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Still holding on to my 4k, but all I've seen from this company is smoke and mirrors.
Back when Lauzon first signed on, I tried researching him. Encountered what I hoped was another Brian Lauzon with a scammy reputation. Hit a lot of dead ends. Nobody from Mars in Canada would reply to my inquiries.
grrr, I almost bought two million shares in Nov/Dec for like three-hundredths of a cent per.
But, did I?.. NOOOOOOOOO!
You think Iconic is an $800 million company?
Sure, I'd love to see a $800 million market cap, or even $80 million ... but can they make and sell enough wine to justify it?
In at 2.2 cents with my petty cash.
As I said before I'm mostly out of this, except for a Hail-Mary 4000 shares. Got tired of CTDT's pathological inertia. My two current speculative holdings are AMRS and MDXG.
AMRS (Amyris) is a sub-dollar biotech that started with funding from Bill and Melinda Gates to synthesize cost-effective quantities of a natural anti-malarial, using gene-modified yeast (and did). They've turned the yeast cell into a programmable factory, and automated the programming process itself to "grow" biofuels, flavors & fragrances, drugs, special lubricants, new compounds for DARPA... they have quite a list, and patents and patents-pending out the wazoo. 2017 should be a big year. I have 12000 sh.
MDXG (Mimedx Group) is I think a real buyout target, mostly because (1) they're making money, and (2) no one else does what they do: convert collected afterbirth tissue into the most effective chronic-wound-care materials on the planet, and other therapies. The CEO has engineered at least one other start-up into a lucrative buyout before. I think they're at a good entry point now (though it could dip lower), and I just added some for 2200 shares total.
But do your due diligence!
Granted, synthesizing diamond with a flip of a switch would be a hard act to follow. But I think Centaurus is getting leap-frogged by other advances out there even as I write this. They might still be able to carve out a profitable niche though.
What does Snaper actually want to do? How old is he now? Is he still of sound mind?
[Oops--MDXG jumped to almost $9 after-hours just now. Could be an AH blip though.]
broke out of a high-tight flag on rising volime
I'm mostly out of this. Plowed the proceeds into AMRS and that got me back in the green. Still have 4k shares CTDT.
Weekly chart tells me very good chance TNK will rise from here on, apart from significant chance of dropping to previous support at low. Either up, or down to new buy opportunity.
It would be immensely helpful if Mr. Lauzon himself hosted a conference call while Chas stays locked in a signal-proof cellar somewhere.
He must detail the progress on Magnatek, or lack thereof. He must tell us how excited he is about the potential of Magnatek.
He must explain why we haven't realized the promised revenue from the Autogenous mill, or any substantial production benchmarks.
He must explain why getting the financials together seems as difficult as pulling teeth from an unanesthetized hyena.
He must explain, preferably with Snaper online too, why anyone should keep a straight face about more progress on a process that allegedly produced its first diamond TEN DAMN YEARS AGO!
And, not least, that Mr. Lauzon really is who he is said to be. And what difference that has made for CTDT.
(Yes, there was a Brian Lauzon who was president of a division of Mars Inc. But I'm having trouble tying things together while researching him.)
I hope Snaper et al is staying on top of stuff like this. Nothing stopping them from stuffing anything they want in a vessel.
UPI: Super-strong carbon
Or Snaper's controlling disinterest.
I want convincing evidence that Magnatech is producing, on a consistent basis, crystals of significant-carat size or better, in significant (or at least promising) volume. I feel that's the brass ring here. Why are they distracting themselves with other rumored projects, the autogenous mills not included?
And don't even think about whipping out that GIA certificate from ten years ago.
Only thing keeping me in are the reports (albeit haphazard) of significant and consistent experimental production. I know the process can work. It works for instant welding of pipe segments, which Snaper himself patented. His patent for diamond synthesis does not expire for many years yet.
So why haven't there been any PRs of substance in that regard?
It's absolutely baffling.
Could be a classic example of "buy on rumor, sell on news". Volumes acquired at lower prices could be unloaded into the new matching demand without cratering the stock. Of course that weighs down the rocket.
Hopefully enough longs will maintain scarcity, bolstered by long-range optimistic outlook.
Anyone know if meetings between "us" and management have come to pass?
The inexplicable delay in release of financial info is unsettling and depressing. The one bright spot is the consistent production, as Chas said, of one-carat stones.
Because reporting non-existent production (or wildly exaggerating it) would be, I think, actionable, if not downright criminal. They wouldn't do that!
(Would they?)
We need to hear from the CEO himself.
Nomad, is that visit still on the table? eom
nice chart. heading for breakout?
Diamond transfers heat 22 times better than silicon (Si), and 5 times better than copper. It can carry over two million times more current than Si as a conductor, and can be tuned to drive circuits up to 400 gigahertz--Si can only handle single-digit frequencies. And it can do all this with a layer over a thousand times thinner than a Si layer of equivalent capability. When it's perfected as a basis for chip manufacture, it will revolutionize the industry.
We're talking layers of diamond measured in nanometers of thickness. Slicing and dicing diamond components just isn't doable, IMHO.
Just to be clear on something about the technology...
Diamond as a semiconductor almost certainly requires carbon-vapor deposition (CVD) on silicon or some other substrate. There seems to be a notion floating around that sizable diamonds can be sliced into little wafers, then have circuitry photo-etched on them. Not necessarily an impossible approach but one I think is wildly primitive and impractical. (But correct me if I'm wrong.)
At the moment Magnatek is, I am certain, all about mass-production of sizable industrial-quality diamond crystals, and perhaps even higher-quality, in bulk, for whatever purposes we or our future customers can think of.
"consistently producing diamonds in the 1 carat range"
That's worth a PR in itself.
Great fundamentals here in a virtually wide-open space. Almost certainly upwards from here.
Well in the sense that we're almost at the fork in the road.
It just occurred to me just what a binary situation we're in at the moment. Either they soon execute on the plan and deliver real product, or it's all smoke-and-no-fire and a real pig-in-a-poke and it dives for the "trips".
In at 4.91 a few weeks ago then out at 5.14 when it dived and I chickened out, fearful of earnings. Back in 5.50, yee haw. High tight flags are awesome.
This could go over 7 in short order but don't hold me to that.
Technically, the chart shows SYN is in a so far 3-wk long consolidation that forms a 'high-tight flag', as per Bulkowski's criteria (and HTFs often don't look very "tight" at all). The 'pole' started in early Feb. at .93 and peaked Apr 6th (or perhaps the 15th), more than doubling. Falling volume along the consolidation is a good sign.
The thing to look for is a breakout above 2.74.
The main negative is SYN's low price; the usual dynamics behind such patterns may not hold full sway. Poor fundamentals may also hinder initiating a breakout.
I wonder if word on next week's earnings has leaked?
All else being equal, hoping for a pt 6.50 or higher.
Elsewhere however, raw "DND" (detonation nano-diamond) can be had for a few thousand bucks a kilogram. DND is created by compression of carbon using explosives.
Still, pricey stuff. All CTDT needs is aluminum tubing and electricity. And I think our method can produce "doped" ND with much greater uniformity and purity.
It is amazing the number of actual and potential applications for nanodiamonds, from cosmetics to industrial coatings to abrasives to cancer therapy.
Nanodiamonds! ...
A 5mL solution of deionized water containing 1 milligram per mL of fluorescing nandiamonds can be gotten from Sigma-Aldrich for $268, which works out to $54 for a thousandth of a gram.
$54,000 per gram.
That's $54 million a kilo.
Who knew?
NEWS !!!
Centaurus Diamond Technologies, Inc. Achieves Major Milestone in Magnatek Cultured Diamond Process
Kinda quiet here, too quiet.
Nice high-tight flag has formed. Only knocks are the straight-up pole and the flag a bit overlong.
I'm guessing one of two explanations there: 1, Chaz is ID'd as president by a templated insert that hadn't been changed yet in whoever's Word editor, or, 2, Chaz is acting president until Brian finally and officially settles in. (But then one wonders, Why the hurry?) All we know of Brian's status from the March 23 PR is that he has been "brought on" by Centaurus.
Still, I find this all just a bit intolerably fuzzy.
And once again our newly-appointed CEO Lauzon has nothing to say. Is that just his style? Or has no one informed Brian that he is CEO of a little tech startup in Henderson NV?
Would be nice to hear something from Mr Lauzon himself.
I tried to update Wikipedia's "Synthetic diamond" page with a short paragraph called "Electromagnetic pulse" in the methods section. I even included a footnoted reference, and avoided any mention of "Magnatek" or CTDT or of any development enterprise at all.
They removed it, which I guess was proper. Magnatek's capabilities just haven't been substantiated enough within the industry to suit the Wiki overseers.
As it stands now, do you see a classic triple bottom developing out?
I'm wondering which product most impressed Mr. Lauzon when he first considered signing on: Magnatek, or the autogenous mill?
Wondering too when he first heard about CTDT.