...management doesn't care about it as it gives them cheap shares for PP's and private purchases, and they all know eventaully they are going to get a good selling price when the time comes.

I sincerely hope that isn't the case, definately not a morally responsible approach to running a public company. This type of thing is what gives the Venture a black eye.


...the share price will cimb ahead of the offer as some groups and traders will smell the deal ahead of the herd.

Exactly, insider information is almost always leaked to the rich, and they get righer. How do the shorters know when to short? I wouldn't be suprised if for the same reason.

They don't 'smell the deal', lets call a spade a spade - its criminal.

Us retail investors sure have to work under a handicap, eh? If only we could have a level playing field free of HFT and market manipulation...