FAT CATS

[MikeDDKing]

It was funny after you posted last night. Since it was the end of earnings season I was literally scanning through about 500 reports. In fact I still have about 75 to go. I was remembering how you hated earnings season!

Hang around but don't OD again!

[puppman]

Howdy Doo Mr. Andy

[serfdom]

LOL, I couldn't stay away....

Hello also to Mike and 3putts and my interesting friend, uncommonscents (typo intended hee hee).

I hope everyone has survived the recent year -- yikes!!! Also hope everyone didn't spend their free cash on liquor and cigarettes while it sat on the sidelines. I've been doing my designer thang and ignoring stocks. It's been only recently that I can even look at a chart or say the word "trading" without feeling nausea (true fact!).

Yepper, I OD'd on stocks and now I'm here to warn you all of this possibility before it's too late. Maybe I'll set up a free help line.

[no3putts1]

Why don't you come back for a "guest appearance" once a week?

[uncommoncents]

What the

[polkamatic]

And they said there was no such thing
as an April Fool!

Come back more oftenly, Serfdom.
Best wishes to you and yours!

-Tim

[MikeDDKing]

He's alive! What have you been up to?

[serfdom]

Hello Bridgy-B!

How are things here on IHUB? Big hello to all da Cats...!

Andy

[AugustaFriends]

All four picks were green for the week let's keep it going! link back for charts

New final four for this week

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=36637437

[fastlizzy]

Nice Bridge, you alerted it at 2.69. I posted an article on the Naz board about it. They had a few job openings and hundreds of applicants. The "girls" make 100-300K per year CASH! Not bad for this "depression"! They are not depressed.....or are they??? LOL

(nah, it's just called low self esteem) LOL

[lady*b]

Thanks :) Great sin stock and defensive play.

[droll7]

Great call

[AugustaFriends]

Four Possible hot hot breakout plays in the making --

EVC .31






TMR .21






PWAV .38






SANM .28

[Rawnoc]

VBDG update ~~> New 2 minute VBDG video:
http://irgnews.com/coi/VBDG

From video --> "Just to give you an example, Bed Bath & Beyond has 930 stores. From Thanksgiving Day for the next 3 weekends they sold 160,000 of these pieces. It was a million dollar a week unit."

Two additional VBDG products not yet announced that I found in this presentation:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35901135

Tool Band-it Infomercial:
https://www.toolbandit.com/flare/next

VBDG board:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=10478

[kgoodrich]

Hello lady*b
When AIG confirmed on the 12th it was pretty easy to pick it since the Red Ready situational was the momentum it needed. Good find.

I would love to see all banks go belly up because of how they treat people with their ungodly amortization crap, but the country cannot survive if they do. Not with 80,000,000 baby boomers retiring. They'll always find ways to keep feeding these things.

[lady*b]

AIG- wow. That's pretty much all I can say. wow.

[lady*b]

All buttons, Liz. I'm lettin' loose. lol

[fastlizzy]

Hi Bridge...again, I cannot PM, but that's by choice!

IHUB has become a bunch of very mad traders lately....you can imagine why. So much nastiness that I keep my posting to a minimum so as not to get into any skirmishes! LOL! You know me!

Whose buttons are you pushing?

[shortybrndup]

Where is Serf ?

[badknees29]

this down turn will shake a tremendous amount of people of of our business, no doubt about it. It's amazing some of the portfolios i look at from other companies...but thats life.

lady your the best

[lady*b]

I'd imagine it would be hard to be a broker in this economy
period. Too many who just don't understand the mechanics.

[badknees29]

good for him, hope he rots because its people like him where i have to spend time talking with my clients about this garbage (instead of just focusing on their accounts and strategy) and trust issues and concerns. He makess it hard for good brokers to keep doing what the're doing in this economy.

[lady*b]

Madoff pleads guilty to huge fraud scheme before being taken to jail in handcuffs

A 'sorry and ashamed' Bernard Madoff pleads guilty
Thursday March 12, 11:39 am ET
By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays, Associated Press Writers
Madoff pleads guilty to huge fraud scheme before being taken to jail in handcuffs

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to an epic fraud that robbed investors worldwide of billions of dollars, avoiding eye contact with swindled investors before he was led out of court with his hands cuffed behind his back.


U.S. District Judge Denny Chin denied bail for Madoff, 70, and ordered him to jail, noting that he had the means to flee and an incentive to do so because of his age.

Madoff spoke steadily in court as he addressed the judge before his guilty plea was accepted.

"I am actually grateful for this opportunity to publicly comment about my crimes, for which I am deeply sorry and ashamed," he said.

"As the years went by, I realized my risk, and this day would inevitably come. I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for my crimes."

Madoff did not look at any of the three investors who spoke at the hearing, even when one of them turned in his direction and tried to address him.

After arguments began as to whether Madoff should remain free on bail, his lawyer Ira Sorkin described the bail conditions and how Madoff had, "at his wife's own expense," paid for private security at his $7 million penthouse.

Loud laughter erupted among some of the more than 100 spectators crammed into the large courtroom on the 24th floor of the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan. The judge warned the spectators to remain silent.

The fraud turned a revered money man into an overnight global disgrace whose name became synonymous with the current economic meltdown.

Madoff described his crimes after he entered a guilty plea to all 11 counts he was charged with, including fraud, perjury, theft from an employee benefit plan, and two counts of international money laundering.

Prosecutors say the disgraced financier, who has spent three months under house arrest in his $7 million in Manhattan penthouse, could face a maximum sentence of 150 years in prison at sentencing.

Madoff explained his scheme by telling the judge that he believed the fraud would be short-term and that he could extricate himself.

The plea came three months after the FBI claimed Madoff admitted to his sons that his once-revered investment fund was all a big lie -- a Ponzi scheme that was in the billions of dollars. Since his arrest in December, the scandal has turned the 70-year-old former Nasdaq chairman into a pariah who has worn a bulletproof vest to court.

The scheme evaporated life fortunes, wiped out charities and apparently pushed at least two investors to commit suicide. Victims big and small were swindled by Madoff, from elderly Florida retirees to actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.

Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz and David B. Caruso contributed to this report.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090312/madoff_scandal.html

[Rawnoc]

EGMI presentation....
http://wsw.com/webcast/roth20/egmi/

Huge guidance, highly credible giant name as chairman, cash-rich, debt free, rapidly growing with huge margins, insiders loading, company buying back shares....what's not to like?

A number of deals to be announced soon including possibly one in the works with McDonald's, Burger King, or some other fastfood giant.

EGMI is my #1 favorite pick based on currently available public information seems like a screaming, fist-pounding super no-brainer to me.

[fastlizzy]

You're the one with the attitude, not me!


Unfortunately I thought you knew what you were doing and you were a nice person once upon a time. I never "invested" in subbies, but I ran with them and never resorted to bashing and ripping on other posters. But that's mostly what IHUB is made of so.....do your thing Tikigal. However, remember not to drink and trade.....like G60! LOL

[TikiGal]

lol!

VSUR another symbol that can't be found.

Glad I again didn't listen to you.

Now come on Lizzy knock it off. Up till today I don't post to you. It's been over a year now since the falling out with G60 and you are still harassing me all over the HUB.

IHUB is a big place. No reason if you don't like me for you to continue to read and reply negatively to my posts. How old are we anyways?

Just ignore my posts. Is it really that hard?

[TikiGal]

Hey Lizzy whats the story on SYDI?

You really wanted me to buy it. Can't seem to find the ticker anymore.

Guess I should be glad I didn't listen to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


lol!

[MikeDDKing]

New pick - VVDL - Vivid Learning Systems

I've been buying VVDL. It is the best new stock I have seen in quite some time and I believe is a potential multi-bagger. With earnings of $0.017 last quarter and likely earnings of $0.02 next quarter I think this stock is massively underpriced at $0.18. I think the stock could easily be trading at $0.50-$1.00 this year. More research is available on the VVDL board which is located here: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=15057



Overview
Vivid Learning Systems, Inc. develops and delivers computer-based compliance training products and services, and interactive communications programs in the United States and internationally. It offers online training programs through its Web site learnatvivid.com for the general manufacturing, utility, healthcare, mining, food safety, government, and education industries.

Web Site http://www.learnatvivid.com

Investment Thesis
1. Rapidly Growing Profits - Vivid Learning Systems has had rapidly growing profits and has had at least 5 successive quarters of year-over-year EPS improvement including fully taxed earnings of $0.017/share in fiscal Q1'09 ending December 31, 2008 In fiscal Q1'09 they had a 30% year-over-year revenue increase and a 29% sequential revenue increase.

2. Recession Reisistant Business - Their training focuses on compliance and safety issues where employers have a legal need to provide training. It is a low cost way to provide training because it is web based which is attractive for companies looking to cut costs.

3. Hiring - They had 33 employees at the end of the fiscal year which ends on September 30th. They have plans to grow the staff by 7 people according to the 10-K. According to the company they have already added half of those positions. Here is a link to their open positions: http://www.learnatvivid.com/jobs.html

4. Growing Custom Products and Services Division - The revenue for this segment has grown sequentially for the past 4 fiscal quarters (Q1'09 = $664,492, Q4'08 = $610,884, Q3'08 = $540,564, Q2'08 = $401,542, and Q1'08 = $397,487). Unearned revenue has grown dramatically in recent quarters (Q1'09 = $228,950, Q4'08 = $100,518, Q3'08 = $49,471). Unearned revenue is primarily associated with their Custom Products and Services Division. The large increase in unearned revenue indicates that they likely will have a significant increase in revenue in the Custom Products and Services Division in fiscal Q2'09.

5. Growing Training Subscription Division - The revenue for this division grew 18% year-over year in Fiscal Q1'09 and 72% sequentially. Additionally revenue for this segment grew 7.1% in the prior four quarters vs. the four quarters prior to that. Their subscriptions are annual in nature and are renewed yearly by roughly 80% of their customers.

6. Growing Library of Training Products and Partnerships - They have been rapidly adding to their library of training products. Furthermore they have been developing more partnerships. I believe that has been driving some of the recent growth and will drive growth going forward. See the press releases on the VVDL board for more details.

7. Estimated Q2 Earnings - I'm expecting fiscal Q2 earnings (ending in March) to be in the range of $0.012-$0.025 with a likely number of $0.020. I believe both Training Subscriptions Revenue and Custom Products and Services Revenue will grow sequentially.

8. High Gross Margins - Last quarter gross margins were 62.2%. Additional revenue drops rapidly to the bottom line.

9. Insider Purchases - Insiders have been purchasing shares heavily since September including purchases by the CEO and two directors. Executive Officers own in excess of 35% of the shares.

10. Healthy Balance Sheet - They have book value of $0.26/share with a big increase in cash in fiscal Q1'09.

11. Small Share Count - As of Feb 12, 2009 13,272,165 shares were outstanding. At Dec 31, 2008 581,638 options were outstanding with an average exercise price of $0.33.

12. Fortune 500 Customers - They have a very impressive client list including large companies such as Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, Ingersoll Rand, 3M, ConAgra Foods, Del Monte Foods, McDonald's, Perdue Farms, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and many more.

[fastlizzy]

Time to "straddle" the pole Bridge? LOL

are options available on RICK? I'll have to check.

[lady*b]

RICK- chart : $2.69 at close:

[lady*b]

RICK- one of our favorite sin stocks. Currently in the
gutter with the rest of em, but making bookoo bucks too.
Sin stocks are a fav play during these times.
GREAT ARTICLE on RICK:
Strippernomics
Dirk Smillie, 01.21.09, 06:30 PM EST
Not all of the adult industry is asking for a bailout. For some, the downturn is a boom.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/economy-pornography-recession-biz-media-cx_ds_0121porn.html?partner=yahootix

[TEX]

goodness had nuthin' to do with it -- Mae West

[lady*b]

Simplicity is sophistication - leonardo de vinci

[ridgetop]

they definitely left something smelly in there...
The Dow fibs from it's high of 14164


23.6% - 10821
38.2% - 8753
50% - 7082
61.8% - 5410
76.4% - 3342

[TEX]

"The pressure is good..."

OR

"It's good to have pressure..."

???

Following along,

Always,

tex

[lady*b]

Wow. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
The pressure is good to have on some of these companies,
and there needs to be a strong set of standards.
Interesting. Thanks for posting that, turbosetch.

[TraderDog]

NYSE might drop the $1 min rule for its stocks...wow!

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=AP&Date=20090224&ID=9639145&Symbol=AIG&adlt=strict

[no3putts1]

lol ouch!

[TraderDog]

Sunny going up to 10 here...lol..Alaska here.

[no3putts1]

It's absolutely gorgeous today! Sunny and going up to 68!

[lady*b]

You too, no3putts! How's my favorite place on earth? Warm today?

[lady*b]

Oh exactly. This can go back to 1986 with the tax reform which not only favored home ownership but instilled the Low Income Housing Tax Credit so low income folks who usually would rent, would have incentive to buy.... Or perhaps subjectively analyzing the deregulation of banks, hello 1980.
I'm suggesting that while there will always be an amount of corruption, it's tough to ignore what was being steered out of mainstream news until the past two years.
(note: here and there the financial guys would pop onto programs
and were treated like tarot card readers as if they had zero credibility)
Below is a nice chart. Regardless of when the horses began to
get feisty, they went wild under previous command. Giddy Up, cowboy!

lmao

File:Mortgage loan fraud.svg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[badknees29]

and what did clinton inherit..lmao..the arguments go on and on im not bashing obama in anyway he's our president, im just saying there is enough blame to go around

[ridgetop]

clarity, can you take it from the high of 14164.53 back in october 2007...

High Pivots - from 9088.0596

97.2% - 8833.5939
85.4% - 7761.2029 - depression confirmed, will spur inflation
73.6% - 6688.8119 - normal retracement
61.8% - 5616.4208 - ghastly, but probable retracement
50.0% - 4544.0298
38.2% - 3471.6388
26.4% - 2399.2477
14.6% - 1326.8567

__________________

your's from 11/20/2009

DOW (8,273) inching closer to the precipice. Mid-bollie (8,826) has been abandoned and once again it appears the lower bollie (8,055) offers the best support.

There are 29 trading days left in the year, and I can't think of anything positive to point out. Its obvious we can't buy our way out this time.

Newest ewave - High Pivots - from 9653.95

97.2% - 9383.6396
85.4% - 8244.4735 - current position (the precipice)
73.6% - 7105.3073 - rollercoaster ride into depression
61.8% - 5966.1412 -
50.0% - 4826.9751
38.2% - 3687.8090
26.4% - 2548.6429
14.6% - 1409.4767

should be very interesting to see...

[no3putts1]

You are like a "breath of fresh air" lady*b'!

Good to see you.

[lady*b]

True. Greed got in the way and as in the markets on a daily basis, it's the manipulator of destruction.
It's usually the "greed karma" that has long since taught me
it's better to sell too soon than to hold too long.

However, I see a whole lot of finger pointing at the person
who'd stepped up to the plate when he's only been there a few
weeks.

It's fair to say the past administration also inherited a
ticking housing bomb. I get that and can agree with the lay of
the poor foundation- but is it not completely irresponsible
to assume this was born on January 20th? In my opinion, if
there was a better person to have handled the situation out of
the pool of hundreds it began with 2 years ago applying for
the job- then they'd be in the oval office.

In 2003, when we began in Iraq- although there was some
dismay- there was overwhelming support. At least most of
America gave it a couple years before we developed the
hindsight to say "bad move."

My point is that foresight should be based on the standing
principal that what we've done so far is not working- so let's
try something new.

PS- Threw in some charts if you wanted to route this more of a stock discussion (which i'd be happy to chat about too). Their under my sidebar below. :))))


Sidebar:
You know me very well and I'm very comfortable expressing my
opinion without personal feelings in the mix. Thankfully, you
and i respect each others differences, although we may
disagree, lol. I'll talk to you on the other side, Badknees....and
I'm apologizing to the board for honing in on the political
discussions of a stock board....sigh....slow day here. hahaa

[badknees29]

im not a dem or republican but when a bill was presented some two years ago to clean up and regulate this housing mess and the democratic lead house and senate wouldn't pass the bill lead by barney frank what say you about that?..lmao..or about clinton's everyone should own a home concept and the leading breaks freddie and fannie where given on hold backs which allowed the a huge advantage as well as the crazy mandates for minorities to own homes and the loans given out by banks...i mean bush didn't do everything right, duh, but he sure in the heck didn't do everything wrong. ITs funny though i didn't hear alot of people complaining in the first 6 years of his presidency..lmao..when the market was doing well ( and propted up i may add) so lets all not get dems and repubs all played a part in where we are today, none of them use holy water..lmao..all have a part in the blame.

[fastlizzy]

Well said Bridge, especially the last paragraph!

LOL

[lady*b]

Hi Clarity. I'm trading and have been trading with few breaks
in between. Just as when I'd abandoned pink sheets long ago-
so went more than 5 minutes of DD on any company.

The swings are still there if you peek in the cracks and as
you believe it's doomsday - I've taken a more positive
approach.

Charts seem pretty reliable for trading (the 3 min, 5 min) and
long term holding isn't the plan for today's times. Unless of
course you're bottom feeding- well then, those are abundant.

My trading style now may represent a sign of the times, but
more symbolic is the hope given the reputation of markets in
the past two years - or whenever it was in the past
administration that the housing market collapsed after a few
years of tumbling.

So perhaps it's best to admit that our current state was never
a beauty to inherit in the first place. The last folks left a
huge mess to clean up. Janitor work is seldom a pretty task,
and I'm thankful that somebody is willing to go shine the
toilet after so many greedy sob's peeped on it.

Take Care,
Bridge ;)

[lady*b]

I agree.