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From one of the tout/traders
MGT - Shady pump and dump but a popular and liquid trader right now. Made +$10,000 on it this week after buying just above the recent $2.23 low and selling in the upper $2's. Looking to repeat for a move above $3 soon or short if $2.30's falls apart. E*TRADE has borrows as most of the other main brokers.
I own a few hundred shares and I will add more in the future not now.
See this article on "shorts". http://finance.yahoo.com/tumblr/blog-a-test-of-conscience-at-a-trading-firm-223923249.html
In 5-6 days mannkind will make an announcement when they get control of Afrezza back from Sanofi
( I think APRIL 5th) At that point investors will have a better idea of what the company is planning to do with Afrezza. ( check their tweets)
What I think is happening with Mannkind
Like all of you I have no real info but can make an educated guess. If you go back to previous calls with hakan
Mannkind was boating they had many opportunites( hakan said an embarrassment of riches) on the techno sphere part of the company. At that time they were less interested in producing others drugs and just licensing
their technology( because the real money is in drugs they can control) hakan also said they could announce
1 new collaboration at the 6 month mark going forward.
I think we will hear a flurry of TS deals. Some where they stand to make money on the drugs some where they get paid for their inhaleable technology.
It is my belief that mannkind may also talk about countries that they believe they can expedite approval of afrezza.
My hopes is they Don't sell afrezza and figure out a strategy to market the drug. This will be a successful product if they can get through their cash flow problems.
I will continue to hold and remain a long...
I am stunned! Good riddance to sanofi. Will be on the conference call tonight to hear Mnkd version and plan
For the future.
Have to say Trend was right
Trend
I did say mnkd was not likely to double back in August for at least six months. I was not expecting the shares to lose more half their value.
Be that as it may I have and still do buy every time it goes down significantly. It is the largest single stock
Holding I have in terms of number of shares.
i believe in the product, the science and hope that either Sanofi finally markets afrezza aggressively or let's
Mannkind sell to another pharma.
Everything I have read good and bad about the product the good far outweighs the bad. I am an investor not a trader and I have held on to some companies for years.
My only issue is I have thrown out all logic when it came to this stock and proportionally instead of evenly investing in all the stocks I own I keep committing more cash to Mannkind.
6,000,000 plus shares sold at the close today..
Still long and still buying
Bought more at these prices. Betting on big announcements within the next few weeks.
Jls
Interesting that you should say that I was recently reading on investments and I have been selling my profitable
Stocks to buy the laggards. According to everything I read I should cut my losses and rebalance into
What I think has more potential.
Since I have invested lots of time and money in mankind I will see it through for better or worse. This was a stock that I bought into the story and invested with my heart not criteria I usually used to evaluate. Very personal for me.
Full disclosure.... Long here
Overall I thought the conference call was disappointing. Mannkind management was not as forthcoming as they usually are. My summation is we are 18 months-2 years before a launch of a new product but maybe a year away before they announce partnerships.
Afrezza is slow selling and we will not likely see a huge ( at least double) in that for another 6months.
What they didn't say but intimated was global approval could be shortly ( my estimate 60 days)
That was the big surprise. What Matt did say was that sanofi wasn't really going country by country but going for global and they expected to be updated by sanofi at their next collaborative meeting
I will listen to the call later as I was working and may have missed a few key points
Very interesting will be looking for updates
Wonder how he got it
https://vimeo.com/133644346
I have been long mankind a few years. Often as the stocks dips I buy more. Some was bought in the mid- high eights and some in the high 3 threes with continuos buying between the two.
Since I have never sold a share and only accumulate any loss is paper only. If you have a dollar and trade it for 75 cents you lose money. If you hold on to that dollars and a few years later it's worth a dollar and a quarter if you trade it you made a small profit.
So to trends question yes I am long and have not lost money because it's paper losses only
A link to the presentation. Overall very positive
http://wsw.com/webcast/jmp27/register.aspx?conf=jmp27&page=mnkd&url=http://wsw.com/webcast/jmp27/mnkd/index.aspx
From stocktwits... Afrezza on top of list
http://www.rnceus.com/dmeds/types.htm
Great article... He compares the new insulin(afrezza) to electric cars and solar and their struggles.
Eventually Afrezza will succeed and I will continue to take advantage of the bargin stock price and add to my holdings
A little off topic... There is truth in humor
http://www.cracked.com/article_22184_diabetics-get-high-from-sex-5-weird-realities-diabetes_p2.html
I found this interesting.....
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http://www.wgem.com/story/28716872/2015/04/03/tri-statel-doctor-works-to-spread-awareness-about-new-insulin-inhaler-for-diabetics
Trading to resume in Canada. I wonder is same is true in us and Germany
http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2015-04-01/a3_K6FlUjncY.html
From someone that consistently beats the market
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Quite A Day, Eh? 3/25/15
As those of you who do like to watch the market on a daily basis already know, stocks were down across the board today, with two of our favorite sectors (biotech and high-tech) getting hit especially hard.
Not surprisingly, the sizable drops seen in a number of the major indices are causing the talking heads on TV and internet to ask “is the bubble about to burst?”, and this sensationalistic journalism is, in turn, only helping to add fuel to the fire on the sell side of the equation.
However, before you decide to join the fray of panic-selling that might be getting underway on a larger scale, I want to first remind you of two of the most important mantras that I refer to fairly often in the newsletter:
1) Trends often go on for far longer than seems reasonable,
and
2) Our job is to position our Portfolios based on what the market is actually doing, not on what we think (or are worried) it might do.
As you can see in the Eyebrow Levels table below, all five of the major indices I use to gauge the health of the overall market are still flashing “bull market” signals… and since the whole point of creating this table is to help take emotion out of the equation when it comes to trying to figure out whether it is wiser to be buying or selling stocks by identifying “trigger points” ahead of time, I want to remind you that it is important that you try to do your best to stick to our pre-determined game plan, even if you’re feeling a bit anxious right now.
If and when the five indices in that table all do dip below their one eyebrow levels (and stay there for at least a day or two, mind you – “for just five minutes” won’t count as a legitimate sell signal, for example), you can rest assured that I will change my bullish tune and encourage you to do some selling rather than buying, even if that day happens to come tomorrow (I’m not expecting it to, but you never know!).
However, for now, the trend is still up… and thus, based on the two mantras mentioned above, our job is to remain as fully invested as we can comfortably be at night.
Of course, as those of you have been with me for awhile now already know, there is a third mantra that also comes into play during situations like the one we find ourselves in now, namely, “Always sell down to the sleeping point.”
Emotion is far and away one of the biggest enemies of successful investing, and if you are finding yourself losing sleep worrying about your portfolio, you are strongly encouraged to sell as much of it as you need to in order to sleep easily at night so that any investment decisions you make in the future will be made from a place of calm, level-headedness rather than from a place of anxiety or panic.
That being said (and with the caveat again that I may be telling you to sell instead of buy as soon as tomorrow), I really do want to encourage you to remain as fully invested as you can comfortably be under the circumstances.
Though it is true that stocks are not cheap at this stage of the game, in my mind, they are not terribly overpriced either (with some exception here and there, of course); however, and perhaps more importantly, we have not yet seen the sort of wildly bullish activity that almost always accompanies what (in hindsight, of course) turns out to be “the top” for bull markets.
Not only does this mean the odds favor (but do not guarantee, mind you!) that there is probably still another leg up in store for the market, I want to also remind you that if this final “blow off” phase does materialize, history suggests it will almost certainly prove to be one of the most profitable phases of the bull market (and thus, you really don’t want to miss it if you can help it!).
While there may a bit more to go on the downside before the current slide ends, as long as the major indices are holding above the one eyebrow levels spelled out in our table, you are encouraged to think about buying rather than selling.
Those of you who are more risk-averse may want to simply wait for the April issue to come out before you pull the trigger (just to see what my latest thoughts and new buy limits might look like), but those of you who are more tolerant of risk are encouraged to look at the current sell-off as an opportunity to add to your positions.
In particular, based on where things stand as of the close today, I would especially encourage you to take a look at Affymetrix, Electronic Arts, First Solar, Luminex, MannKind, NVIDIA, Perry Ellis, Tekla Life Sciences, and Walt Disney.
Yes, volatility like we’re experiencing right now can be tough to stomach, especially if you are fairly new to investing; however, please recognize that if you keep your wits about you and stay focused on the long-term, these are the sorts of situations that almost always represent buying opportunities as part of an ongoing bull market… please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
the link doesn't shed much light. Claims if not halted trading would be chaotic
I hub should have a button for loving posts, I would have my finger on that button. I added to my position as well, however I am thinking about options which I know nothing about cause I could control more shares.
Small investor- long term hold plus adding at a pace of 300 shares. Thinking about options cause that money would translate to over 2500 shares.
Being schooled on options as I post
All of you have more to lose or gain then I do with my 15,000 share. Linw= Linda and w for my last name :)
happy Friday to all
I have 15,000 shares. Bought 5000 at 1.92 several years ago. Bought more in the 40 cent range and recently last year bought another 5000 at 7 cents. I will not buy anymore.
The one bright spot with this company is Brad from evergreen. He answers immediately and gave me names and numbers of who to contact in China.
At this point I consider anything positive a bonus. I have moved on in my investments and this is the least of my worries
Great article about insiders I was talking about this one:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2267693-mannkind-entertaining-multiple-partnership-possibilities-ahead-of-fda-decision-on-afrezza
Very nice POSITIVE article from seeking alpha. Should calm people who understand why they invested in this company
Bar yes thinking about it... Tax loss. I do own plenty of others stocks so while a few thousand maybe (4500) has been dead or dying money it hasn't stop me from investing.
I did however stupidly add to my position after all the way pointed out "if" they filed financials maybe a high would be 40 cents and if I bought in the 9 cent area I would average down. (Like 9 months ago)I don't blame him it was stupidity on my part.
I forgot the rule... Cut your losses and move on
Having been in this stock more than 3 years and losing patience with this company I wrote to them through the website.
I received an email back with links to 2013 filings . I am so discouraged by the lack of transparency and their investor relations guy lack of response. A link to old filings with no other info.
I now expect this to be delisted any day.
I own nautilus. Bought some in the dollar range up to 2 dollars doubled done when it dropped to 50 cents and doubled again in the 20 cent area. Bought this maybe 3-4 years ago on stanberrys tout.
This is my lottery ticket. I think the company has unbelievable potential but it could be a few years before we hit big. (Really big) I believe they are moving in the right direction and I may consider buying more
Fellow posters:
I read the boards hoping for information I may have missed. Been a long term holder bought this closed to $2.00. Fcpgalltheway has been a consistent cheerleader. He made a valued point more then 8 months ago that "if" the company gets their S*#T together it could move to the 40 cent area and if I loaded up my average would be significantly lower than a dollar and I could possibly break even
Stupidly I purchased more. That is to sat I do not blame alltheway for my purchase, I am solely
Responsible for that. What I dislike about the cheer leading is the attitude it's a matter of days or any minute when none of us know.
I could have traded those dollars (in & out) and had my money working, instead it's been dead money for more that 8 months. Since we are talking only a few grand it really isn't the biggest deal either way.
I originally thought this company because it had great potential and while I hope it recovers, I no longer watch it day to day
I don't find these boards helpful ,but most of the boards are just chit chat. The only boards that I really find worth reading have to do with bio techs and science that a few people have expertise in and can explain the science to the lay person.
I wish all of you well.
I am also holding and will be adding to my position. I think the company has great clients
Love thus stock! Float is very low and not much movement but long term it will skyrocket
Depending on the price tomorrow must be over $12.00 (for me) I will sell 2500 shares total held 5000.
I will also buy more shares under 8.00. I believe when it gets FDA approval it will go another 50-100% and if they announce a partnership again there is more gain.
Long term I think the company is a winner.
My opinion is the format is unfair. The fda makes assessment/assumptions and there is no rebuttal. Mannkind may respond later to some concerns but it's like having a disjointed conversation.
I am hoping for the best... Since I am reading the blog you you do not have the advantage of seeing body language/ facial expressions.
I am a long term holder and I bought more today at 4.34 a share somewhere around 10:30 ish. By the time I got to work the stock went down to 4.09. Instead of buying more ( again) I decided that I will hold until tomorrow's panel and if I feel it went favorably I will buy more
While I read everything there is to read on the company and I believe the drug is safe I am worried.
Mötley fool talks about mannkind
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/14/3-companies-facing-fda-approval-chelsea-mannkind-a.aspx
How come not one share was traded today?