I am not sure of what is happening exactly but it cannot be much longer before we know something. I have held onto my KATX shares but I am out of funds and cannot buy any more.

This is an amazing observation. Thank you for making it.

I think it's inter-market makers continuing to juggle and clean their books for the upcoming new rules starting Monday. I think that a lot of them had built a big short position by abusing their own rules on covering.

See also:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59688405

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59644845

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58369984

Good luck to KATX investors.

Actually, no I was right originally.

If you pull up a 1 month candlestick graph of KATX there is a GREEN (or white) candle today.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Some references:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/candlestick.asp

http://www.swing-trade-stocks.com/candlestick-patterns.html

Good luck to KATX investors.

This is the trades report for CPOW.

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=trades&symbol=CPOW

Actually there were 3 BUYS (trades done CLOSER TO the ASK than the BID) in the last 2 minutes of trading. I thought there was only 1 for 3000 but then the other 2 showed up (delayed report).

It took those buys to get us back to even for the day.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Looks like an even close.

Have a good weekend everybody.

News Monday/Tuesday? Anyone's guess.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Electronic order through Scottrade.

Any time I have called the local Scottrade office I get different people and they won't give stock opinions or advice.

Who do you use?

Good luck to KATX investors.

I'm afraid I use one of them computerized trading platforms and don't really have a broker.

I guess we will find out soon enough what is happening.

Thanks, now I see it.

The trade was done exactly between the bid and the ask.

I wonder if it was a buy or a sell. Very clever to do it exactly between the 2 so that no one can figure it out.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Do you have a link that shows this? What is the source of the data?

Good luck to KATX investors.

Which property is this? Handcamp? Lucky N or S?

I am low on "dry powder" as well to buy additional shares. I try to buy stocks on dips.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Are you still holding your shares Light?

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Oh yes. I am sure a professional IR firm like Strategic Growth 1 would want to be involved in a pump and dump scheme. NOT.

Good luck to KATX investors.

yes, as cynical as I can be about those that make the market, even I don't believe these trades have to do with inside information. Not in this climate where those two words are so scary. My point was more that some on here would have us believe someone is dumping millions of shares or that dilution is occurring. I don't know how anyone could know whether these trades are someone making a 1 Mil share purchase or selling 1 mil shares unless they are the market maker themselves or working for them. I choose to believe someone is buying. Again, my opinion and a guess. Just like someone speculating these are large sells.
Point is we don't know. Good luck to KATX investors.

Admittedly I would have prefered to hear "you will have news tomorrow" (lol). But I will also say it is a relief to know that KATX is getting the professional help and guidance of a company that has made several firms a success story. This is quite a sincere reply all things considered.

Well I guess we will find out. Admittedly I am a guessing but so are you. Unless you know something we don't.

Good luck to KATX investors.

Yeah. The market maker was being generous and decided to allow a sale of 1 million shares above the bid. NOT.

Shall we discuss how honorable market makers are again and how no shorting of KAT has ever happened?

Good luck to KATX investors.

Is this unusual activity that should be being reported?

I wonder if these trades will be able to occur once the new FINRA rules kick in (2 more trading days until that happens).

Good luck to KATX investors.

I am really confused by this t-trade thing. I thought after hours trades were illegal as h-e-double-hockey-stix.

Good luck to KATX investors.

How do you know they are sells?

Go KATX.

Yes actually this is EXCEPTIONAL volume today. Just IMAGINE what would happen if that press release came out this afternoon. We're already almost 5mil on no news (anticipation).

Good luck to KATX investors.

KATX. I will definitely have my eye on it!

We do not really know what is going on with KATX right now. We can speculate but we don't know. I will say however this opinion seems to be contridictory to those voiced earlier with multiple exclamation points. We will need to hear from KATX soon, then we will know at least some of what is going on. On the market maker side we may never know.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59688405

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59644845

Good luck to KATX investors.

The following is my opinion. It is what I believe and if you disagree that's fine. No one should be making trading decisions based on things posted on a message board anyways - period.

We've been through this before on the TRADES report. That TRADES report is not necessarily a report of numbers of shares bought and sold. It is a report of TRADES at or closer to BID and ASK. There are ways of making a purchase of shares look like a sell - by MM selling someone shares at or closer to BID instead of ASK. This is easier when the gap between BID and ASK is really tight - it's harder to notice when the difference is fractions of a penny. Don't tell me it doesn't happen. I have made purchases of other stocks where I put in the order for blah number of shares at ASK and was sold them at BID on purpose by the market maker.

Market makers have their reasons for everything they do. I won't try to understand all their reasons. If they were complete angels there would be no need for regulation. FINRA is introducing new rules on 2/28/2011 connected with short selling - for a reason.

What that TRADES report actually shows is:

"Sell" = the TRADE was done CLOSER TO the bid than the ask.

"Buy" = the TRADE was done CLOSER TO the ask than the bid.

"?" = the TRADE was done exactly between the bid and the ask.

I know this is hard to comprehend because I was earlier very confused about this report. The way to understand it better is to understand that it is technically IMPOSSIBLE for there to be more shares sold than bought. Every time a share is sold someone has to buy them, even if it's just the market maker.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

It was a very blatant last minute take-down. This market maker or one of his friends is just too obvious.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

A few of you were collecting due diligence data and a single document with a timeline of these various deals, like the 15 March deadline to finalize the Alabama Bio Energy deal. Now would be the time to get this wrapped up and posted. We are basically on the clock to have some things come together in the next 2-4 weeks.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

I cannot believe we are now talking about the CEO KATX and whether he gets paid or not. WHO CARES? People work, they should get paid for working. KATX is a real company. Real companies pay their staff and executives. I do not find that suspect. If he takes no pay on his choice that's something else. A sad commentary on our society that people getting pay and benefits who aren't multi-billionaires get vilified and attacked (Madison, Wisconsin) while some billionaires pay less percentage in taxes than I do. Move on.

Indeed so.

Good luck to KATX investors.

I am not sure why KATX is not on there but there are other companies not represented either, including Goldcliff.

New FINRA regulations.

Someone smarter than me should analyze this new FINRA reg which goes into effect 2/28/2011 in relation to short selling.

http://www.finra.org/Industry/Regulation/Notices/2010/P122255

I have seen this flying around on other boards - seems to have some buzz around it in relation to stocks that have seen excessive shorting.

Once again here is CPOW short selling data from the RegSHO reports:

Date Short Interest Volume Short Interest % of Volume
20110202 431695 1448732 30% CPOW
20110201 785456 2326956 34% CPOW
20110131 1244662 4231341 29% CPOW
20110128 1472783 3859389 38% CPOW
20110127 269922 1892893 14% CPOW
20110126 752570 2964961 25% CPOW
20110125 279442 1568167 18% CPOW
20110124 434308 2564043 17% CPOW
20110121 1807403 4288354 42% CPOW
20110120 7134601 19390794 37% CPOW
20110119 7639347 14974651 51% CPOW
20110118 18413321 42858563 43% CPOW
20110114 25433691 76795518 33% CPOW
20110113 436388 3009021 15% CPOW
20110112 481139 2746148 18% CPOW
20110111 1847206 6450276 29% CPOW
20110110 2042185 5610215 36% CPOW
20110107 2136300 6957446 31% CPOW
20110106 3740869 12246659 31% CPOW
20110105 5247763 14674815 36% CPOW
20110104 3085941 20449240 15% CPOW
20110103 15639650 71212983 22% CPOW
20101231 21424381 67334180 32% CPOW
20101230 18678567 61772984 30% CPOW
20101229 39015758 119550855 33% CPOW
20101228 19869114 72202499 28% CPOW
20101227 17869082 47650102 38% CPOW
20101223 13156943 35839029 37% CPOW
20101222 10249267 22519860 46% CPOW
20101221 3222007 7590669 42% CPOW
20101220 4490948 18764615 24% CPOW
20101217 3983387 13470400 30% CPOW
20101216 14803343 34654643 43% CPOW
20101215 5899 5899 100% CPOW

Totals 267525338 823876900 32%

In regards to the Dalian, China conference, CEO CPOW informed me in an email this morning as follows:

"they have approved my bio and abstract."

http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wcbe2011/fullprogram_track3.asp

Good luck to CPOW investors.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1357594/000112785511000042/cleanpowerexh99_1.htm

Todays Reg SHO data:

20110216 CPOW 88565 763555


Short volume = 88565

Total volume = 763555

Short volume = 11.60% of total volume today.


Good luck to CPOW investors.

CPOW SHARE STRUCTURE

At long last, I have the share structure for CPOW. This is from the horse's mouth (CEO CPOW).

AUTHORIZED SHARES: 1,000,000,000

OUTSTANDING SHARES: 240,077,763

RESTRICTED SHARES: 111,029,763

FLOAT: 129,048,000

MARKET CAP: $26.648M

This is being posted to the stickies and put in the I-Box.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

Someone else can pipe in here on this one.

I suspect naked shorts. Maybe someone else has a better explanation.

Got a reply on the share structure from CEO CPOW as follows:

"Here are some publicly available numbers as you requested:


Authorized shares limit: 1,000,000,000 shares


Current issued and outstanding total shares: 240,077,763


Composition of existing issued and outstanding:
Free trading = 129,048,000 (54% of total issued and outstanding)"

Thank you Steve5.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

I am not sure what YOU found interesting about it. But I will tell you what I find interesting.

http://www.otcbb.com/asp/tradeact_mv.asp?SearchBy=issue&Issue=cpow&SortBy=volume&Month=1-1-2011

Total Share Volume 321,086,549

The shares traded in January exceed the float.

The float is 180M per last figures from Bloomberg. Being that the CEO of CPOW has approx 19M shares of the 180M (of which has has not sold any per report), this means freely trading shares are less than 161M as far as we know.

This means that every single one of those shares would have had to have been turned over in the month of January. 161M sold, 161M bought. 161M x 2 = 322M. Unlikely, especially because some of us have been holding since December or earlier.

Only 2 possibilities that I can think of - someone else pipe in if they have a 3rd.

1) Float is larger than we know.

2) NAKED SHORTS.

I would like it if anyone has a better/additional explanation.

Good luck to CPOW investors.

http://www.otcbb.com/asp/tradeact_mv.asp?SearchBy=issue&Issue=CPOW&SortBy=volume&Month=1-1-2011&IMAGE1.x=16&IMAGE1.y=10