considering that the mantra for the last 25 years is that small businesses are the lifeblood of the American economy .. one would think there is some basic protection built in for them .. what one immediately realizes as they do some digging (mine started due to that interview with PB on cnbc noted in post 8 above) is that there isn't any
protection granted or given .. it's an all out war with battles fought daily
to be clear <and why i can't abide mass generalizations> i'm only comfortable talking about co.s i've actually done the DD in .. and i'll also be clear .. i rarely spend time on any co. i'm not invested in .. i'm funny that way .. i have a *FINANCIAL* interest in most of those co.s where i actually post ;-)
tho' to be clear i have watched rt l2 on many co.s for folks who've asked my opinion re: trading patterns/shorting .. which i haven given privately via pm .. but as i've noted certain patterns start to emerge on other co.s (like ftds' going MIA after showing)
massive amounts of volume pumped thru by X entities only means 2 things to me .. legit dilution by mgmt or counterfeit volume done by wash trading/circular trading or swaps via multiple accts and ex clearing (which inevitably leads to NSS)
if the co. has an ungagged TA and the info is shown to not be coming from corporate .. it's not too difficult to read between the lines
as an investor in both JBII and EXPH .. both co.s are similar in that both are legit .. i have to say i never worried about jbi's survival as i did expo's
both have ungagged TA's tho' expo's TA doesn't give out float or restricted share info .. just OS and AS
imo JBI via JBII .. will be a paradigm shifting co. and their *stock* will be talked about a decade down the road .. like a few other paradigm shifting co.s were b4 them
expo holdings provides employment for 35 Americans and has fortune 100 co.s as clients .. current mgmt has consistently stated that not one co. insider has sold their restricted common shares .. only with full transparency can that be proven .. having been a sor there approx 1 year longer than jbii .. i don't doubt their integrity .. like many other *unseasoned* mgmts' that came public via a r/m into a shell .. they were both naive and inexperienced re: the shark infested waters of the us markets circa 2006 and as such have made plenty of mistakes
i look forward to both co.s' mgmt teams *executing* in 2011 and 2012
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