A tactical manouver My gut feeling is that the latest hoopla about the possible sale of the company is a tactical manouver by Bates and the holy family, cronies et al. Bates wants to keep his job and also to live and fight another day given that the met coal market is coming back to life and also the pending law suit that the company might win. Bates would not like to lose these two opportunities and be out of the game. For if he wins the lawsuit, he is back in the game and why let another reap the spoils of victory and at a time that the met coal market is in the uptrend? But he has to overcome a major hurdle if he is to stay on the job: the angry shareholders at the next AGM who woulde like nothing less than his head on a plate. To stave off this wrath of the shareholders, he most likely engineered the GMP securities thing. Do not ever believe what this idiot is saying or is capable of. As I said in the past, when this man is doing nothirng and is only hanging around, he is just a harmless idiot. But when he is starting doing things he can turn into a dangerous idiot, both for us and himself too. So it is my gut feeling that this rise of the price is just the latest hoopla engineered by a man who has no scruples or would stop at nothing to clink on to power and privilege and to hell with everybody else. don't get fooled again and buy this stock. Let the dust settle first and then you can buy.