Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (ASTI)

[carusso]

Togmaster -- emphatically, it is not my intention to influence anyone to buy or sell. The big mistake I made was tying up too much in Asti then when I needed cash, selling another small stock I held many months -- just 2 days before it went up 1000%.

I would hate for you to sell, and then ASTI spike upward. I just don't know, and don't feel a lot of trust right now. The point of my little story was really that shareholders 'good natures' are being taken for granted too much in ASTI. The article JohnCM shared from Seeking Alpha today, dated Dec 8, which I now realized was published before the most recent "improved" earnings, but it showed that the numbers don't seem to add up, and so they have been counting on shareholders' belief in a turnaround, but the manner in which they are allowing the debt conversions to be handled is trapping us too much in stagnancy. They better get some discipline and insight together fast, or I think many will bail. We already played this 5-6 cents game. It's old. People invest so their money can WORK. If the company cannot work with their lenders to be a little gentler with the pre-existing or other small retail investors, then I wish them luck in the future... (Finding more naive investors, etc.)