I've been having some fun on this rainy Saturday here in Southern California, and yes we truly have had three feet of rain this winter. We will receive even more rain.
So, I ran some searches through Google using "Halloysite" in combination with random noun words, such as,
halloysite vitamin halloysite medicine halloysite drug halloysite beauty halloysite makeup halloysite weapon halloysite reactor halloysite semiconductor halloysite fuel
If run those types of searches, you will enjoy results which will surprise you. Most interesting I found so far is use of halloysite clay in ancient Chinese medicine dating back hundreds of years!
Point is, it is very surprising how many uses there are for halloysite clay, and equally surprising how many patents there are which employ halloysite clay is some process, such as making low sulfur fuel.
The news releases coming from Atlas Mining have not even begun to address the uses for their halloysite clay. Just wait until a major drug company jumps on halloysite clay.
I am beginning to suspect ALMI will be a real winner stock.
Blue and myself have been playing ALMI for ages. Each of us have a "core holding" we are sitting on for the future, and are playing ALMI swings, like from 1.11 to 1.30 over just a few days. ALMI is an excellent swing trade stock and a very good long term stock.
There are lots of articles here on ALMI. It is not too late to buy in, even at current prices. My opinion is ALMI has yet to really take off.
As always, I could be wrong, you could lose money. However, I don't think there is much risk with ALMI.
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eh, i didn't get the 1.30 - settled for 1.26. really though, the important thing was that i elbowed you out at 1.11, that was the main factor for me to return the favor for you elbowing me out on CLSI's dip, heh!
as for ALMI, is funny, i actually took it off of my ticker for several months. i like it enough that i just didn't care about what short-term swings it had, just planned to hold long.
eventually i put it back, because i realized (too late, my brain works slower than yours) that it was also an excellent swing candidate. still no plans to sell the core holding though, have also advised my brother and dad to just hold it and check back in a year.
i will do some of those google searches you suggested. will be very interesting to see where ALMI is a year from now. i am actually hoping for a dip to $1 range upon the next Q, it should not be that great because there should be little in the way of clay profits on it. am trying to amass some cash, in the hopes for a dip - we shall see.
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not that far what what i was hoping for: 10K just out today, and - not a surprise for anyone who actually bothers to read about ALMI - they are not yet profitable, though results were better than last year, fairly mild losses. got just the dip to $1 range i was hoping for. who knows, it could dip to .90, but - am happy to add to my core position at 1.06, no complaints here.
the 10K for ALMI is somewhat meaningless at this point imho, it's all about future potential with the clay.
quote:Originally posted by blue_in_MI: i am actually hoping for a dip to $1 range upon the next Q, it should not be that great because there should be little in the way of clay profits on it. am trying to amass some cash, in the hopes for a dip - we shall see.
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Blue, I picked up another ten-thousand shares at 1.06 per share. This dip is perfect.
Your opinion on today's financial announcement is just right. Those selling off are clearly not as astute as you.
Most important point is Atlas did not start bringing in significant revenue until December of last year, which is barely three months back. I find today's financial report to be exactly as expected.
Atlas invested a lot of money into a very wide variety of mining equipment, which was not cheap. They have also invested money into marketing and advertisement along with consulting.
Atlas is performing exactly as expected. Next news of a "nano" nature will skyrocket share price. Atlas is just getting started; this will be a good year.
We experienced high winds today in Southern California which killed our electricity service all day to within thirty minutes of market close. When the power came back on and I saw ALMI at 1.06 per, I jumped right on it, and would have bought at 1.08 or even 1.11 without any hesitation at all.
ALMI might even dip more tomorrow, but I am very comfortable buying at today's prices. It appears Market Makers drove prices down more than would normally happen to load up on shares anticipating a good profit on rebound, as we are doing.
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heh, that is pretty funny: when i hit the buy button at 1.06 yesterday i wondered if you were out there doing the *exact* same thing, Purl! little did i know that it was at exactly the same price.
yes, sounds like we had very similar thoughts re: the ALMI dip. agree completely that nothing was of a surprise in the 10K, also on the investing in equipment and other things which was necessary.
RebelYell, re: impatience and buying on dips, don't feel bad - you're not alone, is very tricky. If you go to the thread where I blabber on to myself, you'll see I started buying a little NMKT at .545 on a dip (oops), then continued to buy in low-.40's and finished by buying a large block at .395. Same for IDIB - bought at .40 and .41 and it dipped to .37. both ended up OK, as i think eventually you will be happy you bought ALMI at 1.08. When buying on dips, I tend to buy in relatively small chunks because I'm somewhat of a chicken and a hedger and it's a dangerous game trying to catch falling knives. All you can do is buy at the point you feel comfortable and that the company has reached undervalued level, and try to hedge risk by perhaps taking a series of small positions rather than one big one. Am still hoping for ALMI to dip to $1 range today, put 60% of the amount I wanted in yesterday, have an order out for 1.01 for the other 40% today. Not saying this is a correct or good strategy, but - just my own strategy.
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wow....!!! Wish I had read this earlier...back at $0.96. That would of been an awesome bounce to ride up.
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WOW!! bought a lot of chunks on the way down - first at 1.01, then .87, then sold half my TMFZ at 3.15 to put into more ALMI at .81. unbelievable, crazy, frantic
if you ask me, somewhere down the road - someone will rue the day they sold at .77
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Starting flying back up before I could place orders. Managed to buy at .84 .85 and .91 per share.
Should be a lot less owners of record today. It would be of no surprise if owners of record fell to 1500 or less, which is good; smart investors remain.
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A million and a half shares traded in only the first hour of market. Looks to be deliberate shorting or, at least, a major panic on the part of a few.
Climbing right back up very nicely.
Have to admit, this morning felt like free falling on the world's fastest roller coaster. Scary! Thrilling!
For the finish, lots of people are making good money!
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laughing thinking back - was just crazy, yesterday with ALMI, no time to react. my kids are on break so i took the day off, was pure chaos at the time ALMI was falling. i am not joking, this is what was happening at the time:
* my boss had just called me on my cellphone so i was trying to semifocus on him
* "full house" was blaring on the tv in family room where i was camped with my laptop (sadly, my 10-yr old daughter's favorite show, *sigh*)
* my 12-yr old son was running around blabbing and bouncing a racquetball repeatedly up in the air with his racqueteball racket
* my 13-yr old dog, who acts like a puppy, was shoving a slimy, slobber-covered tennis ball at me repeatedly, in the vain hopes that i would play fetch with him (backyard, yes. *in the house* i don't think so!)
just ridiculous, so much going on, a zoo in the background, yet - red and scottrade's "new low for the day yellow" flashing repeatedly on the ticker like a christmas tree!! i am lucky that i didn't place orders at $81 instead of .81, barely any time to think about what price or order size to set in, let alone triple-check orders like i usually do. constant alt-tab'ing and hitting refresh to see if TMFZ had sold yet so that i could buy yet another ALMI chunk.
yeesh, truly RIDICULOUS!! i've only been at this "game" a little over a year now, but - easily the most crazy and ridiculous 10-minute stretch of trading ever for me. i love rollercoasters, but - uh - i admit that i prefer them to be the ones at cedar point, yesterday with ALMI was just a bit too crazy for my tastes.
the last amusing thing was that my daughter had a gymnastics mini-camp that ran 11-4, so i had to quickly run and make her a bag lunch and get ready to take her to that. the thought briefly occurred to me while i was spreading the PB+J that perhaps i could set my son up at the monitor, and stay on the phone with him while he gave me a running update of ALMI's price as i was dropping my daughter off at the YMCA. that would have been amusing had ALMI dropped to .50 or something, trying to talk him through selling all of our holdings to put it all in ALMI at .50. now *that* would have been truly ridiculous, thank goodness the bottom was .77
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Booya, this recent financial report by ALMI is exactly as expected. It is a good report. AMLI invested a lot of capital into mining equipment, public relations and marketing. They are just now getting started.
Personally I am surprised by how well Jacobson has done, financially; he is clearly talented in the mining arena. His red ink entry is a lot less than most expected considering bringing a mine online from scratch, with no dilution.
Right now, as I type this, a conference is taking place in Pasadena, California, with ALMI being featured tomorrow just before lunch. Biophan and others are there as well.
My hunch is this is the last chance people will have to buy ALMI below 1.25 per share. ALMI is beginning to become known and it is showing up as an investor topic at more boards.
ALMI has the corner on the market in natural "nano-tubes" which have applications in quite literally hundreds of products. They have a product in demand and they are the only supplier of this "fine of a grade" of halloysite clay.
Today's and tomorrow's conferences will elevate common awareness of ALMI, which should send share price back up to the previous 1.50 per share and beyond. Appears ALMI will be the next BIPH stock.
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is interesting, comparing ALMI and BIPH. i admittedly know a lot more about ALMI than BIPH, but - both had similar extended upward pushes in particular since january:
BIPH's market cap is 4x that of ALMI, even though BIPH has produced diddlysquat in terms of income or even revenue. BIPH has a book value of 2 cents, for a $3 stock, and has lost quite a bit of money every quarter. ALMI's losses much milder, and a more substantial company imho.
however, BIPH is perhaps more of a pure "nano-play" and nano-speculators dream than ALMI. when i first got interested in ALMI, i only 20% credited the nano-aspect for my initial investment, that was sort of the "icing on the cake". clearly though, i underestimated this aspect last year, strikes me that it was a large driving force in ALMI's run from .15.
BIPH is paperthin, yet potentially more explosive than ALMI if they can sign a deal to start using their nanopatents. who knows though, hard to say how the halloysite will end up being used down the road.
i like ALMI more than BIPH, mainly because BIPH strikes me as a much more risky play. not quite a binary proposition, but - particularly after their big run, it's really rolling the dice to put $ into BIPH at this point. neither $1 nor $5 would surprise me 6 months out for BIPH. ALMI strikes me as much safer than that, a better risk/reward curve. no matter what happens, Atlas is the only one with this grade of clay, that is a factor not to be underestimated. however, it would not surprise me at all if BIPH went from $3-$5 on a single day if they had some great news come out - all about the nano speculation with them. if BIPH drops to $2 suddenly with no bad news to justify the drop, i'd buy a little just for a swing trade.
guess am not really going anywhere with this quasi-analysis, as usual - heh. but - is interesting to me, comparing the companies. you could almost sense the swelling of interesting in each one on the various boards, just such buying pressure. dunno why I never bought BIPH back at .80 when it was first on my radar, d'oh! oh well.
MFIC, am watching dip under $2 here, a little lower and might add a very small amount as another nano-play.
ALMI, ah that the market could give "gifts" like last week's ALMI drop to .77 every day - rarely does something that "easy" get dropped into your lap.
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PG, just looked at your profile while giving you 5 Stars and saw that picture. Nice pair of "f" holes. LOL My college professors were never that attractive!
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