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I suspect another gimmick
is the issuing of warrants.
I've seen warrants issued that literally leave you scratching
your head. Unfortunately, some get over excited about them.
GFCI and RMEI are examples.
Another gimmick is announcing a spin-off only the spin-off
doesn't happen or is delayed for months and months.
GFCI is again an example.
Then there's the IDWD current fiasco of a promised buyout
at 2.35 per share and it's currently trading around .75.
I'm starting to wonder if this was a gimmick.
I keep getting an error that it can't locate the
remote server. I'm on a high speed connection.
This is happening for both sites which I have bookmarked
and until recently, I was able to still see them.
In fact, I was looking for an '05 Suburban with low miles
and the 6.0 engine, so I went to the 995ad.com website
to see if one was advertised there. I didn't find one.
From what I could see, the site wasn't doing much business.
The 995ad.com portion of IDWD has never impressed me.
The promised dividend and the high and low cycles in share
price are what attracted me.
Anyone besides Pennycow or IDS Watcher able to connect?
Thanks IDS, it seems like the travel section gave me
a similar error when I checked it out when the rest of
the website was working for me.
This current connecting to the website problem
is annoying me.
Was a nice surprise to see this one started.
My thanks.
>that's why you NEVER buy and hold pinks
Perhaps, But I hung in one for 5 years before it paid off
big. I began at .15 with small bites, then jumped in hard
at .01. My average cost was .013. The stock went to .25
this year. I kept 50k shares for fun which were foward split
this year 3-1. It's still up 1566.67 %.
Playing a pink long successfully gives a lot of satisfaction
when it's time to pay capital gains.
So if I had followed your advice, I would never have had
the express enjoyment of being patient and then riding
the explosion which happened on the share price.
Most long waits on Pinks don't take 5 years.
This is only one example.
It was an extreme situation wait wise, but it was worth
every bit. It allowed me house money to use on GFCI and others.
Yes, it was a very high risk initially, but the risk lowered
as time passed and being able to average down.
If an investor uses good managment and doesn't over extend
beyond say 10% of their portfolio, distributes this over
5-10 risks, it only takes one to payoff big and still come
out way ahead even if all the rest are losers. This uses a
basic spread / roulette strategy to win.
GFCI is not only interesting, but should be more than worth
the wait. 15 months is not a long time to wait for me.
Others that got in earlier at higher costs should be
getting their avg cost down now. It's cheap and easy enough
to do right now.
The best part of this one is going to see how Shorty comes
out of it when the dust settles on GFCI.
Anyone with less than 50k sh now is wasting their time, imo.
Imo, that's just someone with too much time on their hands
and too little money to seriously be involved in investing.
They qualify only as rabble rousers, imo.
Has anyone else had trouble
connecting to the 995ad.com website recently?
How about the IDWD website?
If yes, (no diatribes please)
what is the actual explanation for this?
Well, it's only 8 more days to find out if we get the warrants.
I'm still perturbed by the X-mas record date.
That's not much of a wait. Imo, the next question is:
How low will share price go in the next week?
Next question:
Will the warrants be a nice present in our stockings
or a lump of coal?
Next question:
When will the warrants actually post to our accounts?
Next question:
Are we winners or losers?
The beginning of the year promises to hold one heck of an
intersection of a variety of things on the table at GFCI.
Imo, we're going to find out soon enough and don't need to
berate someone no matter if they are + or - GFCI.
Either way, imo, we should have winners & losers
no matter what the outcome is. My prediction is that
the shorts are going to end up the losers.
Last question:
When will the next solid spike hit and how high will it go?
My guess: within 3 weeks and .39-.44 and settle around .18
before things lite up again.
This isn't pumping and dumping. It's merely guessing.
Now we just watch and see who's right and who's wrong.
These are informative BBB, imo.
It may just be my perception, but there's credibility lent
to the hypothesis that there's a lot of shorts in this
and more than a few naked shorts as well.
Another hypothesis I'm entertaining is that there are shorts
out there that can't afford to cover unless we see the price
drop even more. This might explain the negative verbosity.
If they shorted shares at higher prices thinking it would
be easy to cover later on but come up short on the $ to
accomplish this, then they would certainly have a lot to lose.
If they gambled and didn't keep enough cash back to cover
at current prices, they stand to lose an awful lot.
If some longs are actually continuing to accumulate
like myself, then they curtail the short from covering
a large position as shares are snapped up when sold by longs.
For the minor long fun stock speculator, 250k shares is still
a nice acquisition and limit without getting too deep, imo.
I think we'll all be more informed by May of 2007.
At least I hope we are.
Disagree 'Cuda,
IDS is putting forth some questions that when answered
may either support or undermine his opinion. If the
answers support him, that's how it goes.
For a pink, some of the list seems a bit obsessive to me and
not worth one person's time unless they've invested
the farm on this stock. Imo, this is a fun stock and
they get played with house $ or you don't jump in deep.
For the record, I can't stand a liar or thief in my
personal life. In these fun stocks, I've yet to run into
one where there isn't some lying going on. If anyone
finds one that is completely honest, is a good investment,
is fully reporting, yet is only a diamond in the rough,
then I would venture we'd all be running to invest.
Imo, it seems almost impossible to find a fun stock
where there isn't some hanky panky going on unless it
pops and then they move to clean up their act. Not a
single one is worth my getting seriously angry about.
As for 20k posts, it's quality not quantity that counts.
iHub is a resource and I'm sure it has limits and they
shouldn't be abused even if someone is angry.
LT
There was a Happy hour last Friday where private
messages could be sent. You could wait until the next one
and send IDS a private message then if using a free account.
Leave it to a Jarhead to get on after it close and personal.
Maybe that's why so many are friends even though
I come from the world of Bragg. It does make for thick skin.
Semi-retired myself, LT. but not from the military.
Playing with these fun money stocks is just that, fun.
IDWD is one of the few I own where I haven't done much
looking into. It's been making me $, so it was last on
my list. It sounds like most of what you learned, you
fell into pretty easy since info sources were close.
That's a good reason to check things out in my book.
I expected more rise today, it's down .065.
Still in the green here, but a small surprise anyways.
Personally, I wouldn't go into that much detail about
how I went about my research. It's not my style.
Doubt this one will go thru the roof, imo.
Might sting some shorts for $5-10 a share if and when
this buyout happens. HLS put $50M in escrow according
to the PRs. I wondered why put it in escrow and not just
follow thru with the buyout. It makes sense if there's
more attn to product by HLS & if there's a feeling they
can buy IDWD any time they want.
Imo, there's some shorts feeling the pressure and that's why
there's such a hullabaloo right now. They would want panic
selling so they can cover. It's just a hypothesis.
Same thing here Strongus.
It was just too much to resist.
While the book with 27 reasons holds discussion value,
I was unable to find much of this in the myriad of posts that
reposted a lot of old stuff from other posts and looked
more like personal attacks on the CEO in their repetition.
The sheer volume prompted me to ignore and pass over them.
Imo, your point was made early on and the rest was unnecessary
repetition. Repeated posting of previous posts of another's
posts (say that 3x fast) isn't due diligence imo.
iHub is a discussion of information and opinion asset imo.
Flooding the board with the same point over and over again
doesn't encourage dialogue. Imo, it discourages it.
There's a big difference between debate and argument.
Personally I appreciate reading posts that are pro or con
when they are engaging in courteous dialogue. I appreciate
open debate. I hate politics and don't care much for speeches.
IDWD is up .085 at this time.
Imo, this is an indicator that we may be experiencing yet
another upswing. Imo, it indicates there's less of an
enigma than is consistently hypostulated.
While there appears to be a mtn of negatives surrounding
IDWD, it simply continues to surprise some with its rebounds.
Other pinks would be crushed under the negative litany,
Yet IDWD continues to respond positively in spite of this.
This says there's more than meets the eye when discussing
the pro's and con's of IDWD, in my skeptical opinion.
To top it off, it just continues to be a profitable short
venture and holds value as a long position currently, imo.
This has been my experience for some time now.
It's hard to complain about an investment that keeps
rewarding me.
I just got a nice 5 yr old gelding for free and the horse
looks really solid but poorly trained. When it was offered,
I was reminded of my father who was a bit of a horse trader,
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
IDWD has been a good gift horse for me, yet I still appreciate
hearing any complaints.......once.
Excellent post LTGeneral.
I agree.
As shown by example, it doesn't require a deluge of posts
to make one's point, proving again, there's wit in brevity.
The stock is already rebounding and is at .80 which indicates
we are probably in another up cycle. Have to admit, I couldn't
resist snagging a few more using previous profit.
Can't complain about this one myself.
It's been a moneymaker.
The article looks fine but....
There's no mention of what was shown in the financials
where administration costs went up dramatically.
Those costs looked like payments to the admin and not
funds being spent to keep trying to run the company.
From reviewing the financial statements, it looks like
after the problems occured with the coal, the admin
basically scalped the existing liquid funds instead
of spending them to move forward and try to counter
the productivity problems they encountered.
This is what bothers me when seeing an article like this.
There's an awful big element that appears like it's being
completely ignored when it shouldn't be.
If anyone has any information to counter this opinion or
provide enlightenment, it would be appreciated.
I only know what my accountant told me after reviewing the
financial statements sent to me from Pine Valley and the
subsequent pit that formed in my gut.
I agree they have something worth selling. The problem there,
imo, is there won't be anything left for common shareholders.
We're pretty much left holding an empty bag.
It's pretty much a disappointing write off for me at this point.
For several years I've followed this one.
It just never had enough oompah to get any of my $ invested.
Great ideas and product.
The company should have courted a buyer to takeover
and run with it long before this, imo. Perhaps it just
wasn't able to find a buyer before this.
The only upside is if another comes along and picks it up
for a song so the product line continues. That's no real
consolation to investors though.
It's a shame to see it go like this.
GLTA who gave it a whirl.
The only good news is if your shares are restricted and
protected from the rs. The second bit of good news is
if, IF you bought your restricted shares before Joey
bought his and you have the opportunity to sell yours
before he can dump his. That's about it.
This is about as good as it gets, imo.
The rest is disgusting.
There really does need to be a limit on how many rs
can be done in a 12 month period.
This is ridiculous.
Joey can perhaps produce viable products with the company,
but isn't qualified to run a company, imo.
This many rs wouldn't be necessary if the company was
run well, imo.
This might explain recent events.
It looks like an investment recommendation group
is recommending FPPL. I was just invited to join
a group that has as bait, "we'll send you our latest
recommendation on a stock, oil & gas leases blah blah"
"Oil shale, blah blah blah"
This is the kind of group you pay to join and get their tips.
They gave enough information not just to tease but to
kind of narrow the field as to who it is.
This included the location of the leases and the current
price of the teaser.
I was surprised this was happening so soon.
I didn't expect this rise until after Dec. 31st.
Looks like the short players are missing the boat.
Looks like it's still a good time to jump on board
and have a little long patience for a real pop.
I can't prove it without joining the group, but
I'm pretty sure this is what's happening.
I'm not wasting $ on joining to get info I already know.
I would expect some new posters showing up as well
in this group.
If I'm correct, then we should see some stabilizing of
share price above what it's been and shorts will fade off
until we start seeing a climb.
Agree
Profit taking by daytraders was definitely going to happen.
Not that I can see wasting time on making pennies
when a little patience makes dollars.
Now if it will just hold off until after Dec. 31.
Won't be calling there myself.
Not worth my time to participate & deluge a poor working gal
with phone calls she can't answer.
PRs will come when the company is ready.
In the meantime, my hope is that things will calm down
before the new year so next spring's pop will be just
that much more enjoyable.
If all you want to make is a few bucks,
then go for it. Anyone can do that working
at Greasy Mac's and isn't worth wasting time on.
That isn't exactly buying low and selling high
with a fun stock, imo. That's just playing for
pennies, tossing them against a wall, imo.
Not much fun in that.
Personally, it's the 25-1 pops and up that are
where the real fun is.
I wonder if they'll buy any of mine for .34.
They are welcome to a taste at that price and higher.
Otherwise, I'm willing to wait and see what's left
when the dust settles after the merger.
The bodyguards weren't there exclusively for JD.
Having visited with two of them briefly during the sh mtg,
they made some others attending feel safe.
The presumption the bodyguards were there to protect JD
and only JD is erroneous but has been much ballyhooed.
Firsthand experience pretty much resolves that myth, imo.
In addition,
if anyone has viewed:
http://www.businessjive.com/nss/darkside.html
GFCI looks a lot like the company used as an example
of FTD's. The merger will accomplish a lot all in one
fell swoop. Then we'll probably have about 6 months
to decide how much profit taking we do and how much
we let ride.
If this is correct, then accumulation is a good strategy
right now. If wrong, will just have to eat crow like Cramer
but there will probably be a few others joining me at that
blemished banquet.
I'm thinking there's a lower level to scoop at here.
Since we've seen a few significant drops only to then
see a solid rebound later. Held off scooping the past 6
months on the drops and have regretted it.
Anyone recall the $50M put into escrow for HLS to purchase
IDWD? As long as that's still there, it's easier to believe
that a long position is still viable.
If this one takes a hard short dump in price, it easy to
imagine that those of us who have cautious will probably
jump in hard if the volume is there to accumulate and
provide a decent recovery when it spikes back up and levels
off. Then once initial costs are all covered, it's a little
easier to sit back and wait patiently on the remaining shares.
500k shares are so dang cheap right now.
It's just too easy to load up on it.
The only trick is to be patient and wait for the pop.
Stocks like this are ones I buy in cycles and then
sit and wait to sell. The first pop pays for playing it for
a long time plus give you some to play with others.
Its a lot of fun. The few that fail are more than offset
by the ones that pay handsomely. I hope this one waits
until the new yr.
I didn't really notice an accurate reflection
of the oil sands in TX. It is said they rival
those in Canada. That is speculative of course.
I lived through the precious oil shale speculation years
ago. The problem was we didn't have the technology to make
the process viable and there were issues of environmental
impact. New technologies are changing how oil shale is
perceived as an asset.
Imo, FPPL positioned itself well to take advantage of the
situation and that is what provides the upside & value in it.
The leases Fppl holds are not merely oil shale either or
so it appeared when I researched them some time ago when
I first got involved with it.
It's definitely a fun stock to play, imo.
Some consider calling it bottom feeding like this is a bad
thing. If buy low and sell high is bottom feeding, then
there's no shame in bottom feeding whatsoever, imo
Considering the discussion of ns at the GFCI sh mtg,
this site seems particularly pertinent to discussion here.
http://www.businessjive.com/nss/darkside.html
I'm still viewing and listening to it right now
and the most refreshing thing is: it's put forth
in a straight forward manner.
Hopefully this is useful or helpful to some.
I found it to be informative in its forthright detail.
It's very different from what we encountered at the sh mtg.
This was great and right on target.
http://www.businessjive.com/nss/darkside.html
Thanks. This was terrific.
Welcome Mickey
For me this one's a write off.
Am holding on until next year to offset my gains.
This was a complete disappointment.
It was also one of the reasons I won't ever trust Tobin
ever again. It was a loser from the start of listening
to him along with a few others.
I've seen these things go crazy.
Uranium is this area is now even seeing some speculation again
since it closed down in the early 80's.
There's a lot of talk out here about new technologies that
make the leases held by FPPL something that even got me excited.
Imo, this was the most exciting one to get involved with for
such a low risk and such a prospective payout. If a decent
amount of shares are acquired might even the most reserved
whoop and hollar at the next pop.
It made me give a whoop the last time it popped.
Seems like it went to up around .04 at its best back then.
My memory might be wrong too.
But it was exciting and fun to say the least.
Last time I looked, this one seems to cycle in and out
of exciting and then goes back to boring.
So for me, this one is more fun than most as I'm patient.
I prefer paying on Long term capital gains as opposed to
short term and that makes the risk more fun overall when
they pop. This has been one of my favorites and have nothing
to lose anymore. It's been like playing with the house's $
for a long time now.
1st Prize goes to Suzie924 !!!!!
Consolation prizes to the rest¡¡¡¡¡
Thanks Suzie, for your kindness
in teaching an old salty dog a new trick.
May the holidays be especially nice for you.
I'm old school and don't need flashy graphics and sounds
to make my point, imo. I just didn't want to have to type
the sig in with every post since sometimes some posters
won't seem to understand that I'm here for the dialogue
and opinions mostly. While information posts are nice,
I simply don't have the time to contribute much in that
arena. Analysis, strategy and subsequent opinions are
something I hope to offer something worthwhile in exchange.
The example I need is for a basic text sig file
I can't make heads or tails from the instructions there
on how to do this.
i.e. "Don't manage your investments based on my opinions"
So what I need is simple straight forward instructions
that don't leave me scratching my head.
I've noticed others making this type of statement.
It seems like a good idea to me to make it plain
and flat out that mostly I post opinions and discussion
as opposed to those who focus on posting other things.
When I have time, I appreciate reading others intelligent
opinions and dialogue and responding in kind. It's more
enjoyable to agree to disagree and keep open the opportunity
to learn something during the process.
Thanks
This what happens when you get older,
Could someone please tell me how to add a sig line to my
posts and emails please.
I haven't been able to find it on the site.
It's probably like the purloined letter and right under my nose
but I haven't been able to find it.
Thanks
It looks like snagging by long positions
and selloffs by those wanting to offset gains
that have run out of patience, imo.
If there's some smaller ns, they might be covering
but I'm expecting a larger volume to show when that
happens, IF it does happen. Imo, the next price surge
will reveal a lot.
As more and more reflect on the sh mtg and then consider
current prices, imo, I'm not the only one snagging.
I'm already looking fwd to the next sh mtg we can attend.
Now that one should be interesting.
So much for the unaudited financial statements.
My accountant looked over the June 30th one for me
and gave me news I wanted to hear, the company looks solid
and it had been mailed 8/28.
Then came the crash and stinging ouch!
My call to the company didn't relieve my need for antacid
relief either. It was discouraging.
Recently got the Sept 30th one and had her look over it
since I wanted to know if there was more of an explanation
other than what I might find on the net.
She told me it looked like management basically took the
money and left investors in the cold. That one was mailed
11/22, a day late and a dollar short.
Seriously, I wasn't concerned about this company and didn't
watch it close as I was out of town on business, only to
return to my one definite ouch this year, pvmcf.
On the upside, at least the loss is manageable as I was
waiting to see the next financials before seriously committing
in this one.
The disgusting thing is: if another company buys this, imo,
they'll be getting it for a song and dance.
Greetings
I'm still snagging GFCI shares.
Just can't resist at these prices to lower my average cost
and take advantage of a surge which imo, will happen before
the merger.
Hit the nail on the head B2L.
The discourse here on Ihub on GFCI is refreshing compared to
RB. Plus there's rules of engagement here that are good.
On the naked short issue brought up at the sh mtg, I'm 50/50.
I came to this conclusion of opinion today.
I'm not 100% convinced a ns problem exists.
Imo, there's enough indicators to believe it's more likely
than not a reality.
I'm of the belief that a lot of us are reducing our
average cost while others are moving on before the new year.