22nd Century Group Inc (XXII)

[follyism]

Tom, thanks. I appreciate that you've gotten some value out of my posts.

While I've let people speculate about my motives about what I'm trying to do with this stock, I'm actually long again and have been for a bit. Yes, I've been long this stock again as a "trade." Something I've been clear with everyone that I planned on doing as I see this as a trading stock. I'm not getting into specifics of my position here anymore because people are way too vicious and personal on this board when you try to be an honest and open guy about your mistakes and your trades.

I've been critical of this stock while holding it. Believe it or not, you don't actually have to be a cheer leader for a stock just because you own it. Would I like it to go up and go up quick and big now? Of course. Will I sell if it does? Most definitely. That doesn't negate the fact that the stock may continue to go up afterwards but I don't really care about that. I'm not here to be an investor of this company for years (although I may still follow it for years, it's an interesting story). If some of you are, that's fine and I hope it works out for them. I rather opportunistically take advantage of the the inevitable swings to come.

I have not been trying to manipulate the share price lower or scare people out of their shares. For goodness sake, I'm just trying to present a critical view without "bashing" the stock and I seem to be the only consistent person here doing that without ranting about "MULCH" or screaming "scam". I'm not even convinced most of the people here have big enough positions that even if I wanted to "scare people out of their shares" that it would even matter. I'm here just like so many others are here; to discuss the merits and future of the company - both good and bad. While people like to focus on the "bad" of my posts, I've said before that 22nd Century's IP technology is great and I think they would better be focused on that and Pharmaceutical partnerships more so than sinking their money into what I believe will be a money losing cigarette manufacturing enterprise. Cheers.