A number of companies announce news after hours or before hours. I am not all that certain it matters when it comes out. Under the HOT! tag in the navigation bar there is a link in the drop box for "Recent news." You could do a comparison looking at companies that put out news before or after close versus during the trading day but I don't know if it would indicate anything in particular.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

That new middle figure, btw, in the Reg SHO report is for Short Exempt Volume.

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It was zero.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

That's just from this one broker by the way.

It is definitely odd that the CPOW available short figure was cut in half in a day, especially because the short volume was way lower yesterday:

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Per the new Regs, I believe, if I am understanding them correctly, there are 13 days from a short to cover or it's a failure to deliver. But someone with a better understanding of the regs could pipe in.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

News today?

KATX is a BUY-IF at Americanbulls.com.

http://americanbulls.com/StockPage.asp?CompanyTicker=KATX&MarketTicker=OTC&TYP=S

FINRA's new rule 4320 goes into effect 2/28/11.

Bit of some good news I came across =)
Sounds like it would be of great aid to EVCA for short squeeze =)

There’s 3 new laws gaining attention in the NSS market reform arena: FINRA 4320 goes into effect on 2/28/11. It mandates 13 day buy-ins for open delivery failures FINALLY applying to shares of non-reporting corporations. FINRA 2010-043, also starting on 2/28/11 reinstates the “short sale exempt” (SSE) marking requirements for trade reporting and the OATS system. Those MMs accessing the bona fide MM exemption from executing pre-borrows or “locates” before admittedly naked short sales must now FORMALLY acknowledge the accessing of that universally-abused exemption. Being that these trades are theoretically being made to “inject liquidity” then the excuse to hide the related trade data from the public’s eyes goes out the window. You can’t have it both ways and claim the bona fide MM exemption and later claim that the related trade data needs to be kept secret because it might reveal a “proprietary trading strategy”.

Truly bona fide MMs that are able to legally access that universally-abused exemption cover their naked short position on the next downtick after their short sale when buy side liquidity is in need of being ejected as share prices fall. The 3rd new rule which is in effect now states that the offers and bids that MMs post must be of approximately the same size. No longer can the offers be of 1 million shares and the offsetting bid good for the minimum 5,000 shares.

The verbiage in 4320 is especially well done as it FINALLY puts the clearing firms that aid and abet this crime wave on the spot. With the FFETF, which is made up of 25 different agencies, now on the scene the transparency has increased markedly. You can imagine how critical the lack of transparency is to a crime involving selling nonexistent securities and then refusing to ever deliver that which you sold AFTER being allowed access to the funds of the investor being defrauded.

Credit to one Dr. Jim Decosta.

CPOW is coming up on important deadlines.

An asset purchase of Alabama Bio Energy is due by 15 March.

Company also has a Memorandum of Understanding with Chongquin Grain Group about the feasibility of a joint venture in building a canola crushing plant in Western Canada. The clock is ticking on this as well.

KATX is a BUY-IF at American Bulls.

http://americanbulls.com/StockPage.asp?CompanyTicker=KATX&MarketTicker=OTC&TYP=S

Financials released yesterday.

They may be, but I cannot find these ticker symbols. Are these stocks trading on the Canadian Venture market? If so, they may have a different ticker symbol in the US. For example the Canadian company GOLDCLIFF RESOURCES is known in Canada under TSX: GCN and in the U.S. it is under GCFFF.

A good find.

I have a feeling a number of longs will be buying more shares this morning, some of the lies being told on this board having been discredited utterly by the financial report.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Thanks, Dagg, for highlighting the Share Structure and that there HAS BEEN NO DILUTION despite cries of dilution, sub-penny, etc.

I see one poster is talking about financing again, as if they knew anything we don't about how the company is being financed. We DO know it isn't being financed by dilution.

Go KATX.

I would think a PR will accompany the financials, probably Monday then.

IMHO.

He has been sick for awhile. Folks should show some respect. If you've ever had someone you know have to leave a job due to sickness you would understand. No job is more important than someone's health. The 8K says there is no contention between Jack Zwicker and the company and that's all anyone needs to know. His duties on IR have been replaced by the new IR Firm anyways.

I knew we'd see that again.

Somethin's cooking and I hope it tastes good when it's all cooked.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Good to hear from you again, briar.

I do hope you are right.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

I bought a pair of incredisocks from a local health food store and I love them. This company really needs to get the word out.

Good post, thank you Eagle.

GLTA KATX investors.

Surely you have a link that explains that the Reg SHO list has nothing to do with shorting. I would be very curious to see that, since the link THAT I HAVE is here:

http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrfaqregsho1204.htm

Are you thinking of the TRADES report on I-Hub as regards BID and ASK? Not the same list.

The quote below is information from Dr. Jim Decosta (if you google his name, you'll see he's deeply involved in many things about NSS in general)

Here is the URL:
http://www.finra.org/Industry/Regulation/RuleFilings/2010/P121892?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FINRARuleFilings+(FINRA+Rule+Filings)

Quote:There’s 3 new laws gaining attention in the NSS market reform arena: FINRA 4320 goes into effect on 2/28/11. It mandates 13 day buy-ins for open delivery failures FINALLY applying to shares of non-reporting corporations. FINRA 2010-043, also starting on 2/28/11 reinstates the “short sale exempt” (SSE) marking requirements for trade reporting and the OATS system. Those MMs accessing the bona fide MM exemption from executing pre-borrows or “locates” before admittedly naked short sales must now FORMALLY acknowledge the accessing of that universally-abused exemption. Being that these trades are theoretically being made to “inject liquidity” then the excuse to hide the related trade data from the public’s eyes goes out the window. You can’t have it both ways and claim the bona fide MM exemption and later claim that the related trade data needs to be kept secret because it might reveal a “proprietary trading strategy”.

Truly bona fide MMs that are able to legally access that universally-abused exemption cover their naked short position on the next downtick after their short sale when buy side liquidity is in need of being ejected as share prices fall. The 3rd new rule which is in effect now states that the offers and bids that MMs post must be of approximately the same size. No longer can the offers be of 1 million shares and the offsetting bid good for the minimum 5,000 shares.

The verbiage in 4320 is especially well done as it FINALLY puts the clearing firms that aid and abet this crime wave on the spot. With the FFETF, which is made up of 25 different agencies, now on the scene the transparency has increased markedly. You can imagine how critical the lack of transparency is to a crime involving selling nonexistent securities and then refusing to ever deliver that which you sold AFTER being allowed access to the funds of the investor being defrauded.


Here are the links to the rules SR-FINRA-2010-028 and SR-FINRA-2010-043:
www.finra.org/Industry/Regulation/RuleFilings/2010/P121522

Notice the part I marked in bold in the quote above:
"FINRA 4320 goes into effect on 2/28/11. It mandates 13 day buy-ins for open delivery failures FINALLY applying to shares of non-reporting corporations."
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http://www.finra.org/Industry/Regulation/RuleFilings/2010/P121892?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FINRARuleFilings+(FINRA+Rule+Filings)

How about you read the reports that are available please?

http://regsho.finra.org/FORFshvol20110302.txt

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Short volume today was 279870, supposedly none of it was "short exempt". But, no change in what is available to short on Interactive Brokers.

Hmmmmm... what could all this mean? I wonder...

They already did that. On 7 Jan in a PR. Those of us long on the stock understood that PR was meant to hold us over until things planned came to fruition.

Thanks for posting. Good luck to CPOW investors.

Thanks - this is the posting I referred to when I answered Nalia. Thanks for re-linking it.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Someone else pipe in. I have no idea how long an extention can be granted. I do know another stock I owned earlier (now out of -- sadly prematurely as it went way up when the financials came out) had gone months without releasing the financials but they had duly filed extensions and they had their reasons (it was good news).

Good luck to KATX investors.

It certainly IS painful, I would agree and you have experienced more pain than I, as I came in later. I have worked for organizations in the past that had to keep secrets for awhile in the interests of those who would eventually benefit.

I am still bonded for a product I was briefed on 6 years ago by a former employer which looks like it will finally be released this year. It's too bad I am no longer employed by that group - it is an exciting time for them.

The point is not that I am optimistic. I am relatively PATIENT.
And I do not automatically assume that silence and secrets are bad. I am not ruling THAT out either. But to say no news = bad news or no news = good news are equally SPECULATION and ASSUMPTION. The only people that know are insiders at this point and we will know soon enough.

If that point it is bad news, we pick up the pieces and go from there. If it's good news, we make a little money.

GOOD LUCK to KATX investors.

Believe me, I am gritting my teeth too. But it is not surprising to me that financials are being withheld when news is being withheld. Just makes sense to release them together whether they are good, bad or indifferent.

Hi Nelia.

I will have to go back and find it, but someone posted an email reply from Stan Wunderlich, the rep from the new IR firm, in which he explained what they are working on and referred to what they have done for other clients.

The PR of about 30 days ago announced as well what they are doing as well.

http://www.advfn.com/news_Kat-Exploration-Inc-Engages-Consulting-for-Strategic-Growth-1-as-Investor-Relat_46231165.html

This is the website for the IR firm which gives past case histories and explanations of what they do for companies.

www.cfsg1.com

Good luck to you and GLTA KATX longs.

I guess it hasn't occurred to anyone that they may have filed for an extension? I'm just sayin'.

Financials released now could let the cat out of the bag - GOOD or BAD - prematurely. IMHO it appears the new IR Firm is working with the company on very strategic actions to expand their activities, reach new investors and improve the shareprice. It would sort of make sense to release financials at the same time as news for maximum impact.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Not a paid promo. Not sure why they mentioned us other than some traders like to trade when a stock is significantly down, hoping for a bounce.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

I am not sure I understand the question.

One thing of note is that for most of these stocks, it took months to get them going, but when they did the pps trends are quite nice.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Which is it, the market makers are helping to take the stock up, they are helping taking the stock down, they have nothing to do with the stock and never heard of KATX?

Someone asked me to repost this, so click on the prior post to read it.

Is this thing going to be down over 10% again today? Doesn't that immediately trigger reporting of short positions per the new regs?

Good luck to CPOW investors.

News, news, news - we need it.

It's called bid whacking.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bid_whacker.asp

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Dr. Freedman would not be able to disclose if the deal is closing or not - that would be inside information and I am sure he has signed a non-disclosure agreement associated with the planned asset purchase.

The CPOW/Alabama Bio Energy deal is supposed to be signed, sealed and delivered by 15 March which is now 14 days from now. Hopefully they will get it done sooner and announce it as apparently this stock is just whittling away downward until there is some news. There could be many reasons for that but I am not going to get into that again, we discuss it enough on here.

I asked the CEO CPOW to get us some photos of the Alabama plant as well as some additional data about this company.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Did your order for CPOW shares ever get filled?

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Post of the month.
Good luck to KATX investors.

This is definitely a good thing.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

it will be interesting to see what the fall out will be from these new regs.

meanwhile we need to have some news from KATX.

here's an item of interest related to the regs subject.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Federal-Grand-Jury-Indicts-10-iw-2490736633.html?x=0

saw something about financials being due. does anyone have any more data on that?

Oh thanks that is certainly a useful site. Thanks for bringing it to the board, Mac. Never seen it before.

This is so interesting as well when you look at some of KATX's competitors. For example Goldcl*ff has no insitutional investors.

Good luck to KATX investors.

I would except I never posted that. Some other poster posted that data about KATX.

Stifel Nicolaus is one of the institional owners of KATX stock. They don't hold much but that they hold any at all does say something.

http://www2.stifel.com/site/content.aspx?id=409

Depends on if you believe shorting happens or not and if those other stocks have been shorted and if now is the time to cover or not. If KATX is in progress on uplisting to the OTCBB which has more scrutiny someone might have the idea it's time to cover.

I actually didn't make that statement, by the way. I merely quoted another poster who seems to have done an about-face on this subject.

Good luck to KATX investors.