well, though i agree with you about intervention in the markets, there must be other players out there with an interest in holding things up here too, other than just greensperm. e.g. i was watching pmcs on island towards the close (i'm short, and if i'm around my machine, i usually have it or something up). anyway, right towards the close, a big chunk of 100k+ shares came in on the bid @ 5.95. not that that's unusual, i suppose, but is very unusual for pmcs on island (i.e. i've never seen it before). that's on the one hand, on the other hand, it was sold pretty hard - gone within the last 5 minutes of trading. i'm sure that wasn't alan. whether its someone whose fate is tied up with the green man's or not, who knows. but there are other players out there ... (this presumably whoever it was who spent all that money getting pmcs up from below $5 to $7 during the rally).