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Sparkletoothon Dec 19, 2011 3:40pm
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RE: RE: ceo
RE: RE: ceoFor what it's worth, I've seen this type of trading action before when the CEO changes, even in a good market: the new guy gets options, the old guy sells his shares, and the net result is downward pressure on the stock.
Now, that said, this is a particularly severe sell-off of all the juniors across-the-board, and there are several factors:
1) Tax-loss selling - some of these positions will be re-established in the 1st quarter of 2012. The last two years had bull market runs in the 4th quarter, and we had the opposite effect: traders sold in January to defer capital gains until the next year.
2) Very dramatic sell-off in the gold price last week. Is the bottom about to fall out of the gold price?
3) Very uncertain times, with huge dollars sitting out, waiting for a compelling reason to buy and not seeing it yet.
Anyway, I have my stink bids in, trying to buy low, hoping 20 cents turns out to be low; another thing I've learned over the years is they're never so low that they can't go lower in a bad market...