RE:This is disgusting ...I hate to say this, as I'm rarely critical of the management, but I feel as though the insider buy was designed to get investors to put up buys so that there was volume to sell into. For what reasons? Maybe to exercise their 10 cent options before they expire. Maybe to increase volume while at the same time decreasing the price to buy back a larger volume of shares at a much lower price. Maybe it's one of those wink and nod to an institution to give them cheap shares. Whatever the reason, even in this current market this is not acting within reason, it looks like manipulation for a purpose. These asks are certainly not the average retail investor when you look at the volume. And lets face it, there are far better stocks out there to choose to short.