Celsion Corporation (CLSN)

[macnqueso]

When you really think about it what does shorting a company that is trying to bring a new treatment indication for HCC do? What does manipulating its stock do? Who does it hurt? Well it certainly hurts the under-informed retail investor, the weak hand, the dabbler, who will most likely buy high, sell low and run fretting once manipulation begins... and then stay away from the market complaining about the unfairness of it all... it does not hurt the serious long investor... in fact the truly savy investor takes advantage of the games of the market to buy on good price points and can do so much later in the game because of this type of activity... so who does it really hurt?

It hurts the company that is trying to bring the indication to market because it makes it so much more difficult to raise funds at a reasonable price... selling their shares on the cheap... or in desperate times turning to toxic financing options... it hurts the companies...

Which means that ultimately it hurts the cancer patient... because heavy shorting and market manipulation make it more difficult to bring an indication to market... there will be fewer indications... fewer treatment options...

One's heart is never far from one's wallet... for most of us humans anyway... so when one makes a living shorting small biotechs... one's heart is routinely rooting for failure of their treatment indications... which whether we know it or not, admit it or not, means we are ultimately rooting against the cancer patient... over time... if one does this a lot over time... does it begin to make that person small and cynical... I wonder...

I understand the short game and the market manipulation... I take advantage of it myself by buying low... I am not claiming moral superiority... I just don't think I want to make a living or become wealthy by rooting against cancer patients...