No more good news please

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It does matter that the stock is being manipulated. That manipulation is causing the pps to fall on good news, repeatedly. We have all seen this happen on almost every occasion when any good IOC news is announced. Because of this type of manipulation, no 'average' investors will see any reason whatsoever to buy IOC stock, until the pps rises significantly. Because there are no current additional institutional investors adding IOC, and because there are no 'average' investors in the mix, the hedge funds and/or shorts who are manipulating IOC to their advantage have and have worked at creating a very tilted playing field. The computer algorithms that their quants use can be programmed to produce exactly the type of results that we see today--as long as there are not enough additional players in the marketplace of IOC shares. That second point is critical to their success. Up to a point, they can offset a fair amount of traditional buying and selling with their algorithms. Only with a surge of additional buyers will their algorithms fail to hold the line on IOC pps. Looking back over years of IOC price manipulation, you can see how these types of drops are followed by pps rises soon afterward. The funds/shorts that can both anticipate and cause such price fluctuations stand to make easy money. This will, it seems, continue as long as there are no new institutional or 'average' investors to offset the ability of the funds/shorts to take such advantage of IOC good news. Personally, I believe that the main catalysts that will cause additional significant investment will be both positive arbitration results and a positive and higher resource certification, leading to a higher than expected resource payment. And I do not think the arbitration result alone will be enough. It will have to be both before we get solid investment from additional players. All of the other IOC discoveries will only reap their rewards for IOC, and us, somewhere down the (long) road.
As everyone says: use or flush