Good spot Dino; certainly no one can accuse me of hiding under a variety of aliases.
As I mentioned before, my current style is to invest in tech stocks by hopping in and out of them as news ebbs and flows, a style learned in the past the hard way by holding on too long or not getting out when the signs indicated. I’ve found that not only is such a method profitable (why else are we here?), but it stopped me feeling too close to any company or that I was in some way part of it.
Yes, I’m long Torotrak at the moment simply because they should report start of production this month which should send the stock higher – we shall see. I’ve bought and sold several times in the past few years and I’m hoping for a decent rise so I can move over to pastures greener I’ve already identified.
I’m interested in Torvec at present as there is talk of an imminent deal so it’s only natural I’m doing my best to find out more. Stock markets like facts and figures. I’ve learned that if you delve deep enough into certain small tech stocks, you can inform yourself of information in the public domain totally ignored by the market at large, simply because they refuse to understand the full significance of it. Or you can buy a pig in a poke.
I take with a pinch of salt competitors claims that Torvec is ‘just another hydrostatic’ as it claims to be very much more efficient than others. Why? And don’t give me part count because over a hundred years of mass producing manual gearboxes has made them cheap as dust despite their complexity.
The only competitor acknowledged on this board is Torotrak with links to three posts I’ve shown to be uniformed at the very least. Is this not relevant to Torvec? Is NuVinci not a competitor along with at least a dozen other companies?
I tried to start a discussion regarding production timing. Torvec needs licensees to justify its current sp, licensees who intend to go into mass production rather than just a few school buses and a Moon Rover.
Let’s not get carried away by what the Chinese and South Koreans can do – they simply carry out orders from Japan and America as to what they want doing, and nobody is going to bring to market a brand new design of transmission in under five years at the very least, more likely ten. This isn’t WW11 where you chuck something out on a wing and a prayer and hope you have no re-calls, which could sink your entire company.
I’m still interested, but I would like some strong debate on the technology, the competition and the timing. Is this unreasonable?
Hebe
PS The DOW seems to be shrugging off things at the open.
