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That show was too shallow of a news report and did not really bring out the truth. It was like general news reporting when they only tell half the story to waste our time.
Well with TWR there will be billion dollar contracts. I wonder how long it would take this marketing expert to secure a billion dollar contract? any ideas or past experiences to base our information on?
TWR is going to be a monster and to raise $500,000 now with this guy behind NSOL will be easy. I sold my HWPR before this last run, but I bought more NSOL with it so I am happy.
I have most of my money riding on NSOL. In the next few months I will try to flip and add shares through the technicals. Once NSOL has another 5-10 times run. Good luck to all!
Bid ask tightening. 0.86/0.87
I cannot wait to see the Nuclear Detection Prototype news and the TWR. TWR is worth more than the Nuclear Detection.
Bid ask is 0.80/0.82 930K+
This is good money worth spent to hire this individual. Cannot wait to see what he brings to the table for NSOL over the next month.
Knows if you read the quarterly reports and PR you would know. the patents were filed in June 2003 and take about 18 months in general to be issued.
I still think things will take off for NSOL near December. December is when the TWR patents should be granted to NSOL.
As far as the nuclear detection prototype it has been 4 months since they announced it was pending. I assume this is a scaled up prototype because in order to recieve a patent you need to have a working "proof of principle" at the laboratory scale.
I think we need to fight like in war world II. No rules and we do not take .... from anybody. Since our country is divided its not united. We keep fighting with one hand tied behind our back. Just go in there and kill all terrorist, do covert operations, etc...anything to get it done.
Blasts Hit 3 London Subway Stations, Bus By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago
LONDON - Explosions struck three London Underground stations and a bus at midday Thursday in a chilling but less deadly replay of the suicide bombings that killed 56 people two weeks ago.
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Only one person was reported wounded, but the lunch-hour explosions caused major shock and disruption in the capital and were hauntingly similar to the July 7 bombings by four attackers.
The London police commissioner confirmed Thursday that four explosions took place in what he described as "a very serious incident."
"We've had four explosions — four attempts at explosions," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said outside police headquarters at Scotland Yard.
"At the moment the casualty numbers appear to be very low ... the bombs appear to be smaller" than those detonated July 7.
Police also said an armed police unit had entered University College hospital. Press Association, the British news agency, said they arrived shortly after an injured person was carried in.
Sky News TV reported that police were searching for a man with a blue shirt with wires protruding. In a memo to hospital staff, officers asked employees to look for a black or Asian male, 6 feet 2 inches tall, wearing a blue top with a hole in the back and wires protruding.
The explosions did not shut down the subway system, although three lines remained closed more than two hours later. Blair appealed to Londoners to stay where they are until they hear more from police.
"What we don't want is lots of people going to railway stations," he said.
One witness told The Associated Press he smelled something similar to an electrical fire.
Police in chemical protection suits were seen preparing to enter the Warren Street Underground station. Sky News reported that police said no chemical agents were involved in the explosions.
Explosions also were reported at the Shepherd's Bush and Oval stations.
Emergency teams were sent to all three stations after the incidents, which began at 12:38 p.m. One witness told Sky TV that another subway passenger told him a backpack exploded at Warren Street and there were reports of smoke.
Stagecoach, the company which operates the stricken bus, said the driver heard a bang and went upstairs, where he found the windows blown out. The company said the bus was structurally intact and there were no reports of injuries.
Closed-circuit TV cameras on Hackney Road showed the No. 26 bus immobilized at a stop with its indicator lights flashing. The area around the bus had been cordoned off.
Prime Minister Tony Blair canceled his afternoon appointments as the developments unfolded.
The incidents paralleled the blasts two weeks ago, which involved explosions at three Underground stations simultaneously — quickly followed by a blast on a bus. Those bombings, during the morning rush hour, also occurred in the center of London, hitting the Underground railway from various directions.
Thursday's incidents, however, were more geographically spread out.
London Ambulance said it was called to the Oval station at 12:38 p.m. and Warren Street at 12:45 p.m. The July 7 attacks began at 8:51 a.m.
"People were panicking. But very fortunately the train was only 15 seconds from the station," witness Ivan McCracken told Sky news.
McCracken said another passenger at Warren Street claimed he had seen a backpack explode. The bombs which killed 56 people on board three underground trains and a bus in London on July 7 were carried in backpacks, police said.
McCracken said he smelled smoke and that people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.
"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.
"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."
Services on the Victoria and Northern lines were suspended following reports of a number of incidents, London Underground said.
"I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning," said Losiane Mohellavi, 35, who was evacuated at Warren Street.
"Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking," Mohellavi said.
He told the AP he did not see smoke but rather smelled something similar to an electrical fire.
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Associated Press reporters Thin Lei Win and Kate Bouey in London contributed to this report.
Typical, NSOL is now 0.74. Back in this lame trading of 0.6 to 0.85 range. I expect this will continue until the charts reverse which could be a couple of months. It could be less, but considering what happened since January.
There are too many questions that have not been answered. What about the purpose of the Rome Office, prototype for their detection equipment, CFO? Management should answer these basic questions.
I found this artcle interesting about a shorter writer tearing apart LENF.ob and its management. The interesting things is LENF has done the reverse of what NSOL has done. NSOL has proven managment, strong financials prepared by the best accountants, kept share count in check, does not pay hype websites, does not put out massive PRs to pump the share price, etc...THis will make NSOL stronger when it does run. Check it out. If NSOL moved straight to the big boards the amature writers would not beable to tear NSOL apart. Or would they?
Shocker for Your Short List
A move to the American Stock Exchange may finally put one of Taser's pretenders into short territory.
By Seth Jayson (TMF Bent)
July 15, 2005
How I've dreamed of this day, you'll never know.
Since I started paying attention to the dozens of penny-stock companies hoping to cash in on our national insecurity, a couple in particular have seemed like spectacular investment ideas -- if only they could be shorted.
I'm talking about the two companies that put their names on the map by saying "Hey, look over here! No, down here in penny-stock land! See me? I'm the next Taser International (Nasdaq: TASR), only better!"
I've written plenty about these pretenders to the throne. The short history of Stinger Systems (Pink Sheets: STIY) is mostly full of unfulfilled promises. Alas, it's unshortable because it still trades on the pinkies. But Law Enforcement Associates (AMEX: AID) just moved up from the billboard, so it may soon be ripe for the shorting.
Bad behavior
If you need to know what kind of company LEA is, I can think of no better indicator than this: It pays one of those penny-stock-shilling websites $4,000 a month to pump out the usual press-release hype. Yes, according to this site, it's still at it. By the way, it has issued official (but easily debunkable) whoppers to shareholders about this unseemly behavior, as I pointed out several months ago.
In a more recent release, President/CEO Paul Feldman -- the filings are vague on his official title -- actually complains about the lack of upward movement in the share price. That's exactly the kind of misdirected energy I like to see from the management of a firm I'm planning to bet against. Moreover, if this is such a screaming bargain, why doesn't Feldman buy shares? I don't see any of that action in LEA's SEC filings, even at its recent price of $2 a stub. What does that tell you?
As for the folks on the other side of this trade, I wouldn't worry too much. The enthusiastic folks who email me about the stock are generally the chuckleheaded type who call naysayers "loosers" before regaling us with their naive dreams: that the LEA stun gun is "safer," or that General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), General Electric (NYSE: GE), or Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) must be champing at the bit to acquire LEA's precious know-how.
Uh-huh. Sure.
If you need more reason to consider poking this puppy with the short stick, you'll want to reread Chris Byron's Jan. 17 article at the New York Post (though you'll have to pay to obtain it from the archives). It centers on the complex mishmash of penny-stock firms (Nevada minerals -- of course -- plus boat movers and Armenian Internet and/or cancer-research companies) through which the current LEA was created.
It also mentions John Carrington, the former North Carolina state senator who still controls the majority of the company's shares, according to the last annual report. You may find it interesting that he and Feldman both dumped hefty piles of shares back in January, when the stun-gun hype (but no actual stun-gun financial successes) had driven LEA's share price up to $11 a pop. Shortly thereafter, Carrington resigned from LEA's board for the usual "personal" reasons. Not surprisingly, LEA responded to Byron's article by crying foul and suggesting that it shouldn't be tarred with this history.
You may think otherwise. I sure do. Since Carrington and Feldman sold in January, the stock has drifted down toward $2 before popping back up to $4 and change. Now Feldman issues press releases calling it "undervalued"? By what measure? At 13 times sales, I'd say it's still trading for a lot more than it's worth.
A peek under the hood
For the record, LEA actually peddles more surveillance equipment than anything else, and is especially excited about its under-vehicle video-inspection unit. This might seem like a great opportunity, but remember that a mirror on a stick (pretty cheap) is the standard competition. And if you do just a bit of digging, you'll see that as sales have risen over the past couple of years, operating and net margins have actually gone down, while the share count has ballooned. In the last reported quarter, the company turned a big sales increase into a cash burn from operations of $440,000. And let's be honest -- this thing doesn't jump because of car-peeping systems. It jumps because speculators hear something about the next stun gun, confuse LEA with the Taser of two years back, and get blinded by imaginary dollar signs.
Could the firm turn things around? Hey, anything's possible, but a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory suggests to me that it's not likely. If you factor in the blatant stun-gun hype and a chief executive who shed shares at the highs but now promotes them via PR at the lows, I think I know which way the wind blows here.
This could be my dream short, at least if we can get a bit of a "new exchange" pop to push the share price into a range where our brokerages will let us bet against it. For now, I actually hope the shares rise -- it'll just make LEA a fatter hog for the slaughter.
A short list of related Foolishness:
LEA can't get its story straight.
Need a better way to get zapped?
Another would-be competitor that won't be stinging Taser any time soon.
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05071507.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=....
September 10, 2004
Gravity Field Measurements Can Track Climate Change, Scientists Say
U.S.-German team uses gravity to estimate global water, ice mass distribution
An international team of scientists has shown that precise measurements of Earth's changing gravity field can effectively monitor changes in the planet's climate and weather, says a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) press release.
The finding comes from more than a year's worth of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or Grace, a two-spacecraft, joint partnership of NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
Results published in the journal Science show that the researchers could estimate monthly changes in the distribution of water and ice masses by measuring changes in Earth's gravity field. The Grace data measured the weight of up to 10 centimeters of groundwater accumulations from heavy tropical rains, particularly in the Amazon basin and Southeast Asia. Smaller signals caused by changes in ocean circulation were also visible.
"The Grace gravity measurements will be combined with water models to sketch an exceptionally accurate picture of water distribution around the globe. Together with other NASA spacecraft, Grace will help scientists better understand the global water cycle and its changes," said Michael Watkins, Grace project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Launched in March 2002, Grace tracks changes in Earth's gravity field. Grace senses minute variations in gravitational pull from local changes in Earth's mass. Grace maps these variations from month to month, following changes imposed by the seasons, weather patterns and short-term climate change.
Understanding how Earth's mass varies over time is important for studying changes in global sea level, polar ice mass, deep ocean currents, and depletion and recharge of continental aquifers.
Grace monthly maps are up to 100 times more accurate than existing maps, substantially improving the accuracy of many techniques that oceanographers, hydrologists, glaciologists, geologists and other scientists use to study climate-influencing phenomena.
Information about Grace is available at http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace or http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/grace
Text of the NASA press release follows:
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Press release, September 9, 2004
NASA'S Grace Gravity Mission Weighs in on Earth's Changing Climate
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that precise measurements of Earth's changing gravity field can effectively monitor changes in the planet's climate and weather.
This finding comes from more than a year's worth of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or Grace. Grace is a two-spacecraft, joint partnership of NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
Results published in the journal Science show that monthly changes in the distribution of water and ice masses could be estimated by measuring changes in Earth's gravity field. The Grace data measured the weight of up to 10 centimeters (four inches) of groundwater accumulations from heavy tropical rains, particularly in the Amazon basin and Southeast Asia. Smaller signals caused by changes in ocean circulation were also visible.
Launched in March 2002, Grace tracks changes in Earth's gravity field. Grace senses minute variations in gravitational pull from local changes in Earth's mass. To do this, Grace measures, to one-hundredth the width of a human hair, changes in the separation of two identical spacecraft in the same orbit approximately 220 kilometers (137 miles) apart.
Grace maps these variations from month to month, following changes imposed by the seasons, weather patterns and short-term climate change. Understanding how Earth's mass varies over time is an important component necessary to study changes in global sea level, polar ice mass, deep ocean currents, and depletion and recharge of continental aquifers.
Grace monthly maps are up to 100 times more accurate than existing ones, substantially improving the accuracy of many techniques used by oceanographers, hydrologists, glaciologists, geologists and other scientists to study phenomena that influence climate.
"Measurements of surface water in large, inaccessible river basins have been difficult to acquire, while underground aquifers and deep ocean currents have been nearly impossible to measure," said Dr. Byron Tapley, Grace principal investigator at the University of Texas Center for Space Research in Austin, Texas. "Grace gives us a powerful new tool to track how water moves from one place to another, influencing climate and weather. These initial results give us great confidence Grace will make critical contributions to climate research in the coming years," he added.
"The unparalleled accuracy of the Grace measurements opens a number of new scientific perspectives," said Dr. Christoph Reigber of GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam in Germany. "Observations of mass variations over the oceans will assist in interpreting annual signals in long-term sea-level change that have become an important climate change indicator," Reigber said.
Dr. Michael Watkins, Grace project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., said the results mark the birth of a new field of remote sensing. "Over the past 20 years, we've made primitive measurements of changes in Earth's gravity field over scales of thousands of kilometers, but this is the first time we've been able to demonstrate gravity measurements can be truly useful for climate monitoring," he said.
"The Grace gravity measurements will be combined with water models to sketch an exceptionally accurate picture of water distribution around the globe. Together with other NASA spacecraft, Grace will help scientists better understand the global water cycle and its changes," Watkins added.
The University of Texas Center for Space Research has overall mission responsibility. German mission elements are the responsibility of GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam. Science data processing, distribution, archiving and product verification are managed under a cooperative arrangement between JPL, the University of Texas and GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam.
For more information about Grace on the Internet, visit http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace or http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/grace
For information about NASA programs on the Internet, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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When the housing market begins to cool off where will the money flow? Does anybody think it will go back into the stock market?
Housing is hot, but types of loans seen cooling By Julie Haviv
Thu Jul 14, 3:57 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. housing market is persistently hot thanks to low interest rates and seemingly unstoppable demand, but the loan industry that has been fanning the flames is seen to be cooling off.
That's what housing market analysts and economists are saying about mortgage lenders, predicting that progression in their loan product innovation has entered its final stage.
"While I don't think they are at the point of giving out free toasters to get customers, loan creativity appears to be at a maximum level," said Douglas Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, an industry trade group.
A few years ago most borrowers chose plain-vanilla fixed-rate mortgages that matured in 15 or 30 years.
But incessant home price appreciation has driven an increasing number into more affordable options like adjustable rate mortgages, or ARMs, which offer lower initial payments.
The share of outstanding mortgages that are ARMs has grown to 1 in 3 from 1 in 10 in 2001, research by Bear Stearns said.
"Lenders have introduced a much broader line of loan products over the past few years to compete for a shrinking pool of business," the MBA's Duncan said.
Loan refinancing has dropped significantly. The MBA's closely watched refinancing index has plunged to 2,554.3 from a record peak of 9,977 in May 2003.
"There is virtually no obstacle to get approved for a loan right now, but we are also dealing with an industry that is going to shrink in volume over the next few years, so lenders are fighting aggressively for customers," said Anthony Hsieh, president of LendingTree.com, an online facilitator which matches consumers with lenders competing for their business.
In his three-year economic forecast released this week, the MBA's Duncan said he expects U.S. existing home sales to increase 2 percent to a new record in 2005, but pull back by about 3 percent in 2006 and decline another 2 percent in 2007.
New homes sales will also rise by nearly 2 percent to a record high in 2005, and slip by 4 percent in 2006 and about another 3 percent in 2007, he said.
"Product innovation may have run its course," said Hsieh of LendingTree.com, which works with some of the largest U.S. mortgage originators, such as Citibank, Wachovia and Bank of America.
Bear Stearns says analysis of "serial" refinancers shows the evolution of loan products. Borrowers typically start with 30-year amortizing loans then move into amortizing ARM hybrids, which are loans that carry an initial fixed rate for a set time period of time but that move to a floating rate at maturity.
After the hybrid ARM loan, consumers tend to refinance into interest-only products, followed by an option ARM product.
With an option ARM a borrower can choose payment options, including paying no principal and less than the interest due each month. A "negative amortization" loan can end up growing in size during its term.
"No other product can compete with the low monthly payment of an option ARM," Bear Stearns said.
Even interest-only loan products fall short of option ARMs, the firm said. For example, with the assumption of a standard 1.5 percent teaser rate offered on most option ARMs the break-even interest-only rate would be 4.14 percent, well below any hybrid or fixed mortgage rate currently offered.
Bear Stearns' conclusion: it is the end of the road in the mortgage affordability cycle.
But not everyone believes the end is near for mortgage lenders. Some say as long as profits stay plump, lenders will develop new loan types.
"They have been creative and they will continue to be creative as long as mortgage delinquency rates remain low," said Celia Chen, director of housing economics at Economy.com, a consulting firm.
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I like surprises, time will tell. It has to be this year! If it does not happen in 2005 I would be surprised.
Tom- DO you think July will be the month? You think it will be TWR or Micro Nuclear Batteries or Nuclear Detection Equipment first?
Tom - Have you heard anything will be out this week? What does Hammer have to say about the TWR Patents?
Tom-I do not fear any terrorist. Even if we had daily attacks in the US, I would still get up in the morning and try to contribute to society. If something that significant happened I would sign up and serve my country to help take the terrorist out. I have no respect for people who are terrorist because they have no regard for life. They are people who do not contribute to society and are crazy making up false beliefs or ideas to justify taking innocent lives.
I do not know how accurate all of those news releases are because if a terrorist did have a nuclear bomb you would have thought that they would have used it by now. It could be hype for the terrorist organizations just like during the beginning of the IRAQ war when the IRAQI leaders were making up stuff just to sound good and get news media attention.
I wonder if the things KnowsNSOL posted come to fruition, will people in the city become fearful of living in the cities and start a migration to more rual environments to live?
That would be an interesting real estate market change and it could happen if terrorist frequently attacked places, but at the rate they are attacking the US it appears unlikely. Once every 5 to 25 years is not really going to do anything longterm unless they use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
I wonder if there were nuclear attacks in major cities what would happen? Will this country collapse? If people panic and try to sell eveything fast, real estate would be not as liquid as stocks.
What happened in London can easily happen in the US because nobody is doing anything significant to secure our borders, ground transporation, and our government does not have the resources to secure this country from terrorist smuggling themselves either south of the border or other means of travel. It is too large of a country.
This country has been afraid and unwilling because of the cheap labor for businesses to shut the southern border down. In addition, there is probably fear of the backlash that could result from Mexico and hispanic americans. As a result, our borders will remain vulnerable. Besides think of the manpower that would be needed. You would be better building a huge wall with various entrance and check points which is not feasible at this moment in time.
What are other peoples thoughts?
Housing Markets Pricing Out Middle Class By JILL BARTON, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 10, 5:35 PM ET
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The red-hot housing market in booming cities across the country has made the dream of owning a home out of reach, not only for low-income families but also for white-collar professionals.
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"Many of the overheated real estate markets throughout the country have become unaffordable for the majority of the population," said Jack McCabe, a housing industry analyst in Deerfield Beach. "Many people are paying well over 50 percent of their income for shelter. It leaves no money for savings or sometimes even for recreation."
After So Young Kim took a teaching job in Florida, her friends in Chicago gushed that she and her husband would be able to afford twice the house when they moved.
Kim had just received a doctorate and a job offer from a university that would double her salary to more than $47,000. But the prices of even small bungalows climbed far beyond what the young couple could afford even when they stretched their target price to an uncomfortable $300,000. So after several disappointing drives around the area and countless Internet searches, they ended up back where they started — in an apartment.
Real estate experts warn that housing prices in many markets are too quickly outpacing the incomes of most workers. The widening gap affects families across the country, from Washington D.C. and Rhode Island to Florida in the South and Nevada and California in the west.
In California, the situation has long been the worst: Only 17 percent of households could afford a home with a median price tag in April, according to the California Association of Realtors.
By May, the median home price in California climbed to $522,590 — more than double the price in most other states. To buy the typical home with monthly payments of $3,067, a California family would need to earn about $122,700 to qualify for a conventional loan.
In other high-cost states, the situation is not much improved. The average family in Florida earns nearly $44,000, which fell 26 percent short of the amount needed to finance a median-priced home last year, according to a study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
National statistics show that families can afford a home in many other cities around the country. The typical household earns about $56,323, enough to buy a home costing $250,900 and 133 percent of what's needed to afford the median-priced home of $188,800, said Walter Molony, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors.
The most expensive housing prices can be explained by the same three reasons that have drawn the biggest spenders for years: location, location, location.
The 10 most exorbitant cities include warm-weather climates along the coast, such as San Francisco, Honolulu and West Palm Beach, and huge urban centers, such as New York and Boston.
To break into these hot markets, buyers are resorting to new and uncertain options for mortgages.
"It's really, really tough for the first-time buyer. The only way to just get in the door is to take advantage of the low-interest rates and the riskier mortgage instruments like the interest-only loans," said Leslie Appleton-Young, the chief economist for the California Association of Realtors.
Buyers are choosing adjustable-rate mortgages that keep payments low for a few months to a few years, or 40-year mortgages that allow them to stretch payments over an additional 10 years.
Fannie Mae, the top buyer and guarantor of home loans, is offering a new program that allows low- and middle-income buyers new ways of qualifying for loans. To help cover the cost of their monthly mortgage payments, applicants can use federal housing vouchers or rent they would receive from relatives or others living with them.
"The down payment used to be the issue, but the problem now is that housing prices have climbed so quickly that a lot of consumers are struggling to make their payments affordable," said David Dworkin, vice president for community lending partnerships.
In Florida, Kim said she feels the skyrocketing housing prices have left her and many others behind, and that they have no chance of catching up. When she received her job offer, she and her husband excitedly pored through Internet real estate ads, looking at pictures of bungalows and back yards where she imagined their three young children would play. But since they moved into the rental apartment in Boca Raton, they have not even tried to look at any homes for sale.
"It seems to me the biggest difficulty is buying the first house," said Kim, an assistant professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. "Once you have the first house, it's easier to move up to a bigger house,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050710/ap_on_bi_ge/unaffordable_american_dream
Also what about the prototype for the nuclear detection equipment. From the March 16th PR! How much faster a month or a year? Is the pending prototype near completition?
``This licensing agreement is a milestone for our company and helps validate our business model,'' said Patrick Herda, CEO, Nuclear Solutions. ``Considering the fact that our gravimetric technology is in the early stages of development, with the prototype construction pending, the license fee was discounted significantly. The licensing fees that we expect to receive from this agreement will enable us to accelerate the development of this technology and bring it to market faster.''
THe volume is very low. I want to see news about commercializing TWR, a joint partnership simultaneously and the projected world market for the technology.
Well the stock has closed at 0.95. I wonder if tommorrow if it will close at 0.95 or 0.96 or make a move.
I have never seen a trading pattern when NSOL closes a penny or equal 4 days in a row. It might close again at the 0.95/0.96 range. The chart is odd for I have never seen this almost straight line in the RSI. The good news is the longer it stays towards the 70 mark, the better the chance of a stronger upward trend developing as each day ends.
I believe this is artifical because this rarely happens and it is obvious the MM are looking for more shares since they run it down and then it closes at even or higher.
http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=nsol
I would think Herda would wait until things calm down to prevent a hyped run to occur in NSOL! THe explosive detection got a lot of people late last year and we do not know the full details of it except that it is from Russia.
You really think it will happen in the next couple of weeks to a month? I hope you are right Tom....Time will tell!
I think its time for an upward movement to the $3-5 range!
The technicals on NSOL is what we want to see so it moves up higher.
http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=nsol
Hello Tomatoe....I would agree that the widespread is to slow down the trading and the buying. It closed for 3 days in a row at the same price. I have never seen that happen before.
NSOL should continue its upward trend since its not being walked down. I expect it to move up soon later this week and to keep the RSI above tthe 70 mark. The MM may try to pull it back similar to IPIX, then let it run again followed by another 2-3 day pull back, then another run up. Lets see if it happens with NSOL!
I do not like the wide spread. It is a typical slow day! I would like to see NSOL close in the green.
It is good that NSOL had taht small pull back. It looks like it will continue its upward trend. This stock will be in the 1.20's-140's next week. CBAI I could have bought the stock at 0.23, but I did not want to buy into it and now I regret it.
I do not think NSOL is going to work on the Transmutation Tehcnology util they generate revenue from their pending three short term projects. Any thoughts?
THe MM got some shares, I suspect that this will close over $1 and tommorrow the run will continue. I would have loved to make 10% on my share count, but my online account did not give me access until after the pull back attempt.
A stock taht I got some spam on 2 days ago is moving up. CBAI! It would be a good case study to watch!
Well it is too lightly traded. THey only got 20K shares. THe bid ask is 0.95/0.93. It is a classic walkdown before running NSOL up later. THis is good because it will help the MM get inventory to take this to the next level.
Looks like I missed this pull back attempt on low volume. I just was able to log into my online account now after a 20 minute wait.
Bid/ASk is 0.97/0.96
Well I am done for tonight. I have to prepare tommorrow for an important meeting with an advisor on Friday, but I will be watching to see how NSOL trades and I wish everybody the best of luck!
That is the main reason why I opened the Roth IRAs. No penalties and in the end all the profit will be tax free in the end. Based on the US government not being responsible for managing our money, social security will be a heavy burden in the future and I do not want to risk traditional IRAs since the government will either cut benefits (no tax increase) or raise taxes even more to pay for these mismanaged programs by congress.
I want control of my money and expenses. The largest expenses that most people pay with maybe the exception to a mortagge payment is taxes; set your self up to be in a position of strength so you can use the tax system legally to your advantage!
I will wait and watch. Since this is the beginning of a run, the unknown factor is when the MACD will reverse pattern. THe RSI is indicating that NSOL has been overbought and that is an indication that there could be a pull back within the next couple of days, even if it is brief, if the stock hits $1.60 tommorrow the MM will shake it, and dumb money will sell. I am considering it becasue I have missed out on the last 3 out of 4 times. I should have sold the stock when it went from 0.13 to 0.43, but I was in Mexico at the time, and was not watching the stock, NSOL reversed and went to a low of 0.13.
I expect a rise tommorrow, and friday will be a GAP up followed by a pull back. Then, after a pull back the stock will either continue down or reverse and move further upward towards new highs. My ideal situation would to see NSOL hit $4 and then pull back to $2.0-2.25 only to rebound because the MM are shaking the shares for day traders.
IF good news comes out, like tomatoe said...all technicals are out the window and the stock will see new highs. Either way tommorrow is going to be a great day. The stock will move up. The close was strong and the trend is going to continue moving upward.
You do have a point on the capital gains tax. That would limit how often you do it to once a year otehrwise you get stuck counting it as short term stocks and have to pay earned income taxes on it.
I plan on using the shares I loaded up in my Roth IRAs so there will no penalties no matter how much I flip it since it is considered a retirement account.
If I would have done it right over each up and down I would have more shares that I ever could imagine. I encourage others to try, there is the chance of a big move, but if it did occur you just buy back in at a little higher your price.
Looking back at all of my stock trades, if I would have followed one rule I would have always made money. Once NSOL hits pay day, I am going to do what I always should have done in investing. I plan on selling half of my shares when the stock doubles. Almost everystock that I have ever owned has at least doubled or tripled at least once within a year of holding it. THe only major loser I ever had was when I first started investing (back then I would say gambling) prior to the bubble bursting in 2000.
THe buy and hold for the long term works when you have a stock like NSOL, but you could have a lot more shares if you play the ups and downs. Either way, the technicals work good in general for most stocks and you can accurately predict when the dumb money chases it up, you can sell and then when the dumb money panics, you buy back.
I would hate to miss the BIG contract news! However, if you play with a portion of your share count, you can still add to your position in increments over time. IF you did it 2 or 3 times a year you would have alot more shares with no out of cost from your pocket.
To play it safe I will use about 30-40% of my shares to flip. So if there was a big move I would not miss it.