Once every seven years I get a little "randy."
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Special Circumstance NDA?
It occurred to me this morning. SP only shares information after he has a signed NDA in hand. SO, I would say there are about 3 dozen of us on this board anyway , plus or minus, who seem really "long'... who really seem to care that this company becomes what we imagine it might. Why not form a "collective" and all members sign an NDA as an entity with specific items to be disclosed to the group?
Of course,it won't happen but as long as quality team members like Mr. Truckenmiller and Mr. Sverdlik, etc., are content to be part of this company, I glean much from this with or without an NDA.Thank God for the ability to have fantasies.
As for LNET's change in stock value being related to the existence of TIVUS, I am not sure we can make such a correlation there.They did release their latest quarterly and it was underwhelming.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
Science Officer Spock, out.
SP has been seen at the NAB convention earlier this week or late last week... having meetings.
He has been in NY meeting with an ad agency known for working with branding.
As far as I know the DT install remains functional in NE.
Sverdlik, a high powered, well-connected ad guy from NY, is onboard.
Tivus is woking with IBM to tweak the proprietary IPTV software.
The Tivus software is patent-pending.(Once patent is in-hand, this ballgame changes significantly.)
Sources on this board confirms SP is very hard at work selling ad space to a number of companies in PHilly to support the Marriott installation.
TA is gagged.
SP goes everywhere with NDAs ready to be signed by anyone who wants to discuss Tivus business with him and it appears everyone is honoring their commitments to this document.
Financials are late...both latest quarterly and most recent annual.
Anyone care to add to this? Please feel free to modify as appropriate.
Off to holodeck to pick up Vulcan chicks.(That 7 year thing.)
Spock out.
Thank you for your very informative email. I really do appreciate it. You are "good people".
thv
FWIW: I have email the Investor Relations at Tivus a couple of times in the recent past but there is no reply. The few things that sound like good information that make their way to this board convince me we have invested in the stealth bomber of sorts. We all know is it going to rule the world but we aren't allowed to know anything about its development.
Now, If I could just understand why someone bought 900 shares at 2 PM today, that would be worth sticking McCoy in the transporter and beaming him into deep space.
Spock. Transporter Room.
The Bid:Ask ratio has been climbing since yesterday morning. I am tracking it ti see what I can learn from its behavior. At 10:30 yesterday it was about 1:5.5, today is is almost 1:20.
Spock out.
Your post is something I find good value in. May I ask what you might be able to share about SP's market efforts and what sort of results he has been getting thus far?
I am very encouraged to learn SP is , as would be expected, aggressively marketing.
Thank you, very sincerely, for your post.
THV. Spock out.
Don't beat around the bush. What is it you are trying to say? You'll feel much better if you just let it all out.
That is what Vulcan's don't do, anyway.
Bridge.
May I ask how to verify the shares being traded today are shares not previously available? Thanks. I appreciate it.
The way this "chart" is behaving today is quite odd. I have been followin it very closely and today's run is very strange in several ways. I am sure others have noticed.
thank you.
Spock out.
Old news. False alarm. Sorry. Story appeared to have today's date on it. My apologies.
Infovalue Computing/Tivus partnership just announced on wnd.com? I must see if this is relevant. Maybe this is what has my haunches up.
Sensors scanning at full range.
I feel like something is about to happen. wish I knew what it was. Creepy.....for a vulcan, anyway.
Spock out.
I can tell you it has caused me to ask many more questions and to seek out a deeper understanding...to boldly go....as it were.There is another stock out there this morning, a known and easily verifiable P&D which is outpacing everything TIVU has done in the past month.I am asking myself why I am not throwing quatloos at it and I see that it matters to me what I think of the company.
Some would say I am foolish. If it is making a profit, why does it matter to me? I am at a loss for an efficient way to articulate it, but it matters to me. Perhaps a good idea with a crummy spokesman is somehow better than a lousy idea with a great spokesman. If I was a day-trader I wouldn't even have time to get philosophical about anything, either I'd be winning or losing. End of story, right?
For sure, I can see I need to learn much more about market makers, their techniques and motivations. On some level, logic must come into play,but in the area of investments such as these things which should create clear supply/demand behaviors does not. So it is not so much about John Q. as it is about Gordon G.
Fascinating. Spock out.
....forget to mention: 16 trades in the premarket when 16 trades in a week would be noteworthy? And for order amounts which, in many cases, amounts to little more than dinner out. NO, y hunch is that something is rotten in Denmark.
So what?, you might ask. Who cares if you're making money.Well, I won't purchase stolen goods. Simple obvious reason there...and it has nothing to do with legalities. Even with trading one can invest in a way that honors the greater moral good, no? Just sayin'.
Bridge.
Movement such as this on a stock like this one throws all kinds of red flags on the field for me. As I said in a post a few moments ago, whatever MediaG3 is, it does not behave like any company I know. It is just a couple of days past income tax day, there appear to be no new financials, only a late filing notice, and it would take so very few investors to make this thing "appear" active, I can easily imagine a rumor being spread to a handful of people who then, all on the same day, look to stake their respective claims to get "in" ahead of the great imminently forthcoming news.
This is clearly an object lesson in the fickle behavior of investors if nothing else. This is fascinating to watch from the sidelines. I very nearly got in in a big way not too long ago, but I did not get the right "vibe".
Spock out.
Can anyone here explain how this stock is moving up? I have been looking into it since February and I can find nothing of any real value here. There are no clients, no employees, no news, no returned calls or emails to em though I have initiated a bunch,no goodwill. Nothing. I feel confused. PLease help. Thank you.
UNGAG the TA!!!!!! Enough already.
Yes, GD. Saw 2 changes coming after 2 PM edt. Both occurred. Very hard to see the first of the two.
Tx.
Spock Out.
PacI: My take on that statement by Jwez is that news,whenever it may come, will be both positive and impressive.
[There have been several stocks I have wanted to pursue recently but it would mean liquidating a significant percentage of my Tivus holdings and at the end of the day, my hunch is that this one will be paying off handsomely when it does..enough so that selling would be unwise in my view.]
If I may join in the speculation for just a moment, if I am to understand that SP likes to get ducks in a row prior to releasing news, then the current state of affairs is likely that there are many ducks to line up with new ducks joining the line before the other ducks are ready to swim.
Imagine being a very small company and trying to impress an ever-increasing barrage of "A-list" interest without looking overwhelmed or vulnerable. This could be a very exciting, but fragile time for Tivus.
Bear in mind how small Tivus is right now and it is already running the DT installation in Nebraska, the Marriott in Philadelphia, plus -presumably- a third and maybe fourth installation in anywhere from NYC to LV while providing tech support for these clients AND providing ad content for all of them, managing accounts rec. and pay.,and, oh ya, you have a wife and kids you used to stop in to see back in the old days.
If the future is looking bright as SP may well think his is, then taking the right steps at the right time along the way are crucial.
I have been supportive of SP despite his awful track record of communication because the things we DO get to know about look like a company that is up, running and is likely growing faster than
SP can sit down ten minutes to write to the shareholders to bring us up to speed.
For the return I expect, holding steady is warranted at this point.
If Tivus makes it to a penny, My Federation 401(k) will be worth more than 6 billion Quatloos ( at current rates). For that, I may even get a tramp stamp of the Enterprise with the shuttle on the left glute/max.
Spock Out.
Thank you for your offer. I will take you up on that shortly. I appreciate the value of charts but our perspectives may be different from one another. I used to think I read carts well only to see trends crumble like so much shattered GLASS. In fact, HALF the time, if I had made moves based solely on chart data viewed on way, my accounts would now be EMPTY.
I think it would be valuable to exchange information. I'll keep in touch.
I don't know anything about SP's itinerary in LV, but I think the outcome of sowing some seeds there should be ...
fascinating.
Spock out.
All good, GD! I think I need to roadtest my theory more before I talk about it, but so far it is showin to be quite accurate. I need to see if I can flush out the direction of change info more, but your idea about what I am doing is not off base.
I am NOT trying to be deliberately coy. I just don't want people to get burned using my theory in a way different from how I use it. ANd knowing that a change is coming, while interesting, isn't going to do me a ton of good....yet.
S.O.
Another price change coming within about 15 minutes, probbably less.
S.O. 10:14 am edt
I also did see this second change coming, the one where the price just went back up, but I was busy and I couldn't wrote in about it,but again, I did not know in which direction it would move.
Spock out.
I apologize. Naught, as we use it in my area means "zero".
Sometimes I do make assumptions I should not make . I am sorry, I did not mean to come off in a cryptic manner.
Bridge.
Prediction correct, Interesting, indeed. Price at 9:53 drops to .0004. Now, if I could just figure out which direction the change will be.
Spock out.
It is now 9:46 AM as I write this and the price is triplenaught5. I am predictng that within about 20 minutes the price will change. Curious to see if my theory holds any water.
I do not have any realtime ticker software.
Spock out.
Your complaints are certainly valid ones. The look that we are getting at a stock that is not -at the moment- having massive volume changes because of PR or rumors does allow us to study the behavior of the market from a very uncluttered perspective. I think this is valuable. Today I made two predictions about when the stock would have a price change and I was correct both times. I was not able to tell which direction the move would be, but I nailed down the changes to within 20 minutes.
At the same time, I am following a couple of other similar stocks and it is absolutely uncanny how similar the movements can be at times. One could almost be convinced the stocks were being traded mechanically according to some formula.
Anyway..no risk, no....
Off to my bubblebath and calypso music. Spock Out.
Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it. Do you know why this stock made it to the breakout boards a week or so ago? Thanks, thv
I read your last 4 posts: 3/24, 4/07, 4/09, 4/10.
All of them tell us of Big news being imminent. Now, would you be willing to tell us what you actually think you know or at least, explain why nothing ever comes to fruition when you make these posts?
I am NOT being critical of you, I simply wish to understand what it is that seems to be going on. I completely believe you. I just can't figure out why every time you make these posts, no big new happens and no big numbers appear. Thank you. I am sure you can straighten me out.
THV
Personally, I never say a word to anyone about my investment activities. Some of my friends would act without doing their own DD and would assume my word was good enough rationale for them to invest. Even if something like TIVU went to the moon, I do not want any responsibility for any poor money management they might use to justify putting their hard-earned money in the same place I do.
I have seen 30+ year friendships ruined over things less sensitive than money and I will not jeopardize any of my relationships over money either.
I will, however, discuss the finer points of better brews and single malt scotches..even Sorian brandy with Mr. Scott.
Bridge.
NAB/Blonder Tongue
Good Morning, Starfleet Officers. First ,a quick tank you to dmo, blah and R3 for their informative posts. Always very much appreciated.
This observation I make is mostly trivial, but I pass it along for whatever value it may have. I notice that one of the companies mentioned on the NAB Exhibitor's List is a small company called Blonder Tongue. They make all of the cable signal amplifiers Tivus is using in the Marriott Philly installation. Of course a company like BT would be expected at a show such as this. It would be helpful to watch BT to see if Tivus contracts (or has already contracted) them to produce more of their splitters for upcoming installations.
More later. Spock out.
DMO:
Thank you for sharing that info. I am only a little bit surprised that a manoeuvre such as this and AS BLATANT as this gets performed on stock of such low value.
As for dilution, if SP is using that sort of fundage to attract the likes of Sverdlik and Truckenmiller, then I would have to say it appears to be money well-spent.
And to revisit a thought I had a couple of weeks ago I can easily envision a scenario where Tivus is mostly, if not completely , booked for the available slots but payments from vendors are coming when vendors are good and ready to pay. There can be up to a 90 day window between invoicing and collecting and that can cause all kinds of havoc on a ship that is running as it is supposed to be running. It is No reflection on Tivus, but Tivus ends up bearing the brunt of any cashflow problems this sort of reality can cause. This will change in favor of Tivus when more vendors learn about it and they have to compete for slots. At the early stage Tivus would probably make some sweet deals just to get the ball rolling...deals that won't be available later on.
R3: I really like what you are trying to acomplish with your posts pointed straight at SP. I support this. Keep it up.
Gotta go, possible wormhole opening within sensor range. I am NOT going to be the one who gets to take the shuttle out to investigate this time. Chekov can do it. ( I just want to hear his trademark scream over the subspace frequencies.)
SPock out.
Spock out.
If nothing else, the recent value increase behaves (chartwise)much like when the triple-naught threes tried to stick and just wouldn't. We'd watch it come with lumps in our throats and it would vanish almost immediately every time.It now looks as thought triple-naught six or seven is setting up to be our new floor.
I will admit I, too, expected more fireworks this morning but I am not unhappy. I would appreciate any examples of activity which shows explicit manipulation by the MMs besides NITE or Vert acting as as a throttle.
I ave seen so much paradoxical movement with TIVU that I think we could really learn alot from it if we could just understand the movements better. The way this has behaved I almost expect the floor to drop out once there is news of a written contract declaring TiVUS owns the world.
3D chess with Q tonight. Should be 'interesting'.
Sensors indicate great joy.
Would love to hear far and wide of any theories which would explain today's fantastic gains. Yes, many of us have been in the right place and today, the right time came along, but this should only be the very, very beginning. To all new Tivubians, welcome.Bring your friends.
It remains entirely fascinating how often it is observed that there is sudden swift movement with no public news to hang it upon.
Spock out.
#36 on the Breakout Boards isn't such a bad thing either.
Release the Kraken!
I do have to agree with the observation of R3, but for one point: The picture has been slowly changing for the better I'd say from the last time this ran. True enough, the news remains scarce but any decent deductions which have been made in these parts support the notion that interest is high and it is increasing. Also, the reasons given for any delays of late are both plausible and not entirely unexpected.
This morning's run is a subtle lifting of the veil so that we may get a glimpse of this stock's future, in my view. I say this because these new, higher prices are not flash-in-the-pans like most of the other recent movements...that is, they seem more robust. I do not want to appear overly optimistic (as I am Vulcan, after all), but at least if we can't get "hard news" we can at least get movement which shows real interest in the investment.
Bridge.
The one thing I still see (I saw it 2 days ago and it is still true) is that everything all of us who got in to this over 7-10 sessions ago is that everything that made it exciting to own remains EXACTLY the same. Many of us got paid off very handsomely on that meteoric ride--- self included. I kept MOST of my position not because I don't want to be a bagger (which nobody wants anyway) but because I feel very certain that what we were all given was a glance into the short-term future.
The major markets have had a tough week and they need to compensate for that everywhere. As that pressure cycles off, this escalator goes right back where it left off and probably then some.The MMs know one of THE MOST predictable sections of their work is the emotions that drive some of the activity in these prepenny markets because they know that the first joe buyers in when things are great will for sure be the first joe sellers when things are not good. They can bank on it and we never let them down, now do we?
Hang long my friends, hang long.
Goodness gracious, I am pretty chatty for a Vulcan.
Dr. McCoy gave me an antidepressive to see what would happen. I will not let him do that again. Spock out. Way out.
Forgive me, right message, wrong board. Captain Kirk switched boards on me while I was dutifully tracking a very well-cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey hiding in the exhaust of our thrusters. Needless to say I--with the help of Sulu , provided them with permanent cloaking in this dimension.
Whatever is being done by the MMs , sensors indicate this stock cannot be held down much longer, the pressure to break this out again is becoming simply too high, in my view.
Spock out. Way out.
IMO dead right now is NOT a bad thing. MMs don't like dead air. Can't grab any buy or sell orders if everything is as quiet as a church at 3 a.m. They might just see fit to step aside and stir up the pot. let's see.
Wonder what would happen if I beamed my Federation stock into a "Q" account. Hmm..
Relaxify yourself. All is well. Our energy reserves will burst forth as the almight chart erupts into the land of the green. UNtil then, we Long Veepers remain right here is strong, silent support. We know we are where we want to be. We just got here ahead of the market.
Spock out.
The immediate elephant in my livingroom is the absence of Jwez. I believe he was going to try to contact SP on Wednesday to see if any new information was available.
Now I do not know Jew personally, but he has been very conscientious about keeping us informed as best he could in an appropriate manner. I have no idea about why he is silent, and I hope above all else that he is alright. One thought that has revisited me several times today is this: I could see SP asking JWEZ to let him [SP] be the one to deliver the next bit of information rather than Jwez giving us a hint or two. I could easily see JWez agreeing to that because it would be the gentlemanly thing to do and fairly or not, we have come to rely on Jwez to act as de facto spokesperson for the Tivus shareholders...something he never really wanted to be to begin with but simply does because he's probably just a really decent guy.
As for Mr. Truckenmiller's appearance on the scene, now that he sits in a copilot seat onboard this flight, he is likely putting some things in order so that Tivus, from this point out lives up to the level of credibility he brings to it. His reputation is on the line and as good as his rep is, he knows it is much, much harder to fix a damaged rep than it is to keep the good one you already have.
I hate the waiting as much as a Vulcan can and the silence is "illogical". Even an explanation as to why things can't be divulged could be reassuring on some level,but hopefully SP is taking all this in so as to put some teeth in his statements that he looks forward to his highest priority as he says, communicating with his investors.
My bubblebath is ready/ Spock out.