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Alexa is good for following statistical trends. I am sure you are familiar with survey theory. If one has a large enough sample, there would be a valid correlation between that sample and the total "population" in question. Alexa probably has several hundred thousand user from which to draw for the statistical sample; therefore, we can assume that, with a margin of error, there would be a valid correlation between hits on RLTR via Alexa and the internet population as a whole. And, of course, there is some sort of correlation between hits on Alexa and the number of viewer--paying viewrs principally. If we can achieve an 8.5 viewers per million in Alexa considering the current level of content, one major contract that adds a couple of hundred popular movies to the RLTR site would be sufficient to increase the Alexa vieing rate substantially, which we can then, extrapolate as an indication that revenues are being produced at a, more or less, equivalent rate.
The Alexa rankings have improved considerably. It looks like more people are watching Reeltime.
You are welcomed. I hope you have gained some insights from my words. I have also much enjoyed your valuable contributions.
Agent,
I thank you again for the information o matters relating to RLTR.
After this one, I am down to one entry left for the day. So I will not be able to engage you all anymore. But, outsie all the fun of the debate, take my words seriously. Some of you do need to think through how you approach investments or some day you will suffer the consequences. Take it, for what is worth, from an old man that has been playing the market for more than 30 years.
I know that. I know it was sarcasm. But maybe you missed the sarcasm in my reply.
I am left to my own devices. But being a contrarian: the more people think I am out of my wits and cant properly analyse things, the more certain I am that I am correct.
See what I mean!!! Just a few minutes ago somebody called me a pumper. How can I trust any of the clinical analysis going on in this place; much less the analysis of investments.
I would think that your description of what I am suffering from includes diarrhea of the finger tips. But I respectfully disagree of your professional opinion. Doctors can kill patients, and investors can kill portfolios.
Oh man, you tell me that now!? I have been blindly following your advice.
You could always decide to use your brains.
Hey. You all are going to have to make up your minds. Am I a pumper or am I a basher? I am starting to suffer from a split personaility malfunction.
No, but Osama is.
Hey. all of you who admitted to paying .11 today. Keep it up. Pay .20 tomorrow.
Hey. since I have him on ignore, I don't know which one of his daughters he is talking about. But for me to pay that one penny dowry, I had to get several wifes at once from the lot he was offering. You know I am not one to pay more for something than it is worth.
At least one relatively big buyer out there willing to pay the price to take a substantial position. His reasons are unknown to us here. It might be someone(s) who has been looking to buy for sometime, and finally decided to take the plunge. It might be someone(s) who sold more than 30 days ago, and can now get back in without having the wash-sale rules apply. It might be someone(s) who hear a rumor of an inpending contract signing. It might be a combination of all of these. Anything else anyone tells you can be outright dismissed as nonsense.
Absolutedly. 100%.
The names of the outfits are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H .....
Besides the obvous names, some of which you mention, there has to be hundreds of them. We just don't know about them. Most of them are never going to generate one penny of revenue, and most of us will never hear about them. But there are some out there, and if you do not want to accept that, we, you have less insightfulness into business matters than I ever suspected. There are outfits being put together by a handfull of people with little money or contacts. There are other outfits that are better financed and/or have better contacts. There are outfits who have money from angel investors; outfits that are the product of other outfits pooling resources together; there are outfits which are wholey owned by bigger outfits, etc., etc., etc.. And most of these outfits are not even publicly traded, and you or I have any way to know anything about them. And if you do not think that they are catching up, well, think again.
Let me give you some example in other areas of business:
PMSC was a wholey owned subsidiary of another company. They developed software. Was spinned off around 1980, and hit the big stride around 86/87. It doesn't exist anymore. The competition that was miles away destroyed them. And they had a going business concern.
Intuit was created almost ten years afte Peachtree, and, although the later still exists, it is less than 1/100 the sizes. However, there was one small outfit out of Columbia, SC that had developed a very good product in 81/82, but they just never got off the ground except for selling a few hundred copies of their software.
What became of the Altavistas, etc.? They all took a backseat to Google. Just look at how littered with failures the ranks of the techs are!
A few years ago investor in MOBL were claiming that it had an incredible advantage over everybody on Wifi. They really had the wireless internet under its fingers. But all of the sudden dozen of players come out of the woodwork. Plus, people did not readily change providers.
I could mention others, but this should be enough. If you are convinced by now, you never will.
Because that's what business people do: they plan for success.
Look, I don't know how much time we have to wait. I do know two things for certain:
1.) If we don't get the ball rolling soon, there will be others catching up behind us, and some of them will have money.
2.) The price of the stock hovers around future expectations. In this case getting content is the only real issue that matters. And we don't have it. Period. Every day that passes that we don't sign one big contract with a major studio is one day closer to getting sideswiped by other outfits. Who ever doesn't like that point of view, that's fine with me. However, the general tone here is to blame the downwards price movement in all kind of outlandish reasons, but then, turn around in some other posts and claim it will move up substantially when we get the content. This split argumentation is, of course, nonsense. The price of this stock, up or down, is completely dependent on the acquisition of content. The nice part of it is that, if we get one nice contract, we will be talking in terms of dollars instead of pennies. Period. And that is why I have such a large stake here regardless of my apprehension. No guts: no glory.
I did not say that short selling "doesn't exist." Where did you get that idea? All I was doing was poking fun at those investors that want to put the blame for the lack of performance on factors other than the ones truly responsible for a stock's price movement. I re-read my post, and I don't see how you could possibly have interpreted it in that fashion.
I don't have a website. I only deal with investors and businesses through word of mouth. I let my license expire a long time ago, and, by law, I don't need one to do what I do. I do not wish to complicate my life. My book was not aimed at a mass market. There was one small printing some thirty years ago, which, after a considerable time span, finally sold out. The name was: "The Rewards of Writing Puts and Calls." It was copyrighted in an unbound edition, and it should still exist in the Library of Congress. It was used by some wealthy individuals and also by managers of funds for a couple of small insurance companies and other financial outfits. No llimellight for me. don't like it. And if you don't want to believe me, that's fine by me. I get a chuckle when people who obviously know less than me accuse me of not knowing what I am talking about.
I am happy for you. The day I change my mind on the potential of this stock, I will let you know after I have sold my shares.
Mrgoodtrade,
I am sorry if you took offense. It was not intended, and I apologize. I certainly did not interpret your message on that vein at the time, but I can see now that I misinterpret it. I wish others here would show as much thoughfulness as you do.
I want to make the posters here think. If they start thinking, their analysis of the investment vehicle will be more insightful, and we all would benefit from it by applying the newly acquired insights here and elsewhere.
I am not bashing the stock. The only thing that I am bashing is the unwillingness of some people here to use their abilities to reason.
Well. Mr. Goodtrade, I got 5 replies real quickly. I am so surprised that someone as dumb as I am will get back so many replies so quickly!!! Why bother to reply? Did I strike some sort of cord?
And to everybody else who doesn't agree with me: I am constantly being called a basher, which I resent. Well, yes, I am a basher of sorts. But not a basher of the stock. It is the biggest position in my portfolio. Certainly, no one here can possibly interpret my last post as a bashing of RLTR. You misread the post if that is what you did. I didn't I just admit to having been wrong no my notion of why the stock has been going down in price? I admit I know very little about finnancial matters. Thirty plus years investing, having written a book on it, plus articles in some minor magazines, as well as having done some consulting, and having been licensed in the field are obviously no qualifications. Neither is the fact that I do consulting work in the field, as well as accounting and business: none of this qualifies me in any way, shape or form. Oh pitty me, I bought my big house in a wealthy mountain community with all my investment losses. Yes, you are correct. I know nothing, and there is no logic to my statements.
Oh, Geeee, Whizz, stupid me!!! What was I thinking??? And I thought that the price per share was dropping (ie.: "downward spiral") because some investors were disappointed with the lack of delivery on the promises of contracts, while others have failed to buy into the stock due to the fact that they are waiting for some positive news that the company will be able to generate revenues from having content worthy of paying a membershi[ in order to view. Sheees, I had it all so wrong!!! I should have know that that dastardly company from down under is the prime culprit for our troubles, along with all those unimformed sellers who have been dropping their shares like mad ever since. Not to mention of course that the price drop is responsible for the downward spiral. But I think it might be the other way around, now that I stop to contemplate while watching my navel. And, finally, those dastardly short term holders! They are evil manipulators whose sole purpose for being is to drive down the price of shares is stocks like these. You ought to go out there and buy, buy, buy, and tell all your fellow longs to buy, buy, buy until there are no shares left. That way the short-termers will a lesson, specially the naked short short-termers. I thank you very much for the wisdom you have imparted upon the rest of us.
It would be great to be able to watch all the Comedy Central shows on RLTR. That is a service for which I would be willing to pay extra.
No, I have not, and I am not going to call him either. There are plenty of people here, and who knows from which other boards who call him. I am sure he is busy enough, and it is out of politeness that he continues to say that he is glad to talk to investors. Luckily for him this company is still small enough that he can take the time to do that, but if it is successful such a thing will come to pass. Furthermore, what can he tell me, and what would he tell me? This company is at a starting stage, and even if he knew that there was something wrong, he wouldn't say it to just some investor on the phone. He would save it for a public release. On the other hand, he also wouldn't divulge any details of good information to a lone caller. I know what he is going to say: "We are working on this, we are working on that. We expect to sign some major contract. We expect this and we expect that. Everything is going more or less as we expected. We will be releaseing information to the public at the appropriate time, etc, etc, etc." I am not interested in the optimism on his voice or generalized statements that things are going well. I am only interested in hard facts, and he is not going to confide on me any material information not known to the general public."
rhustang,
You are on ignore.
Negative!!!!?????
I have said nothing negative on that message as it pertains either to RLTR or ICTN. What are you talking about? Did you even bother reading what I said? If you are going to read what I write, please read what I say. Do not twist things in your head while you are reading!!!!!
Please, rhustang, if you are going to present proof about an opinion make sure that it is based on factual information. ICTN has had more than 50 days during the past 12 months when is moved more than 50% above the prior closing, and likewise downwards. You are trying to claim a cause/effect relationship when all you can prove is a casual relationship. So what is the cause of similar or bigger stock price movement in the days when ICTN was not discussed extensively in any message board and there was no news otherwise? Oh, yeah, I know. Dumb me! A little birdy was spreading the word. I the long run those investor who do not base their decisions on information backed by rational analysis end up losing. Do yourself a favor, and look at your investments from an objective standpoint. I have been investing for over 30 years, and I have seen too many people lose practically eveything because a failure in objectivity. They hit it right once or twice, but eventually it caught up with them. I am not attacking the particular investment: I am attacking the approach. I haven.t had a losing year since 1978, and it has to do with the approach.
Well, we at least agree 50% of the time. The 50% that matters.
You sound like a broken record. LOL
Do you really think that the statements made here and in other message boards can move this stock one way or the other? Never. Don't bother to answer that question. It was rhetorical. Of course you do. And that is why all the pollyannas here get so upset about those investor making skeptical comments on this stock. They believe in that a stock's movement is easily manipulated. But please, don't let a few comments upset you. After all, any short term downside is really meaningless in the long term scheme of things--that is, if this puppy is really going to grow.
Thanks Angel, I am always looking for information.
Thanks, 07, I am always on the look out for additional info.
I can think of several other outfits that made major moves, but I can't be certain they were pinksheets. One in particular moved from a few pennies to around 150 dollars over the course of 7 to 8 years from the late late 70's until it was taken over in either 86 or 87. And with that last bit of info, I will stop before I get banned.
I thank you very much for this post. I wish all others here would have a disposition similar to yours.
Being that you wrote a very good entry and did it so politely, I will respectfully disagree with you. I prefer to hear anything and everything anybody has to say. Good or bad. Well thought through or not. With or without substantial research and/or links. I don't want to be burried in an avalanche of Pollyanna messages. A message board is a great place to start one's research, and to that effect all viewpoints should be fully heard. To me this is an investment board; not a cheering section.