Yeah, I know all about George Sharp and how he successfully screwed XUII. The rumour is he runs the pumpanddumps.com website. I don't care about his 300 tweets a day, but his damn PR releases really screw things up as they end up on google finance and yahoo finance news. He is very shady - but his PR campaign definitely tainted XUII. If I recall, his newswire releases did not come out until day 2 on XUII, which means the VM pick may be OK for tomorrow.
I also know about the shorting group on ihub. I posted various things on the XUII board about Sharp and the ihub shorting group and all my posts were removed.
VM is never as good as APS anyhow and their promos only usually are decent for 3 days. I hope the next APS pick can gain traction; APS was easy money for a long time. Sharp claims he was the catalyst for the BOPT halt; a halt on an APS pick would be brutal. My plan for the next APS pick would be to try to get in early for the initial bounce, and then hold off until day 3 to see if the pick gains traction (use to do this on some of their picks anyhow).
Every trades a winner, and every trades a loser, and the most you can hope for is to die in your sleep.