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I'm quite sure I didn't say only... I'm fairly sure you challenged me to name three companies that have done worse over the past three years, and I didn't feel like doing research for such a pointless challenge.
I said I try to influence people. But I do recognize that many of them are beyond hope!
I do try to influence people. It is the ONLY purpose of this message board. The sharing of information helps people form opinions, hopefully valid opinions, upon which they might act. The only purpose of posting on this or any other message board is ultimately to influence people. Everybody here is trying to influence people; otherwise they would not be posting. Some of us are open and honest about that; others may lie about it or be in some form of denial, but this board's SOLE PURPOSE is to influence people, whether by the sharing of actual information about Titan, opinions about Titan, or blatant falsehoods about Titan that someone wants readers to believe. Readers must sift through it all and figure out what to believe.
I won't believe anyone who claims they aren't trying to influence anyone.
I don't feel bad at all about my ISRG investment. I sold most of my position in the mid-$550s when it had been stagnant for a while. But I paid $11.65/share. I picked a 50-bagger stock and you want me to feel bad about that???
If I get a ten-bagger out of Titan, I'll be just as happy or even happier... Considering I rolled a bunch from ISRG to Titan, those shares will be fifty bagger times ten again, or 500 times my initial investment. That was about 15 years ago, b ut I'm still perfectly satisfied if it takes another 5 years. Twenty year for a working stiff (not a trader) to multiply my investment by 500? I'm okay with that. Please don't feel sorry for me for that reason.
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I feel worst for you as you stated your sold intuitive in the low 400’s to buy Titan.
Stock has and it pathetic.
Adrock, didn't you also talk to Phil and report back what he told you? At the time it was viable information from what should have been a credible source, same as the Phil info reported by posilock and BKT. Should have been a credible source. And I still appreciate the fact that you shared your due diligence; even if it turned out to be false, it was not known to be false at the time and the source (Phil) should have been knowledgeable and credible.
But... thank you for proving my other point this morning. Anyone care to count how many times raise with no support has already been mentioned here? That horse is long dead, but let's keep beating it - as always, without knowing the back story as to why it played out as it did. We'll never know where the responsibility truly lies, whether it's management, Phil, other Northland/Bloom personnel, shorters, market makers, institutional investors themselves, even bashers right here. I would guess it's a little of everyone I mentioned and a few other factors nobody ever considered, but I will never know. Neither will you. And nobody cares as long as they can point their fingers somewhere.
It does both. And not accurately; as I pointed out in a recent post this morning, many positive posters don't even bother here any more (just go back to my other post to see how much respect a positive post gets on this board).
Then I apologize... I saw "some people" and assumed that meant the plural form. I keep forgetting that in this day and age, some folks prefer to be referred to as "they", in the plural form when they only occupy a single human body. I'm so insensitive. Let me repeat my apology.
It really doesn't require an in-depth statistical analysis to determine that the average number of posts per morning as of late is substantially higher than today's number. The likelihood that such a large number of people are all stuck in meetings all morning is quite low for a group that usually has significant availability and interest in this board. If your suggestion proves correct, it means that this afternoon and this evening, those people will finally catch up and should be posting voluminously with their excitement about insider stock purchasing. I hope you are right!
I'm not going to do the analysis, but unfortunately my intuition puts that confidence interval in the single digits.
Either that, or my theory that nobody ACTUALLY really gives a crap about these inside purchases would be the likelier alternative. I sincerely hope to be proven wrong.
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Yeah, that's it. It couldn't be because some people may have been in meetings (at work) all morning and just got time to scan the board. Nah, that couldn't be it.
I have never been big on the partner/buyout/acquisition theories, only because I have always felt that as an investment this will prove more profitable going solo (other than maybe a distribution deal). Maybe short term, the buyout would provide a nice spike, but nowhere near the potential for this when Titan gets a couple years of unit sales under their belt.
However, my initial thought when they announced Mr. Barker is stepping back in as interim COB is that maybe there is a pending deal with an organization who wants one of their folks as COB. Having done it before, he is perfect for the position on an interim basis, and maybe they don't want to bring someone in as "permanent" COB knowing he would be replaced in 6 months or a year (or whatever foreseeable horizon they have in mind).
I had to remove my tin foil hat just to type that!
Just catching up for today... A newsworthy day in my book!
Honeycomb said things which were unmistakably positive! HC, nice to have you here today! I wish I saw that earlier this morning...
And insider buying, Dr. Wolff jumps in and scoops up some shares! I thought that was the sort of news everyone here was waiting for and would be all over it. Is legal, published, properly documented insider trading now a bad thing? What is today's reverse-logic theory... "He must be buying because he needs to write off some tax losses at the end of the year." Or maybe "Oh, Phil at Northland told him now is a good time to buy." How about "He though he was buying TRXC but clicked on the wrong symbol." Folks here have been begging to see some insider buying, but nobody cares when it happens?
Give the people what they want, and it turns out they lied about what they wanted. I guess only me, fly, and BigT think insider buying is good news!
SPORT1.9" why would you ask me that? How should I know? And why the personal vendetta against me today? I'm about to rescind my offer of buying you that drink.
In case you haven't noticed, you're kinda starting to piss me off...
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You never gave us an answer. How did INVESTORS in MacNally's other ventures make out?
Thanks pal.
His "financial risk" is not having taken a job elsewhere which would have been more of a sure thing... in his mind, this is a sure thing!
Hence the name Options, they are optional on his part. But he is working for peanuts otherwise, relative to his position. The options are part of his compensation. Think of it this way:
PPS: His net compensation value after buying the options:
$15.20 $0
$30.80 $4M
$61.60 $12M
$123.20 $28M
Now we are getting closer to the levels of compensation a guy like Mr. McNally should be (and likely is) anticipating over a few years. $200K/year is practically volunteering at his level; his compensation is entirely performance-based and deferred until we get some real PPS value. If he didn't think it was going to happen, he would have moved on to the next opportunity.
And at the higher range of those prices, I am retired.
So he's already on the hook for around $4M to exercise his options... and people are peeved because he isn't buying more now?
DRG, I do appreciate a respectful disagreement when it occurs; you have managed to express an alternate viewpoint without any insults or name calling! I'm good with that!
And I am also tapped out! I can no longer put additional funds into this investment; all I can do now is pray that the warrant holders see the benefit of exercising the warrants as soon as they are in the money (or shortly after - just long enough to be confident in the PPS trend). As much as I'd like to triple my current position, I'm stuck where I am and that should do just fine. I've done the math on virtually all feasible outcomes from 50 cents to $200 per share, and what each does to my potential retirement date. I'm at peace with the worst case scenario and would be ecstatic with the best case.
I still don't see the "blunder after blunder" as such; I see good, steady progress on the development side, and I see a bad circumstance that happened regarding this past raise, giving the shorts an opportunity to ravage our price and as long as they can continue to maintain the current atmosphere of negative investor sentiment, they will continue to fill their pockets. It's not their fault; it's what they do and we know that; the delay in the raise enhanced the negativity and gave the shorts a huge bonus riding the rip tide. Was it a management screw up? Was it our buddy Phil spreading continued misinformation so his pals can get rich? Was it blatant incompetence by Northland or Bloom? I have no idea if it was none, one, or all of the above. And there is nothing I can do about it except look forward.
I have been prone to being a little more defensive overall here, mostly out of frustration with some of the opinions expressed here. Occasionally they seem to be aimed a little too directly at me and I am not one usually one to bow out of a battle of wits, but I occasionally try to just ignore and move on. Not always. The excessively blatant misinformation and some of the general stupidity just needs to be squashed with facts and logic on occasion. SPORT, I'm not talking about you specifically here; we seem to have had some contentious posts lately but I do recall a similar situation a few weeks back and at the end I agreed to disagree and offered to buy you a drink in Vegas, should we meet up there.
I know I can't make everybody happy and I wish there was something I could do to make people less miserable. Maybe it will help if I can provide an explanation as to just part of why I am so upbeat about this company:
Folks have expressed doubt here about the design freeze. They don't seem to know that a confidence build represents 99.X% of the final design; it is effectively frozen for the next round of trials from a system/electrical/mechanical standpoint; basic control software algorithms are all typically in place by that point. They most likely are porting existing code to a newer OS with support for the new processors and digital architecture, and adding redundancy and other safety features to the software but the functionality is there; maybe just adding a few features. Another purpose for the confidence build is to work with suppliers and manufacturers to thoroughly document the subassembly designs, perform revised sub-system verifications and final integration testing. They will probably tweak their QMS to accommodate some supplier specialties. Manufacturing instructions are typically developed, reviewed, and approved (at least preliminarily - those are always subject to change!) during and/or right after this phase. They have stated that they are seeking a sleeker, lighter design; I caught somewhere that they are eliminating external cabling (anyone who has been in an OR probably dreaded cleaning a system with external cables and the "pinch points" where cables are secured). Any feature you've heard them mention should be in this confidence build. Formal design freeze means they have put some proverbial miles on the hardware and collected data to accompany the design documentation for regulatory filings; the clinical data will need to include patient data with results and follow-ups as well as utilization data regarding the SPORT system itself. If you look at the latest milestones, you'll see the confidence build wrap up in Q4 2018, and the next two milestones are predominantly documentation and prep for filing. BTW, these milestones are good targets for reeling in a schedule. Q1 and Q2 2019 are all documentation!
Manufacturing doc updates will include things like "we should use blue loctite vs. red because we may need to replace that assembly on a service call" or "Crap! There's no copper in this grade of stainless so that threadlock won't cure!" or "I'm not sure that suppler will be around much longer so let's evaluate some options." Design freeze in the schedule is a formality for the regulatory process, but in reality the design is pretty damned close to frozen right now. That is the part of my investment that I best know and understand, and I hope this helps explain why I am so upbeat about this investment.
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With all due respect '66. Most of those who aren't being good "SPORTS" about it are the ones who can no longer dump money into this investment. Those who are still able to dump thousands upon thousands of dollars into it in order to offset further dilution seem to be the ones who have an easier time being good "SPORTS" and displaying good attitudes even though management seems to make blunder after blunder.
BrooklynHH, I appreciate the vote of confidence! Despite our current suppressed PPS, I'm glad to see that there are some others who, like me, can be a good SPORT about it!
Geo, it's nice to hear someone agree that this message DOES have some visibility other than amongst ourselves!
(but I think their passports are already in order, given the number of times they cross the US/Canada border...)
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I'm guessing The Rock was intimidated by this board. I think he has visions of masses of investors with lanterns and pitchforks standing in his front yard in the middle of the night.
And here's another part of the problem... To many people here think there's a minute left to play. This is about half way through the third quarter. Titan still has time on their side, believe it or not.
I know that not everyone here fully understands the medical device product development life cycle, but in the past 19 months they have announced one delay, and all other milestones met on time or ahead of schedule. This is top-shelf program management, but they are getting beat on for the single slip and the numerous misdeeds of the prior team. It is negativity for the sake of negativity.
Obviously fundraising didn't go well, but putting out literally thousands of posts all with the same message is beyond superfluous; it is entirely counter-productive. Management has been called out publicly and privately on this way too much already, but once this message board's contributors realize the future hasn't happened yet and the future is why we are all still here, maybe we can start to focus more on the future and how to get there, instead of whining about yesterday and bitching about today. I'm down over 75% as an investment, but I'm not bitter or pissed about it; sh1t happens and either one move on and make progress, or one lets the sh1t become their life story. If I didn't think I was going to ultimately make substantial money on this investment, I would have bailed and taken the tax losses long ago.
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It's like watching a guy spike the ball when his team is down 44-0 with 1 minute left to play and the other team lets you walk into the end zone.
Please...
Robg, welcome to our mayhem! Glad to have another reasonable-sounding voice in the choir. And for me personally, it's nice to hear from someone else who recognizes that this is really all about the product in the end. I look forward to your future contributions!
BigT, that is definitely a nice, timely article; I appreciate the share as do all the longs on this board. Any idea why Titan wouldn't want to point to it in a PR? Maxim is legitimate enough to get a Bloomberg nod:
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=3378798
Why wouldn't Titan want to get at least a little mileage out of this???
https://floridarecorder.com/2018/08/14/todays-movers-titan-medical-tmdi-stock-rating-reiterated-by-maxim-group-8-target-price-indicates-359-77-potential/
Willie - Did you read my post?
I think my metaphor of a river of sewage was a reasonable acknowledgement of the "dirty game" to which you refer. To qualify as a lesson, you need to impart some useful new knowledge to the recipient. For example, maybe describe a step-by-step process by which a company attempts to raise funds while engaged in stock markets in two different countries and while adhering to the laws and regulations of both. Provide some detail about the responsibilities of each involved party (in this case Titan, Northland, Bloom, and the investors themselves) to achieve the desired end result. Maybe add a few caveats as to how the process could break down or provide less than desirable results. That would qualify as me "getting a lesson." I would be a willing student. "it's a dirty game in the microcap world" hardly qualifies as a bumper sticker slogan, never mind a lesson.
I look forward to you sharing actual knowledge on this topic. Thank you in advance.
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Well now your getting a lesson . It’s a dirty game in the microcap world
And what is the name of your company? Apple? If you are so all-knowing, prescient and omniscient, your company surely must be worth a trillion by now.
I never claimed to know much about the financial side of this business. To me, it is all about the tech. The majority of my career is in medical device development and regulatory affairs; combined with my wife's 30 years of surgical experience with 20 years of robotic surgery, we both feel we have a hit on our hands once it gets to the market. Everything I have seen from this management team since Mr. McNally took the helm has been reasonable, feasible, and correct to the best of our knowledge.
Sure, I'd like our PPS to be about a hundred times what it is today but that isn't in the cards at this juncture. I am unaware of any prior funding to require such a ridiculous amount of time to close, but my limited understanding of that process would indicate Northland and BB were in control of it. Some people have proposed that Titan should have canceled it when it was taking too long, and I questioned if that would permanently turn away institutions who currently were on board to give us millions of dollars. Canceling would likely have hurt the current PPS even more for their "inability to close a deal," and in the future because they would have shunned their most interested investors.
I would normally apologize for the initial sarcasm in this message, but lately it seems that is what is expected on this message board, so I left it. I actually do respect a lot of your input to the board, both positive and negative when it seems appropriate, but lately I am disappointed that it seems all negative. Even with my rose colored glasses, I can clearly see that we are currently wading through a river of sewage to get to the other side. I see the sewage, I know it's sewage, but I see past the sewage to the greener pastures as well. I choose to focus more on the greener pastures that the sewage, lest I be mired down in misery to the same level as so many disgruntled posters here.
Cheer up! We'll get there!
You all really think they wanted to hold the fundraising open for that many weeks? Should have been a slam dunk. Northfield and/or Bloom Burton obviously had issues with handling this deal, leaving a huge opening for us to get shorted to oblivion. Phil's buddies probably made a bundle, as did a few of you, I suspect...
Maybe we can get Omarosa on Titan's BOD so she can secretly record the meetings, and when the book comes out with all the recordings, we'll know to what degree they themselves are conspiring to steal all our money.
Why would you or anyone predict lights out? They have no debt. They have pre-paid much of the ongoing development work. They have more cash on hand than their market cap. What company goes belly-up with no debt and enough cash to roll another 6 to 9 months without any conservation efforts? Program Management 101 teaches how to crash a project schedule; PM 201 tells you how to reel in the budget if you need to. They probably have cash for a year if they allow schedule to slip a little, and they might have already factored that into the publicized schedule.
About two years ago, I did put forth a couple letters to then management and Board of Directors, using input from a very large number of iHub contributors. As a group, we were all very like-minded and had some clear, unified opinions as to what needed to happen to right the ship which was, at the time, listing badly. Development work had been shut down due to insufficient funding and there was no indication that a viable plan was forthcoming. The letters were truly a group effort; I just happened to select the words for the final versions in hopes I could give our voices as much influence as possible. It was a cohesive and cooperative effort by all involved, and I was proud to be part of that group who all wanted to stand up and offer genuine concern and viable suggestions. In particular, Mr. Barker seemed to side with us strongly enough to pick up reins, issue communications which directly addressed our concerns, and lead the effort to revamp the management team.
On this iHub message board at the moment, I don't see the same clarity of vision nor continuity of opinions as we shared two years ago. Instead, I personally see a large number of individuals who are more inclined to lob insults and physical threats at Titan management and at each other. I, for one, have no desire to step up to the plate and attempt to generate communications which represent such disparate and, frankly, immature opinions and personalities. A number of you have been expressing your desire to short the stock to try to ensure its financial ruin. I certainly could not, in good faith, try to assemble a cohesive message to management when there is no clear vision being expressed with any sense of majority. A fair number of posters here appear to be in communication with various management team members, and I'm sure the huge diversity of opinions is already known to them.
I agree that a well-written essay could clarify how some of us feel while expressing it in a civilized manner, and as such it could possibly be well-received by management in the spirit it would be offered. Right now, however, I would not want to claim that any message represents a unified majority here, so this probably isn't the best time to try.
The cool part about it is seeing the total at the bottom if the trade were to execute! $200/share for my non-IRA accounts is almost a couple million dollars. Looks great on the screen! Keep in mind it might limit the duration; my orders expire in 6 months. That's long enough to rebuild our PPS if we could inhibit the shorts. But it would also take a fairly massive campaign to get everyone on board.
I don't know, so it might be worth a call to your broker. Worst case, play it safe and put in a limit order for the highest price they will allow you to ask.
I too hope we never see a dollar. I did what I could to help - I locked down all my trading account shares with a sell (limit) order at $200.00 per share so they can't be lent out to the shorters behind my back. I also called another broker who as three of my IRAs; he said all IRAs are Type 1 accounts and shares cannot be lent from them, so no need to do the sell order on those. But if everyone here who is long does their part to lock down their shares from the shorters and we get the word out enough, we might at least tighten up the supply a little bit. Broker told me that in the past 2 weeks, short shares have increase by almost a factor of 10. Any wonder we are getting crushed???
Lots of disappointment being expressed here, and I think some, but not all of it, is rightfully so. And everyone has Mr. McNally in their sights. Is he the right target?
The now famous Phil at Northland seemed to have more to do with the results than Mr. McNally. The latter (Mr. M) led the uplist to get us into institutional investment potential, which by all right should have been around $5/share while our share price hovered around $6 or so. Northland and Bloom Burton never seemed to get their act together to figure out how to do this offering for a stock traded on two different countries' exchanges. Meanwhile Phil, whether due to a competence issue or outright corruption, was obviously a bit more loose-lipped than was his place, and given we have now just suffered a month of trading where more days than not, 80 to 90% of the trades were shorts and the price got hammered (for you conspiracy theorists out there thinking ISRG is buying us up with the huge volume, you might be failing to consider these shorts percentages. For the other conspiracy theory, keep an eye on Phil's LinkedIn and Facebook buddies to see if any of them retire before Christmas.) Titan's only option other than proceeding as they did might have been to cancel the offering, at risk of souring the relationships with the institutional investment community, and turning down $16M to $20M of cash which the company WILL need. If they didn't take the money now, it might never be offered again.
I'm still in for the long haul. I expect the frustration to continue for another year, maybe more. I don't know what type of news or PRs they could possibly release to drive PPS in the short term. Hugely frustrating because we know what we have in the technology and if it takes getting approval and selling units before we can escape the current price manipulation, I'll still be here waiting for it.
Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely pissed about the level of dilution. I first got in with OS of about 120M shares if I recall correctly. With dilution, BigT's 36M OS estimate equals almost 1.1B pre-split shares. For a while I held around 0.14% of the OS; now after more than doubling that position (almost triple) I'll hold less than a third of that as a % of OS. I will have been diluted by a factor of ten by the time these warrants get executed. It won't buy me an island, but it should still tip the scales for an early and very happy retirement. It will have to do, and I am okay with it. Not nearly as okay as I would have been without the dilution, but I still think the tech will make this investment ultimately worthwhile.
Your hands are not completely tied; you can sell and take the loss on taxes and be done with the whole thing. Otherwise, I'm not going to post the serenity prayer here, but it just might help a few of you to read it somewhere.
Maybe that will get the shorters off our backs here in Titanland!
(I can dream, can't I?)
Not me, thanks... I've had my fill of Phil and his wandering story lines of misinformation. I bet his buddies made a ton shorting us these past four weeks.
Well, frankly, I'm a little disappointed. It's after 7:30 EST and no new Sedar filings or PRs are listed; they are usually right at 7:30. I think we could have used a good pre-market PR today, since we have seen that there is a huge coiled spring of buying energy waiting in the wings.
Bouncing like crazy but big volume. It would be nice if it landed on a high for a change - but $4.24 might be hard to see again today.
Anyone out there know what just happened? iHub's 15 minute delay might be killing some of you... you'll see the big jump soon.
Just my opinion/assumption, but with regard to the three training sites, I think they each did their initial assessments of the technology with their all-star surgical leads which led to the feedback we heard, and surely a lot more we didn't hear, plus a few white papers written and passed through the legal team for publication. After that, it is probably mostly repetition; maybe more docs performing mostly the same indications, mostly porcine models and maybe an occasional cadaver study, but not necessarily anything newsworthy - Headlines: "We did 7 more prostates last week" wouldn't sell a lot of newspapers! But each day brings them more data for a regulatory filing; statistically valid sample sizes for these data sets are mandatory to be able to express a confidence interval about any claim you are making for a medical device, especially pertaining to safety and efficacy.
The lack of news from these sites at this point should be construed as good news because it means nobody is finding any additional need for major modifications to the design. If they were, we would hear more about the new hardware changes, as we did for the new footpedal tray, new handpieces, smaller camera, optimizing the gel port, etc.
I wouldn't mind if they would slip some info as a side note in a PR regarding progress on these fronts, something like "To date, the training centers have performed 43 hysterectomies, 39 prostatectomies, 24 cholesystectomies, etc. 56 surgeons have successfully completed the current training program and 52 have performed at least one surgical procedure with SPORT. No life-threatening complications have arisen during any of the procedures." I don't expect them to be posting Yelp ratings, but I would hope for at least 4.8 stars on Yelp if they did!
I believe the multiple reports here in iHub from folks who spoke to Northland are probably as true as they could have been, each reflecting the latest information at the time is was communicated. Between those and a couple other reports I've heard, the holdup is most likely still a combination of two foreign exchanges hashing out details, and bickering lawyers. To our benefit, both countries involved are fluent in the English language so at least we don't have an additional layer of translation required! Although I assume announcements on financing should be made any day, or even any moment now, I have no real basis for pinpointing a date for the PRs on the raise, and therefore I won't claim to know anything I don't know.
Your Mustang GT is scheduled for the assembly line and due for delivery next year. They just need to add a little more horsepower first to ensure you will love it more than any other SPORTs car!
Half right; it was working but it was never ready for market.
In order to market a ground-breaking medical device, it needs to be state of the art. Your cell phone probably has more processing power than the circuit boards in those 5 year old control systems. Everything with a technological bias in that system was suitable for proof-of-concept testing and getting surgeon feedback such that the final design round includes refinements to address any and all surgeon concerns while updating to the latest available cameras, actuators, processors, etc.
Very few people want to buy brand new 5-year old technology, and it would be very vulnerable in the marketplace. Everything they are currently doing is completely normal in this business (which I have been in for decades).
New camera, modernized processing power, and that requires software re-writes to implement these improvements while incorporating the feedback mitigation and adding features. Did you see the patent with the target ranges drawn on the console screen to indicate the range of motion for the controllers? A patent is nice but needs implementation to be a useful feature; otherwise it is just a blocking patent which would then be more vulnerable to challenge in the courts by competition.
They are doing everything correctly on the development side. It does take time.
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Eit I guess I guess I thought Sport was a working and ready for market machine.
BKT, can you throw me a PM with contact info? I would like to get in touch with you off line. I know that BigT would also like to hear from you if you can.
BKT - I do not have private messaging nor a paid subscription, but I do look forward to your continued input one way or the other.
I will say this - I wouldn't take Adrock's actions as a personal attack. Everyone here is justified in doing their own due diligence, and we have heard from several posters that they seem to get a lot of variability in the info coming from their Northland calls. For starters, Phil and Chris up there don't seem to have the same interpretation of reality, and the situation is probably changing daily. The volatility of our PPS is surely influencing negotiations on a daily basis, so even if we each get different stories, they may have been based in truth at the time they were given.
I certainly appreciate the sharing you have done with this board, both factual such as reporting on your phone call, and the opinions and hopes that you have expressed as well. It would be a loss to the entire board if you stop posting publicly, so I hope you reconsider. I personally have found the message board to be a much more pleasant place since I opted to block a few people whose input appeared to be too childish and moronic for me to bother with (I won't call out any of those war lords by name but I will note that three sevens in a row is only lucky on a slot machine). We are all free to choose who to listen to and who to believe. I hope to stay on your list whether public private. And thank you, by the way, for having shared what I believe to be valid and helpful info.
All in due time... At this point, frustration is turning to anticipation! No telling which way we go today, but hopefully yesterday's late day run was the turning point.
In a Roth??? Lucky bastard! I'd love to have THAT growth tax-free in a few years!! Congrats on a great move!