Actually, Tisdal, short interest is DOWN quite a bit from its highs on Monday and last Friday. The price is not being manipulated; it's down today as more and more retail investors are realizing that ZN never meets its own deadlines and will NEVER announce they have discovered oil because they haven't and they won't. If there was oil beneath Israel, don't you think the big oil companies would have found it already? ZN's only real products are PR's designed to prey on the good faith of inexperienced investors.