George,

I must return the compliment and thank you for having created a monitor space through which I (and other CEO's) can communicate directly with stakeholders.  The service is appreciated and needed in this day and age when bashing trolls can just come and take over an unmonitored board.

While I will not comment on specific market activities since my July 1s post, I thought I would share my impressions of what are some of the interesting ongoing fallouts. 

First, it does look as if market dynamics are forcing the predatory shorts traders into a cover and short higher frenzy.  This must be getting to be very expensive for them.

My bet is that they are getting scared and desperate, so they are doubling down on their social media disinformation campaign with a simple goal, block new potential buyers by silencing positive posters.

Something that is very easy to do on Stockhouse, you just need to have one Troll (or should I say Tribble) come an make a lot off subject posts thereby pushing down all post that will present the positive side of HPQ.

Why go through all the trouble, simple, the traders doing the predatory short are fully aware that the volume and price actions on the stock are generating interest from new potential investors making a DD on HPQ, so before this translate into new buying, something that may financially ruin them, they must find a way to discourage it.

Second, if people ask, I can contact Stockhouse on Monday and ask them to have the troll posts removed and his account block, I have been able to it in the past, but my best advice is for people to stop using Stockhouse and migrate to Agoracom or even CEO.ca, as these are monitor boards.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Bernard Tourillon
CEO