Multi, I don't think it's simple all the way around. Shorting aside, I think investor sentiment is split. Some are selling out and have lost faith in the company. Some think the prices are rock bottom and are buying. Whenever there's a pop, we bleed down, I think, because common investors are looking to flip or to dump out. Reason being is that the stock has followed such a predictable pattern in recent times and the lengths of time between the pops seem to be getting longer, which results in more drastic and sooner dumping at the pops. This is what I mean by equal buying and selling. And it's not so simple to say that naked shorting alone ruins companies on the pinks. Many companies on the pinks are scams and purposefully ruin themselves -- Look at CMKX!!! We don't even know definitively if naked shorting is occurring (and we certainly don't know if it is occuring to the extent that many here claim). But we DO know that many companies on the pinks have scammed many investors, all along claiming naked shorting as the culprit. So, you can't say that you can verify through DD that a company is legit on the pinks, because we never get any real info about a company on the pinks, and many companies that "good DD" claims to have established as legit end up being scams.
The whole market on the pinks stinks...from the companies to the mm's on down. It's all a mess and there's no one way to look at it. I do like Qbid, because they have a product that we all can see (at least some of us right now :) ) But I don't like Qbid, because they sometimes act like several other shady companies on the pinks (i.e. They don't release numbers, they release PR's that leave investors with more questions than answers, and they blame mm manipulation as the reason for their stock price -- all methods employed by other companies that have turned out to be scams).
The positives of Qbid, IMO, outweigh the potential negatives at this point in the game.
Best to you and good luck to all!
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