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half_full: what a story! i've had similar experiences with PSA test through the years...same with many i know. most of the people here probably don't understand your comment that the 3 months of anxiety were PRICELESS. getting a faulty positive from a cancer test is one of the most emotional trying experiences one can go through.
congrats on the negative result...may you celebrate it well.
Hmmm...medical advice over an anonymous stock message board...very nice.
HALF_FULL: eli kammerman, who is an old friend of mine, is one of the analysts covering NFLD (cathay). he puts odds of approval at some insanely high # (like 85% or something).
that is because this trial is an SPA, not a normal p3 trial. in other words, the FDA agreed in writing that if NFLD showed non-inferiority or above the product would be approved. the odds of success on a SPA are extraordinarily high...not your typical roll of the dice phase 3.
great buy the other week...congrats.
HALF_FULL: NFLD starting to move here, although it tends to give back gains very quickly sometimes. We should see a bit of a run through trial completion (any day now), and then it's anyone's guess what the stock does before the next milestone which is topline data release. I've seen biotechs with great data nose-dive right before the data comes out (ie AGIX), and I've seen the opposite many times too. These days the data does not really leak ahead of time so the mkt gets frantic and can send mixed messages...best to make a decision ahead of time and not try to read into mkt action before data release. I might trade out on strength if non-inferiority is found and buy back later. If superiority is found the stock will be $30+ in a heartbeat, perhaps significantly more.
scouty: great post...much appreciated.
mysscat: iggy is the grandmaster of all moro cronies. he put up the original $50k (plus legal, regulatory, and other fees) to purchase the whispering oaks CUSIP. to complete the reverse merger there was a convoluted series of m&a that transferred Moro's intellectual property to the new entity and gave him a majority stake, which he no longer has.
PS in the old days it was not easy or cheap to get your hands on said materials (filings, p.r's, etc). these days you can spend a few hours on the internet and have everything you need...so no excuses.
off to the tennis court.
honestly guys, stop. go read every single annual report that this company has put out. there aren't that many (1 per year). maybe i'm old fashioned but that is investing 101. you don't put your hard earned $$ into a highly speculative stock unless you've read all the filings, all the P.R's, and everything else you can get your hands on.
ah...and here OpenWorld SA is listed as a consulting firm:
http://www.grippo.com.ar/argentina/english/business/consulting.htm
Our friend Iggy Martinelli is definitely behind all of this B.S.
ah yes, Gyro...I just found them listed as one of "Moro's cronies" as we call them:
Arnold Jacobs 12/24/03 50,000 $ 10,500 B
Michael Jacobs 12/24/03 238,095 $ 50,000 B
Michael Jacobs 1/20/04 100,000 $ 19,000 B
Janetta
Tcherkassova 3/11/04 25,000 Services rendered (research) A
Lars Rudolph 3/17/04 315,790 $ 60,000 A
Gabriel De Carlo 3/17/04 266,667 $ 40,000 A
Claudia Gazzo 3/26/04 266,667 $ 40,000 A
Michael Jacobs 3/29/04 100,000 $ 15,000 B
Valerie
Strongitharm 6/16/04 628,571 $ 44,000 A
Lars Rudolph 6/29/04 105,263 $ 20,000 A
Silvana Gazzo 7/06/04 183,945 $ 47,683 A
Dr. James
Birnbaum 7/20/04 500,000 $250,000 B
Jan Notnaes 7/25/04 33,333 $ 20,000 A
Michael Jacobs 8/25/04 338,095 $ 71,000 B
Valerie
Strongitharm 9/24/04 271,972 $ 19,038 A
Openworld S.A. 12/16/04 320,600 $150,682 A
Bitazol, S.A. 12/24/04 302,996 $ 19,520 A
dakota: can you post a link as I am not seeing that transaction posted at the SEC/Edgar.
also...who the hell is openworld SA? some german firm? what the hell? never heard of them..
half_full: I understand. I'm just not one for conspiracy theories...I was already an old crow in the 60's and I guess my disdain for anti-establishment thinking came about around that time. Back to BOCX...mysscat is right. We were delisted because of an absurd technicality in the NASD blue book. We have remained delisted because we are broke and entirely disconnected from the Street. If BOCX were to open the pocketbook and hire the right firms, the problem would have gone away long ago. But we both know that 1) the pocketbook is empty and 2) even if it weren't Moro doesn't seem to care much about those little "wordly" things that can potentially make or break a company (which is a huge mistake IMO).
half_full: come on man are you serious.
interesting read half_full, and just shows that there are too many competitors to enable a big conspiracy against a cure for cancer.
stupid? that last comment actually made me giggle like a korean schoolgirl.
and you remind me of my grandkids...always whining.
yup dakota you're right time to sell your shares.
you guys are nuts...there is too much competition out there for some conspiracy to exist against a cure for cancer.
that definitely looks like a reversal candle but it's honestly misleading because of the fact that nearly all volume was at the bid. IMO here comes .70
we see high volume every time we get taken to a new intermediate low. that is the whole point...the market maker finds new shake out points where there are pockets of liquidity on the offer that he can use to cover his net short book. IMO his book should be getting close to neutral at this point.
LOL I wouldn't call it a sacrifice...I did it for my own benefit. There is NO better indicator than actually testing the locals via a block trade since you can instantly see how their book is looking at that moment in time.
I just tested the market maker by selling around 20k shares at market. He picked them up instantly. So...he is obviously still net short from the latest rally we had. I helped us out by trying to get him a little back to neutral, but he could have a lot more to cover. We'll see...
If any of you have tried to sell large amounts of shares into a rally you know that when the MM is long you have a fat chance of getting filled instantly. When he is short though you'll get filled instantly
kag: agreed. as i always say, there are two major risks to our investment right now...
1) RECAF doesn't integrate on ARCHITECT
2) ABT's 510k historical sample testing doesn't come out too impressive.
My point was addressing those who are hung up on further licensing deals. ABT is #2 in the world -- we don't need anybody else. We need ABT to move along.
dkeller: bingo...when you don't have institutional money at play and barely any accredited money (i bet less than 3% of the investors here are for example) the patterns have much less to work with. ie; no sustained accumulation on a big scale. you have random retail buying when they stumble upon the stock, and some insider volume before news, but no money is sitting there accumulating the stock for a real portfolio.
the early TA literature is based on the concept of mapping the "accumulation" of retail shares by institutions on the way up and the "distribution" of those shares back to retail on the way down. ie spotting the elephant's footprints. if you take them out of the picture it gets tough... LOL...i don't know if you ever traded at the CBOT but imagine walking into a grain pit and busting out charts during harvest season when the commercials are at it.
schmucks: we have abbott. we need nobody else. go put your duntz caps on and repeat that until you fall asleep. if you're too impatient to wait for abbott's timeline you're in the wrong stock. go trade futures if you want fast action day in and out.
dkeller: IMO it's all a bunch of hogwash in such an illiquid stock. there are no bulls and bears here, there is no real market here. there is retail paper versus one independant market maker. that doesn't constitute a market. :)
100% correct taxman. time to sell your shares.
dkeller: prepare for crash landing? technical support has officially been made into minced meat.
let me guess...100 shares at the close brings us back up to .95
mysscat: bingo. the vast majority of brokers will not even buy pink sheets stocks for the small % of clients who want to buy them...a lot of red tape is required at many firms. not to mention the fact that you will never find a mutual fund, hedge fund, or pension fund buying a pink sheets stock. also, you will never find a CFA rec'ing a pink sheets stock. so, right there you have 99.99% of investment dollars out of play. :)
half_full: great buy. you will be very happy.
far less than 1% of the available U.S equities risk capital is invested in or willing to invest in pink sheets stocks when you exclude ADR's, etc. go put your duntz cap on and ponder that for a moment. and that doesn't mean it's impossible to break out on the pink sheets. it means it's awfully tough to get real capital in this stock for any sustained period of time. and...that's a big part of the reason why i'm here.
looks like you're right reversetaxman...time for you to sell.
great find half_full
mr. pauling is one of my all-time favorite individuals. he treated himself as a human guinea pig, and lived to a very old age -- probably as a result of his own self-experimentation. he also was the true discoverer of the double helix -- crick and watson are a bunch of pikers. what a truly remarkable american...up in that rare air with a handful of others -- edison, einstein, and a few more. great post.
dkeller:
check out time/sales for today...virtually EVERYTHING at the bid. it's amazing how somebody keeps propping us up to .95 near the close of trading on only a few hundred shares...this has happened quite a few times now:
3:57:08 PM Trade 0.95 200
2:42:26 PM Trade 0.87 2500
2:38:58 PM Trade 0.87 2500
2:30:28 PM Trade 0.87 2000
12:25:38 PM Trade 0.9 5000
11:45:16 AM Trade 0.87 300
11:04:04 AM Trade 0.9 121
10:51:18 AM Trade 0.86 2000
10:51:18 AM Trade 0.87 1147
10:51:14 AM Trade 0.87 853
10:39:08 AM Trade 0.9 1000
10:27:10 AM Trade 0.87 2000
10:27:06 AM Trade 0.86 2000
10:22:34 AM Trade 0.9 200
9:48:28 AM Trade 0.9 200
9:39:58 AM Trade 0.9 1700
9:39:50 AM Trade 0.92 1700
9:36:38 AM Trade 0.92 200
9:34:38 AM Trade 0.88 800
9:33:44 AM Trade 0.87 2000
9:33:40 AM Trade 0.86 2000
9:31:16 AM Trade 0.87 2000
9:31:12 AM Trade 0.86 2000
9:30:14 AM Trade 0.88 1430
9:30:12 AM Trade 0.88 1330
9:30:08 AM Trade 0.88 110
HALF_FULL: I don't have premium membership anymore.
kag: your post about the "contest" is what's transparent. LOL.
scouty: thanks for the info. just for clarification, they are responding to NASD not NASDAQ. i can't believe that b.s is still going on. i'm thinking we will bypass the BB and just head straight to AMEX or NASDAQ SmallCap when we do a round of financing or receive an upfront which allows us to meet the shareholder equity requirements. the AMEX and NASDAQ SC are pay to play...none of this sponsorship bullcrap.
Kag: that post was a very creative way to plug your ridiculous obsession about varying amounts of RECAF in the blood being a huge problem. Nice one!