Archive for July, 2006

Readers fire back on OTC BB shorts

New visitor? Consider subscribing by RSS or by email.There sure are a lot of folks out there that disagree with my belief that the OTC BB short situation, in general, is a tempest in a teapot. To be fair, I wanted to publish their counterpoint. [...]

The truth about OTC BB shorts

For years, a devoted cadre of conspiracy theorists have spread wild tales about vast short positions across OTC BB stocks. Like all good conspiracies, this one thrived in the darkness. There were no reported statistics for OTC BB shorts, so the theory couldn’t be verified or debunked. Until this week, that is. [...]

Insider buying at microcap companies

According to insidercow.com, insiders and/or 10% owners recently bought shares in these microcaps:

U.S. Energy Systems (USEY). Marc S. Brody d/b/a FPA bought another 15,000 shares at $4.26. He is the third largest shareholder. USEY has a nice chart.
Smart Online Solutions (SOLN.PK). Swiss trading operation Atlas Capital SA bought 400,000 shares at [...]

Positive preclinical data not enough to lift Novavax (NVAX) out of downtrend

Vaccine technology company Novavax (NVAX) continues to slump even after announcing positive pre-clinical results from its VLP (virus-like particle) platform. The company believes the VLP platform will be capable of developing superior vaccines for both seasonal influenza (aka flu shots) and H5N1 and other strains of avian flu.
The VLP process creates a particle [...]