I think it's pretty clear to most of us that Shorts have had their way with the 3 Amigos for quite some time.
I just wanted to point out a few things and get as many eyes on this point as possible to not only get a better understanding of the extent of manipulation but more specifically the extreme obviousness in their tactics.
I get the sense that Shorters (as you will see) have gotten away with this for so long that they looked to have crossed over into being overly confident in their Short tactics.
I suggest to get the full picture that you compare the short data alongside the 1Mth chart to really bring out the pattern.
TUD
TUD 1mth Chart
Feb 12 SP was at $3.39
Feb 12 Shorts stood at 16,497
Feb 11 SP was $3.28 Shorts were 58,406 yet Feb 10 shorts were only 4,738
Looks like they were a day early but darn close the short term top
Then by Feb 18 Shorts had decreased to 7,321 with SP at $2.96 which lines up with short term bottom
Then March 1 was the next start. The shorts only totaled 550, so let the next shorting raid begin.
Between March 2 and March 5 Shorts remained relatively low allowing for the price to rise.
But come Mach 8 when the SP was $3.34 the shorts began to climb once again and the next day on March 9th with SP at $3.43 the shorts had increase to 18,865
Interesting that the beginning of both raids when in the mid $3.30
And with yesterday's down pressure look at the shorts which stood at 38,029
Can anyone guess what comes next?
Next one is AMK.
AMK
AMK 1Mth Chart
Start with Feb 9 touched short term high at $.37 Short interest hit 143,970 which is 3rd highest over the past month, great timing.
Next is Short low on March 1 at 7,500 with SP at 36 when just the previous day the SP was 32, perhaps they got surprised.
Then from March 2 they continued to increase their shorts all the way up to 206,943 for March 10 and as you can see from the short data they really dug their heels deep into this one.
again
Can anyone guess what comes next?
Lastly we have TUO.
TUO
TUO 1Mth Chart
Let's start with Feb 11 Shorts at 330 and SP $2.72
Feb 12 SP $2.75 let the shorts begin at 22,350 which by the way was 72% of the float.
Then Feb 17 we hit a low and the shorts were down to 2,420 and the next day were 1,400 just before we saw the share price run to a high on Feb 22 at $2.81
The next day Shorts were 500
You can then see shorts bottoming march 2-3 only to begin once again
TUO intraday yesterday swung quite a bit but bounced back relatively well considering but perhaps TUO spooked them a little when it didn't remain on the low side.
and again
Can anyone guess what comes next?
To me when I look at this the pattern is extremely strong evident so trade accordingly.
If you need to sell to move to another play or pay some bills by all means go at it. No one can be faulted for making that decision
BUT
If you sell because you got "Spooked" do yourself a favor and check in on these short numbers because A "Spooked" seller is what they're counting on and besides, do you really want to give them the chance to cover only to see it pop a few days later?
All games.
The other obvious thing to watch for are the Bashing Lackeys. They come out of nowhere, have ZERO research or anything tangible that they post but rather resort to weakly pieced together personal attacks and work hard to post many times over to bury interesting posts.
And they're getting overly confident about their games and will even brag about it openly. He's an example from AMK BB yesterday.
Posted at 10:15AM then at 10:50 the SP price JUST HAPPENS to get crushed from $.345 and only 5Mins later touched its intra day low of $.30
Now that's one hell of a coincidence.....?
I would suggest keeping an eye on these 2 specific posters that work in concert with each other.
When they start flooding the BBs, get ready because you're going to get a great opportunity to buy some additional shares on the cheap.
I personally like to refer to STOCKIEEE as Lackey_Clause because when he shows up, I know to get ready for some great gifts.
Happy Trading.