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Yes me too, but not good for Market Makers. Think they need to let it run up again to create some new breathing space. Low volume and lower price is decreasing income. Would be nice to get some movement in the potentially 22 Mio available transactions.
One of the important ‘dissident’ European on line trading platforms has stopped to solicit its customers for LWLG shares. Hope that this source will no longer provide the cover for shorts! Here is a translation of their customer communication. The banner is the solicitation to borrow out shares.
“ The banner will be removed from the screen around 4 pm today so that you will no longer see it appear.
We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Today was last Friday,
You know what’s funny? Good old Intel may well catch up with its nimble competitors. For two good reasons. The semi conductor industry has hit a speed and computing wall, which means the once in the lead can’t move ahead. Intel gets the opportunity to catch up. Secondly all those nimble chip design companies ( NVIDIA, AMD etc) for CPU and GPU’s need foundries. Guess who is building them? Now add photonics into the equation to lead the industry in the data and power explosion and you know why looking into the past is waste of effort . In fact you could label it : digital pollution.
I am sure he bought after legal advice , due and timely reporting and just a ‘symbolic’ purchase in order not to give the impression of huge personal gains. Read the jurisdiction on insider trading and NDA’s.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/securities/1177906/nondisclosure-agreements-and-insider-trading-risk
Th, artificial intelligence is used to program bots. Bots have the recognisable treat that they refer to the past ( data). They are self learning in the sense that they need other peoples data input to function. Investing requires decision making about the future. It requires the ability to assess different scenarios and being able to value the differences. A bot can’t do that. A bot can’t decide if you should invest in Lightwave or instead buy a Maserati. That requires human intelligence. In other words bots are not very good for investment advice. There are of course also humans who always refer to the past ( fudsters) and chartists. Chartists use the past to predict within statistical boundaries what can happen tomorrow and likely in the very near future. GP by the way is a good example of a human fudster. There also a few very good chartists on this board like MDK , Xena, Lewrock to name a few.
You are referring to an abstract (2022) from the same group of scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Adrian Mertens’ and Koos ( also SilOrix) are members of the this research group and have guided Schwarzenberg in his PhD thesis and research on the feasibility of cryogenic operation for 70 Gbaud. As you know scientific research always looks at the best available ( this case 2022 - 50 Gbaud) and can only justify its scientific credentials looking at the requirements to drive the science/ technology forward from there. The latest research is the conclusion of Schwarzenbergs PhD thesis and therefore the latest scientific achievement. There is nothing better around until somebody comes up with an even better solution. The involvement of Lightwave Logic ( Lebby and Zyskind are mentioned in the white paper) through Koos and Mertens of SilOrix and KIT are undeniable.
Thanks Proto, thought this part of the verbiage in the Intel link was strange. Why using this expression: ” For dyed-in-the-wool contrarians or even just opportunistic traders, Intel stock has the makings of a once-hated asset with tremendous turnaround prospects.” Polymers and dyes are synonyms. I guess my Lightwave bias is getting in the way.
Red,
None. Please read the conclusion of the white paper.
We report on a cryogenic silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) fea-turing a record-low p-voltage of Up = 0.92 V. We demonstrate PAM4 transmission at a symbol rate of 70 GBd, the highest value so far achieved for semiconductor-based cryogenic MZM.”
Mind boggling. New and exciting application field of Lightwave Logic.
First Demonstration of a cryogenic Silicon Organic Hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder Modulator with a Sub-1V p-Voltage
A. Schwarzenberger, H. Kholeif, A. Kotz, A. Kuzmin, A. Mertens, C. Eschenbaum, G. Ramann, J. Zyskind, M. Lebby, S. Randel, W. Freude, and C. Koos
Cryogenic photonic link for Qubit
Recent advances in superconducting electronics have made quantum computers a feasible technology. Quantum computers have to be cooled down to a few millikelvin above absolute zero to observe and use quantum effects.
To minimize heating, fiber optics and an electro-optic modulators in the cryogenic chamber are an attractive option for transmitting data to the outside. One promising candidate for low-power operation are silicon organic hybrid (SOH) modulators.
During the thesis, a numerical investigation of the necessary modulator performance will be done. A data transmission experiment operating SOH modulators at cryogenic temperatures will be used to validate the simulation.
Analysis and simulation of a cryogenic data link. Developing and implementing a setup to test modulators at cryogenic temperatures
Testing the performance of SOH modulators at cryogenic temperatures
Data transmission experiment at cryogenic temperatures.
We report on a cryogenic silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) fea-turing a record-low p-voltage of Up = 0.92 V. We demonstrate PAM4 transmission at a symbol rate of 70 GBd, the highest value so far achieved for semiconductor-based cryogenic MZM.”
Solar panels are connected to the electricity network unless you have storage batteries. In case of network issues, you need a fuel based generator. You have a very cooperative wife if she prefers solar panels in stead of her sofa or all in one bathroom combo’s. Let’s hope Niocorp comes with some good news soon to ease your predicament.
Incredible achievement. Supercomputing biggest drawback is heat and power consumption.
CLEO 2023: The world-leading scientific conference, CLEO Science & Innovations reports on applied research results on all types of lasers, optical materials, and photonic devices. Topics include laser processing of materials, terahertz technologies, high-field and ultrafast optics, optical communications, biophotonics, optical sensing and metrology, micro- and nano-photonics and nonlinear optics.
I am not sure you should put solar panels on the roof in the region you live, unless you take out an expensive insurance. There is enough organic material around and the current climate with huge hail storms is a real and big risk. In your case I would buy my wife the things she wants and tell her: “ Ti amo molto”. Niocorp will surprise you as well before year end. You catch two birds with one stone! If you want it, you can postpone your solar panels until next year. Talk from experience, lived in Northern Italy for 15 years.
Next to Dr. Michael Lebby also Dr.John Zyskind of Lightwave Logic is listed as co-author.
There are 22 Mio ‘ transactions’ waiting to be executed. Any news will give the market makers huge transactional volume. They have positioned themselves into an enjoyable position waiting to turn up the heat on the shorts. Looking forward to this moment!
It’s obvious that the market makers are in total control. They make money on transactions and need volatility. They don’t care about the share price or company as such. They let it run down to accommodate transactions from the shorts, they let it run up to accommodate some newbies at higher prices ( who get screwed immediately when the mm’s run it down)! There are hardly any shares available for new shareholders or shorts . Once in a while they need to run it up to accommodate new comers, they create new innocent ‘ victims’ to allow some shorts to cover when they run it down again. This game will be repeated as long as possible. The winners are the market makers and ultimately the true longs when news will force the market makers to allow prices to rise to allow for higher transactional volume. Until such time they need to create volatility to maximize transactions in a defined pool of shareholders and shorts. Divide and rule is the game until the big bazooka arrives.
Like to put some colour on the core our European investment group. Longs here in Europe are on average well into their seventies and beyond, retired professionals and executives, academic level with extensive business experience. Investing is part of their estate planning and with a long term generational perspective.
Most investors in Lightwave know personally, from experience, what it takes to build a business, understand risk- reward trade offs. They’ve done it, they recognise the traps and challenges and have lived through the motions. They understand the principles of shareholder expectations and value creation.
There is a clear generational gap between this group and the group still in the process of securing future retirement income and , the most active messenger group here, the group looking for immediate gratification to meet contemporary life needs and expenses. The last group aspires to become what the first group already has secured: a long healthy and wealthy live.
These group will of course never look eye to eye, because they have complete different outlooks on life , different needs and time horizons. Strangely enough it’s the group with the longer life expectancy making short term trading decisions, and the group with the shortest life expectancy investing for the long term. I guess the difference is just plain experience. Looking at most of the messages yesterday I kind of chuckle. Most completely missed, on purpose or out of ignorance, important information. Don’t know why some continue to bang their head against the wall. Must be youthful exuberance or exhaustion.
If I was Pat Gelsinger and wanted to create exceptional shareholder value for Intel shareholders ( current share is low and shareholders need to accept a pretty risky capital intensive foundry strategy) and at the same time create US geopolitical leadership in Photonics, I would consider to divide Intel into three separate publicly traded Nasdaq entities. Intel Semi Conductor Industries ( lots of government subsidies available ), Intel Foundries ( manufacturing where capital investments are huge but where you control the ‘design only’ companies/ competitors and cream off their current excessive margins based on little capital investments) and Intel Photonics ( future growth and exceptional margins using current Intel foundry infrastructure) . I would acquire Lightwave. I would offer Michael Lebby and Partridge, as in the past and well known to Intel Photonics, to run an independent Intel Photonics. Shareholders in Lightwave Logic would be big beneficiaries . Of course BlackRock and the other Wallstreet investment bankers are ‘ well aware of this’ and will try to accumulate shares at fire sale prices both in Intel and Lightwave. Shorts are just willing collaborators and will be screwed big time. Fortunately for shorts I am not Gelsinger.
I will tell you, the dudes will still tell us, it’s ‘pie in the sky’ ! Please , let them have their cake and let them eat it for a few more weeks. They would do me a favor for obvious reasons.
Don’t sell yourself short. You have been repeating their technical shortcomings for a few years now. It would have been incomprehensible if these MRR’s with their heat issues would have been the last ‘ song’ of this big icon. A bit of self pride , some would say arrogance, may have been sacrificed to come up with a ‘ leap frog’ solution!
Walter, I think I figured out with whom. Incredible that we have been using that name for more than 15 years already and have discarded it again and again and now it finally pops up. Logic, Lightwave Logic, prevails. Good Lord, it makes so much business and intel-lectual sense from every ‘angel’ you look at it. It would be really great!
I agree that building a business or a mine is all about concrete and practical execution. That’s why I like Scott Honan’s technical expertise. The demo plant back fill and clean up activity should be ready any moment. This would be a clear and concrete step forward for all parties involved. Financing in every form and shape is very much 3rd party dependent and decisions will depend on the availability of concrete data. Financiers need it and big ‘ strategic’ parties or companies have the tendency to dictate what they want. Smith will face this challenge and I am sure he works hard to overcome any hurdles in this respect. For us a bit of good and concrete news would be very nice. An EXIM confirmation that they are seriously proceeding with the loan application could work magic.
TP is a prototype of a bot ( artificial intelligence) in the experimental phase of product development. It is currently in field testing and sofar it works pretty successful given its engagement ratio ( ER= clicks= $). It’s a machine tool without emotion or judgement capability. Talking to a machine is no fun. It’s programmed not to stop. It has no on/off switch. Messengers have to put in on ignore to move its focus of attention or to stop it from reacting. Hope this helps you to decide if you want to continue the experiment or not.
We trust the company, it’s management and our judgment of the progress we have experienced over the years. That’s why we are invested. We are not here to engage in FUD. EOM,
Walter, TED is a great example of bad ‘artificial’ intelligence. He builds a new narrative on the input of other posters and tries to make us believe his thoughtfulness is critical and objective. Artificial Intelligence is doing exactly the same, be it that it uses tremendously more data input. We all know that the collection and integration of data into a narrative is just that ‘ a narrative’ based on multiple, often completely irrelevant inputs. Nevertheless many people fall for this trap and therefore it’s even dangerous because it’s based on our ‘ premises’ that if somebody creates a thoughtful story, it must be intelligent and true. The narrative becomes the ‘truth’. It’s stupidity in its most intelligent format.
The only source of business progress is the company whether you want to believe it or not. Deciding to invest is foremost an emotional judgment and only afterwards you start to look for the logic arguments to support your choice. That’s how human decision making in its simplest form works. These artificial intelligence process are great and terribly fast to discover patterns, but they are terrible for judgment and decision making. Ted in his simple ‘ AI’ format is even worse than Bard or Chat GPT.
I think we should not call it social media. These are commercial media. There is little ‘social’ about Ihub. The reply option has often the function of disseminating FUD or attack persons to destruct investment value or steal dollars from other investors. Value creation benefits all investors, requires a constructive mind set . There are 22 Mio shorted shares betting Lightwave will fail to create value. Given what Lightwave plans to deliver: a cheaper, faster and greener internet to society ( broadband is declared a human right by the UN) you could label this FUD behavior anti social, criminal is the legal term in many countries of the world ( except the US)!
I am puzzled by what some here really want? If it is all that bad, why are you making other people’s lives and your own life miserable by repeating your frustrations and anger here a zillion times? If the relieves your stress, please do so, but given the intensity and persistence of these frustrations I think it only makes things worse ! Please realise that happy people live longer and that your anger doesn’t move the share price. Have a nice weekend.
LWLG is working already with Smart Photonics for some time as we witnessed in their ‘ old’ video. Indium Phosphide based European foundry PICS must be close.
Smart Photonics needs the latest round of new capital of € 100 Mio specifically to speed up the throughput time for the testing of new pics ( which normally takes 4 iterations and two years) and to enable its customers to move to mass production between now and two years according to Dutch newspapers. LWLG seems already well on their way within that indicated ‘ old’ throughput time.
Right on Walter. The fundamentals take quite a long time to finalize. Too long for some, but on the other hand it looks that the overall value proposition is only getting better. For patient shareholders this will be an investment of a lifetime. Undervalued with huge upside in the months to come,
Wagner, I agree. It’s July 2023. It looks that the ‘ all important and definitive’ project financing will hopefully happen between now and the end of 2023. I am talking equity ( Stellantis) and debt( EXIM). Mark speaks of ‘ acceleration of project financing’ in case Niocorp and Stellantis move from term sheet to a definitive agreement, which in turn depends on the economics of the rare earth operation, which in turn could happen when this is signed off by the third party experts ( even before the feasibility study is published). Personally I am hoping this ‘ sign off’ will happen any day now and the Stellantis deal can be finalized. I don’t know if there are still other equity options left around. Not sure.
Hycroft had only 12% shorts on their float ( no 8 on basic materials list : see MDK message). LWLG had 24% and ranks number 4. The materials characterization may be indicative for the ignorance of the shorters?
NEWS
NioCorp Praises U.S. House Armed Services Committee For Highlighting the Importance of Aluminum-Scandium Master Alloy
National Defense Authorization bill specifically highlights potential scandium oxide production in Nebraska
New focus on scandium in Washington coincides with NioCorp's recent launch of phased commercialization of aluminum-scandium master alloy
NioCorp envisions potentially developing a vertically integrated mine-to-master alloy scandium supply chain in the U.S.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (July 13, 2023) – NioCorp Developments Ltd. (“NioCorp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:NB) (TSX:NB) is praising the U.S. House Armed Services Committee ("HASC") for highlighting the importance of aluminum-scandium master alloy to the United States and to many defense applications. The language was recently approved by the HASC as part of the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"). The bill next moves to the House Rules Committee and the full House for consideration.
In its report accompanying the NDAA, the Committee said that it "recognizes that China is a major producer of high-purity scandium oxide, which has many powerful applications in defense technologies, including strengthening and light-weighting defense and commercial aviation systems. As scandium oxide production is established in the United States, a missing supply chain component is the conversion of scandium from its oxide form to aluminum-scandium (AlSc) master alloy. This process step is required for utilization of U.S.-mined scandium by many defense applications."
The Committee further noted: "At present, production capacity of AlSc master alloy is limited to one facility in the United States. The committee recognizes that the United States may soon become a major producer of high-purity scandium oxide by virtue of a proposed mine and mineral processing plant in Nebraska. The committee recognizes the defense-wide importance of a vertical domestic supply chain for both scandium oxide and AlSc master alloy and the critical importance of both materials for the production of air-, land-, and sea-based combat systems."
The Committee went further with additional language: "The committee is aware that the rare earth element scandium has important defense and aviation applications when converted from its mined oxide form to an aluminum-scandium (AlSc) master alloy. The committee understands that the global production of scandium is currently dominated by China and Russia but that the United States is poised to become one of the world's largest producers of high-purity scandium oxide due to proposed private-sector domestic mine and mineral processing projects. Therefore the committee directs the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than December 29, 2023 describing the critical defense applications for AlSc master alloy, a list of specific defense programs that require access to AlSc master alloy, and recommendations to improve defense innovation and industrial base access to scandium oxide and AlSc master alloy."
NioCorp recently launched a phased commercialization effort to produce Al-Sc master alloy in the U.S., in partnership with Nanoscale Powders, LLC ("Nanoscale") (https://nanoscalepowders.com/). Nanoscale has developed a proprietary process that increases efficiency and reduces environmental impacts of Al-Sc production over traditional approaches. Work is underway at the Pennsylvania facility of Creative Engineers, Inc., (https://creativeengineers.com/) a leading alkali metal chemical process engineering company specializing in processes for sodium, lithium and potassium metal, to test a novel approach to Al-Sc master alloy production that involves separate metal reduction and alloying steps. The goal of the pilot-scale effort is to demonstrate that, at commercial scale, this process will be cost-competitive with other methods of Al-Sc master alloy, and that NioCorp can make Al-Sc master alloy with a range of scandium content.
Mark A. Smith, CEO and Executive Chairman of NioCorp, said: "We are very pleased to see the U.S. House Armed Services Committee highlight the strategic importance of domestic production of both high-purity scandium oxide and aluminum-scandium master alloy. We recognize this as well, which is why NioCorp launched our phased commercialization effort to develop commercial-scale production in the U.S. of this critical and strategic material. Our team is now conducting pilot-scale testing of aluminum-scandium master alloy and we look forward to reporting results as progress continues."
NioCorp's phased commercialization effort is being conducted in partnership with Boston-based Nanoscale Powders LLC, which has developed a proprietary process that increases efficiency and reduces the environmental impacts of Al-Sc production over traditional approaches.
Thanks Walter. I changed from Saxo to ABN AMRO. Now that Niocorp is on the Nasdaq, and no longer on the OTC , I don’t need SAXO anymore. Saxo, like all “low fee” on
line trading platforms, is compelled to make its margins by receiving PFOF fees from market makers. The few euro they charge for orders is not enough for them to survive. PFOF ( pay for order flow) gives these platforms extra $ compensation for directing their orders to certain market makers ( e.g. Citadel) which in turn enables these market makers to short shares since they control the entire buy and sell process. Shorting practice is illegal in the Netherlands ( not sure about Belgium). Saxo uses its London Office to escape this legal limitation.
Best thing to stop this shorting game is to use a bank which respects local financial laws and is not engaged in PFOF.
This is for sure one of the cooperating foundries with Lightwave in Europe. No doubt in my mind. I have seen too much positive interaction between Johan Feenstra of Smart Photonics and Michael Lebby of Lightwave Logic . Smart Photonics is one of the ‘jewels in the crown’ and an integral part to propel the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven ( NXP and ASML) to a global photonics hub.
Th, I have to make a request to you. Please do not use this particular board to talk about your other investment ( you know what I am talking about) and the other way around. There is a suspicion that this just attracts the some of the same ‘ shorting’ people that we are battling and don’t need to alert. I am speaking on behalf of some of your admirers and followers.
I think I am in a position to understand the difference and to see the strategic opportunity. As for finance you and I don’t know the status of equity negotiations, nor do we know for sure when the EXIM loan arrangement will be approved! You could be right.
Wagner, I think you fail to see the new EV car market dynamics and regulations. Stellantis expressed its strategic consideration to invest in Niocorp because they need Niocorp to achieve their strategic objectives to grow the Stellantis company. The Thyssen Krupp off take was agreed in 2014 to secure a second niobium supply source ( for steel and infrastructure) next to CBBM. It still exists. Different deal, complete different business, different market and regulations
Oops….I saw brandname Opel and I assumed GM was part of Stellantis. Opel used to be owned by GM. GM is not part of Stellantis. Sorry, my mistake. The question remains, where are the others securing supply?
As I said yesterday, the question becomes what the other US carmakers ( GM is Stellantis) will do to secure rare earth supplies and to benefit from US tax benefits for US built electric vehicles? Tesla and Ford may use MP, but MP processing takes place in China. I know they plan to do their processing in the USA, but will they be able to secure financing, will they be able to compete with Niocorps sustainable and innovative ‘ patented’ set up? Will there be a contest for ownership for Niocorp. Hugh billion dollar stakes at play here. Interesting developments.
Same here Walter. I just assume I invested today! Can’t recover the past. It’s a waste of my valuable time to continue to look in the rear mirror all the time. I see a bright future.