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Investing in LQMT as long as you have is anything but greed. Unless you have already earned $400,000.00 an want more. But referring to yourself as greedy right now is still a dream, I think.
Good luck to you
Institutional investors do not look at micro caps in general. There are a few in the Russel 2000, five thousand and the Nasdaq. Intstitutional funds can invest in micro caps but cannot put investors at risk with those equities. Thus they can invest minuscule amounts that would not be noticed if they went under. So why invest in an extremely high risk equity like LQMT in the first place? Especially when they were at least twice on the brink of bankruptcy.
Because they have investments in small, medium, large and mega caps with a possible connection to LQMT, based on LQMT’s business outreach and possibilities of making a deal. If the deal happens, great. If the deal does not happen, the fund losses next to nothing. Fund investors and the SEC do not sue the fund.
There is more upside with a deal and at a later date the fund can add more shares at lower risk.
So when a fund puts LQMT into their portfolio, generally there is a connection to one or more of their larger investments. Now perhaps others notice this too and draw conclusions based on speculation and word of mouth gossip. This leads to rumors and more buying.
So far we don’t know what triggered the recent hiccup in the pps, other than an urge to buy, be it rumor, gossip or a whiff of a deal or some one associated with LQMT indirectly.
I know nothing has fundamentally changed right now and the long term trend for LQMT is still headed South.
But whatever the reason for the uptick in the SP, be it speculation of any kind or a whiff of a deal is a good thing and welcome. Sometimes these unexplained hiccups causes or pauses investors from selling that were going to exit. Sometimes it causes others to panic and buy or add more.
As long as there are no statements, PR’s from LQMT, there is no need to panic. The stock is not jumping to a dollar yet and I am sure almost all of the long terms have enough shares already to prosper from any announced or any unannounced deal.
I posted the new position just to note that it occurred as a fact. Why it occurred matters not so much. But watching these purchases never hurts and often helps. Now if a few more funds started to add LQMT, then I
would think about betting the farm on LQMT.
I added shares when Apple and Li came in thinking there’s more here than just a new material with a failed team. Now there seems to be some smoke again but no fire. So if anyone is in LQMT, whether @ .06, .10, .16 or .40, and whether it drops to .01. Your in it waiting for a opportunity to prosper from a deal that will make it worth the wait. hopefully sooner than later.
Buying shares at .10 or lower might be a great way to exit. But long terms are looking for the day B.B. RELEASES A PR.
Good luck to all.
It simply means the agreements are subject to discussion, amendments and lastly human error. Both parties ensure to ask for permission to cross sell.
Here is a link. It is not about the size of the position. Normally they would not take a position in LQMT. Its about trying to connect the dots of all of the bread crumbs associated with LQMT. At this stage they cannot take a large position. This should be understood. Many here understand why institutional investors cannot.
https://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/institutional-portfolio/tradition-capital-management-llc-101945/new
TRADITION CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC Added a small new LQMT position to their portfolio. They are heavy investors in the medical field. They invest In Medtronic as well as others that LQMT might be looking to do a deal.
They hold 200 positions. Many in mega caps.
1.3% of the float in three days does not a rally make. No forms filed yet, no PR, no blog updates. But buying or buying back in is real.
The long term trend downward has not changed. One must wait 30 days after selling to buy back in to take advantage of tax loss break advantage.
Someone, somewhere has gotten a whiff of a deal. My guess is medical and not auto. Also there is more activity with LQMT ‘s new Chinese outsource partner. So between ConMed and Medtronics anything is possible.
Close to a $1million dice roll went into LQMT. A lot of smoke, but no fire.
All speculation. Not even the speculation has changed. The same guessing and waiting continues.
Still .12, .13, .14 looks better than .10.
However without a deal. 10 is not to fat off and neither is .08. Looks like LQMT is getting ready to throw a steak on the grill. At whatever pps, is still not yet known. Patience.
Hopefully yesterday’s small upward volume was not from JB or any of his followers as they do not indicate any change of direction for LQMT. It would be like the blind leading the blind.
Hopefully yesterday’s volume increase is based on a as one poster put it recently, on a whiff of a deal from interested parties on the other end of a potential deal. Otherwise it was just for tax purposes the selling and the buying.
So far nothing has changed. A rally of 4 to 5 days of upward movement would be more of an indicator that a deal might be in the works. So far no such rally has taken place as was seen in 2017. And so far we have not seen any LQMT insiders buying, an indicator that perhaps a deal is not near.
At least with the silence of the LQMT team, no one can say they ever offer PR fluff like TS use to do. And all can speculate that LQMT still has a chance of popping the cork this coming year as long as Li has not changed his mind and exited. Having no proof, I believe Li will stay to celebrate and pop the cork, whether at .08 or .27.
The float of 400 million plus shares is too huge to consider yesterday’s volume any game changer. Although any price up is always good to see.
Good luck to all,
Thanks for the link. Brought back memories going back almost 50 years.
Before Li 400,000,000 million shares @ .06 market cap $ 24,000,000.00
Li, 2016. 800,000,000 million shares @ .16 market cap $128,000,000.00
Li, 2017 850,000,000 million shares @ .21 market cap $178,000,000.00
Li, 2018. 900,000,000 million shares @ .11 market cap $ 99,000,000.00
Estimated data and factual direction of LQMT. This is not what increasing shareholder value looks like.
Personal loss to Li ‘s share value 30%.
SP is up 85% .06 to .11 2016 to present 2018.
Share dilution up 125%
Revenues are up from previous quarter.
Share price is down over 50% from previous quarter.
No theories, no expectations, no forward looking statements, no spin.
No selling, no buying, no holding suggestions.
Reality.
Good luck to all
-$21,000,000.00
The comparison is absurd. A better comparison would be to find an equity that shows LQMT is the best risk reward for your money. When you find one doing an analysis, then all investors will know the risk reward they are in and where LQMT really stands.
It is easy to find equities with stats better than LQMT. Find the ones where LQMT is better.
In a recent post about a week ago, I stated that there would be a dip in the pps within 3 weeks.
The dip experienced this week and what may come in the next two weeks are from investors exiting from LQMT and others in non traditional IRA accounts taking losses against winnings to reduce their long and short term capital gains taxes.
The selloff is not due to stop losses, although some savey investors with stops might have got caught off guard as well to this natural year end phenomenon. There might be a short up tic in the pps in January as those selling for tax purposes buy back in.
However all should keep in mind that the long term downward trend will continue as nothing has changed. The outlook and fundamentals are the same. No contracts and all are waiting for one. Waiting for one does not produce new revenues or reassure growth. Waiting for a contract assures holding or adding to one’s position.
A serious sign of deeper problems will be if insiders are not buying at these lower prices. You have posters here ignoring the no confidence of insiders. All of us want to think positively about LQMT. But then why have not employees of LQMT and executives scooped up the bargains?
The next excuse for this will be Mr. Li forbids insiders from investing in their own company.
Whatever Bromage is/was working on it so far failed in 2018. The farce of their blogs seems to be failing too. Always painting a rosy future when opaque is more accurate. Like PH, the new sales VP appears to be a carbon copy for now.
As always all long terms will say wait till next year or sell off too as averaging down may help with exiting the next time in selling off.
I had great expectations for LQMT for 2018. But Li ‘s dictatorial style of managing LQMT, like China ‘s style of government has created a great deal of mistrust imho. Where the government or the CEO feels they do not have to answer any questions presented by the people.
I am sure some might disagree. The share price does not.
Good luck to all
-$16,200,000.00
Fundamentals have not changed. LQMT still trends lower as company remains silent with progress of any kind.
This all has been stated many times. The investment community is also disengaged as LQMT seems to have disengaged from PR.
Trade war is of little consequence to a company lacking contracts or products. LQMT is impacted only in their inability to sell a new material with superior properties for many years. Hence it remains a micro small cap penny stock leaving shareholders waiting for a break out. This scenario too, is nothing new to long term shareholders.
Many shareholders who post here are tired of posts stating these facts and accurately point out how depressing they are. Posters here are not to blame for the depressing stats of LQMT. The executives past and present are.
Without news speculation and rumors rule.
As a poster here already stated in so many words: just a whiff and this will take off. All the negativity will be gone.
Until next week. Good luck to all.
Too many complaints from boots on the ground. The kinks were fixed. But many in combat did not want to or could not carry the heavy bulk weapon. Thus some complaints were embellished tarnishing a very effective weapon in limited situations. Thus politics weighs heavily in deciding to end its production. Also, the cost was very high. There are already three other effective weapons but with far less range.
I guess the days of the John Wayne foot soldier are over, where you see the actor running around with a m51 caliper machine gun, with three hundred rounds of amo like a kid firing a water pistol are over.
Like the smart phone compared to the old landline phone, today’s weapons are far more sophisticated to enable the average soldier of stature to effectively engage in combatting offensively and defensively.
Good luck
In case you haven’t noticed their doing both. What they are doing or trying to do is put more of an emphasis on manufacturing and less on process of production. Not my words. The words of Bruce Bromage. Get the facts straight. They are still in RD. They may be spending less in RD, but they still are researching.
Now I’m still waiting on that list of prosperous achievements. Tic tic tic
Who said NEWS? Just the facts jack. Deal with it.
When people challenge facts without supporting their own opinion with facts, one might consider their opinions to be just venting their own disappointments. In the case of LQMT’s present state, and all interested in LQMT’s success their exists denial of facts among a few.
So Instead of presenting just another opinion in this post based on facts. Lets just post what LQMT has stated and continues to state. Not my opinion. Not my words. LQMT ‘s:
“We continue to invest in our technology infrastructure to expedite the adoption of our technology, but we have experienced long sales lead times for customer adoption of our technology. Until that time when we can either (i) increase our revenues with shipments of routine, commercial products and parts through a combination of our manufacturing center or third party contract manufacturers or (ii) obtain significant licensing revenues, we expect to continue to have operating losses for the foreseeable future.”
11-06-2018 by professor Lugee Li and Bryce Van. Their words, their opinions. No spin, no smoke, no mirrors, no fluff, just facts.
We can all join the others in denial and jump for joy now.
When I see something good I post it. When not, I post that too.
Good luck to all.
Another asset gone. She left last year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephok
Stephanie left the same way she came in. Quietly. Did anyone here know?
She was their senior research scientist in R&D.
I guess Li thought one brain was better than 2. Or the military/aerospace project failed. Or when Li entered the military and aerospace exited.
Notice Bruce nor Bryce nor Li or anyone else at LQMT talk about any of these failures.
Just be patient is their mantra. Never mind we have not released PR of any progress or a contract for over 36+ months. Never mind share value in past 15 month’s have dropped from .44 to .13 a loss of 70%. Just be patient. Be patient while we fiddle around as the cash burn reduces your share value in addition to our low sales revenues. Be patient while the newly hired VP of sales K.K. Travels around and stays in touch with P.H.’s former sales prospects. You know the over 100 interested tier1 companies.
Just be patient!
20 years of patience with three or four ceo’s. Two or three near bankruptcies. Writing off CE and half of the world’s potential customer market. Endless failures with many touted products with zero accountability for their failures.
Just be patient!
If you don’t know why the pps is at .13 and sinking or that sales are low along with trading volume. Then maybe it’s only because all are not being patient.
Patience, it’s working. Can’t you tell? It has added plenty of share value, right? If All received a nickel from LQMT for every day they owned shares in LQMT, it would equate to 140 shares annually @ .13. I don’t see as of now the reward for patience. Nor do we see transparency. Or fulfillment of any progress. What I do see is patience.
This is why the SP and volume and revenues are low. Patience costs nothing and earns nothing. Contracts do!
Have a great weekend and please do not complain. Be patient! Just ask Stephanie. Remember her?
On a more serious note ConMed is still in play. Company is not publicly talking about prototypes made or parts ordered or shipped. Translucent is the norm for transparency. A NDA may be in play here. B.B. lips are sealed.
Watts, Maybe they can convert those scalpels into the cutting blades for a food processor and make Liquidmetal a household name. Heck, they might just sell 2 to 4 million units per year and collect reoccurring revenues also with leading brand names. You get free addvertising and new shareholders too.
Or maybe they can tell us what happened to the scalpels in the first place!
BBboy, you have a excellent tenacity for summarizing the mood of the board with your reply:
“Blah blah blah blah blah, spiiiiiike!!!!!!!!!
It’s coming! ”
Your above reply reminds me of the Charlie Brown character. The above is how Charlie Brown would see it before reality would sink in, when Lucy would pull the football back and Charlie would miss the ball and land on his keister.
Now this is how reality see’s it. The board is Charlie and LQMT is Lucy.
.06 Blah blah .44 blah blah .27 blah, blah .13 poooof!!!!!!!!!
It’s coming!
Patience. :)
They have small coals burning right now. The SP right now shows they cannot yet grill a steak. We’re still munching on stale over cooked hot dogs and right now I doubt if even they have any beef in them.
Regarding $$$ from LQMT to Li. LQMT does not have the capacity to fulfill a large order. LQMT contracts one of Li ‘s associated companies to fulfill the order. LQMT pays one of Li ‘s associated company’s for their work. Product is shipped to US and is packaged here by LQMT and delivered to customer here. A. Liquidmetal profits, Li ‘s share value tics up and Li shows a paper profit as well. B. Associated Li company in China profits on LQMT contract and Li shows another paper profit on shares in that company as well. Li does not lose on contracts in North America, Europe or Asia.
I hope this answers the 405 million shares question from Li’s investment.
But first B.B. has to find this large customer.
He may already have...
2018 was supposed to be the year B.B. there is still time left. Shareholders are waiting.
Joshuaeyu, The contracts in China which a few have already existed for a couple of years now, perhaps 3 years between EON and cell phone manufacturers and the companies referred to with the name Liquidmetal technologies Ltd. as part of the whole name do not apply to LQMT here in the USA. How LQMT will if ever obtain re-entry to CE has had a huge negative impact on the company.
Other than the provision of a waiver from the agreement or a costly court battle and heavy fine, LQMT will remain out of the CE market.
LQMT cannot circumvent the perpetual agreement through EONTEC. But Li can, through his associated maze of overseas companies.
How LQMT benefits from these sales within the LQMT/Eontec agreements remains very sketchy.
There exists too many financial conflicts between Eontec and LQMT. What is Black and White for most sales to industries globally, becomes very clouded when CE is involved. Hence the CE rumor mill virtually has come to a halt around the WWW, where LQMT is concerned. All of those pumpers and web gurus and activity died this summer and fall for LQMT/Apple.
There is no publicly disclosed news involving LQMT and CE.
This does not mean that LQMT is not involved in CE. It means that all disclosures known, prohibits LQMT from entering the CE market.
Good luck to you
You are trying to mix water and oil when you post CE for Liquidmetal. EON & the so called loosely referred to China maze here, may participate in CE using amorphous metal, Bulk Metal Glass, Liquidmetal etc. using their technology. But LQMT, (Liquidmetal USA) may not. It is plainly stated in clear language in all of their financial reports along with the perpetual agreements prohibiting LQMT from CE and under what terms they may be allowed to re-enter the CE market.
So far Apple has not added the glycerin (the amendment, the waiver) that would permit LQMT to re-enter the CE markets. They can make hinges and a few other small parts, but nothing more. Li China can, not Li USA.
Right now it’s all about medical and auto and a few other industries. Right now sales are anemic. Anemic is being polite.
Perhaps the stock offers which are not worth much today is the incentive to grow. But if you see them exercising those offers at .20 .30 or below .50 and selling at those prices, than LQMT is going nowhere. Just like was done in 2017.
Did I not state that. Eon does LQMT no longer with CE. Meaning EON has a future, but LQMT’s future is no longer public knowledge.
The history of connecting EON with CE, Auto & Medical are clear and have a history. A traceable path. LQMT has a history of entertaining the auto and medical fields. So we can connect auto and medical to LQMT. But we cannot connect CE to LQMT. Mr Li was warned/advised to take down Apple from the LQMT site. So yes if CE is to be in play for LQMT, it will remain behind the scene.
There is a very good possibility of a dip in the next 3 weeks. Whether that means.10 .11 or .12 is anyone’s guess.
After January 1st will we have a inkling of whether the dip will end or continue to go lower. Right now B.B. of LQMT & Mr Li will determine the trend. The progress attained by LQMT’s B.B. & Mr Li hopefully will bare more fruit than what was harvested this fall as accounted for in the last 10q.
Andyd33, the answers to your last question are in your post. You note little buying and selling. Its not an anomaly. As stated at least a 100 times here. No PR, no sales, no products, no contracts, no announcements, no pumpers, no ceo guidance, no guidance of any kind, 8k’s not press released, no consistent blogs with real progress, pictures of a product released with no ties to revenues and on and on and on for years now.
No Andyd33, it is not the silence or low trade volume that makes this equity the best kept secret on the otc.
It is the best kept inept equity that trades on the otc, that is the reason for the low volume and obscurity of this equity. Many of the reasons are outlined above. Should we add in the failures of past ceo’s and executives. I don’t think we have to go that far.
What is truly amazing is that it is trading. We should all be thankful for the little things in life I guess. What’s more amazing is that the new/latest ceo did not clean house. This could mean B.B. might be onto something good for all in LQMT.
Good luck to you.
Maybe that’s why you only saw one car. They need to eat too. Its not like you were passing by a shopping center, where you would see hundreds of cars Christmas shopping. It’s a small company and Thanksgiving weekend. I would have sold my stock if the lot were full and the lights were on.
Another way of looking at this is simple. If Mr Li does not mind losing $12 million on his investment 405 million shares and hands out bonuses, what’s another $12 million loss going to matter. Heck the bonuses could even be bigger next time, when he loses $24 million.
We’re all in the same boat. We’re just not traveling in first class. The ironic part is we’re all traveling on a raft and not on a cruise ship.
Good luck to all
This is what got my attention.
Now back to LQMT. Another week passes and the unfortunate downward trend continues no matter what we believe is taking place with the company’s strategy. Why? Because most here are shell shocked by what the executives say and by what they have achieved since inception. Now perhaps Mr Li has more rope. But without PR and no new announcements, blogs simply won’t cut it.
Investors want results not words. Not that we don’t believe they are getting closer to revenues. It’s just that getting close to a deal does not support a upward trend. A hiccup maybe but not a sustained upward SP tic.
So in other LQMT news there is a small company in Boulder Colorado, helping to market LQMT. Not Super Bowl material. But it is another step in the right direction.
Good luck to all
Watts, Init2 was not sure of the profitability.
Many say knowledge is power. It also can’t hurt to learn.
#1. All of the newer pacemakers today are MRI compliant. As a matter of fact Medtronic top line pacemakers have been compliment for many years now. There were some concerns with Boston Scientific, but they too are now MRI compliant. There are a few other companies manufacturing pacemakers as well.
#2. There already exists wireless recharging pacemakers.
#3. The new innovation is the manufacturing of pacemakers without leads that attach to the heart muscle and to manufacture pacemakers that are implanted through a catheter right inside the artery onto the heart wall.
Right now these can only control one chamber, either the upper or lower. Research teams are trying to resolve this issue and are very near solving the problem. Some patients need one chamber controlled, others need both chambers paced.
#4. The batteries today can last up to 11 years. Some less. The length of time is determined by the need of each patient to pace to maintain a normal rhythm. Some patients have the battery replaced in 6 to 8 years. While others can wait 12 to 14 years. Companies are always improving battery life.
#5. There are about 3 million people using pacemakers and each year at least 300,000 are being added.
#6. So yes it is very important which material is used and by which company is manufacturing the material in whatever model pacemaker is implanted and SO YES, IT IS VERY PROFITABLE FOR LQMT TO WIN A CONTRACT WITH ALL OF THE COMPANIES MANUFACTURING PACEMAKERS or at least receiving royalties.
I hope this helps.
Of little relevance. One that got by me. From I never saw this before.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/engr110/2008/liquidmetal.pdf
Speaking of metals and new materials. A research of Medtronic turned up this one. When you read it’s story and you can get a better understanding from doing a wiki search you might be amazed. Here is the Medtronic page:
https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/about/news/medtronic-studies-nitinol.html
Amazed, because the story of nitinol, when you read it as a developing new material is almost identical to the Liquidmetal story. Same time frame and needed to find it’s industrial purposes in the auto and medical fields as well as a few others very similar to the struggles of LQMT’s amorphous metal.
So far no Liquidmetal, but it may not be too far away.
Perhaps B.B. is onto something. If not his salary just ate up LQMT’s quarterly revenues. But my instinct tells me he is onto something bigger than his salary.
Have a great weekend.