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Hello Janice
Good to see you are still posting here on Ihub. I think you are probably correct. Those sites are some what familiar. I did some poking around Silicon the last couple of days and think maybe the poster's username was Vitalsigns. While looking around I came across a blast from the past. Do you remember Jenna ? I know she was connected with Pristine.com but can't remember where she went after her time at Silicon Investor. Kind of miss those days.
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I remembered you were posting on that Silicon Investor forum at the same time as I was. Its hard to believe its almost 25 years ago. I know the creator of that forum thechief left and started his own website tradingchief.com. But it seems to have gone away in the past 10 years like so many. I think the astrology poster went along with him.
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Hello Buckey
Whatever happened to the website tradingchief.com ? Back in the day there was a poster on Silicon Investor who was into astrology and investing. I seem to remember he was associated with the poster thechief on the old Daytrading Canadian Stocks forum. I think he took over some astrology investing site after the creator past away. I'm trying to remember what that site was called.
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thanks janice
Glad to know Gumps still around. There's a fellow in the next room to my dad in the hospital. Seems that his father was a well known geologist. Thought Gump may have known him and and could provide a little info. The son is losing his mental abilities but loves to talk about his father.Get's frustrated at times, so I thought I could fill in the blanks at times if I had a little background.
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thanks rbtree
Glad to know Gumps still around. Will drop Janice a PM.
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hello janice
Do you happen to know if Gump is still around and kicking ? Wondered if he would remember a geologist by the name of Harold Quinn.
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Sometime I've got to start posting on this site again.
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Hello Jerry
I was just curious if http://www.tmxmoney.com could be used with your program. A couple of Canadian investment clubs that I know have members who would love to find a program that could be used with free RT Canadian quotes.
Thanks
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Is there any chance that you will be adding the Canadian TMX Exchange Realtime quotes as a quote source ? Not sure if it provides the quote criteria that you need as a quote source but could possibly work well for Canadian users.
Thanks
trde15
Thanks Janice
Thought maybe some of you DD hounds may have used one from time to time. Putting the finish touches on a open source tool and thought a summarizer would be a good addition.
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Hello Janice
Is there a document summarizer that you or anyone else on this forum would recommend as a decent product? I know Copernic use to have a product that work fairly well , but they have discontinued it.
thanks
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Thanks Jerry
Any chance that TD Canada WebBroker will be added in the future to your quote sources ? I've also been looking at Stockhouse.com as a quote source due to their fundamental screening ability for Canadian markets. Would Stockhouse be possible in the future ?
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Hello Jerry
Which Canadian brokerages and quote providers do you have available for Canadian investors ? Always loved your software in the past before you sold the company.
thanks
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fung
Almost impossible to sue for medical incompetence in Canada. A lot of the professions are self regulated and protect their own.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=suing+a+doctor+in+canada&oq=suing+a+doctor+in+canada&aqs=chrome..69i57.11414j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
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I've always wondered why Urbie was able to stay north of the border. Don't think it was the Metis angle , but I could be wrong. Rick Walker mentioned something once that always made me curious.
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janice
That would depend if Urbie was card carrying or not. If you don't have close enough lineage then you wouldn't be covered. I know they have relaxed the criteria but not everyone meets the criteria.
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Happy Thanksgiving TSXminer
Some of these posters got me thinking. If I remember correctly Urbie was Metis. Was his lineage close enough to be card carrying ?
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looks like it's time to look at Cdn juniors once again.
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hello janice
you wouldn't happen to know a way to search Siliconinvestor prior to 1998 ? tried Waybackmachine but can't access what I'm looking for. trying to find my first account at Silicon prior to 1998. seems that I had to open a new one in late 1998 due to some site malfunction.
thanks
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janice
This one has characters that go all the way back to the old Vengold on the TSE before the internet craze. SFMI is already turning into a classic with court cases , judgements, sheriff sales ,and missing equipment that will most likely end with charges. The locals are out for blood and the shareholders have been thrown under the bus. I've been told the amount of shares out is closer to 10 billion and a final pump is coming soon. I've always kept an eye on this one watching for a certain Stockhouse poster to show himself again.
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janice
When you have time you should check out SFMI. Silver Falcon Mining was the old DCUT. The insiders have done a fine job of backing themselves into a corner. Great cast of characters with a couple mentioned here recently whining lawsuits.
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thanks janice
I've used a couple of the pay sites,plus the Ontario Corporate Branch's own search service in the past. But they don't seem to have the search by director feature available. Trying to determine an certain individuals company involvement in Ontario.
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thanks samsamsamiam
Appreciate the great link! Internet is a little slow here today due to the snow. So I haven't been able to figure out if they cover private corporations or just listed ones. I've used a couple of pay sites licensed by the Ontario Gov but they don't seem to have the option to search the database of companies by directors.
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hello janice
Would you or anyone else on the board know of a method or service that will search Ontario,Canada private businesses or companies by officer/director ? It seems the Ontario Corporate Branch doesn't provide that search capability.
tia
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So many scams on this site these days.
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Matt
" Desktop Testers: Any brave souls? "
Wouldn't mind trying the new version out. Been waiting for column sorting before taking a yearly subscription.
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Thanks Quasi
Was wondering what the interaction would be with realtime data. Had hoped Realtime Exchange data instead of BAT data would have allowed a more accurate calculation at a particular point of the trading day for volume based indicators. Hadn't tried the service yet so wasn't sure how volume based calculations were handled intraday.
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Hello Quasi
Thinking about subscrbing to Stockcharts realtime service. Wondered if the scan listed below would be possible using Stockcharts scan formulas ?
Close Price greater than or equal to 0.1
Close Price less than or equal to 2
Volume greater than or equal to 200,000
Fast Stochastic %K(14,3) increasing for 1 days
Slow Stochastic %K(14,3) less than or equal to 95
On Balance Volume greater than or equal to On Balance Volume EMA(10)
On Balance Volme increasing for 1 day
Appreciate any help you could offer.
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Hello Quasi
Would the ExtraRT service allow me to do scans based on daily bars updated with real time values throughout the day ? I'll list in the next post the scan that I actually want to use.
thanks
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Erwin
Is there a way to sort the symbols in a Monitor list by percent gain while using the real time streamer ? Also is it possible to have more than 12 charts shown on the Microscope page at once ? Suppose it wouldn't matter if I can have the + percent gainers at the top of Monitor page since they would also be on the first page of the Microscope .
TIA
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Buckey
Nice Aprils Fools < >
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langlui
never was in HLXW. since I never play stocks below a buck. but do remember receiving emails recently by some site pushing HLXW.
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Epicstocks
HLXW promo
http://penniesblog.com/2010/02/07/stocktraderchat-hlxw-helix-wind-corporation-alert%E2%80%8F/
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hello Buckey
most likely going to JBII country next week. if you have any interesting tidbits you want checked out drop me a pm. this one has such a smell that I just got to have a look.
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hasher
do a search through the past few years posts and see what you find. goes along with the spiel from some that naked shorting doesn't hurt good companies. unlimited supply would have the potential to hurt any company when a borrow doesn't have to be obtained.
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hasher
the point is that some say naked shorting doesn't exist. but it does in one form or another. has always been a great way here in Canada for getting the terms you want for an upcoming private placement.
is there a problem with me posting that article ?
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pantherj
here's a little tidbit about naked short selling and how it can be done. call it what you want, but it's short selling without the lends.
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http://www.stockwatch.com/newsit/newsit_newsit.aspx?bid=Z-C:*SEC-1633463&symbol=*SEC&news_region=C
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Symbol *SEC
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Recent Sedar Documents
SEC settles with "Bucky" Lyon
2009-08-14 14:16 ET - Street Wire
Also Street Wire (U-*SEC) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
by Mike Caswell
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $778,016 settlement with Edwin "Bucky" Lyon, a Texas hedge fund manager who allegedly used inside information to execute short sales ahead of PIPE offerings. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Mr. Lyon did not admit to any wrongdoing in settling the case. In a consent judgment dated Aug. 7, 2009, he and his Gryphon funds have agreed to pay a combined $310,288 in civil penalties, plus $467,728 in disgorgement and interest.
The SEC claimed that Mr. Lyon, through his Gryphon funds, shorted four companies between 2001 and 2004 after receiving materials for PIPE offerings from those companies. In PIPE offerings, the company typically issues discounted shares to a large investor, usually a hedge fund or an institution. When news of the offering is made public, the stock falls in price, allowing a shorter to profit. Those receiving offering materials ahead of time agree to keep the information confidential, and not to trade based on it.
The settlement came one month before the trial in the case, which was scheduled to begin on Sept. 8, 2009. The deal represents a partial victory for the SEC, after the judge dismissed a substantial part of the allegations. The SEC had claimed that Mr. Lyon illegally distributed the PIPE shares by using them to cover short sales he made through an unidentified Canadian brokerage. The judge dismissed that part of the case on Jan. 2, 2008, stating that there was no evidence that the Gryphon funds planned to distribute the shares before the resale restrictions on them were lifted.
SEC's complaint
The SEC filed a complaint against Mr. Lyon and his hedge funds on Dec. 12, 2006, in the Southern District of New York. The regulator identified his funds as the Gryphon Master Fund LP, Gryphon Partners LP, Gryphon Partners (QP) LP, Gryphon Offshore Fund Ltd., Gryphon Management Partners LP, Gryphon Management Partners III LP and Gryphon Advisors LLC.
Much of the complaint dealt with the unsuccessful allegation that the Gryphon funds engaged in an illegal distribution by covering shorts with PIPE shares. According to the complaint, the Gryphon entities realized more than $6.5-million in ill-gotten gains from this part of the scheme, which included 35 companies.
Typically, after agreeing to invest in a PIPE offering, Mr. Lyon would have the Gryphon funds short a company, usually a naked short sale done in Canada, the SEC said. This allowed him to take advantage of the fact that naked shorting was still allowed in Canada at the time. Later, once the SEC declared the resale registration for the offering effective, the fund allegedly used the PIPE shares to cover the short. Using this method, the fund was essentially selling its PIPE shares before they could legally be sold, the SEC said.
An example cited by the SEC was Medis Technologies Ltd., which closed a PIPE offering on Jan. 13, 2004. Gryphon allegedly invested $1.5-million in the offering, receiving 150,000 shares at $10, which was a discount from the $14.48 the company traded at. Gryphon then allegedly sold short 149,887 shares for proceeds of $1,939,000. Once the SEC declared the registration statement for the PIPE shares effective, Gryphon, through a series of wash sales and matched orders, allegedly moved the PIPE shares to the Canadian account and used them to cover the short. "Gryphon Partners' profit was therefore locked in at the moment its short sales were executed," the complaint reads.
Most of the 35 companies in this part of the scheme were U.S. listings. The list did contain one Canadian company though, Richard Coglon's Heartland Oil & Gas Corp. Gryphon invested in a $12-million financing that Heartland completed in August, 2003.
The remaining allegation in the complaint was the insider trading that formed the basis for the settlement. With four companies, Mr. Lyon allegedly had Gryphon complete short sales before news of the PIPE offering was public. The SEC identified these four companies as Gentner Communications Corp., Manufacturers' Services Ltd. and PhotoMedex Inc. "Although Defendants received legal advice advising them not to trade prior to the public announcement of PIPE offerings, Defendants disregarded this advice and continued to trade prior to the public announcement of certain PIPE offerings," the complaint reads.
With Gentner, Gryphon allegedly accumulated a short position of 87,500 shares on Nov. 15, 2001, one day prior to the public announcement of the PIPE offering. The next day, Nov. 16, the stock closed down $1.02, a drop of about 5 per cent, the complaint stated.
The SEC sought appropriate civil penalties and disgorgement of profits
MaryKateAustin
you're one of the few posters here on Ihub that I actually read the posts of. you make some great calls. especially like your indicator settings for tracking insider and retail trading. I'd say your CEMJQ call is darn accurate.
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ask janice sometime about those CMKX associated stocks.
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don't worry BRZM will be at $.0001 soon. if you followed CMKX at all you know what I mean
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