Keep in mind pretty much this entire run we just had did not have a new catalyst to propel it. It behaved the way you said earlier (think single-pennies zone), but it broke that pattern with this last run. It just kept on running without anything new driving it.

Yeah, bro. Threw my tax return right into ATRN at .125 (chasing from around .11 :P )

Another good investment even at that (at the time) "high" price!

I remember those days fondly... Thinking about "how much" I had gained at .0545 and hearing people tell me I 'should have sold' when it retraced to .027. Glad I didn't. Rinse and repeat for all the other ones as well. Valuable lesson for all the other retraces. :)

Hahaha ZD, "Monopoly Money" is a great way to describe exactly how I feel about all this. Funny how some people work so hard for a dollar when if we throw a dollar at the right stock we sit and watch it grow while we do nothing. And... the next second it might be gone!

The miracle/game of the stock market. I constantly wonder why more people don't do this.

*facepalm*

Is screaming that the sky is falling and then complaining at length about it going back up (without you) a good reason to receive sympathy?

I don't mean to be cruel, but this makes no sense to me. If you (as it appears) attempt to induce mass panic and the stock doesn't stay down, that is a bad thing?

Bottom line: Don't trade emotionally. Try to be level-headed. Don't count money you never had. Until it's cash (not stock) it's not profit. It's especially not profit if it's a series of events that COULD have happened.

Hahahahaha where did all the Mr. Bills go? I don't hear any more of those "OHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"s

Remember this next time please, those who panicked.

Thanks Gary and Ninja! Guess we were just bored. :P

What is going on here? You guys are all "in the know" now?

Woah...

*blinks*

It's been 52 minutes. Should I keep waiting or just say you were wrong right now?

Thanks. I skimmed their website... I didn't immediately see proof they are a paid promo company, though I may have missed it. That really doesn't look like a pump to me, though. Merely a statement of what ATRN PPS has been doing and telling people to 'know when to get in and get out'. Looks like RA is just looking for views, to me.

I guess it's too hard to keep track of them... They flit in and out of here on a whim.

What PR are you referring to? Link please.

You realize when people appear OUT OF NOWHERE and make bold statements with no references, it comes across as a manipulation attempt, right?

THANK YOU to Garyst, Chade, and all the others here speaking with the voice of reason. I encourage people who are afraid to look back and see the hysteria on the board during the other -50% consolidations.

Still long...

Look at the charts. This is not the first time this stock has done this, this YEAR.

Seriously. This hysteria is based on people not doing their research on this stock.

Whew! What happened today? Did Smoke sell his shares? :P

Coming from a long (since .0087):

All kidding aside, this hysteria is what happens every time this goes -50% for consolidation. Only -33.96% if you count from open today. Anyway, look back at the chart and the boards when it did this the other times.

You think we are going to go up multiple cents forever without a pullback? Logically, dramatic upheaval will result in a dramatic downheaval to balance everything out. I was nervously anticipating this since last week.

BOTTOM LINE: We are down to where the PPS was at open (9:33:59) on MONDAY. TWO. DAYS. AGO.

Does that help put things in perspective? I suggest those that are panicking to calm down. Personally, I held all my shares.

Man, you're going to need more than one of those...

Maybe you can clear this up for me, Patience:

What the **** just happened? I don't remember seeing a close like this with ATRN. Was someone/something manipulating this and waiting for the last ten minutes to make it go crazy? It seems very unusual to me.

Congratulations, all! This was a run without that disappointing momentum loss we have seen in the past. Beautiful.

Well, this is unexpected...

I have thought the same thing atrn in lowercase looks eerily like ATM. It has been an appropriate likeness in my experience.

Heh heh I pinged the ask.

I'm ATRN poor right now myself... All my extra cash is tied up in this stock.

So I guess you got that M3 paid off, huh? :P Good stuff man.

FWIW, I don't see the profit posts as bragging. To me it's more of a celebration. I actually ENJOY seeing how much people have made. There is no reason to lie, and even if people are lying, it really hurts nobody.

Great stuff bro! Whether big or small, everyone is winning here. That is a lot of positivity in one place.

It's going to be wild. I am a very new trader. Entered the marketplace with 1900 dollars, added 3000 last week and I'm sitting on $30k paper now. A small amount to many, but even this amount will allow me to make me much more later.

And ATRN isn't anywhere near done yet...

Lots of guys here with hundreds of thousands in (at least) paper profit. With the shares Smoke_em has stated he has, he, and maybe others, have millions. Just think... If you dropped $43k on this at .01, you'd have a million before .238

Mind boggling for real.

Just what I was thinking. If this is consolidation, it is a beautiful thing.

I'm still wondering who sold me another 25k at .125 last week. Sad.

Upsurge before lunch or sideways?

IIRC, I believe several members here stated that .26 was a resistance.

Thanks Clay! I really enjoy your ATRN videos!

Yeah, with nearly $2.5mil in profits so far, I'd say you've done pretty well bro.

Awesome dude, awesome. I am familiar with TASR and looked the others up. Pick out a space for your ATRN one! I know I'm picking out mine lol.

Smoke_em: Thanks for sharing that with us! You should get that tat NOW, dude. You do indeed "ball so hard". If I had had 50k to put into this at my entry point (.0087) I'd like to think I'd have done it. I'd be a millionaire at .174.

Now my goal is to do that at the next big opportunity WITH the money from ATRN. Just thinking out loud here. Trading may just become my full-time job soon.

Forget clothing and backgrounds... I will get an ATRN chart tattooed on my body if this really changes my life.

Yeah by counting your posts saying what you bought, I came up with a sharecount of at least 18-19 million shares in your possession. Assuming you didn't sell any, that is. Amazing, and great job seeing the opportunity! It's inspiring to new traders like me and I hope I will be able to do the same with the next opportunity close to this (if there is one) with ATRN money in my account.

Smoke_em... Out of curiosity I added up a bunch of the amounts of ATRN shares you said you bought on this board. WOW. Congratulations! Seriously.

You have real power over this with that big of a chunk. Let us know before you sell...

LOL as far as we know, Smoke_em balls harder than anyone else here. He admitted to owning at least 5% of the total shares.

Welcome back, btw, Smoke_em!

Same here! Huge learning experience! And a positive one, go figure. The allure of trading full-time is a large one.