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C'mon STEV. Catch-a-fire! Long and Strong. To the new peeps, read the DD that some of our wonderful board members has created and posted. (Awesome job guys, thank you!) And buy already - lol
You misunderstood me. And instead of "wake up", use the German word "aufstehn", it fits your MO better. Why would I sell now? I'm not. Why do I think they are immediately going to dilute millions of shares? I'm not. Why do I think George is shady? I do not know him and can't possibly make that judgment. I was simply rationalizing what this company looked liked with an os of 750m, and comparing it with mjn@ to see how it looked. I'm here to gamble, and still very much like my odds. This play is just irritatingly long. GLTY
Numbers for the hemp harvest and the opening of their online store is what I'm waiting on. IMO, a failed or not so prosperous outcome would be a likely reason to dilute millions of shares. And we've been waiting for awhile. Something's up, good or bad. Or, they could be pushing for rapid expanse, good or bad. I can't speculate further until more news, and not getting it soon is not helping the morale.
Here's how I stay positive:
1) Hypothetically, even at 750m os. at .01 = market cap 7.5m, 75m at .10 - now look at some of the other mj plays
2) Stev is and we know will be doubling revenue from stevia sales. It's a relatively healthy company via their financials
3) The hype alone (if we get amazing news) can do wonders. There are definitely bad things about the OTC. But there are also the reasons that bring us here.
GLTA
STEV is definitely targeting the pharmaceutical side of the CBD business. Exciting. But we need numbers, deals, concrete empirical financial data we can sink our teeth in.
Otherwise, the PPS is holding 6/7's nicely so ya, it is what it is. STEV xtra LONG GLTA
Stevia Corp. Appoints Dr. Jerry Smartt to Board of Directors and Welcomes Veteran Research Scientist to Advisory Board
Company Beefs Up Its Medical and Research Expertise as It Focuses on Commercializing CBD
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fluff pr out
2014 farm bill section 7606 regarding hemp
2014 farm bill highlights
Look at all that grant money :) I think the following below could be taken advantage by STEV:
• Doubles the funding for SCRI to $80 million annually
• Advances growth of local and regional food systems with $65
million for Value Added Product Market Development Grants. (grants up to $500,000)
Taken from the High CBD FB page:
“Our goal here is to support what the Indiana Hemp Industries Association is doing of the development of hemp in Indiana,” Blankenbaker said.
“Eventually our company would like to partner with the growers and processors. We believe Indiana has potential to be a major growing state because the Midwest is ideal for growing hemp, together with the support of Purdue University.”
I am assuming IUPUI - Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis - long name lol
IUPUI LINK
274 million dollars in research money in 2013 for this university. The picture is becoming a little clearer
IUPUI mission
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a partnership between Indiana and Purdue universities, is Indiana’s urban research and academic health sciences campus.
IUPUI’s mission is to advance the state of Indiana and the intellectual growth of its citizens to the highest levels nationally and internationally through research and creative activity, teaching and learning, and civic engagement.
By offering a distinctive range of bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and Ph.D. degrees, IUPUI promotes the educational, cultural, and economic development of central Indiana and beyond through innovative collaborations, external partnerships, and a strong commitment to diversity.
I can extrapolate a hypothesis from this, not really news to Longs, but STEV is interested in intellectual property pertaining to the health/beauty sector (the money maker)of the emerging CBD market. Selling their process to cheaply synthesize CBD; And involving themselves in many different aspects of the hemp industry from seed to P.O.Sale (still unclear and waiting for things like the launch of the Realhemp online store). Stev currently has a nice growing business on the Stevia side, as well as on the aquaculture side, creating revenue, thus taking some pressure off of raising money to advance their hemp business.
GLTA
:) Exciting prospect indeed. And I'm definitely gambling that they deliver. We need numbers/facts. I'm just trying to make the connection with STEV and how they plan on merging the international with the domestic hemp industry, with the limited information we have. Glty
It's frustrating, but I'm focusing on the bigger picture. It just gets so nervous here in the OTC. If you as I been following STEV on FB, then you too should feel that they've been increasing their posts, and the majority of the posts have been around the hemp industry. More pointedly, the hemp industry in the U.S. I had a hard time understanding the huge focus on the domestic hemp industry. And then I read Stronghand's post about how STEV is focused on universities; focused on proprietary property and a little less on acreage.
Realhemp FB on 1/3/15 posted a map of all the legal states that can grow hemp, a lot because of the farm bill, which allows states like Hawaii to grow hemp "for research" through probably the universities. See a bigger picture here? Here in Hilo Hawaii, our economics is significantly dependent on our University; astronomy, geology and agriculture. Legal hemp could help us out, we're an agriculture island. We grow good sht!
A lot of us are expecting that significant pr(s) this month. I, with others, are impatient at not knowing about the hemp side of business with STEV. We shall see. GLTA STEV LONG
Not my area knowledge, but I pulled this out:
13. Offering and Sales Amounts
Total Offering Amount $ 110000 USD o Indefinite
Total Amount Sold $ 110000 USD
Total Remaining to be Sold $ 0 USD o Indefinite
Clarification of Response (if Necessary)
Consists of (i) convertible note in the amount of $110,000 and (ii) a common stock purchase warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares.
with the "first" sale on 11/21/14
Is this part of the previous deal, or a new deal?
Seems to be in line with what they've been saying, I think it's benign but people here with the knowledge will elaborate.
I for one will be glad when the year is over. Been here since July. What a long frustrating fall. Thank you all for doing what you're doing and have a happy holidays! Sitting on 200k here, STEV long and strong. GLTA
Picked up 10k shares at .0862 with two minutes left. they park the ask above .097 all day, with a ridiculous bid/ask spread, and the last 15 minutes they collapse into the 0.08's. I felt like I needed to pounce on those shares, I couldn't believe seeing a .0861/.0862 bid ask with minutes to spare.
Now I feel way overextended with 140k shares, but I also believe that this is a .2 stock once we hit larger volumes and the trading really starts going. Hopefully it comes. GLTA
thanks for the 10k shares at .103 - have a good weekend everyone!
If Coke Life can mimic Coke Classic then I would be ecstatic. I too prefer Mexican bottled Coke because they use real sugar. Ever since Coke changed to HFC syrup and deviated from the Classic formula, the beverage got too sweet for my liking.
Now Coke does not do business with Stevia Corp. But the attention that stevia will get from a successful Coke Life is huge. Kinda like Starbucks allowing for a plethora of mom and pop espresso shops to flourish because of the popularity of the espresso product.
Remember the Reb M patent which suggests a technology that allows the stevia sweetener taste to be manipulated (and how this could apply to established flavors like Coke Classic) and think about how our company STEV grows high quality strains of stevia which will be needed to get to that high quality part of the plant. To justify the expense of using this new technology, companies will need high quality plants; in short, our strains are potentially more profitable than the average "junk".
With the low volume, yet maintaining a floor above .10 the last few days I see as an excellent sign here. Not that you guys haven't figured it out:)
Hello board. Been here since 7/19 and have accumulated 120k shares since then. Unless I start hearing anything bad about STEV I've decided to keep 100k tucked away for new highs. Go Fo' Broke!
We had 1.2m volume yesterday, and 1.8m today with 650k in dilution. I'm thinking if we have at least 1.5m tomorrow then we will be done with dilution, Or better yet, hopefully dilution is already done.
I'm excited for STEV, the pps should be taking off in the near future as we all anticipate. GLTA
I think you nailed it on the head. I'm no expert; people do whatever you want. All I can do is offer my own experience and strategy with PHOT. I held for 10 months, average .04 - Sold out on Friday at .20 - If this thing miraculously makes back to pinks (study the history of Greys) then I am guessing that the pps will be somewhere around a nickel if that. All just my opinion, but I do hate seeing people get hurt and I want everyone to really understand the situation and do what's best for themselves. Good luck to all!
PHOT - I'm out for now guys - good luck to everyone, especially the ones that have been here for months and months. It literally took me 15 minutes of waiting on the phone to place my orders. Sold out at .20 - my average was .04 - glad to be out of this nightmare for now, and now my tax situation is correct and I'm back in the game this year, although, once bitten twice shy :) Nothing but best wishes for everyone!
thank you for that. We were the darlings of the sector. I now the media will crucify the sector. PHOT probably screwed up, but there is a larger agenda as well I feel. Be careful in the mj sector every one.
I'm sorry dude. I had a 44k block turning a year old in June. Three more months, sigh. I may be done for 2014 because of tax reasons - The worst case scenario happened which is SEC halt. If I can't unload my PHOT shares, no realized loses. GLTY I'm going to learn robotic training, and come back in 2015 all the wiser. No more pipe dreams, although this one almost worked :) I can make money here, just in safer smaller steps. LESSON LEARNED
I know, life altering money. I'll admit that I was greedy and deserved what has happened to me, but in this manner is the sickest. I figured, worse case I would firesale all my stock and still be over 20k if the sector crashed, but a f-ing SEC halt that instantaneously makes my phot stock worthless is just brutal. I figured, ya, if everything falls apart and the pps plummeted that i would still bbe able to sell at .2 or at least .1 and still profit. I think PHOT screwed up, and the SEC for whatever political reason was more than willing to make them a cautionary tale. Out of all the 15 stocks in my portfolio, a handful that were obvious P&Ds, PHOT gets busted.
I've been following this board since June, Thank you Apostle for being one of our PHOT champions. I appreciate all you've done. GLTY, I'll be around for the firesale at the end of the month. After that, bye bye IHUB for a long while
read the sticky by just1 - glty
Trying to stay positive. My portfolio just got crushed. I sold all my other positions except 2 to make sure I have my original monies and the tax money I'm going to need to pay cuz apparently I may not be able to realize my loses on PHOT. At this point guys just being able to get rid of these shares is better than not. The tax thing is the icing on this Phitsickle cream douchebag cake.
LESSON F-ING LEARNED. I'm not done here in Pennyland. I'm gonna take a vacation. Then I'm going to study and learn more. Then I will be back, and I can assure you all no more pipe dreams. And no more spreading myself thin, and I'm definitely keeping most of my gambling money in money form. I am so so sorry to everyone here that got blindsided, I was naive to think that in the worst case I could dump my shares for at least 20% 40% if things went sour. NOT THIS. I've been here since June '13 and I have lost a few picks because of P&Ds - These I always watch and flip in a short time and would expect one of these companies to get nailed by the SEC. But Oh well!
The more reality seeps in and denial goes away. If we objectify the actions of the past few months I am leaning towards an illegal marketing technique to drive up pps and/or the business plan GIFT was falling apart and they panicked. Maybe partners were finding better deals elsewhere etc. Something along those lines anyways - who knows for sure right now!
Thank you everyone on this board. Even the ones who take pleasure in kicking us when we are down because at the end of the day I am not you :) This board is a comfort to those of us suffering right now and at least be able to vent. I'm shell shocked which is why I'm stepping away for awhile.
I will admit that I will be in my pajamas crying this weekend. If Anyone of you longs on PHOT want to vent and rant and cry just to get it out and know you are not alone then message me. I will read it and you will know that someone empathizes. Get your story out, tell people, especially the ones who love you, don't be ashamed for being duped. This is America, we all get fked by scams from time to time... etc. etc. Let it out! At least we are trying to meet goals and dreams instead of settling to be a cog in this machine.
GLTA - hope to see familiar faces around - I'll be at the SPL* board ;)
I'm definitely holding here. Maybe it will fill that gap and hopefully bounce hard from there. I'm considering buying at these levels, we'll see, my Phot baby got me feeling down today, but if I learn a thing or two about trading because of it... GLTA
Phot sec halt playing a factor here early IMO. Too many wild speculation right now on the sec halt, I'm waiting for clearer details. I'm glad to see the tradition of kicking others while they are down still alive and kicking. GLTA
Yup - everyone trippin on the PHOT board. Definitely going to affect VAPE for a bit. I'm waiting for the dust to clear to get a better understanding of the SEC halt. Wild speculation isn't doing me and some others any favors right now. GLTA
yup hopefully. The only thing I've learned about stock trading is that I will never know what's about to happen in the sector. I'm guessing that the blood letting in the sector was due to a combination of tax season, bad pr about inflated mj stock prices, and also a much needed consolidation because the sector is inflated. There is also talk about a beef between monkeys, pigs, wolves, and a guy named Sykes. I heard over the weekend that Sykes was going to short the crap out of SPLI, MINE, ERBB, etc - and those where the ones hit the hardest, I'm in SPLI and MINE. BUT, whatever, I guess if you have a lot of followers, like 50k, then you have a herd that can move penny pps's, but the deflation was/is sector wide. It will drive you nuts thinking about it.
VAPE had a good day considering the atmosphere of the sector. I am spread thin across 14 mj stocks PLUS PHOT :) hoping for a less intense repeat of Jan 2nd through 7th - then I plan to sell all besides a few I deem good enough to tuck away, and then I plan to start a different strategy where I manage only about 5 positions and flip them more often, as to hedge my bets. I'm nervous cause I stuck myself in a "hold" position waiting for what I believe is the next catalyst (WASH ST.) so these past two weeks have been brutal - hindsight is teaching me that pennies demand constant flipping or you get hit hard with days like Monday.
This post was more a response to your response on the PHOT board, I just wanted to bring VAPE concerns back to the VAPE board, so I didn't respond to you on the PHOT board.
Go Vape - LOOOOOOONG - I have a gut feeling, could be just gas, but with the huge squeeze on Monday and early Tuesday, I'm thinking something positive is coming our way - and I hope it brings new money. GLTY
VAPE - which is connected to PHOT - I have a core position I worked for free shares. bought at 6 and 9, sold at 11. I am holding. No funds to add and I am still nervous about this deflation in the sector so I don't know if I would add.
If you are looking for an initial buy, or to average down. IMO - I would buy an initial if I felt strongly about the company and would cautiously consider averaging down.
As far as DD on the company, I am not the guy you are looking for. I know just enough to trust that the company is real and has strong management, and they are connected and working deals with PHOT. I believe in their product and direction in an explosive emerging market.
A personal story: I asked a friend who is knowledgeable about such products if he had ever heard of Hive Ceramics. He said yes. He doesn't trade stock but seemed really interested when I told him that VAPE was buying them out and he thought that ceramics was definitely the way to go. This gives me a little insight into whether or not VAPE is headed the right way.
These are just my thoughts and experiences, I am a novice trader and my opinions should be taken very very lightly. Good luck to you!
Hopefully PHOT is the bellwether of the mj sector, talk about squeezing ass this week, besides FSP* my 15 mj stock portfolio was blood red yesterday, today it smoothed out a bit. I'm hoping the mj sector did some much needed consolidation and is done deflating. Phot as always is a beast!
I was a little disappointed at the size of the first GIFT contract, but then I remembered that Growlife had an initial target of 20 contracts when they schemed of this idea last year so I imagine them having multiple scores of contracts (in what manner of time idk). Just some thoughts - GLTA
i did too, pretty sure same company, I called back yesterday to get an answering machine, I did not leave a message. Today got another call, I was at work and my moms answered. My moms told me the guy said it wasn't imperative. I'm not calling back! It seems a company trying to sell me sht. They could have got our information from a source selling PHOT owners information (as companies often due buy and sell customer information for merchandising reasons). If I am not mistaken, is it not illegal for people/brokers/companies to cold call people trying to sell stock? Anyways, go PHOT! GLTA
EXMT I've managed to work this stock for free shares. If I had the available funds, I would consider buying more, although there are also several other good mj stocks under going consolidation right now. I have no reason to sell, and I am also expecting new money to be pumped into the sector after tax season is done and Washington State goes live. Then I'll decide if I want to keep EXMT as an investment stock or cut and run. We shall see.
IMO - as far as entry points, I use a simple 2 block strategy: I buy in where I feel comfortable and determine (in my case guess) where the support and resistant levels are, if it breaks support, I evaluate and either dump or average done. If it breaks resistance then I buy the second block expecting a big run. If said run happens - 100 to 200% - I sell the percentage to get get my initial back and ride the free shares (does wonders for the sanity, that and P*OT) And because you got your initial capital back, you can repeat the process. I have free shares in EXMT and four other mj stocks. This works for me, I'm not good enough yet and don't yet have the time to really follow and buy dips and sell rips - so this one or two time buy and one time sell strategy works because you only make two or three orders, so you are not intraday trading but rather weekly trading. And don't get caught up in missed opportunity, baseball averages can make you bank. GLTA I have high hopes here!
PHOT - the board I keep coming back to when I'm feeling nervous about my portfolio. A quick thank you to all. Been here since June, wish I could add more to the discussion, but I am still going through some growing pains and also trying to find the time to study and research. However, I do go back to part time next week :) The sector has been kind to me. GLTA
FSPM - I am scratching my head on this one. Bought in at 5 and 6.50, saw it go over 8 expecting more. (This is where I re watch that scene from WOWS where the guy says, "I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet, no one knows if the stock is going to go up, down, or sideways...) Ad Lib of course.
What is your guys opinion, do we hold the 4's and for how long? I feel like FSPM and VAP* are ripe for buying but I already have two blocks of shares in both. IMO - now is definitely a great time to take an initial.
As posted on the PHOT board: CANN got suspended, not CANX which is connected to PHOT. I understand why people do the whole CAN* thing, but this causes a little confusion.
Whats going on with VAPE? do you guys think it has to do with a combination of tax season, that bad article, and what seems to be a slow period in the mj sector. I'm new to this, I welcome everyone's opinion. Bought here at 6 and 9, sold at 11 and riding free shares. Thinking of buying at these levels, but I feel a lull period right now.
painfully slow. I think that this is a great stock at a great pps, but it's like we're stranded on a desert island. I'm out for now. Bought at .07, sold at .09 for a quickie 25%. When this hits a million plus average I will return. Good luck to you all.
Go Vape and Phot! Good luck this week looongs!
Go Phot! Go Vape! - in Phot at .04, in Vape at $6 - As Phot Longs, are we surprised that there is a joint venture between the two companies ;)
yup, I also feel that around .07 is the floor, which is why I feel comfortable with my .07 average. I understand what you are saying by being patient and as long as I have liquid capital to make other moves then I will hold VSUL. VSUL is a trading stock for me, so Time is very important for me, but I may take your advice and tuck this baby away as an investment.
From a slightly different perspective, I see penny stocks as speculative plays, so in my opinion, propaganda is important to get people talking about this stock. You and I are both in agreement that they will also be delivering the goods eventually which is why I may invest here and not trade, but at the moment I want them to start selling the "possibilities" because I obviously think it is an easy sell by my position here. Anyways, what will be will be, this whole money game is fake anyway and belongs to the birds, lol.
GLTY go VSUL
yup, good last two days. I was going to sell soon, but now I'm thinking of giving it a few more weeks. The volume needs to increase, hopefully some sort of positive catalyst will happen soon. Go VSUL
Oh, I see what you are saying. Yup, time will tell. Good luck to ya!