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When do new options become available? I am very interested in purchasing boat loads of COR August calls, however, only May ones are available currently.
Im out for the next 4 days on a mountaineering trip. Have a great weekend all!
Have a great rest of the week and weekend everyone. I am leaving tomorrow morning to go on a 4-day mountaineering trip. My first official winter mountain climb! Should be fun times and the weather looks like it will be clear. Pray for no avalanches, no blizzards, and no frost bite for me. Thanks! See you all Monday.
Bought a little more today on the dip below $16, however I held half of the money I was going to put in because the TA just isnt *perfect* yet. Lol. Should be in a few days if the pattern holds. Then its off to options land for me...
Yeah, I guess I am pretty happy. Actually I am almost always happy. I dont think a stock price can really effect my happiness or joy. I might be a little disappointed right now, but I am honestly not worried. The stock price is wearing on my patience though... a little. I wish things just happened faster, good or bad! I wish I could read the last chapter in this book right now, despite only still being in the introduction! Does the good guy win? Is the damsel rescued? Or will the foe triumph and all hope be lost...
intesting people coming around here today... remember the day of good ol thaliowizard? could be a good sign
Progress is being made everyone, no worries here... I was in a funk last night. I feel much better this morning.
Man, this stock is so ugly! I hate it! It makes me want to puke.
Terrorist attacks definitely worry me a lot too. It's really bad, because unlike just personally picking a stock that sucks, an attack is something completely out of my hands. Situation you cant control or predict are the worst. One things for sure though, is that the market can recover from attacks (ie: 9/11), and probably offer great buying opportunities after the initial scare/slide has stabilized. Well, for now, Ill just be praying that nothing like that happens, and that BMRN does well.
Tomorrow I am buying more BMRN if it gaps up or trends up throughout the day. If that happens the TA indicators I am watching will be screaming "BUY"... and americanbulls candlesticking said buy today so I think it will happen. First large investment in options, here I come...
If BMRN gaps down or trends down throughout the day, I am going to be waiting until the TA conditions are right...
BioMarin to Present at the Cowen and Company 27th Annual Health Care Conference
Tuesday March 6, 4:00 pm ET
NOVATO, Calif., March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq and SWX: BMRN - News News) today announced that Jean-Jacques Bienaime, Chief Executive Officer of BioMarin, will present a company update at the Cowen and Company 27th Annual Health Care Conference in Boston on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 1:45 p.m. ET.
Interested parties may access a live audio webcast of the presentation via the investor section of the BioMarin website, www.BMRN.com. A replay of the presentation will be archived on the site for at least one week following the presentation.
I agree, I have been watching the TA indicators for a nice place to buy in... they hit! Tomorrow I am adding more.. real cash though. Thanks for your post scmfinance
OT: I dont really know anything about MEMY as a company, but based on TA it appears that it hasnt finished going down or at least stabilized yet. I would wait to jump back in to this. I am not very good at TA yet, but all the signals that usually point to a "buy" have not yet been met. I am sure Jerry could say a lot more on this than I could.
OT: So what are your thoughts on BMRN (if you follow that as one of your 200)? Tomorrow I plan on buying a few leaps since all TA indicators that I know seem to be pointing to a move upward. And BMRN for the long term especially looks good.
what do you think about the market today? Does it bode well for the future, or is more correction on the way?
it means CYGX is crashing and burning or it means that good news is on the way... depending on who you talk to.
Other's peoples perspectives on BMRN's outlook would be appreciated too...
Thanks Aiming4. I agree with you, as far as expected news is concerned the approval decision is the only upcoming event that should directly effect the stock price. However, I think that after this correction/downspike has finished, people will start to accumulate these cheap shares again. The recent drop (Feb 26 and on) is not due to the failed clinical trial, but rather just the general market swing, IMO. If the market didnt take the tumble it did, then I would expect that BMRN would have stayed around $18, since it had appeared to stabilize after the BH4/earning results. I am no expert by any means though and I am sure someone with TA skills could be a lot of help in a situation like this. My plan is to wait for the price to stabilize or turn slightly up and then buy some Jan. 2009 call options (LEAPS). I think that would be a fairly safe investment and I expect to take some very nice gains from it. Biomarin is growing to fast for the stock price not to eventually go up. If we see the estimated $25/share this year, I will definitely be one very happy camper, but even if we dont I am going long. The only problem I forsee is the apparently vacant pipeline (besides Phenylase)... but that is a a whole other story. Aiming, do you own BMRN? And what is your outlook on things (BMRN and market in general)?
Thanks,
fearfrost
I finally really listened to the most recent webcast (http://web.servicebureau.net/conf/meta?i=1112828043&c=2343&m=was&u=/w_ccbn.xsl&date_... ) from Biomarin and updated the timeline sections on this board. Lots of upcoming presentations and conferences. I still highly recommend that any who has not heard the most recent webcast to listen to it before it is no longer available for replay. It basically lays out the company and where it is head for upcoming future. I will definitely be adding more BMRN to my account at these levels. Great buying opportunity. Cheers!
Form 8-K for BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC
2-Mar-2007
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01 Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On February 27, 2007, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (the "Company") entered into a License Agreement (the "Agreement") with Women's and Children's Hospital, a facility of Children, Youth and Women's Health Service ("WCH"), granting the Company exclusive worldwide rights to certain technology related to the active ingredient in Naglazyme® , recombinant human enzyme N-acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfatase (rhASB). This Agreement amends and restates the previous license agreement dated August 14, 1998 between the Company and WCH related to rhASB. The primary purpose of the new Agreement is to clarify BioMarin's continuing perpetual rights to the licensed technology, subject to the payment of a royalty through the life of the current patents. The Agreement does not change the current royalty rate.
Hey Bigworld, what do you think about PPHM now? I have been watching it and own a little, but man the trading on that thing is freaking crazy. CYGX seems to at least follow a trend and make sense, but PPHM is just blatantly manipulated! Most people on the PPHM board seem to think it is in our favor. And all this good news keeps coming out so I think they may be correct. Just wondering what you think, especially about the insane trading/manipulation. (I have never really truly believed in paid bashers until this stock, the yahoo message board is chaos. No good discussions can come up because the board is swarmed with bashers... even though ALL the news out has been very positive in my eyes. I just hope its a bash'n'load'up technique so the big guns can load up before the run up)
OT: oh, one final OT for the night, I just felt my first earthquake about 5 minutes ago here in San Francisco. Im on the 11th floor and things were a swayin. Pretty darn cool... news says it was a 4.0. Anyways...
OT: ecmorgan, I was testing a hypothesis of differences of two means. I did have two groups of data: all my readings prior to resveratrol and all my readings post resveratrol. This wasnt a clinical trial of many people, but rather a test to see if there was a significant difference between my two testing periods, which I showed there was. After researching the statistical method I used, I do believe that I am correct in using a two sample t test. I am not claiming that resveratrol lowers blood pressure, but rather that there is a significant difference between my blood pressure from 3 months ago to my blood pressure now and that I was on resveratrol during the time it dropped. Anyway, whether I am right or wrong, doesnt really matter I guess..
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Q1 2007)
Scheduled to start Wed, May 2, 2007, 5:00 pm Eastern
http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/7/78487.html
OT: I forgot to say I only did the significance test for Systolic pressure. my bad. Sorry for all the OT's too, Ill stop.
So CYGX, nice flatline today. I kinda like it. What is it they say, "calm before the storm" or something like that...
OT: A two-sample t-test. That is the correct test right? Just did it quickly in excel. I might go back and check it to make sure, but I dont really care too much because it is easy to just look at my data and see that it was a real effect. I had over 100 data points so I can pretty much insure that it wasn't just random.
http://www.ubht.nhs.uk/R&D/RDSU/Statistical%20Tutorials/t-tests.pdf
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/qmss/t_two.html
I took grad level statistics, so hopefully I did it correctly. It has been a couple years though...
OT: I am going to build up to it over the course of a week or two, just to make sure I dont have a reaction. But I feel pretty confident that I will be safe based on human toxicity studies that were done. It appears that even gram level dosing is still safe (for at least 3 months or however long the tox study was for). Ive read about one individual that is currently taking 6000mg with no problems, so my 500 mg is pretty conservative to what I could be doing.
Lol, well I am going to be in Houston this summer (actually that might change... BP is considering placing me on an oil platform 200miles out at sea instead, I find out this month). My BMI says I am normal. BMI=18.6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Body_mass_index_chart.svg
I couldnt have said it better! I agree with everything you wrote. That is why I just bought more. While we dont have the momentum of the BH4 results, all the fundamentals are still there. I am very confident in my investment, but I realize that it just might take a little longer to get to the +$20 zone again. Just gotta be patient is all...
OT: I kinda hit on it in post #45529
But mainly it really increase energy and drive. Shortly after taking the pills, I feel totally awake, ready to take on the day and motivated. Its not as if I feel unmotivated and lazy if I dont take the pills, but they just give me an extra kick. Different than caffeine, not really a body buzz. And taking them before working out, I can go almost twice as hard as I usually do and still feel great. Maybe it is placebo, maybe not. I know a lot of other people have reported the same effects. Supposedly it is even more intense at higher doses, so I will let you know how 500mg feels compared to the 40mg once I switch. Rumor has it that a study is coming out shortly that shows resveratrol increases memory and learning, something from Sinclair again, but who knows.
All I know is that the effects are strong enough and the journal articles compelling enough for me to continue taking it, and increasing my dosage.
OT: Resveratrol update
I have the results for my resveratrol test. I have been on resveratrol for almost 3 months now. Prior to starting supplementation I took my blood pressure and heart rate readings several times over the course of two weeks. Then, two weeks ago I started taking readings again to compare what effect the resveratrol is having on those body signals.
Pre-Resveratrol Readings:
blood pressure: 119/65
heart rate: 61 bpm
Post-Resveratrol Readings:
blood pressure: 114/58
heart rate: 60 bpm
The blood pressure results were statistically significant with a p-value of less than 0.01 (alpha = 0.01)
Conclusion:
5 point drop in Systolic pressure
7 point drop in Diastolic pressure
No change in heart rate
No change in weight (153 lb)
No change in height (6'4")
I am actually quite surprised with these results. I was expecting nothing to happen, but I guess it is good. "The American Heart Association Nutrition Committee estimates that even a small reduction of just two points in diastolic blood pressure could lower a person's stroke risk by as much as 15% and lower heart disease risk by 6%."
However, I cannot fully (if at all) attribute the change to resveratrol because I was also training pretty intensely for a couple mountaineering trips that I am going on (one next week!). For the majority of the past 2 months I have been doing 1.5-3 hours of aerobic workout 6 out of 7 days. It is very likely exercising is the actual reason. Plus, resveratrol is not known to effect these body indicators... It would have been better if I had blood tests done before because it is supposed to have a noticeable effect on cholesterol, lipid levels, etc.
I plan on increasing my resveratrol intake from 40mg to 500mg. This is because of the strong positive side-effects, no noticeable negative side-effects, and medical journals that point to the benefits of taking it. I will have another update in 3-4 months.
Lol, too funny!
But the day is not over yet is it? Maybe they release the monthly report the first day of the following month. So let the count down begin: t-minus 21 hours and 40 minutes
Watch out for another possible bad day in the market... asia's getting hit again Wednesday. It opened down again and continues to fall.
Yup, I forgot that one too. Next time I will have a list of questions and a pad/pen ready to take notes... right next to the shower. lol
Yeah, I forgot that one. As soon as I hung up I was like shoot. He kinda caught me off gaurd because it was really early this morning and I had just gotten out of the shower 2 minutes before he called. I wanted to ask him about synDNA and sales as well. Maybe ask him if they had more than one machine too. Just curious.
Arnold, how is it now past the month? Technically tomorrow is the last day of the month. Im really beginning to think your motives here are tainted. You act like a really good basher... you have knowledge of the company, and aren't blantantly and *overly* negative about CYGX, but you instill doubt and fear in a very subtle way. You quote mistruths, but post enough truth that you have the appearance of being in the know. In my view you are either one of three things:
1) an immature and bored poster that likes to laugh as he makes people squirm
2) a clever basher that is sly and misleading
3) a mentally challenged person / psycho that really has no idea what is going on
I vote for #1
However #2 seems pretty good too. Check out these selected lessons of a stock basher:
Lesson 2: BASHERS ALWAYS BRING UP OLD NEWS THAT YOU HAVE HEARD MANY TIMES.
Lesson 3: BASHERS POST MANY TIMES A DAY. They try to wear you out.
Lesson 4: BASHERS WILL LIE TO YOUR FACE.
Lesson 9: BASHERS WILL TRY TO CREATE DOUBT AND GET YOU TO RESEARCH ITEMS THAT THEY KNOW WILL LEAD TO THE CREATION OF DOUBT
Sorry for the caps, it was just a copy/paste. But sure describes arnold.
OT: Oh man, lol, I just sold my chinese mutual funds last week. Thank goodness! Took some very nice profit and then ran for the door.
I didnt say "he"... I said "they" as in the company and anyone that they might be utilizing (ie: stonebridge). He didnt say: "I am personally working on this update"... he said "we are working on...". What is all your fussing about arnold? Maybe he is working on it, maybe stonebridge is, who cares? not i
Ok here are more details to the best of my memory:
-they are finishing up details for the 10-K and it will be submitted on time
-after the 10-K is done, they are going to be wrapping up details on the next monthly update which we should see soon. Dont know when, but he hasnt forgotten about it and will post it when they finish it.
-they are finalizing details to the construction plans in the laboratory / manufacturing area. He said that should be done within 10 days
-application for building permits will then be pursued and hopefully obtained shortly. He said a similar building project just obtained permits, so it shouldnt be too difficult, however it can take from a few days to a few weeks.
-ground breaking will commence once permits are obtained, and I think he said that should be within the next month or two. He told me a number of days, but I forget.
-he reiterated that they plan on moving in 1Q 2008
So honestly, most of that was just common knowledge or could have easily been figured out (especially just by talking with him), but it was encouraging for me that he
1) called me back
2) freely answered my questions
3) was very nice
4) let me know how things are progressing
In retrospect I should have had more specific questions instead of the generic ones that I asked, and I can think of a lot more things I should have inquired about. Oh well, maybe Ill call him in a couple months or so.
Someone who has better questions and a better understanding of Cytogenix should call him, he seemed willing to chat and was very friendly. You want info, just ask the source.
This a.m. I had a very nice phone call from MS. He called me back from my message I left yesterday, and he was very nice and informative. I asked him about the monthly update, quarterly financial report, and the building progress. Im definitely pleased and am thinking about buying more at these levels, I might wait a week though to see if it doesnt drop a bit more.
Progress is being made. No worries here.