RE:Predictions for funMany years ago , a shell company made an offer to buy multiple low end oil companies all at once via share exchange since of course it had no cash. One attraction was that those that accepted the offer would realize a tax loss and by and large most of the shareholders were losing money. There was a big "too doo" about this at the time and the regulators stepped in and put a stop to it . The offer was unconditional in that all shares would be taken up irrespective of the number tendered . You would have to be pretty old and have a good memory to remember this as could date back 40-50 years. Candidates today would be those involved in past merger activity like Surge , Whitecap , TOU ------------------------smaller cap Tenth Ave Pete , Hemisphere