Bombardier Inc. T.BBD.A

My view of shorts...

[vonSachsenanhal]

Star,
I agree with almost everything you've said on this board and am very grateful for your very well thought out views on Bombardier's stock. However, I don't agree that shorts and longs are quite the same kind of players, just here to earn an honest buck. Some of us longs occasionally become pumpers (usually inadvertantly) because of our enthusiasm for the company. Shorts on the other hand quite deliberately  use a package of dirty tricks, including innuedo, rumours and downright lies to part "widows and orphans" from the their long-held equities.
It's just incredibly dishonest how they beat up Bombardier to the point where people who have held onto this stock for years have thrown in the towel fearing the company was about to go bankrupt.
Look no further than what they just did after the reverse split, driving the stock down into the 70-cent range where many small players finally capitulated.....only to  see bbd.b soar a few weeks later when the shorts covered and pocketed their gains. F-ck the shorts!

[Starsearcher80]

Ok, I get what you're saying, and I don't disagree...kind of.  Hear me out. With regard to dirty tricks etc, I've seen them all.  They are ruthless.  For myself, I know them. I learned about them.  Ironically, it's what brought me back into the stock because I could see it for what it is, and became acutely focused again on the stock. Opportunity knocked. 

[jx7000]

You got that absolutely right. I went through a serious short attack on my Home Capital Group (HCG) stock starting in April 2017. They were paying a good 5.5% div at the time so I bought in just before the short attack started. I should've done a little more due diligence before buying in too much, but I didn't--I wanted the div. A failed hedge fund manager based in San Fran., Calif