public companies, and are trying to buy back their shares so as to go back being private companies.
These crooks are pure and simple destroying many companies in their quest for a fast (dirty) buck.
Mike
