Hi Kathy, I'll have to think about your list of items that will be part of our future.
I do know that IDTI is now a part of my past. I sold off 4000 shares today at $8 to end that investment. I ended profitably (about a 40% gain) but not on the best of terms. It had been a great AIM stock for the first couple of years that I owned it, but had done two offensive things in recent times - picked a lower trading range and quit moving around as much.
AIM would have been content to have continued trading the new, lower priced range profitably, but I have lost patience with the company. This will no doubt signal a doubling of the stock price before mid-summer. (similar to Floyd S. reminding me about my Roberts Pharm. experience) Proceeds from the IDTI sale will be used to add to my JBL AIM account at the appropriate time.
Vitesse Semi. (VTSS) shares traded at $57-1/2 today and that was good enough for me to sell off about 4% of my position. I'd just added those shares to inventory at $41-1/2 back in April and here they want them back. Well, V.I.E.W. was happy to help out and only asked 38.5% for the holding charge. This small sale keeps my Equity/Cash ratio for this AIM account near ideal levels. That account is now at an all time high value.
I've "sensed" the #1 (Companies and analysts use chat boards both to gather information and, in the case of small companies, promote their stocks.) a few times here on SI. I wonder if they tend to follow SI's boards or Yahoo's? Hope they have plenty of spare time if they are on Yahoo!!
I did have a company officer acknowledge that he knew of my investing in their company. Yes, a company member had found my postings here on SI under their company name and made comment on them. A further comment was that I seemed to pattern my buying and selling much like their own insiders! I've confirmed this myself. As you mentioned, there's a lag time, but when I went back a couple of months after one of my buying or selling periods, I found I was in sync with the officers and directors! Felt good! Now, tell me how Mr. L could design such a system so as to accomplish that???? :-)
(was I leading them or following them????)
Best regards, Tom |
