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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum Douglas Lake Minerals Inc DLKM

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Douglas Lake Minerals Inc > When $175 wipes out $3.8 million.
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Post by tobinator01 on Apr 14, 2009 9:50pm

When $175 wipes out $3.8 million.

I had noted in my Douglas trip report two things: Insufficient corporate staffing and a negative presence potentially intent on disrupting the company's ability to fund operations. What I believe we saw today were examples of both.

Stockarchangel appropriately pointed out that yet again we see a late filing notification. I believe it is not evident of a lack of management competence but the lack of having someone in Vancouver responsible for seeing to it that official documents get filed on time. My suspicion is that Harp, now that he is back home, may begin to address this issue.

The second example is what I titled the post "When $175 wipes out $3.8 million". Yep that's right folks. Go to the following link. Type in DLKM and a quote box will show up. Click on Depth/LII and look on the right had side. It lists all of the trades for the last two days.

https://www.otcbb.com/

For two+ days, there was not a single trade go off below 39 cents. Today the second to last trade was 41 cents on 57,900 shares for a +1 cent for the day. Then, someone dumped 500 shares to drop the price 6 cents to close it down 5 cents. It is certainly possible that someone needed to generate $175 quickly, but I think there's more to it. My suspicion is that someone wanted to paint the tape to close the stock down to shake the Douglas tree. Douglas longs not knowing the stock has traded over 39 cents for the last few days, seeing a sudden 12% drop may conclude something is wrong and sell the bid tomorrow. Thinly traded stocks like Douglas are often moved in this manner, which can often discourage longs from holding.

By the way, the 500 share trade wiped out $3.8 million in Douglas market cap.
Comment by RicherNow on Apr 14, 2009 10:29pm
UNBELIEVABLE, It looks like someone passed 500 shares to a known "friend" and made the stock look like it tanked... I have seen this trick a number of times before.  It is hard not to suspect a game of some kind is a foot.  I think Toby is right... someone is shooting at DLKM... trying to scatter the flock.  Bought another chunk of shares today.
Comment by w256mgr on Apr 14, 2009 10:57pm
  I think we will open at .42 and close at .45 tomorrow 43101 is very close 
Comment by stockarchangel on Apr 15, 2009 10:53am
Could it be that the bid was .35 LOL?  We just don't have enough depth on the bid side. We're into the closing session of tax season here in the US, and somebody probably needed some extra cash at the end of the day and had no choice.  Same thing happened this morning, b/a was .34/.38, someone sold, next level was .31/.38.  If anything, someone has been doing a ...more  
Comment by handbell on Apr 15, 2009 3:39pm
Well...I was happy to pick up a few more shares at .34 this AM...been trying for several days.Best to all