Parsad Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Are the shorts on Overstock finally covering and moving on to other pastures? The short interest which was at 5.5M shares at May 30, 2008 is now down to 2.8M at April 30, 2009. Alot of the noise on various message boards has subsided to a din, and Overstock has barely put out any sort of significant rebuttal to the hoard of journalists who previously were on a rampage. The most recent piece of crap written, is by purported forensic accountant Tracey Coenen, on her blog. She says she's pretty much tired of covering Overstock and Patrick Byrne's attacks on such ethical and noble journalists such as Jim Cramer, Herb Greenberg, Joe Nocera and Gary Weiss...pphhhhphhhttt! http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2009/03/11/in-agreement-overstockcom-sucks-and-patrick-byrne-is-wacky/ Even Sam Antar seems to have quieted his garrulous attacks on Overstock and Byrne on the various message boards. I wonder what other targets these guys have picked? What is the next big score...could it be Interoil? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Perhaps with all the overleveraged companies with slowing business out there the shorts no longer need to manufacture (short and distort) the bust and therefore are in the process of moving on to easier kills... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cman Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 i am sorry guys but ostk was (is) a good short and a bad long. its not a good business and the ceo is nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 i am sorry guys but ostk was (is) a good short and a bad long. its not a good business and the ceo is nuts. The shorts have been saying that for five years...it's still around. In actuality, anything is a good short at some point in time (even Berkshire), but that doesn't mean it isn't a good investment at various points in time as well. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungerville Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 cman, Why do you think the CEO is nuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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