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You're not taking any profits in case the MJ sector implodes?
I'm really having a hard time playing this one right now. I feel like my charts are just sitting there smugly, about ready to burst into laughter and scream "You don't have a clue this time, do ya?!?"
I picked up 1/2 my intended position at 0.033. I think I'm just going to have to wait for Rally, Part II or a sharper pullback before picking up more.
+1 for you, sir (or ma'am). I'm glad people are starting to recognize this SEC rampage for what it is.
Don't poke the bear; he's hungry with an endless appetite and will devour you if you provoke him. And the smaller and younger you are (less history, less connections, and less chance of having to spend resources contending with too much outrage and blowback from an investor base), the more likely the SEC is likely to take action against you for flaunting.
If Chris and Manny haven't figured this out yet, I hope they do soon.
I was wondering if we were missing something important about the definition of "parcel" here.
Fantastic DD. I really appreciate the effort you put into this one.
They do over promise and under deliver. The very definition of this is alluding to something happening (in this case, news coming out on specific days) and then failing to deliver. They do this all the time by email and twitter.
Yes, I know good and well what you were speaking of. The Amazon PR. And it was completely off topic from what I was talking about. Feel free to try again or something....
What are you babbling about? I wasn't referring to the Amazon PR...
Though if we really want to get technical, anyone can start using Amazon to distribute products. They better have a lot more than that up their sleeves.
Well put. My grievance is that many of the investors here seem to want to hoist ANAS on a pedestal as some extraordinary penny stock with a bright future. Over promising and under delivering by management gives the impression that ANAS is completely missing that mark. Teasers and tweets? Any ordinary penny stock can dangle carrots and string investors along like that...
Regardless, they need to stop over-promising by using overly optimistic terms such as the latest "PROBABLY Monday" line.. and then completely fail to deliver anything on Tuesday.
Post # 25386 ---
Email from Chris about NEWS:
"Yes, we actually started buying back shares already. There are a lot of rules so its slow at first.
The news is still coming, probably Monday, Maybe Tuesday. Manny solidified a few really big deals this week so I know we are going to take everyone by surprise once we can get them out there. We are pretty confident that ANAS will be out of the pinks altogether inside of six months, maybe less, and we are on the very edge of announcing a game changing event so brace yourself, it’ll be impressive, we just have to be a little patient getting it out. At that point all the nonsense people talk on the internet will stop because they will not be able to deny our place as a real, stable, name in both Natural remedies and MMJ. I’m ecstatic that we will be putting the doubt to bed soon.
Thank you for your support."
The scary thing is I was thinking the same thing. The SEC complaint back in Dec 2013 indicates that RH knows exactly how to turn internet communication into a total nuisance for his own benefit. It's not too hard to gather a few knuckleheads together, teach them a few tricks, and have them run all over any internet opposition like little imps.
Familiar and even more interesting this time around. Selling pressure forming a new dip puts this around 4 cents flat. Slightly lower lows and lower highs.
Great point about the volume. We're looking at, what? Say 1/3 of the average volume between mid-Mar and May EOM compared to Jan through early Mar? I do think a license announcement, one way or another, is what it will take to re-visit January levels.
Let's see what's around the corner for the FITX pps this week. This one loves to bounce between 5-6 cents to 9-10 and then back again to complete the same cycle.
The last rapid sell-off was a little deeper though and I think you can attribute that to Bill's announcement that general FB communication would cease and also fear about a continued SEC rampage.
No matter how much you want to tie the volatility to the dangers of a SEC halt, if this fails to return to the 8 cent level this month, that's a pretty good indication that social media hype was primarily responsible for the price inflation. In that event, those who are justifying the high valuation on this stock as something reasonable will really have to start thinking twice.
But that's assuming that the social media interaction is truly swapped for more professional releases long term. If Bill starts having parties on FB again you'll probably see more bandwagon investors gladly go on a buying frenzy back to 10 cents.
I'm simply reporting evidence so we can all be a little more informed. That's all. What companies I personally look for and how I choose to trade is an entirely different topic for another day.
http://alternaturals.com/050714.pdf
“Our benefactors, specifically Eastlight Enterprises (Ray Barton), and others are of the same beliefs and I assure you they are focused on growth and not of the type mostly associated with “penny stocks”. I’ve been asked about Barton and his associates several times now, and again I assure everyone that whatever you have heard, if it is negative, it is completely untrue. I did extensive due diligence and these people are 100% on the level, and true to their word. None of them have ever been in any type of trouble, and none of them have done anything but go above and beyond the call of duty for every one of the companies they invest in or consult for. I checked many references.”
-- Emmanuel Gyamfi, President & CEO of Alternaturals, Inc | May 7, 2013.
"Not of the type mostly associated with penny stocks".. This new evidence about the same server for ANAS and MDIN and SOCR (and maybe others) points quite to the contrary.
Tread very carefully with ANAS! There’s something really fishy going on here, and recalling how many people on this very board said the only tie between ANAS and MDIN was some insignificant, very vague tie to Raymond Barton, I think you all better start being extra cautious.
Has anyone really performed any website diagnostics? Run an nslookup or check each domain’s IP and you’ll quickly find that both ANAS and MDIN (North Star) share the same IP address!
184.168.76.205
And then go ahead and run a reverse IP domain check and you’ll see that the main websites for ANAS, MDIN, and another penny stock, SOCR, are all hosted on the exact same GoDaddy server. This is pretty clear evidence that all these sites are being administrated by the exact same person or org.
The MDIN site’s domain was registered by Raymond Barton through GoDaddy. The ANAS and SOCR domain information is protected by the same private registration, but the registrar is the same company, GoDaddy.
I noticed that the alternaturals.com site has been down the past couple days and I have to wonder what changes are being made. I took screenshots of my entire research process, just in case ANAS/MDIN/SOCR ever perform DNS or server switches. But go ahead and perform the same checks and research for yourself to verify what I just posted.
I find this very shady, especially since some people on this very board talked about MDIN investors going through a very similar process. Waiting for big news and hype to lift the price into the sky. Well, go ahead and review the pps history of MDIN and SOCR. These are stocks that have apparently already spiked high on news in the past, but then slowly crawled back to record lows.
As I said, tread carefully!
Nice green chunk of volume, 1 Mil about 30 minutes ago, pushing this near 2.20. Profit takers always seem to sweep in and bring this back to 2-even rather quickly, but let's see what happens today.
Where's that 005 going to come from without more news or volume? lol
I hope you're right. I'm sitting on my shares until something screams SELL. :)
That's a fair proposition to some extent. I think there needs to be a very reasonable limit to how much any shareholder should be expected to help develop or actively encourage management.
In this case, sorry but I'm just not sold yet. I don't have enough evidence where I'm confident in saying they WANT to be developed. We like much of what we've seen so far, but they certainly aren't sitting red flag free. Again, I'm only partially optimistic. I'm not jumping in with both feet.
Today's rally near the last 2 hours was very encouraging. We hit a new short term low at .0022 and bounced right back to the 30's?
Clearly some people thought they were bidding for a bargain. Pushing back toward .004 tomorrow would be such a fantastic price driver for the rest of the week.
Let's hope.
Can't count your chickens until they hatch, otherwise they might end up as nothing but rotten eggs.
This company's young management seems very transparent, but also overeager and somewhat inexperienced. We don't know for sure if any near future news is really going to be all that substantial. I'll remain partially optimistic but there's a lot of unknowns here. Too many for any real sense of comfort.
Either the job of web designer was assigned to an ANAS employee that doesn't pay too much attention to detail or this job was outsourced to a group that offered an extremely low bid. Proofreading, link checking, browser compatibility, these are all things that even budget design companies double and even triple check before releasing it to the client.
Ray is not a guru of any kind if he is responsible for creating and maintaining that site. At least not with building out Wordpress. I don't think any professional design company would want their name on something like that and then be so careless as to completely mistype the link referral at the bottom! Did you see that? The output is "thtp://rocketmydesign.com". They mistyped http and the link doesn't even work properly! That's a flunky designer level mistake right there. Wow.
Just another couple red flags that beg the question, are a couple kids just trying to play "company" here?
Their site wasn't even built for proper dimension resizing across different browsers. That slideshow creates a mess in google chrome. If a professional was paid to build that site he shouldn't have received a dime. Very amateur level work.
I've been holding my tongue, seeing it's a new company and all, hoping ANAS would figure this out and fix it on their own. But here we are a month later, and it still looks like a wordpress 101 class project turned in last minute. They passed the class, but received a C- at best.
That's what I'm starting to wonder as well. Someone with a little creativity can start a couple sites and companies.
The product design? Not that hard either. Go to a dietary supplement or nutritional manufacturer and they'll do most the work for you. MDIN has more complex formulas by the looks of it, but ANAS is pretty basic stuff. The 5 hour high concept looks great on paper but how long before something like that is even legal?
Thanks jb. So the 2 stories appear to be playing out the same, and we can see the MDIN share price just keeps making lower lows. Hopefully not a sign of things to come with ANAS.
Just to be clear, there is nothing besides similar management actions and Ray directly linking MDIN and ANAS right now?
I'm also going to reach out to an acquaintance of mine that researches this stuff professionally. He laughed at me weeks ago when I told him I was getting into this type of stock and to run it by him if anything seemed fishy.
I'm not liking the sound of this. Forgive me once again if I'm hours late to the party here, but what are the ties between MDIN and ANAS? Is it just Raymond Barton or is there more?
Thank you! Really haven't had the time to keep up with the DD on this one. The other Ray I linked to was the first that came up and I expected someone here could quickly point me in the right direction.
Anyone know if this Raymond (Ray) Barton with RFE Investment Partners is the same Ray that was involved with MDIN, Northstar Global and now apparently also joined forces with ANAS?
http://www.rfeip.com/Our-Team/Operating-Executives
Thank you Lavatime and jtmerlino for the reviews!
I am further relieved to hear that they aren't cheaping out on fulfilling the orders for their first sales. From the pictures, they look great. Down the road, I'd love to hear if you notice any daily differences from taking the products.
A couple questions about receiving the products, if you don't mind.
1. How long did it take between the order and delivery, and how far away are you from their location in west Michigan?
2. Did it appear to be packaged professionally?
I do have to give them credit for answering these emails professionally. The state of ANAS would be a lot more concerning if the company was silent. Really looking forward to seeing a schedule of announcements or some possible news soon.
Unfortunately that doesn't sound like good news to make it green today. If the new partners are skiddish about Alternaturals releasing their name, it makes you wonder if anything is close to finalized? Or are these partnerships nothing but a dream management hopes to come true?
No details. No news. I'm not liking this but will sit tight.
It does speak volumes that upper 20 and arguably 30 held today. If we could only finish in the upper 30's again today that would be a nice one two punch to the guts of any short interest. I agree, probably no news until Monday. Finishing strong today would still put longs in a great position.
That's fair. I'm holding for now, but only because they've delivered on everything promised up to this point. The pledge to bring about incredible news is going to mark the turning point though, because let's face it. The company has nothing more than generic products and a very basic website at the moment.
Whatever is announced in the next couple weeks (or lack thereof) is going to make the ANAS holders appear as champions or total fools.
If the news is unsubstantial or a major let down in any way, don't you think ANAS will crash below 2/10 with a bleak future for anything close to a penny ever again?
We know that "news" is coming, and I'd like to think Emmanuel and Chris have some clue what they're doing. But let's face it. This is roll of the dice on their news. REAL news needs to come quickly.
Let's just hope they aren't going to sit on information and wait until they have enough cash on hand to buy back large blocks of shares. The cash won't be available for a while, and we'll be sitting on penny shavings pps for ages to come.
On wild penny stock pops it's often best to keep 30 to 50% reserve for this very reason and sell the rest. You walk off with a very tidy profit regardless of what happens in the future to the stock, and you still enjoy all the long term upside if the price keeps rising.
Very few penny stocks experience that kind of rise, so once they do hit double digit pennies, there's actually a good chance they'll move closer toward a quarter or higher.