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Stock spammers gain while followers lose
Robert Lemos, 2007-01-22
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Stock spammers gain while followers lose 2007-01-23
Anonymous (1 replies)
If stock spam is so predictable, has anyone considered doing a short sell on these shares, on say, the 3rd day of the campaign? Would this be legal anyway? ...

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Re: Stock spammers gain while followers lose 2007-01-23
Robert Lemos
The authors of the paper actually briefly mention that the research seems to suggest shorting a stock is a good strategy (p.21 of the paper). However, they mention that--because these are sparsely-traded stock in general (when not being touted)--that shorting might be impractical. In many cases, the...

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Stock spammers gain while followers lose 2007-01-23
Anonymous
well fact is, people are still putting money into, cause not all the people lose their money, obviously the first people that jump on it buy up their shares and sell it before price drops are making money, why else would these people keep doing it?...

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Stock spammers gain while followers lose 2007-01-29
Anonymous
you cannot short pink sheets or otcbb issues. also, is anyone looking at the other (silent) winner in this scam?, ie the brokerage houses. gaine or no gain they get increased commission volume during the pump and dump...

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