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Now For An "Olive Branch" From The Heart
My past two posts may have been some of the most scathing you've read on here - but they were made with a heavy heart and a deep concern for the future of Medizone - AND for your own future success as shareholders.
So, here's what I want to offer you - on a positive note and in the spirit of the boards - as my small part in the solution:
"As you will have just seen, I have been appointed to the role of Investor Relations Manager. I will no longer be able to post on here as a result of my taking up this position. But - and this is to ALL of you - I give you my word that I WILL reply to each and every email as best and as fairly as I can. I "know" how important "communication" is to a shareholder - be they a shareholder in MZEI or any other stock.
My email replies WILL be more than '3 - 4 words'. I WILL be accurate and informed in my correspondence with you. And I WILL reply to any genuine investor phone call inquiry at a time that works fairly for both of us.
I really want this to work well...and I need YOUR support just as much as you ALREADY have mine.
Thank you for putting up with me over the past few years on the boards - it's had its moments (*grins*) but it's been character-building to say the least :P
Oh, and by the way... I'm sorry that the 'double-bottom' chart formation broke down instead of triggering a strong upward movement as I'd hoped. But at least I can sleep at night knowing that I didn't mislead you entirely - I said in my post at the time that "four out of five of these formations are precursors to bull moves".
Well, like a lot of other examples of rotten luck we've all experienced with the maniacal nuances of the OTC markets, we got lumbered with the 20% of formations that fail.
But hey, that's life as an investor - predictably "unpredictable!"
Thanks for everything - take care - see you on THE OTHER SIDE :)
A 'SAD BUT TRUE' PSYCHOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF MZEI IHUB INVESTORS FORUM MEMBERS
In light of the seemingly endless waves of ear-piercing negativity, unfounded speculation and rumour, amateurish and unrealistic expectations around the development and/or scientific testing time-frames and/or progress reports on such, a repeatedly
displayed lack of any knowledge in the way in which brands are built or PR successes achieved, and a potentially damaging
"greater than thou" attitude by an even smaller minority to take it upon themselves to directly interfere in the day-to-day
runnings of the company (which I will expand on in a following post) I decided to conduct a tongue-in-cheek psychographical
analysis of the folk on this board:
BEGINNING OF RAVE
There are 'very approximately' 3500 shareholders in the company at present. Of these, just over three percent have actually
bothered joining and/or posting on this board at some point since its inception. Approximately a third of THESE have persisted in behaving like a derranged pack of forum-addicted, obsessive-compulsive, agoraphobic cave-dwellers.
Why is this, one wonders?
Are 99% of shareholders 'blissfully unaware' and/or completely uncaring of and/or unbothered by the screams and yells from
this board, warning them of the supposed chronic ongoing mismanagement of Medizone by its CEO and BOD?
Could it also be that the same 99% of shareholders - including those that hold '10's of millions' of shares - be such naive
investors and so ignorant to the alleged 'horrendous lack of business acumen' on the part of management that they choose to
ignore the 'clouds of wisdom and insight' that emanate from this board like a perpetual column of acrid smoke from an aging
crematorium?
Or, could it be just possible that the 'statistical collective 1% of the population' WHO DO SUFFER from obsessive-compulsive
disorder and/or display symptons of paranoia (i.e. delusional episodes, chronic stress manifestations, accute anxiety and/or
equally accute euphoric outbursts etc.) and/or Toxic Emotional Negativity disorder (i.e. whine and moan about anything and
everything 24/7, to the point that they negatively impact on all that surrounds them)...COULD THEY "ALL" INHABIT THIS BOARD???
I daren't leave you to ponder it, of course, because approximately 11% of you will applaud me, 11% will whine and moan and/or attack me, and 11% will be so afraid that I'm right that they'll slink into the shadows, too afraid to speak! The remaining 67% of you who actually HAVE a normal functioning brain will see the 'bitter sweet' humor in what I am saying - and quite rightly, possibly question their own motives for even bothering to remain a member of this forum.
RECOMMENDATIONS AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
33.33% of you should sell at the first available opportunity. You don't need this sort of pain - you're not cut out for investment in stocks - you act like you're trapped in a doomed marriage, yet it never occurs to you to get divorced - and quite frankly, the 'more balanced' members of this board deserve a break from the beat-ups.
67.67% of you, with the greatest of respect, should diversify your investment portfolio by 'investing' in a book on time-management. You'll be amazed at how much more you'll achieve in life by NOT wasting your time in here quite so often.
END OF RAVE!
Hi Goforthebet :)
Definitely send those email addresses to Ed. Thank you again :)
Gemstone57 and Subpenny and all who care to read
I strongly suggest you read (or re-read) Posts: 21180, 21185 and 21187.
Specifically take on board all the reasons why your expectations of "300% - 500%" / "10 bagger" increases in the share price resulting from the last PR were - and are - completely over the top.
More importantly, try and understand why ANY form of crystal-ball-gazing where stocks are concerned is 110% pointless.
Oh, and sub-penny, your statement yesterday in response to mtsr:
One Last Pearl Of Wisdom before I get back to building my own business...
If you read the insightful (and in some cases, legendary) books of the greatest entrepreneurs and wealthiest investors in history, there is a common denominator amongst them all:
"If you only ever focus on 'getting rich' and 'making tons of money' you will inevitably fail. If you only focus on building, managing and growing a successful business, you will inevitably succeed".
Just as Ed and others associated with Medizone are tirelessly working day in and day out 'in pursuit of growing a successful company", investors in the stock should be working tirelessly, day in and day out, 'in pursuit of honing their investment skills, building their portfolios, spreading their risk, implimenting stop-losses, studying money management techniques, conducting due diligence via professional, reputable sources such as Edgar, MSN.Money, Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com and other sources.
But look at you lot :(
You live in fear! You hope and pray each and every other day for a mind-blowing PR, and when it fails to eventuate you carry on like spoilt kids!
Someone made the point a day or two ago that the total number of people visiting this forum hasn't risen in months, if not years.
Why do you think that is?
Smart, methodical, well-capitalised, professional stock investors have absolutely no interest in the insane crap that gets bandied about post after post after post on boards like this! They actually live 'real' lives and make 'real' money by investing SMART!
They do their due diligence, they calculate how much of their capital they're going to invest in a given stock, they invest for their chosen time-period (depending on risk averseness) and then RINSE AND REPEAT.
One thing they DO NOT DO is b***h and moan and wallow about (wasting large percentages of their "waking lives" on boards like this) purely because the stock (or management) did or didn't do what they wanted.
Smart investors are not only aware of - but are also appreciative of - the fact that THEIR OWN EMOTIONS (and/or lack of self-control) CAN ONLY LEAD TO STRESS-INDUCED ILLNESSES, BANKRUPTCY OR DEATH (or all three).
Investing is a numbers game - that is all it is!
Ask Donald trump! Ask Warren Buffet!
The point I am trying to make here is that NO ONE forced you to buy MZEI!
You had your own reasons. You bought into it. You made your own bed - you lie in it or buy another bed that feels more comfortable!
But don't complain that the bed is uncomfortable and expect the vendors of the bed to tuck you in every time you feel cold!!!
Act, think and speak like a smart investor for long enough, and an incredible thing will happen...
...You'll BECOME a successful investor and MAKE some money!
Well said, Ben...
This leads me to say what i have been wanting to say for ages...
No offence meant to TradingGreen and Powerpak, but...
Pearls of Wisdom???
Benk said...
Bullish Chart Signals Alert
Greetings all :)Some of you may recall back in May, right after the last upside breakout, that I predicted "weeks of sideways to downward trending from the .41 high until the Buy Flag was complete". Some of you wondered whether this might only take "a few days" and I replied that "a few weeks, but the longer the better"...and we got ourselves the princely sum of 10 weeks worth of formation building before the breakout. A good sign indeed.
It is now 'not only complete', but the breakout to the upside has eventuated (and on relatively significant volume).
On May 18 I also posted several charts, one of which talked about a "Double-Bottom" Formation. The logic still stands and any sustained breakout above .41 in the near future will confirm the Double-Bottom's existance.
Here now is an updated chart that reveals the bullish signals and formations I am referring to:
Please, if you have any questions, Google them (like I suggested to you last time). Technical Analysis is "acquired knowledge" and if you're really interested in it, "acquire it" :):):)
I just don't have the time to repeatedly post on here these days and so when I do I try to give as worthwhile information as I can.
How you take it or interpret it is 'up to you'.
Good luck
Oh, and one more little tip for the 'ever optimistic yet often hopelessly mis-guided' individuals on here who still continue to rant and rave like "paid psychics" about MZEI's share price i.e. virtually guaranteeing an EXPLOSIVE UPWARDS MOVE in the immediate future because they 'somehow just know this'.
Take it from a seasoned trader - it is not what you KNOW that causes a share price to move up sharply, it's what you (and the rest of the market) DON'T know that has the greatest upside affect!
The less the market expects something to happen, the greater its POSITIVE or NEGATIVE response to the event in question.
The FIME Show did not, can not, and will not have any positive or negative affect. It has been factored into calculations months ago.
Even the announcement of a small contract (i.e. 2 or 3 machines) that has the ability to drive a totally nominal amount of revenue will still fail to excite the market (except in the immediate term).
However, any announcement of great substance that is NOT the day-to-day subject of speculation and general investor knowledge, WILL (in all probability) cause a stampede for stock.
Furthermore, if such a (fundamental) event occurs at a time when the (technical) indicators are all pointing to the upside, the strength of the subsequent move will be even greater. After all, it takes far less energy to propel a rocket from 27,039 mph (earth orbit escape velocity) to 100,000 mph than it does to propel the same rocket from orbital velocity (17,000 mph) to the point where it reaches "escape volicity" (27,039 mph)
Hold that thought :)
Definition Of A Double-Bottom Failure:
A double-bottom typically fails to become (with hindsight) a downtrend preparing to become an uptrend when the following happens:
1) The technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Momentum, Money Flow, Williams % R, ROC, OBV, Ult Oscillator etc.,) turn downwards long enough to cross back below their 50% or 0% thresholds. NB: Google these "mysterious terms" if you want to know what they mean.
2) A breakout above the horizontal "top" line (also known as the "confirmation point") fails to hold and the price action slips below it once more.
3) A BUY FLAG or PENNANT formation 'breaks down' prior to the anticipated upward thrust through the confirmation point.
4) "Bad news" i.e. negative fundamentals come into play and bring about a collapse in the share price at ANY point AFTER the formation of the double-bottom but prior to any sustained breakout.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Generally, volume in a double bottom is usually higher on the left bottom than the right. Volume tends to be downward as the pattern forms. Volume does, however, pick up as the pattern hits its lows. Volume increases again when the pattern completes, breaking through the confirmation point.
Monitoring volume is a key aspect of determining whether or not a double bottom is valid.
Our "double-bottom" fits this 'volume scenario' quite nicely.
TradingGreen: In my first post back to this forum two days ago I made a real point of suggesting that folk who DON'T understand the very environment that they're trading in, " SPEND TEN MINUTES A DAY LEARNING UP ON IT".
Your (very valid) question along with 'countless other questions and answers' about the technical aspects of trading can all be found by going to Google and spending a few minutes searching.
All the best
A minor clarification
In the Double-Bottom Chart analysis I gave you I suggested in the introductory text that a sustained breakout of 14 days or longer would be needed to confirm the validity of the Double-Bottom and the likelihood of a major uptrend.
But in the chart itself I suggested just 7 days.
While that (14 days) was a mistake on my part (7 days is enough), I suggest you look at it as ABSOLUTE 110% confirmation - which of course it WOULD BE!
What The Charts Are Telling Us
The past 8 trading days have presented us with what is potentially shaping up to be one of the most significant confirmations of a pending upward trend in the making that this company's share price has ever seen.
I have chosen a 6-month chart for this example as it allows us to view the price-action more clearly.
IMPORTANT NOTE: What you can't see from this chart but is equally significant nevertheless, is the aspect of VOLUME. Although we haven't yet seen the "2,000,000 shares per day" action that the November / December 2009 bull run gave us, what we HAVE seen is GREATER CONSISTENCY WITH THE "HIGH VOLUME DAYS" than what we saw back then.
In short (no pun intended), the indications from the volume data this time round are EXTREMELY ENCOURAGING!
Carpe Diem
A Chart Formation Potentially As Historic As AsepticSure
What you're looking at here is a chart formation known as a "Double-Bottom". In terms of technical analysis, it is the second most powerful indicator of a pending bull market - either in a single stock or across an entire market sector or index - in existence. NB: A Triple Bottom is the "Holy Grail" but they are rarer than hen's teeth!
All you need to know is that a sustained breakout (14 days or longer) ABOVE the horizontal ($0.42)line would be a signal confirming the beginning of a potentially "explosive" upward trend.
Bear in mind that it is never a 'right of passage' that the Double-Bottom formation will prove correct 100% of the time. However, in my 25 years of technical trading experience they DO prove worthy indicators 90% of the time.
As a note of further caution, bear in mind my earlier post where I suggsted that this stock will "on probability" range-trade sideways for several weeks before any true test of the $0.42 resistance level is made. And a further test to the downside is also 'absolutely on the cards' prior to any major push upwards.
Take from it what you will :)
"Hello All"
It's been a long time since I posted on this board - March last year in fact. However, with the greatest of respect (and a genuine willingness to share some trading knowledge) I felt it prudent to "re-birth" myself.
Sadly, many of the postings on here continue to mount to little more than "naive, misguided, ill-informed, baseless" rantings by people who (IMO) would do themselves a far greater service by TAKING JUST TEN MINUTES A DAY TO STUDY THE ART OF INVESTMENT AND THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT THAT ACCOMPANY IT.
Many of you - and you know who you are - spend ten times as much time on here than your own kids spend on Facebook!!!
While it makes perfect sense to have a forum such as this for the purpose of discussing various aspects of the company's progress (or lack thereof), it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to sit mindlessly at your computer, hour after hour, day after week after year, WATCHING, HOPING AND PRAYING that "the next tick will be green!!!"
And it makes even LESS sense turning yourselves into a bunch of emotional cripples each and every time the market has a 'healthy' correction.
I can count on one hand the number of posters on this forum who have taken the time to actually acquaint themselves with market behavior and the "ins and outs" of technical and fundamental analysis.
Interestingly enough, NOT ONE of those folk EVER bitch and moan about the often prolonged down-trends that have afflicted this stock since time-immortal.
Why??? Because they UNDERSTAND that every stock on every exchange in every country since markets first began, FLUCTUATE UP, DOWN AND SIDEWAYS in bull markets just as they do in bear markets.
Equally, they seldom if ever get "wildly hyped" on those (all too seldom) occasions when the stock does what it has done over the past week.
Why??? Because they're ASTUTE enough (through nothing more than a little acquired knowledge) to realize that after five days of near-vertical trending, the RSI, slow stochastics, momentum indicators and MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) indicators were in "horribly over-bought" territory and that the ONLY POSSIBLE short-term outcome would be for a 'good old-fashioned' correction followed by several weeks of volatile sideways range-trading (on decreasing volume) that (hopefully) formed a classic BUY FLAG.
That's when fundamentals step in (i.e. news release/s) and, depending on whether they are POSITIVE or NEGATIVE, the validity of the BUY FLAG will be determined one way or the other.
That's when - if the news is powerful enough - we wake up to ANOTHER turbo-charged move to the heavens and beyond.
Girls, guys and kiddies... it's just the way the market is!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop with the moronic predictions re future share price targets, tomorrow's market moves, the reasons for today's down trend, etc. etc. etc. :(
TP-Planet unwittingly crystallized the futility of prediction-making early yesterday (Tuesday) when he steadfastly announced to all and sundry that he was "convinced that the market would power northwards later in the day, once the profit-takers had left". NB: Not his words exactly but definitely what he meant.
To those of you who have belief in this company and who have been astute enough to buy in at levels far below where we are now, ask yourself this:
Are you in this for the long haul? If so, you have absolutely no need whatsoever to spend countless hours each day watching this stock - let alone morphing between a state of "orgasmic euphoria" and "one near-death experience after another!!!"
If your investment goal (and you sure better have one) is to BUY AND HOLD, then on the assumption that you've done the BUYING, what part of HOLDING has anything to do with "bitching, whining, blaming management, blaming Eversull, blaming 'shorts', blaming Ed, and blaming each other" for the hour-by-hour, day-by-day, week-by-week nuances of the market??????????????????
Lets face it... when you plant seeds in a garden, do you:
a) Spend 8 hours a day with an electron microscope, anxiously studying intra-cellular mitochondrial activity in each and every nuclei of each and every one of the seeds you have planted... ever-terrified that they might stop growing... and feeling helpless and powerless to do anything about it until they either die - or survive? Or worse still, harvest the plants at the first sign of bad weather REGARDLESS of how immature they may be?
...or do you:
b) Take the time to work out which part of your garden would make the most sense to plant the seeds (due diligence)... plant just before or after rain (market-timing)... weed and maintain it on an "as needed" basis (market-watching)...let nature take its course re the wind, sun, rain, hail and shine (market-trending)...and finally reap the rewards with a rich and fruitful harvest when your plants are ripe and ready (Market-selling).
If, on the other hand, you are a SHORT-TERM TRADER... you are looking to 'trade the swings' (of which MZEI has no shortage). And once again, it's all about "market-timing" (both on entry and exit) that will determine your profit or loss, not the actions of management or anyone else!
If you go to Google and type in: "basics of stock market investing", you will discover approximately 142,000,000 results for this keyword search term. I put it to you that for both your emotional and financial state of health, you spend a little more time understanding the behavior of the environment in which you're trading...and a little less time "doing your heads in" on this board.
Given that "constructive, informative, positive, rational" discussion goes a long way to helping visitors to this board in their due diligence process (and may well ultimately influence their decision to BUY), I hope that this post will make a few of you (or even one) look at this whole investment business differently - and in a way that will lead (maybe) to far more constructive and informative posts than some on here that I have seen lately :)
All the best :)
Thank you, Whatisvalue...that was a superbly written and brilliantly thought out post. It defies logic to think that anyone here or anywhere else would find fault in your reasoning. There comes a time in any progressive company - let alone one that has "global market penetration" written all over it - when the word "expansion" must apply to human resources as well as market reach and product development.
Smeatz
Uhuh...I'm fully with you now. Thanks for that :)
17 Year Man... you make an interesting point. I wasn't watching the market today so perhaps you can give a brief synopsis of "what" and "what didn't" happen (re your comment about the market picking up at around 2.20pm?
Do you have a specific reason for "expecting a major news release next week?". "Expecting" something is very different to "hoping" for something :)
I'm 'all ears', dude!
Yes, I have had a lengthy telephone discussion with Jill, followed by ongoing email communications with Ed.
It is 3.am here in New Zealand and the reason I am still awake is because I have just finished an 11-page "SEO / Website Analysis" for Ed. This has been forwarded to him and I would expect to hear back from him in the next couple of days.
I don't want to compromise myself by saying more than I need to here, but let's just say that "Ed, Jill and I are in complete agreeance on the need to both IMPROVE and PROMOTE the website (both to the search engines and to the humans who use them).
I think I can fairly safely say that "in the months ahead you will see dramatic changes and improvements to the Medizoneint.com site".
These things do take time though. You won't see anything different for a while yet. It takes intense planning and strategising to optimize sites like this one.
Smeatz
My interpretation of the chart: Towards the end of the second week in October last year (2009) MZEI began a sustained rise from $0.06 a share to a high of around $0.42 in early December. This represented an increase in share price of 'slightly in excess of 600%.
During this (approx.) 7 week period there were 23 "up days" and 13 "down days".
Indeed, a very bullish scenario...and one that would've continued if company time-lines hadn't changed.
During the period from the peak in early December to the present day there have been 39 "up days" and "34 "down days", with the current position still representing around a 55% decline (off the back of a 'significant' total period decline of around 70%).
In simple technical terms, when "up days" exceed "down days" yet the share price still shows a 55% decline from the peak in real terms, the overall sentiment is BEARISH.
However, if the recent "catastrophic fall" to an intraday low of $0.10 was 'almost exclusively caused by selling pressure from ONE LARGE SELLER', it stands to reason that the stock could (and should) recover to (and consolidate around) $0.25 - $0.30 per share in the next up wave.
In other words, it should claw back the ground it lost due to (possibly) a single seller putting immense downwards pressure on the stock in the short term...and then the natural market forces taking over and allowing new buying pressure to drive the stock back up to where it had been prior to the fall.
I do suspect it was the work of just one seller (looking at the market action), although I could still be wrong.
Regardless, my comment re "a dead cat bounce" made a week ago still stands. This stock could (in the short term) still fall away slightly..and this time it REALLY WOULD represent good buying opportunities for the "unshakable believers amongst you".
Cheers,
Smeatz
An excellent synopsis and one that I would support wholeheartedly at the next AGM. It DOES make sound business sense and it IS the way ALMOST EVERY successful company has lifted itself from 'humble embryotic beginnings' to become commercially savvy 'forces to be reckoned with'.
My Twitter ID is: BruceSmeaton
TWEED???...LOL. The term I used was "TWEET!" One of the social networking services I am encouraging ALL of you to join and make full use of, is Twitter.com
You also need to join Facebook.com if you haven't already done so. Then, as soon as you can, set up your profile (in both Twitter and Facebook) and start putting the word out about Medizone.
DO NOT get as hyped up as Threw-er-back does, or you'll have the SEC investigating your claims!!!...lol
Just be sensible about it. Make people aware of the company, the science, the benefits to humanity...and the investment opportunity.
DO NOT go promising / guaranteeing / assuring 'all and sundry' that the stock will hit "$2 a share by May, June or July...or any other month for that matter". You WILL get found out by the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission). Someone WILL report you.
Let people make up their OWN minds about the "PPS" of this stock.
Ok, report back to this board with your Twitter name and Facebook name so we can all "add each other" as followers, fans etc.
If you DON'T do this you have no real right to blame Ed or Jill for 'lack of PR' as YOU yourself aren't contributing either!
As shareholders YOU have a responsibility to DO WHAT YOU CAN FOR YOUR COMPANY!
Now "get the hell outta here and make it happen!!!"
Smeatz
I had a great chat with Jill Marshall today...and lets just say that "both she and Ed are very open to discussion on what I can do to help grow Medizone's online branding". I am really excited about this because (as Jill knows all too well) I have been aware of MZEI since 1987 and feel pretty darn qualified to write about it.
I'll keep you guys informed regarding relevant advances in the online presence. No doubt you've already seen that Jill has placed a Twitter icon on the site.
My question for ALL of you though is this:
"Who amongst you has actually bothered to TWEET about MZEI today??????"
For my part, I sent 6 tweets to my followers an hour ago.
Smeatz
It's not just about HAVING a website - MZEI has had one for 13 years (in one form or another). It's also not just about MAKING the changes.
It's about truly understanding the medium within which you work, leveraging off it, maximizing your market penetration...and "getting your site visitors to take whatever desired action you want them to".
It's not just about a bunch of one-off changes / improvements / corrections to a cheap templated blog (that blog theme is not even a particularly effective CMS (Content Management System). Ed should've been advised by whomever he hired to do this 'to use Semiologic Pro or Thesis (which I can appreciate means "SFA" to most on here...lol)
It's not about minor or even major tweaks to the MZEI blog, it's about "breathing life back into it and growing the brand on a daily basis!"
It's about Ed learning how to become the "face and voice-piece of MZEI" in an online world as well as an offline one.
It's about an ongoing, committed approach to every aspect of brand-building through social media / digital marketing.
It's about HAVING the skills and foresight to reach out to every corner of the (admittedly gigantic) health sector, news media and Government through the colossal power of the Internet.
It's NOT about "whether your guys could do this"...it's about "WHY HAVEN'T THEY ALREADY??????"
I stayed up until 2.30am local time making that initial post about the appalling loss of opportunity via the website / blog, NOT because I was merely trying to make a helpful suggestion, but because I AM 110% CERTAIN I COULD DEVOTE MYSELF TO PROMOTING MZEI ONLINE IN THE WAY IT NEEDS TO BE PROMOTED, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!
Haha! Yes... I sensed the coming salmon run :P
Who are you referring to when you make mention of "our guys?"
Hey Ben, it's not a generational thing at all. I'm turning 55 myself this year, damn it all!!! (*cringes with a forced smile*)
It's simply a chronic, systemic and sustained failure to recognize the true power of the greatest promotional tool ever invented - The Internet.
I don't just blame Ed for this either - he is but one man. The fact that every single 'other' member of the board over the past 13 years has also failed to recognize it is 'telling' to say the least.
It only serves to highlight the fact that these guys, while brilliant scientists and visionaries in their own right, have a fundamental 'lacking' when it comes to the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR OF GLOBAL COMMERCIALIZATION...
...GLOBAL VISIBILITY!!!
Thanks. I will rewrite much of the post you're referring to and tone it down a little before sending it to Ed. I was almost fuming with frustration as wrote it.
Cheers,
Smeatz
I DISAGREE! The reason why MZEI is anything less than a couple of dollars right now are as follows:
1) Of the 52 tried and true means of "selling a concept" and/or "promoting an idea, service or product"... Ed has relied almost exclusively on merely ONE i.e. Online Press Releases (and rather poorly worded ones at times, too).
2) MZEI's online presense is a BLOG which is great! Yet Ed doesn't "blog!!!" He only ever releases company updates / correctional information and the very occasional piece of "encouraging news".
3) We live in a WEB 2.0 universe, rich and information-savvy with the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and around 100 other excellent social networking and social bookmarking sites... YET ED DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A SINGLE SOCIAL MEDIA ICON ON HIS WEBSITE!!!
This means that 'even when newcomers to the website tingle with unabated excitement at the enormity of what MZEI is soon to unleash... they have no way in the world of letting others know about it via standard social media channels!!!
4) The MZEI website has no OPTIN BOX (jargon for a "name and email capture form"). That is sacriligious!!! There must have been hundreds if not thousands of people go to his site right after each Press Release, yet without "capturing" the names and email addresses of those folk, the company has no way in the world of a) knowing who they are, and / or b) keeping them informed via a well orchestrated email marketing campaign over and above the Press Release activities.
5) The website is NOT listed in Yahoo Directory (US$299 a year to be in...and worth every dollar!), nor is it listed in Wikipedia...nor is it listed in DMOZ (the world's largest manually controlled Online Directory)
6) The internal linking structure of the site has no effective SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. Instead of hyperlinking rich keywords like "infectious diseases" and "HAIs" or "Hospital Acquired Infections" to other pages on the site that have relevance, the links are for words like "research" (since when did someone last go to Google and type in "research???") and "MZEI.OB"
7) There is no evidence of any real keyword optimization of the site, nor any real evidence of SEO at all. The Title tags (Page Titles) are the perfect places to really beef up the important keywords... but instead they contain things like "About Us", "Board Of Directors" and "Intellectual Property" (but to name a few.
8) Where are all the Squidoo, HubPages and other Web 2.0 properties that should be hosting articles about MZEI's breakthrough technology...and pointing links back to: http://medizoneint.com/ ?
9) But THIS is the clincher, folks...after more than 13 years with the same domain name i.e. http://medizoneint.com/ a breath-taking grand total of...wait for it...FIVE lonely little websites somewhere out there in the worldwide web actually bother linking to it!
That is totally insane!
The websites linking to the Medizone website / blog include:
Cleanroom Technology
Stock Guru
The Small Cap
Street Research
Stock Guru China
In other words, 13 years after going online, just five other websites point links towards MZEI's website! And all five are PR-related sites!
I am an SEO specialist and I am appalled at the way in which MZEI's 'website come blog" HASN'T been used properly to get the word out to the people and organizations that really count here!
See for yourself... go and Google "HAIs", "hospital acquired infections", "hospital acquired pneumonia", "control hospital acquired infections" etc... these are the keywords that prominent medical people type into google on a daily basis...and do they see MZEI?
NO!
Why not?
Because there hasn't been a shred of search engine optimization conducted on the site! Imagine if a year ago Ed had commissioned the writing of thirty to forty articles (600 - 800 words long) on various HAI-related subjects...and then submitted them to the likes of Ezine-articles, Go-articles etc..and ensured that each article had links pointing back to relevant pages on the MZEI website...guess what?
Chances are MZEI's blog would be on page one of Google for the keywords "HAI" and "hospital acquired infections".
Even his Press Releases fail to contain keyword-rich links back to relevant pages on the blog!!! My God, what an opportunity gone begging :(:(:(
For a "healthy pile of shares" I could personally GUARANTEE the world got to hear about MZEI and all of its incredible research results to date (and the plans for the future!
I am going to put this to Ed and then report back to you with his reply.
In closing this post, this has been my most important and passionate post about MZEI on any Message Board, ever! It crystalizes in so many (painful) ways "why" this company is known by a mere handful of folk amidst a planet of more than SIX BILLION!
Thank you for reading.
Regards,
Smeatz
Good call and Good trading! I sold a bucketload just before Christmas when the stock briefly touched 0.37 on a failed rally attempt to try and regain the low 40's. Even then it was patently obvious to the non-blinkered minority that "all was not as it seemed".
I see the close on Friday as nothing more than...
1) SHORTS taking their profits
2) A small handful of 'weak' players grabbing some shares
3) The typical reaction to a market that was "horribly OVERSOLD"
...and last but definitely not the least???
A CLASSIC "DEAD CAT BOUNCE!"
But hey, my view of the long-term hasn't changed one iota... it'll be happier times in a year or two...and if i am still alive I shall participate in the celebrations like most on this board :)
Cheers,
Smeatz
Not quite sure I know what you meant by that comment (to my deleted message)... please enlighten me.
Calm down ladies!!! Seriously, you're worse than a pulsating mass of morbidly obese women at a weight-watchers meeting!!!
Think of trading the markets a little bit like dieting...
You make your commitment to lose weight (you buy into the stock)
You track your weight weekly (you monitor the market weekly)
Notice I said "weekly???"
Let me explain something from a purely technical point of view ("as I do"...lol)...
It has taken YEARS for this stock to reach the point it's at now. It has taken the past 7 months of 'gradual volume + momentum increases' to underpin the emerging bull run that was ONLY CONFIRMED IN MID-OCTOBER when I correctly predicted a 50% gain from .10 to .15 over a 3-day trading period.
When the stock reached .275 last week you asked me "where to from here?". I answered "sideways at best but most likely "south" for several weeks - trading between .19 and .28".
I didn't just pick those numbers out of a hat. It can take MANY WEEKS of range trading to form a significant BUY FLAG (often it's a case of "the longer the better!").
Sorry "THREWER BACK"...but neither you nor anyone else on this board possesses the fire-power to alter the direction of this stock. There's an old adage which has been proven true since markets were first traded: "The markets 'do' what the markets 'do'...and no man shall ever persuade them otherwise.
By watching this stock up to 8 hours a day 5 days a week, you are making the same mistake as the fat person who begins a diet at 300 pounds and then weighs themselves every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year!!!!!!
Can you imagine how disheartening that would be for an obese person??? They would go insane with worry and fear each time their weight gained on an intra-day and/or intra-week basis!!!
Yet, if they simply chose to weigh in once a week at the same time each time, they would get an infinitely better insight into the progress (or lack thereof) they were making with their diet.
A few of you on here regularly refer to the technical charts relating to MZEI. These charts are daily charts in most cases. The filters, oscillators etc. applied to them i.e. MACD / Stochastics / Momentum / volume / RSI / etc. all rely on DAYS & WEEKS OF HISTORICAL DATA TO GIVE YOU THE SIGNALS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. Not hour by hour!!!
The only logic in stock watching 8 hours a day is if you are either day-trading (and thereby looking for intra-day entry and exit points) or looking to BUY or SELL your holdings at a predetermined level.
But to sit there in front of your pc screens, willing, praying, pleading, cursing, hoping, justifying etc... has about as much impact on the share price as a 'fart has on altwering the course of a hurricane!!!'
I practice what I preach: I haven't been on this board since mid last week. I feel comfortable and assured that the stock is consolidating the way it should (i.e. on low volume during the down spikes) and will look forward to checking it out in another week's time.
Why not take a big breath, turn off your pc's for a week, get some productive work done for a change...haha...and this stock will 'do' what it's 'gonna do'... and you aint gonna influence it one iota!!!
Life is for living -- not for being emotionally crippled and bound to the intraday whims of a stock during 9what could well be) many weeks of range trading!
Technical Analysis Update: Two afternoons ago as the stock hovered around .19 cents per share, someone asked me "where to from here?". I replied...
"Where will it go from here?
Actually, it may head "south" or at best, "sideways" for a bit as it consolidates at these new levels. I'd feel comfortable if range traded for several weeks between .14 and .19...with the next break out above .19 to see .28 / .32."
Two days later and that is exactly what we appear to be seeing. I would further add that I strongly believe the stock will remain around these levels for a while yet ( several weeks) -- even if it rallies higher then falls back to the current range.
Ultimately though, this type of trading activity augers well for future advances in the already 'clearly established' upward trend.
Phrantic...in answer to your question: "No, not at all!"
If you go back and read ALL the content of my earlier posts you'll see that I was ONLY querying the trading strategies of "those individuals on this board" who have been enthusiastic about MZEI since June, HAD the funds to invest when the stock was around the 0.065 - 0.085 range, BUT DIDN'T BUY ANY UNTIL NOW (NB: In threw-er-back's case I understand now -- he could only invest as the funds became available -- that's perfectly reasonable).
But to everyone else who failed to take action and now try to justify it by saying "but now's still a great time to buy MZEI", I'd like to point something out to you...
MZEI traded within this two cent range ($0.065 - $0.085 per share) for a combined total of "31 trading days" (that's a month and a half calendar time) since June 5th. Sometimes the "0.065 - 0.85" range was breached on an intraday basis...and other times (the big majority in fact) it was where the highs and lows of the trading were found on those days.
Don't get me wrong, guys. If in a few years time someone discovers MZEI (and has never previously owned stock in it) and the share price is say, $2.50. It would be an excellent entry point for THAT person if there was reason to believe (primarily based on EPS metrics) that the stock price could hit $5 a share within a year or two from that date.
But if that SAME PERSON had discovered the stock back in June (or even today) and had failed to buy any when they had the "financial means to" and the "knowledge of" the company's future potential, then waiting until the stock reached $2.50 would be rather...ummmmm..."moronic??????"
Excellent decision. One day when the stock is trading at $1.79 a share, you're gonna feel real good about buying in at 0.179.
Humph... you are 110% correct! I was an emotional trader in those days...and not a particularly good one, either. I believed the hype and BS just as much as everyone else. But I can honestly say that I learned from those experiences a very long time ago. If I hadn't, I'd be longgggggggg dead...lol
You make a particularly good point, Hump... if indeed you are holding stock you bought in the .20's, .30's or higher (10 years ago almost), you are taking full advantage of "dollar cost averaging" in precisely the correct way. You are simply trying to "average down" your total cost of entry since day one.
My reasoning behind some earlier posts on this board today was that I was pointing out a fundamental trading flaw by those on here who are lucky enough NOT to have bought 9 to 10 years ago...and who have HAD the opportunity to buy in for the first time at 0.065 - 0.085 "not once but TWICE" over the past few months ------ but who either DIDN'T because they were afraid to take action for fear of loss or because they were motivated by greed and wanted to believe that the stock might fall even lower and therefore allow them to get filled at an even better level.
Threw-er-back has been in an inspiration on this board. His optimism is boundless. His enthusiasm unparalleled. But I just question his trading strategy a little bit. I mean well with all my posts and take no offence myself when the error of my own "youthful trading arrogance" from years ago is raised on this board.
We can all learn from each other :)
Threw-er-back...My point is this. Lets say you have a US$500,000 trading account. Lets also say that you adhere to strict money management principals and regardless of your 'beliefs' about a company's future prospects, limit your exposure to say 20% of your total capital in any one trade (even 20% is twice as much as most traders would allow themselves). You would earmark US$100,000 towards MZEI.
Lets also say that you first discovered this stock on October 15th. The stock was trading between .07 and 0.75 on that day.
If you entered the market with the intention of investing $100,000 in MZEI you would've been filled in approximately 3 days (given the sustained selling by one or two individuals at that time). You would've averaged around 0.08 including brokerage.
Now, to your own situation, Threw-er-back... on that very day (October 15th) here's one of the posts you made:
"Been buyin all morning.....Gotta get as much as I can before the word gets out big...."
If you seriously meant what you said at that time and on that day, you would've (on the balance of probability) exhausted your supply of funds within a few days...and gotten stock at veryyyyyyyyyy good levels (unless you have a seven-figure sum ear-maked for investment in MZEI!). Indeed, I hope you did!!!
Sooooo...given your commitment on the 15th of October to "BUY as much as you can before the word gets out"... did you STOP BUYING at the 0.07 - 0.085 levels and restart at much higher levels...and if so, what was your thinking behind that?
Haha! I can only assume that you too have a number of self-inflicted shoe marks in your forehead. Absolutely no offence intended here, but... I think ANYONE who bases their trading decisions on the utterances of an online stock guru needs some severe "re-programming". Good luck!
Strange logic? I was once a day-trader working for a large European-based futures and options firm. A day-trade was only EVER put on when the FAST-STOCHASTICS hit " -90%" or even lower (i.e. majorly "over-sold" territory on an intraday basis)... or opened well below the previous days close.
Today there was an absolutely magnificent opportunity to do just that when the stock opened at .12
I am interested in why you waited until it had risen to .15 before you bought??? a three cent move from .12 to .15 represents a 25% rise! In other words, you waited until the stock had even moved 25% BEFORE considering it a low-risk entry for further intraday upside gain???
Please read my post earlier about "fear of indecision"...it applies to day-traders as well (*hint*)
Finally... please don't take the tone of my posts today as being in any way "negative, condescending or insulting"... that is the very last thing I want to do to anyone on here. I am a passionate but ruthless technician when it comes to trading. Why??? Because I value money and I intend to make more of it...and if there is any way at all in which I can help some of you guys to make more of it too, then I will have done my good deed for the day :)
Enoxion and other interested traders.
Ok...I have a well-intentioned question for you: "When you could see the stock trading well below .10 per share at the time you first saw it -- and presumably had done some due diligence on the potential upside, why on Earth didn't you load up with shares at that time??? Several million shares have traded since then!!!
I have watched with amusement just how many people "talked about this stock as if it were the greatest investment opportunity of all time" when it was trading at 0.06 per share and you could literally buy as much as you wanted (because there were so many sellers in the market at that time)...and yet, they're / you're still scrambling to buy stock at THESE LEVELS??????
Actually, it's a loaded question because I already know the answer: "The reason why MOST people actually LOSE MONEY in the stockmarket has NOTHING to do with the potential upside of the stocks they buy (or look to buy), but EVERYTHING to do with their/your state of mind at the time.
You know who you are...and I 'feel for you' because fear and greed are what drive the markets... but only 'non-emotional, clinical, technical analytics combined with a very healthy MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY will ever help you to PROFIT (and keep and grow those profits) from the markets in the long term.
I strongly suggest ALL of you who suffer from "indecision" go and buy Van K Tharpe's book..."Psychology of Trading" (Amazon etc.)
I have seen many of you claiming that you have "just managed to buy x amount" and are "still trying to get more" from the time the market reached it's recent lows of .065 (intraday low) right up to present levels. I need to remind you that "DOLLAR COST AVERAGING" is a theory that works well when you're buying into a FALLING market and don't want to try and pre-guess the "bottom"... but "averaging" your entry points in a clearly RISING market is just another word for INSANITY!!!
If you have done your homework you BUY on the DIPS and SELL into the rallies. But "BUYING" into the rallies????? Not a good strategy for long-term success, guys and gals :)