Concordia Healthcare Corp. T.CXR.R

How the stock market works (oldie, but a goodie)

[laffinatbaggies]

Worth a repost as it seems relevant again today.
People just keep putting their heads in the sand and continue with the bagholder method.

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as the supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market work.

When I posted this last summer, CXR was over $30. The 2nd time it was over $10.
CXR is now under $3. How many bagholders were made along the way?

[TraderBen]

LOVE LOVE LOVE this story.  I never get tired of it. 

[suitman87]

you story made no valid points, unless you are suggesting that insiders at concordia made an effort to screw over outside investors by contiously building up hype for heir stock suggestings that its super valueble then selling it off before it crashes in hope of making a short gain. That is highly illegal and doubt insiders are that dumb, espeically considering that they were the biggest losers in

[POMMERANTZ]

Well suitman, it wouldn't be the first time that corporate executives fleeced investors.  And insiders made out pretty well when they sold their stock (Thompson exited his when it was around $13 - and most of his stock was given to him for cents from his Mercari days. Source:  SEDI.com).   It goes without saying that the UK bill will be passed; it is in the last leg. A lot of

[rad10]

agreed Pommerantz - the SEC and OSC need to show some teeth.  There needs to be some sort of action against misleading investors with outlandish statements like firing on all cylinders followed by massive write downs and inadequate disclosure about sales teams etc.  The company survives in a fashion and there will be a restructuring with first lien and bank debt being traded for what