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Lol, I sure as hell hope so!
I never understood why Dean didn't just close one acqusition at a time. Take out smaller loans, they should be easier to obtain that way. Build this Conglomerate step by step and build investor confidence along the way.
-Just my two cents.
Cool thanks! The campaign started on June 7th, 7 weeks would bring us to July 19.
Well I didn't say we would see 20 mil in revenue by years end. But we did secure up front $250,000 on the G-spout. We havn't started a full blast infomercial yet. but if we do and we are looking at a mildly succesful product it should be resonable to bring in at least a couple mil (100,000 units * 30= 3 mil have to figure 25% profit margine tho). Also the company has released two products already in about 7 months time. I would say it would be reasonable to have at least one more within the next 5 months. But then again I really am not sure what to expect. I'm not too heavily vested here and at my age I can risk being a little more aggresive on my investments. But with the little experience I do have I can tell that the risk vs reward ( at the current share price level) is well worth the investment if you have the extra funds and time.
Still optimistic till time tells.
TSHO is releasing at least 4 products in the short term. Two of them are already out, the Ultimate Squeegee and the G-Spout. We're looking at this as more of a long term hold. If any of these products become a hit like the Shamwow or the Snuggie. We are in for a large stream of revenue. Generally the average DRTV product produces anywere from 20-70 million. We are down here because we made a run a little too early. Should see some another run up towards EOY when the company puts out updated financials.
Glad to know your still following. Your right about the permament sp increase and actual revenue. And I would be lying if I said I didn't sell any of my position durring the panic and down fall. I learned a lot from this stock and from this board and most of that is thanks to you. You asked a lot of questions I was thinking but would of probably never asked my self. I am optimistic about the future of TSHO though. I bought in blindly last year at .60 with not so much as even a product released! We have come a long way since then and I feel the best is yet to come. Good to know you will still be with us for it.
GLTU as well.
Welcome back Maone! We lost i2009 and a few others. But I think were looking better now more than ever and the price is half were I first bought in at! Your right about the innuendo of the g spout. And you can get an idea of this through the rate/ comment section of the you tube video, that's growing at about 1000 hits per week.
P.S
I read the inteligent investor and an currently reading 7 habits of highly effective people. Great books! Thanks for the recommondations.
Yeah it's 24.2 million shares. It's in the ibox with a source. They alredy have their funding and have no plans for dilution.
Gained back some ground! Looks like we lost some more weak hands.
Another good volume day and EOD push! Looking good compaired to a lot of other stocks out there and it's approching a 3 day weekend.
Did they put out a bzcn reco? We need a huge volume day to break this channel.
-GLTA
The Odds Against You
Why do most traders lose and wash out of the markets? Emotional and thoughless trading are two reasons, but there is another. Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money.
The Trading industry kills traders with commissions and slippage. Most amateurs cannot believe this, just as medieval peasants could not believe that tiny invisible germs could kill them. If you ingnore slippage and deal with a broker who charges high commissions, you are acting like a peasant who drinks from a communal pool during a cholera epidemic.
You pay commissions for entering and exiting trades. Slippage is the difference between the price at which you place your order and the price at which it gets filled. When you place a limit order, it is filled at your price or not at all. When you feel eager to enter or exit the market and give a market order, it is often filled at a worse price than prevailed when you placed it.
The trading industry keeps draining huge amounts of money form the markets. Exchanges, regulators, brokers, and advisors live off the markest while gernations of traders keep washing out. Markets need a fresh supply of losers just as builders of the ancient pyramids of Egypt needed a fresh supply of slaves. Losers bring money into the markest, which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.
The G Spouts You Tube hits are now up to 4,725! Not sure if this is the best way to gauge consumer interest but I'm fairly certian it's not a result of investor interest. picked up 350 more shares today. Going to add a little here and there when I can.
-GLTA
Yeah I guess they meant previous.
Cool, thanks!
So will the funding come in after the bid is won? Also I noticed they used a $1.50 share price for the funding. If the pps stays below that will the o/s increase by more than? But on the flip side decrease if the price goes above that amount? And those shares will remain restricted correct?
Sorry a lot of questions but I think I'm starting to understand this stuff.
This marks the beginning of the catalyst event we have been waiting for.
We believe over the next 30-90 days Pacific Blue Energy (PBEC) is entering into the territory we saw when our last recommendation started to move!
Here's what I was able to find.
hope the link works
Pe3
Sorry.
WTF ah just Google "what channel is the rachael ray show on" and click the first thing that comes up.
Messed up the link. Should work now.
[url][/url][tag]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Ray_(TV_series)[/tag]
The Rachel Ray show averages 2.6 million viewers!
url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Ray_(TV_series)[/url][tag]insert-text-here[/tag]
All investors labor under a cruel irony: We invest in the present, but we invest for the future. And, unfortunately, the future is almost entirely uncertain. Inflation and interest rates are undependable; economic recessions come and go at random; geopolitical upheavals like war, commodity shortages, and terrorism arrive without warning; and the fate of individual companies and their industries often turns out to be the opposite of what most investors expect. Therefore investing on the basis of projection is a fool's errnad; even the forecasts of the so-called experts are less reliable than the flip of a coin. For most people, investing on the basis of protection- from overpaying for a stock and from overconfidence in the quality of their own judgment- is the best solution.
Great summation, TSHO is looking better now more than ever and its on freaking SALE!
Thanks
Yeah I guess it would! That and anticipation of financials this baby should start running again soon.
Anyone know if we will have a 3rd product by years end?
-The story Of The Titanic-
So scientifically had this great sailing ship been constructed, with 16 watertight compartments in a 1/6 mile long hull, that the captain had made a pre-voyage boast, "Not even God himself could sink her". The builders had calculated that even if four of the compartments should burst, the ship would still float! But on that starry night, six of them exploded and began to suck in the frigid water of the North Atlantic! Mathematically, the "unsinkable ship" was mortally wounded. And, in two hours she was gone. Commander Lightoller, one of the few crew members who survived the tragedy, described the moment she sank.
I consider the Titanic to be an example of a black swan. You can never be overly confident that a stock you own will never "sink" It's best to take profits when your stock starts exploring some new territory. You never know if its going to hit that iceberg.
Ah that makes sense. I think there was the same confusion with T_ _O.
Just took my position here last week ( at 1.27 of course) not too worried though. I need to get in the habit of holding securities for at least a year and I feel there is a lot of potential for PBEC.
Or if they want people to start paying membership fees :)
"luck perceived and disguised as nonluck (that is, skills), and randomness perceived and disguised as nonrandomness (that is, determinism). It manifests itself in the shape of the lucky fool, defined as a person who benefited from a disproportionate share of luck but attributes his success to some other, generally very precise, reason."
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published: April 7 2009 20:02 | Last updated: April 7 2009 20:02
1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big
to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks – and
hence the most fragile – become the biggest.
2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be bailed out
should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be free, small and riskbearing.
We have managed to combine the worst of capitalism and socialism. In France in the
1980s, the socialists took over the banks. In the US in the 2000s, the banks took over the
government. This is surreal.
3. People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should never be given a
new bus. The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government
officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the
system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out
of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.
4. Do not let someone making an “incentive” bonus manage a nuclear plant – or your financial
risks. Odds are he would cut every corner on safety to show “profits” while claiming to be
“conservative”. Bonuses do not accommodate the hidden risks of blow-ups. It is the asymmetry
of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about
rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
5. Counter-balance complexity with simplicity. Complexity from globalisation and highly
networked economic life needs to be countered by simplicity in financial products. The complex
economy is already a form of leverage: the leverage of efficiency. Such systems survive thanks
to slack and redundancy; adding debt produces wild and dangerous gyrations and leaves no
room for error. Capitalism cannot avoid fads and bubbles: equity bubbles (as in 2000) have
proved to be mild; debt bubbles are vicious.
6. Do not give children sticks of dynamite, even if they come with a warning . Complex
derivatives need to be banned because nobody understands them and few are rational enough
to know it. Citizens must be protected from themselves, from bankers selling them “hedging”
products, and from gullible regulators who listen to economic theorists.
7. Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to
“restore confidence”. Cascading rumours are a product of complex systems. Governments
cannot stop the rumours. Simply, we need to be in a position to shrug off rumours, be robust
in the face of them.
8. Do not give an addict more drugs if he has withdrawal pains. Using leverage to cure the
problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a
temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
9. Citizens should not depend on financial assets or fallible “expert” advice for their retirement.
Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of
value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should
experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments
(which they do not control).
10. Make an omelette with the broken eggs. Finally, this crisis cannot be fixed with makeshift
repairs, no more than a boat with a rotten hull can be fixed with ad-hoc patches. We need to
rebuild the hull with new (stronger) materials; we will have to remake the system before it does
so itself. Let us move voluntarily into Capitalism 2.0 by helping what needs to be broken break
on its own, converting debt into equity, marginalising the economics and business school
establishments, shutting down the “Nobel” in economics, banning leveraged buyouts, putting
bankers where they belong, clawing back the bonuses of those who got us here, and teaching
people to navigate a world with fewer certainties.
Then we will see an economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies,
richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and
companies are born and die every day without making the news.
In other words, a place more resistant to black swans.
The writer is a veteran trader, a distinguished professor at New York University’s Polytechnic
I appreciate the recommendations. I'm currently reading The Intelligent Investor By: Benjamin Graham. Its the revised addidtion with a commentary by Jason Zweig and it completly changed the way I veiw investing. I'll definitaly check out these books next. If they are at all simular the to some of your posts here I'm sure Ill enjoy them.
Thanks,
Fossil
In at .0003 hoping for a run like last year.
-GLTA
Thanks for helping get the board started. These are some great posts! We seem to share a simular desire to understand the psychology behind the market.
A Trader’s Self-Evaluation Checklist
1) What is the quality of your self-talk while trading? Is it angry and frustrated; negative and defeated? How much of your self-talk is market strategy focused, and how much is self-focused? Is your self-talk constructive, and would you want others to be talking with you that way while you’re trading?
2) What work do you do on yourself and your trading while the market is closed? Do you actively identify what you’re doing right and wrong in your trading each day—with specific steps to address both—or does your trading business lack quality control? Markets are ever changing; how are you changing with them?
3) How would your trading profit/loss profile change if you eliminated a few days where you lacked proper risk control? Do you have and strictly follow risk management parameters?
4) Does the size of your positions reflect the opportunity you see in the market, or do you fail to capitalize on opportunity or try to create opportunities when they’re not there?
5) Are trading losses often followed by further trading losses? Do you end up losing money in “revenge trading” just to regain money lost? Do you finish trading prematurely when you’re up money, failing to exploit a good day?
6) Do you cut winning trades short because, deep inside, you don’t think you’ll be able to make large profits? Do you become stubborn in positions, turning small losers into large ones?
7) Is trading making you happy, proud, fulfilled, and content, or does it more often leave you feeling unhappy, guilty, frustrated, and dissatisfied? Are you having fun trading even when it’s hard work?
8) Are you making trades because the market is giving you opportunity, or are you placing trades to fulfill needs—for excitement, self-esteem, recognition, etc.—that are not being met in the rest of your life?
9) Are you seeking trading success as a part-time trader? Would you be seeking success as a surgeon, professional basketball player, or musician by pursuing your work part-time?
10) Can you identify the specific edges you possess over the many other motivated, interested traders that fail to achieve success in the markets? Do you really have an edge, and—if so—what are you doing to maintain it?
~Investing Quotes to live by~
If you have a quote post it and I will add it here.
"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right."
~ Benjamin Graham
When markets seem irrational to you, theres a good chance you are failing to read the language the market is speaking.
~ Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
"The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right, I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong."
-George Soros
"misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance—like a child playing with a chemistry kit."
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way"
-Aeneid
"You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going
'cause you might not get there."
-Yogi Berra
"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."
-Benjamin Franklin
"It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it."
-Nathan Mayer Rothschild
"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."
Warren Buffett -
"Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything."
Benjamin Graham
"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means.. that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase."
Benjamin Graham-
"The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street."
Bernard Madoff -
"You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations."
John Malone -
"In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn’t appear on the balance sheet.. the quality of management, especially its entrepreneurial drive."
Michael Milken -
"Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa."
Charlie Munger -
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
Rene Rivkin -
Just got a Skymark Email on the Rachel Ray news. Might help with volume.
I'm hoping there will be a positive reaction to this PR. The concenous here was that this product would do better in retail. Also,I remember everyone was freaking out over the rumor that the U/S was going to be on Opera. Rachel Ray, although she is no Opera, is definitaly a nice surprise.
Become a fan of the G Spout on facebook!
Some cool history if you read their previous posts.
PR coming soon. Tomorrow maybe?