Commentary:Lloyd
Blankfein apologized today for some of his companies "actions". ya know I could go on and on about this, but I will keep i
t brief. Back in 2008, I
believe they made billions by manipulating markets and being short. Anybody who may have been long in a stock that they downgraded and then bear raided knows what I mean - they play dirty - period.
Then there is the story about how one day they are a hedge fund and the next day suddenly Goldman is "a bank" eligible for tarp money that they claimed they did not need. Yeah RIGHT.
You add it all up and it leaves a bad taste, '
nuff said.
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Market Talk:
Today was kind of a rough day. No major moves but it seemed like the hedge witches are back playing again. This
morning,
VVUS had a very interesting cc to update the Phase 3 trials of
Avanafil a new ED drug. The results show that it could easily be on the path to being better than Viagra in action and safety. Between
VVUS's prospects of
Qnexa weight loss drug and
Avanafil,
VVUS is on a very promising path to having TWO blockbusters. Well, the stock should have normally re
sponded with a nicer close but
during the day -
the volume was high yet it seemed under pressure. I have seen this many times, but
VVUS has the signs of some nasty hedge witches about it. YOU can usually count on the typical
Cnbc chatter heads to come out and yap about it that's what they do. That's another sign that the hedge witches are at play. Sometimes it seems like they work in
unison. Sometimes I wonder if the biggest hedge witch , Goldman
Sachs is playing games on t
hese small and mid cap issues.
Well, the good stocks eventually break their nasty grip by performance.
I believe the short based hedge witches are all about. But , over time, even they can be flushed out.
I once held a stock China Medical in the teens for months. It had a hedge witch/ You can tell the ones, they often get the typical
bashers on the message boards disguised as disgruntled longs or short
bashers. Well it eventually broke the grip as their
HIFU machines were selling and performing well.
CMED went to the upper 30's before I bailed and then the 40's. They sold their
HIFU division and are now into diagnostics and it's in the teens. I am not suggesting
CMED now, but I wanted to use it as an example of how a hedge witch grip can be broken by being patient.
I get some emails . Some are about when you should buy and sell a stock like say -
NXG. All I can offer is that everybody is different in situation. Me? I am holding
because I believe we are entering new times like we have
never seen before..
I am not saying this is
Armageddon or anything. But I could see
period where we have little to moderate real inflation (in this country, but don't leave the US !) and yet gold could stay above $1100 per Oz and possibly trend much higher. There is now a different world view trending on gold vs currency. The
threat of the IMF dumping gold on the world is kind of
whisked away when countries like India are buying 200 Tons of Gold; and China is reported to be building positions in raw gold. Now they are in competition with new
etf's that are taking possession of gold reserves.
NXG: Well all of that is a little esoteric to this one little off the radar - Gold and copper mining issue,
NXG. I just don't see much risk holding
NXG and it seems more likely to see higher 4's and 5's in this climate. I can't
worry about it falling back to the 2's. If it did, I'd probably buy more with dry powder. They already had their stock offering and got about $100 Mil in cash, so that risk is off the table. I am
looking forward not
backwards on
NXG and holding. This climate could see a stock like NXG double and if Gold goes to $1500 in 2010 like many are starting to see - NXG may see double digits.
But here is something-- don't wait for me to ring a bell on your situation. In the market - nobody rings a bell. If you have 1,000 shares and are sitting on a $500 profit and you really "need" that money? who am I to say to
don't sell to you? and that goes for ANY stock. All I can say is that I added some nxg
the other day at $3.12 and I am going long on
NXG. I think it could double.
ONTY: You can read almost any post here and see why I
believe ONTY fair market value is $32 per share Right now, today - as we wait. So I got some emails to put numbers on the picture. I have already gone through the back on envelope and how I get $328 a share just on
Stimuvax royalties for
treating lung cancer as Merck
KGaA proceeds into FDA approval. Here is an updated estimate of how sudden new market awareness could play out in terms of
ONTY share value...

I put in some projected ONTY share values after we get an awakening catalyst. For the very near term a ONTY long just endures the ignorants. They will clamor to join us later and chase it after the hoopla on the shot of hope- of that I am convinced .
yes, it may take a catalyst. The catalyst I see in my viewfinder is the Phase 3 patients themselves who may well be suddenly realizing - something is different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXMFdvJ6Tk&feature=related
Well, I have just touched the surface on one compound that ONTY is involved with/ There are others,
BGLP-40, PX866, PX478, PX12 are others.
The first two are hot and anything can happen.
Stay aware!
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ALL in my humble opinion, scroll down and read more..
This site does NOT make Buy / Sell recommendations.
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