antlizzie , thank you very much for your reply to my question/theory, i guess , if, and that's a great big if, I had a couple of cool million lying around and wanted to accumulate for my alterior motives i would enlist the services of a great broker or two myself. I have added your post to my trading folder under the heading of Cross Trades. OK, so the broker then says to me, "ya, we'll get you your shares at $1.05, maybe lower, could take a couple of weeks though and there's no gaurantee the stock won't take off with a news release of another hit cause you know its coming right?", i say, " you bet it is " he says, "If it starts to take off do you want us to pull the pin and grab em up?" Hell ya i say....lol

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Noster.