As of Jan 31stsomeone jumped in and dumped in 525 k ish worth of NU shares which brings the total of shorts on Canadian exchanges to about 550k, but it is nothing that $25 k worth of investment by investors that believe in this investment couldn't take care of.
Our main man has been nursing this along by fanning the embers and sometimes even producing flames amidst the smoke that surrounds how well we are really advancing our hot ticket skus.
The last decent run was a phoenix in my eyes pulling this from certain death by coming up with new potential in products and marketplace (Tabletz and Japan) which got lost in some other noise about rtd beverages and resurrecting NeuEnergy and the other sku that I can't remember.
It isn't easy to garner marketshare with any old sku. They have to be above the rest and it is the rest that may eat our lunch if our team can't focus and get results on our hot ticket items.
It is tough to make a big fire when the oxygen is getting sucked out of most potpreneurs on both sides of the border. A lot of the blame is going to marketmakers and funds who are grabbing pennies and destroying dollars worth of future potential by attacking what could be successful new companies and destroying their value in the eyes of investors who can't deal with the stacked deck players who are buying the pots.
Securities watchdogs seem toothless to deal with this although every once in awhile they make some noise about going after the perpetrators of destruction for junior hopefuls.
The penalties for this type of market manipulation should be far more severe than the slaps on the wrists that they get now.
If stockmarkets don't fix this "win at all costs attitude" for key players the system will implode upon itself to the point nobody wants to support small entrpreneurs because you can't win.
I think that some of these shiesters should be scared to death to scare the others to honesty and fairplay. Maybe more than scared!!! Kill one, scare the rest!