If a person or persons allied with, for example, Barrack want to gain a sizable chunk of shares to gain a better deal in the future they have a lot of cash to work with. When you see a new sale below the existing bid, this is not someone wanting to make a profit. Thus factors such as the current POG, a down market, an insider making a few bucks have little to do with the daily share price.

The number of people that watch this board are not going to make a huge difference in the "enemy" plan, as the majority of persons outside of Agoracom are only watching the share price and covering their portfolio - so you see silver on a spiral as is SLI right now. If big money came in on May 2nd, they may have a mental stop loss rather than a digital one.

I'm not sure how many days above $2.00 Amex regulations has to have, or if a blip below that could mean a re-start, but an Amex listing could at least provide protection for naked shorting. I don't know if Lori has some of the big guns lined up to protect the $2.00 level and we will never know that. It is unfortunate that the laws of supply and demand are not allowed to proceed. Look at the massive illegal contracts in the silver and gold markets and still they are allowed to continue.

The whole bottom line is dependent on the concentration of gold the deep drills produce, and I expect the massive anomaly results will knock the pants off all markets, and the major manipulators are aware of that also; the minor ones, such as what happened last year are also dangerous, but not as much as when the final figures are on the table.