RE: Fight the shorters If this has all been an orchestrated smackdown along the lines of the massive short position in silver, then nothing will happen. The regulators in the US all have their fingers in the cookie jar. Outfits like JPM (who inherited their massive short position from Bear Stearns) get unlimited sums of money from the Fed to maintain and/or increase the position whenever necessary. Selected players from the MSM are likely on the take as well. Another situation I am monitoring is TSLA, who will likely run into every obstacle imagineable going forward. It is pretty cler to me that certain parties involved do not want to see a less expensive, high performance all electrc vehicle to go mainstream at some point in the near future. For the sake of the bulls here (me incl) there better not be something like this going on behind the scenes (ie. at the urging of AAPL and those who have a vested interest in that co)