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RVD, they may show in 1st Quarter Revenue
Nice find!
Thanks Macdqyver, your chart clearly shows the Chaikin
Please note again everyone on Mac's new chart the disastrous performance of the Chaikin Money Index (CMI) in the past quarter compared to the past two years.
http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=CHDO&p=w&b=5&g=1&id=p49531522170
Remember, tiny daily trades do not show as being tiny in the moving averages. A few days of $40 buys at the ask can give the impression that a stock is breaking out when in reality it is standing still, or worse. And we've seen plenty of $40 range trades recently, haven't we?
As I stated yesterday:
Good thing some don't feel volume is important
Including the last trade of the day which you mentioned, there were a total of three trades.
1200 @.016 = $19.20
5000 @.014 = $70.00
2000 @.014 = $28.00
Total = $117.20 for 8200 shares
Hard to believe alright. Unfortunately it's getting easier all the time.
(I actually saw a chartist today bragging on the recent "uptrend" on this stock. He totally ignored the disastrous Chaikin Money Flow Indicator which for the past several weeks has been hanging at its lowest point in two years. Yep, Chaikin is one of the few indicators that is based on volume as well as price.)
The safe and easy way to submit questions.
If anyone else still wishes to submit a question or a comment for consideration at the May 16th Conference Call, you do not have to go through anyone on this, or any other independent website, to do so.
Nor is there a particularly strict time constraint, you still have plenty of time to make submissions. I would think that submissions sent no later than this weekend still have time to be considered. As a matter of courtesy however, the sooner submitted the better.
The two primary contact persons are:
For Kei Advisors LLC
Deborah K. Pawlowski
dpawlowski@keiadvisors.com
For CHDTcorp
Jill Mohler
jmohler@chdtcorp.com
While they coordinate, Daborah at Kei might be the primary contact for general questions while Jill Mohler has more direct access to Stewart Wallach for questions that he might be the only one expected to answer.
Remember too that there will be a live Q&A opportunity following the formal presentation at the Conference Call.
Bull, I know that question is near and dear to your heart.
Have you submitted it to Kei or directly to CHDTcorp?
You do not need to go through anyone on this board to submit questions, regardless of what you may have been led to believe.
As a matter of fact, to be certain your submission is not inadvertently edited nor misquoted in some way, it is preferable to submit it personally and directly.
Doubt we'll see all the revenues until 2013
if, as it states, this 3.M order will still be shipping during the fourth quarter of 2012
Certainly the announcement does not indicate we will see even one red cent of revenues from this 3.6M order in the First Quarter 2012.
CHDO opened by trading 1200 shares at .016
That's $19.20 plus commissions. An hour has passed and that's today's volume so far.
I am very concerned about the light volume. I am concerned about the reason(s) for it. I am concerned about the image these BS trades present to the investment community.
Without Volume, it is difficult to close a position.
For stock recognition in the real world I believe you will find that volume is equal to price as a necessary component.
A true indication of the direction and strength of a particular security (like CHDO) is found by multiplying the daily volume by the average day's price and comparing the result to the historical data already archived.
The importance of volume is a point that is overlooked by many chartists and helps explain the disastrous predictions that are so common on bulletin boards when the basic tenets of statistical analysis are ignored.
Nice to see .016 again, but low volume.
We should be seeing 10 to 20 times this daily volume to begin to make this stock interesting. Even that would be too skimpy. We really need daily volumes in the 4 to 6 million share range with an increasing trend toward 10 million share days. It's traded that much before with a lot less potential.
Bull, you've brought up a sore point.
Unfortunately the scenario you raised of a spinoff of Capstone is all too real a possibility if Wallach succeeds in passing the B-2 Stealth proposal. He would then have absolute license to sell Capstone out from under the CHDT stockholders leaving them holding the "empty shell" to which you refer!
Wallach has said he never WOULD do such a thing. The problem is that he COULD do just such a thing, and there would be no way to stop him!
I'm afraid potential investors recognize this fact and thus this may be one of the stumbling blocks in attracting them to the stock.
Not finding Capstone products online at Target either
The question of Target eliminating the Capstone line of products was first raised in January when posters mentioned seeing our booklights marked down for liquidation at Target stores.
At the same time, Capstone products were found to be no longer available online at Target.com. When I checked Target.com again last week, I could still find no reference to any Capstone products there.
Management in January issued a statement denying that they had lost the Target account and blamed the product non-availability on a Planogram Program???
However, their statement also included the following:
Some good points both pro and con Vorticity
The company does probably suffer from the legacy of a Pump & Dump vehicle based on the outrageous predictions of "$1.00 by September" back in 2006 followed by the well documented and extremely well organized (but failed) Pump and Dump Scam from exactly 5 years ago which began on March 12th, 2007 and lasted through May of that year. This was followed by years of "Pump and Pump", whose effectiveness was offset by one failed enterprise after another, as acknowledged in the 10-Q's and 10-K's.
While I believe many, including myself, agree that a name change would have benefits, as usual there are problems that may go to the very core of CHDT's (ugh) existence. I'm afraid that any serious attempt to re-invent the company would necessitate some rather sweeping changes including a revision of the corporate charter.
Your positive points pointing out the recent successes of the company are well taken. Now how do we get the message out in a believable fashion to the investing community?
Thanks for posting the news, Gerard
That's still another example of news that should benefit the share price, particularly when posted on a legitimate and widely read stock bulletin board like this one.
But will it? And if not, why not? That is the question that I hope lots of loyal posters will address here.
CHDO's week opens up 15% at the bell
Of course this was on a 1000 share trade equal to about $14 in real money.
With a conference call covering 1st quarter results scheduled next week, this would be a good time to begin some serious discussion as to why no one seems to believe enough in the company to invest their money.
We've seen years of hype and hope have little positive effect on the stock price. Management and Kei seem unable to generate investor interest.
All serious posters have an opportunity to express some constructive criticism on this forum during the coming week that could be expanded into suggestions to benefit the corporation...........and its owners.
Welcome Back Terpkings and thanks for the "Shout"
Haven't seen you since those few glorious days in the Fall of 2007 when we rode CHDO up like a skyrocket only (to complete the metaphor) to see the brilliant starburst go dark with little left but fallen ashes.
Please drop in and post more often. As you said, we seem to have plenty of the "same old - same old"; some fresh views on CHDO are always appreciated.
Hmnnnnn?
In the 2011 10-K published in March it was stated that CHDT is a "Controlled Corporation. It would appear that this is only true if they count warrants to achieve the 50% insider ownership number (based on the ownership chart included in the 10-K).
But assuming this is true, it would take only a few proxy shares to tip the balance in passing the Stealth B-2. So it appears that at least some of the insiders are not in favor of this power grab?
CHDO Closed up 14% on a $32 Trade.
But the $32 trade paled into insignificance compared to today's strong total of some $237.
Based on the daily stock trading abnormalities of this jewel, perhaps the new name for the company should be Shennagians 'R Us.
Absolutely correct Uranium!
I see you got your remaining 6950 shares
The trade went through while you were posting your last message at your price of .014.
Very, very strange that you got a partial fill of 50 shares prior to that. You certainly can challenge you broker if they hold you responsible for a separate commission on the 70 cent trade but my guess is that they charged you commish on a single 7000 share trade.
Like I've said. watching the weird and wacky trades on CHDO beats the funny pages most days. At least today the last second painter and his paint-removing buddy were satisfied to let the stock close at .014.
By the way, while that 50 share trade did not show up when it occurred, as you said, it did finally show up in the total trades for the day.
That's so ugly it's cute
Hope you didn't pay too much for the license!
(Strangely compelling - think I'll go pop some popcorn.)
15,000 on a "Form T" at the close = Funny
While I can't say for sure I have a strong suspicion as to what happened with the after-hours (by a minute) trade today.
Remember yesterday when a "paint remover" dumped a few shares during the last minute of trading to take the closing price down? Well today someone tried to make sure that wouldn't happen by throwing in a last minute trade at the ask. They cut it a little fine and the trade closed after hours thus getting a "T" designation.
While the above is strictly my opinion, I remain constantly amazed and amused at the really strange machinations involving this stock.
Thanks Dan (and Generic)
Cutting to the chase makes it appear that posting a "screen shot" of copyrighted graphic material where the copyright notification is contained (and obvious) in the graphic would be a definite no-no punishable by death, or at least a severe scolding!
What is the position of Admin
relative to the posting of "screen shots" of copywrited material on stock bulletin boards? What, if any, sanctions are in place regarding this?
Nice idea, but a "Game Changer"?
Seems like a whole lot of other folks got there first, and we are still looking several months out.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&mssrc=ms_chr&mstb=adawaretb&q=peephole+door+camera
I would rather see ZERO trades
than the sort of nonsense we had today with a $300 dollar trade at a little after 3pm to "paint" the ask followed by a "paint removing" $60 trade to drop it back to the bid 45 seconds before the closing bell.
While only a limited number of people read stock bulletin boards, the days trading history is a matter of public record, accessible to all investors, everywhere.
What must these potential investors think of these shenanigans? Does this sort of thing make CHDO and its parent company appear to be a huge bad joke? Could this be a big part of the problem cause it sure ain't any part of a solution?
Haven't checked B&N for Capstone Products recently.
You may remember that I brought the original sales of Capstone lights at Barnes & Noble to the board's attention back in 2007?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=20244867
While I too would like to see additional Capstone products in Barnes and Noble, and think that they might someday include eReader lights in their line, you must appreciate the fine irony.
A bookstore selling a device that works with e-readers which are, in turn, in direct competition with their already somewhat endangered "paper" books?
The CHDO 560 share MM trade today was analyzed
in my earlier post today as follows:
After the gap was tightened slightly around noontime
owing to an imbalance of 10000 bid vs.134,853 ask, CHDO was able to trade freely again and at 2:11pm 30,000 shares dropped at .0115. At one point shortly thereafter there were 470,000 additional shares for sale at .0115, but no takers.
Being able to recognize and analyze MM signals, such as the one earlier today, can be quite helpful in trading penny's where the L2 may be misleading.
Agreed Lucy, the CHDO L2 can be misleading
This is true of almost any thinly traded stock on the OTCBB. The problem is that MM's may not show every bid-ask, and further may not show the true size of every bid-ask, even on the L2
For a more comprehensive article as to why our CHDO may be affected this way, the following is a quick read. (Go to item 6, "Why isn't my order shown on Level II?"):
http://learn.advfn.com/index.php?title=Level_II#Why_isn.27t_my_order_shown_on_Level_II.3F
The 560 CHDO at .016 was a signal
The gap from .0111 to .016 was on the wide side so an MM signaled to close the gap. The ask then dropped to .015.
Of course those who do not believe in MM signals may prefer to think that someone actually made a legitimate trade of $8.96 to boost the stock - LOL.
Sigh!
A question I would like to see answered:
How is KEI being compensated for their services and what is the equivalent dollar amount, if not paid entirely in cash?
A possible compromise on the name
Would be to have the products labelled "Product of CAPSTONE INDUSTRIES" and in smaller but legible typeface "A division of CHDTcorp."
Sounds more impressive and give potential investors a clue as to where to look for the stock info without jumping through hoops.
Hurricaneman, I did find your .0112 Bid
And yes you did "take out " my current bid which today was even lower than .0111. (I misunderstood your post initially)
And then someone topped your bid by going to .0113.
But the big news of the day came just minutes before the close when someone hit the ask for 3800 shares.
That brave soul, in the face of what the stock has been doing lately, risked almost fifty dollars to stave off disaster and close the stock for the week at .013.
Had this trade not occurred, there would have been zero trades for the day and the last trade for the week would have been yesterday's .0111
The chartists must be going wild with glee as they plug in this trade!
Hi Hurricaneman, let's keep the pressure on.
I jus loves dem cheap shares.
You understand that I bought those 0111's Yesterday?
I keep getting blamed for selling shares to drive CHDO down but that's not even necessary. Unfortunately.
I know that you are (were?) a major shareholder who has watched this train wreck for a considerable time, but I do believe that we will eventually see a recovery.
ZERO trades by 2pm today - gives a whole new meaning to the term "priceless" - LOL
I did my part Uranium
Thanks to being able to interpret available data I was able to predict yesterday's action and use it to my advantage.
That lone 10,000 share trade at .0111 was my BUY. Regretfully it was only a partial fill but we'll have other opportunities.
If it wasn't you, wonder who it was
Because there were exactly 200,000 shares moved in the first two trades of the day but separated by enough time that it was obvious the MM's were having difficulty finding a match for the entire amount. Then a little over 100,000 more traded in bits and pieces at .012. May have been the same person, or no.
Well anyway, I called it right again yesterday when I predicted the action today. Anybody remember how many times recently we have seen 200,000 unit shares move?
I got a partial fill today at .0111
With the obvious MM action that I reported yesterday, it was another opportunity to "Walk it Down".
That was both the close of the day and the low of the day and I only regret that I couldn't buy a few thousand more at the price. (Sheep got it all - lol)
I realize that some here have not studied MM trading, MM shorting, or FINRA reporting, but if you can follow these, it can lead to beneficial trades.
And no, Walking It Down does not involve selling, either regular or short.
Sheep, did you put in an AON
for at least 200,000 of those shares traded today? Were the others at .0125 yours also?
I'm wondering because I predicted yesterday that MM signaling via tiny MM short sales indicated a decent order coming today (and it would most likely have been an "all or nothing" order to fit the parameters.)
Based on today's MM short sales
We may see a couple of decent trades take place tomorrow (Thursday) morning.
Check FINRA.