I really don't understand why people are getting their knickers in a knot over shorters and day traders. (Or is it nickers in a NOT?)
Day traders add liquidity to the market and make it easier for you and I to buy and (why would we do it?) sell shares. Nothing more, nothing less.
True that shorters have the effect of driving the SP down, but those shares have to be bought back sometime. Now if I paid $5.00 for stock worth $4.00 with the hope that it would go to $6.00 then I would not be happy with shorters who would drive the price down to its true value. But we don't have that here. We have, what many of us believe to be, an undervalued stock that will in the fullness of time reveal its true value that will be much higher than it is now. Where will the shorters be? Scrambling as their shorts are filled (read into that what you may) as the sp soars due to value and the panic-filled shorters. So tell me why, as a long, I should be concerned about those shorting a stock with as much future as this one.
Now, shorting lends itself to bashing and there is no question where they stand on this board. So bash the bashing not the shorting.
Day traders alternately bash and pump but there in lies the problem, not day trading in itself.
My 2ยข worth