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yes it did 3 times it was quoted .26 by .27..stayed at .28 on the ask for a few hours before the mms walked it back to .25 to fill a buy of 10 thousand shares....maybe its the start of the next move up ..testing a new high is usually a good sign..
the positive is we hit a new high .28 and held it until the mm walked down the ask at the end of the day to fill a ten thousand share buy at .25 otherwise we would have closed at .28...we also had excellent volume over thirty grand worth of trades today...something positive seems to be bringing in the buyers...
looks like the market makers played a little game.walked it down from .28 on no trades then filled a buy at .25...they wont be able to play much longer..everyone have a good weekend..have from a good source that it was all buys today even though it looks like a couple of sells it was not...so that means they probably went short a little...jmho...
if the small sellers ease up we would move higher..by now i think most know something good is happening here..the question is will they hold on long enough to really reap the rewards...
on board and ready for take off....good luck with all
i agree 100 percent...great analysis
in my opinion, the best is around the corner...
mr b..look at the trade they bought at .25 thats where it opened on the ask.the mms just tightened the spread from 23 by 26 to 23 by 25..so it looks like we have a sell but in fact it was a buy...when bigger volume hits they wont be able to play as much with the spreads...
you are absolutley right.one of the big positives i see here is the company is not diluteing and someone continues to accumulate.the ungagged transfer agent and the low float is very attractive ,if we get good news this may be like a rocket....if u want shares now is the time..i think we are close...
i think you hit the nail right on the head..very insightful..everyone have a safe and happy holiday..go IAHL
as oil rises needs for effective air transport heightens......Oil prices continues climb
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Topics:Commodities Annalyn Censky, staff reporter, On Thursday May 27, 2010, 2:43 pm EDT
After surging 4% the day before, oil prices climbed again Thursday after Chinese officials denied reports that they're reconsidering the country's holdings in European bonds.
What prices are doing: Crude for July delivery rose $3.04, or about 4.25%, to settle at $74.55 a barrel Thursday.
Gasoline prices fell for the 20th consecutive day, slipping to $2.759 a gallon from $2.771 the day before, according to a survey by motorist group AAA.
What's moving the market: Oil traders welcomed news from China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, which rejected reports that the country is reviewing its investment in European bonds.
Those comments boosted oil prices by calming investors' fears about economic instability in Europe. Since the beginning of the month, oil has plummeted from $86.19 based on fears that the region's debt crisis will curb demand for fuel and concerns about U.S. supply outpacing demand.
The dollar also slipped against the euro and British pound Thursday, making oil -- which is priced in the U.S. currency -- a cheaper buy for foreign investors.
Oil traders are looking ahead to the Memorial Day weekend as an unofficial start to the peak driving season, and expect to see gasoline demand pick up in the summer.
A report out from the Energy Information Administration Wednesday showed gasoline supplies decreased by 200,000 barrels last week and distillate fuel, a category that includes heating oil and diesel, decreased by 300,000 barrels.
While crude oil inventories increased by a much higher than expected 2.4 million barrels, the supply held in Cushing, Okla. -- a key storage hub and delivery point for NYMEX crude oil futures -- fell by 300,000 barrels
the stock quote feed is wrong on the iahl board again can you please correct.thank you
.25 by .26 84000 shares traded...more accumulation.do what you want but im not selling one share.this is happening for a reason.A BIG REASON ....
you are correct in looking at the chart we have seen this pattern repeat 4 or 5 times now before each move up.they dry up the sellers at each levelit depends on the amount of selling as to how long we stay at that level..i think we are close to the next move and more important to that the news we all are waiting for..good luck..looking at the rest of the market we have held prety strong which bodes well for us if good news hits we could be off to the races...
great day....great volume....love seeing green..good luck all...we all owe q80 a big thank you ,he really keeps us informed and provides great analysis...be safe and have a nice weekend all
good analysis..if we got a group of buys at the same time i think we would take out the remainder and move to that .30 mark..after we break this little resistance we could be off to the races..i agree i think news is close,hence the accumulation step up we have been seeing..good luck and have a great weekend all.
you dont need a l2 to relise something big is happening...accumulation ...
i agree..something real is coming..jmho
maybe a signal..lol..looking over my other stocks just nice to see some green somewhere..lol
very strong points .facts..once again Q you have proved very helpful to the board.i agree with your analysis 100 percent...good luck all...
n one buying yet...lull bfore what is coming in my opinion..good luck anti thank you for provideing the charts to the board.can we get one from july to now...
you have always been a very smart man Q...any one who is selling now will be feeling like those who sold at .03 and .04...something big is brewing and in my investment history from looking at charts and stock reactions this is primed for another huge move...good news will be the fuel.no dilution,ungagged t/a.slow steady accumulation,no barage of fluffy pr's.no evil here means to me ...this is real and real means those buying and holding are going to make big money..jmho..good luck all....do what you feel is right for you but as i have said..im not selling 1 share...
i ve heard lots of numbers thrown around but with this small float and a tightly held group of shares if the news is good the dollar range is certainly in play..lets keep our fingers crossed.all this is just opinion of course and looking at the way this has traded since july...im certainly not letting a single share of mine slip away...
someone is accumulateing for a reason.look at the chart..it looks like we are very close to being able to open the gift which alot have waited and hoped for...good luck to the loyal longs...
iahl closed .25 over 80000 shares..someone sat soaking up shares...something big brewing...if you dont have any yet, better hurry..just my opinion.have a great weekend
another strong day.closed at .25 over 80,000 shares traded..getting to be the norm..someone sat and soaked up shares all day...something big is about to happen..just my opinion...
have fun mr.b..shoot some low scores...iahl is getting close...
After Drought, Start-Ups Start to Find Buyers
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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Big companies are back on the prowl for start-ups and the IPO market has come back to life, providing some relief to the battered venture-capital industry that invests in young firms.
The activity isn't evenly spread. Some venture capitalists caution the current spate of deals is confined to a relatively narrow set of high-growth or profitable technology and biotechnology start-ups. Any resulting sale or initial public offering profits are thus also limited to a small band of players.
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"There are some good deals that are coming about but that's unlikely to move the needle" for the venture-capital industry as a whole, said Bryan Roberts, a venture capitalist at Venrock Associates, which has had three health-care-related IPOs so far this year and also last month sold security-technology company PGP Corp. to Symantec Corp. for $300 million. "This doesn't presage a large bubble of [deals]."
Still, the quickening pace of dealmaking is indisputable. Last week, 15 companies backed by venture capital changed hands, according to research firm VentureSource. That number made it one of the more prolific weeks of such deals so far this year, said VentureSource. Buyers included big players such as International Business Machines Corp.(NYSE: IBM - News)
In addition, 14 venture-backed start-ups such as Financial Engines Inc. (NASDAQ: FNGN - News) and Tengion Inc. (NASDAQ: TNGN - News) have gone public so far this year, according to VentureSource. That outstrips the eight venture-backed IPOs completed in all of 2009 and the seven that went public in all of 2008. And the pipeline remains robust, with dozens more start-ups having filed for IPOs.
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"This kind of activity we haven't seen in years, not since the 1999 and 2000 time frame," said Promod Haque, a venture capitalist at Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto, Calif.
So far this year, Norwest has sold five start-ups it invested in—including two deals last week when it sold software company Cast Iron Systems Inc. to IBM for an undisclosed sum, and video-handling equipment and software company Omneon Inc. to Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT - News) for close to $300 million. One of Norwest's investments, software company Persistent Systems Ltd., also went public on the Mumbai Stock Exchange in March.
The momentum is providing some respite to the venture-capital industry, which invests in start-ups with the aim of profiting when those companies go public or are acquired. The industry has struggled with a profit drought for several years given a slowdown in IPOs and relatively lackluster mergers and acquisitions, which only worsened in the recession. During the downturn, many start-ups shut down or were sold for far less money than they raised.
Now the recent deals are bringing some profits back to venture capitalists. In the first quarter, acquisitions of venture-backed start-ups yielded $3.9 billion, up from $3.4 billion a year earlier, while venture-backed IPOs raised $710.8 million, compared with a year ago quarter when there were no such deals, according to VentureSource.
Overall, deal activity has been especially robust in the software sector, which accounted for 28 out of 77 venture-backed acquisitions in the first quarter, according to VentureSource.
In particular, deep-pocketed tech behemoths such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL - News) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG - News) are searching for prospects in still-emerging software arenas such as mobile advertising, say venture capitalists.
Only a few start-ups are making the cut for deals and IPOs. Of the three health-care-related IPOs that Venrock was involved in this year&—Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO - News), Alimera Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ALIM - News) and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: IRWD - News)—all were relatively late stage in their drug trials, showing that they would have a product, Mr. Roberts said.
PGP, the Venrock-backed security company that was bought by Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC - News), is also on track to generate $100 million in revenue this year, up from about $43 million a year earlier, said Ray Rothrock at Venrock, who sat on PGP's board. In a recent conference call, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem called PGP "one of the early pioneers of encryption" and said the start-up would help increase Symantec's global reach in security technology.
Many other start-ups continue to struggle, leaving their venture-capital investors unable to sell them or take them public. Last week's volatility in the stock market, compounded by a still-fragile global economy, may also freeze further activity, some venture capitalists said.
Dave Tabors, a partner at Battery Ventures, said his firm has been working to be more inventive in its start-up deals. While Battery has had one of its investments go public and sold two companies so far this year, the firm last month also executed a relatively unusual deal to sell its stake in networking company Aurora Networks Inc. to private-equity firm TA Associates for an undisclosed sum.
Battery rarely sells just a slice in a company to a private-equity firm, said Mr. Tabors. But given that Battery's investment in Aurora was already more than a decade old and the venture firm is seeking to generate cash for its investors, he said, "we've put a focus on it internally to be creative" in deals
dont let them fool you.all the trades yesterday were at the ask except 375 shares.they can play with the price a bit right now with the low volume but that will change...any buying pressure and we pop right back up...this is primed like a volcano we just need good news to lite the fuse..good luck all....in my opinion from looking at the tradeing history and charts we are very close to the next move up....
steady accumulation,tightly held,holding strong ,small ungagged float.the only ones complaining are those that sold or never bought..beware the naysayers they want what you have..good luck all..
haha we have gone from sub penny to .24 cents and added 1 boardmark...i would say the buying is not coming from this board...looking strong.with the small float if we get good news which by the looks of the volume coming to the stock indicates this could really take off..no pun intended...iahl could become what so many in the pinks long to be....and for some of the loyal longs who have not sold and even added this could end up being life-changeing...
it a good thing we own some iahl stock.its been my best performing stock in my whole portfolio..lol..getting great volume..my spidey sencses are tingling..lol ..is news close?
more money put in place to sustain and create growth.this has to help any companies with the thoughts of international trade.............................................................Stock futures surge on central bank actions
Stock futures surge on global effort to ease European debt worries; Dow futures up nearly 400
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Stephen Bernard, AP Business Writer, On Monday May 10, 2010, 7:12 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock futures skyrocketed Monday after European leaders agreed to a nearly $1 trillion rescue plan to avoid a major debt crisis and the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would also provide loans overseas.
Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 382 points.
The 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support European nations burdened by heavy debt. Markets around the world plummeted last week as fears escalated that Greece's debt problems would spread throughout Europe and upend a global economic recovery.
Investors also feared that if Greece didn't get a bailout, the fate of the euro, which is used by 16 countries, could be in trouble. The euro rose Monday against the dollar.
"Europe has unequivocally said, 'We will defend the euro's integrity,'" said Oliver Pursche, executive vice president at Gary Goldberg Financial Services in Suffern, N.Y.
Pursche noted the actions taken don't mean European leaders will ensure its current value, but that they will do what is necessary to ensure its existence.
Some major European indexes climbed by more than 8 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 jumped 5 percent, Germany's DAX index surged 4.6 percent, and France's CAC-40 rallied 8.4 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 1.6 percent.
Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 382, or 3.7 percent, to 10,717. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 49.20, or 4.4 percent, to 1,156.20, while Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 79.25, or 4.3 percent, to 1,927.75.
The U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks also stepped up with financial support to help head off what some analysts believe could have been a broader financial crisis.
The Fed reopened a program launched in 2008 during the credit crisis under which dollars are shipped overseas through the foreign central banks. Those central banks can then lend the dollars out to banks in their home countries.
Aside from the Fed, other central banks, including the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan are also involved in the dollar swap effort.
Stocks were incredibly volatile at the end of last week as investors shrugged off signs of an improving U.S. economy and focused on European sovereign debt problems. The Dow fell 5.7 percent last week to erase its gains for the year, while broader indexes fell even further. On Thursday alone, the Dow was down nearly 1,000 points late in the day before recovering some of those losses.
Stocks have dropped four straight days as triple-digit Dow moves have again become the norm. As the credit crisis grew in late 2008 and the market bottomed in early 2009, big swings were normal.
In recent months, however, the Dow had been climbing slowly and steadily in recent months on repeated signs the economy was recovering.
"Volatility will remain in the marketplace," Pursche said. He noted the lack of turbulence in previous months was abnormal and that problems still remain. Some European countries still need to enact austerity measures and unemployment remains high in the U.S., Pursche said.
"A 1 percent to 2 percent market move ... in either direction is something investors should be prepared to cope with," Pursche added.
As investors jump back into riskier assets like stocks on Monday, U.S. bond prices tumbled. Gold also fell sharply. Both surged late last week as investors sought safe-haven investments.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.59 percent from 3.43 percent late Friday.
all we know is that accumulation has been taking place since july.slow steady buying at a level then a big increase in volume and price then then process levels for a while to soak up any selling then another move up.it has happened 4 or 5 times since july...just look at the chart.the longs here think it is happening for a very positive reason...its up to you
no to the other question... who is your players champ pic...i really believe the majority of iahl stock is tightly held now and those who have it are waiting for this to play out.a significant amount of money has been invested into this stock without much to go on...that tells me maybe some of that money has come from those close to what is going on or connected in someway....i think we may find out soon.....this may be a good time to buy a little if you can..you found a little powder today mr.b and every little bit helps all the longs..good job....good luck to all.....
good volume day and we closed green in an ugly day in the market...this is for real..any doubters beware..longs are holing great and in my humble opinion going to be rewarded beyond there expetations...good luck all..lets muster up a little powder for tommorrow and finish this week on a high note...
yes he is a great resource to the board and a nice guy too..like u mr.b
looks like the stock quote feed is not working again..quote is .21 by .22
can someone fix the stock quote feed on the iahl board.it is wrong again...thank you
you will have more help in the upcoming days...wink wink..hope this finds you well Q..In my opinion big things are around the corner