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Have a blessed safe healthy prosperous new year
Li is too busy to release news. LQMT is too busy parking.
You are correct 100%. Getting a plant up and running overnight is an impossible task, even for a company like Amazon. But getting up and running overnight was never LQMT’s problem.
Their problem for the last decade was always getting clients of sufficient means to ink a deal without having to give up their IP in the form of a license. Because LQMT did not have the capacity nor the capability to manufacture the products themselves. This forced them into partnerships and outsourcing. This business model lead to legal issues, loss of revenue, clients and almost bankruptcy twice.
The above operating losses, cash burn and anemic income lead LQMT to sell it’s CE to Apple. The fact that they never could fulfill and attract a client to overcome operating expenses, lead to increased share dilution and professor Li, to avoid another bankruptcy.
Hopefully the cash, increased R&D, and lessons learned, coupled with professor Li ‘s guidance, will lead to a new modeling strategy for LQMT to attract the right clients and fulfill their orders without having to hit rock bottom again.
Good luck to you.
Li, is very busy...
https://quotes.wsj.com/CN/300328/company-people
So which companies are missing from the WSJ Lugee Li MAZE?
From my research it looks like LQMT is trying to nail it between the second half of 2019 and the first half of 2020. Medical first, then auto. Other possible areas might be the electrical grid.
The material is not the problem. Getting major industries to take the plunge and LQMT’s capacity to supply is what is holding LQMT back.
I hope Li has the capacity problems resolved.
There seems to be plenty of time between now and then for LQMT to drift lower. But if there is a NDA in place right now then the bottom is not to far away. But with low volume a lower pps approaches.
Good luck to all
If Li read these posts, he would have required an ambulance filled with oxygen tanks, and another ambulance filled with defibrillators. Thank heavens he is still locked away in a southern Chinese province without 5g cell service on line at a KFC. I hear the family dinners there are not too bad. Hey Lugee, don’t you know they deliver?
Now if only LQMT delivered....
:)
Bruce Bromage, have you mailed out all of your Christmas cards yet?
It already began a couple of weeks ago.
Every day without PR is a new bottom.
With global economies shrinking and growth decelerating here as well, do not expect miracles from LQMT right now. So it does look like demand from manufacturing is slowing down. Although LQMT appears to be increasing it’s activity, the time before those sales show up on a 10q and the time that global markets reverse the current negative trend should allow LQMT to drift below.10 for awhile.
It also provides (more time) cover and excuses for Li’s plan for LQMT to be executed. Another problem ensues for all companies that buy raw materials. The costs increase and so too will the rate of cash burn.
We just might see .09 or .08 faster than one might think.
But all long terms know its about a deal and not the economy at LQMT that is keeping the SP down.
The silence continues ZZZzzzz.
Looks like once again, Santa comes down the chimney first. Maybe next year Li might beat out imaginary rain deer. Right now at this pace, it looks like there are more that believe in Santa than Li, coming down the chimney again first, next year.
Imagine being beat out by legendary Christmas characters year after year.
There seems to be a lot of similarities between Rudolph and LQMT. Each year it’s becoming harder and harder to tell them apart. :)
Is there really a Lugee Li?
To all have a peaceful week.
At LQMT’s current rate of decent, it will take LQMT 6 more months to reach .01. Just look at the pps from the end of May 2018 to present. Go past those dates and every 6 months LQMT cuts it’s pps about 50% regardless of blogs, increased sales or so called analysts theories.
That is an extreme view which is possible but not probable. But somewhere in between .01 and .08 is a more probable bottom for a company in silence mode regarding there month to month activity. But with a company like this looking to score a deal for the first time, any pps may represent the bottom price.
Where is KK? Is he another PH?
Another week has passed. Posters here do believe all of the ingredients to success is at hand. One thing I know is that it is very difficult to predict any time frame to when that may occur. Seems for now without any verification or PR that increased activity may be taking place for LQMT, either here or in China. Success has always eluded LQMT, be it in the form of a PR, guru theorists, rumors, DD, blog innuendos or just shear wishful thinking and a lot of spin.
So we have many saying 2019, some 2020, while others are more skeptical based on the factual history of LQMT’s constant failures and present silence.
Although current sales have increased slightly, they are still anemic and as long as all recognize that there has been no fundamental change to the operations and that we have no idea what the costs will be to increase sales. We can expect LQMT to continue it’s downward trend.
Whether LQMT drifts to .10 or .08 or lower is no longer relevant. Those low prices will attract new dice rollers and existing ones to buy more shares in hopes of a pop in the SP.
The uptick of last week fizzled, but not our expectations for LQMT to finally put all of their ingredients together to come up a winner and to execute Li ‘s plan for profitability. It is this reason, this expectation for many that makes a SP of .06, .08 or .10 irrelevant.
Other than the SP drifting lower with a few upticks like a week ago, I do not expect much from LQMT anytime soon. Only a PR with significant financial impact will change the direction for LQMT.
Let’s hope with all of the ingredients in place they get the recipe right this time. The global economy is not exactly favorable right now for growth. But if LQMT can produce a better product costing less than a material currently used, perhaps the economic downturn might help selling the LQMT material as other companies look to cut their costs to preserve their own bottom line.
We have not heard from KK, maybe he’ll add to the blog soon.
Good luck to all
The company sourced by LQMT as stated by B.B.’s intro into the last 10q
On yihao metal ‘s website is the plan for LQMT referencing Li ‘s plan for LQMT back in 2017 with the same pics on the LQMT OH page of LQMT ‘s website.
The plan for LQMT is in Li ‘s words as documented on the yihao metal page. Not posters guesses or theories. Through the research and dd done and posted here by two other posters, It does look like Li’s plan is unfolding, albeit slowly.
http://www.yihaometal.com/?p=8972
Liquidmetal®Technologies,Inc.(LQMT) yú 2017 nián 7 yuè zhèngshì qian rù xin gongchang, xin gongchang wèiyú 20321 Valencia Circle, Lake Forest, CA 92630.
Gongsi jiang yú 2017 nián 10 yuè 17 rì zài xin gongchang jubàn “kaifàng rì”, ben cì huódòng jiang wéi suoyou duì yètài jinshu yijí MIM jìshù gan xìngqù de rén tígong goutong jiaoliú de jihuì. Ben cì huódòng jiang wéirào guanjiàn jìshù jìnxíng yanshì hé shenrù taolùn, shì yicì gen jìshù zhuanjia jiaoliú de nándé de jihuì.
When
October 17th, 2017
Time: 9:00Am – 4:00Pm, with presentations at the top of every hour – startingat 10:00Am
Where
Liquidmetal’s40,000+ square foot manufacturing facility:
20321 Valencia Circle
Lake Forest, CA 92630
“gongsi zài 2017 nián tóurù dàliàng zijin yòng yú gòuzhì zhìzào shèbèi. Women jiàng zài xin de gongchang yu nín fenxiang women de gùshì. Chéngzhì huanyíng women de hézuò huobàn, gudong yijí duì women de jìshù gan xìngqù de rénshì canjia, gòngtóng jiànzhèng zhè yi shíkè, bìng chàngxiang Liquidmetal de wèilái.” Dongshì zhang jian CEO liyángdé jiàoshòu biaoshì.
2016 Nián 11 yuè, yí an kejì shíjì kòngzhì rén liyángdé jiàoshòu rùgu LQMT guquán 46%, bìng yú 12 yuè dangxuan LQMT de CEO. Cihòu, liyángdé jiàoshòu jiakuài LQMT hé yí an kejì youshì ziyuán de zhenghé, jiang yí an kejì zài yètài jinshu chanyè huà fangmiàn suo jùbèi de shèbèi, gongyì, mújù shèjì hé jiagong, chéngben, chanpin fùzá xìng hé dà chicùn deng duo fangmiàn de youshì dài dào LQMT, xiézhù LQMT jiànlì meiguó bentu de shengchan jidì; tóngshí jièzhù LQMT zài guójì shang de zhimíngdù hé yingxiang lì, tuidòng yètài jinshu zài xiaofèi diànzi, qìche hángyè, yiliáo qìxiè, tiyù yòngpin deng duo gè hángyè hé lingyù de yìngyòng
Link to outsourcing
http://www.yihaometal.com/?p=111
HIMX jumped 34% the same day. Its not a penny stock.
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.