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May be time to buy EK, or call options?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/269290-changes-in-the-holdings-of-mutual-fund-giant-fidelity-investments?source=email_watchlist
Has any one noticed that the profits doubled thanks to the shorts?
There was a huge derivative gain due to the change in value of existing warrants due to the 50% price per share drop! It is one of those new US accounting oddities that can skew the hell out of earnings data on the USA side, versus the earnings calculations on the China side for taxable income reports in China. Something the shorts fail to mention when they try to call the China stock reports lies, just because the earnings data do not match between China tax reports and US SEC reports!
New article out calling ABAT a buy due to short sellers covering the shorts!
http://seekingalpha.com/article/269482-small-cap-momentum-ideas-10-stocks-under-5-boosted-by-short-covering
Water is somewhat unique in it's ability to store huge amounts of energy, due to hydrogen bonding, which compounds like Toluene do not have. Look at the heat of vaporization for water versus compounds like toluene.
Google or Wiki the bold terms if needed.
Already exists at the well head, devices used to remove Radon gas at the well head are commonly available, mix air with the water to strip volatile gases out of the water and vent them outdoors, gases such H2S, CH4, and Radon. Municipal plants already do this.
Well NITE for example may have multiple bids at multiple prices, but OTCBB and Pink will only show the best bid for NITE.
One other lurcking item is the multiple bids for less than 5000 shares (penny stocks), bids with limit orders such as all or none, xxx shares at xx price, and stop loss, or trigger point orders. We never get to see them.
Put the change is a real improvement. Thanks for the link.
New regs? I noticed the changes, but did not know why. What regs changed? Link?
By the way, while it is a marked improvement, the data still does not show all the bid and ask on the OTCBB and pinks. It only shows the best ask and bid, and volume at the best ask and bid for that MM. What is missing is the other bid and ask prices and volume that are just under the best bid, or just over the best ask, for that same MM!!!
I know, because I have tested the system, and my broker (Fidelity) shows me which MM my order was sent to!!!
Peachman, I got your PM. sorry I do not have PM ability here.
I have watched OOIL for about 2 years, but have not touched the Koolaid here, yet, LOL. PM me an email if you want to chat.
Don't forget that Friday next week is OPEX (options expiration) which always causes a nasty 180 degree huge tsunami shift like we watched today. I think AEXP (our merger partner) closed up over 20% today!
"The flood will give us more time for some good prices"
Price is in the eye of the beholder!!!! LOL
I am holding shares, not cash, so good prices to me means a rising price, not free falls to hell!!!!!
LOL
LOL, Progress implies movement! Movement in the right direction I might add!
LOL
"These are the times that try mens (investors) souls!!!"
Fuel is a major cost, and the newer synthetic oils can have a huge impact on the bottom line. But what they really need to do is to kill most of the debt, and the bleeding that the interest costs them.
Hmm, so it sounds like you might be bullish on ABAT?
LOL!
In case no one noticed, the OPEX game began today, resetting option prices on puts and calls by driving the blue chips and majors into the cesspool today, so it may be time to fasten your seat belts for the next 5 trading days. Seats in their upright positions and table trays secured, LOL. I found it pleasant to see that ABAT held up much better today than even crude oil did today!!!
I seem to read news about wall street scandals almost daily, so yes.
I re-read your post and finally got the message. I was thinking the same thing, and was planning to post that. Let me say it another way. ABAT has decided to dot their "I"s and cross their "T"s and take a few more days to answer the latest ABAT basher's attack in their next filling!!!! That would be a good reason to take a few extra days!!!! Yes, I agree.
And I agree there are unfriendly interests lurking about!!!!! INDEED!!!! In fact I am wondering if the entire China R/M stock attack is not a deliberate attempt by commercial banking, accounting and law firms (all in cahoots) that make a huge living off of the overpriced IPO process, to kill the cheaper, less costly, R/M process of getting a China operation onto US stock markets!!!!!
I see a much deeper conspiracy a foot here myself!!!!!
The routine delays are are very common for US stocks like ABAT that have all or most of their operations in China. In part, I think it is due to differences in calenders between US and China, and in part due to the extra work involved. I think it also has to do with accountant work loads, as the fortune 100, then the 500, and so on get all the early accounting work focus by the firms to meet their earlier release dates, then small caps get done last. A spreading of the work load issue IMHO. Also the small cap China based stocks are still running into accounting differences between the two countries that makes the job more difficult. The rules for cost accounting, like asset depreciation, I think are very different between China and US rules.
I thought all those form 4 reports on AEXP yesterday were issued options, not actual shares bought? Did I miss something? I do recall wondering how they could issue new options with the merger underway, as the merger restricts issuing new shares IIRC.
By the way, one of the items I think every one here has missed, is that (IIRC) the pending merger, till complete, does not allow the issuing of new shares!!!! Meaning dilution is possible. Only debt can be used for now to complete the well, unless I have missed something????
Makes sense that the scooter market would be hottest in Europe, with their gas prices. They are twice ours, due to higher taxes.
100 share lots is not computers, it is lots of small retail customers.
No, I did not like the news. But I tend to think of algae in terms of the crude oil substitute picture, and not the smaller niche markets like FDA applications for the oils, etc. Artificial light is OK for low volume, high value oil markets, but it will never compete in my view with crude oil which is what I think most Algae investors get all giddy about.
What you said here is correct, if you limit the market application like I suggested above.
"Perhaps the closed loop, artificial light system is more effective at reducing some of those difficulties, as well as allowing 24/7 production. No? "
This is the kind of news that I giddy over!!!!!
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n4/extref/nbt.1789-S1.pdf
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n4/full/nbt.1789.html
Most patents violate multiple other patents, and so must license the other patents or risk getting sued. For example say I patent a gadget for cars, and so I decide to start making cars with my gadget on them. I still need licenses, or implied licenses that come with other car parts for all the other patented goodies in the car.
Well the big boys, that are holding lots of pricey slow moving stocks, sell straddles, puts and calls on stocks they own. And they hope, and try to control the stock price such that it closes out of the money on those puts and calls, so they can keep all the premium money.
Yes I did!!!! Awsome!!!
Theory is the big boys will try and peg the stock price at options expiration at a price that makes the NET put and call options worth the least amount (thus minimizing their pay out costs). In graphing that is the minimum of the valley on the max pain chart.
This was a nice day to be long ABAT!!
Enron made their money trading contracts, at one point controlling the markets in those energy contracts. In their case the contracts were energy contracts. In CNOA's case the futures contracts and physical goods they trade are agricultural. Cargill made billions in the last 80-90 years trading nothing but agricultural contracts. Cargill is the largest one in the business and privately held, and they are reported to have a better intelligence gathering organization than the US CIA.
Enron made huge, real profits for a while. They were not originally a scam. Cargill is by no means a scam. Enron was not originally a scam, they got greedy, and too bold, and started lying about profits when they finally had a bad day (quarter) and it eventually burned them. The other problem with Enron was a lack of transparency in how they made their money. Leverage and good bets made Enron, and leverage and bad bets killed Enron.
I never short stocks. Check out my other posts here on Ihub. No need for personal attacks.
I got all my info from CNOA's latest SEC filings. What I read said the remaining officers and directors wanted to move the company out of the futures contracts business and into harder assets in the Ag markets.
This is from the Dec 21, 2010 8-K report to the SEC:
LOL, This is called MAX PAIN for the shorts!!!!
When the price goes up 10% after a last ditch effort to hammer the stock with a 32 page hack job posted all over the internet on a Sunday!!!!
I doubt the an*l-ists and their co-horts will earn much commission off of yesterday's article!
Go ABAT!!!!
Are you familiar with max pain theory?
http://www.optionpain.com/OptionPain/Option-Pain.php
I read something about one of the corn oil-ethanol plants switching over to switchgrass about a week ago. They were making a full scale trial run, at it. Brazil has made low cost ethanol for over 10 years using sugar cane.
Cool news today (and a bit of further validation I think):
Turbine Truck Engines, Inc. ("TTE") (OTCQB: TTEG), announces that two student engineers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University were honored recently by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for a paper reporting their research on TTE's DCGT engine. Francisco Romo and Jeffrey Vizcaino received second place in the Masters Student Division at the AIAA's Southeastern Regional Student Conference in Huntsville, Ala., on April 5.
The students conducted research for their paper, titled "A Flex-Fuel Pulsed Detonation Engine for Driveshaft Applications," in the Gas Turbine Laboratory at Embry-Riddle's College of Engineering at the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. "The students have done a lot of hard work and we are very proud of the recognition they received by such a prestigious institution," said Michael Rouse, TTE's President and CEO. "We are also very excited that the DCGT engine is generating so much interest among students."
I would not play options on this one. From what I read this week, if trading is halted, it is likely to be months before it trades again, in which case all options will be wiped out! That may be what short sellers of puts want? Come think of it, how clever an idea. Buy the stock cheap, sell over priced puts to fools, than press NASDAQ/SEC to halt trading tell the puts expire. Put seller keeps the put cash with no further risk, and keeps the shares. Wash, rinse, repeat?
Also the shorts using margin will find after any trade hault that who ever they barrowed the shares from can set the stock price at 2.50 while trading is halted and demand 250% coverage of margin based on it!!! OUCH. Same for any longs on margin, except they may be forced to cover the margin based on a price of 0.00, Ouch! The margin call basis is at the whim of the broker from what I read!!!
Meantime, the margin costs must be paid daily while the stock no longer trades.
I am more of a long term investor, with a taste for bottom fishing and knife catching. I have no problem holding cheap ABAT shares if trading is halted for a while, as I do NOT believe all the lies being posted by the shorts.
I am not convinced corn ethanol is that bad (120% in, 90% out),
but the huge variations in the feed stock price is a real problem. Most of the corn ethanol producers in the USA were hedging their corn costs with Cargill, as the price of corn and oil went into orbit and the dollar went south. Then the companies that were hedging on futures for oil, fuel and corn (Cargill was handling the corn futures contracts) in 2008 all got burned badly, and most of the corn ethanol companies were wiped out with massive hedge losses on futures contracts. They were using the futures contracts to protect them from climbing corn, electric and fuel costs so they could sign long term delivery contracts for ethanol to customers. They were not prepared for crashing commodity prices. Most of them were wiped out and went into BK. The big boys (Arthur Daniels Midland and Valero, IIRC) now own and use those assets to make ethanol. They picked them up cheap in 09, BK sales. Common stock holders got wiped out.
I think the problem with algae that I see is the huge investment in equipment and operating costs (people, maintenance of equipment, and yes energy input issues for process versions like the one in the news yesterday. That was also a problem for corn ethanol in the early days. The other problem I see is that Algae requires R&D in growing the algae (which algae to use, growing conditions, where and how, and how to optimize it), where as corn growing was not an R&D effort.
Algae is definitely a sector to watch, and as long as people pour money into it, various kinds of equipment will be sold to them.
What little I think I know, or have read (I am new to this one, not an expert on it), is that they made a lot of their money like Enron, doing trading of some sort, and now management is changing strategy in favor of bricks and mortar as the Enron model, while it has made huge profits (like GS, and Cargill), it is hard to show visibility to investors, which is what investors seem to want to see lately?
I see more down side risk here than upside at this time, with management shake up and the endless, relentless attacks underway right now on China reverse mergers that skip the IPO process.
That makes a lot of sense. Why use sunlight when it is free, we will use artificial light and just plug into the power grid for power!
LOL, I love it. Rube Goldberg has nothing on this BARD Holding outfit!
There is no way that patent will ever be issued as written (based on the claims I see there). Sounds like they threw everything but the kitchen sink in there hoping someday, some piece of it might survive as written. I suspect it would violate AXPW's patents(s) before it ever reached the point of having something novel. But I need to read the entire mess before I can be sure.
The story behind them, their BK, and recent resurrection and new source of funding was very interesting to read.
LOL, I never said how many shares I would sell him at $2, LOL. I should have sold some at $1 earlier, but I never expected to get any where near these prices again. It is like Christmas in the Spring!
I am on the look out for surprise PRs to move it back up when everyone least expects it.
Wow, 35 pages in the un-condensed report!
And it says this:
Analysts who prepared this report are compensated based upon (among other factors) the overall profitability of the Authors’ operations and their affiliates. The compensation structure for the Authors’ analysts is generally a derivative of their effectiveness in generating and communicating new investment ideas and the performance of recommended strategies for the Authors. This could represent a potential conflict of interest in the statements and opinions in the Authors’ documents.
Disclaimer: As of the publication date of this report, the Prescience Investment Group, Kerrisdale Capital Management, their affiliates and others that contributed research to this report have short positions in and own options on the stock of the company covered herein (Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc.) and stand to realize gains in the event that the price of the stock declines.
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And this one makes me wonder what Law firm(s) are behind the shorts!
It was .05 a year ago. You do know how to read a chart?
Sorry to here that. I am close to buying more myself.
I am looking over the article now. Thanks for the heads up post!
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First: The author can't even quote or copy PR data right (from his article):
I will be happy to let you buy shares for over $2 in August. I will hold and add more here while they are supper cheap. You wait all you want, LOL. An extra couple feet of water at a record flood stage will not take that much longer (2 months longer is what you seem to be implying?) to drain back and dry out, IMHO.
I get the impression the news of work on the sight will start in June, next month. And NG prices seem to be climbing steadily, and will continue to do so into the summer IMHO.
I wonder what real difference their is from this outfits lead carbon electrode design and AXPWs?
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=89
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=201&Itemid=96
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=204&Itemid=89
I wonder what real difference their is from this outfits lead carbon electrode design and AXPWs?
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=89
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=201&Itemid=96
http://www.fireflyenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=204&Itemid=89