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Shorts: There is shorting, and there is "shorting".
I love computers and I also love the fact that I.P. addresses exist. It's a beautiful thing when you can "connect the dots" in a way that most folks that are not extraordinarily computer savvy might not recognize as being possible. Here's a hint: It is fairly easy, (regardless of whatever machinations be may be being employed) to not only trace the origins of emails, posts etc., but also ...connect the other "players" in a given individual's circle. Bam!!....motherlode.
AMRM has been repeatedly targeted and manipulated by various folks that are shortly (pardon the pun) going to discover, to their detriment, that the use of the worldwide web (WWW. ...yep , you're visible....as are your connections), is actually a much more transparent place than you'd ever conceived it to be.
The sheer volume of "failure to delivers" with regard to AMRN has been high, well documented and traceable. I am both thankful (and amused) that many of the folks that post manipulative FUD think that they are posting FUD anonymously via such mechanisms as VPNs (Virtual Private networks) or screen names, and further, feel that they are probably shielded from both prosecution and identification by use of such methods. In a word: wrong.
So....carry on, shorty!....your summons will arrive when you least expect it. (Better start practicing you frog march for the ensuing "perp walk that will soon be on you dance card.)
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/30/news/sec-whistleblower-award/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_latest+%28CNNMoney%3A+Latest+News%29
"Except, I don't care about that"...?
If you really do not care about having your opinions or "observations" be regarded as credible; why do you bother posting?
Ah, Pyrr, Now you're showing your true colors!
Unfortunately, your credibility has been nullified by the fact that you refuse to acknowledge or comprehend any data that runs contrary to your oft repeated, myopic understanding of EPA's therapeutic value, R-IT's high probability of success, Vascepa's growing market share etc.
If you were to present a balanced viewpoint/opinion that takes ALL known facts into account, it would likely do wonders for your acceptance as a credible poster on this board.
Mog, Pyrr, Freak et al, You all have exhaustively tried to point out the myriad reasons why AMRN is a horrible investment and urged everyone to sell.
The appearance is that you are all short the stock, which is fine, however, you are probably not going to move the PPS much, if at all, by ranting on a message board. With that in mind, why not just come out and admit that you're shorting the stock?
Py; Wondering how much this cost you today, or did you cover?
Or,better yet, make sure that shares are in your cash account.
Pyrrho- You seem to be missing an important fact. There is a rather significant difference between "fish oil", Lovaza (as well as Lovaza's's generic counterpart)and Vascepa. Vascepa does not contain DHA, as do the other two substances. While this difference may be lost on you, it is medically significant in terms of the fact that Lovaza & it's generic knockoff RAISE LDL, while Vascepa, being devoid of DHA, does not raise DHA.
BTW, I note that you are a "newbie" to the AMRN forum. I also see that you've been an extremely prolific poster on iHub, having posted in excess of 4,000 entries that seem to have a common theme and methodology namely, trying to spread fear & doubt about NWBO in what I would assume is your attempt to enrich your short position.
Shorting is fine, but IMO, your credibility would benefit greatly from sticking to truthful statements.
Ha! Good one, JL!
On another topic...what do you attribute the day's robust volume/price to? Earnings call isn't until mid-week, next week, however, it's timed as a morning (PM) call, not an after hours call, which seem Bullish to me.
Would be most interested to know your thoughts on the matter.
TIA
Great numbers! Thanks, Sam.
Danburydude: Are you referring to to HD or Murph? IMO, HD has been one of the most even-keeled, knowledgeable posters on this board. Murph, on the other hand, seems to display an obvious disregard of both logic and fact, thus leading me to believe that he simply posts to advance his Short interest. BTW: I got my private pilot's license in Danbury (DXR) 30 years ago. Since then, got my Commercial, Instrument, Multi-engine and Certified Flight Instructor tickets. Still get a kick out of coming up the "gap from the South, over Rte. 7... an interesting approach to the airport.
Oooopsies, Murph, You need a new crystal ball. Better yet, a new stock to short.
Thanks, Sam---really good numbers! ATHs across the board for us.
Criminal bites the dust:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-valvani-death-idUSKCN0Z71PB
Watson drops suit: insert-text-here
Have you exited your short position, Mog? If not, what is your thesis for continuing to hold a short position on AMRN at this point. Thanks.
JL: Really happy to see you back. I've missed your posts. What are your thoughts on the technical analysis postings regarding AMRN by FFS et al? I tend to view TA as one very small step above voodoo...
Read into what you wish, sts66.
I only buy, (and have only bought), my AMRN shares based on DD.
Whenever Mogwash's incessant hand-wringing posts increase in frequency, I simply buy some more shares! That being said, if I thought that AMRN was not a good buy, I'd leave it alone.
As I said to Moggy....see you at R-it!
Your last sentence is a bald-faced lie.
Mog! Thank you! You have become my #1 new contrarian indicator! (And I believe, a very reliable one at that.)
I have added to my holdings several times over the course of the last several weeks solely based on the level of your chatter and feel confident that these buys were both prudent and warranted
Please understand that I have done, can continue to do, massive due diligence on IPA, (Vascepa®), the company (Amarin) well prior to these recent buys. I will continue to keep well abreast of all matters pertaining to the company's financials, script growth, regulatory matters and pertinent litigation and applicable precedent.
At this juncture, my impetus for further buying is based upon the fact that your incessant attempts to discredit Amarin as being non-viable simply do not stand up to much, if any scrutiny. Moreover, it should be patently obvious to anyone with one or more working synapses that you are posting here as proxy for some fund or private, retail holder of a large short position. That in itself is fair enough....we've all gotta make a buck. But, as outlined in the next paragraph, you surely see that even the most casual observer will, (should they take the time to peruse your archived posts) become aware that you, A.) Either have NO concept of the potential upside of AMRN (Doubtful!) or, B.) Are fully aware that a significant upside potential exists, yet you bash in the interest of obtaining "cheap shares for your benefactor or to maximize profit on your own, short position.
Here's a little tidbit from one of my law school textbooks that you might ponder in advance of crafting your next, FUD missive: (The book's title is; Master Advocates Handbook,- D. Lake Rumsey, should you chose to verify the sage quote) :"Man above all wants to appear respectable. But truth and respectability do not necessarily go hand in hand. Truth and logic, however, go hand in hand. Man will be illogical in order to appear respectable. Therefore, if you challenge his respectability,he will become illogical; hence, he will expose his untruthfulness".
So, in closing,Dear Mogwai, Thank you....you have made me more confident than ever that increasing my position at every opportunity is well warranted. See you after R-IT.
JL & Zum; OK here's a big effing surprise (not!); The "good doctor", Kesselheim's CV clearly notes that "Dr. Kesselheim’s work is also currently funded by the FDA". Wow....I never would have guessed that in a million years.
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Zum; Someone is clearly picking fly shit out of pepper... The author of the paper that you cited apparently has great difficulty understanding the meaning of the word:"May".
The word; May, expresses possibility, not certainty. The paper's author is either challenged by the lack of understanding this meaning (doubtful), or is exhibiting a thinly veiled attempt to elicit doubt in Vascepa's efficacy by adding the verbiage "may or may not"(likely).
The word "may", as used in the statement; C: "Supportive but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.", already presupposes possibility, thus "or may not", is superfluous and prejudicial.
Of course, none of this is at all surprising when you consider that one of funding sources for the paper includes,....drum roll, please... The FDA!
"Funding: ASK is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the FDA[color=red][/color], and the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science, and is a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."
Bought more at 1.49 today. I basically use Mog and the Monkey at StockTwits as my contrarian indicators...the more they mouth off with FUD rather than facts, the more I buy.
You have to ask yourself why, barring the possibility that they have access to a computer in a mental institution, they would devote so much time to posting nonsense that is simply designed to instill fear or doubt. The answer is that some folks have not done enough doo-dilly on Vascepa and thus, are simply easily scared by these tactics.
Today's trade volume is hardly a panic inducing event. Do your homework folks (Thank, Zum & JL....they've done a lot of it for you).
BB;
I agree that FDA perpetrated the action, but the larger question is: at who's behest and to who's benefit?
While there are a few folks here that keep citing "bad blood" between JZ and some people at the FDA, it simply doesn't make sense that the agency would compromise it's near omnipotence (1A suit, FDA lost and NCE suit, FDA lost/remanded) over someone having a case of diaper rash with a small pharma's CEO.
Clearly, certain FDA officials have gone out of their way to harpoon Amarin at every juncture but it should be recognized that those FDA folks are either simple criminals that are selling information and/or sabotaging due process as proxies for BP(s) that have interest in swiping Vascepa's IP "on the cheap".
Moreover, the apparent leaking of info to Adam F. et al, seems to make a fairly clear case that there are Hedge Funds that have compromised one or more people at the FDA. Is there a living soul that actually believes that Margaret Hamburger,(FDA Commissioner at the time of adcom)never shared privileged information with her husband; Peter Fitzhugh Brown, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-President, and Director, of the hedge fund; Renaissance Technologies Corp.? While Peter/Renaissance may not have traded the stock directly, he certainly would have been able to trade inside information to another hedgie on a quid pro quo basis for inside information in another non-medical industrial sector that would not raise any red flags as to the possibility that Hamburger was leaking info for profit.
How about that enormous short (with a 24 or 48 hr expiry... can't recall which at the moment) just prior to adcom? While it's not uncommon to see a bio get shorted prior to an adcom, that was an enormous bet that was made in an extraordinarily odd fashion. Where was the SEC investigation on that fetid little ditty?
Why the exclamation mark?
HD, Thank you (again) for your accounting and logic.
While it's rare that Moggy ever concedes anything, you have successfully poked a hole in his red balloon this time and left him stammering.
I expect we'll be seeing quite a bit less of Gizmo on this board in the coming days as there will likely be some other stock that his bosses are shorting and he will be put to work as a Fudster with some new screen name for some new ticker.
BTW, I expect a lot of retail shorts to be getting dreaded calls from their brokers today...nice!
Wow, Ray- Your latest is one of the most pompous, self-important posts I have read to date. Sooooo...Let me just see if I've read your post correctly before I eviscerate it's content.
Are you unequivocally stating that you have some special, inside knowledge and that the the 967 has already occurred?
You state: "967 has already occurred. Not trying to bust anyone's rock - just a simple fact."
Are you on the DMC? (....I sincerely doubt it.)
I'd suggest that you would further your credibility by separating your conjecture from fact by use of appropriate disclaimers such as prefacing a statement with the use of a modifier such as: "in my opinion" (IMO), etc.
Facts are facts, opinions are opinions. Please do yourself (and everyone else)a favor and learn to distinguish between the two.
IP address, Moggy, IP adress....
Thanks, Sam.
Oh, brother, this one takes the cake! Moggy is now saying that there is no way that Amarin will be able to fund R-IT to completion as indicated by his statement:
"Now all bets are off on how they get the money to make it to REDUCE-IT and what that is going to mean for the stock."
If you take a moment to review Mog's archived posts and you'll note that his tone is getting more desperate and inflamed. Moreover, the frequency of his posting is accelerating. (At his current rate, I expect that he will soon be advising everyone to sell because he has determined that the risk of Amarin's headquarters being impacted by a meteor are simply way too high for any savvy investor to assume.)
Mog: Give it a rest.
Gizmo, your Henny Penny elucidation of everything that could go wrong with the trial is, as usual, over dramatic and seems to (again, as usual) disregard the fact that this is NOT a P2 trial. Vascepa has already passed a P3 trial, and was found to have side effects equal to placebo.
I'd recommend that you focus more on history than histrionics.
Science beats scienter every time, dear chap.
Wow, Gizmo, sorry. I didn't mean to get you all riled up.
I am, however, interested in knowing what your motive is in being on the board basically 24/7.
Care to shed any light?
Dear Kiwi, I do not believe nor do I assume, if I may be so bold as to speak for him, that JL believes that "any informed and experienced investor holding a position of any size , would base his/her buy or sell decision on what some one posted here, or any other message board. I do however believe that many retail investors can have shares "shaken out of their hands due to being over extended financially, due to not having done sufficient DD, and myriad other reasons. It is this latter group of folks that are, IMO, the primary targets of Mog's diatribes.
I am not at all surprised that you frequently rush in to defend the honor of dear little Gizmo as your motives seem to be strikingly similar.
Your assessment as to why a professional is working this board makes a great deal of sense to me, and your reasoning is something that I had not previously considered. Whether or not you are correct in terms of WHY Gizmo is working overtime, the fact remains that he (she?) is articulate, bright, determined and massively deceptive.
The intended net result of Mog's efforts remain exactly the same regardless of who his employer may be: they want people to sell and sell cheap, thus, the relentless spewing of half-truths and "worries" of over amplified risk while totally ignoring the upside.
I'd probably block Mog were it not for the fact that I find his propaganda to be ever so slightly more entertaining than annoying.
A couple of repeat offender, FUDsters over on ST are claiming that we just got delisted.... It seems that shorts are starting to get a tad nervous. Feb. 17th ...tick,tock,tick,tock, shorties, tick-tock .
Gizmo, perhaps you missed the word; "hold" being the last word in the first sentence that you have referenced.
Inasmuch as my statement was written on 1/26/2015, it would appear that your idea holding something long involves owning a stock for minutes, or perhaps hours.
I view your excessive and overzealous postings of the last 24 hours as a clear buy signal. Accordingly, I shall buy another nice sized chunk today to add to my portfolio.
Perhaps a metaphor would be helpful to you:
When one makes waffles, one first prepares the batter, then transfers the batter to a waffle iron, where the batter must cook until the waffle is formed, fully cooked, and ready to eat. If removed from the waffle iron too soon, one ends up with a gooey, formless, unpalatable mess. For someone to endlessly whine that waffles are no good simply because they attempted to eat the waffles before the waffles have been fully cooked seems to be one of your favorite pass times.
Gizmo's (Mog) relentless postings over the course of the last day are one of the most Bullish signals that I've seen in some time. I've been sitting tight on my long holdings, but will buy a significant chunk tomorrow. I have little doubt that ol' Gizmo would prefer that that I not do so as he'd like shares even cheaper, but, as I said, excessively voluminous postings in the last day in which he's trying to "save us" are devoid of reason and clear examples of scienter at it's finest. Thanks, Moggy...I've been looking for a "signal" to add, and you've provided it in spades.
Based on this last post by "Mog" I take it as a positive signal to buy more AMRN and hold. Thanks Mog: Your overzealous, short-inspired rantings are a very encouraging impetus to heed the old adage to be greedy when others are fearful. Your agenda is, IMO, patently obvious. When I consider the the amount of time and effort that you spend trying to advance the "short manifesto, I remain firm in my belief that " buy more and hold" is the way to go.
IMO,Mog, thou hath protestethed too much to have so much as a scintilla of credibility.
Ajax, You should probably stick to opining about medicine (and geriatric medicine at that) and leave legal opinions alone unless you are prepared to seriously hit the books.
Suggest that you start with a Multi-State, LSAT primer...
Thought: It's good to know what you know, but it's even better to know what it is that you do not know.
Peace.
Careful,JL, I smell a potential rat.