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Urban Resource Technologies. I found a bunch of his Hot Stock Whispers over on Google groups.
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I was just over on Silicon Investor looking for the name of that company. I have a feeling it was called Urban something. Do you remember that stock forum Central Investment Agency headed by a Christos Livadas ? I know someone mentioned it here before but I can't remember who. But it was mentioned along with Chelekis on the Farmile forum.
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I'm not sure but I think it was a stock on the Alberta exchange. Maybe Farmile Gold but I'm just guessing. Or it could have been that company on the ASE that was going to turn garbage into building materials.
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Was Valentine involved with that promoter in the 1990's called Smith ? I can't remember his first name but he had a serious limp. He was supposed to be a front for the Hells Angeles and a really rough looking character. I think Chelekis wrote a few promotional pieces for his group.
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No I never had the pleasure of that bunch. But I did have broker at a speciality brokerage in Toronto who was a treasure trove of knowledge. I learned a great deal from him. Some of the smaller brokerages had brokers who should have been designated as professors of speculation.
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Some of us ventured over here during the CMKX era. I knew of Urbie from prior promotions of Petro Plus and Mountain Province. Curiosity motivated me to dabble into some stinky Pinkies. The returns were decent but they were a total crap shoot. There were so many unknowns that it was like going to the casino. Since you've been looking at my posting history you've noticed that there are years were I never post. IHub is of little value when trading Cdn. mining stocks. Its too bad really , since its boring doing what I do. I do enjoy coming here once in a while to see if some of the early posters are still here.
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Why would they want to fire me ? I've never used margin and never have needed any guidance or advice. Through the years some brokers have always been willing to work with customers on commissions and grouping of shares in transactions.
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Not as bad as it sounds. Buying positions in consolidated shells on the venture exchanges has always required a certain kind of brokerage. When you're competing with insiders for accumulation. It can take close to a year to acquire a position. The cost of brokerage commissions can kill you unless the brokers will work with you.
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Thanks. I believe you have a winner. That sounds like it. Now to see who they were taken over by.
Most appreciated.
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Unfortunately no. It starts with an N but I can't recall its name. Most likely merged into one of the banks brokerages.
Thanks
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I know it started with an N. I was kind of lazy at that time and only used the first letter as the heading of the holdings for each account. I tried out 8 or 9 brokerages at that time looking for a good fit for what I do. I checked Silicon Investor, Ihub and Stockhouse looking for a forum but none was found. Google was no help and Dogpile wasn't much better. So your suggestion is much appreciated.
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Does anyone remember a discount brokerage startup out of Toronto back in the 1990's ? Most likely the late 1990's. I think when I opened the account their offices where downtown. I had forgotten all about it until reading an old trading journal from that era. We moved around that time and correspondence didn't follow.
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Its too bad Tsxminer doesn't post on Ihub anymore. He new the local scuttlebutt up there. Next time I'm talking to a couple of juniors with property in that neck of the woods I'll see if they know anything about that hoard.
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Whatever happened to Melvin ? There was quite a character.
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Back in the 1990's George Chelekis articles about naked shorting on the Canadian exchanges were accurate. Problem was his motives weren't exactly pure. But his Hotstocks newsletter was a great service if you knew how to trade. I would have continued to subscribe to his service for years . It was a great resource for knowing which stocks were going into the promotional stage.
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Ihub is a little glitchy this morning. I was trying to post the message about Gump and naked shorting as a public post. But for some reason it was sent as a private message. I figured it would stir up a little controversy about the subject.
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Siliconinvestor was a great source of investing perspectives. Kathy Lien for currency trading , Reality Traders for daytrading the US markets and Echarters for junior miners to name just a few. When I was considering purchasing Supercharts 4.0 the forum had all the info needed to shorten the learning curve to just a few days.
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I never realized until yesterday that Ihub had recruited members early on from Raging Bull. A poster mentioned that Matt was over at Raging Bull recruiting posters to move over to Ihub. I only visited Raging Bull several times but realized it was just a cesspool of pumpers. Which explains why I never considered Ihub a source of valued information like Siliconinvestor was early on.
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It's also been a long time since Willp has posted. Isn't he retired from Stockwatch ? I have a feeling someone mentioned he moved on to something else.
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Too bad Tsx still isn't around. I would have liked to have heard his thoughts on something originating from the Urbie saga.
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Computer Gate computers were well built. Had well thought out design and quality components. Testament when all 6 still fire right up to this day. The owner was an interesting fellow.
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The two 486's are 486DX2 25MZ custom builds by Computer Gate out of Toronto. I also still run one out of 4 Pentium 166 MZ 32 meg computers built by Computer Gate in Toronto. The Pentiums run Windows 98 and have slide in hard drive trays. They're needed to run Filemaker Pro 3.0 Developer Enterprise edition that can alter Filemaker Pro stand alone runtime programs.
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Occasionally I still use a 486 computer with Windows 3.1. It has a program installed that I still need to use once in a while.
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I know Jeff Berwick created Stockhouse in 1994. But would you know when the Bullboard forums were introduced ? My buddy and I were trying to remember the site we posted on before Siliconinvestor. Before we had laptops we use to use the system at the Robarts Library at T in Toronto.
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One of the first forums I followed on Silicon Investor was Oliver Velez's Pristine.com forum. I actually subscribed to their service for a while. Their simplified candlestick method has served me well for over 25 years. Made me look at candlestick charts in a way that I hadn't seem anywhere else at that time. A lot of controversy about them over the years but my subscription to their early email service was a good investment for me.
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I noticed last night that Tsxminer hasn't posted here for quite a few years.
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I actually still visit Silicon Investor quite often. There are still a few posters that I knew from back in the day there. Not a lot of activity there these days thou. But I always preferred it over Investorshub. I had a membership early on here but never followed it much until Rick Walker and Dale Hoffman started talking about Urbies new play.
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Actually early on Silicon Investor was a great resource. There were quite a few knowledgeable posters when it came to exploration. I wish it was possible to search the first year or two of postings before ownership changed.
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Hello Janice
An old classmate and I were discussing our time trading mining stocks during the mid 1990's while we were still in school. We were trying to remember what site had forums before Silicon Investor. He thought maybe it was Stockhouse but I didn't think they had bullboards at that time. Do you remember Leroy Stockmans site ? I wondered if Stockmans already had forums. That was an exciting time for trading.Did you follow many of those sites back then ?
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Hello Janice
Did you happen to reach out to Gump or his fami,y over the holidays ?
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Ya I have that book too. It certainly is a informative read. My favorite is A Formula For Mining The Market by Morris Bubbis. Took me years to acquire my own copy. Later I acquired a signed copy from a friend of the author. My other favorite is The Story Behind Canadian Mining Speculation by TH Mitchell. Still have them all on a shelf by my desk.
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Well if you followed the Vancouver and Alberta stock exchange during 1990's. You may remember the Carters Choice newsletter from Calgary. Ted Carter who authored the investment book Successful Stock Market Speculation wrote the newsletter also. It was a good system and a decent newsletter. There was also a software by Stock Logic called Carters Choice that was pretty decent for that era.
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Gump's got to be 94 or 95 by now. We may not hear from him again. I wonder what Tsxminer is doing these days?
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I thought Gump was a great guy too. People in the industry held him in high esteem. He thought he had finally found one were the shorts were trapped. But paper was flying out from everywhere so fast that was never going to happen.
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I don't know about now but in the past on the Vancouver and Calgary exchanges Chelekis and Gump weren't entirely wrong about naked shorting. Their problem was that they didn't take into account that everyone was doing it including company insiders . No one worried about covering by a set date. They would either create paper in the future or cover when the stock was dead and buried. Then consolidate the shell and do it all over again. This post will most likely cause some eyes to roll.
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Chelekis was the one who was involved with the lawsuit against Baines and the Vancouver Sun. Then he had to write the essays to settle with the SEC I believe.
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I think it was in the same area as Rick Sheppards Shane Resources was holding claims. Thats around the time a group I use to meet with in downtown Toronto started subscribing to George Chelekis Hotstocks. I actually liked his service. Before he got greedy it was a good source of leads.
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I think it was the claims that were vended into Mountain Province Diamonds. Symbol at the time was MPV.V. Urbie made quite a sum of money from the shares that he received from that deal. Thats the money he used to fund Petro plus.
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If I remember correctly that newsletter was first delivered by fax. That's around the time that I first played a Urbie stock promotion. Petro plus actually had a couple of decent land holdings. Although I think a couple of claims he staked were vended into a diamond play a couple of years earlier that turned into a real company. He actually staked some decent claims before the CMKX fiasco.
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When I was still in school a couple of brokers I knew introduced me to the first internet newsletter I had ever seen. We were playing the junior mining promotions here in Canada. No idea why they picked on it but the Waco Kid newsletter was quite the eye opener. If I remember correctly the guys last name was Essary. It was a better time before the banks bought out the Canadian brokerages.
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