mks4fun

Syntax-Brillian Can't Compete With Vizio

Samuel,

Thanks for the response. I should mention that I've been short BRLC until recently. I just trade the charts and they said the only way to make money was to be short. I'm NOT saying I don't agree with your articles; I do. They are well written and bring together informatin that otherwise would have been lost in the noise.

My desire would have been for you to also write something about BRLC being 'used' as a tool to milk the cash cows: A very dangerous stock that nobody should be long in.

I said: "I think the BRLC 'world' might have been better served had you written about how, the 'system' pumped the stock so high, so fast."

You said: "I along with many others realized that BRLC had become highly overvalued based on the rosy picture painted by management which we didn't believe and took advantage of it. That is just how the stock market works."

I think sometimes things need to be said clearly vs. implied. Oh wait, you DID sprecifically say such things as copied below. Unfortunately, few who read the article will then read the responses.

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... This stock is a perfect example of a classic value trap for retail investors. Some people see they are in the LCD industry, have a decent product, believe the managements claims, the analysts' expectations and think the stock price will greatly appreciate in the future. I have been warning individuals to stay away from the company and notifying others of a good shorting oppurtunity since last May when the price was around $6.

... I can understand why some individuals refuse to believe anything negative written about a company. Retail investors often make the mistake of falling in love with a stock and cannot see nothing bad about a company while they would believe anything postive said about the company.

Well, I've now gone back and read most of your articles and the responses to those articles. Overall, a very good job of presenting the your opinions with facts and rational thought.

Now, maybe an opinion as to why the most recent short interest has increased? After all, it's a buck stock! How much more blood can they squeeze out of this thing? Isn't there a point of diminishing returns? (that's why I closed MY short position) It would seem, with the world crashing around us, that there are more profitable (and sooner) opportunities than BRLC. The weekly chart would seem to be indicating an extended sideways move with a slight tilt up. But then I always seem to have a 'soft spot' for the underdog. And I want to believe there is more intrinsic value with a digital TV in the year of the digital conversion.

Syntax-Brillian Can't Compete With Vizio

I want to commend User 168217 for an important and insightful response to your self (and employer) serving posts.

Although you DO bring up some important facts about the dysfunctional management (and questionable honesty) of the company. Something that still plagues them.

I think the BRLC 'world' might have been better served had you written about how, the 'system' pumped the stock so high, so fast.

How the brokers were promoting this stock to the cash cows (aka: retail investor) and wildly (and irresponsibly) predicting outrageous price targets higher and higher. All the while shorting it like mad.

Really, the milkers (brokers, etc.) saw BRLC as a tool to rape retail cash cows as they do all the time. Same plan, different day, different stock.

Your articles? Part of the same ole plan: First part greed, second part fear.

In the scope of things, I guess it matters little as our banking system collapses around us. Too much milking going on for too long.