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Post by babaoriley on Jul 24, 2014 19:50:15 GMT -5
Great posts, Joey, you and Spiro will get along more than famously here! Although I dislike the shorts as much as the next guy, I give them some credit for having the balls to pull these kind of stunts off, and they will pull more off as time goes on. Just watch. True, hard and fast short squeezes are as rare as the El Dorado, and the shorts have had a long time to prepare for various outcomes, and, with so much at stake, nothing is too slimy for them to pull.
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Post by joeypotsandpans on Jul 24, 2014 20:03:02 GMT -5
Who knows Liane, if we get enough membership the next sleazy hedge fund may approach to grease your palms as well ...did he really just say that lol ! joey, My latest theory on YMB is that they have the power to disable your posting for an undetermined period of time. The other night, I had posted once, and received an undeserved thumbs down (as is typical - "someone" routinely does that no matter what I post). But I somehow suspect I was "reported" for no reason, and then I was unable to post anything else that night. I haven't had time to try it again. I was trying to communicate with Nialla44. He says he has been unable to log on here, and that it says he's banned. He's not on the member list, but I would need his IP address to see if it's being blocked. Or maybe he's confusing this board with the "other" board. Well I have been waiting to get disabled (which at this point would probably be a good thing for me lol) as I continue to start threads or add in to current posts recommending posters to check out this forum....I would think it would take more than one reporting to get someone banned but nothing would surprise me at this point. In any case, glad to be here and thanks for keeping a "tight ship" as they say...hopefully I can help sway a nice contingent of investors regardless of their positions and sentiment for healthy discussions. Appreciate you putting this together even though its taken me awhile to really get here for the longer term, as stated I had my motives for being a regular on the YMB.
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Post by kc on Jul 24, 2014 20:04:52 GMT -5
KC, personally i would think that he also has some BIG worries as someone stated he manages 1.2 billion....at $16.90/sh @ 71 mill shares (of course this would be assuming he had the entire short position which I highly doubt and if it were not hedged) he would be wiped out...should be interesting in the not too distant future IMO He has no worries. They work in teams or packs. He will not be the one buying the stock. One of his friends will in a another hedge fund. The next go around it will be his turn to make the big payday. They know how to manipulate the market. They will do it in a way not to get caught. You would think the SEC would figure it out by now. Regarding Yahoo message board. I think that is just a fluke that they change their system when they did. I doubt they are involved CNBC is different. They are complicit is a allow the guy to have a medium to make his -90% prediction. We all should think about filing a complaint with the SEC as this is clearly a case of manipulation But next week or the following week when the big announcement is made perhaps those of us who is been long will be happy and will forget about this crap Glad to see many yahoo posters here along with IHUB posters. I hope is a scam site. Personally I sense they have paid bashers there like F – 15 – retired. All of a sudden when there is good news about to happen he is there bashing mannkind. With the power to get positive mnkd posters banned .
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Post by kc on Jul 24, 2014 20:11:34 GMT -5
Sorry for my grammar and spelling errors. This was on a talking app
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Post by daduke38 on Jul 24, 2014 20:26:02 GMT -5
Joey, Good take! If anyone really read that,........ It was too obvious. MNKD could dilute and go it alone and not go to a $1.00 per share. This is so staged that it is almost too obvious. I have said it over and over on the YMB, but will say it here. Danbury is the biggest clue. I believe they have over 200+ employees there now. And the second thing is we are first and goal at the one with Al Mann at QB (I am not a pumper, just love sports analogies ! Seriously, does one believe the ADA, 16 other commentators, etc. or a guy who's agenda is obvious. If anything, I really believe this is going to have the reverse effect in the near to mid future. If I was leading MNKD right now, I would be punching walls, but they can't say much. A man who doesn't need the money spends the twilight of his life to leave one final benefit isn't going for the field goal, especially after today. That piece actually made me more convinced, It was too dang desperate!
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Post by BD on Jul 24, 2014 21:11:05 GMT -5
liane, I read that thread earlier and it did seem he was talking about the other board. The problem is that folks don't know what "proboards" really means; some think this is proboards and the "other" board isn't, just because it doesn't have the word "proboards" in its web address. In fact they're both "ProBoards", but people don't get it and thus a lot of confusion is generated.
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Post by babaoriley on Jul 24, 2014 22:14:59 GMT -5
That 90% comment actually might be actionable; I wish MNKD would sue the guy. I've seen law suits survive, and even thrive, on a lot less than that.
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Post by joeypotsandpans on Jul 24, 2014 23:58:12 GMT -5
a little more while we're on the topic of short interest....MNKD made the top 30 list and out of the 30 companies guess which one has the highest return for the longs YTD...yep you guessed it: www.businessinsider.com/most-shorted-stocks-2014-7#mannkind-15 and you don't think the shorts in this puppy aren't hurting and desperate to minimize their losses?
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Post by theanalystfromhell on Jul 25, 2014 1:43:36 GMT -5
The net short interest increased another million+ shares today! It is not mathematiaclly possible that it increased by less than this.
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Post by liane on Jul 25, 2014 5:52:39 GMT -5
The net short interest increased another million+ shares today! It is not mathematiaclly possible that it increased by less than this. Hi analyst, Welcome to the board. Can you explain the math behind your statement; I would love to better understand the short side.
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Post by mannmade on Jul 25, 2014 9:33:47 GMT -5
Yes and for some reason YMB does not ban a guy with the handle/screen name "jewhader"
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Post by mannmade on Jul 25, 2014 9:39:04 GMT -5
Joey, Good take! If anyone really read that,........ It was too obvious. MNKD could dilute and go it alone and not go to a $1.00 per share. This is so staged that it is almost too obvious. I have said it over and over on the YMB, but will say it here. Danbury is the biggest clue. I believe they have over 200+ employees there now. And the second thing is we are first and goal at the one with Al Mann at QB (I am not a pumper, just love sports analogies ! Seriously, does one believe the ADA, 16 other commentators, etc. or a guy who's agenda is obvious. If anything, I really believe this is going to have the reverse effect in the near to mid future. If I was leading MNKD right now, I would be punching walls, but they can't say much. A man who doesn't need the money spends the twilight of his life to leave one final benefit isn't going for the field goal, especially after today. That piece actually made me more convinced, It was too dang desperate! Yes apparently they have never down an asset count, which would be the first item in a credible analysis on value. Mnkd owns all it's real estate debt free, 300 to 400m in raw insulin, and numerous patents that are literally likely to be worth a billion or so... And btw, Al Mann has all of his investment in mnkd unsecured in common stock. We go down he goes down...
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Post by theanalystfromhell on Jul 25, 2014 9:57:31 GMT -5
The net short interest increased another million+ shares today! It is not mathematiaclly possible that it increased by less than this. Hi analyst, Welcome to the board. Can you explain the math behind your statement; I would love to better understand the short side. My original statement was flawed because I used estimates of share volume to calculate my number. The site shortvolume.com compiles all of the share sales data by day. Yesterday there were 6.763 Million shares sold of those 3.487M where flagged as short on Level III. Because the number of short sales exceeded the number of real share sales, not enought real shares traded to cover the new (or traded) short positions created during the day. The mathmatical expression for the minimum change in short interest is =2x(shares short) - total shares traded. For yesterday the minimum is only equal to 214k shares increase, but the actual change likely exceeds 1M since some of the shares sold short were new long positions. The rule of thumb is that if the short interest ratio for any day exceeds 50% (.50) then there is a net increase in the total outstanding short interest for a stock. This doesn't hold true that there is always a decrease in short interest when the ratio is less than 50%, because some of the long positions are always traded to other long positions. Real shares traded almost never go exclusively to cover short positions.
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Post by kc on Jul 25, 2014 11:51:28 GMT -5
Yes and for some reason YMB does not ban a guy with the handle/screen name "jewhader" Unreal the antisemitism that exists. Very sad.
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Post by kc on Jul 25, 2014 11:53:23 GMT -5
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