Agreed on the possible buyout before the $100 price is reached. That's always been a possibility in my mind. Novavax will be my last individual stock investment.
I've spent a year developing and testing an investment method originally created by Robert Lichello in 1977. I've focused on backtesting about 35 leveraged ETFs across multiple market indexes and sectors using what I call the "preemptive" AIM method that I developed from the original method. The method can be used for any investment, but I recognized many years ago it thrives on volatility. You don't need your investment to go up, up, up to win. You just need it to go up and down as most investments do, and never go to zero (a black swan event). One of my favorite ETFs is NAIL, which is the homebuilding and supplies sector. It's the poster child for AIM investing. Check out its long-term stock chart.
I have posted pretty extensively about it on the AIMUSERS IHub board and even shared my spreadsheet that I use to implement the strategy. Check out my posts there if you're interested, or PM me and we can discuss. I post quarterly updates to my backtesting results.