Ok...this is a open forum question for management...a hypothetical one...looking more for their opinion....ok, so here it is

Lets suppose you're managing a company with great prospects. You would like to get the stock price down for one reason or another (say to issue stock options or a PP for friends or just to allow your buddies a chance to get a large number of shares at a reduced price). Ok, so the question is this.....

Would you just blatenly withhold good news and issue all bad news and just sit back while your professional buddies manipulate your stock down....while all the time acting as though you're helpless to market forces...all the time knowing the market regulators will not act

OR

Would you issue good news and screw it up so bad that at the end of the day your stock gets hammered down anyways....and in doing so, you include the market regulators in your actions by having them halt your stock

OR

Is there some other method that you would prefer...something a little less obvious

Hypathetically speaking of course