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To: Rande Is who wrote (18552)1/12/2000 3:48:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt  Respond to of 57584
 
I really can't tell what is going on with it. Bias is upward from the current level though. Watch ICOS, they will announce some stuff at the bio conf. this afternnon..



To: Rande Is who wrote (18552)1/12/2000 4:23:00 PM
From: Rande Is  Respond to of 57584
 
IT was a very tough day to trade Nasdaqs today. . . Dow techs strong all day. . . Nasdaq techs kept sucker rallying all day long. The high-fliers just keep on losing ground. . .as though all that money that everyone believed they would make. . .had somehow been misappropriated. . . .

What makes this herd turn its back on JDSU? Or CMRC? Or CMGI? I don't buy it. There is no way that I am going to believe that the internet was the most important development in our time one minute. . . .then AOL merges with TWX and suddenly the internet has lost its worth. I don't buy it.

These companies ARE still important and will be enormous. . . and as earnings come out this and next weeks, we will see just how important it is toward building earnings. And at some point, one fat cat will call another and a green light will go on somewhere. . . so that brokers can start buying up high techs for their biggest customers. . . lined up on the sidelines, just smacking their lips as the very best companies keep dropping in price.

Meanwhile, the small investors get squeezed out of these great stocks once more. . . as we lose patience. . .and get tired of seeing our equity numbers drop. . . and start having second thoughts about tech stocks. . .and start listening to analysis offered so freely by the media.

All I can say is to Plan you trades. . . .for the month and for the year. . . . and trade your plans. . . only adjusting for unexpected
and compelling news or other events that may bear on your trades.

If you don't . . .and you line up to sell off your stocks. . . you have joined the herd mentality. . . and THE HERD NEVER WINS. By the time you catch up to the moves, the profits are all gone. So stick by whatever guns you chose. And trade those peaks and dips on trading positions to hedge your core positions.

I realize this is all easier said than done. This manipulated market is extremely frustrating.

6.75% bond. . .yeah, I see it. . . so what? It is a psychological barrier only. . . nobody is really selling Intel to buy the bond. . . no way. . . they are certainly not selling the S&P to buy the bond. And there is still no REAL fear from interest rates. . . just perceived fear, based on what the media reports. And how they love to report fear.

Rande Is



To: Rande Is who wrote (18552)1/12/2000 5:21:00 PM
From: baggo  Respond to of 57584
 
Rande,
What's your take on LPTHA S3 filed 1/10/00?
Regards,
BRICE



To: Rande Is who wrote (18552)1/12/2000 11:09:00 PM
From: JD  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 57584
 
Looks like LPTHA needs to clean up its capital structure:

- Filed form S-3MEF on 12/21/99 which converted class G & H warrants to common (LPTHA).

- Filed form S-3 on 01/10/00 which converts class K & L warrants and series F preferred to common (LPTHA).

Found these tidbits in most recent S-3 -

- "...we will receive up to $4,760,500 from the exercise, if any, of warrants by the selling shareholders."

- "As of November 30, 1999, there was outstanding:

+ 2,667,649 Class A Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,667,649 shares of Class A Common Stock and 2,667,649 Class B Warrants;

+ 1,851,351 Class B Warrants to purchase 1,851,351 shares of Class A Common Stock;

+ the Unit Purchase Option to purchase an aggregate of 160,000 Units, each Unit consists of 160,000 Class A Common Stock, 160,000 Class A Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 160,000 shares of Class A Common Stock and 160,000 Class B Warrants; and 160,000 Class B Warrants;

+ 160,750 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Class C and Class D Warrants;

+ 336,177 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Class E and Class F Warrants;

+ 304,909 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Class G and Class H Warrants;

+ 150,000 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Class J Warrants;

+ 1,925,000 shares of Class A Common Stock reserved for issuance to the selling shareholders upon conversion of the Series F
Preferred stock and exercise of the Class K and Class L Warrants;

+ 281,250 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Chairman's Warrant;

+ outstanding options to purchase an aggregate of 1,284,516 shares of Class A Common Stock (which includes 71,102 options which the holder receives, upon exercise, 71,102 shares of Class A, 106,652
shares of Class E-1, 106,652 shares of Class E-2 and 71,102
shares of Class E-3 Common Stock);

+ 887,984 shares of Class A Common Stock reserved for issuance pursuant to future grants made under the Omnibus Incentive Plan and Directors Stock Incentive Plan."

- "The current focus of our development group has been to expand application of GRADIUM products to the areas of fiberoptic optomechanical switches, multiplexers, interconnects and cross-connects for the telecommunications field..."

...............Yuk, what a Capital mess!!! But, this will give us an easy measure of management's talents - heck, if they can clean this mess up, re-directing a few photons should be a piece of cake!!!

The amended 10-K said that the company expected to enter field trials of the two fiberoptic mechanical switches by the end of calendar 1999. Developed by LPTHA / Laor; assembled & distributed by Kaifa (now sub. of ETEK) and LPTHA.

..........Does anyone know the status of the field trials???????

Thank You, Jerry



To: Rande Is who wrote (18552)1/22/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt  Respond to of 57584
 
Rande, when you asked me what I thought about LPTHA on 12 Jan. and I said the bias was up, I must say thanks for alerting me to it and the warrants, as I had kind of forgotten about it.
T/a is till showing an up bias, a serious up bias.

Also, remember some time back when I mentioned our old pick WSTL? Check the price today. Also POCI, I have had to buy that one back 5 times now. Should have just kept my original under a buck stake and let it work for me. $1 to $28 in just a short time.