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He's part of the Pink Houses song.......
"He's got greasy hair, greasy smile
He says, "Lord, this must be my destination"
Destination: shit short pond scum.
PS: Go BLUE! EOM
Scope, my Freshman roommate at college mixed LP's in the late 70s and early 80s, and this song just hit all the high points of what will soon happen with the shitty shorts that will soon "Freak out". LMAO! Good sh*t! Go BLUE!
Your account shows you don't have a $ sign, so you don't get PM privilages or seach functions.
Unles Ihub glitched your premium membership too??? Bummer
The Barron's Daily, January 8, 2024
CES 2024 Is Coming Amid Focus on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a major theme of this week’s CES, formerly the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 130,000 people are expected to attend the annual convention in Las Vegas, where other key themes are mobility, sustainability, and “human security for all.”
About 4,000 exhibitors will spread across 2.5 million square feet of exhibit space through Friday, up 15% from 2023. Events feature cars, boats, helicopters, computers, robots, streaming services, digital ad services, televisions, virtual reality headsets, consumer appliances, semiconductors, and the Goodyear Blimp.
More than 250 exhibitors brought vehicles to the Las Vegas Convention Center, including Mercedes, VinFast, BMW, Honda, Kia, and Volkswagen—but not General Motors, Stellantis, Ford, or Tesla. There will also be EVs, autonomous cars, and unusual personal-transport vehicles.
The Consumer Technology Association projects the industry’s retail revenue will rise 2.8% to $512 billion this year, accelerated by AI developments from smartphones and PCs to mobility safety systems, increased audio and video streaming, and a boom in gaming hardware and subscriptions.
Siemens CEO Roland Busch is tonight’s keynote speaker, a spot held for 12 straight years by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon speak Tuesday, and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks on Wednesday.
What’s Next: On Tuesday, L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus will talk about “beauty tech,” and Gail Boudreaux, CEO of Elevance Health, the health insurer once called Anthem, will address digital health. On Wednesday, Kisun Chung, CEO of shipbuilder HD Hyundai, will discuss how tech is changing infrastructure.
—Janet H. Cho and Eric J. Savtiz
Thanks so much KCC, and Sqrl and Proto's input too. Getting much clearer picture now!
Not only all the benefits of Lightwave stated earlier, but a huge cost savings versus potential competitor using super expensive BTO! Boom!
That's what I'm thinking as the futures were initially much more red, then backed off.
They go from initial concern for rates stay higher for longer, but then market says,
oh, solid economy and earnings will be good..........so buy equities.
US Dec Nonfarm Payrolls rise 216k M/M, est. +175 (means higher rates for longer.....lower equity index pre-market for now, bond yields UP).
Wage increase 4.1% year over year, not going down as anticipated.
Xena, I just read the company's profile on yahoo finance and it is a joke!
Around 50++ kinds of products and services, a marketcap of 18M and the top
three people making over $1M a year combined. And I see Boner's brother is
on the payroll too.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DFCO/profile?p=DFCO
Amen Scope. He's got a big trap (mouth).
Absurd statements of falsehood.
You are either hitting the bottle early today.......
Or getting some handouts from the shorts to do some of their dirty work here.
Or.......you are just a disgruntled long that can't handle reality of high risk/high reward investing.
Go row 10k meters on a Concept 2 under 2:08 min/500m to clear out your cobwebs.
I did this morning, though I didn't have the cobwebs your posts are showing.
imi, glad I cleared the decks on my retirement index funds with your additional research on fund managers having maxed out their allocation into end of Dec.
I was out 50% by the first trading day in Jan, then the rest the next day. So just lost 1.5% and completely agree that all the RSI and other indicators were way overbought, plus 8 or 9 straight weeks of index gains in a row. Time for the cooling off period and reset.
btw, TechniTrend was good online buddies with NetNeutral when NN was posting here, as they both use their own respective successful trading models.
If I did trade daily options, I would be completely onboard with TT with his invite to a discord site that he posts on for others.
Happy New Year 202$. Need to be nimble this year and humble too, to avoid any train wrecks.
I have believed that Lightwave will eventually be "bullin". Just a matter of patience.
I've been strapped in on the Lightwave rocket launch for 2.5 years.
They are finalizing all of the systems checks before pushing the ignition button.
3, 2, 1.......... 🚀
Getting obsessed and spending resources on the short issues is a waste of time in my and many other shareholders opinions. Lawsuits waste resources and impact.
The point is, he will be ensuring that when it is time to finalize deals (everything is in place technically, foundry high volume production and quality, and data to ensure buyers have confidence) it will happen at an increasing and decisive rate that will cause most of the shorts to eventually cover or forced by their brokers. Manage the business, optimize the PDK and production quality at the Founderies, and everything else will take care of itself. Elon was pretty funny when asked about the shorts, shorting his company. Including Bill Gates. He was like, Fu*k them. His focus is on the company, and that is the focus needed to be a successful leader in a nasty tough dirty competitive market, including the subsidized EV makers in China.
That was my POINT. He will be creating a ramp up of DEALS in close concert which will pressure the shorts.
but he won't do crappy deals here and there, just to keep the share price up for "the moment" at $7 bucks or so before trailing off.
SIgn a deal, release the PR, then do it again, and again, as you said, sound pretty coordinated to ME.
Maybe I just think differently than you. LOL. I am very aware of what happened to Tesla back in 2019 when they finally announced positive earnings. Then more announcement came, and more again. And the shorts got fried in losses of some number of billions of dollars. It was beautiful to watch, as he went from nearly broke with his risk taking and efforts to push his innovation, to BOOM!!!! The rest is history, well, other than suppression of his voice and others on Twitter by the government and media.
You are crying wolf here just like the shorts on the Tesla message board. ( in your case just complaining because you don't understand the process at hand....way above your pay grade)
I reviewed the Q/A's of the May 25, 2023 ASM and the one question on shorts was regarding if there was naked shorting going on, so not the one where Dr. Lebby said "we'll manage it". I believe that was said during a different online presentation Q/A, but he did say it, and he mentioned in the ASM question that they are reviewing the short interest issue with their Counsel.
Cool. I love exponential growth curves. Here for energy use by data centers in next 6 years, and it directly impacts demand for Lightwave's polymer as it launches BOOM!
PS: How 'bout them Wolverines?? Kudos to my older brother's MBA alma mater! Go BLUE!
Go Huskies! Looking forward to 2, 14-0 teams playing for the National Championship in Houston.
Proto, a white paper to him is like a "do not disturb" sign!
No effort, no knowledge, but prolific amounts of spam!
He must be related to Sam! 🤣
Buck"le". Fasten up your seatbelts for 2024. Hahahahaha! 🚿🚿
Your fraudulent posts will soon reveal you are nothing more than a spandex wearing scam artist. hee hee
SLim_Jim, you got a purchase at the low of the day, you SOB. Well done!
Happy New Years, and we are primed on the launch pad for 2024.
pollywog and his fringe are "leaping for joy" at their belief that Lightwave isn't meeting its goals.
Poor little maroons. So trusting, so naive...(of the bears)...LMAO! Enjoy!
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1905026326432547
Maybe the upper $4s is now the former upper $3s low??
The science and soon to be released deals in 2024 will make all single digit
lows history sometime in 2024 imo.
You are missing 7 months and 9 days to your chart calendar dingle.....berry.
No wonder you are so confused and wrong on all your posts.
Your English grammar is terrible too. You are joining kinzaman....lol
Vein, I was going to mail an AED to your wife just in case she needed to use it on your during a 10%
off day. Here's to a healthy and "exciting" 2024!
Lewrock, I just realized in my Schwab account, since today is Dec 29, any trades will settle in early January, and Schwab actually allows you to assign funds to 2024 as well, and makes trades today (as they settle in New Year)! Not bad for those interested in stocking up even more as lwlg price is off 8-9%!
Topped off my Roth account allowance w/ 535 more shares at $4.85
Stocking stuff after Xmas!
Can also look at more in Jan for 2024 (allowance rises to $8k bucks for joint filing over 50) if opportunity still exist.
Seems like English may not be your first language. Even our Belgium and Dutch shareholders understand what was said clearly in his letter.
You can retake the test if you need too. lol
More deals to come in 2024.
Thanks. I didn't think I would get a chance to add more Roth funds into lwlg under$5.
Expect to do that in early Jan 2024. Hah, thanks BoyZ for your games and discounts!
thank you very much imi.
I do follow Tom Lee when I can and appreciate you posting him
from a friend. Right now we are obviously getting a pullback from an
overly powerful rocket in indexes starting on November 1st.
40% for the Russell 2000 would be wild, even 30%!
OT: meanwhile, look at what they are doing to lwlg after it
was rejected from the 200 dma at $5.59 a few days ago.
The institutions and their MMs are controlling the price.
$4.95 blue light special on aisle 5!
imi, I appreciate your more grounded experience on AI displacement of jobs from your own software industry.
I have heard recently about AI providing coding better than humans, but I have limited knowledge on the details.
You have given me more respect for how potentially disruptive AI may be on society in terms of jobs.
They will need a 0.69% allotment of lipstick in their algos to do it. We'll know soon.
what % up would S&P500 have to go and close at for new all time high?
markets don't look like they have much juice at the moment to make that chase as
trading is thin, but one never knows what the bots will do to close out 2023 as some
hedge and other funds need finish the end of their window dressing.
I believe what we saw starting in late 2020 was an OTC meme/SPACs/IPOs/EV-batteries-Lidar-solar stuff BUBBLE which peaked late 2021, along with a lot of the Covid dollars diminishing (many young Americans opened accounts and traded with this free unemployment checks (2020 to 2021); my son knows a number of friends that did this and ended up losing most of that free money). They all work jobs now and learned a pretty good, and cheap (Uncle Sam funded) lesson. Sure they will still trade junk, however doing a little research will expose the JUNK pretty quickly as it drops like MMEX crap.
All that said, I'm not sure if the recent cycle is going to repeat itself again. What is coming is an AI revolution which appears to have the potential to create very significant productivity gains in the next 3-5 years, or long. Sure it may displace some jobs, however at the same time it is creating new jobs, just like Apple, IBM, Dell etc computers made life more efficient, and created more jobs for citizens. Millions more jobs. The big elephant in the room in my mind is how the US Congress will eventually need to address the growing debt and entitlement programs. They will need to be addressed (social security age will be raised from 67 to 68 and eventually 69 over time; ss is already rising for level that is taxed much faster than inflation. Was like 140k a few years ago, now 160k and going to 166k next year). Medicare is a much more problematic animal. I don't know how they are going to sustain it looking at the math/numbers.
Fat_Beluga........you have the mouth of an angry grumpy old whale.......and need to dive to the abyssal plain for a long nap. lol
Yeah, looks like it coincided with a general indexes pullback too, starting just before 2 pm.
They may also want to keep it below the 200 dma at $5.59 to keep a lid on the price.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IWM?p=IWM
Hah, and there is no economic news tomorrow from the U.S. Gov, so maybe Power was enjoying a bit too much weed.
Imiloa, thanks for the heads up of additional indicators showing potential market peaks.
I found a few other thoughts from my barron's online weekly below. Some bullish, others bearish.
Take your pic! I'm ready to scale out if the melt-up continues in increments of 0.5% or more daily. Or stalls and shows weakness.
How to Gauge the Health of the Bull Market
Dec 22, 2023, 6:45 pm EST
This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron's.
Follow the Broker/Dealers
Momentum Strategies Report
Clif Droke Market Analysis
Dec. 20: Prime bull market stocks like broker/dealers continue to shine in the current buoyant environment. I continue to advocate keeping a close eye on the NYSE Securities Broker/Dealer Index (XBD) as the primary “canary in the coal mine” for the current phase of the bull. As long as XBD is on the upswing, the rest of the market should continue to follow that trend.
Clif Droke
QT Could Spell Trouble in ’24
Focus: Fixed Income
NDR Ned Davis Research
Dec. 19: With the Fed pivot party in full swing, nobody wants to spoil the fun. But investors should be aware of some coming risks.
One of the biggest macro risks for 2024 is the continued reduction of the Fed’s balance sheet, or quantitative tightening (QT). [Fed Chairman Jerome] Powell has pledged that QT will continue unless the economy collapses.
The Fed’s balance sheet has shrunk by $1.25 trillion from its peak in April 2022, shortly after the Fed started raising rates (using total reserve bank credit to represent the balance sheet). All the decline has come from the reduction of the usage of the Fed’s Reverse Repo Facility (RRP), which has declined over $1.5 trillion over that same time.
Bank reserves are little changed. In fact, reserves have risen to their highest level since April 2022, thereby supporting the risk-on rally. Effectively, the shrinking of the Fed’s balance sheet has had no effect on banking liquidity! No wonder why we are having a tough time seeing the impact of the Fed’s tightening cycle on the real economy.
That will change in 2024. If the Fed keeps going with QT and the Treasury keeps issuing a ton of Treasury bills (both pretty good bets), the RRP will go to zero, probably sometime in Q2. At that point, QT will begin affecting bank reserves, draining the market of liquidity. That won’t be a happy time for the markets. In the meantime, enjoy the party.
Joseph F. Kalish
Stocks Aren’t Overpriced
Market Strategy Radar Screen: Monthly Chart Book
Oppenheimer Asset Management
Dec. 17: Bloomberg’s forward price/earnings ratio for the S&P 500 stood at 21.9 times at the close on Dec. 14, 2023—down from a recent peak of 27.23 times on Sept. 2, 2020. The 20% decline in the forward P/E multiple from its peak levels in late 2020 stems from a rise in forward earnings estimates and the market’s serial pullbacks. This leaves current valuations at what appear to be relatively attractive levels.
John Stoltzfus, Jim Johnson
Forecasting 2024
The Pulse of the Market
RBC Capital Markets
Dec. 19: The strength of the S&P 500 in 2023 has surprised many strategists, ourselves included. Though we were more constructive than many of our peers, we weren’t nearly constructive enough. We started the year with a year-end S&P 500 target of 4,100, which we raised to 4,250 in May. Throughout the year we’ve used roughly half a dozen models, and have based our target on the median or average of them. In hindsight, there was one model that we should have paid more attention to. That was our valuation model, which uses the relationship between trailing average P/Es and inflation, GDP, and interest rates dating back to the 1960s to project where the trailing P/E of the S&P 500 should be at year end.
What this model is telling us about 2024 has been a big topic of conversation in investor meetings. Currently, it’s calling for a trailing P/E at year-end 2024 of 23 times, or around 5,300 when used in tandem with our 2024 EPS forecast of $232. The 2024 output of this model will likely evolve in the coming months as consensus forecasts for inflation, GDP, and interest rates are adjusted and as we fine tune our own 2024 EPS forecast. But for now, the key things to know are that it is telling us that the stock market is likely to end 2023 at a valuation level that is reasonable in the context of the moderation in inflation that we’ve seen, and that we should look for additional gains in 2024 as inflation continues to ease and interest rates come down a bit.
Lori Calvasino
Hah, Musk has stirred some vitrial and hate from you as well. I may have misplaced you buying options on lwlg with another poster, Maybe your childhood strict nuns in grade school were too soft on you. What a pity. Probably need the Marines instead to work out your anger and disrespect
No only that. Elon Musk's SpaceX is also connected, too, as Amazon's project Kuiper is using SpaceX's launch for some of its satellites.
The Lightwave polymer is going to intersect into a ubiquitous range of products serving space satellite transmissions (Danny...lwlg product will eventually be used here....don't be so anxious and impatient, but realize you got burned playing too many options...), 6G towers and beyond, LIdar, biosensors, and many more beyond Dr. Lebby's first mega-area of Data Centers and Telecom. I believe Elon's largest companies (SpaceX/StarLInk and Tesla) are already becoming ubiquitous, and I truly believe they will have a newly disruptive ubiquitous polymer and device within Elon's companies. Will even help out his Twitter cloud data centers too!
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon-project-kuiper-spacex-launch