• Short Selling, Miscreants Ball, and Conspiracies… OH MY!

    On August 12, 2005, Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) had a conference call he said was going to give information about the “August 11 lawsuit.” The transcript is 17 glorious pages of Byrne rambling about his conspiracy theories. […]

  • Thousands of Victims of Naked Short Selling, But I’m Not Naming Names!

    I’m not an expert on Naked Short Selling. Frankly, I’ve just never really been interested in the topic. Does it appear to exist? Yes. Does it appear to be the reason Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) is doing so poorly and its stock […]

  • The Overstock.com house of cards

    Quite a lot happened this past week at Overstock.com. Is the house of cards finally falling down? Some think so. Gary Weiss even wrote a blog post entitled “Will the Last Overstock.com Director Please Turn Out the Lights.” And Sam […]

  • Suing Short Sellers Who Publish Negative Reports

    Reuters published an interesting article about lawsuits against short sellers… like when Overstock sued Gradient Analytics and Rocker Partners. “Short sellers” profit when a company’s stock price goes down. Negative information about companies tends to send the stock price down, […]