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I wonder what the license fees are?? JMO, but I think the goal here for FASC is to get enough income coming in to cover salaries and bonuses. If the Japanese are doing all the work, building the machines with Japanese parts (for easy servicing), there can't be much income from each machine for FASC. But the Far East and Malaysia deals can provide a nice salary (maybe) and a few nice trips a year, anything from the WRAP deal will provide some bonus European visits also. Pretty smart move by management since they can't sell much at home, and who wants to travel around cold-ass Canada in the winter time!!!
Just found this board on IHUB!! Picked up a few shares prior to the promised news, then was disappointed the pps didn't move much. Is the CEO FOS??? Hope he follows through this time.
The_Free_Nebula, when you see posts by this guy on RB, it's getting time to sell, IMO....
By: TheCardinalR
07 Aug 2005, 06:00 PM EDT
Msg. 2446 of 3990
(This msg. is a reply to 2445 by shania.)
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Never forget that the "... OMG! An S-8 giveaway!" hobgoblin is one of the favourite BIG LIES of the bashers, so they're going to scream it as loudly and as often as they can in the hopes someone will believe it.
(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy)
TRCPA, are they big names like Haliburton and Honeywell??? I'm not too familiar with Japanese companies outside of auto and electronics.....
TRCPA, unfortunately, all these ventures (advenures?) add to overhead, did today's PR spell out any estimated market and FASC estimated share? How much for the new investor relations team?? Burn rate just went up, IMO.
KDS model JS-6??? Probably a regular KDS with warnings labels in Japanese....like, "Do not open lid while running", and "Disconnect power source while servicing"....
Dang!!! Looks like all the potential buyers already knew the news, market isn't responding today...
OT: sumaria, I had a Jeep Comanche pickup and put 275,000 miles on it. Engine never used oil or leaked, original starter (always started immediately), about 3 water pumps, 3 batteries, radiator repaired once, one real axle bearing replaced, clutch 3 times, no transmisson problems, original shocks. 5000 miles between oil changes, regular oil, but used the Teflon additive. Always had a "payload" on it (tools). Finally sold it because I was worried "something major" was due!!! LOL!
Gee whiz....looks like we had a little leaky-poo prior to the news!!! How do I get on the email list????
OT: Presention by a natural gas company, lots of good info on how they operate....not spamming the company, just thought they covered the basics pretty well...
Excellent presentation by NGAS, a "must listen" for those that want to understand natural gas companies, but don't know what to ask. Covers leases, drilling partnerships, reserves, pipelines, gas contracts, etc., etc., all in 20 minutes with slides. Well worth the time, IMO... May have to go to NGAS to register, but try this link first:
http://www.vcall.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=95076&CID=
Home page link, with presentation link on left side:
http://www.ngas.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.index
INSM....one of these days I'm gonna start trading this sucker short term!!! Up 29% premarket today....why????? (now up 4%??? after posting!!!)
OT: ) Getting ready for ski season:
The ski season is finally here. This list of exercises will help you get ready...
- Visit your local butcher and pay $30 to sit in the walk-in freezer for half an hour. Afterwards,
burn two $50 dollar bills to warm up.
- Soak your gloves and store them in the freezer after every use.
- Fasten a small, wide rubber band around the top half of your head before you go to bed each
night.
- If you wear glasses, begin wearing them with glue smeared on the lenses.
- Throw away a hundred dollar bill - RIGHT NOW!
- Find the nearest ice rink and walk across the ice 20 times in your ski boots carrying two pairs of
skis, accessory bag and poles. Pretend you are looking for your car. Sporadically
drop things.
- Place a small but angular pebble in your shoes, line them with crushed ice, and then tighten a
C-clamp around your toes.
- Buy a new pair of gloves and IMMEDIATELY THROW ONE AWAY!
- Secure one of your ankles to a bedpost and ask a friend to run into you at high speed.
- Go to McDonald's and insist on paying $8.50 for a hamburger. Be sure you are in the longest
line.
- Clip a lift ticket to the zipper of your jacket, get on a motorcycle and ride fast enough to make
the ticket lacerate your face.
- Drive slowly for five hours - anywhere - as long as it's in a snowstorm and you're following an
18-wheeler.
- Fill a blender with ice, hit the pulse button and let the spray blast your face. Leave the ice on
your face until it melts. Let it drip onto your clothes.
- Slam your thumb in a car door and don't bother to go see a doctor.
* Repeat all of the above every Saturday and Sunday until you're ready for the real thing!
Another customer: Interlink Global Announces Execution of Agreement to Acquire Ifestos Communications, a Leading Broadband Provider to Office Buildings in New York and Washington DC
Monday October 24, 4:03 pm ET
Interlink to Acquire an Additional $200,000 of Gross Revenues Per Month Through the Acquisition
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2005-- Interlink Global Corp., (OTC: ILKG - News), "Interlink" today announced that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire control of Ifestos Communications Inc, a New York based company providing wireless broadband and data services to corporate clients located in forty offices buildings in the New York and Washington DC. areas. Interlink will be acquiring 51% of the stock of Ifestos in a stock exchange for Interlink restricted stock valued at $250,000, and has agreed to provide up to $1 million of expansion capital for the company. The closing will be completed by the end of October. The agreement also provides an incentive for the management and shareholders of Ifestos to earn an additional 1 million Interlink shares if certain revenue and market penetration goals are met over the next two years.
Ifestos is a five-year-old company that provides wireless broadband and data services to corporate clients located in over 40 major office buildings located primarily in New York City and Washington DC. The company has agreements with an additional 60 office complexes to provide similar services to their corporate clients, which it will begin to service with the expansion capital committed by Interlink as part of the acquisition. Ifestos will also immediately introduce the VOIP services of Interlink to its various corporate customers. Current gross revenues of Ifestos average $200,000 per month, with a minimum of $160,000 per month being recurring contractual revenue from its customer base, with the remainder being engineering services for specifically designed data systems tailored to the individual needs of the clients. The management team of Ifestos, headed by Michael Panayiotis, will remain with the company after the acquisition. Interlink and Ifestos contemplate a rapid joint expansion of the revenue bases of both Ifestos and Interlink as a result of the offering of Interlink's VOIP services to the existing clients of Ifestos, as well as joint marketing efforts to offer the combined Ifestos and Interlink data and voice services to clients located in the other 60 office buildings that Ifestos has contracts with. There are plans to expand the combined product and service offerings of both companies to Interlink's base of domestic and international clients.
Anastasios Kyriakides, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Interlink stated: "We are pleased to add Ifestos, and its seasoned management team to the growing list of Interlink's synergistic family of companies. Ifestos and Interlink are a natural fit to provide joint voice and data services to our combined client bases. We expect substantial synergistic cost savings through this acquisition by combining the offices of Ifestos and Interlink Global Communications, our wholesale subsidiary, in New York and the combining of our marketing teams to offer both services to existing and potential clients. We are also pleased to be bringing into our management team a person of the quality of Michael Panayiostis, who has over 20 years of experience in the telecom and data services industry. His engineering and management talents will be utilized by Interlink, not only in the immediate expansion of Ifestos, but also on several international projects that we are building that require wireless broadband data services expertise. We are continuing our rapid expansion through both internal growth and strategic acquisitions that expand our foothold as one of the leading providers of wireless broadband and VOIP services to the domestic and international corporate marketplace."
ABOUT INTERLINK GLOBAL
Interlink Global (OTC: ILKG - News), founded in 2002, provides telecommunication solutions around the world. As a leader in hosted VoIP telephony services, Interlink Global is currently doing business in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Interlink Global provides SIP-based broadband telephony solutions, WiFi, WiMax, Marine Satellite Services, calling cards, and other enterprise services internationally. Interlink Global, using VoIP technology, provides long distance telephone services, with full features, at prices that are greatly reduced in comparison with traditional telephone companies. For more information about Interlink Global's products and services, please visit http://www.interlink-global.com/.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.
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Contact:
Interlink Global
Steve M. Gardner, 305-261-2007
www.Interlink-Global.com
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Source: Interlink Global
Excellent presentation by NGAS, a "must listen" for those that want to understand natural gas companies, but don't know what to ask. Covers leases, drilling partnerships, reserves, pipelines, gas contracts, etc., etc., all in 20 minutes with slides. Well worth the time, IMO... May have to go to NGAS to register, but try this link first:
http://www.vcall.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=95076&CID=
Home page link, with presentation link on left side:
http://www.ngas.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.index
Can only find permits for Bend Arch Petroleum and those are in 1984/1985. Maybe it takes a few years to get the online info up to date.....
Nothing for American Energy Production, Inc. or AMEP Strategic Investments, Inc.
Seeclear, is this link where one finds drilling permit info in Texas????
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/drillingpermits/howtouse.html
Or this link:
http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP/initializePublicQueryAction.do
BP Reports 3Q Profit Increase of 34 Pct.
Browne said that oil prices "are expected to be well supported into the winter."
Tuesday October 25, 5:46 am ET
By Jane Wardell, AP Business Writer
BP Reports Third-Quarter Profit Up 34 Percent Despite Hurricane Impact
LONDON (AP) -- Energy group BP PLC, one of the world's largest oil companies, reported a 34 percent rise in quarterly profit Tuesday as record energy prices more than outweighed hurricane damage to its rigs and refineries.
BP said net profit for the three months ended Sept. 30 rose to $6.53 billion, up from $4.87 billion in the third quarter of 2004. Revenue jumped to $97.73 billion from $66.73 billion.
"The recent hurricanes in the U.S. have impacted our results. However, underlying performance is strong, amplified by high but volatile prices of oil, gas and products," said Chief Executive Lord Browne.
Production was down 2 percent compared to the third quarter last year, primarily because of the impact of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said.
"We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year," Lord Browne said.
BP is the first major oil company to report its quarterly results taking in the hurricanes, ahead of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Exxon Mobil Corp. later this week.
Oil prices peaked at $70.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Aug. 30 after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, temporarily shutting down at least 80 percent of its crude oil and natural gas production and crippling many refineries. Hurricane Rita followed four weeks later, delaying a return to normal production.
Browne said that oil prices "are expected to be well supported into the winter."
The company said its replacement cost profit for the quarter, considered a key indicator by analysts, rose 16 percent to $4.41 billion from $3.79 billion. The measure excludes exceptional items and gain in the value of inventory holdings, providing the amount it would cost to replace assets at current prices.
The third-quarter result included a net non-operating charge of $921 million, largely due to the loss of fair value on Innovene, the company's petrochemicals unit that it is selling for $9 billion to British chemical company Ineos PLC. That compared with a charge of $394 million in the third quarter of 2004.
BP said "the proposed sale was sufficiently well advanced at the end of September for the Innovene operations to be classified as a 'disposal group' as of Sept. 30."
Shares in BP were down 1.5 percent at 607.5 pence ($10.79) in trading on London's Stock Exchange.
I'm hoping we'll get some solid news before Thanksgiving, November 24, maybe much sooner. That way my wife and I can have a real turkey bird this year instead of turkey hot dogs.....
curious_joy, sometimes people with lots of money make stupid investments too. Just think, they could have put their money in oil stocks, made a bunch of money and bought some ALMI for the same pps without tying up bucks in a high risk OTC stock.
tenzzi, I think your daughter should pick your stocks!!!
Hey! This guy says the rig has been working all month!!! That's great news!!! I wonder if they will PR it??? These boards are great for getting the true info!!!
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AMEP&read=44064
TRCPA, you should have paid attention to Wyo, he SOLD at the ASK.... The 1500 shares at 0.039.....why that's MM-speak for party's over!!! LOL!!!
Almost a million shares and no PPS move.....OK class, what does that tell us?????
Oil down, but sector up....institutions taking advantage of the dip, IMO....O&G good for long term....
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/120.html
What's really funny about the OTC stocks, when they're down or going down, it's naked shorters and MM manipulation. When they go up for no apparent reason, it's huge news coming...no way it could be a bunch of shares on the selling block with limit orders and MM's manipulating the pps up to attract buyers for the dumpers. JMO, and I could be wrong.......but MM's do make money filling trades with volume.
And GLW is expanding their diesel filter plant....
http://www.corning.com/environmentaltechnologies/media-center/press-releases/2005072002.aspx
Interesting list of reasonably priced ETF's:
More info and prices: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/051021/098823.html
PowerShares Capital Management Prepares for October 26th Launch of Eight New Industry ETFs
Friday October 21, 4:37 pm ET
CHICAGO, IL--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 21, 2005 -- PowerShares Capital Management LLC, an asset management firm specializing in the development and management of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is set to launch eight new industry ETFs next Wednesday, October 26, 2005. Each of the funds provides investors with exposure to unique groups of industry stocks. Below are the new PowerShares and ticker symbols.
-- PXN -- PowerShares Lux Nanotech Portfolio
-- PPA -- PowerShares Aerospace and Defense Portfolio
-- PKB -- PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction Portfolio
-- PXE -- PowerShares Dynamic Energy Exploration & Production Portfolio
-- PUI -- PowerShares Dynamic Utilities Portfolio
-- PMR -- PowerShares Dynamic Retail Portfolio
-- PXJ -- PowerShares Dynamic Oil & Gas Services Portfolio
-- PIC -- PowerShares Dynamic Insurance Portfolio
"The launch of these 8 new ETFs brings the PowerShares family of industry portfolios to 17, the most diverse ETF industry offering in the U.S.," said Bruce Bond, President of PowerShares Capital Management. "We are delighted to introduce these new PowerShares which we believe represent intelligent and precise exposure to select industry groups in which investors wish to be invested."
Several of the PowerShares industry group portfolios are based on the Dynamic Intellidex(SM) indexes which, unlike traditional benchmark based ETFs, incorporate advanced quantitative methodologies to discriminate between good and poor investments and select the stocks within an industry group identified as having the greatest capital appreciation potential. In contrast, traditional ETFs track benchmark indexes that select stocks primarily for representation, regardless of their investment merit. The existing PowerShares Industry ETFs are listed below:
-- (AMEX:PBW - News) PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy
-- (AMEX:PBE - News) PowerShares Dynamic Biotechnology & Genome Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PBJ - News) PowerShares Dynamic Food & Beverage Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PEJ - News) PowerShares Dynamic Leisure & Entertainment Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PBS - News) PowerShares Dynamic Media Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PXQ - News) PowerShares Dynamic Networking Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PJP - News) PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PSI - News) PowerShares Dynamic Semiconductors Portfolio
-- (AMEX:PSJ - News) PowerShares Dynamic Software Portfolio
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PowerShares funds are made up of publicly traded securities that can and will move higher and lower with market movements. You should anticipate that the value of the shares of each fund will advance or decline more or less in correlation with the advance or decline in value of the applicable index. The funds are not actively managed and shares of the funds may trade at or below the funds' NAV. Exchange traded funds are subject to risks similar to those of stocks, including risks associated with short-selling and margin account maintenance.
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Streycat, you are right, if the rig does the job, who cares when it was made. My "negative" posts about the rig were just an attempt to balance those posts that have this rig walking on water!! LOL!
I'm sure the facts may be somewhere in between. AMEP's past history of dilution and giving out insider info to a few posters via phone calls, and now operating as a BDC should be enough red flags to the reasonably experienced investors to proceed with extreme caution.
nlightn, two excellent posts, thanks for posting the articles....
greeneyedhawk, I'm not sure what cars have to do with drilling rigs, but if they are making newer rigs out of plastic and the present day diesel engines are crap, I think it's great that AMEP was able to find a 70's rig. BTW, our first (and last) Jag is a 2000 S-Type, I thought Ford would do better engineering.....biggest piece of crap I have ever owned and I have owned a lot of cars in my lifetime.....
Just replaced a third thermostat after 72,000 miles and it's a "dealer item" at $66.....barf!!! LOL!!! And it looks like any other off the shelf thermostat, only not as good!!!! Got more complaints on the Jag, but I have to watch my blood pressure!!!
futrcash, so the rig was built in the 70's, and in it's TOTAL history drilled only 10 water wells??? And I've got a 55 Chevy that my grandma bought new and drove to church 10 times, 1 mile round trip!! Sorry, even Bitters can't buy it!! LOL!!!
I'm surprised the rig needed any more work other than painting!!!!
Trying to get cheap shares??? You mean 7 cents isn't cheap in the "Big Picture"?????
Directional drilling...not cheap, and highly specialzed, maybe that's why the big boys hire drilling companies....
Schlumberger DD Direct-land MWD and directional drilling services
Schlumberger, recognized as the industry leader in drilling and measurement technology, has developed the DD Direct system specifically to lower land directional drilling costs.
From performance drilling in vertical wells to difficult 3D trajectories, Schlumberger has the technical expertise and fit-for-purpose tools to lower drilling costs. The system includes software, hardware and the services of certified wellsite engineers. Schlumberger DD Direct for land directional drilling provides a standard services package and a variety of optional services to meet land drilling challenges.
Standard services
PowerPak steerable motors provide rotary drilling in vertical, tangential or horizontal sections of the hole and oriented drilling for kickoffs or course corrections. PowerPak motors can service hole sizes ranging from 3 3/8 to 26 in. and come in a variety of models, including Standard Power, Enhanced Power, Greater Torque, High-Flow, High Speed, Air Drilling and Short Radius.
SlimPulse latest-generation slim MWD tool is fully retrievable and replaceable. It provides real-time directional data for processing at the surface. SlimPulse features high tolerance for lost circulation materials, weighs less than 1050 lbm and can be broken down into 10-ft sections for easy transportation. The standard measurements are direction and inclination. Optional measurements include gamma ray and shock.
The Integrated Acquisition System is a complete package of innovative software and hardware that includes a new surface hardware system, dubbed the Compact Wellsite System, and a touch screen rig-floor display that permits the directional driller to run the job from the rig floor. The smaller operating footprint increases operating flexibility, making it ideal for land-based drilling.
Certified wellsite engineers attend a rigorous training program in directional drilling and MWD technologies. Cross-training delivers extremely knowledgeable wellsite personnel, providing a single point of contact on directional drilling and MWD issues for the client. The program ensures that Schlumberger wellsite personnel deliver the highest level of service quality in the industry.
Optional services
InterACT wellsite monitoring and control system delivers real-time drilling data anywhere, anytime via the Internet. It allows secure, real-time two-way communication that makes oilfield data and information available at all stages of the exploration, development and production cycle.
Continuous Survey Service real-time dogleg measurement provides the directional driller with azimuth and drift measurements while drilling ahead in either sliding or rotating mode. Accurate directional measurements from the MWD tool are used to calculate a true dogleg measurement, ensuring smoother wellbores.
AIM At-Bit Inclination Measurement tool supplies borehole inclination measurements at ±1 ft behind the bit. It provides continuous inclination while drilling, early confirmation of successful sidetracking, and reduced undulation for easier casing and completion running. The results are maximum pay zone footage, improved production per foot drilled and minimum production costs.
E-Pulse electromagnetic telemetry tool provides direction and inclination in high-shock underbalanced drilling environments. The tool provides direction, inclination, toolface, gamma ray and downhole pressure measurements.
APWD Annular Pressure While Drilling services provide real-time information about dynamic pressure conditions downhole. This information is used to optimize performance and minimize risk by identifying hole cleaning, borehole stability and well control issues, which are easily corrected with surface parameter adjustments. APWD services are ideal for rate of penetration optimization or underbalanced drilling applications.
PowerDrilling precision drilling services feature the selective integration of Schlumberger bits and downhole drilling systems. Schlumberger offers incentive-based contracts for specific hole sections or wells.
Do you still drive a 70's car????
OT: Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 October 2005
03:21 pm ET
The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork.
An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete.
LEDs are already used in traffic lights, flashlights, and architectural lighting. They are flexible and operate less expensively than traditional lighting.
Happy accident
Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That's less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair.
Quantum dots contain anywhere from 100 to 1,000 electrons. They're easily excited bundles of energy, and the smaller they are, the more excited they get. Each dot in Bower's particular batch was exceptionally small, containing only 33 or 34 pairs of atoms.
When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own light, normally a bright, vibrant color. But when Bowers shined a laser on his batch of dots, something unexpected happened.
"I was surprised when a white glow covered the table," Bowers said. "The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow."
Then Bowers and another student got the idea to stir the dots into polyurethane and coat a blue LED light bulb with the mix. The lumpy bulb wasn't pretty, but it produced white light similar to a regular light bulb.
White light from Bowers' lumpy new bulb.
Credit: Vanderbilt University
The new device gives off a warm, yellowish-white light that shines twice as bright and lasts 50 times longer than the standard 60 watt light bulb.
This work is published online in the Oct. 18 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Better than bulbs
Until the last decade, LEDs could only produce green, red, and yellow light, which limited their use. Then came blue LEDs, which have since been altered to emit white light with a light-blue hue.
LEDs produce twice as much light as a regular 60 watt bulb and burn for over 50,000 hours. The Department of Energy estimates LED lighting could reduce U.S. energy consumption for lighting by 29 percent by 2025. LEDs don't emit heat, so they're also more energy efficient. And they're much harder to break.
Other scientists have said they expect LEDs to eventually replace standard incandescent bulbs as well as fluorescent and sodium vapor lights.
If the new process can be developed into commercial production, light won't come just from newfangled bulbs. Quantum dot mixtures could be painted on just about anything and electrically excited to produce a rainbow of colors, including white.
One big question remains: When a brilliant idea pops into your mind in the future, what will appear over your head?
More neat stuff: http://www.livescience.com/technology/051021_nano_light.html
and: http://www.livescience.com/technology/051020_nanocar.html
Room Lights May Boost Health
New Room Lighting: Bringing a Little Sunshine into Our Lives
Advanced Optics ... on Butterfly Wings
Scientists Mess with the Speed of Light
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Mongo, they don't care. It's all about flipping this stock and any negative facts are not welcome on this board. Every OTC stock I have ever followed in this price range has the same posting history. A few newbies to the game may think they found a pot of gold, but the traders are the only players making money flipping this stock....as time goes on, only the bagholders are left and a few of the flippers waiting for the next pump and dump.
Here's an idea...if there is no news next week as in past mini-volume/pps spikes and the pps starts to backpedal, some DD on past volume/pps moves may help figure future price moves.
beigledog, I'm pretty sure it's the companies that gag the transfer agents.....big red flag, IMO. FASC is the only OTC stock that I know of that doesn't gag their transfer agent, not that that's a buy rec for it. I'm sure others don't, but I'm just not aware of them. ADOT and AMEP are historically big diluters that have their agents gagged, ADOT dumped nearly a billion shares after a BS PR about a "buy-back" which turned out to be a buy-back of a few management-owned shares. AMEP will probably show a big increase in OS in the next filing using the recent rig hype. BIPH's agent told me I had to get permission from the company to get the OS info....I didn't bother trying, but BIPH doesn't seem to be dumping much if you check their filings.
markrhead, thanks for the info....
Gold rallies; closes with minor weekly loss
Prices up for first time in four days; copper futures steady
"Perceived negatives have no lasting affects and are eventually overcome to the upside -- leaving bears wondering what will it take to keep gold down," he said.
By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:17 PM ET Oct. 21, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures climbed almost $6 an ounce Friday, but still ended the week with a minor loss on the heels of a three-session losing streak that yielded a decline of more than $13 an ounce.
NEWS FOR $GOX
Gold futures rise $6, still log a small weekly loss
Gold ends at 5-week low, tallies 3-day loss of over $13
Gold futures end at 5-week low as oil prices drop
"In true secular bull market fashion, gold has once again gone through a sharp and short correction in its 'two steps up, one step back' climb to $500," said Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter.
"Perceived negatives have no lasting affects and are eventually overcome to the upside -- leaving bears wondering what will it take to keep gold down," he said.
Indeed, gold prices climbed Friday despite strength in the dollar, which usually eases investment interest in the yellow metal. See Currencies.
Gold for December delivery closed at $469.10 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up $5.90, or 1.3%, for the session. But the contract lost $13.40 over the past three sessions so it closed 0.6%, or $2.70, below the week-ago close of $471.80.
Sudden move
Earlier Friday, gold prices had only been making modest gains. It logged the bulk of its climb for the session in the last hour of trading.
"This looks 100% technical in nature," said Tim Evans, a senior analyst at IFR Markets. "It just looks like [gold] found technical support at Thursday's $462 low ahead of the 461.20 low from September 27 and now we're seeing an upward reversal off that support."
From here, the market will likely "chop sideways now in the same range as the last half of September, then break through the $461.20 level and keep on going," he said. "The market is still top heavy with quite a bit of speculative length."
Overall, however, the "general sentiment is that the market sold off to far too fast and that too many uncertainties [are] looming right now," said commodities trader Kevin Kerr. Kerr also edits the Global Resources Trader investment letter, a service of MarketWatch, the publisher of this report.
"Gold is a lion and it's roaring higher -- these dips have to be seen as buying opportunities," he said.
'Underlying strength'
Richard Au, a managing partner at Brick Capital Partners believes the "underlying strength of gold over the last 12-24 months ... has been a consistent factor of strong underlying physical offtake."
The week has "been marked by a very powerful downdraft in mining shares and the metal, and resource shares in general; accordingly there may be some 'position squaring' in the entire resource sector after this sharp pullback," he said.
Gold had been under pressure this week because "oil prices are backing down relieving inflationary pressures and ... the prospects that the fed will continue to raise interest rates which are aimed at cooling inflationary pressure will also temper consumer spending," said John Person, president of National Futures Advisory Service.
"Overall gold needs to hold the $460 level of support otherwise it could trade back down as low as $445 in the next 30 days," he said.
Copper up, silver down for the week
Elsewhere in the metals market Friday, December copper closed unchanged at $1.793 a pound.
Futures prices for the industrial metal managed to briefly tap a fresh record of $1.858 a pound on Thursday. They finished a few cents above last week's close of $1.7565.
Rounding out the Nymex action, December silver closed higher, up 4 cents at $7.695 an ounce -- down about 2% from last Friday's close of $7.862.
December palladium finished unchanged at $212.05 an ounce, but it's still above last week's close above $210. Sister metal October platinum closed up $7.70 at $932.80 an ounce, above last week's close of $927.30.
Inventories of copper, silver and gold as of late Thursday were unchanged from Wednesday, according to Nymex. Copper inventories stood at 3,690 short tons, silver was at 117.4 troy ounces and gold amounted 6.35 million troy ounces.
Indexes follow gold
Meanwhile, indexes tracking equities in the metals-mining sector continued to mirror moves in gold prices. With gold ending lower for the week, the indexes also finished as much as 3.4% lower from last week.
The CBOE Gold Index ($GOX:
CBOE Gold Index
News, chart, profile
Last: 94.46+2.85+3.11%
FinancialsMore $GOX$GOX94.46, +2.85, +3.1%) closed up by 3.1% at 94.46 points. It lost 2.5% for the week.
The Philadelphia Gold/Silver Index ($XAU:
phlx gold silver index capital-weight
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Last: 104.93+2.94+2.88%
FinancialsMore $XAU$XAU104.93, +2.94, +2.9%) finished at 104.93, up 2.9% for the day, but down 1.9% for the week. The Amex Gold Bugs Index (HUI: amex gold bugs index equal-$ weight
News, chart, profile
Last: 221.90+5.89+2.73%
Among the winners Friday, shares of Goldcorp (GG:
goldcorp inc new com
News, chart, profile
Last: 18.53+0.92+5.22%
Myra P. Saefong is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.