HiD, your comments are excellent, and much calmer than mine which you will see below.  Perhaps you are making a good point, that maybe i missed,,,,Cramer's techniques are focused on the short term trader, and I guess that is a market that I don't know.  I'm certainly not a day trader, and I guess pretty naive in that area.  And when you are involved in the management of a publicly traded company, you don't worry too much about day to day fluctuations.  I don't think Cramer's techniques would hurt me, or others, who invest in companies and their medium to long term prospects.  But still, it seems like market manipulation,,,,and I think transparency and trust in markets is critical--so shouldn't we hang the SOB?  and others of his ilk?