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LOL, one reason us Northern Calif wanted to secede from Calif, let the Bay area and Southern Calif not dictate the rest how to live.
Still Love ya though IMP.
Too true!
Here's to next week being a good one.
Not to worry IMP, You're still OK with us... politics have no place here.
It's all about the Benjamins' LoL!
MB
Whoa, I don't claim any political party here, but I am certainly more liberal in comparison to you!
Ahhhh... so you DID buy into CPSZ, Good for you!, I've been telling friends to read up on it, don't know if any of them have bought, I really don't want to know, 'cuz I don't want to feel responsible, lol!, even tho I don't think there is much danger of failing here.
You have a good weekend also.
Monday we can see if James Bond is still holding firm in CAVU land...
MB
Some investors aren't too bright at all. Especially if they supposedly put everything in a pennystock that they can't afford to lose and the company fails to deliver over and over. I've got a bridge to sell them. Have a good weekend, my CPSZ Mate.
Hey J... about that 'thing', my feelings are as follows:
*chuckle!!*
have to stick together, LOL.
So like 100k shares in the mid .005 range? Welcome on board.
Interesting- W2s now report the value of health insurance received, the amount the employer kicks in and what the employee pays, still not taxed, but standby....they already taxed for years any bonuses, etc.
well, put a few hundred on it the other day, if all else fails, need to keep getting some stock losses to counter all the friggin' taxes I paid this year on divies and profits. Hope the Obama girls REALLY enjoyed their back-to-back vacations to Aspen, Bahamas, and Idaho. Oops, forgot you were a democrat, Sorry IMP.
been definitely LONG time, the SUN LOI did.
can't remember when a PR even showed a little bleep
looks like that PR flatlined. pretty much expected it. Fool me once.....
we'll see. Today's PR and financials didn't exactly attract the masses, more like some hopeful dumping and someone will buy it...
let's see if CAVR can go up again
I did some speculating in two posts on the CPSZ board today. Still loving what I see here.
Oh yes, I did see those.
What caught my ear is, the Officer said the Co. bent over backwards to do such things as: **write software/programming** that would suit his location's needs.
This is not a 'one-size-fits-all' product. CPSZ makes sure they accommodate each customers' particular requirements. Awesome!
Have you seen these testimonials? There are three that I can find from the officers personally involved with the kiosks and how much money and time they save.
http://ih.advfn.com/videos/educational/testimonial-doing-business-in-53-counties-accross-usa_UFWM30-EHVM
I saw that! I love the fact you don't even have to use the kiosk, you can interface with it online and on your smartphone. Three ways to attain revenue from a single kiosk server location. It just rocks.
Take a look at what Lawdog1 had to say about the (kioske) unit count today:
You Betcha! I am lovin this company. Slow and steady works for me.
Nice close for CPSZ today with a brief high of .0068!
APDN is on fire. Wonder what's going on?
9:11 AM Premarket gainers: KWK +33%. BCRX +30%. SNFCA +23%. TSLA +16%. AM +12%. VRNG +10%. PAL +6%
I know. Hope you've made that up since.
Thanks Johnsyn! I got out with a loss though long time ago; oh well.
thanks IMP. Have a great weekend.
hey Jaws, looks like VRNG moving finally- 2:44 PM Vringo (VRNG +12.7%) has soared over the last 90 minutes of trading, apparently thanks to speculation about a settlement with Microsoft. A letter dated March 27 from a law firm representing Vringo states "the parties are discussing settlement." Vringo sued Microsoft in January, alleging infringement of its search IP.
Have a great Easter weekend.
RXPC on watch. Have 1.1 million shares for two months. Heavy volume taking out major resistance at .0003 today. Not the best company, just a trader.
that's what I thought. I haven't given up yet, just for the weekend.
You need the game, "Mount and Blade: Warband" to play the Napoleonic wars expansion.
Sorry to hear about your XPS..
I don't know about my XPS, IMP, having internet connectivity issues, besides it not recognizing the ethernet input as operational, using a USB- loses it once in a while, pops up doesn't recognize the modem once in a while too. While downloading the Napoleonic wars,just wasn't holding connection, only 24MB in. So trying a few things yet, running out of weekend here, and since it's an add-on to the original Squirrel something software, not sure if I need one of the War series first???? Anyway, defraging now, then back to looking for something loose or needing reseating.
Sure guys, do it now drop that market:
Get out of junk stocks now
1:14 PM 3/22/2013 - MarketWatch
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) -- "Junk" continues to beat "quality" on Wall Street. Nearly four years after the end of the recession of 2007-09, it should be the other way around.
The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus is a big reason for this unexpected outcome.
Because the Fed's easy-money policies won't continue indefinitely, however, investors might want to begin reducing their holdings of low-quality stocks -- which will be among the biggest casualties when the Fed turns off the spigot.
The Fed policies have distorted the markets because they encourage risk-taking. Through its quantitative-easing programs of injecting money directly into the economy, and by keeping short-term interest rates close to zero, the Fed has discouraged investors from keeping their money in conservative savings accounts and created powerful incentives for them to put more money into stocks.
So-called junk stocks -- the ones that have been the biggest beneficiaries of the Fed's policies -- are those of companies that otherwise would run the greatest risk of going bankrupt. They tend to be loaded with debt and have very poor balance sheets. Even worse, they also tend to have inconsistent and unpredictable earnings.
Revlon was a good example of such a company in March 2009, when the bull market began. It had lost money over the prior two years and had so much debt that its liabilities were more than double its total assets. Yet, propelled by a successful turnaround strategy, the stock has gained more than 800% from March 2009 until now.
Wal-Mart Stores is a classic example of a high-quality company, having turned an impressive profit even during the worst days of the 2008 credit crunch. The company has little long-term debt and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Even though its stock over the long term has been a stellar performer, during the recent bull market it has lagged behind the overall market: Since the bull market began in March 2009, it has gained just over 50%, trailing the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by more than 70 percentage points.
The typical pattern, according to data going back to the 1920s compiled by Eugene Fama and Ken French, finance professors at the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College respectively, is for junk to outperform quality for no more than the first year of a bull market. Thereafter, market leadership shifts to the stocks of the highest-quality companies. Thanks in large part to the Fed's easy-money policies, however, this shift hasn't taken place -- as Revlon's and Wal-Mart's performance attests.
Consider two groups of stocks that were constructed according to financial-quality ratings from Ford Equity Research of San Diego. These ratings are based on factors such as debt, balance sheet health, earnings consistency and industry stability. The first group contained the 20% of the firm's universe of more than 4,000 U.S. stocks with the firm's highest financial-quality ratings, while the other group contained those with the lowest ratings -- junk, in other words.
Since March 2009, according to Ford, the average junk stock has gained 272%, versus 171% for the typical high-quality stock. And there is no recent evidence that this trend has reversed: Over the past three months, for example, junk has increased its lead, gaining 12.1% versus 9.6% for quality.
To appreciate just how much the Fed's policies have been responsible for this pattern, consider how returns since March 2009 have depended on whether the Fed increased or decreased its monetary stimulus. When the Fed's quantitative-easing programs were fully in force, junk handily won -- turning in an average monthly gain of 5.6%, versus 3.4% for quality. During all other months, the average junk stock actually incurred a slight loss, versus a 0.7% monthly gain for the average quality stock.
This contrast offers a glimpse into how the stock market is likely to behave when the Fed finally does bring quantitative easing to an end and begins to increase interest rates. Not only will the market as a whole face stiffer headwinds, but previously highflying junk stocks could be big casualties. Banking stocks, and the financial sector generally, could be particularly hard hit.
Conservative investors might therefore want to begin now to shift their portfolios toward stocks of the highest financial-quality companies. Examples of stocks that Ford rates A-plus for financial quality, its highest rating, include, besides Wal-Mart, Abbott Laboratories , Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson . Each of these four has an S&P 500 quality rating of single-A or higher; the average dividend yield of all four is 2.6%, versus 2.1% for the S&P 500. Their price/earnings ratios, based on projected earnings over the next 12 months, range from 13.5 for Wal-Mart to 18.4 for Coca-Cola, versus 14.1 for the S&P 500.
Examples of stocks that Ford rates lowest for financial quality include Vertex Pharmaceuticals , which has reported a loss in six of the past seven years, and BioMarin Pharmaceutical , which has lost money in five of the past seven years.
There also is an exchange-traded fund that focuses on the stocks of the highest-financial-quality companies: The PowerShares S&P 500 High Quality Portfolio . This ETF invests in the stocks of companies that Standard & Poor's rates A-minus or higher, based on the growth and stability of their earnings and dividend records. Its expense ratio is 0.29%, or $29 for every $10,000 invested.
To be sure, the Fed hasn't given any signals that it plans to bring its monetary stimulus to an end in the very near future. But because the stock market discounts the future, it is unlikely to wait until the Fed finally changes course to begin reflecting a poststimulus world.
yes, welcome to our little thread here, MC6. Nice quiet thread where one is not limited to specific stocks or stocks for that matter. Sometimes gets a bit intimidating on regular stock threads with one's point of view on a stock, whether good or bad, AND no one here puts out BS.
You, too, MB.
And yes---yours are just as insightful (sadly). LOL
Thank you IMP and MC,
With the way everyone on that board was talking about the charts, I just couldn't help myself! LOL!
I think my chart reading is just as insightful as any of theirs, don't you? Besides, I have my OUIJA Board to help me.... *chuckle*
Have a good day all!
MB
That is pretty darn rich, mybad. Had me laughing so hard the day before that I ran out of free posts to respond to it!
yes, they should get some more here pretty soon. RE picking up has to do with the O&G sector. Too close to coal country with 100 year underground fires here.
It's been shocking, actually. We'll be here three years in December of this year. In that time we have gained a significant amount of equity in our home, and every house that comes up for sale is sold within days, or two weeks at latest. It is just plain crazy over here. Most deals are 100% cash according to real estate agents I know personally or within my family.
that's great, nice to see Gilroy turn around.
We keep hearing that the RE market is picking up so maybe there is still hope for ye. I always provided my listings with feedback on every showing. Some time the agents are just to lazy to call the other agent who showed the property and ask for feedback. Enough complaints like that and the Broker usually gets rid of that agent.
Talked to some friends up in Maine and they got another 12 to 18 inches. It's been a snowy season up there.
Fair enough.
I know. I miss it. My cherry tree always did it's first bloom in Feb, always had to pull out the cotton swabs and pollinate them by hand, too early for bees. Here, won't see a leaf one until mid-May, last week of April if weather turns enough, but it'll come back cold and make the leaves all ugly if that happens.
But I have to consider employment of kids, not just ourselves, and they able to live on own, too.
I hate to say it, but I like Jerry Brown crushing a lot of the special interest groups, revitalizing education, and dissolving the the city-owned redevelopment-agencies, which were the ultimate scams and suckers of tax-payer monies.
Raising taxes was always pushed out for decades, so what he is doing is inevitable for such a populous state.
We will have to agree to disagree, but I'm loving the weather! Consider that a fixed cost I'll gladly pay.
I know, LOL, but already on WH list for MORE FAIR SHARE, can't handle Jerry's too.
If you move to California we can hang out though! Awww
Welcome MC! Happy to have you on board.
MB
My favorite penny has finally moved back up after drifting down to $.13- APDN. Picked a pharm yesterday that was at $6.50, p/t of $13, news broke this morning over Parkinson's results, kicked it up over 30%, plus it might shove that p/t higher-ACAD.
Yes, my retirement coincided with the end of the house incentive, and the bottom really dropped out, trying to make that last move to better climate, dream home, and where kids can get jobs. Calif is out, Jerry Brown wants too much money for us to go back, and no jobs for kids.
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