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Nice to see all the action on this board. Unfortunately, it isn’t because we are up.
Too easy to see what is going on here. It is all in the filings. Smart money is moving in here and any lower it goes…JMHO…GL2A….
All we need is “penny” to post “dumpy dumpy dumpy” and you KNOW it is time to buy…LOL….
Could be - could be a number of our recent large, new holders - but it has the appearance of a one-time dump and the amount fits….
Doesn’t mean it won’t have further “psychological” impacts on the stock price.
This one has some large single-entity holders - but most have been pretty stable over the years…
We talked about “a little toxic financing” months ago - this is the harm it can do - giving 10,000,000 shares to an “IR Firm” etc. and printing off shares in debt deals can do this….
All that said - with the cash they now have, going forward, we shouldn’t need such deals and most convertibles on the notes are at much, much higher levels than here…
Also, I rather have the band-aid ripped off in a one-time 10M dump than a hide on the ask for weeks pushing the stock price down in a slow bleed - but maybe that’s just me…
Have to play the swings with this one -
ASCM stopped pushing this one down (for now) - but need more volume to push it out of the way - if we can rid ourselves of that seller, the sky is the limit here…
I have a TD account with just a few thousand in it that I never use just to have an account for the tools - I agree they have OK tools - but you need to also open an E*Trade or other such account to do bulk trading and not run into these issues - JMHO - GL2U.
Yes, I do, actually - and from under this rock I can tell you no decent penny trader uses TD…they have had the call-in for years on this stock and on many,many others - every run folks complain about the same thing -
Get.an.E*Trade.Account….GL2U
There is no corruption- this stock was .003 a week ago - people take profits - it will go back up.
I’ve been waiting for some larger bids to start showing up to help support this run—- looks like we are getting some…next leg higher could come soon…
Agreed - never had one issue with either.
TD is trash for penny stocks
- they have had the “must call to place order” for years on this one - they never update their list - this is a fully reporting, pink, current stock - they shouldn’t need folks to be read the Riot act just to place an order over the phone -
Coming back strong - hopefully a surge into EOD and a continuation for tomorrow. Maybe we can leave the subs behind once and for all?
All good - GL2U - been in this stock in one way or another for a long, long time - been on the annual calls and I actually read all the filings - I am long and I have a lot of shares - I am one of the good guys - I just don’t see the management with rose colored glasses - time for management to put up here after a long wait -
That said - The news today is positive and I know we will all make bank in the long run on this one - well in excess of .01 - if management can put some deals together and continue to communicate the sky is the limit, heck our M/C is still like only $3M - ridiculously low - I am hopeful and positive about the future here…
I don’t disagree with you at all, Masta - I am interested in what kind of “corporate partnership” they can put together - we have been saying for a long time that is where they should be putting their efforts…making deals and moving the tech towards commercialization.
LOL - please, please do try to teach me something I don’t know about this company.
Whatever, dude. Good luck to you
Well, again - it isn’t “new” news - so competed is good - but I doubt there were many thinking “oh the disclosure is on the DoE website, but I’ll wait till it is final to buy”….I think it is clear that it was daytrading folks not following the stock that bought on news and our Twitter friends that have been pumping it for the last week or so we’re more than happy to sell to them…
In any event, it is further good news and all LT holders will be rewarded well more than .009 in the coming weeks/months - JMHO.
Anybody paying attention knew about the DoE award for months - I mean damn, it is stickied on this very page….obviously ill-advised day traders walking into a flipper trap there…
In any event, there is no denying the potential here and these short terms swings are nothing compared to where this could go longer-term, but folks want to flip for a few bucks - whatever- love how the Twitter trolls are suddenly silent….if you buy stock because of something someone posts on Twitter, you deserve to lose your money…just sayin’.
Nice to see you are still around, Kitty. GL2U - hopefully last week is the start of something much, much bigger.
Also, this MAY have something to do with interest lately. Though it doesn’t mention AMNL specifically, one can see the connection…
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/11/domestic-halloysite-to-help-automakers-with-us-electric-vehicle-tax-credit/
I just wait on “Penny” as my indicator - when he is posting “weeeee” you trim some off - when he is posting “dumpy dumpy” you buy like no tomorrow - best indicator out there, much better than any pumper on Twitter - LOL.
Very true - lots of new traders and pumpers on Twitter etc…good for a rise near term, but needs deals to sustain long term move.
Still, we can see much,much higher from here on buzz alone - however, at some point the company has to put something out to maintain and stop the pop-drop cycle.
Yes, all smiles here today - + 26% rn.
Yes, pretty good volume and must be related to yesterday's update. With how this company is rewarded when they communicate, it is puzzling why they don't do it more often.
As far as yesterday's update - I will never complain too much with these guys when they actually PR something, BUT, that said, it wasn't all that heavy on timeline and forward projections on the lithium batt tech, other than to say they will update in "future releases". Hopefully, they actually do that this time.
I agree with "Masta SkillZ", it is time to execute. We have been waiting just about 5 years for them to get stuff in order and commercialize the battery tech - now they have the money, personnel, and support in place to do it - so, no excuses, it is time to put some deals together and get things done on the battery side.
Well, define “future”…. I’ve been waiting for the real follow-up PR to this for almost 5 years now…BUT…there is always tomorrow….
http://appliedminerals.com/news/article/breakthrough-solid-state-lithium-battery-technology-utilizes-applied-m
When I asked at the annual last year why they didn’t announce the DoE grant until at the meeting itself (some six months after the award) the CEO said “when we have information worthy of a PR we will release it”. He never indicated that they couldn’t talk about the DoE grant award (that would have been an easy answer), but clearly that they didn’t think it was worth their time. At the time, noting it was a much smaller award, they could have been just under the impression that it was a small grant not worthy of a PR…..didn’t make much sense to me - but benefit of the doubt and all….
however, fast forward to a time where they are issuing PRs regarding very small sales of a couple of tons of clay etc….and there is no excuse not to PR the grant news or issue the promised “update”. in my option it leaves only two scenarios:
1) they are purposefully not PR’ing significant material events in order to keep share price low (insert nefarious reason here); or
2) now that they aren’t issuing stock constantly, they do not believe their is a need to issue PRs (insert other nefarious reason here).
Bottom line, to me, it is disingenuous of AMNL and down right violative of their fiduciary duty to shareholders one way or another -
if nothing else it is a bad,bad look to issue a PR literally about selling a ton of clay and not issue a promised update after a major (almost merger) AND a grant award that is most likely about 50 times the $ of the clay sale…only thing different is that they were busy selling stock at the time and now they are not. Hate to say it, but it is the truth.
At some point, the lack of communication becomes defacto share price manipulation on part of management- they know that by not announcing deals and keeping the public up to date they are reducing interest and the share price - question is: why?
Again, they release the necessary info in the filings, but why not do more? No one not already following the stock is going to read the filings - they will read a PR, however - management knows this. The low stock price is purposeful right now, but I have not come up with a real solid answer as to why.
They must be busy working hard on that “comprehensive update” we were promised so many moons ago….
But seriously, I agree they shouldn’t need to dilute any further for a long while, but if we are to chew through all that was issued we need more volume and interest and that comes with PRs and updates of substance - it is always with this company for them to communicate the bare minimum - I miss the old days when they at least had Mr. Z downplaying things and goofing up on Proactive Investors - at least he was trying to communicate - doing poorly - but trying…
Up 11% today and 22% so far this week. Perhaps we get out of the .003s tomorrow? GL2A
Past experience with this company has taught me to take such statements with a grain of salt - also “updates” does not mean they will ever PR the DoE award….last award took 6 months for them to mention, buried in the annual slide show, and was never PR’d.
So, before we start cheering about the future updates and what they might contain, let’s see some first.
I largely agree with you Razor, and all that is why I own a crap-ton of this stock despite my thinking that management's communication skills are, as you say, "worse than terrible".
I think we need the good news to keep flowing as we chomp through all those issued unrestricted shares down here before we can climb back to where we should be. Hopefully, we have limited dilution going forward as well. If they keep diluting, for whatever reason, we aren't going anywhere higher.
What we need is a good deal on the battery front and a clear path towards commercialization. I still don't get, and will never understand, the failure to announce the DoE grant award. There must be something to it.
In any case, I agree with you 100%. Getting rid of folks like ancient CEO Mario and the rest of the gang that couldn't shoot straight is awesome....also not having to compensate them for driving the company into the ground is even better. The new directors and new interest in the direction of the company (along with a shareholder interest by nature of them holding 20M restricted shares) can be nothing other than a good development. Right now is the ground floor if they are, ultimately, truly successful in turning this company around.
Well, they are supposed to issue 20M restricted upon closing the deal - I haven't seen that happen yet. Assuming they do not update us, we should know the deal has closed once we see those 20M restricted shares issued.
Don't get it - we sell $25,000 of clay and they put out a PR - we secure over $1M in grant money and.....silence.
Vague promises of updates/explanations is all we have - the stock price is a direct reflection of management's failure to communicate.
I agree with you - these issuances could very well be the result of past negotiated debt transactions - however, each quarter we must wait till the quarterly notes to uncover what happened in the past…
As you suggest, management could take the narrative and get ahead of this and explain to the public what is going on with the issuances, announce the DoE deal, explain why they tweeted a $3.5B battery deal on Twitter that they have nothing to do with, explain where they are in the commercialization process now that they have the funds…..but, no…..we get silence and new all time fresh stock price lows.
I think the bottom line is what I said before - management sees the average public shareholder as transient and unimportant. Have you ever been to the annual? You should attend if not. Management runs through the meeting on the last day of the calendar year - has a q&a and reluctantly answers the questions that they want to with no opportunity for follow-up with absolutely flippant answers. The annual meeting is a microcosm representation of the entire company and how they treat shareholders. It will not be until they change their attitude towards shareholders that the share price will change long term.
Sitting in on the annual will tell you all you need to know.
I hear ya. The annual meeting Q&A is pretty much a farce - I get the distinct impression that management sees the public shareholders as a nuisance and also I think Chris was afraid of my questions: and why he paraphrased them and refused to fully answer.
Our only hope is that after the iron deal closes the new issued shareholders and board members won’t take kindly to THEIR share percentage interests being diluted away….
The Twitter page is total amateur hour - tweeting papers talking about the clay, but failing to draw any connections between the findings/patents and potential money for AMNL - and now tweeting about $3.5B battery plant deals from the WSJ that don’t even mention AMNL: at worst, this can be seen as the company trying to draw parallels where there are none to fool investors, or, at best, the company just posting because they wish they could one day be part of a deal like that…Either way it is stupefying.
The lack of communication is ridiculous, I totally agree with you. Nothing on the DoE award, nothing about why the dilution, nothing on timelines to commercialize now that they have the money to do it…a letter to shareholders at this stage is not only helpful, but absolutely necessary.
As a shareholder, I too wish him all the success in the world. However, that said, unlike Mr.Z and CEO Mario, Chris likes to print off shares - we are looking at around 350M O/S here based on what they have already announced that have yet to be issued.
How much more will they issue?
You sound like someone with some experience - but for the noobs out there - if the company keeps issuing shares to the max authorized, it does not matter what “balls he is juggling” or what “accomplishments he makes”, the stock price will remain in the toilet.
This stock will become what I call an “Act of God” stock: one that has so many shares outstanding that it takes news of truly epic proportions to get it to move at all….
The company has to issue 20M more restricted to close the iron deal, but they had better pump the breaks on this dilution or we will head to fresh new all time lows, and fast. With the DoE funds and iron deal funds they should have plenty of funds for operations with VERY minimal dilution going forward…
Also not helping, is no letter to shareholders explaining the issuances, announcing the DoE award, giving a timeline to finalize the iron deal - etc…it would help if the company would actually communicate and not rely solely on filings and tweeting absolute garbage about other companies with no context or explanation as to how it impacts AMNL. A little communication would go a long way - but it seems that is way too much to ask, as they are too busy issuing shares….
Not a bad day: 20M+ vol and price up about 24% - hopefully the start of something much, much bigger.
Not bad - this is more like it - good volume and up ~20% - need a few more days like this to start something….
I too am excited and share your optimism- but we can’t escape (or forget) the fact that the stock has gone to all time lows under the tenure of Chris Carney. Blame Mr. Z and CEO Mario all we want, sure, they stunk - but Chris has a lot to prove and so far has done better, but obviously not good enough.
Just because he is better than the failed CEOs of the past doesn’t mean he is meeting the standard. Better than abject failure can still be failure.
All that said, I hope he can turn things around and learns from past mistakes, but he has a lot to prove before folks are going to start diving back into the stock.
Institutions can, and do, own considerable shares in AMNL.
Let’s face it - AMNL has been advancing the anode project at a snail’s pace for nearly 5 years - it isn’t until recently that it has (hopefully) picked up some speed.
In the meantime, management went silent for a couple of years and changed hands and took the O/S from less than 200M to more than 300M…(and probably getting to at least 330M)
Management is why we are at .004, no other reason - they have a lot to prove and have screwed over folks that bought this stock in the past - it will take a lot to prove to folks that this time it is different here…I hope it is…but lack of interest stems from distrust of management by prospective shareholders, IMHO.
It is interesting - when I read the Agreement much of it sounded like almost the start of a reverse-takeover of sorts by BMI - especially the parts about the added directors and Board members.
In any event, with the direction AMNL management has taken us in the past, new blood with significant interest and shares is very welcome, IMHO. Also, the primary focus on the company now is the halloysite business (as it always should have been).