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Mebbe. Wise man say, don't get greedy!
You guys wrote a book in here while I was on vacation! Bizzy bizzy bees.
I oughta go on vacation more often! What a nice little "gift" to come home to! And all of my shares of AVEW are SOLD. Woo!
C'mon litte doggie, break thru yesterday's high and keep on goin'... Rolling rolling rolling... keep that doggie rollin'
8/24/17 news: Price target $34 from Raymond James, up from $33.
Thought it needed a bit of new blood in here. Freshen the place up a bit. Spread a few smiley faces all around instead of sourpusses.
If today is any indicator of what happens when the pirate flag is flying high, just think when it comes down!
LOL = Look Out Longs, your day is coming...
Prohibition. Imagine the folks that owned booze stock in that golden hour when Prohibition was lifted.
The flying fish dives before taking another big leap. Favorable breezes blowing. Big news not yet here.
Methinks the fun is just beginning... power hour not here yet.
Somebody's having one heckuva GOOD day!
What's it moving on? I don't see news??
Holy cow! What's going on??!! Straight up, up, UP!
Insider buying. So if Jose and Jay were buying up shares, hypothetically speaking of course, that would be insider buying. And if insider buying were taking place on such a massive scale of tens of millions of shares, that would suggest that AVEW is about to pop big-time. To which I say, YAY!
Up, up, and away! If the shorts weren't all out before, I think they're out now!
LOL! My sights are a little lower than $4, BigBaboon But heck, I recently took a penny gain elsewhere, only to discover that the rise went up four times that. But no matter, I walked away happy. Wise man say: Don’t get greedy.
If the software really is all that, however, I’d expect it to gain traction and keep it. Tough biz. Gotta give him credit for moxie and stick-to-it-ness. The turtle wins the race.
They're all gambles. I watched one big name company go down in flames, and to this day I believe it was engineered intentionally by a CEO with a stellar reputation. As for penny gambles, I probably put less in than I'd take to Vegas.
Woo! No stock is forever, IMHO. Not even the Big Boys. My spouse is rather in love with a stock because it pays a nice dividend. I keep telling him to sell when it reaches a high, and find another solid dividend stock in a valley. I run skittish. I don’t trust any of them staying too long in. Seen Big Boys crash and burn, and little ones rise like shining stars. When you think you have the latter, it’s tempting…
We have a projected time frame? Didn’t know that! The pendulum swings. Predicting which of my stocks will be the next to sell… yes, I’ve got a few shares here. VLDI is one of my penny gambles. I was rather pleased with how last month’s gambles played out. Just one piece of good news is all it takes to blast a stock off the bottom like a rocket ship.
Easy $6, but I'm thinking $6.25. People follow Buffet. But even before he got in, SIRI has been on the rise steadily since 2009. And even at its lowest, SIRI never split. They fought their way up, and for that I give them serious kudos.
Beautifully explained, PP, and you are spot on. Any product in creation, whether software, inventions, books, big pharma meds, music… if you don’t hold it close to the vest, you risk losing it altogether. There’s always somebody with enough manpower to take your not-yet-released product and beat you to the punch, grabbing the market share out from under you.
Software is tricky, especially serious software. There is no such thing as a small change, or a small addition. Every feature has to be tested, and every combination of features, in different orders. You can’t just click the button and say, “That works!” You have to try every possible combination that you think a user might try, and then try all of the most illogical combinations that nobody would ever be expected to try, except that they do.
Beta testers need to put on the biggest dunce hat they can muster, and pretend that they don’t understand anything about the software, and then make sure that the documentation or built in help features cover every single function in the simplest possible way.
That’s tough for the team who knows the software inside and out, to step back as a user looking at it for the first time. All of these steps take time, and should not be rushed because bugs will bite hard in that first marketing rush.
And the one thing you can bet big money on is that negative software reviews will come faster than positive ones. Happy people rarely share the joy publicly. They just use the product quietly and nobody knows they exist. Unhappy people blast their opinions out there loud and long. And competitors go out of their way to insert unhappy people into your business. That’s the norm in our society. So bug testing is mission critical, and user-friendly testing is mission critical, because you don’t want to give them ammo. You want to wow them.
The key to success isn’t just in the product, its features, or its price. It’s marketing. The worst product in the world can become the most popular through marketing, and the best product can wither away and disappear.
So they need to get the marketing plan geared up for a big blast off on day one and week one. That takes time, too. There’s a lot of pieces to put in place.
And if you tell people what you’re doing before it’s officially released, and somebody steals your marketing train, you’ve lost momentum.
If they can release a software product with more features at a lower price point than the competition, at least as an introduction, they could send it to the moon. If they can release quality software in a niche that isn’t yet saturated, same thing. Just one alluring feature that the competition doesn’t offer can put you in that niche. So I’d fully expect them to guard their secrets right up to the day of launch.
Price target $6.50 per Barron’s on 8/1, and raised from $4.75 to $5.50 by BMO Capital on 8/3. It is currently at $3.86. A wise man once said that this is the time of year when gas and oil stocks start going up. Buy in summer, sell in winter.
Price target $77. On 6/22, Lumentum initiated with a Buy at DA Davidson. Analyst Mark Kelleher initiated Lumentum with a Buy and a $77 price target saying the company is well positioned for significant growth in the optical networking market and has a significant market opportunity to supply lasers to the 3D Sensing market. On 7/24 it was up to $68, it's currently at $51.35.
Heavy volume day. 22.3 mil versus 10-day average of 6.7 mil. August 11 was another big mover at 20.9 mil, as was August 2 at 17.2 mil. It hasn’t traded in double digits since mid-July. Somebody knows something. Because for everybody bailing out, somebody else is buying in. The question is who? And why?
Example, hit stories abound on H2O2 and EDTA treatments. And yet both are safer and more effective than big pharma death pills. Just look at how the media twists political stories. If somebody with deep pockets wants a spin against alt meds, the media will happily comply. After all, big pharma is like the Borg Mafia. One mind, assimilate or die.
Magnum, big pharma money pays lobbyists for kill stories on any treatment that doesn’t involve their death pills. The entire alternative health industry is on the hit list, this’ll be just another addition. Alternatives beat death pills hands down, IMHO. You’ll just never see a commercial on TV say so. I’m a believer. My spouse is begging his aunt to give up the death pills and go MJ, because the pills are ten times worse than her symptoms.
Oh ye of little faith. If you’re still here, you must be loading up. Else you’d be long gone.
Good catch, ChicagoJosh!
Huff post. That oughta git er movin. An appropriate publication, dontcha think?
I'm with you, Murray. Jes' waitin'.