kag; those are exactly the two reasons i gave. but the speculative part which you had to "be there" to know was the intense spamming campaign going on...you have no idea what was going on. it was intense. the spamming material had complete and utter lies in it, and it was made to look like BOCX was distributing the material.
you can do your internet research and make academic comments, but many of use were there. it was very clear at the time that the spamming material was causing the huge spike in price, and the SEC always halts stocks under those circumstances -- look at CAFE. if we had a little breakout, SEC would have never stepped in.