Hey Osbert....of course I am on your side...been in this one for many years now. You know I actually don't know if other companies buy stock. I know that if they buy more than 10%, they would become insiders and would have to issue a press release. But I don't believe they would even need that much to be able to control the price.

If they are trying to shake out more, then we probably won't see heavy bidding. A couple days ago, we got up to $5.48, then all the way back down to $5.13, to finish down on the day....of course we have a lot of day traders and what not in on these ones...but smart institutions are using this to their advantage to add to their positions.

There is a firm called Firstenergy, that bought probably clost to 700K+ shares in qec when it was back at the 4.50 range a while back, but they have not sold any at all....and there are a lot of longs out there.

Anywho, looking at the short term doesn't make sense in this play....if everything works out the way a lot of us expect, including qec and tlm with all their investing in these plays, then these prices will look like a bargain.