Well, we all know the obvious and have discussed it once too often here. The trading in SFMI is insidious...as it is in so many other well endowed recource stocks.

There are also a myraid of timely factors that the not-for-profit sellers can take advantage of so that it is a miracle there are as many longs and retail shareholders that there are.

We all know that anyone who buys in here is buying because of the advantage that the illicit shorts and some legal shorts have presented. It's really no different than the concentrated shorts on silver by JPMorgan and HSBC. We know that the nefarious forces decimating the share price have a vested interest in doing so, whether it is designed as part of the incessant overall attack on PM/JPM stocks (check out Barrick today earlier trading down on fabulous 45% profit news and increased dividends); or the money flows from one sector to another...making dough simply on the trade action.

Today we (the mainstream media, banks, funds etc.) are all exhilerated of course with the 'good news' from Euroland...that should last at least a few days. "Money" is rushing with gusto into the equity markets...hooray! Good time to blast the PMs....but even with that the bullions are hard to put down these days...so, just keep screwing their stocks in the paper game markets...easy to do....and get those algorithms working the whole sector to really 'whup em gud'. And by the way, have you noticed how wrong so many techies have been in their forecasts for the JPMs over the last few months? Stewart Thomson must be ready to puke. But he is amongst hoards of others.

Riding on the coat tails of the above can you imagine how easy it is to dink a small stock like SFMI on the OTC?? One bad actor can control a stock like this. Any little fund with a vendetta (or a hired gun) or a nice rolling incentive skimming scam can do the same. Pretty pathetic isn't it?

Also, many astute longs with deep pockets have the time, money (time is money as we all know ...and interest on $ is the time cost) and knowledge to play the odds and trade some and hold some. If one can buy at 5 or 6 cents today its a bargain which should be a 4 banger in a few months. To add to our collective misery ... so many in these markets are also short term players who know nothing about fundamentals of JPMs/PMs ... there are relatively few retailers left when one considers what the JPM markets were like during their last run up in the late 70's and somewhat in the mid nineties. Another factor is that for some JPMs, inside games go on that favor the insiders naturally. Buy low, sell high...grease palms, wash and rinse. It goes on and on...and the bad guys have huge arrogance because, unlike 'Bernie', they 'know' they will never be put behind bars... too small in the food chain to even get noticed by the SEC etc. What fun!

Well, I could go on...and on...and on. What a bore. I am finding it most difficult to not come off like a negative basher...because, as you all know I have often been an unabashed fan of SFMI and by strange coincidence, the former ECU. Every honest long is sick and tired of it. That's just what the bad guys want.

Look folks, sooner or later this will all end ... and the ride up will be addictive...but geeez, I don't have another 12 years to wait. I think we have a few months at most...and maybe we wll be surprised at the end of Nov.