Hello people! Thanks in part to Stock Gumshoe and in part to dumb luck, I find myself facing a new situation this year: Profitability! And being a a small-time beginner I have no idea what to do about it! I list my assumptions below to see if anyone can tell me if I am more […]
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Apologies if this has been answered countless times over the years. I can find many lists for earnings dates for NASDAQ stocks, but nothing (so far) that also includes little OTC ones. I ask because I hold a stock ($NBEV) that I could have sold at 1.70 and re-bought at 1.55 ( or 1.60 and […]
October 3, 2016
Any thoughts on NBEV ?
For anyone unfamiliar, it’s a functional beverage company which used to be the microbrewery ABRW Basically consists of ”Bucha” kombucha plus other brands from a recent merger/acquisition: Xing tea etc Has a big cheese, Brent Willis, formerly of Coca-Cola and IN-BEV, in charge at present, and seems to be doing well. It represents a disproportionately […]
October 3, 2016
Confessions of a biotech fool (ATNM, MBVX, XXII)
That’s not fool in the motley sense, just foolish. I realise, having just become an irregular after a year or two on the sidelines, that DR KSS has described me exactly when talking about what NOT to do with small biotech stocks, i.e. buy them on the advice of exuberant newsletters without talking to anyone […]
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Good luck! I'm ow NBEV September $2.50 calls.. Got at least one, maybe two more earnings before then (they tend to come late...)I have some doubts that stopped me averaging down even more lately. Some shareholders seem convinced that "dark pool" opera[...]