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Looking for the "recommend this post" and couldn't find it LOL!
Yes, I do expext Pres. Hillary will happen. Can you imagine what a boon to the economy that will be? Tens of thousands of over 50 conservative republican males will die of heart attacks on election night reducing the future load on SS & MEDICARE by about 10%, the flat tax will get passed and the national productivity rate will go up another 15% (reduction of forms and un-necessary book keeping), and the final law to balance the budget will be a "sin tax" on philandering husbands....
I'm seeing quite a few nice block trades in after hours. I think they're getting ready to bounce the BTK.
Please shut up -
OK, isn't this where the UN should step in and mediate the enforcement of the PREVIOUS agreement?
Zeev, or anyone else who understands this - did we actually fail to deliver the promised alternate reactors? When did this happen and who made the decision?
If we promised them fuel and technology to keep their people from freezing and failed to deliver, the internal political pressure to do SOMETHING must be tremendous.
Is there any wonder they have declared their intentions to re-start the old reactors?
Zeev, I admit a great deal of ignorance in matters of foreign policy.
I read this on the Yahoo fuel cell thread.
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=4687441&tid=erc&sid=4687441&...
If the poster is correct, I am more afraid of our government's agenda than that of the North Koreans (which would seem to be survival).
12/27/02 12:07 pm
Msg: 69851 of 69919
The North Koreans had nuclear weapons before Clinton was in office. President Clinton's agreement accomplished having NK's plutonium-generating reactors shut down and locked up under UN , onsite supervision. In exchange for halting the production of plutonium from NK's reactors, Clinton negotiated an exchange of GE light water reactors (to deliver electrical power) and regualar shipments of heating fuel oil. The GE lightwater reactors were never built.
Because the NK's secretly developed a uranium enrichment program to develop fissile material by another, somewhat less efficient route, Bush cancelled the fuel oil shipments--and chose to walk away from further negotitations. Because the North Koreans believe that this Bush administration is interested in active military invasion of other countries and regime change (I wonder where they got that idea?), they have been prodded to engage in brinksmenship by putting their plutonuin reactors back on line and possibly using the already manufactured plutonium locked up under the Clinton agreement into bomb production.
The Bush Administration's war rhetoric is the most ham-handed foreign diplomacy I've seen in 40 years. Everything Bush and his hawks decide to do works to produce the very events good diplomacy would strive to curtail. Bush has talked himself into a corner--unwilling to talk to North Korea unless they do waht he wants first (while they possibly assemble many new bombs in a matter of months) and leaving the NK's to assume a military strike against them isn't out of the question. This is dumb.
After market hours, could you expound a bit?
I would like to understand the criteria for and definition of your tactics a bit better.
Thanks -
Zeev, did you look at SEPR? Range is narrowing and with all of the block trading that took place on 12/20 (quite a few at 9.50) I think they are getting ready to run with this one.
We have PaulA and Paula posting on Zeev's board. Aren't those two handles too close? Could PaulA be Paul_A or something and I would suggesst not permiting a case unique handle in the future.
Paula doesn't do much shorting yet, PaulA is the one who posted... Gee, shoud IHUB permit an alias that is that close?
I would hope they would be forced to develop the system in such a way that the MSFT java doesn't conflict with the SUN. I installed a Freetrade program last week and discovered that it killed my Etrade program because of the java conflicts. Each seems to think the other is an "outdated program".
I'm still learning to trade, but SEPR seems to trade in a range quite a bit, and the momentum is not to slow and not too fast (good for a rookie).
It also seems to have bottomed out and if this market gives half a chance it could be in recovery mode.
Zeev, have you ever traded SEPR? It's the one that makes the easiest money for me. I'm not sure why, but I guess I should stick with what works.
What do you look for when deciding which stocks to trade?
Management was saying they were going to sell off the technology for months. They were running out of money so they had to. The licensing was better news than expected.
I didn't take profits when I should, I was too busy trading SEPR. No biggie, I think the stock will continue to recover. The blocks were HUGE on the way up and the block action above .65 today was decent too.
Even if your theory is correct - there will be exceptions. ORCH was such an obvious play last week. The news was expected, the shakedown was obvious. I'm thinking I was crazy not to have bought more...
Didn't know you were into blow-up dolls...
Why not a woman? They know a lot more than "girls" *wink*.
They are usually betrayed by a not so quiet desperation or that little white line where the wedding ring belongs.
Just as long as you don't break it into the ice- (a bartender's worst nighmare)..
So glad to see you have Gewertztraminer.. Now sit me down near the saxophone in the band and point me to the unattached males in the crowd...
Bully for her!! It's about time a woman had enough balls to play the game the way the guys do.
I'm still in learning mode myself, but I had quite a bit of confidence in that one or I woulnd't have posted it on this esteemed thread :)..
Glad you got in on it.
Thank you. I had forgotten about that. Interesting that there still seems to be at least a .25 cent spread on the price.
Forgive me if I am being obtuse here, but how would that apply to SEPR specifically? Blocks are trading at 9.30-9.50. Intraday high was 9.55, stock spiked to 10.66 yesterday on news, but they ran it down hard. On the 16th they traded all the way down to 7.12.
Could it be that it was just held down for options expiry?
Just trying to understand the why behind the numbers.
Thanks..
Blocks flying fast an furious on SEPR after close. Don't quite know what to make of it, comments welcome.
Did anyone buy any ORCH?? It's starting to take off.
Computers did not become mainstream until the '90's. You are being obtuse.
"For example, there is more gold in a ton of sea water than in a ton of good to average gold ore."
Taken from this site,http://www.cea-life.com/geochemistry.htm, not researched further because it seems to be a common knowledge thing that I have been aware of for years.
Central banks are dumping gold and abandoning the gold standard. Those buying it now are the "lesser fools" in the end.
Think about computers in the '60's, the '70's the '80's. It took until the '90's for them to be indespensable. That's a "few decades" and biotech is following a similar (although shorter) growth pattern.
You don't get it... in a few short years little bugs will be created an programmed to combine molecules into desirable patterns. Extracting gold from otherwise unuseable sources (such as sea water) will be one of the tasks assigned to these little guys.
When Gold is as abundant as baser metals it will no longer be "true money".
Dot coms are merely a tool, a way to manipulate information. The upcoming biotech revolution will be on par with the industrial revolution.
Don't take my word for it of course, just wait a few years, you'll see :)
I am operating from an assumption that biological engineering will obsolete gold as any form of monetary standard within 10-20 years. Historic performance will be moot at tha point.
I guess I see a purchase for personal adornment (made from a dominant economy) or for a componant in a functional item (electronic interface) as having greater intrinsic value than the Indian system of holding wealth in gold. How has gold fared historically? Not that well from what I have seen.
Western economy, Christmas holiday driven, is still the primary consumer for practical usage. India gold buying is still subject to an archaic system of wealth and social status. In real, hard measure of supply and demand, gold is on its last legs. Supply will soon outstrip demand and those who are holding quantites of gold know this. This is the reason for the pump and dump scenario.
I think we're making the same point. If you're going to run a game, wouldn't you do it when the serious buyers are out of town?
Gold run - or pump & dump? It just dawned on me that the manufacturing in the jewelry industry is pretty much shut down now. The season has been a bomb - my NY caster actually closed a week earlier than usual for the year end vacation. The real users of gold are not buying now, so demand is at a low point and the price is spiking?
Bio insanity - an example. ISIS down to the lowest in eight days on good news. It was take down two weeks ago from steady trading at $8 to just above $6 by a hearsay report by an anylist of trial failure on a blinded study. Stock recovered and has been trading steady at around $6.90 until today's good news, which turned out to be another excuse to short it down.
Quote from Yahoo:
http://post.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=0&board=7076966&tid=isip&sid=7076966&mid=2...
UBS PaineWebber biotech analyst Andrew Gitkin retracted his statement made during a UBS sales call last week that he claimed to have spoken with half of the investigators in the ISIS Affinitak trial.
He now claims that he and his "associates" spoke with physicians that account for 100 patients.
He says that he only spoke with a few investigators and his associates did the majority of the calling.
My understanding is there are 616 patients so his initial 50% claim has suddenly dropped to 16%.
FWIW, I suspect the 100 patients is still a bloated figure. Most of the sites enrolled fewer than ten patients and there are likely over 100 sites. The investigators are bound by confidentiality agreements.
Draw your own conclusions.
Now if this jerk doesn't get jail time, there is no justice. He cost people a lot of money with a lie.
Datek/ameritrade and Ameritrade had separate clearing firms as of a few weeks ago when I talked to customer service.
They said they were looking to consolidate them, however.
I don't think the sales post to the account as smoothly for some reason, but if you look at the ticker they seem to go through in a timely manner.