Bashers and Pumpers.Paid pumpers do exist for the sleazier companies. We will never know if some of the exuberant pumpers here are being paid to do that. I have always doubted that bashers get paid. They hardly existed years ago and even more rarely got paid. There are only 2 reasons to bash. If we postulate that big influential players do this, they either are perennial short artists or they want stock .. long. If they are short players they bash hardest AFTER they have sold. If they want stock in a good deal they bash at the same time that they are buying and usually at the low end of the price cycle. Some of the bashers on this Board are small fry players and can be ignored except we don't know who they are. In my experience this stock is too 'tight' to be a good short at this level considering that there is one heck of a lot of coal starting to be 43-101 ed. I doubt if there are any sharp pro shorters in here .. YET. Yes they will come at some time later if this price escalates in a big hurry. This coming week should finally tell us if this is a truly big-league play or not. Heading for +$5 or sub $1.