May
25
Category: ahom, institutional investors
New visitor? Consider subscribing by RSS or by email.You can tell a lot about an institutional buyer’s conviction based on how they accumulate shares. If they buy as the price dips, they are often just averaging down a bad trade. But large purchases following a [...]
May
20
Category: etlt, ptsc
The last ten years have taught us that any stock may be a scam. Companies that were thought immune from scandal — Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia — flamed out entirely, while hundreds of other blue chips became mired in scandal.
Frauds are even more rampant in the microcap arena. I assume that even if I have [...]
May
19
Category: hqs
Its been about eight months since I last wrote about Chinese tilapia producer HQ Sustainable Maritime (HQS), and frankly, I have missed a lot. In that relatively short period, the company shifted into turbo mode, accomplishing:
a 1-for-20 reverse stock split. Normally I’m not a big fan of these but this reverse was [...]
May
17
Category: humor
From the “Just when you thought their credibility couldn’t get any worse department”:
The geniuses who run the official website for the OTC Bulletin Board have sunk to a new low. They now initiate a popup window to warn investors about the dangers of “Spam, Faxes and Pop-Up Ads” (see actual screenshot to the left).
The [...]