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You don't have any information that the pros don't have. In fact, you much less. They have access to management and industry experts. Of course, if they have a successful trial, that changes things and the stock will jump. If they fail, the stock will plunge. I hope you are right and make a killing, but that is tantamount to picking a winning horse in a race in which you have never seen any of the horses run before.

Stop sale.

I also think some people like to make it out as if investing is a sure thing and if you keep your money in a solid company it will go up in time, while trading is tantamount to a roll of the dice. There is risk involved in both. Plenty of company's which once looked like giants no longer are.
 
I read large short sale coupled w CEO unloading. Latter often worrisome, but for company that's trade OTC, there's not lot of choices to mitigate risk (eg dont beleive theres an options market to hedge against, and if I were him, I'd unload as well given meteoric rise).
 
Well, your company is down almost 40% today...
Yeah. Huge short hit job by Citron based on CEO ‘s bad very disturbing past, but not about anything he has done in the last few months. He sold his warrants to make a mandatory payment to Samsung in late April. Stock just started climbing last 7 days , so he hasn’t sold stock while it was going up. Samsung , who they contracted with to ramp up production of Leronlimab if FDA gives approval was absolutely necessary . He didn’t dilute shareholder value. His past is hideous and damning but his hires of Dr. Jacob Lazelari, a respected doctor as their medical director, and teaming with Dr. Bruce Patterson , CEO of Incelldx, the company that does the diagnostics on levels of Covid patients, who has authored a manuscript that describes Covid as a Rantes disease and that Leronlimab blocks the cytokines storm, reduces the viral load and brings the immune system to homeostasis allowing it to fight the virus, are good things for the company . His paper has been submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine and is being peer reviewed now. There has been no news except the 2 FDA trials for mild/ moderate and severe/ critical patients will have their results and interim results released soon. Company announced a deal with Mexico yesterday to do a Phase 3 trial for severe/ critical patients , which is more positive news. Otherwise, there has been no other news lately( last month) . This was nothing more than a classic short hit job and it worked. Good opportunity to buy some more.
 
Citron (notorious short seller) put out a bearish report on CYDY today also. Personally, can't stand these short sellers when they put out reports for their own agendas. Love watching them get squeezed.
It was tried by Adam Feuerstein in early May and failed. Short selling hit job . Stock hovered around $2.50 , but most investors took it as a hit job.
Citron is much more respected but their failure to even discuss the ongoing 2 FDA Covid trials that are almost completed and the total failure to mention the 100 emergency use patients and their doctors that revealed almost all of the patients recovered and many came off ventilators , and just focused on the CEO ‘s hideous past , really sealed it as a short selling hit job.
 
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I hate painting a group with one paintbrush but I despise short sellers that try to negatively influence a company's stock price. One should buy or sell strictly based on the merits or demerits of a company, not false premises.
 
I hate painting a group with one paintbrush but I despise short sellers that try to negatively influence a company's stock price. One should buy or sell strictly based on the merits or demerits of a company, not false premises.


Doesn't short selling only have a short term effect though?

Won't the stock find it's level on the other side of the short?
 
Doesn't short selling only have a short term effect though?

Won't the stock find it's level on the other side of the short?
Will know soon. Cintron did the same thing to Inivio 6 months ago. Stock went to $20 and hit piece comes out and stock goes to $6. It has recovered and now $26. Hope the same happens to Cytodyn .
 
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For those that follow the Covid post on the football board, I have previously advised about Cytodyn Inc. CYDY, a little small biotech firm out of Vancouver , Washington , who has a a drug called Leronlimab that will likely be the next treatment for Covid in less than a month. Yesterday it finished it’s mild/ moderate trial and on Monday , the severe/ critical trial will be able to reveal interim results. After the data is collected it will be given to the FDA in the next week to 10 days and I predict approval for Covid in July. Leronlimab initially has proved safe in over 800 patients in Phase 3 trials for AIDS and was on course to be approved as a mono therapy AIDS drug. It also is in Phase 2 trials for triple breast cancer and recently for NASH ( liver disease and fibrosis). It also might have another 10 indications for Ms,, Pancreatic and prostrate cancer, etc. it will have 10 phase 2 trials for different indications before the end of the year .

The company is presently on the OTC BUT up listing to the NYSE is happening within the next 2-3 weeks. The stock was .50 for years until end of February when it ran up to 2.50. It is presently on a 6 day surge and trading at about $7.00 as I type this as it is breaking records on stock price and volume , which was like a million , was 18.5 million yesterday , and already almost 7 million today. The anticipation from the early EIND use, which had really favorable results have ramped up in anticipation of the great trial results forthcoming . Leronlimab blocks the cytokines storm, reduces the viral load, and brings the immune system to homeostasis allowing it to fight normally , doing all 3 things. It will save lives and allow us to have a somewhat normal life. Good luck to all.
I have to admit this stock peaked my interest and I had thoughts of putting a few chips on the roulette wheel but nothing like I did another stock years ago , you know the next big thing , back then it was the next gatorade and I lost my shirt, anyway I learned my lesson and followed my gut. Seems something may not be right in CYDY land.
 
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Doesn't short selling only have a short term effect though?

Won't the stock find it's level on the other side of the short?

It should find its level again but in the meantime some investors have been scared out of buying the stock or even lost money cashing out. I know it will never happen but I'd like to see shorting eliminated. Investing IMO is for believing a company has a bright present and a bright outlook for the future. Short sellers are disruptors, IMO, and not infrequently harm companies, sometimes to the point of bankruptcy.
 
Couple questions:

1)I'm seeing extended hours movement on CYDY, but it's OTC. Pretty sure I have not seen this before with them. Is this just slow reporting of sales from the previous day?

2)SHIP was sellling around .18 cents for months. Now I check the graph and it looks like it was never below $2. What's up with that?
 
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Dow was down 250 in extended, but jumping, I suppose on payroll data coming in positive while expectations were negative. Dow now down 54.


Edit: and it has now gone green.
 
Couple questions:

1)I'm seeing extended hours movement on CYDY, but it's OTC. Pretty sure I have not seen this before with them. Is this just slow reporting of sales from the previous day?

2)SHIP was sellling around .18 cents for months. Now I check the graph and it looks like it was never below $2. What's up with that?

Don't know anything about SHIP but maybe they had a reverse split for say 1 to10.
 
Pfizer stock jumps after it reports positive data in early-stage coronavirus vaccine trial

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/pfi...in-early-stage-coronavirus-vaccine-trial.html

Pfizer shares jumped by nearly 7% in premarket trading Wednesday after it released positive results from its closely watched early-stage human trial on a coronavirus vaccine.

The trial evaluated 45 people. Each participant received 10, 30 or 100 microgram doses of the vaccine or a placebo.

The company coronavirus vaccine produced neutralizing antibodies, which researchers say is important for acquiring protection, in all participants who received two of the 10 or 30 microgram doses after 28 days, according to the preliminary data, which were posted in a paper released on MedRXiv. The company said the levels of neutralizing antibodies were 1.8 to 2.8 times higher than in recovered Covid-19 patients.

After 28 days, all participants in the two lower dose groups had significant levels of binding antibodies, the company said.
 
Dow was down 250 in extended, but jumping, I suppose on payroll data coming in positive while expectations were negative. Dow now down 54.


Edit: and it has now gone green.

Big positive revision to May jobs report
 
Pfizer stock jumps after it reports positive data in early-stage coronavirus vaccine trial

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/pfi...in-early-stage-coronavirus-vaccine-trial.html

Pfizer shares jumped by nearly 7% in premarket trading Wednesday after it released positive results from its closely watched early-stage human trial on a coronavirus vaccine.

The trial evaluated 45 people. Each participant received 10, 30 or 100 microgram doses of the vaccine or a placebo.

The company coronavirus vaccine produced neutralizing antibodies, which researchers say is important for acquiring protection, in all participants who received two of the 10 or 30 microgram doses after 28 days, according to the preliminary data, which were posted in a paper released on MedRXiv. The company said the levels of neutralizing antibodies were 1.8 to 2.8 times higher than in recovered Covid-19 patients.

After 28 days, all participants in the two lower dose groups had significant levels of binding antibodies, the company said.
PFE down a bit since market opened(I imagine some profit taking by day traders?). Still up over 4%.
 
Brought some FB today at 226 and 216. The 52 week high is 245. If it dip to 205 will buy a lot more. I’ve been tracking FB since my father brought at $49 and I recently sold at 240. It will always go back to the high again but it may take a couple of months.

Hope some of other tech stocks take a 10-15% dip like PYPL, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, NVDA, CRM OR ADOBE. 15% would be a lot for these stocks.
Sold all my FB and PFE.
 
So Tesla is now the biggest automaker in the world in terms of market cap.

This despite selling only 400K cars last year and never showing a profit.

I bring this up in regards to the discussion about Market cap vs Price of a stock. Obviously they go hand and hand, and Tesla, has captured such a large market cap thanks to a stock price that has increased 5x's what it was a year ago.

How much have they actually grown in terms of tanglible assets? What % of actual auto market share do they actually own? Don't know, but I'm sure it in no way suggests that they should be the biggest auto company in the world.
 
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Good jobs report. 4.8million jobs added in June.

Dow up 360 in extended at 8:30
 
Do you guys think that the July unemployment numbers are going to look just as good considering all the rollbacks in state openings?
 
Will know soon. Cintron did the same thing to Inivio 6 months ago. Stock went to $20 and hit piece comes out and stock goes to $6. It has recovered and now $26. Hope the same happens to Cytodyn .

Inovio is currently 3.2B market cap. If Cyto hits $20 PPS, they would become 20B in market cap. No company in the history of biotech ever hit $20B in market cap without a commercial product.

I'm not trying to crap on Cytodyn. Like I said before, I like their science. But as far as financials, they are overvalued. It doesn't mean they are not a good company or that in the future they could not become a $20B market cap company - all very possible. But right now, IMHO, and yes, this isn't financial adivise, it's just opinion, there are many more companies with better risk reward profile based on their market cap.

I said it before and I will say it again - do not look at the PPS of a company. Look at the market cap.
 
So Tesla is now the biggest automaker in the world in terms of market cap.

This despite selling only 400K cars last year and never showing a profit.

I bring this up in regards to the discussion about Market cap vs Price of a stock. Obviously they go hand and hand, and Tesla, has captured such a large market cap thanks to a stock price that has increased 5x's what it was a year ago.

How much have they actually grown in terms of tanglible assets? What % of actual auto market share do they actually own? Don't know, but I'm sure it in no way suggests that they should be the biggest auto company in the world.

Tesla is poised to become the next Google. Their PPS is low compared to what they could become. BTW, Market Cap has nothing to do with market share.

Posted this on another thread. But here is an opinion on Tesla - and I completely agree with it:

 
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Tesla is poised to become the next Google. Their PPS is low compared to what they could become. BTW, Market Cap has nothing to do with market share.

Posted this on another thread. But here is an opinion on Tesla - and I completely agree with it:

Ya, that was kind of my point, but you would think there would be some sort of correlation.

I get that the buying of Tesla stock is a futures play, but man, the current #'s do nothing to suggest the current valuation.

Edit: The video has some good points, certainly about the product, namely the technology, and the companies efficiency, but Tesla lost 800 million dollars last year, with Revenue's of 27 Billion. Toyota had revenues of $270 billion.
 
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IDK. Maybe there was some legal pressure. Their reason for the bearish call had very little substance, maybe they were threatened with libel or manipulation?
Cytodyn’s lawyers sent them a letter to take down report because of numerous misleading statements and an incredible amount of omissions , like they are presently in 2 FDA trials for Covid. They did. In the meantime, they along with Tim Sykes , who orchestrated the short attack , at 11:30 on Tuesday with his tweet , which then was followed by the Cintron report, all without any new news , have been reported to Finra and the SEC for stock manipulation.
They have spooked a lot of people but not the scientists that have investigated and witnessed the drug’s effects. Volume is way down today.
Suprisingly, Cytodyn on their website posted a 3D image showing how Leronlimab affects cancer cells with the CCR 5 blocking , which is incredible news in the immuno- oncology realm., but the stock got an early bounce today and has been retreating most of the day . Until trial results are out, not a lot will happen.
CEO said yesterday the mild/ moderate Covid trial finished yesterday and hospitals are finalizing collecting the data to send to Cytodyn , so they can assess and present to the FDA for approval. Likely in next week to 10 days .
Seems like in the severe / critical trial that originally it was thought interim results were to be gathered by the end of June on the first 51 patients enrolled, has now enrolled 120 patients( originally the goal was 390) , and apparently interim results will not be gathered at this time.
Also, announced that a distribution deal would be announce no later than Monday. Why the need to announce it , if they didn’t think they were going to be approved by the FDA.
 
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So I learned the NKLA warrant has a buy price of $11.50.

A)If I had known this I would have traded what NKLA shares I have left for the warrants last week when the warrant was in the 20's.

B)I guess this is why the stock is down 10% to $60 while the warrant is up 6% to $34.

I don't really understand why one would own the stock over the warrant.
 
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CYDY seems to have found a support at $6 and a resistance at $7, bouncing back and forth between the two since the rebound off the short business.

Currently at $6.05.
 
Inovio is currently 3.2B market cap. If Cyto hits $20 PPS, they would become 20B in market cap. No company in the history of biotech ever hit $20B in market cap without a commercial product.

I'm not trying to crap on Cytodyn. Like I said before, I like their science. But as far as financials, they are overvalued. It doesn't mean they are not a good company or that in the future they could not become a $20B market cap company - all very possible. But right now, IMHO, and yes, this isn't financial adivise, it's just opinion, there are many more companies with better risk reward profile based on their market cap.

I said it before and I will say it again - do not look at the PPS of a company. Look at the market cap.
Totally understand as they are not approved yet. But that is coming. Stock will be in $6-$12 range until the first Mild to moderate results are revealed and given to the FDA. They have deals with Samsung to manufacture and about to announce a distribution deal on Monday. They are getting ready for FDA approval. If approved for Covid , projected revenue by the end of the year will be 2.9 B and 9 B for 2021 for Covid use. But they have other indications , AIDS and Cancer to name 2 others that have a chance for approval before year end.
 
So Tesla is now the biggest automaker in the world in terms of market cap

It's Tesla's self-driving technology that is the real asset. The cars are just gravy.

Since Thanksgiving, their stock has basically been a money printing machine.
 
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Inovio is currently 3.2B market cap. If Cyto hits $20 PPS, they would become 20B in market cap. No company in the history of biotech ever hit $20B in market cap without a commercial product.

I'm not trying to crap on Cytodyn. Like I said before, I like their science. But as far as financials, they are overvalued. It doesn't mean they are not a good company or that in the future they could not become a $20B market cap company - all very possible. But right now, IMHO, and yes, this isn't financial adivise, it's just opinion, there are many more companies with better risk reward profile based on their market cap.

I said it before and I will say it again - do not look at the PPS of a company. Look at the market cap.
Not sure about you saying there are many more companies with better risk reward profiles based on market , since I highly doubt any of them have the low risk / high reward of Cydy. The reward is through the roof. Not many stocks like that especially in this crisis.
 
Stocks, Bonds, and Gold all up today.

Apparently that is pretty rare.
 
I had some stocks who have been dogging it since I bought them have a big day today. Led by GNUS, held this one through a 40% loss, apparently some important news coming on a conference call on Monday.

Made all that loss back today, hopefully goes strong into the green on Monday.
 
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