I was replying to TheOcho when he said "Our financier only gets hurt with a rise in share price. "
There is no way Calm Seas would be hurt by a rising share price.
They would, as you said, benefit by a sharp rise in share price provided that they managed to sell some of their shares into it. However that would be a short term one time benefit if the rise was brief because only due to a pump, as opposed to real news which would result in a real gain that held. And if pumps (as opposed to real news) were done too often it would have a very detrimental effect on the share price and over the long term hurt Calm Seas more than it had benefitted them. (Unlike a typical trader, Calm Seas dosen't have the option of just dumping KBLB when it's done with it and moving on. Which IMHO is why traders show such little concern for their long term effects on a company.