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HOV 4.40---IMH 10.99 small float take a look at the 3 month chart, has been great
HOV holding up, I thought I might be able to buy it back at 4.39. HLSS looks to test dh should be a nice trade for a few days
Sold some hov 4.49
KFS ndh looking real good here
Home builders looking good again today. HOV nhd looks like another high volume day and a short squeez
KFS thru 4 and HLSS nice earnings report
HOV looking good, I have been trading hov, bzh and SPF since the 1990's and have done well with all 3. HOV is my favorite and im look for 5 plus s/t and 10 plus L/T
Earnings play HLSS reports tomorrow usually runs with NSM. Looking for a good qtr as the group has been hot.
HOV great to trade but hold some l/t as imo it goes alot higher.
KFS 3.75 hod as it nears resistance of 3.81. Looking for 4 plus tomorrow as the float is only 9 mil o/s 13 mil
KFS 3.60 nhd small float needs some volume to get it going.
KFS news out last night, looks like now there a 2 buyers in KFS. Take a look at insider buying and the 30 1 month chart
HOV short covering look at that volume. Watch the close today on HOV should be interesting.
HOV 3.84 needs to get thru 3.95, news out this morning on HOV bonds. Does not mention HOV will save 17 million a year in interest expense.
HOV look for 3.95 tomorrow, needs to get thru 3.81
HOV nhd and testing resistance
HOV back to 3.70 IMH nhd looking for 11 plus
IMH moving higher and thru resistance. Watch this 1 if the volume comes in. Could see 11 plus on volume.
IMH high of day another small float that has had some huge runs in the last month.
Woops make that KFS
Back in IMH on the dip, with a tight stop as it has a small float
Home builders looking good, HOV gets thru 3.70
GLUU-- Gap up as Stifel Nicolaus initiates coverage on Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) with a Buy. PT $5.00.
HOV has been a nice little trader this year. Im in and looking for 3.95 once again. If it gets thru 4 could have a nice run IMO. Sold most of my KFS this morning and bought GLUU.
KFS, take a look at insider buying
KFS, The ceo has been buying stock since july and the stock has doubled. Made a nice run last week.
CPTC 1.17 looks to test resistance
CYPW huge day--TECHNOLOGY
Steam engine built for clean, green power
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BY MONICA HATCHER
mhatcher@MiamiHerald.com
ANDREW ULOZA / FOR THE MIAMI HERALD
Harry Schoell's Cyclone engine is about the size of a car or truck motor, but it needs no transmission or gearbox, saving weight. It burns just about any gas or liquid fuel.
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Cyclone Power Technologies
Not long ago, Harry Schoell's invention of a new, clean-burning engine got the kind of brush-off reserved for newfangled contraptions promising to revolutionize a mainstay. Recall the skepticism surrounding the horseless carriage, he likes to say.
After all, Schoell was claiming, and still does, that his Cyclone Green Revolution Engine, which can run on almost any liquid or gaseous fuel and uses water instead of motor oil, would one day replace the internal combustion one used for more than 100 years.
Times have changed, though, along with Schoell's fortunes. The rising cost of gasoline, growing acceptance of the evidence behind global warming and the impact of dirty fuels on the environment have quickly brought investors and industry leaders around for a new, more serious look at his enterprise.
''The phones have been ringing off the hook,'' said Schoell, 65, president and chief executive of Pompano Beach-based Cyclone Power Technologies, which holds 12 patents in the United States and has 48 others pending worldwide for the Cyclone engine.
RAYTHEON DEAL
The company's stock is traded over the counter (Pink Sheets: CYPW). Last week, Cyclone got a major boost when Raytheon, a major defense technology company, awarded a research and development contract to the company.
Kevin P. Bowen, engineering fellow at Raytheon, said the company was ''intrigued'' by the engine.
''It's big news. They are a $22 billion company and it's going to give us a lot more credibility,'' said Wilson McQueen, Cyclone's vice president of sales and marketing. The companies did not disclose the size of the contract.
Much of the sudden interest comes from several awards Cyclone has won in the last year. In April, SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers, awarded it the prestigious Automotive Engineering International Tech Award for its Waste-Heat Engine, a low-pressure, low-temperature engine that can run off surplus heat from just about any source.
''We're using waste materials in the engine that would normally go into the atmosphere or into the municipal dump,'' said Frankie Fruge, the company's chief operating officer.
Last month, Popular Science magazine recognized the Cyclone engine among the Top 10 inventions of the year. The Broward County Commission designated Cyclone Power Technologies as the environmental business of the year.
The Cyclone, which radically revamps the steam engine that powered old locomotives, is a highly efficient, environmentally-friendly machine that runs cleaner and cooler than its internal combustion counterpart, the company says.
The engine can run on almost any gaseous or liquid fuel, including ethanol, biodiesel and propane, and it is lubricated with water rather than motor oil, which also makes it cleaner and cheaper.
Joe Audette, an automotive analyst at Global Insight, said the engine's ability to run on multiple fuels could give it a significant edge in the marketplace. While engineers and the economy sort out which fuel sources work best, a fuel-flexible engine like the Cyclone could prove useful during the transition, Audette said.
The Cyclone engine is different from the conventional engine, which works by creating thousands of small, fast, and powerful explosions in a cylinder chamber by igniting a fuel under great pressure and at extreme temperatures. This forces a piston downward. The piston turns a crank shaft and a set of gears that, in turn, drive a vehicle's wheels.
During the process up to 40 percent of the fuel can be wasted, creating and emitting pollutants like carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
The Cyclone engine works by injecting and igniting fuel in an external combustion chamber (no piston present). Through centrifugal or cyclonic motion -- hence the engine's name -- the fuel is spun around while it burns, pushing unused fuel to the edges where it's eventually all burned away. This reduces pollution, McQueen said.
Meanwhile, deionized water gets heated by being passed through several heat exchangers until it reaches what is called a super-critical state at about 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit and 3,200 pounds of pressure per square inch. The water turns into a rapidly expanding steam.
Instead of a tiny explosion of fuel and air forcing the piston down, this burst of high-pressure steam does the job instead. That same steam is then cooled, giving up heat to the new air coming into the combustion chamber, recirculating energy in the system and improving efficiency.
Since the fuel combustion takes place in its own external chamber, any fuel can be burned without affecting the engine, McQueen said. Earlier this month, in fact, the company announced it had successfully run the engine using fuel derived from algae.
MOWERS, GENERATORS
So far, the technology has not yet been applied commercially, though several projects to bring it to market are in the works, said Fruge. The company, she said, expects lawn mowers and home generators powered by the engine to be ready for retail by the end of next year and testing to have begun in cars.
The company had yet to turn a profit, she pointed out, but was generating revenue from its licensing agreements with several companies, including Advent Power Systems. Friends, family and angel investors helped provide $2 million to develop the engine, Fruge said.
WILL BUILD, SELL
Advent Power Systems, based in Coconut Creek, was formed in 2006 to develop, manufacture and sell Cyclone products.
So far, the company has received inquiries from the U.S and British military, said Phillip Myers, president and founder of Advent Power Systems. And, he's been working to equip a postal vehicle with a Cyclone engine. He is hoping to perfect the prototype by the time the U.S. Postal Service begins retrofitting about 190,000 mail trucks in the next few years.
''They are interested in looking at it, but we have no commitments from them.'' Myers said. ''We have a lot of interest from the tank automotive command for a variety of engines for trucks, tanks and new combat vehicles,'' Myers said.
INEVITABILITY
Myers, who has a doctorate from Harvard, where he majored in the management of advanced technology companies, said he realized none of this would happen overnight.
''In the same way integrated circuits ultimately replaced vacuum tubes, Cyclone technology in the next 10 to 20 years will largely start to replace the internal combustion engine and the diesel engine,'' Myers said.
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CPTC 1.12 n hod wind play looking good
SRLM 1.35 as silver is having a good day up .73
CPTC n hod 1.11 wind play, resistance at 1.15
SOEN .90 conference tomorrow
PAL heading for 7
SWC thru resistance n hod
SWC having another good day and PAL just went green
SOEN .865 getting some volume coming in
SOEN .84 thru resistance picking up a little volume too
SOEN .82 n hod conference friday chinese solar play
ERHE .58 n hod conference june 5
ERHE n hod .55