RE: Reason VNP is going under 7If you believed a stock was going up, and you wanted to encourage that move, you could do two things.
1. Take the facts. Put a positive spin on them. Pump the stock.
2. Be duplicitous. Take the same facts. Put a negative spin on them. Encourage people to short. (especially now, when everybody wants to short everything.) How does that move the stock up? In the short term it doesn't. But when, as you believe, the stock moves up, there's a body of investors that will have to cover and that will magnify the move.
Now, it's impossible to know what Harold (or anybody else here) is really thinking. That's why it's so important to do your own DD. In this game, if things go wrong, you can only blame yourself.