It's fairly obvious that some large company (or companies?) is shorting the stock price and that was even hinted at when I called Protokinetix a few weeks ago. Although I know that can be benefitial for some investors, in terms of buying shares really cheap, at some point I myself would like to know that the price shares are actually going to be profitable. (DUH!) I wonder how a small company like this breaks out of the "shorting" situation and becomes profitable. Can "shorting" actually block a company's financial progress, or even ruin it? I might be imagining this, but it seems like whenever some new important press release comes out, the share price drops fast...

(In short -pardon the terrible pun-) any feedback or comments on what people know about "shorting" would be helpful.