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I give up.
This whole mess today reminds me of swarming fire ants. They even bite each other when they go into crazy mode. In the long run this is simply going to be self destructive for these disfunctional idiots.
Personally, I think it has more to do with people who are to lazy or ignorant to understand what they are reading, and refuse to listen to intelegent explanations as to what the numbers mean. They are much to willing to be lead by a pied piper playing a song of defeat and death. It is the crowd mentality at it's worst, and there s always some negative jerk to lead them over the cliff.
You go girl.
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Guide to Short-term vs Long-term Capital Gains Taxes (Brokerage Accounts, etc.)
Updated for Tax Year: 2014
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Not all capital gains are treated equally. The tax rate can vary dramatically between short-term and long-term gains. Generating gains in a retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, can also affect your tax rate.
The Internal Revenue Service taxes different kinds of income at different rates. Capital gains, such as profits from a stock sale, are generally taxed at a more favorable rate than your salary or wages. However, not all capital gains are treated equally. The tax rate can vary dramatically between short-term and long-term gains. Generating gains in a retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, can also affect your tax rate.
Short-term capital gains
Short-term capital gains do not benefit from any special tax rate – they are taxed at the same rate as your ordinary income. For 2014, ordinary tax rates range from 10 percent to 39.6 percent, depending on your total taxable income.
If you sell an asset you have held for one year or less, any profit you make is considered a short-term capital gain. The clock begins ticking from the day after you acquire the asset up to and including the day you sell it.
Long-term capital gains
If you can manage to hold your assets for longer than a year, you can benefit from a reduced tax rate on your profits. For 2014, the long-term capital gains tax rates are 0, 15, and 20 percent for most taxpayers. If your ordinary tax rate is already less than 15 percent, you could qualify for the zero percent long-term capital gains rate. For high-income taxpayers, the capital gains rate could save as much as 19.6 percent off the ordinary income rate.
Gains in retirement accounts
One of the many benefits of IRAs and other retirement accounts is that you can defer paying taxes on any gains. Whether you generate a short-term or long-term gain in your IRA, you don't have to pay any tax at all until you take the money out of the account. The negative is that all contributions and earnings you withdraw from an IRA, even profits from long-term capital gains, are taxable as ordinary income. You gain the benefit of tax-deferral but lose the benefit of the long-term capital gains tax rate.
Capital losses
If your investments end up losing money, rather than generating capital gains, you can use those losses to reduce your taxes. The IRS allows you to match up your gains and losses for any given year to determine your "net" capital gain or loss. If you end up with a net loss, you can use up to $3,000 per year to reduce your taxable income. Any additional losses can be carried-forward into future years, to offset either capital gains or another $3,000 in ordinary income.
Since you don't generate capital gains or losses in a retirement account, you can't use trades in IRAs or 401(k) plans to offset your income in this manner.
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IS ANYBODY ELSE BESIDES ME HAVING PROBLEMS WITH L2?
Right now I don't think anyone can predict what this thing is going to do. It's all over the damn place. Just impossible for I think anyone to even guess. Really weird, never seen it act this way.
That would be my guess. I certainly would want that data at hand with an announcement so as to not have to deal with the "as yet to be proved" crap.
It's a little to early yet to tell, but NITEmay have just created a nightmare for themselves. I don't think .19 will hold long.
The problem right now is NITE.
There are a few things that you need to know about the market maker NITE. Knight Securities uses the ticker $NITE. This market maker is known for being one of the most abusive market makers in the penny stock market. Most of the popular penny stock brokers route from NITE because they are quick to execute most orders. One thing that I’ve noticed is that NITE tries to screw you over. You have to realize that each market maker has it’s own complex algorithm that tries to make them money. Sometimes they make money by shorting the ask and then covering on the bid. Sometimes when a stock is running and you place an order on the ask and you don’t get filled, it is actually the market maker taking shares on the ask. Then they move up the bid and ask and tries to bait traders into hitting the ask again to sell the shares that they just bought. You’ll also see MM’s shorting a stock as it runs up because they know that it will eventually come down. Think of it this way. If they are able to short a stock at .01 and it runs to .10, you will hear people on the stock forums saying, shorty is going to get burned, or this market maker is short. In reality, it really won’t matter because naked shorting really isn’t enforced and any short will eventually be able to cover if they just keeping shorting more. If they short at .01, .02, .03…to .10 it appears that they are really short.
Then what happens is they keep shorting more at the top say at around .10. Then the promotion is over and then over the next few days the MM is able to short more in the .06 to .08 range. People keep buying because they think more is coming, but the promo is over. The price keeps decreasing over the next month back to .02 to .03 range where the MM is able to cover for a profit. So as you can see the market makers like NITE never lose and it is only the bag holders.
http://www.penny-stock-brokers.org/mm-nite-shorting/
They might well have it now. The thing is, if you watch JN in action he never moves until everything is in its proper position. When he moves it will be with as much positive traction as he can generate. He simply doesn't make public mistakes. He has his timelines and he will stick to them at this point. I have had the pleasure of working for and with a number of startup geniuses over the years, most notably Herb Kelleher. They always have a plan, but are able to flow with the monment when needed. It will come just be patient. Would you have sold your profitable company (ies) if there was any doubt that the cell existed?
Wish I could say yes, however from the looks of the L 2 not going to happen at open. Going down again. Don't think it will last though.
For all the newbies joining the board, and specifically for those say they don't have time to read all the postings here, here is some help.
Main SLTD page. Right beneath the listing of moderators, there is a box labled "SEARCH THIS BOARD"
Type your subject into this box, hit enter, wait, read the results! For example if you want patent information type " Patent" read the results. Your question probably has been addressed at some point.
Want financial news as in filings? Type "FINANCIAL FILINGS" or " 10Q" read the results. Or "when will 4Q results be released"
Almost every question you have, has most likely been discussed, torn apart, analyzed and posted. Dilution R/S Stock compensation or incentives. Move to big boards. It's all here. We have Lawyers on this board, we have Certified Public Accountants, business owners, people with years and years of business experiance, analysis, chartist, fundamentalist. The DD you want and need is all here, just look for it. Use the search function to find your answers. Still not clear? THEN ask your question.
Hope this helps. GLTA
Are you saying subs for the consumer or subs for SLTD?
Why does everybody keep forgetting the "lab to fab" stage? That's where a third party prepares the prototype to manufacturing specs. That takes time and is part of the pre manufacturing process.
You ask for insider info. Not allowed under SEC rules.
Patent pending protecrion for as long as it takes!
Totally agree with this.
I think today has proven the old saying "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!" In some cases even entering the kitchen was a mistake. There is a reason that you are told over and over not to invest what you can't afford to lose. The combined core of about 30 or so ultra longs here's loss on paper would make some of the weak hands have a heart attack if they saw those numbers. We have been through this many times before. Some five years ago were buying in for the first time at the very same prices that were traded today. They are still here. If this roller coaster scares you, you might want to reconsider riding it. We are going to go up, however we are going to have repeated days like yesterday and today. We are going to see our holdings dwindle at times to scary levels, and rhen we will get that adrenalin rush when it soars again. The choice is yours of course. GLTA
So now it's the companies fault that the stock has been munipulate by traders. Unreal. Just totally unreal.
Just provided link here on board. No reason to make people actually work.
Ya know I have to wonder why some people are trading stocks.
SOLAR3D 10Q
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172631/000118518514002978/solar3d10q093014.htm
TD NEVER HAS UP TO DATE NEWS. I'v called them on it a number of times. They could care less apparently, it's only a penny stock you know?
Sorry Raz didn't read ahead.
Please keep in mind that we are at mid day slump in activity. Now is the time for those that play games to get their action in. After one oclock the true days activity will start. Just be patient for now.
You are use to seeing changes here in penny land tenths and hundredths of a penny at a time. That is becauseit is low pennies normally. As the price goes up so does the jmp in bids and ask. What once was a tenth may now be a penny or pennys at a time. As it grows in value the bids gap will also, eventually we will see dime variations .50 variations and eventually dollar variations.
Speaking of Buffett he just bought Duracell battery.
I'm sorry to say, I believe tyat we have once again found our new low. As with each rapid uptick we promply silde back dow 5 to 7 cents. Then start a slow gain again. I believe the new low will center around the .25 range. Seriously doubt those of you waiting for the teens are ever going to get your wish fufilled. Tinker Bell has done her magic dust thing, and now it is time to fly again. We've seen a couple of Capt. Hooks show up, but I think TICK TOCK will bite there backsides and send them on their way. Enjoy the ride.
That one's problem is they don't have JN. Course the rate they are going he might just up and buy them. Put them out of their misery.
sorry, haven't done that for awhile.
Thank you. I resemble that!
Reprint from our local CPA. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IT.
SCJCPA Tuesday, 11/11/14 12:08:40 AM
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My Breakdown of the 10Q – Updated slightly
Compared to the prior quarter the financials look good. Personally, I’ll continue to buy shares and won’t be selling any. SLTD beat out the prior quarter while maintaining a constant gross margin percentage which shows SLTD is closing more contracts than ever before.
I’m not too worried about the balance sheet. Accounts Payable and accrued expenses are ~800K higher than the cash on hand. However, once SLTD bills for the work already performed (the $1,551,854 from “Cost in excess of billing”) and collect on the $1,082,436 sitting in AR SLTD will be able to cover the ~$800K with no problems.
The liability account “Billings in excess of cost and estimated earnings” of $939,364 is the amount JFW has already paid that will be recorded as revenue next quarter plus anything else they still have to pay for. The reason why this is sitting in the liabilities and not revenues this quarter is because SLTD records revenues using the percentage of completion method and can only record revenue for the portion of the project that is completed at the end of the quarter. JFW is scheduled to be completed during November.
I saw someone asked what is the derivative liability. The derivative is nothing new for SLTD and was on their books last quarter. The derivative liability is basically a stock option with a cashless exercise feature. The cashless exercise feature means the holder of the derivative liability does not have to pay any cash first to exercise it like you would with an option. Derivative liabilities can be recorded as assets, liabilities, or even equity. Because of the way SLTDs’ are structured they are recorded as liabilities which requires them to be adjusted to fair value every quarter. To value them, certain inputs are put into the Black-Scholes model which then spits out a value. To adjust the prior quarter’s derivative to the current fair value, SLTD had to book a $12M loss on the statement of operations. This was a primarily a function of the stock price increasing which made the derivative more valuable to the holders.
When looking over the statement of operations I would look at the “income before other income/expenses” instead of net income. “Income before other income/expense” gives a better feel of SLTD’s operations and excludes the non-operating expenses like the non-cash loss on liability derivatives.
The statement of cash flows also shows that this quarter SLTD has added to the cash flow generated from operations. This is healthy and shows SLTD is actually generating cash flow from legitimate operations.
Sounds like he's trying to create panic or unrest. Most people do not like r/s . Why someone would think a profitable growing company would even consider one is beyond me.
CDEL mucking the stalls again.
All that is needed to protect any equipment earthside is a faraday cage.
Oh you mean " porkey pies" which fits nicely with lies?