Once every seven years I get a little "randy."
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It is very interesting to e that Tivus Incorporated in Delaware. According to my research, start-ups often choose Delaware because investors prefer companies incorporating there. Why? Because of the investor-favored anti-dilution requirements.
Interesting.
Spock out.
Did not understand Host is the problem in PA,I thought it was just middleware issue only--possibly software tweaking with IBM. Can jwez clarify how Host is bogging down Philly...or why?
Fascinating how the premarket sizzle has been once again completely extinguished. Looking at L2, it appears support for the triplenaught 5 price is very solid. This is a day for learning.
As I turn my thoughts to a shareholders meeting, I could understand (to a point) the value of saving big confirmations for such an event, even if for no other reason than to have good ammo to counter complaints with. He is not going to want to be out there dodging tomatoes..and he wouldn't have to be if he keeps everyone on the edge of their seats with good news after good news .
McCoy wants a casino on the holodeck. I don't know.
SPock out.
Best Bid:Ask I have seen since 4/24. Excellent volume. Don't even need a laxative this morning. (It's a Vulcan thing.)
Spock, reporting live from the restroom.
This company has no website and no "core" industry. It appears to be grossly overvalued.I am not sure why this "company" issues stock. It does not appear to be trying to do anything at all. As far as financials are concerned it is a ghost.
Can anyone on this board explain what the function of this company is? It does not appear as though it exists to make money.
Well, if he is treating his supporters like he is, imagine how he is wanting to treat his competitors. Can you think of a better way to keep the competition off their game than to let them think nothing is going on of any significance?
Stealth is the primary weapon in the art of war. I could write a book on it...oh, wait.
Just a thought. (I'm gonna blow through my quota for the whole week in just one
day.)
Bridge.
tech question: (g'day,BTW)
Does anyone in these parts have a clear idea of how the Tivus system stacks up against BeyondTV from Hotel Internet Services? Side by side they appear to have many similarities, but I am curious to know from a bit of a tech perspective how the TIvus system outperforms beyondTV and , for that matter, LNET's IPTV+.
The patent probably spells out those details, but we don't have access to that. Perhaps someone here has that knowledge and can speak in broad strokes without getting too far into what the proprietary aspects are.
Even if the other systems are clones, I'd be willing to wager that Tivu's price structure is competitive.
I am going to see if I can a trial system onboard the Enterprise. If all goes well, we can approach the Federation. Could be a huge money-maker. Subspace content has been sorely lacking for years.Can't even get Dukes of Hazzard.
Spock out.
Well, looks like we wrap up another week here on the Island of Misfit Toys. No news. Nothing. Silence. We are owners of a sort,but, of little value to the ship it would seem.
So, I ask myself: How much more am I willing to invest? How much longer am I prepared to go on with no usable data from the CEO or his retinue?
I watch greener pastures bear fruit for others, yet many, having been shown nothing since last year sit here hoping....hoping...hoping. Myself included.
Together we deduce, fantasize, vent. ..all the while powerless to compel the CEO to tell us so much as what he had for breakfast.
Is the potential payoff so enormous that SP cannot dare risk telling even us what is happening for fear of compromising his venture?
If he came on right now and said,"Well, gentlemen. The Marriott contract is a global contract for 3 years, We are about to sign three other major chains and we have an app for cell phones coming out MOnday." WOuld the stock price even budge an inch?
Hmmmmm.
I could learn blackjack.
For the moment, I remain long. I wonder why.
Spock out.
2 Thoughts (My quota for the week.)
Let's not forget that even when Q4-2011 and the annual are released, even these will tell us very little about ad revenue as most of that has likely been happening after 1-1-12.
What was the other thought...... oh, yes: Though we hear nothing positive we do not hear anything negative, either. No scandal, no public complaints. ( I checked BBB in Nebraska and will check Delaware today. Delaware is state of incorporation for Tivus, I believe.)No one crying, "infringement" or "fraud". From this perspective, no news is good news.
I do support R3. Clearly we need a bunch of good information a.s.a.p., even as soon as yesterday, if possible. This TA nonsense has to stop.
Would I tell my children to sink their dough in Tivus. I never recommend stock moves to anyone. Even them. What I might tell them is that this is an example of a company with a potentially great product but flawed communication. Lots of potential here, but as always, never invest a dime that you need to fund your life.
Bonus thought: Right now I am watching a stock which is blatantly a fraud, known as such to all. It has no assets or clients or employees. It is outperforming Tivus dramatically. It has been suggested that investor groups can do this with certain stocks for short periods of time. So, the bonus thought is that in this arena, value is something different from what it is almost anywhere else.You can become wealthy dealing in rubbish and broke dealing with real companies with good products and talented employees.
Kirk refuses to teach me poker. Curious.
Bridge.
I think that would be a very smart move.
Logical, even.
S.O.
Of course, NDAs are meant to protect principals in business transactions..not shareholders (hence , the "Special Circumstance".)
I would expect that if you are a hotel chain looking to install the Tivus platform you don't need to know every little thing about the company. Your contract for business should provide you with all of the protections you may require prior to exchanging any money.
I can say for myself, having held a patent of my own that once it became clear my idea was patentable, that NDAs were crucial. I became paranoid, much as SP may feel now. I can empathize with him. Anyone who wanted to have anything to do with my patent had to sign their NDA. Even that did not make me feel terribly protected because I knew anyone with deep enough pockets could patent around me and cause me way more than enough legal trouble than I could possibly afford.
I did place a call to SP's office. I do that with smaller companies to se how "real" they seem to be. I was not terribly satisfied with what I found when I "Google-Earthed" the Tivus Global Headquarters...but I did get a very nice living, breathing receptionist who politely put me through to voicemail. I knew he wasn;t there , but I do want to see if a return call comes.
I feel very certain SP is working very hard to make Tivus fly and, obviously, he has impressed others along the way, people who matter.Also, I would be willing to bet that if Tivus looked like it could seriously tank, that a person like a Truckenmiller would probably go to some lengths to put things right. I SO do not have any valuable information, but like the rest here, I feel real communication is sorely lacking and for the longterm benefit of the company, it must be addressed and resolved.
As for an NDA for the'collective", I can't see it, honestly, but if I found myself speaking with an amenable SP I might hypothetically fly the old trial balloon IF..and only if, I can do it without sounding like I am whining...and IF I can make it sound like it is a good idea to him.
SP looks Vulcan to me sometimes. Hmm.
Spock out
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.