Lots of fixing needed to save the marketsand the best way imho is to hound your elected representatives with what isn't fair for stock market investors for the way brokerages and banks have chosen to manipulate the value out of stocks by coercion and conversion.
Short-selling to me is just wrong! Puts and Calls are in the same heap as far as I am concerned.
It is just a bunch of sharks stacking the deck in their favour by complicating the game with loopholes hidden behind carefully chosen words that are confusing and difficult to understand.
These guys conspire as marketmakers who control direction of shareprice for their own gain by ganging up and disseminating bad news or good news, all for making a dollar more than the legal percentages they are allowed to charge for helping to level out the ups and downs in the marketplace. They used to deal with odd lots of shares and such but switched along the way to self-serving manipulation of shareprice to profit themselves with renumeration of cash or shares.
I don't invest in anything that, initially, I don't understand!
Sadly these marketmakers are getting better and now it is being done by deep pockets that can buy the pot anytime they want.
Yes, I have concerns that STZ is the marketmaker and not just neck deep in a new industry that they are having trouble reigning in after a takeover.
The first 5 billion Canadian dollars shook up the pot industry and legitimized it as the biggest investment yet to become a part of a new industry and Bruce Linton took it because he knew that normal business fundamentals would make an appearance to replace the crazy highs that everything pot was achieving.
I have no doubt that STZ is calling the shots at Canopy and Acreage and the near total destruction of Acreage to this point seems like a near impossibility, motivated by an ulterior motive.
STZ came out bottomfeeding, not only on the revisited deal for Acreage which was once valued at about 4 billion down to $38 million but the several other companies they are shareholders in or financing that they were talking about vending in to the Canopy USA new unbrella company.
Will they dare do this one more time with the recent pressure on the shareprices on all of the companies they are interested in.
They were smart enough to leave the option to walk from the Acreage deal which opened the door for the pant dropping offer that is currently in the works.
Are they honest and fair acquisitors with all the shareholders in mind or are they just taking care of STZ shareholders.
The lawyers are showing up now because of the unusual behavior of a couple of stocks that got to this point because somebody is stacking the deck and want to run away with the spoils for nothing by doing deals that I am not even sure the lawyers and accountants understand.
To me Canopy Growth is still a leader in the industry and getting an American footprint is good business and Acreage has what is needed for rapid set-up on US soil, if we can get fair treatment by the protectors of US business interests.0
All shareholders need to be put first infront of management and good management knows that and acts accordingly.
We are on the verge of Canopy USA!
Let's see if our hotshots can do this!
glta and dyodd