I, like many of you, am fighting off the "ghosts" at other BBs. The followng has been posted at another BB but has application to many aspects of the JPMs...notably the silver stocks. also posted at inbred hub for fun:

"Let's take xxx Silver...I think it is so undervalued here that we will look back in amazement at these bargain prices. XXX has a lot of company such as SLW, so we know that the shorts are out full force. These not-free-trading markets are very confusing and there are so many factors to consider that it can make one's head spin. We are in a period of massive futures/derivative leveraged/paper pressure to the downside on the PMs and JPMs. We can expect stocks like this one to be under constant attack by those who do not want to see any upside in the PMs...very powerful forces that have their backs against the wall (street)...who have a real negative agenda. This is no secret but these fraudulent entities, even though exposed, are going for broke in defiance of the law. Again, I cite the now 25 law suits filed against JP Morgan...the ultimate short of silver. For the "regulators", the criminals are so big that the US Gov. and Admin. are looking the other way...actually part of the process. This is not news. Perhaps I am being redundant so excuse the fault.

For most, there just isn't enough time to read all that's out there...such as Martin Armstrong or Jim Sinclair’s, John Embry, Bill Murphy, Ted Butler and a growing army of dedicated professionals that seek enforcement of the law and protection for the average investor and free trading markets. Reading the charts can equally as disparaging because they can totally unreliable in manipulated markets.

Will Martin Armstrong be right? Martin Armstrong made a prediction on silver, noting that is being manipulated and that investors should be careful...saying that "to sustain any bullish posture for the immediate terms, 2010 MUST close above ...: the $21 area. Since silver closed over $28, I am deducing that we are in a very bullish period here...according to Martin. That sure sympathizes with all the pro silver camp mentioned above, and these guys collectively sure know what the hell they speak of.

The next thing we are mesmerized about is the timing of such fraudulent markets. How long will the downside pressure be successfully exerted on the JPMs, and stocks such as SLW and XXX...to say nothing of the explorers...and such rare nuggets as SFMI?

Example: I'm looking at the XXX chart (which may or may not mean anything). The price of silver has gone from $18 in Aug. to $31 and now backed off to the $28 area. XXX has gone from about $7 in Aug to about $13.30 in Dec. and has now backed off to $10. So, let’s it gained $6.30…and a normal pullback might reach down 50% of this last gain…to about where it is right now…around $10. Should it turn around here, in normal markets, we might expect it to see a gain of 50% above its last high of $13.30…which would be around $20...before another pullback.

XXX's total revenue is up, its operating expenses are down and its net income is way up $50 million from 2008. It is still trading above its 200 day moving average of about $9.30. It is short and intermediate term bearish with a bottom at $9.30 level and long term bullish with a high of over $14. Now all this stuff to me is questionable in these not-for-free trading markets because of the abnormal fraud present in the market. Same holds for the SFMI'sof the world too.

The way I and others see it is that, if the criminal shorts can be over whelmed by the physical silver buyers…then we get a huge disconnection between the price of silver and the undervalued prices of the silver stocks. In that situation, anything is possible on the upside. Stocks like XXX could virtually double in short order because it would take a mere percentage of a percentage of the S&P moving into JPM stocks to cause a run the likes we have never seen…that will make the Dotcom bubble look like nothing.

So, because the viciously greedy, powerful forces at large want to be in on the upside, they will want to be positioned at fraudulently induced lows. They do not want shmucks like us to know when that will be and they want to rip off as many of our XXX shares as possible. So we have these tremendous globally competitive factors at work who want to own the silver bullion…and we have to guess when the dam will break on the manipulators.
In my own very humble opinion, I don’t think anyone can accurately predict the timing coming into this tidal wave of investment into the silver markets….even Martin Armstrong. And he is very bullish. So, will “they” keep gold pinned down until the summer? Will silver achieve its historical ratio to gold of about 16 to 1?...which would allow silver to go to about $80 theoretically without disturbing the whole gold suppression ploy too much.

Then, I say to myself, if all hell breaks loose and “they” must allow silver to achieve $80 from $28 …that’s almost a 300% gain. Will an XXX fly to $90 based on such a scenario? I think so…and the leverage factor would probably even double that…so XXX could conceivably hit $180. Huh! Okay, let’s be really conservative…. $40.

What could happen to an SFMI? Yikes, in the above case scenario, scary to the upside.