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likwit ,you need more DD on your side.. Can't flip overnight %500 !
wing try the ask only nite at .37 and then evrybody .42 that will be helpful to finish the week +++
It is projected that Spooz will acquire in excel of 10,000 customers in the next twelve
months and revenues will exceed $7 million
TDA Ameritrade ..!
Growth focus will start with integration of SpoozToolz to optionsXpress (202,000
customers) and TDAmeritrade (5.75 million customers). Additional brokers will be
added as development allows. The ability to distribute through financial organizations
means rapid, high-volume distribution to targeted market segments while maintaining
low sales organization costs. Spooz will remain independent of any particular
execution provider.
Spooz Float 302 .006.650 ! today a third was exchanged... this is ggod news ...
Thank you Dallas for the flow of news ...
looks like a 100 million day volume ... more exposure will benefit ,the fundamentals are very good ...
Alert on SPZI
"More on SPZI
A year ago, SPZI ran up about 500%!!! Look at this chart: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=spzi&sid=0&o_symb=spzi&f... It ran up really fast, and I believe it could happen again so make sure you watch it carefully.
I believe people are going to take profits on the other high gainers this week such as ECFL and PLMA and roll it into another subpenny like SPZI.
SPZI is currently trading at a ridiculous low and with the new software coming to market, I believe SPZI is extremely attractive at these levels.
SPZI is so confident in their trading software that they just announced the launch of their own proprietary trading division.
The new division will employ Fractalz3(TM) technology, acquired in the Tetrahex merger last year, to exploit short-term market anomalies using statistical arbitrage models. The Statistically Weighted Arbitrage Recognition Model (SWARM) trading methodology is based upon quantitative trading approaches that involve "Bivariate Normal Probability Distributions", and "Co-integration Theory".
SWARM seeks to deliver risk-adjusted returns within 10 % of top money managers. Trading is scheduled to begin April 1st.
"I am pleased that Spooz's proprietary trading creates significant shareholder value, but more importantly, as proof of the viability of Fractalz3 and the SpoozToolz platform," declares Spooz CEO Paul Strickland.
SPZI expects to generate $14.7 million in trading revenue for calendar 2010 with minimal risk to capital. This is incredible, I believe all the hedge funds will use the SPZI system. SPZI may even be bought out by a big broker.
I believe the SPZI trading software is going to take the investment community by storm, and change the face of trading as we know it. Make sure you visit their site to view the demos. http://www.spooztoolz.com/training.aspx
Make sure SPZI is on your watch list this week.
Recent news:
Spooz to Launch Proprietary Trading Division
Business Wire (Wed 5:00pm)
Spooz Enters Strategic Partnership with ACTIV Financial Systems
Business Wire (Tue, Feb 20)
Spooz Appoints New Transfer Agent
Business Wire (Mon, Feb 12)
Spooz Names Groves Director of Financial Engineering
Business Wire (Wed, Feb 7)
Spooz Files SpoozToolz Patents
Business Wire (Mon, Feb 5)
Spooz, Inc. Launches SpoozNewz Blog
Market Wire (Tue, Sep 12)
Spooz, Inc. to Launch Fractalz3
Market Wire (Tue, Sep 12
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Spzi will start his way up tomorrow ,,,
very good news this is an extra revenue stream on the top of all others ... we should go higher from here tomorrow ..
Alrosa Not Ruling Out IPO
(March 1, '07, 7:04 Edahn Golan)
It is not only Lev Leviev who is entertaining the thought of floating Russian diamond operations. Alrosa president Sergei Vybornov said an IPO is a possibility – although it hinges on increased revenues.
“I'd not start talking about an IPO while sales are at around $3 billion,” Vybornov told Interfax in an interview published today. “As soon as Alrosa opens up then things will become clear. A share float? Why not? But we'd need to be cautious because there are no diamond companies there yet, no history track, let's say.”
In the past, Alrosa has raised the option of going public. However, to trade on one of the European or U.S. exchanges, the company would need to become much more transparent than at present.
http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullNews.asp?id=27114
Corporate Stock Transfer 3200 Cherry Creek Drive South Suite 430 Denver, Colorado 80209 is the T A They are hoping for the end of February Give them a call (303) 282-4800 The old TA (Donelly is not cooperating for reasons unknow to me ..
Call them and put more pressure on these people ...
ALROSA to US: +5.3%, $2.865 billion
Diamonds.net - New York,NY,USA
(RAPAPORT) Russian state-owned ALROSA, according to Tass, reported rough diamond sales to the United States rose 5.3 percent in 2006 to $2.865 billion. ...
song thank you I will drop him a line as well...
thank you for sharing this conversation .. .What exactly is paul's email ?
april need to bring the Momo in this stock .. average down is not really the solution for ever here ...
I bought 3 times at 0.0027 , and the ticket went down to 0.0022 ..
this is not right ...
NEWS >>>Consumers Financial Forecasts Double Digit Growth
Tuesday January 23, 5:55 pm ET
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it's about time .. any news on The cretificates with the new TA ?
well I guess it's getting better I have an order at 0.004 all day ...never got filled )
Thank you Wing for your Input ..
ALROSA SUPERVISORY BOARD APPROVES 2007 BUDGET AND TARGETS; SETS CORE SALES AT NEARLY US$3 BILLION
27 December 2006
During a recent meeting of the Supervisory Board of Russian diamond monopoly Alrosa Co Ltd. in Moscow, the consolidated budget and main targets for 2007 were discussed and approved.
Diamond production for 2007, including production from OAO Alrosa-Nyurba, was set at US$2,302.7 million, while diamond production solely for Alrosa was set at US$1,744.4 million.
Total core product sales were set at US$2,897.7 million, including rough diamond sales of US$2,087.0 million and polished diamond sales of US$153.7 million by Alrosa, and sales by OAO Alrosa-Nyurba of US$657.0 million.
The approved targets are subject to review depending on the performance in the first half of 2007.
Alrosa Aiming for $600 Million Net Profit in 2007
(December 26, '06, 3:42 Edahn Golan)
Russian mining giant Alrosa, along with its subsidiary Alrosa-Nyurba, is planning to post a net profit of 15.8 billion rubles ($600 million) in 2007. In the first half of 2006 the diamond miner posted a net profit of 4.8 billion rubles (approximately $177 million) making the 2007 goal an ambitious one.
The fiscal target was set by Alrosa’s supervisory board at its meeting on Monday, the company said in a release. To achieve that target, it plans to sell $2.898 billion worth of rough diamonds.
In October, the Russian state-owned miner said net profit for the first nine months of the year increased to 8.041 billion rubles ($300.8 million), a 24 percent hike over the previous year, on revenues of 55.288 billion rubles ($2.069 billion)
.http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullNews.asp?id=26748
you got my attentiom...
Robby you're the man .. Are you working around them ?
NeoMedia announces resignation of its CEO
By Laura Layden (Contact)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Charles Jensen has stepped down as the president and chief executive of Fort Myers-based NeoMedia Technologies Inc.
The company, a provider of mobile technology and marketing solutions, announced his resignation Tuesday. Jensen, 63, has been with NeoMedia since its start in 1995.
Reached at home Tuesday, Jensen said he had no comment on why he left the company.
The company also announced a cost-cutting plan, which includes salary reductions for senior executives.
Charles Fritz, NeoMedia’s founder and chairman, will temporarily replace Jensen as CEO.
“No one worked harder or longer on behalf of NeoMedia than Chuck Jensen,” said Fritz, 50, in a statement. “Under his leadership, NeoMedia made its entrance into the mobile industry and expanded international marketing and sales efforts.”
In a news release, Fritz said the company is continuing to implement a revised strategy, which has included selling off its Mobot and Sponge subsidiaries and its micro paint business unit.
The company is focusing its resources on the marketing and launch of its patented qode technology, which connects consumers and cell phones directly to the Web.
Fritz could not be reached for further comment on Tuesday.
Jensen started as NeoMedia’s chief financial officer. In June 2002, he was named president, chief operating officer and interim CEO, succeeding Fritz. In September 2004, he became CEO.
NeoMedia trades under the symbol NEOM on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. It trades for pennies a share.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/dec/13/neomedia_announces_resignation_its_ceo/?business
NeoMedia announces resignation of its CEO
By Laura Layden (Contact)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Charles Jensen has stepped down as the president and chief executive of Fort Myers-based NeoMedia Technologies Inc.
The company, a provider of mobile technology and marketing solutions, announced his resignation Tuesday. Jensen, 63, has been with NeoMedia since its start in 1995.
Reached at home Tuesday, Jensen said he had no comment on why he left the company.
The company also announced a cost-cutting plan, which includes salary reductions for senior executives.
Charles Fritz, NeoMedia’s founder and chairman, will temporarily replace Jensen as CEO.
“No one worked harder or longer on behalf of NeoMedia than Chuck Jensen,” said Fritz, 50, in a statement. “Under his leadership, NeoMedia made its entrance into the mobile industry and expanded international marketing and sales efforts.”
In a news release, Fritz said the company is continuing to implement a revised strategy, which has included selling off its Mobot and Sponge subsidiaries and its micro paint business unit.
The company is focusing its resources on the marketing and launch of its patented qode technology, which connects consumers and cell phones directly to the Web.
Fritz could not be reached for further comment on Tuesday.
Jensen started as NeoMedia’s chief financial officer. In June 2002, he was named president, chief operating officer and interim CEO, succeeding Fritz. In September 2004, he became CEO.
NeoMedia trades under the symbol NEOM on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. It trades for pennies a share.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/dec/13/neomedia_announces_resignation_its_ceo/?business
thank you no problems at all ...
Robby with all my respect .you are saying that you are dealing with Nasdaq Bigboard but all your posts on iHUb are PInk or OB ! can you give us more credibility ...thank you
Welcome to a Vitual Circus or masked ball. Let's find out who's who ? shall we ?
If you were foolish enough to read the Raging Bull, Silicon Investor, Yahoo or BOBZ chatboards as part of your research into small stocks, you have been witness, to a greater or lesser degree, to the promo dance being performed on these boards. The
participants cover the whole spectrum of education, income, investment savvy, politeness and net worth, and, at one point or another, they exhibit every single human emotion possible. What other forum is there, where people from all walks of life and from all corners of the country - even the globe - can come together and join in a more-or-less-common cause? The spelling is always horrendous and the language is often peppered with dirty words. Most posters don't know the difference between "your"
and "you're" and think that the plural of company is "company's" - some even go so far as to write "two house's" ...Hey, it's all for your exclusive entertainment!
It is not necessarily true, of course, that the common cause is the promotion of a small company's stock - ulterior motives are the bread-and-butter of these threads and "making money investing" is really not the point of what is going on. If you left the board feeling
snowed by the stock's excited supporters, count to 10, ignore what you read and do some real research. If you left confused, learn from your waste of time and don't try to do research on the boards again. And if you left depressed - because the stock is no good
or because you ran across some bad karma - stay away from the stock: these people, if there are more than one or two, have good reasons to be cranky.
The cast of characters on these boards is fairly predictable:
The Ringmaster. He always welcomes new participants and uses "good to see you" a lot to demonstrate his authority on the thread. If he has a big ego he will simply post "JK is here", presuming that everyone will be all aquiver with excitement when he shows up. He will endlessly remind people of all the virtues of the company in question, in the most general terms possible and always leaving out any negatives. The Ringmaster is extremely territorial - when a less authoritative poster presents some new bit of useful information or link, the Ringmaster will try to be the first to comment on it, politely... but he will quickly add some wrinkle to discredit the info or to top it.
If the thread is active enough and has enough regulars, the Ringmaster will often undertake a "share count" with the regulars - which invariably shows that they bought up 2 or 3 times the company's float. Also, the Ringmaster will orchestrate company visits, calls to the CEO, product evaluations, trips to company locations and questions to be presented at the Annual Meeting. The Ringmaster is a very good scout master....
Some Ringmasters actually send regular private e-mails to their disciples, and will simply post "E-mail out". This is a great attention-getting device, good for the ego - however, the
e-mails are usually empty fluff. Be that as it may, the anointed are grateful for the crumbs thrown their way and take comfort in the knowledge that they are part of the "inner circle".
If the stock is a dog, the Ringmaster will always go down with the ship, rejecting and denying all negative evidence, in order to continue to have his ego fed by the stock's supporters. In the rarest of cases, the Ringmaster will change his mind and admit that he
no longer likes the stock -subjecting himself to the most vile and personal invective possible. He will make his exit soon after,in search of another stock to be the guru of. On the chatboards, one is not supposed to have an open mind - one is supposed to be a
faithful "long term investor", and the only virtue is stubborn blind faith.
The Sycophants are the Ringmaster's fan club. They compete for the Ringmaster's approval, doing a lot of web surfing to come up with the most obscure bits of related info possible. They will also post all the time why they love the stock and why it will go to 10 or
100 - always round numbers - and what they will do when they retire from the profits on the stock. They are also endlessly lying about buying the dips and adding after chart break-downs, trying to get other mullets to follow their lead. Often, they simply inform the Ringmaster how much they added to their positions, and wait for the "attaboy!".
Often, a turn of phrase such as "on the trail", or "ready for the explosion" will become part of the thread's folklore after being introduced by one of the regulars. It adds to the sense
of community.
The Sycophants are like a Hallellujah Chorus for the CEO as well, reminding each other how great the management is and how conscientiously it is looking out for shareholders'
interests. Half the time, the management and insiders use these fools to line their own pockets, selling into rallies. All the while, everybody blames the market makers for everything, from cancer to low graduation rates in our schools.
The Apprentice is the second banana of the show, a younger investor who likes the stock,likes the Ringmaster, has access to management and is ready to step in and take the baton if the leader's spot becomes vacant. He is learning how to gain credibility, how to flex his muscles, how to feed off the leftovers. If he is not anointed after a while, he loses interest and discovers his own "wonder stock" in due course, disappearing for good.
The Seldom-Seen Guru is typically a newsletter writer or influential investor who has recommended the stock, often with new information in his missives, derived from his access to management. He typically has real capital to invest and uses it to gain influence. He is usually a good stock-picker too, otherwise he'd be out of business. Many of these characters have been shut down by the SEC in recent months, for overplaying
their hand and playing both sides of the street - paid subscribers and compensation for stock promotion, at the same time (it's called "double dipping" and it is illegal).
The Guru will try to preserve his mystique by not posting very frequently, but he will make an appearance from time to time - mostly when the stock is rising - to remind people that
the stock is his "creation", more or less. The regulars will usually do their utmost to drown him out, accusing him of being a fair-weather friend and of not pushing (or buying) the
stock hard enough. If such an investor were to show up in filings as a seller or as one who is removing restrictions off his Rule 144 stock, all #### breaks loose. The smaller holders
start raising a ruckus and run around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to scare the Guru into holding on to his stock; this never works. Often, one of the super-macho bullies on the thread will offer to buy the whole block at a quarter of its market price,
without explaining why he thinks the stock might be worth so little.
The Hired Bashers are, along with the gurus, the only pros on the chatboards. They are thorough, methodical, informed and very active. Since they often get paid by market mmakers who want to drive the stock down - and since they get paid by the number of
responses they generate to their own posts - they are provocative, a lot like the schoolyard bully. They accuse the regulars of being blind, naive, led around by the nose by management... and all manner of other sins.
On most boards, anyone who posts more than once with critical information is accused of being a basher and interrogated as to his motives, compensation and sanity. Invariably, the basher hides behind a desire to "provide a public service".
Bashers always hide behind their handles and never use their real names. As a result, their handles are twisted into every conceivable alliteration to insult him: "residuum" can
become "residumb" or "rectum", for example.
The Stink-Bombers - Every company that has had up-an-down history has made a few enemies - either people who lost a lot of money on the stock or who were offended by
management. These unpaid bashers take a gleeful pleasure in every bit of adverse news, every dip, every critical comment, every low-volume day. They also toss insulting and fabricated posts, often very personal in nature, in the middle of the room for maximum effect. They love the hatred and the insults that come soon after, as sure as the sun rising in the east.
The Flame-Throwers are not bashers, in the sense of persistently criticizing the company or the stock, but they like to show up like masked guerillas and foul up the place with short, inflammatory, nonfactual posts whose sole purpose is to get a rise out of the
regulars. Typical language is: "watch it tank now", "time to head for the exits", "the last one out the door, turn out the lights", "I'm so glad I sold much higher" etc. These guys are part of the entertainment, like the dancing girls in Vegas, but uglier.
The Drifters are not a rock group, they are a set of wishy-washy space cadets with small positions who wander in and out, depending on whether they are surfing the web or whether their bosses gave them some time off from work. They are looking for info, advice, support, comfort and so on. Once in a while they establish a rapport with the regulars by talking about skydiving or fishing or stamp-collecting, but they are wallpaper,
adding nothing to the information base in the thread.
A drifter will sometimes have a funny handle and will try to force a pun connected to his moniker on the regulars: "seatofthepants", for example, is always "sittin' puckered" (even though no one is laughing at the joke), and "ladyinthehouse" will be meekly looking for "pretty news".
The Plebes are benevolent small investors who are making their first forays onto the chatboards. They are unsure of themselves and try to be brief; they are more likely to be asking questions than making statements. They are the dullest part of the tableau, the
peons. Their posts are usually ignored by the regulars. There are numerous Plebes who don't even post, and they are referred to as Lurkers - that's the great, unseen audience.
You might be part of it.
The Court Jester is a foolish, uneducated working stiff, trying to make something of himself but ending up the object of everyone's mockery. He may not understand investing, or he may be a terrible speller, or he may be kissing up to different factions at different
times - but he will look foolish no matter what he does. All the while, he tries to make a little money in the stock, with his limited resources. He is abused mercilessly, and his
handle is used to rub his face in his own humiliation. For example, "Marty Dorf", a fool who actually uses his own unfortunate name, became "Farting Dork".
The Enemy, the Darth Vader of every thread, is the market maker. The paranoid culture of the chatboards feels that MM's are in the business of shorting good stocks - a foolish strategy, as anyone can figure out. No one has been able to establish how they make
money by doing this and eventually losing their asses, but that doesn't prevent every thread from having a long article posted regularly about MM strategies and how they hurt investors. It has not occurred to the regulars that the MM's are nothing more than
businessmen trying to make a buck. It wouldn't fit their own culture.
The CEO - Every CEO of a small company watches his company's chatboards like a hawk. Many CEO's of bulletin board companies are stock promoters at heart, and they feel they are smart enough to post or to have people post their e-mail without regard to
legal liability. What they're doing of course, is outright manipulation - and, once in a while, they actually get their wrists slapped by the SEC. They hate to read the posts and not get in the fray. Predictably, they are incapable of uttering anything that is even slightly negative about their own company. Their e-mail contacts post the CEO's responses as if they were badges of honor, and they are rewarded with kudos and encouragement from the other members of the fan club. They lap up the pronouncements from Mount Olympus as if they were gospel, and they never doubt either the content or the CEO's motives.
The chatboard tragi-comedy is ready to unfold, any time you care to drop in. You may not make money on your microcaps, but you can always enjoy the show for free...
Welcome to a Vitual Circus or masked ball. Let's find out who's who ? shall we ?
If you were foolish enough to read the Raging Bull, Silicon Investor, Yahoo or BOBZ chatboards as part of your research into small stocks, you have been witness, to a greater or lesser degree, to the promo dance being performed on these boards. The
participants cover the whole spectrum of education, income, investment savvy, politeness and net worth, and, at one point or another, they exhibit every single human emotion possible. What other forum is there, where people from all walks of life and from all corners of the country - even the globe - can come together and join in a more-or-less-common cause? The spelling is always horrendous and the language is often peppered with dirty words. Most posters don't know the difference between "your"
and "you're" and think that the plural of company is "company's" - some even go so far as to write "two house's" ...Hey, it's all for your exclusive entertainment!
It is not necessarily true, of course, that the common cause is the promotion of a small company's stock - ulterior motives are the bread-and-butter of these threads and "making money investing" is really not the point of what is going on. If you left the board feeling
snowed by the stock's excited supporters, count to 10, ignore what you read and do some real research. If you left confused, learn from your waste of time and don't try to do research on the boards again. And if you left depressed - because the stock is no good
or because you ran across some bad karma - stay away from the stock: these people, if there are more than one or two, have good reasons to be cranky.
The cast of characters on these boards is fairly predictable:
The Ringmaster. He always welcomes new participants and uses "good to see you" a lot to demonstrate his authority on the thread. If he has a big ego he will simply post "JK is here", presuming that everyone will be all aquiver with excitement when he shows up. He will endlessly remind people of all the virtues of the company in question, in the most general terms possible and always leaving out any negatives. The Ringmaster is extremely territorial - when a less authoritative poster presents some new bit of useful information or link, the Ringmaster will try to be the first to comment on it, politely... but he will quickly add some wrinkle to discredit the info or to top it.
If the thread is active enough and has enough regulars, the Ringmaster will often undertake a "share count" with the regulars - which invariably shows that they bought up 2 or 3 times the company's float. Also, the Ringmaster will orchestrate company visits, calls to the CEO, product evaluations, trips to company locations and questions to be presented at the Annual Meeting. The Ringmaster is a very good scout master....
Some Ringmasters actually send regular private e-mails to their disciples, and will simply post "E-mail out". This is a great attention-getting device, good for the ego - however, the
e-mails are usually empty fluff. Be that as it may, the anointed are grateful for the crumbs thrown their way and take comfort in the knowledge that they are part of the "inner circle".
If the stock is a dog, the Ringmaster will always go down with the ship, rejecting and denying all negative evidence, in order to continue to have his ego fed by the stock's supporters. In the rarest of cases, the Ringmaster will change his mind and admit that he
no longer likes the stock -subjecting himself to the most vile and personal invective possible. He will make his exit soon after,in search of another stock to be the guru of. On the chatboards, one is not supposed to have an open mind - one is supposed to be a
faithful "long term investor", and the only virtue is stubborn blind faith.
The Sycophants are the Ringmaster's fan club. They compete for the Ringmaster's approval, doing a lot of web surfing to come up with the most obscure bits of related info possible. They will also post all the time why they love the stock and why it will go to 10 or
100 - always round numbers - and what they will do when they retire from the profits on the stock. They are also endlessly lying about buying the dips and adding after chart break-downs, trying to get other mullets to follow their lead. Often, they simply inform the Ringmaster how much they added to their positions, and wait for the "attaboy!".
Often, a turn of phrase such as "on the trail", or "ready for the explosion" will become part of the thread's folklore after being introduced by one of the regulars. It adds to the sense
of community.
The Sycophants are like a Hallellujah Chorus for the CEO as well, reminding each other how great the management is and how conscientiously it is looking out for shareholders'
interests. Half the time, the management and insiders use these fools to line their own pockets, selling into rallies. All the while, everybody blames the market makers for everything, from cancer to low graduation rates in our schools.
The Apprentice is the second banana of the show, a younger investor who likes the stock,likes the Ringmaster, has access to management and is ready to step in and take the baton if the leader's spot becomes vacant. He is learning how to gain credibility, how to flex his muscles, how to feed off the leftovers. If he is not anointed after a while, he loses interest and discovers his own "wonder stock" in due course, disappearing for good.
The Seldom-Seen Guru is typically a newsletter writer or influential investor who has recommended the stock, often with new information in his missives, derived from his access to management. He typically has real capital to invest and uses it to gain influence. He is usually a good stock-picker too, otherwise he'd be out of business. Many of these characters have been shut down by the SEC in recent months, for overplaying
their hand and playing both sides of the street - paid subscribers and compensation for stock promotion, at the same time (it's called "double dipping" and it is illegal).
The Guru will try to preserve his mystique by not posting very frequently, but he will make an appearance from time to time - mostly when the stock is rising - to remind people that
the stock is his "creation", more or less. The regulars will usually do their utmost to drown him out, accusing him of being a fair-weather friend and of not pushing (or buying) the
stock hard enough. If such an investor were to show up in filings as a seller or as one who is removing restrictions off his Rule 144 stock, all #### breaks loose. The smaller holders
start raising a ruckus and run around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to scare the Guru into holding on to his stock; this never works. Often, one of the super-macho bullies on the thread will offer to buy the whole block at a quarter of its market price,
without explaining why he thinks the stock might be worth so little.
The Hired Bashers are, along with the gurus, the only pros on the chatboards. They are thorough, methodical, informed and very active. Since they often get paid by market mmakers who want to drive the stock down - and since they get paid by the number of
responses they generate to their own posts - they are provocative, a lot like the schoolyard bully. They accuse the regulars of being blind, naive, led around by the nose by management... and all manner of other sins.
On most boards, anyone who posts more than once with critical information is accused of being a basher and interrogated as to his motives, compensation and sanity. Invariably, the basher hides behind a desire to "provide a public service".
Bashers always hide behind their handles and never use their real names. As a result, their handles are twisted into every conceivable alliteration to insult him: "residuum" can
become "residumb" or "rectum", for example.
The Stink-Bombers - Every company that has had up-an-down history has made a few enemies - either people who lost a lot of money on the stock or who were offended by
management. These unpaid bashers take a gleeful pleasure in every bit of adverse news, every dip, every critical comment, every low-volume day. They also toss insulting and fabricated posts, often very personal in nature, in the middle of the room for maximum effect. They love the hatred and the insults that come soon after, as sure as the sun rising in the east.
The Flame-Throwers are not bashers, in the sense of persistently criticizing the company or the stock, but they like to show up like masked guerillas and foul up the place with short, inflammatory, nonfactual posts whose sole purpose is to get a rise out of the
regulars. Typical language is: "watch it tank now", "time to head for the exits", "the last one out the door, turn out the lights", "I'm so glad I sold much higher" etc. These guys are part of the entertainment, like the dancing girls in Vegas, but uglier.
The Drifters are not a rock group, they are a set of wishy-washy space cadets with small positions who wander in and out, depending on whether they are surfing the web or whether their bosses gave them some time off from work. They are looking for info, advice, support, comfort and so on. Once in a while they establish a rapport with the regulars by talking about skydiving or fishing or stamp-collecting, but they are wallpaper,
adding nothing to the information base in the thread.
A drifter will sometimes have a funny handle and will try to force a pun connected to his moniker on the regulars: "seatofthepants", for example, is always "sittin' puckered" (even though no one is laughing at the joke), and "ladyinthehouse" will be meekly looking for "pretty news".
The Plebes are benevolent small investors who are making their first forays onto the chatboards. They are unsure of themselves and try to be brief; they are more likely to be asking questions than making statements. They are the dullest part of the tableau, the
peons. Their posts are usually ignored by the regulars. There are numerous Plebes who don't even post, and they are referred to as Lurkers - that's the great, unseen audience.
You might be part of it.
The Court Jester is a foolish, uneducated working stiff, trying to make something of himself but ending up the object of everyone's mockery. He may not understand investing, or he may be a terrible speller, or he may be kissing up to different factions at different
times - but he will look foolish no matter what he does. All the while, he tries to make a little money in the stock, with his limited resources. He is abused mercilessly, and his
handle is used to rub his face in his own humiliation. For example, "Marty Dorf", a fool who actually uses his own unfortunate name, became "Farting Dork".
The Enemy, the Darth Vader of every thread, is the market maker. The paranoid culture of the chatboards feels that MM's are in the business of shorting good stocks - a foolish strategy, as anyone can figure out. No one has been able to establish how they make
money by doing this and eventually losing their asses, but that doesn't prevent every thread from having a long article posted regularly about MM strategies and how they hurt investors. It has not occurred to the regulars that the MM's are nothing more than
businessmen trying to make a buck. It wouldn't fit their own culture.
The CEO - Every CEO of a small company watches his company's chatboards like a hawk. Many CEO's of bulletin board companies are stock promoters at heart, and they feel they are smart enough to post or to have people post their e-mail without regard to
legal liability. What they're doing of course, is outright manipulation - and, once in a while, they actually get their wrists slapped by the SEC. They hate to read the posts and not get in the fray. Predictably, they are incapable of uttering anything that is even slightly negative about their own company. Their e-mail contacts post the CEO's responses as if they were badges of honor, and they are rewarded with kudos and encouragement from the other members of the fan club. They lap up the pronouncements from Mount Olympus as if they were gospel, and they never doubt either the content or the CEO's motives.
The chatboard tragi-comedy is ready to unfold, any time you care to drop in. You may not make money on your microcaps, but you can always enjoy the show for free...
Lady my pick is SPZI was at the bottom, new Spooz 2 coming ...
Certificates are being mailed as we speak . they are going to be home before Christmas ...
That make two of us I have a huge headache !
Change director you are officially on ignore from my side .. Sick and tired of your long bashing expertise
News Spooz, Inc. Files Patents for Proprietary Fractals Software Technology
Monday November 6, 11:52 am ET
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spooz, Inc. (OTCBB:SPZI - News), announced today that it has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office to protect its unique data analysis Fractalz(3) software product line. This application replaces the Provisional Patent Application filed last year. Fractalz(3), a unique, price predictive software, is based on the chaos theory and how it applies to the markets and the trading of various instruments.
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News coming up .... Patent ...
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I have this as well on STKR .. Cautious ...StockerYale suit clears hurdle
Published: Friday, Oct. 6, 2006
The class action suit against StockerYale can continue, a federal court judge ruled last week.
Steven McAuliffe, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Concord, threw out the Salem company’s effort to dismiss the case on Sept. 29, clearing a legal hurdle for the plaintiffs that could result in a trial, or more probably a settlement.
The suit stems from two press releases the Salem company issued in 2004 about a contract with BAE Systems. The first release allegedly falsely implied that it was part of a new large homeland security contract for commercial aircraft that StockerYale would directly benefit from. As a result of the first release, the suit says, the price shot up, enabling two top executives – CEO Mark Blodgett and his father Lawrence Blodgett, who sits on the board of directors – to use their inside knowledge to earn a profit. Then, as the truth emerged, the price plummeted, causing investors to lose out on thousands of dollars, the suit alleges.
StockerYale settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission over these charges in May 2005. In the settlement, Blodgett agreed to pay approximately $900,000, but didn’t admit any wrongdoing.
StockerYale argued that the judge should dismiss the complaint, contending that each sentence in the first press release was literally true, and even if the release as a whole was misleading, executives at StockerYale didn’t know that.
The judge ruled that the complaint was specific enough – that if true, it would back up the plaintiff’s case.
“As it turns out, the baseless implication was not just misleading, it was actually false,” McAuliffe wrote. “The allegations in the complaint are sufficient to support a claim that StockerYale knew that the press release contained false and misleading information at the time it was issued.”
As for the second release, that the complaint – if true – establishes that “the stated facts [about the duration of the BAE contract] were simply invented by StockerYale.”
Furthermore, StockerYale’s alleged failure to seek BAE’s prior approval “demonstrates a high degree of recklessness,” the judge wrote.
McAuliffe also threw out the claims of the Blodgetts and other defendants that they were not responsible for the releases, ruling they were either in a position of responsibility or they allegedly help draft them.
While the suit is still alive, the plaintiffs still have to prove the allegations in the complaint. Usually what follows at this stage is a long period of discovery, class certification and a contest over summery judgment before it goes to trial.
“It’s a long process,” said Laurence Rosen, attorney for the plaintiffs. “The fact that we have a case doesn’t mean we win. It just means that it can go forward.”
Still Rosen was happy with the opinion, and wondered if the Blodgetts would be able to pay for any judgment against them.
“They could be liable for the money they earned,” said Rosen. “I heard they have a lot of money, and I’d like to get some of it for my clients.”
Attorneys for StockerYale could not be reached before deadline. – BOB SANDERS
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What about Spooz competition .. Don't you think that driving the price down will make easier a buyout ...period ...