I just gotta ask...
...even if my question confirms cincy45069's assertion that I should join his book of the month club!
Q. Does this senario leave me with the same number of shares I owned BEFORE the "stroke" of the pen?
"Pen stroke and filing is all that is needed to make at least 6.1B or greater vanish into thin air."
True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
from his1839 play "Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy"