I always find your contributions very, very informative but I am going to perhaps challenge you on one single point.  That is the amount of shares held by board participants.

I of course have no firm numbers on that issue but in my view most persons on this board have come here after participating in other boards(since this admittedly superior forum is rather recent in appearance).

I note that in some other boards there are well over 100 views of entries even though we are well outside the trading week.  When I get to views during the actual trading action we are talking about 600 plus.

If the average of those 600 was 2000 shares that takes us well over the 1 million.  I suggest - again without verification - that long holders are both likely to view a number of boards aaaaaannnnnnd are likely to hold well over 2000 shares which would upwardly impact any average.

I am not a subscriber to conspiracy theories as I am a believer in the ebbs and flows of the market.  Having said that I am beginning to understand that in the grander scheme of things the various postings have each in their own way some small impact on that "tidal movement".

Just a point for discussion.

Onward and Upward.

 Montrose