Replies to post #15335 on Guided Therapeutics Inc (GTHP)

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Auctus didn't register as a securities dealer.

It's dry reading, but I recommend reading the SEC complaint.

https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp25741.pdf

This is really interesting to discuss. This epitomizes the risks and hazards of OTC trading, IMO.

The SEC is specifically calling Auctus a "toxic lender." My definition of "toxic lender" is a lender that also shorts the stock, sending the borrower into a death spiral. GTHP suffered from that kind of toxic lender between 2014 and 2019, but the PPS held after that 2019 R/S and I don't think it would have held if Auctus was shorting.