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For you conspiracy lovers, if “they“ control and manipulate the stock so much as quite a few here seem to have been duped into believing, why haven’t “they” been able to push it down to one dollar or less?
Anything material – that is anything that is likely to be seen as significant by shareholders — must be announced in an 8k filing within four business days.
That’s a fact. If there’s no announcement, then nothing significant has occurred.
I cringe every time you say there is no premium built into the stock price because it’s incredibly wrong.
There’s a nearly $500 million premium. That’s a lot for a company with no revenues. The market cap for this company is one of the highest of all stocks having no revenues. There’s only a dozen or so higher out of the thousands of stocks. These aren't my opinions. These are facts.
The very high overvaluation and premium is probably the main reason why the short position is so high, last I checked in the top 3% of all stocks
The stock has been heading back down to the pre-hype levels. The next few months are critical. If they fail to deliver, we will see a lot more blood because right now it’s still like an overstuffed blood sucking tick.
The Dec 4 letter was a manipulative technique used by the company to try and stop the price decline.
half-truths at best.
March 1 is a week away now..Some here have said they will wait until March 1 to judge Dr Lebby's credibility.
Early March is the 10K where the first deal revenue will be reported.
Remember Proto saying we could see millions in a surprise earnings report from this deal? Rubber meets the road.
imo.
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Not interested in arguing with a fraud, ProtoHype. eom..
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Stop the hype nonsense Proto. I showed a month ago that passive index funds own 7% and more of a lot of companies.
That's because these are TRILLION dollar funds. They don't know who Lightwave even is IMO.
PASSIVE investing...go ahead and look it up for a change!
ProtoHype again schooled by Druid:
The pumper is poppin a blood vessel !!
And already accusing Druid of being a short
So predictable
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Re the 3 recent hires
My take on the Controller and Sr Accountant is that they anticipate more bookkeeping for certain. That is not unexpected when you hire some dozen or more people in a short amount of time. Ana's experience with M&A MAY come into play if Lightwave is merged or decides to acquire someone else..all very iffy though.
Possible too that Mr Marcelli is just having too much fun at his beach house and would like someone else to take over some of his duties. It MAY be that Lightwave plans to acquire the local Stolle Machinery company and needed AnaQ's expertise, having last worked for Stolle. Why? Stolle is the world leader in can making, and Lightwave may well need some more cans to kick down the road..I could now insert a "stole" joke, but will pass this time..:)
Both hires are local which suggests there was a not a desire for an international powerhouse in preparation for parabolic expansion. Maybe in 5 years? But not now. For now they just need to handle all the additional employees, stock compensation, accounting for the office expansion and all that goes with it.
My take on the Purchasing Manager is that he will likely play a big role in the purchasing of various materials and equipment in response to anticipated requests both internally and from potential customers. This likely will be goo-related, but it also could be from expanding into other areas (lasers,etc..).The description clearly states it is for all engineering and office supplies, tools, equipment, packaging, and services. How much will stem from potential customers vs internal engineering requests to continue to prove out X,Y, and Z, is anybody's guess at this point. As is what kind of revenue/scale is being supported by the purchases...stand alone modulators for universities, or truly scaled purchases by data centers?
Time will tell. I predicted last August that after a year shareholders will be scratching their heads and asking just what the expansion was for. Hopefully that will be proven to be wrong, but here we are already 6 months later and nobody really knows yet...
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KCC just pushed back another 9 months, it appears!
What happened to getting worried if nothing by August? My 2024 list already coming true...
But it isn't true so it's slander. I"ve never shorted a stock in my life. I don't get paid to post.
I have no association with Kerrisdale and never have.
My history is easily found right here on IHUB. I am mostly a trader but the penny world trading soured a few years ago and since I would love to find a 'retirement stock' to buy and hold and ride into the sunset, Lightwave caught my attention more than before.
I have followed Lightwave since the Microcap Kitchen on SIlicon Investor was excited about it, but I never liked the $50m market cap back then...yet was intrigued by the high-tech big claims...Kept watching all these years. even bought some, liked the phd scientists angle, and the lack of death spiral financing..didn't like the high market cap still though..
Kerrisdale I thought was the nail in the coffin, finally exposing the scam, but some positives kept me wondering if Lightwave could be that stock for retirement. Still am. Just don't think it is though..Not "in love". More in love with reality: Do what you say you are going to do and don't hide/obfuscate/mislead your own shareholders.
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Re the award: an industry insider told me it is the equivalent of a bowling trophy and a poster that everyone respects here agreed with that assessment.
Normally I would be impressed by the award too, but not after I found that out.
It means little in the real world.
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sprinty, you made up your mind a while back and there's nothing I can say that will change it.
No matter how much it makes sense, you are incapable of comprehending why I have become semi-obsessed with pushing back against all of the "positivity" here - even when I state it as simply and clearly as can be.
Yet, we share a lot in common. You just can't see it. I want this company to be what they claim they are. I want KCC to be as accurate as he thinks he is.
But I have to be true to myself. There are many brilliant people that just can't solve certain complex issues - complete enough, fast enough, etc...when a company doesn't follow through on what they say - year after year after year, I don't just look the other way.
But you do. That's the difference that makes you incapable of understanding me. Good luck but really, why waste your time slandering me anymore? I'm just the messenger.
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I heavily questioned the Tier1 narrative in the fall of 2022 - asking if the reality was that Lightwave is on the junior varsity team trying to get the coach's attention, and wondered if GFS Fotonix was progressing or not...still do.
It's getting harder to keep the years straight. Maybe you meant 2021? Or 2020? Or 2019? etc...
And for newbies: ProtoHype is a FRAUD.
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how many times have I said I like the "what if" potential of Lightwave. I can dream too, but I won't be blind - at this point I give them maybe 10% chance of some level of success - and maybe 1% of the dreamed of ubiquity. Even though I (and the shorts) know the stock is grossly overvalued for what we know about their true "market acceptance" I do want to be on top of the issues in case they turn more positive.
There are other reasons that are secondary - helping expose the intentional obfuscation by the company, frauds on this board, help the unsuspecting newbie not get duped, fascination with the naivety of dreamers and conspiracy lovers come to mind, boredom, entertainment - but those are secondary.
So there you go sprinty. The truth, as always.
KCC did a 180 and fell "in love" apparently because he had just discovered what they put in the 3rd qtr market commentary. It doesn't matter to him what the company changed it to after that in the Dec 4 letter I guess...
How convenient.
Well, he did at least check on the difference - give credit where credit is due, though he claims he was "embarrassed" to do so. I guess he was embarrased because he is so "in love".
B.S. KCC's answer was strange. He said that he was told (by Lebby or MZ?) that "both statements are accurate".
So, that means several foundries are implementing PIC designs for multi-channel - 'including' 400x2 solutions for 800g. and that they are "planning to implement" the same "using commercial foundries".
Why the dampening down in language if they really are already implementing with "several"?
Obviously the truth isn't quite as positive as it was first presented.
Perhaps 2 foundries are already trying to use Lightwave's PIC designs to for testing plasmonics for 800g and Lightwave is working/planning for 400x2 but no foundries are actually implementing anything for that yet . That might be a way for both statements to be true...not worth reading 20, 10 or even 1 time.
Lightwave LOVES to obfuscate their status by comingling multiple approaches when they discuss what they are doing.
Shareholders have NO IDEA which approach they are talking about usually. That's intentional. They don't want us to know.
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proto doesn't care about the truth. That's how. You can try and figure out why but he's not so stupid to think that he is telling the truth - that's proven by his continuing to post nonsense after repeatedly being shown that it is nonsense.
Proto is here to HYPE. He is a fraud.
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"go back to the old presentations". Yeah, maybe I'll find something supporting this "commercial acceptance" from 10 years ago:
How is this any different than Polariton buying some perk to sell w modulators to Universities?
Druid schooled protyHYPE: Worth repeating:
2019? I challenged you and you failed to support this claim.
Why should anyone believe anything you say? They shouldn't.
This is not supported:
Last sentence in the Top 3 Red Flags post:
Did you ask him WHY he changed the wording? There surely was a reason to dampen it down...
In any case good for you for at least looking for clarification.
We'll see if "implementing" translates to more than "planning to implement" or not.
I'm just not crossing my fingers.
I"m really more where StevenD is: show me.
and if you look at my reply to him, a critical thinker will see that I'm right and he is the one trying to twist things to be what he would like them to be.
The simple question is: why did he change the wording if it was not to make it more accurate?
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No - bad post protohype. What KCC needs to read 10 times is the CHANGE to what KCC is telling us to read 10 times:
Dr Lebby deliberately CHANGED
No answer Protohype? I'll ask again: 9 months? What happened to you being certain that deals would be done before the end of the year - last year? You pumped it repeatedly for a while.
Israel market is open and news is now out!
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Everyone knows 1H23 normally would refer to the first half of the calendar year.
You are the first I've seen to suggest that he meant something different than that.
The 12 months goals are for the ASM to ASM period but references to halves of years are for calendar halves
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Market is way down - so why appeal to manipulators? Walter pushed the idea a few days ago but failed to prove his point.
thanks for the feedback.
9 months? What happened to you being certain that deals would be done before the end of the year?
That was 2 1/2 months ago. Why?
Simple, more employees more assets. Possible acquisitions. Possible resignation of Marcelli
remove another 2 million from the float for me..looking good here
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LOVELWLG, what product? A modulator? The perk? Isn't the goal to sell their perk/modulators inside of a transceiver? You gotta have a transceiver before you can sell it. Nothing has been said that indicates any exist.
Manufacturing was the next step after tech transfer definition and qualification, which was to be completed by 1H23. So.....
Has the tech transfer been qualified yet? If not they are a year or so late. If so, the manufacturing is a year or so late.
that doesn't sound "quite literally perfect" to me.
Correct, or not?
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confused on the Preferreds...in one place it says they convert (A 1 for 10,000, etc..) but at the end it says there are no conversion rights.
Any idea what is meant?
https://www.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/financial-report/386198/content
I welcome real tech knowledge, that's way more positive in reality than the dreaming based nearly exclusively based on hopes and messaging from the company which has been notoriously unreliable since day 1 well over a decade ago.
If he is unbiased as claimed, he will soon find out how welcome he REALLY is by the rest of you. Already X started with the suspicious talk yesterday. I could counter by saying he is a plant to help rally the troops going into the next few months as the company disappoints repeatedly, but I have no basis for pushing such conspiracy theories. The group here though doesn't care about evidence.
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