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Thanks for letting us know that Ian is still alive, and at least thinking about what he needs to do with $BFYW.
What opening and closing prices is Ian James referring to in that last Tweet that you quoted, where in Fact 4, Ian said,
"$7500 stood between the Open price of $0.022 and $0.069 (Up 3X+)"?
However, I can calculate the price increase in that time period:
$0.069 - $0.022 = $0.047 per share increase
And if that's equal to $7500, we can calculate the number of shares:
$7500/ ($0.047/share) = 159,574.468 shares.
Is this shares that Ian himself held for some specific period of time? I don't quite understand what point Ian is making.
Re: The previous message, which I also posted.
BFYW has corrected their little spelling error on their Facebook page, changing "complimentary" to "complementary" in their last post and in the heading for the page. I noticed the change today. It's actually a very common spelling error, and you can find articles about it on the Web. Hope this small change gives them some good luck and the stock price starts trending up.
Has anyone besides me noticed the wrong word (or misspelling) that appears in the heading at the top of BFYW's Facebook page? I refer to the picture and words which read, "Seeking Synergistic and Complimentary Brands, Science and Services". Looking at the dictionary definition of "complimentary," I'd say that "complimentary brands" would mean brands that are talking to each other and saying things like, "Oh, you are a wonderful brand!" and "You are pretty damned cool yourself!" But I'm pretty sure that the person who composed the words in the heading was thinking of the meaning of "complementary," which is a slightly different word, even though it sounds exactly the same. "Complementary" is an adjective which describes things which complete each other, like a husband who is good at math who has a wife that is good at spelling, or two angles which add up to 90 degrees.
I first told BFYW around August 1 by leaving a comment below their June 30 posting which shows the same picture and words. I did get one brief reply on August 7 which said they would be reviewing the issue. But they are still displaying that faulty heading at the top on their Facebook page.
Sure, it's not terribly important. But any person with better than average intelligence/education who comes to this BFYW page may notice the error, and see that the BFYW people are somewhat lacking. Since I still own a big chunk of BFYW$, I'd prefer that this lack was less obvious. So message BFYW in some way, if you agree.
Oh crap! I was so thrilled by the idea of "Bull = 362", that I didn't even notice that BFYW had actually closed at .0333 just the day before (06/14/2022), which was the lowest close. On the other hand,
333 = Millionaire
And BFYW was up just a tiny bit today, closing at .0367. So we'll have to wait and see.
I remember that back in 2009, after a dreadful bear market, the SPX (S&P 500) went as low as 666, before it began rallying. And
666 = A great bull
The gematria I'm playing with can be found by Googling "Riding the Beast Calculator". (I'm hesitant to include an actual link.)
If you guys have some gematria in support of the idea that your bridges are going to increase in value, I might be interested in buying them--ha ha.
BFYW$ closed at .0362 on Wednesday, June 16. This is the lowest close since about January 18, 2021, almost a year and a half ago.
Anyway, that number .0362 jumps out at me because I play with a form of numerology called English Gematria, which imitates the Greek and Hebrew gematria from 2000 years ago, and because I immediately recognize this association:
362 = Bull [Bull = 2 + 300 + 30 + 30 = 362]
I can tell you for sure that gematria is far from reliable. But there's a nice suggestion in this closing price that this will be the beginning point of a bull market for this stock. So let's see if gematria turned out to be correct this time.
I think Big Juan was talking about the new female director Christina Jefferson, who replaced another director who dropped out at the end of last year. She's the only one I could connect with the abbreviation "DEI" (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). So it's going to be difficult to fire "him" when he is a "her".
Better For You Wellness Appoints Christina Jefferson to Its Board of Directors
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-wellness-appoints-christina-jefferson-133000027.html
I think things might get a lot better after there is a greater diversity of products under the BFYW 'umbrella'. For me, seeing that the first BFYW subsidiary is a website that sells nothing but bars of soap for $22 each was some kind of bad joke, because I myself buy the cheapest bars of soap I can, which is bars of 'Laundry Soap' sold in stores down in Chinatown near where I live. As far as I know, it's just plain soap, and it doesn't irritate my skin. So what more does anyone need?
And I don't own $BFYW stock because I am actually interested in health and wellness products, but simply because I owned a bunch of $SENY stock, because I liked the idea of small wind turbines that people can put on their roofs. And you guys convinced me not to sell it all. So now you are stuck with me--ha ha.
Well, I have no previous experience with SPAC stocks. But I think I understand that BFYW is still an empty shell, despite several LOI's (Letters of Intent), which clearly mean that these acquisitions have have yet to be made, for real. So skepticism is bound to grow until some of the acquisitions become real, and until BFYW moves to the OTCQB, etc. The resignation of one director also didn't help. It looks bad, even though her reason for resigning may have had nothing to do with her actually wanting to divorce herself from BFYW. I'm still thinking that patience will pay off.
The S&P 500 (and market at large) has been trending down since November 22nd. Does that have any influence on small-caps like $BFYW?
The director who resigned is Leslie Bumgarner. Her resignation takes effect on Dec 31, 2021. I forget where to find 8K's, but I found a news article link below the BFYW stock chart at Yahoo! Finance:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-wellness-announces-resignation-director-133000993.html
And in general, that Yahoo stock chart is a decent place to find the latest news release about BFYW.
Mustang12 has given me the most reasonable response to my concerns in the previous post. As long as potential customers of BFYW 'wellness' products make no mental connection to the face of Ian James, there should be no major problem. I think that means that the BFYW initials and logo and website address should not appear anywhere on their products. The face of Ian James should be kept as a virtual secret to the average customer.
I have no knowledge of holding companies, and how they operate. Can anyone give me an example of popular products I might buy, where the company that sells it is actually held by a higher level holding company? And are customers like me likely to be completely unaware of the holding company?
While Mustang12 has given me the most reasonable assurances so far, his very first words in his first response to my first post about "The face of BFYW" showed that he sometimes thinks in a completely irrational way. He said, "You must be a woman because no man would write this." Well, I can only guess at the thought processes that led him to write those words. The words were somewhat effective as a funny insult. However his conclusion was 100% incorrect, I'm pretty sure. My birth certificate shows I was born a male. I have reproductive organs like a male, which proves that I must have a Y chromosome, just like any male. I served 4 years in the USAF, as a male enlistee. I have lusted after females, but never males. I've never had any sort of sex change operation. And I am almost 78 years old, so I can't be a boy rather than a man. So it looks like a very good bet that I actually am a man. And indeed, I did write the words that initially shocked Mustang12.
By the way, while I too have the impression that most of the people who post here are men, I think it might be good if women posted their opinions here--especially about BFYW, a company whose future products may appeal mainly to women. What do you women think about the potential problem of the moles on Ian James' face? Are there any women reading this?
Mustang12 said: "The 'face' of a company, particularly ones that sell products is usually handled by Marketing firms, which this company has already hired." Well, if potential customers of BFYW products are making no mental connection between the new BFYW products and Ian James' face, there should be no problem. I was imagining, for example, that BFYW had a new face cream which they claimed was extremely healthy for the face. Would a woman who knew this face cream was an Ian James product, and knew what he looked like, want to put this cream on her face? Probably not, I think.
But as long as potential customers of BFYW products have no reason to make a mental connection between the products and Ian James' face, I guess his face should be no problem at all for the business. Whereas if Gwyneth Paltrow suddenly developed a set of moles on her face, just like those of Ian James, I think that would be a big problem for her Goop business. Because all the products are associated with her.
The 'face' of BFYW:
This is an impolite subject, but I decided to bring it up to see what you other people think. When I first saw the face of the CEO Ian James in a picture (see www.bfyw.com), I was struck by how unattractive he is. I can see four moles on his face down around his nose and mouth, which make his face look rather disgusting (to me). And I tend to imagine that almost anyone who saw his face would have about the same reaction. So I sure wish it was his partner Stephen Letourneau who was the CEO, rather than Ian James, because his partner's face looks handsome and healthy. And the faces of all the other people on the Board of Directors look normal and healthy.
If BFYW were a company devoted to manufacturing sewer pipes or whatever, I don't think it should matter at all what the CEO's face looks like. But since this new company is supposed to be devoted to "wellness" (which I think implies health and beauty), I think it's important that the 'face' of this new company should look healthy and attractive. Much like Gwyneth Paltrow is the attractive 'face' of her company called Goop.
Now most of the people who will be buying 'wellness' products associated with BFYW will probably never see the face of Ian James, unless they go to the BFYW website and see his face there. But if he does magazine or TV or Web interviews, potential customers of BFYW will see his face, and have a chance to be attracted or repelled. I think any potential customer who knows that this is the face associated with a 'wellness' product that they were thinking of buying, will likely decide not to buy it.
So I wrote an email to Ian James, explaining my thoughts. And told him that if he wants his BFYW company to succeed, I think it would be good if he would just go to a dermatologist, and get those moles removed. And after the wounds heal, post a new photograph of his face at his website. While getting those moles removed would not transform him into a really handsome guy, at least people would not be immediately repelled by the sight of the moles on his face.
Ian James was polite enough to give me extended replies in a back and forth conversation. But he seemed to have no interest at all in getting rid of the moles on his face. I understand that moles are not an actual health problem, and he's learned to live with them. My point is simply that they look ugly when there is a cluster of them on his face, and this could be a turn-off to customers of his products, and other people he might like to do business with.
Another solution would be for Ian James to swap roles with his partner Stephen Letourneau, making the other guy the CEO and handsome 'face' of BFYW. I realize that this is extremely unlikely. But as a BFYW stock holder, I sure would be much happier if Letourneau were the 'face' of BFYW.
So what do you think? Am I crazy for writing to Ian James about this topic? Or is he the one who is demonstrating a stubborn blindness to a real problem for BFYW which he could easily solve by going to a dermatologist and getting his moles removed?
New news? I noticed that there is a new news article (4 days old) on the FTRK page at Yahoo Finance:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-wellness-announces-results-september-130000070.html
It's currently 4 days old, but I don't think it's been posted here yet. I can't comment on it because most of the business talk goes over my head. Anyway these guys are trying to show us they're busy.
Thanks 60ftcat. $4 per share sure does sound nice. But I've been guessing all along that DeNunzio and associates were the ones who originally drove the price up by buying SENY, starting last November, hoping to sell it later at a much higher price. Is that a reasonable guess? And if so, could the people at GOVH already have known that this SPAC was destined for them, so they also helped drive the price up by buying? Are these questions too speculative to even comment on? Or is it completely obvious that I'm right, at least about DeNunzio? I don't begin to understand how DeNunzio could make a profit on the deal, unless he did that. And if he did, that's fine with me, because he's already helped me a lot. SENY was 'dead in the water' prior to the end of November.
Question for 60ftcat: I understand that the company can't be selling restricted shares. But could people in the company and their friends be part of the group of 'insiders' that were buying up SENY at a very low price as early as late November, 2020? And now they are dumping some of it, at least enough to cover the money they invested? Or are DeNunzio and his friends the only ones who might have done that? I'm just trying to get educated, because I have had no previous experience with SPAC's.
To ImJacksColon: Thanks for the news article link about BFYW.
To 60ftcat: If you want to know more about gematria, which is just an ancient form of numerology, you can find introductory explanation at the calculator site I linked. As for the gematria associations to BFYW I showed, I found those myself just by playing around.
Re:BFYW: If you found my gematria associations amusing, here's a little more:
Better For You Wellness = 2538 = 517 + 2021 = September, 2021
I showed some days ago that if you add (Inc=62) to the above, to get the full title of the company, you get
Better For You Wellness, Inc = 2600 = The best in (2021)
I'd like to show you some gematria pertaining to the stock market drop today, but the rules over to my right tell me I'm not allowed to. However, I guess it's okay to repeat the calculator address, because you need that to verify my gematria pertaining to BFYW.
https://www.ridingthebeast.com/calculator/
BFYW: I noticed that Better For You Wellness (FTRK) now has a new Facebook page that goes by their initials "BFYW". But I didn't see any new news there:
https://www.facebook.com/BetterForYouWellness/?ref=page_internal
So I'm guessing that their new stock ticker will also be "BFYW". I checked a couple of stock sites, and found that this symbol is apparently NOT already in use. BFYW also has some very positive gematria associations--which don't really prove anything except that there is some positive thinking going on here:
BFYW = 1208 = Beauty = Best future
Again, I'm using the gematria calculator at
https://www.ridingthebeast.com/calculator/
Yeah, I thought the people saying that the company was dumping shares were mistaken. Even the employees who were recently given 42 million shares (if I remember) are not allowed to sell them for 1 year. The sellers are more likely people who had SENY stock like me, and are tired of waiting for good news about the new company.
Here's an article at Yahoo! Finance about the five new directors. It also includes the quotation shown by ImJacksColon:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-wellness-appoints-montel-williams-132900548.html
To mrknight: Thanks for that info. Not that it matters, but the Form 4 says that these people were GIVEN about 42 million shares, because the price was zero. And they can't sell them for 1 year. I'm guessing that means that 1 year from now, the Float will increase by about 42 million shares. Hope we see some big gains before then.
Thanks to Kula7, we see that the new name for FTRK will be "Better For You Wellness, Inc." But there was no news of the new ticker in that document he linked. Yeah, it looks like it's just going to be a new name for FTRK, with not much happening right away. But in trying to find some reason for hope, I looked at the new name with the gematria at
https://www.ridingthebeast.com/calculator/
And I found that the letter sum is 2600. And that associates to
2600 = The best in (2021)
Using English Gematria as defined at www.ridingthebeast.com/calculator/ ,
Green Ohio Ventures = 1444
Wealthy = 1444
That's no guarantee that GOV will become wealthy, but it sure is a nice gematria association. I posted much the same message at the GOV Facebook page, under the picture of the people with the tape over their mouths.
That guy who asked the dumb questions on the FaceBook page was me--ha ha. (I'm trying to get more respect for the dumb questions I ask here.)
About these DeNunzio-Moody SPAC stocks--Do they usually drop down like FTRK did, or do they usually shoot higher, right after the news is released about the company that is taking over? I've looked at the charts of other DM SPAC stocks, but since I don't know exactly when the final news came out, I don't know what I'm looking at.
I just noticed a new stock on the Status page at the DM website:
https://www.corporaterevivalservices.com/status-updates
The new stock is ALL-Q-TELL CORPORATION (ALLQ)
And this update came on 7/26/2021, which was Monday. I took a look at the stock chart at finance.yahoo.com, and see that the last really terrific time to buy this stock was on June 14, when it was selling for just $.0033. And the very next day, June 15, there was a big surge in buying, and the price shot up to $.1900. But in the next couple of weeks, it was possible to buy ALLQ for a somewhat lower price, as little as $.1200, if only you knew what was going on. As of yesterday, July 27, it was selling for $.2100.
Well, this gives me a better idea of how long it takes for the news to get out about a new DM SPAC stock. In this case, it was about a month and 10 days, I'd say, from that first surge in buying, to the news being posted on the DM Status page. Is there any way to get the news sooner? It would sure be nice to buy one of these DM SPAC stocks at the really low price.
First, thanks to Papalaka for confirming my speculation that NXMH peaked right after "the financials came out," which I assume means right after information was released about the company that had moved into the 'shell.' (This stuff is all new to me.) And now I'm looking at what Chris9220 said about TSNP. I didn't find this stock mentioned on the DeNunzio website as one they had previously been involved with. But I did manage to find a chart, and the fact that it had a name change to Humbl Inc. (HMBL) on Feb 26. There was a sudden big run-up from Feb 1 to Feb 8 resulting in the peak of "almost $2" Chris mentioned. So I tend to guess that this had been a SPAC, and that "the financials" Papalaka mentions came out on Feb 1st.
So from the examples I've seen so far, it looks like most SPACs peak within a few days after people see "the financials" and learn something about what sort of company moved into the shell. Then they usually trend down. Can anyone show me an example of a SPAC that actually continues the trend upward, because this new company looks like a genuinely good investment? I'd really love to see that.
Chris9220 said, "Great time to get in this stock and cpsl, the other DM ticker." Well--actually the really GREAT time to get into this stock or CPSL (meaning the forerunners) would have been last November or before. Sorry to be such a killjoy. But since I already have a lot of FTRK, the question that most bothers me is "How will I know the best time to sell?"
For example, NXMH (Next Meats) was another DM shell before it became a real business. And it peaked at 13.0 near the end of January. So I'm guessing (but don't know) that that happened right after the transition to become a real business. And NXMH held up reasonably well through February. But since then it's been trending down. Clearly, the best time to sell was over by March 1st--unless a stock trader had some reason for believing that NXMH would eventually grow to become a thriving business, and held on for that reason.
To MannyFresh (and everyone else): I'm trying to understand why and when the people here originally started buying this stock. Were you aware on Jan 8,11,and 12 that DeNunzio was going to turn SENY into a SPAC stock? Or were you simply noticing that SENY had been 'dead in the water' up until Nov 19. And then a wave of buying came in on Nov 20. Seny went back down a little after that first wave, but another wave of buying came in on Dec 22, followed by a big surge in trading volume up to over 6 million shares on the next day. And the trading volume came down quite a bit after Dec 23, but it was still a lot more than it was before Dec 22.
I.e., is it possible to make money just by watching a lot of 'dead in the water' penny stocks every day, and wait until you see some signs that one of them has started 'coming alive again'? And join the action and start buying this penny stock, because obviously there has been some sort of good news that insiders are aware of? And of course, one should also start searching for that good news that has made this stock 'come alive', so that one has a better idea of what to expect.
Also, what was the earliest news on the two DeNunzio websites, or somewhere else, showing that they were planning to turn SENY into a SPAC stock? I do plan on watching the Status page on the DeNunzio site for any news of a new SPAC stock. But I fear that by the time I see the news there, it will already be several months old, and I will have already missed the best part of the action, which is near the beginning. I'm guessing that DeNunzio and his friends began buying SENY on the open market at the beginning back on November 23, where they only had to pay about .005 per share. And they were probably responsible for that big surge a month later on Dec 23. It really wouldn't make sense to reveal their plans for SENY before doing their own buying, while the price was still relatively low.
To knack: You seem like a guy who really knows what's going on in this area. But this is all new to me, as I just happened to notice that my nearly worthless SENY stock had made some remarkable gains 3 or 4 months ago. Looking at a chart of FTRK, I'd say the gains began on Nov 23rd of last year with a small surge in volume that lasted a few days. But looking at the DeNunzio team's Status Updates page at
https://www.corporaterevivalservices.com/status-updates
it looks like the earliest public information about what was going on with SENY was this: "On February 1, 2021 Jeffrey DeNunzio reinstated the Company utilizing personal funds." And I'm pretty sure that it was at least a few days or a week before those words were actually posted on the Status page. But by Feb 1, 2021, SENY trading volume had already gone through its two biggest daily surges (in recent history), and the price was hitting .063, which is 12.6 times that Nov 23rd price of .005. So obviously, the people who had inside information back on Nov 23rd, about what was going to happen soon, and started buying SENY then, are the ones who will make the really amazing gains.
So what I'm most curious about is whether or not there was any way to know (or guess) what the DeNunzio team was about to do with SENY, before finding it posted on their Status page at some time after Feb 1st? And are there other SPAC teams that do more-or-less the same thing, and similarly let the public know what they are doing?
To Ronin: It's very possible that I don't have a correct understanding of what 'diluted' means. I had the impression that a lot of new stocks had been created out of thin air. So if one of these stocks is equal in value one of mine, and they are given to CRS Consulting, doesn't that mean that my share of the FTRK company has been substantially reduced?
To fishingGreg: I'm just another guy who was holding on to a bunch of SENY stock, and have no deep understanding of what is going on here. But I believe you are basically correct, in that FTRK is just a new name for your old SENY shares. But FTRK no longer has anything to do with Sauer Energy and building wind turbines. I think that's all that other guy SFChris meant. Of course, he was wrong in that your share in FTRK has EVERYTHING to do with all those shares of SENY you bought years ago. Here's the site where you can find status updates for SENY/FTRK in case you don't already have it:
https://www.corporaterevivalservices.com/status-updates
However, note that in the early info about SENY we read, "On or about February 12, 2021, 250,000,000 shares of restricted common stock and 700,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were issued to CRS Consulting, LLC..." So it looks like our shares in SENY/FTRK have been significantly diluted by the issuance of these new shares, which went to DeNunzio and his pals. But as long as their "shell game" results in a profit for us, I'm not complaining.
Float? Never mind! Two minutes after I posted my question to you about how to find the "float," I found it myself just by Googling for "FTRK float"--ha ha. I found it here in the data below the chart:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ftrk
The Public Float is currently 76.58 million shares. That's only about 21.2% of all the outstanding shares. I don't know what the typical percentage is, but that does seem low. It says that the big and powerful insiders (like DeNunzio himself?) will make most of the profit if this stock does well, so they'll do everything they can to make sure that it does. So I sure hope they make tons of profit. Then us small investors will do well too.
You said, "Love the low float". I understand that the "float" is the number of tradable common stock shares out of the total number of common stock shares outstanding. And I see the total number of common shares outstanding at this Status page, at the bottom of the section about FTRK:
https://www.corporaterevivalservices.com/status-updates
I.e., there are almost 360 million common shares outstanding. Now, how do I find the number of common shares available for trading, the "float"? Sorry, but I'm a novice at this stuff. I didn't even know what a SPAC was until I came here, and I still don't understand the details.
A lot of confusion here. I used to follow my SENY stock at bigcharts.marketwatch.com. But after the ticker change to FTRK, Bigcharts shows the wrong stock, a stock with the same FTRK ticker, but sold on the Berlin Exchange, and its name is
Fonterelli GmbH & Co. KGaA (BER). And of course, the search for SENY just comes up blank.
I trade at Schwab, and they are still showing confusion. Yesterday (May 6), they had the ticker changed to FTRK, but they were still identifying this as "Sauer Energy" instead of "Fast Track Solutions." And they are still doing that. The chart of the stock price also shows a gap for May 6th. No info on that date. But at least the chart is there for May 7th.
I myself would have little or no idea what is going on if I hadn't found this InvestorsHub discussion group, and info contained here. So I figure a lot of SENY investors still have no idea what's going on, and are just telling their brokers to "Sell!"