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"Is Katcher prepared for Derek's Death by a Thousand Irrelevant Questions?"
That is PRICELESS!
But you have to stop. At least once every day or two you come up with some one-liner that has me laughing out loud at my desk.
Chances are very good that your wife will be just fine. My brothers wife had Thyroid cancer about 2 years ago and went through the treatment process. Today she is terrific. The cancer is completely gone.
This is from the American Cancer Society. It's the 5 year survival rate which in almost all the categories is between 90% & 100%. Pretty good odds.
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/thyroidcancer/overviewguide/thyroid-cancer-overview-survival-rates
Don't forget to name it Spiffy.
WOW! WOW! DOUBLE WOW!
Everyone MUST go to the Seeking Alpha article and then down to the bottom for the comment section. The 8th comment down there is from Simon Bramfitt. It is AMAZING.
pete,
I am sure you have read the ShareHolders Unite article on S.A.
Good article, but as usual from their previous articles they are very reluctant to talk about the huge gains that are possible in ANY. About the only thing they say is that it is a good buy under $5. That is all well & good but not very exciting to get new folks to buy in NOW. People want to hear about legitimate possibilities of huge gains.
The bashing articles about Sphere by short sellers have no problem saying the shares are worth zero. We have seen the results those type articles have gotten.
The message of yours that I am replying to does a great job in few words to convey the actual excitement there sould be for folks interested in a stock with potential huge gains. Perhaps you could post that message in the comment section of the S.A. article.
"IMO that is the best part of telling someone about Sphere. The product is complete (though it continually is being found to be more powerful, adaptable, and marketable than first realized), it has been validated by the largest names in the industry (per our partnerships), it has numerous billion dollar+ possible vertical streams, it is on NASDAQ, it has proven mgt, financial backers with deep pockets to handle any needed funds, and already is bringing in significant revenues. All that is left is growing the brand and waiting for the entire IT world to have their "AAH HA" moment in recognizing how ubiquitous Glassware will become in the cloud and in many other areas.
I don't try to sell people on investing in Sphere, if they can't recognize this gem of a company on their own, they don't deserve to reap the rewards it has to offer all stockholders."
While I am as clueless as anyone regarding what comprised the $9M of revenues for Q4, my initial reaction when I read it and my best guess is that it was a combination of ANY & OVRL revenues.
If it did contain OVRL revs, it would be only for a maximum of 28 days. Looking back at 2013 for the same quarter, OVRL did $10.6M in revenues. While December is a great month for retailers it tends to be an off month for companies selling business equipment. So let's assume for the 2014 quarter OVRL did twice as much business as in 2013. That would be $21M in revenues. If that is true, I would expect that about $16M of those revenues would have occurred in Oct. & Nov. That would leave $5M for the short month of December. Again if true that would mean the $9M in total ANY revenues consisted of $5M from OVRL & $4M from ANY. That would represent more than a double in ANY revenues from the previous quarter. I would be extremely happy with that as I am for the $160M in projected revenues for 2015.
That was my initial thought also, but don't know so can't assume.
Thanks blue,
At the end of the article there is a question for the author:
"Larry Laffer • 3 hours ago
How does it compare with Sphere 3D's Glassware? They also offer app container capabilities using the Windows kernel"
Will be interesting to see if he responds.
"what is the relationship between Liquid Labs and Glassware?"
"“We are very pleased to partner with V3 Systems and support their use of ProfileUnity FlexApp on their virtual desktop appliances. We see this move as both strengthening V3’s offering and allowing more types of companies to benefit from the advantages that desktop virtualization offers,” said Tyler Rohrer, co- Founder of Liquidware Labs. “Adding strong user customization capabilities to V3’s desktop cloud computing provides customers with a best-in-class solution that can reduce their desktop OPEX and mergercosts, yet still allow them to benefit from V3’s expertise in deploying cutting-edge desktop technologies like ProfileUnity FlexApp.”"
http://sphere3d.com/v3-systems-partners-with-liquidware-labs-to-offer-flexible-application-delivery-on-high-performing-windows-virtual-desktops-2/
Sphere 3D has switched accountants. Now using Moss Adams which was Overland's accounting firm.
http://www.streetinsider.com/SEC+Filings/Form+6-K+Sphere+3D+Corp+For%3A+Feb+06/10240666.html?si_email_click=2015020906
Just one more hurdle to jump.
That is to get through whatever number of ANY shares PineTree has decided to dump. Hopefully they have been doing that the last few days of higher volume. More important than share price right now is to get through their overhang. Right now I think the selling is more likely coming from them than from additional shorting.
A combination of more good news and the end of PineTree and the share price is going to be $8 plus in a minute.
ANY is HOT!
From Property Mentor Group:
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
BY SEBASTIAN RYAN
What’s Hot: Sphere 3D Corporation (NASDAQ:ANY), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Galena Biopharma (NASDAQ:GALE), Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CHMT), ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT)
On January 22, Sphere 3D Corporation (Nasdaq:ANY) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Overland Storage, has expanded its distribution agreement with Promark, a premier U.S.-focused value-added distributor (VAD) and wholly-owned subsidiary of Ingram Micro, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Promark will offer Sphere 3D’s virtualization product solutions and continue to offer the Overland Storage portfolio in the U.S.On Wednesday shares of Sphere 3D Corporation (NASDAQ:ANY) closed at $4.10.
ANY - A stock to watch.
From Wall Street Scope
Sphere 3D Corporation (ANY) of the Technology sector (Technical & System Software) has gained 2.98% from open per share today. Sphere 3D Corporation (ANY) is currently at $4.32 and volatility of 8.26% with a market cap of 107 , a volume of 126,926 shares and a weekly performance of 1.23%. Sphere 3D Corporation (ANY)’S monthly performance stands at -23.36% and Sphere 3D Corporation (ANY) is considered a stock to watch..
Technical Analysis on Sphere, at this point, is fairly useless except after the fact. Right now Sphere is a "story stock". Which way it goes is totally dependent on news or lack of it. It is all about confirming the validity of GlassWare and the merger or confirming the skepticism about it.
Lack of news brings out the "see, nothing happening it's a scam boo birds". That's who has been in control for the last few months. But I firmly believe yesterday began a bright new era for the share price.
The press release yesterday was incredibly important. Not only because it was about a sale of GlassWare, but a sale in a market that everyone knows is going to be HUGE. And even more important was the words coming from the Texas administrator saying that GlassWare SOLVED HIS PROBLEMS and no other product on the market could do that. And he was so enthused about GlassWare that he was willing to go and demonstrate it at a trade show for educators.
If that doesn't confirm the validity of GlassWare I don't know what will.
Hopefully this will only be the beginning of this type of news. I would love to see a PR saying that NovaRad's customers are clamoring for NovaGlass. In combination with the Chromebooks story that could put the share price at $10 or more in a flash.
Someday we just might be telling a story where the beginning is: "Once upon a time there was this tiny little company trying to survive in this big Kingdom. And maybe the ending will be: "And all the shareholders lived happily ever after."
Positive Money Flow.
Interesting. At the moment the share price is down over 4% BUT according to the Wall Street Journal, the Money Flow looks like this:
Uptick/Downtick - +1.24
Net Money Flow - +$29,069
"Money flow gives a snapshot of relative buying and selling pressure in a stock. A ratio above one suggests greater buying pressure, below one suggests greater selling."
Sure is a lot of game playing going on.
The reasons they gave for rejecting your article do not make sense. Just wondering if you complained about the rejection to them and if you received any more clarification. Here is what they call their Editorial Principles:
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Even with todays very low price, ANY's market cap still exceeds their $100M minimum, and ALL stocks are speculative. Their rejection makes absolutely no sense unless they in fact do have an agenda.
NovaGlass at RSNA Trade Show.
Novarad in Chicago: RSNA 2014
January 12, 2015 – 6:11 pm
Every December, Novarad sets up shop in Chicago, IL for a few days. The reason: one of the world’s largest industry trade shows, RSNA. It’s always been a great place for us. We get to show ourselves off in front of all the right people, all under one roof.
This year was no different—in fact, you could say this year was pretty exceptional. We gained a lot of traction and were really able to show off our new products.
Attendees were very interested in our software and frequently stopped by our booth. They were most interested in our new user interface, the universal viewer (our MARZ product), our PACS product and NovaGlass. We loved seeing an emphasis on enterprise imaging solutions (and congratulations to us for being ahead of the curve). ITN Magazine even featured us in their RSNA 2014 Imaging Trends video, which you can view here (http://bit.ly/1zcP5qg).
NovaRads new NovaGlass video as of January 23rd.
"So if shares were restricted, how are the shorts able to do this?"
My guess is that it wasn't shorts. More likely the market maker took out a bunch of stops at $5 and slightly below.
There have been many posts saying that a good earnings report is needed in order to move ANY's share price forward.
I am not of that school. That might have been the case when the share price was $10, but at $5, not so much.
I think all it will take is just ONE PRESS RELEASE about even a moderate size SALE OF GLASSWARE.
The shorts are basically betting that GlassWare is just another ClipStream. A solution in search of a problem. The only thing that will change that perception is an actual sale. It seems like we have already had some, ie the Chromebook deals. But those were never formally announced. Maybe they were provided free just to prove the concept. Nothing wrong with that and from tweets GlassWare seems to be doing its job, but again no formal recognition.
The great part about owning ANY here is that the Overland part of the business probably makes the share price worth at least $3 by itself. And if GlassWare is only moderately successful in this huge expanding market, the share price will be multiples of what it is today. In terms of risk/reward it appears to be incredibly in favor of being long.
Totally uncalled for message.
Thanks ariadndndough.
If you happen to talk to Scottrade again you might mention that making it HARDER to buy shares while allowing selling on the website is in itself manipulation. Why not make sellers have to place phone orders too?
This reminds me of the commercial where the little boy is asking his Dad all kinds of questions about how much he pays his broker, why he doesn't get his money back if the broker does a crappy job, etc. The Dad has no answers for any of these questions.
Now there is a new twist. The people working for the brokerage can't even answer an important question from clients who have entrusted their money to them. To me that would be totally unacceptable. If I had an account with Scottrade I would DEMAND to speak to higher ups until I reached someone who would answer my question. I would also threaten to move my account to another brokerage if I could not get an acceptable explanation.
But that's just me.
Thanks falcon.
If I had a Scottrade account I would do the same. This seems a blatantly obvious attempt to benefit short sellers. Make buying difficult. Make selling easy. And have a huge margin requirement.
No problem at AmeriTrade. You can buy online, and margin requirement is as low as 40% depending on the percentage of ANY in your portfolio. The only restriction they seem to have on ANY that is not on any of my other stocks is you cannot use a stop market order to buy. Only a stop limit. That is a minor bother but nothing of great consequence.
Perhaps because of all the Canadian naked shorts trying to cover, there are no shares for sale at this time.
On the other hand it is more likely that it has to do with sun spots, freezing rain, or alien visitors.
Will you tell them there is another 6000 put up at $5.34.
If it takes a seance, then do it.
Or, Maybe the Gallos' decided to join their buddy streamingeagle in this stock.
WOW! What was that?
Clicked on level II for ANY about a minute ago. An ask of 10,000 @ $5.30 came up and was taken out in about 30 seconds.
Be careful what you wish for and who you awaken.
SEC seems much more intent on going after those with even a slightly positive spin than those who blatantly lie on the negative side.
Manipulation? They never heard of that term.
This is not your fathers stock market.
Ah yes. Forgot about the OVRL shareholders shares that were to be released now. Just one more non-fundamental negative to add to the others I listed. Might as well get everything out of the way all at once.
Not going to tell you to buy more, but wouldn't be too worried by today's activity. Since ANY started the year over $6 and got as high as $11, probably 95% of all ANY purchases this year were underwater. Great time for tax loss selling. Combine that with a big short interest, fear, stop loss orders and margin calls and you have a perfect scenario for a "last day of the year" disaster. Would not put any great meaning in today other than that.
I see after hours bid already up to $5.45 and ask $5.80.
Friday probably will still be a light trading day and anyone's guess what might happen. But I believe someone entering the stock beginning Monday will find that at this time next year they will be a very happy camper.
P.S. Can't believe you ended the final sentence of your message with a preposition. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL.
Thanks for reposting that.
I didn't understand why it had been removed.
Hits the nail on the head.
testifying for Sphere 3d are: Dell, Novarad, Ericsson, Atos, Adams, Mobotix, CCPS, New Caney, Sheldon, Cyrus, Msft, Eric, John, Peter x2, Stoney, Michael (Keen & Dell), Vangorilla...
and ... Graig Fisher, Nilesh Patel, SEDCOM, AmeriFirst, Corel, Global, Industrial Networking Solutions, Client.nl,
AND...
Jacobs Securities, Midas Letter, Simon Bramfitt, Laura DiDio, Michael Dortch,
Not inconceivable that what we are seeing today is the last remnants of tax loss selling. Just about everyone who bought in the last year is showing a loss. Some as much as 50%.
Of course selling right now for that purpose could be very unwise. Not being able to repurchase those shares for 30 days could result in losses in gains that could substantially exceed any tax loss gain.
Probably the most used short seller attack tactic towards young potentially dynamic promising companies is the "dreg up years ago failure" technique.
It falsely assumes that if anyone associated with the company had not succeeded or even failed in the past, then it is proof that they will fail at everything they try in the future.
Of course this is complete nonsense. There are endless examples of people who failed once or many times before succeeding fantastically.
Just a few examples:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/15-highly-successful-people-who-failed-their-way-success.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-the-best-success-stories-often-begin-with-failure-3851517/?no-ist
I notice that article posted by roca was authored by "leaf93". Who is that? What is that persons expertise? What is that persons track record regarding successful long or short stock picks? Totally impossible to answer those questions because whoever it is is just using a pseudonym.
On the other hand, there has been a long string of people with actual names who are extremely knowledgeable in the tech industry who have raved about GlassWare and several who have gone to work for Sphere3D. Then there are companies like Erickkson & Dell who have allowed Sphere to demonstrate their product at their trade show booths. Are all these people and companies being hoodwinked? And was NASDAQ also hoodwinked by allowing such a scam of a company on their exchange? I think I would put more faith in their words and actions then in what an anonymous short seller had to say 6 months ago in order to make a quick buck by scaring people.
Thank you.
Can't think of a better answer to a really stupid question.
I was always under the impression that "massive HOOTERS" referred to something completely different.
Will have to rethink my vocabulary.
No,no,no,no. The turning point came here: Wednesday, 12/10/14 11:54:36 AM, when I posted this:
"I think the time has come.
For the most part I have not had a good feel for the movement of this stock. Have zigged when I should have zagged many times.
But just a few minutes ago I got a strong feeling in my bones that the BEGINNING IS NOW! Looking for $8 by end of year and then off to the races big time."
I think the share price at the time was about $5.85.
Now of course if the price is back to $5.50 next week, I will deny ever having said this.
That works for me.
The confirmation thing. Not the ignore thing.