GO QBID GO QBID

HE'S CONSISTENTLY INCONSISTENT.

Bart
Member posted April 23, 2004 19:17
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U4: Thought you might like this.
ROGERS PICKS FOR TUESDAY 20 APR.
GXXL, AVHC,VICI,EYEM,PHSL and WSCI.
The results are for 4/20/04 thru 4/23/04:

GXXL/OPEN/042004/.0210/CLOSE/042304/.0140/DN
AVHC/OPEN/.0200/CLOSE/.0140/DN
VICI/----/.0200/-----/.0200/EV
EYEM/----/.0210/-----/.0270/UP
PHSL/----/.2400/-----/.2300/DN
WSCI/----/4.220/-----/2.990/DN

Your buddy sure knows how to pick them. HEHE

I thought you might like this. Say it one time R O G E R is G R E A T.

WHEN SOMETHING IS SO CLEAR AND POINTED OUT TO YOU WITH A OBVIOUS "WHAT THE TRUTH" IS; YOU SOMEHOW MANAGE TO THINK THAT IT'S NOT THAT WAY AND THAT YOUR RIGHT AND/OR YOU AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS.

YOU SAY EVERY TIME YOU POST AN OPINION, YOU GET HAMMERED. YOUR NOW TURNING MY CORRECTING YOUR COMPLETE AND 100% WRONG POSTINGS INTO A SIMPLE "WELL I'M POSTING MY OPINION AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT U4'S PROBLEM IS".

EACH AND EVERY ISSUE I REBUTTAL ON YOUR POSTS HAS BEEN IGNORED. YOU COMPLETELY REFUSE TO SIMPLY SUBSTIANTIATE YOUR POSTION(S) AND I EVEN PUT UP $2,000 FOR YOU TO DO THAT.

EITHER YOU GET IT OR YOU DON'T.

GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

Bart
Member posted April 23, 2004 19:17
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I thought you might like this. Say it one time R O G E R is G R E A T.

"all we have to do is launch"....whizknock

Do Market Makers ever lower prices to “panic” investors into selling, sometimes called “shaking the tree”?

i. Yes, moving the price up, encourages sells, moving it down also encourage sells, take another look at Tadpole, in the first instance, the price was hiked way up despite the 50p support level, but at 50p few of the people who got in between 20p and 45p are going to sell (and look how many buyers there were still at 50p), the rise was meteoric, smart money just ignored it as it only lasted about 2 hours, but what was probably caught was huge investors who were in way before 20p and had forgotten about it, now they want out. The Market Makers order gets filled, the price settles back to a smart support level and volumes decrease, however the Market Makers gets another order to fill, maybe not so big, maybe not so prepared to pay the premium, but you also know that there are a lot of people out there waiting to see if it's going to shoot up past the 50p support level again or dip and if it dips they're going to sell now before it dips back past their 100% profit level.

i. No. Market Makers are there to make a market, not to act as some form of stock control system. At any one time a Market Maker is likely to have a position in the stocks they are the Market Makers for, but this position could just as easily be short as long. However having a position (of either persuasion gives market exposure and Market Makers try to avoid this.) (See 3d.)

b. Can Market Makers take a short position?

i. No and yes. Market Makers are not supposed to allow themselves to go short, but in process of making a market they may well find themselves short of a stock. If this happens a Market Maker has a number of options, purchase from another Market Maker, fiddle with the price in the hope that enough sellers will emerge to cover the short or borrow the shares from an institutional investor.

c. What is market exposure?

i. Market exposure is the amount of money you have exposed to the vagaries of the market, i.e. the amount of money you could loose or gain from your positions open in the market.

d. Why do Market Makers avoid market exposure?

i. Simply because a Market Maker who is over exposed to the market is giving systematic risk to the whole market. Ill explain… If a Market Maker was to take up lots of large position across the whole range of shares they make a market in then if there was a market crash the Market Maker may find themselves bankrupt (ala Nick Leeson and Barings) and therefore unable to make a market. Once there is no longer a market the shares will become pretty worthless (if you cant sell something, at any price, what is it worth?), this in turn could force other Market Makers to go bankrupt and the whole thing would spiral down into a very unpleasant mess. We would all loose vast amounts of money from our pensions, endowment policies, insurance funds, Unit Trusts, Investment Trust and direct equity investments, in addition to which an important source of cash for companies would vanish!

Then came July, and 2003 started to look like Gay Pride Year. Wal-Mart, the country's largest private employer, prohibited discrimination against gay employees. MSNBC talk-show host Michael Savage was fired for making vulgar anti-gay remarks. And now, the Bravo network unveils two gay-themed series that go where television has never gone before.Although it may look as if, all of a sudden, gay characters, gay images and gay sensibilities are everywhere, producers, advertisers and media observers see these social changes as ripples from a trend that's been building for years, if not decades. "It's kind of a gay moment right now," said advertising executive Howard Buford, whose New York firm Prime Access targets minority and gay audiences for clients including Ford, American Express and AT&T. "We're seeing a nexus of popular culture, our legal system and, quite frankly, the American capitalist system all coming together."
So what's fueling it?

While fiery objections remain from some conservative and religious groups, a majority or near majority of Americans now support anti-discrimination laws and gay marriage at record levels, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll taken in May.

Eighty-eight percent said they favored equal rights in the workplace; 62 percent expressed support for health and Social Security benefits for gay partners; 54 percent approved of the "alternate lifestyle"; and 49 percent favored gay marriage. (An equal number opposed it.) Some of those figures have risen by 20 to 30 percentage points since the early 1980s.

The No. 1 reason people have changed their minds? More Americans, polls show, know someone who's gay--a family member, a friend, a co-worker--because more gay men and lesbians have been coming out of the closet. "You work with people on a day-to-day basis, and they're not ogres, they're not something demonic, and it becomes more acceptable," said Edd Sewell, a communications professor at Virginia Tech.

At the same time, the public is more aware of the contributions of gay men and lesbians in the entertainment industry--partly because so many "infotainment" shows look behind the scenes of television, movies and the fashion world. "Never before have we been so media savvy, nor have we had so much information at our fingertips about who's designing these clothes and who's writing these songs and who painted that picture," said Carson Kressley, a stylist who's starring in Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," a reality makeover show debuting Tuesday.

The cable network, which is owned by NBC, barely registers in the Nielsen ratings, something Bravo executives are hoping to change with "Queer Eye" and the reality-romance series "Boy Meets Boy," which debuts July 29. They aren't Bravo's first forays into gay-oriented programming; it aired the Out of the Closet film festival and last year's "Gay Weddings," which drew a larger-than-normal audience for the network.

"I think these shows are going to do very well for us because there is significant buzz about them, and the concepts are highly original," said Frances Berwick, Bravo's senior vice president of programming and production. "The appeal isn't going to be exclusively to the gay audience."

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is a reflection of how gay and straight cultures have been merging. In each episode, Kressley and four other style experts make over a semi-hapless straight man--his hair, his clothes, his furnishings. The show is really a comedy, trading on gay and heterosexual stereotypes in a way that also questions them.

The producers prefer to call it a "make better" show, and the first episode bears that out. While the gay stylists make a little fun of their subject, it's also clear that they're trying to improve his look in a way that pleases him.

This is not a new concept for straight men concerned with what label they're wearing or how their apartment is laid out. There's even a name for such fellows: metrosexuals. "It's neither straight nor gay to look good," said David Metzler, a straight guy who developed "Queer Eye" based on an idea from his gay business partner, David Collins.


The pair believe the rise of the metrosexual can be attributed, at least in part, to media images created by gay fashion designers--the same images that have led to greater acceptance of gays by mainstream culture. "The straight guys realize, 'Just because I like to have my hair a certain way or wear great shoes doesn't make me gay,' " Collins said. "It's OK to like shoes or shopping, or 'You know what? I might even dye my hair.' "Some conservative observers, meanwhile, see "Queer Eye" as part of a continuum. Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, calls efforts to mainstream gay life a "bait and switch." "For a long time, homosexuals said, 'We just want to live our lives, we don't want to get married, we don't want this, want that.' That's bogus. That's been part of the plan all along. Now what are they pushing for? Marriage, adoption, all kinds of stuff like that. They want their lifestyle legitimized."
As acceptance of gays and lesbians has grown, so have business opportunities. While advertisers are targeting gay consumers, they're also using that trend-setting group to figure out what might sell to a wider audience. "People who want to ignite a brand with a large, trendy audience will often start with the gay market," said Buford, the ad executive.

But with so few gay-oriented TV shows, advertisers have had to focus on print sources such as The Advocate. "There's definitely a need for more and more high quality vehicles with significant reach," Buford said. "The ones that are most efficient are print vehicles, but they don't have the reach you get in broadcast."

Lately, television has been catching on to the possibility of marketing to gays. Media giant Viacom has been considering a gay cable channel for more than a year, though no startup date has been set. So far, niche channels have been more willing to take risks than the broadcast networks, which depend on advertisers seeking a mass audience.

NBC helped alter the TV landscape when it launched the sitcom "Will & Grace" in 1998, but the show has been careful in depicting gay sexuality. Not so "Queer as Folk," Showtime's frank look at a group of gay friends, or HBO's "Six Feet Under," which features a complicated and flawed gay couple.

"The broadcast networks still worry about advertisers and are extremely conservative in their programming," said Scott Seomin, entertainment media director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "When we do see gay characters, we often see them gay in name only. We don't see them in relationships equal to their straight counterparts."

As evidence, Seomin cites "It's All Relative," an ABC sitcom coming this fall. It's the story of a Harvard-educated woman who falls for a blue-collar bartender. Her parents are two gay men. "It's the first time that we've seen gay parenting on prime-time television, and that's terrific," Seomin said. "It's interesting, however, how careful the show is. Their daughter is already raised, so we don't see gay men being nurturing to children. And it's a daughter, not a son, though we do see the men in bed in the pilot episode. If that premise was on a cable network, it would be much different, much more realistic."

That doesn't mean cable isn't borrowing from broadcast, while adding elements the Big Four networks haven't dared touch. A prime example is Bravo's other gay-themed debut, "Boy Meets Boy," a takeoff on reality-romance shows such as "Joe Millionaire" and "The Bachelor." For the first time, a gay man will be searching for love among a group of strangers. And he won't be told about that twist--straight men are lurking to deceive you--until well into the process.

It's the kind of "gotcha" reversal that marks the reality wave. Gay viewers and others who may not like to see the bachelor humiliated are holding their breath until "Boy Meets Boy" premieres. "GLAAD's wish would be to have a gay dating show without deceptions--with twists, but not leaving hurt feelings," Seomin said. GLAAD is the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

"But what I like about this is, only reality television could create a closet for straight men. I've seen footage where some of the straight participants express guilt about having to pretend to be something they're not."

April 1, 2004

- By JASON STRAZIUSO
PHILADELPHIA - The travel industry, already excited about the growing niche of gay tourism, hopes the recent surge in same-sex marriage translates into a new travel segment: gay honeymoons.

In the wake of a handful of cities' granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples, merchants catering to gay couples have seen a spike in business, as limousine services, photographers and vacation locations try to attract the dollars being spent by gay couples.

Gayweddings.com, an advertising portal for wedding resources and vacation getaways, has seen its number of advertisers increase fourfold since a November court ruling in Massachusetts that will allow gay couples to marry in mid-May.

"It's been a big boom," said K.C. David, president of the Web site, which has been online since 2000.

The travel industry is embracing the new segment nationwide, from Portland, Ore., where same-sex couples can get a marriage license, to Pennsylvania, where couples are holding commitment ceremonies. Tour operators in several states have set up special rates for gay honeymooners.

The Bucks County Conference and Visitors Bureau in suburban Philadelphia had a booth at the Same Sex Wedding Expo held in New York last month, whose exhibitors included travel planners and hotels. Bucks County even has a dedicated gay Web site:
www.gaybuckscounty.com.

"It's definitely a market that has a lot of potential for us," said Keith Toler, executive director of the Bucks County tourism bureau.

Gay marriage has provided "an economic boom" to Portland, Ore., as gay couples and their families fly in for weddings, said Joe D'Alessandro, president of the Portland Oregon Visitors Association.

"As this continues, people are planning receptions and much more formal weddings," he said. "As it matures, it becomes an even greater economic boost."

How same-sex marriage might increase gay tourism was a hot topic last week at the fifth annual International Conference on Gay and Lesbian Tourism in West Hollywood, Calif., said conference attendee Jeff Guaracino, of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp.

Regional tourism bureaus and companies like Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Avis attended the convention to see how they can attract business from gay tourism, which Guaracino said is in its "infancy stage." He said gay honeymooners are a "a niche within a niche."

"Destinations are wrestling with this new market and new opportunity," he said.

Gay travelers spend $54 billion a year, according to an analysis by Community Marketing Inc., a firm that monitors gay tourism and which hosted last week's international gay and lesbian tourism seminar.

The gay travel market is particularly lucrative because gays tend to have more disposable income and a greater propensity for travel than non-gays, according to Community Marketing.

Philadelphia, which launched a gay campaign last fall using the slogan "Get your history straight, and your nightlife gay," is now producing a commercial targeting gays.

That commercial will be the first by a city to target a gay audience, said Mike Wilke, executive director of the Commercial Closet Association, a nonprofit group that tracks gay representation in ads.

The commercial - combined with an increase in gay print advertisements from places like Key West, Fla., and Provincetown, Mass., the last several years - shows that awareness and acceptance of gays has reached a "critical mass," Wilke said.

"It's interesting that (the commercial) is coming from Philadelphia, which most people don't consider the gayest place," Wilke said.

Avis, which had a local representative at the California convention last week, has been courting gay travelers for years, said spokesman Ted Deutsch.

"We see the gay and lesbian market as significant in size and very brand loyal," he said. "And we believe in serving as many customers as possible."

The popular images of the gay community bear more than a passing resemblance to stereotypes used to exploit blacks in film and television, both old and new. Some critics have argued that the comforting portrayals of blacks in colonial stereotypes eased the struggle for civil rights in this country. But no matter how "loving" the images were, white folks still lynched and murdered blacks.

As more communities around our country pursue legislation aimed at legalizing gay marriage, homosexuality will be mainstreamed like integration was all those years ago — and gay people will face similar resistance. Much of the homo-genizing of mass media is directly related to the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. That community borrows heavily from the civil rights playbook, but sometimes they seem to forget that our rights came at a bloody price. What happens when gays aren't funny anymore?

The truth is, we have no paradigm. As much as the gay community likes to compare itself to blacks, the situation isn't entirely analogous. Because blacks are conspicuous by color, while gays and lesbians can ascend closeted (if need be), their struggles are different. And while the gay community faces hate crimes and terrorism just like us (especially now that more legal battles address their access to equal rights), they still have a toehold or more in the majority culture. After all, those gays who are white (and that covers most of the serious gay lobby) and they're used to that privilege. And all gays have straight relatives — they have members in the majority camp. When senators, governors and police chiefs may have gay sons and daughters — or may be gay themselves — that gives them a one-up in the civil right game.

So why should we help them? Black people are still real skittish about homosexuality for a lot of complicated reasons, not the least of which is the difficulty of just being black in this country without being scrutinized for what you do in the bedroom. Sometimes our gay friends ask us to support events and wear T-shirts and buttons that may make us uncomfortable. Matters of sexuality and intimacy of every kind are largely personal and private, and while I got crazy-love for my gay peeps, I'm not down for the hype. I'm supportive, but it's not my fight — and opting out doesn't make me a homophobe or anti-gay. It makes me judicious and cautious of convenient alliances. So count me out of the rally, B. People with gay and lesbian friends and relations have an obligation to be loving and affirming, but not necessarily political. That's a hard line, but it's fair.

Watching television of late, it seems to me that the media has begun dictating sexuality politics to our children, and that's wrong. Sexuality gets to a person's nature, the way they love and the conversation they have with themselves and their God. It's not Elmo's job to explain to my children why they their auntie is married to a woman — I got dat. Television is an entertainment medium — let parents parent their kids and pre-teens about sexuality without all the mixed messages. Gay rights presented in stereotypical forms help nobody.

Note to the gay community: you want the same rights as everyone else? Learn this upfront: This country publicly preaches diversity but privately pines for the old days when n-----s and queers knew their place. Celebrating difference in this country invites attention, encourages fetish and builds esteem temporarily, but there are no means to measure the veracity or intention of any of it. History suggests it doesn't last and has harmful long-term affects. America has a love-hate relationship with its minorities, and it will take more than reality television to change America's mind about gays and lesbians.


First published: September 10, 2003

About the Author

jimi izrael is an opinion writer and journalist based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He can be contacted at jimiizrael@hotmail.com.

http://www.africana.com/columns/izrael/ls20030910gay.asp

Look at the competition: http://www.thenationalshow.com/ncta2004/attendee/booth.asp?Booth=492 http://www.heretv.com/splash.html http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA411217?verticalid=316&industry=Top+Stori es&industryid=1069 http://www.cableretailer.com/#Story5

Pridevision was at the NCTA show in 2002 and they didn't go anywhere in the U.S.: http://www.broadband-pbimedia.com/cgi/cw/show_mag.cgi?pub=cw&mon=050602&file=shows.inc[/ URL]

The gay market is huge : [URL=http://www.gfn.com/news/spotlight.phtml?sid=15429&slid=1556]http://www.gfn.com/news/spotlight.phtml?sid=15429&slid=1556

Like I said next week should be great but QBID better start showing some earth shattering progress at the show or they may fail like the last attempts.

I wonder if QBID could possibly know about the following: http://www.cablepositive.org/

Or possibly entered this contest: http://www.cablepositive.org/news/2-4-04.html

Maybe they have entered this contest: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds14049.html

It looks like the potential is huge , there is a huge amount of money and support out there , lets just hope they are taking advantage of it.

And thanks for your sarcastic tone.. although sometimes I like your optimism and you truly have provided some excellent DD, you should always value other peoples opinions when they are just trying to help. So buddy.. no need for personal attacks! THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT!!

Thanks,

I love it.

Today a Long White Candlestick formed. Buyers were aggressive and buying pressure was strong. "Be careful, Today a Long White Candlestick formed. Buyers were aggressive and buying pressure was strong. Be careful, this may lead to excessive bullishness!

Be very, very, very careful, this may lead to excessive bullishness!

All we have to do is launch!

BUT AGAIN, EVEN IF WE DROP TO .0001 I STILL HAVE THE SAME QBID AND MY STOCK/POSITION DOESN'T CHANGE!

whizknock
Member posted April 23, 2004 22:20
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Yes sir Mondayschild!
I love it.

Today a Long White Candlestick formed. Buyers were aggressive and buying pressure was strong. "Be careful, Today a Long White Candlestick formed. Buyers were aggressive and buying pressure was strong. Be careful, this may lead to excessive bullishness!

Be very, very, very careful, this may lead to excessive bullishness!

All we have to do is launch!

Don't mistake it as me as supporting a single person. Realize I am just trying to point out to you that you are being unreasonable, and arrogant. Allstocks is a team.. we work together to provide DD, go through rough times, happy times.. whatever the case may be. My responses to you have more to do with you just acting immaturely. QBID is doing wonderful, I am ecstatic. You speak of dodging... you are the dodger my friend. Quit dodging the fact that we are all here to make money, some are here to provide a reasonable side, some to hype and pump, and some to bash. If you are going to personally attack someone for providing reasonable facts, and helping out the TEAM.. then I find that utterly disgraceful. Keep posting THANKS FOR YOU INPUT... RESISTANCE IS 4.00... MY LIMIT ORDER IS AT 2.00. Honestly, when you can recognize that people are out there to provide their opinions and looking out for everyone and you cannot attack them, then I will actually give a crap if you thank me for my input.

Thanks,