AlphaTrade (fka APDTQ)

[JD400]

For the longs not the stuck Am I the only sentimentalist left here? with Kathleen's departure now it makes me a little sentimental because I believed in Penny's dream. I have always had a good feeling about APTD and still do. Not just because I made a little cash here on that day in Aug. Right along with the rest of the sellers/hogs that day when it hit 6.6 cents. Not that all my shares are free shares that I hold either but that I really believed in these women. I still have hope that what they have started with APTD will continue and inspire future management for the companies benefit.

These Pangs
What's happening now.(IMO) is what is happening to most businesses now. These pangs are how companies shape themselves to survive this recession. It's a good thing. Being nothing is happening with the BNET deal I imagine that's gone too. So we are at square one and happy to stay in business with an economy that really nobody is use too. For all you who own businesses now. Know exactly what I'm talking about. There are still good customers out there. They want your products but demand a low cost and they will find it. If you don't conform to your surroundings and remain in the same old practices such as cost of livings raises or 1990's mark ups that use to work etc. etc.. Then your probably losing your new customer growth that you enjoyed in past years.

Case in point is the APTD slashed prices up to 50 percent as we have seen in their advertising lately.
This is what it takes and I'm sure Mr. Miller probably had a lot to do with this. It is a good move and I have tried it myself with my 32 year old business . Risky and unsettling but it worked. I'm seeing new accounts in which would of went somewhere else. Yes the profit down now but at least we are bring in customers.
Take care