Maybe this is the problem with ICOS.

Less than a buck a dose, 0.8 ml = 20 mg dose

http://www.liquidresearch.com/cialis.htm

gotta buy yourself an eye dropper

Buddy of mine bought it, says it works great

duh, with the eye dropper, you place a drop on your tongue, not in your eye

just wanted to clarify in case superman is reading this thread

Ldvee, take one for the team--try the juice and report back! I wonder how volatile the liquid version is (potency susceptibility to environmental conditions)?

Ldvee,

Before you take the stuff make sure youe living will is updated.

Thanks for the picks, Don. You seem to really like pharmaceutical stocks - is it only coincidental that many of your faves are in this field, or is it by design?

I love the disclaimer on Ldvee's liquid Cialis:

THIS PRODUCT IS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSE ONLY
NOT FOR HUMAN USE, THIS PRODUCT CAN BE HARMFUL IF INGESTED. THIS PRODUCT IS IN A NON-STERILE SOLUTION AND IS NOT TO BE INJECTED.

Kendrick,

I bought mostly tech (computer blue chips) during the last major downturn along with the few biotechs. During the course of the last couple months most of the straight tech position advanced rapidly and I took money off the table. Meanwhile, the biotechs I own have had a nice steady rise (particulary PRX and ICOS). With long term holds, I usually open and/or close positions based on fundamentals and moving averages. In the case of PRX, there has been some recent weakness and it is approaching it's 100MA. I have a stop loss set slightly below. I love the fundamentals of this company tho and would get back when it regains momentum.

ICOS has been a little sloppy lately and I believe in the product, so I'm sticking with it until I at least see the US impact to revenues. It may or may not have much impact as much of it is already built into the price:
Return on Assets: -30.47%
Return on Equity: -47.48%
Price/Sales (ttm): 39.31

I may play this once by selling covered calls on advances to boost profits a tad.

Best of luck and happy trading!

Ciaphallus - I'm sticking with the real stuff, I was just offering an explanation for ICOS being down. It appears that liquid research concentrates on anabolic steriods.

Don Marco welcome to the thread. Eventho I don't contribute much I enjoy reading the Ben and Kendricks column. And since I started this thread to hype the last stock I attempted to trade successfully (Ben fell for it), we won't mention the ticker, it's a special thread for me.

Met with my all stock portfolio manager and it turns out that all 45 stocks pay dividends. Portfolio is up 15% this year, 3.5% due to dividend income. Not bad considering 50% was cash until March of this year.

Heading to TJ tonight, a Cialis fortified all nighter with the chica especial.

sex&money, sex&money, sex&money, sex&money, sex&money!!!

I AM OUT!


CTEL

Price
Date Description Price Per Share

11/18/2003 Bought 1000 CTEL $8,192.95 $8.19

11/24/2003 Sold 1000 Shares $8,516.64 $8.52

Net Profit $323.69



Percent Return 3.95%
Annual Percent Return 6 Days 237.05%

Nice trade, Ben. I am still in CTEL, and looking for it to move higher (obviously).

I also got back into ARTX this morning. Right now, I think that ARTX and CNTY are two stocks that have great long term potential.

I got lucky as I put in limit at $8.55 a share this morning and it filled almost immediately and then the stock started heading south.

Problem with CTEL is that a great deal of their earnings growth (which was spectacular) came from one time rebates and cost cutting and not from increased revenues.

I do think it will rebound and there is also a .19 dividend to be paid in January.

Good luck.

I got out of CTEL at 8.50 this morning. ALOY is really doing well, and I think it's chart looks like it will rise further in the near term future.

Kendricks,

Nice little quickie with CTEL.

Man am I glad to be out of FONR, but it does start looking tempting at maybe $1.15. What do you think?

I got back in FONR at 1.31 recently with a mosest position. It's down from there now, but I do still think I am ok on the trade. I really like ALOY's action recently though!

Thanks again for CTEL, I have profited twice off of that baby now.

Glad to see we both are out of CTEL. Maybe back in around $7.80.

Happy Thanksgiving to you andall the other Hombres.

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Ben!

Short day tomorrow in the market. I wonder how busy it will be in TJ?

Kendricks,

I sent you an email and it wasn't delivered.

I have some information for you.

Ben

My jdk00@yahoo.com address got totally fucked over by spammers, and is unusable. Please send your email to me at joepinchecabron@yahoo.com

FUCK! CNTY is taking it in the ass. That one had been doing well for me, too.

I didn't go back into CTEL. I heard there sales of new subscriptions was not doing well and the management has been reducing the monthly rate to new subscribers which of course will show up on next quaters earnings.

I did buy a 1000 shares oft PCIS at 3.99 and I am down a couple of hundred.

I also just bought 685 shares of FARO at an average price of $26.40. Damn stock took off for a few days and then gave everything back yesterday, so I bought some more. Interesting earnings and has the type of Balance Sheet that you like.

I also sold all my ICOS for a very nice profit.

I am getting spanked on some stocks I recently had gains in like CNTY and ALOY. Other ones like IMNY just aren't performing, either. I am tempted to cash everything out and get on the sidelines, but I also believe that instincts like that are usually wrong.

So I will ride this storm out and see what happens. I did give back a lot of recent gains this week, though. I am also still holding PCIS, and did not get back into CTEL. I have my eye on GADZ again, but would like to see the bottom REALLY fall out of that one before I buy it.

(Message edited by kendricks on December 04, 2003)

I've lightened my load on three positions this week following nice advances: APPX, SUNW and IMMU. I may be looking into some big retailers as they have taken a bath lately. I expect this to be a decent holiday shopping season for them...

I'm still in a holding pattern with ICOS-- thinking of dumping as I anticipate it trading sideways based on recent action. Would buy on either a bottom or breakout tho.


Happy trading.

Most of my stocks are down over the past week or so, but I am still holding. XNVA was up nicely today, so at least one of my stocks is acting right.

Take a look at BCON for a speculative stock that looks to me like it is poised to shoot higher. Definitely a risky play, though, do your own DD (as always).

Man, this market sucks. When will the bleeding stop?

That is an understatement.
I took it up the ass today.

Dell,CSCO, NXTL,INTC all down more than a buck
greater than 3%
Sunw down over 5%.

My worst one day loss of the entire year.

I just bought 10 Jan 2004 Dell 32.50 for $1.85
and 10 Jan 2004 CSCO 22.50 for $1.40
Both bought on margin.
I am hoping that today was just a consolidation and that I can catch a Santa Claus Rally and january Effect for the Techs.

Damn I feel like I got the shit beat out of me today.

I think I might do a short term trade on Sunw as well.

Be careful with trading SUNW this time of year. I will just say that they are reporting soon, which lends to some short term volatility...

-dm

I know how you feel, Max. I am tempted to just cash out, and take my profit for the year. The fact I am thinking that could be an indication that my stocks are bottoming, though.

Christ, it's a tough call.

Dell 32.50 calls were a dumb ass move as they are 30% lower today. Dell down another friggin dollar today. WTF?

Damn maybe I should start day trading options.

Anyone do that or know if there is any special rules on doing this?

Obviously it is high stakes gambling just betting on the next days up or down move but for the high daily percentage moves it looks very attractive.

Today is a much, much better day. ARTX and ASIA are particularly looking nice. Hopefully a bottom has been put in on these low priced spec stocks, and we will see a substantial up move from here through the beginning of the year.

I hope.

Turned out to be a great day. IMNY looks ready to blast off, too. This one was making me nervous, since I had substantially added to my position when it first fell to .91.

I put a bet down on GADZ and FTUS. These stocks have been good to me in the past, I hope they soon blast off their lows.

Well, that GADZ trade turned out to be a tragedy. It sucks when a company you speculated on insinuates that bankruptcy is a real option in the short term future. Back to fundamentals for me... Anyway, I guess this thread has pretty much run its course. It was fun while it lasted.

OK, bought my first significant chunk of stock over the last month, about 40,000 worth. I invested in Bank of America, Sirius, Berkshire hathaway, Liberty media, Apache, and Mathews Asian Pacific fund. For now I will sitt tight for the next year and just let my current positions grow. I was about to purchase 7,000 in IBM before IBM suddenly surged today, dammit.

Here are the stocks I am thinking about buying:

ICOS the maker of Cialis I am excited about. But I am iffy on the grounds that it is already bidded up some and that Cialis won't generate the same kind of buzz that Viagra did when it first came out.

Berkshire Hathaway: I already have 1 B share and think that this stock could climb in the future. It is about where it peaked before the last Bear Market.

I am looking for biotech stocks right now but am still looking for a stock that hasen't been bid up already.

IBM would have definaely been on my list if it had not just surged today. It still isn't too expensive so I will consider this stock if the price falls.

Anyway, Kendricks better luck next time. I just looked at Gadzooks and it's falling chart. I am kicking myself for not investing heavily in Apple before it took off. I remember Ben was trashing the stock, but it goes to show you that Steve Jobs is a Bad Mother Fucker.

My current top picks are XNVA, RGEN, and IMNY. XNVA and RGEN are both biotechs - RGEN recently took a dive on a bad trial on an autism drug, and XNVA is moving up off its lows nicely. Do your own DD, of course, these are all risky, but I think have great upside opportunity.

Speaking of risky stocks, I SURE wouldn't buy any shares of SURE, especially not after the Chapter 7. Are you still out there, Ldvee?

Anyone out there get into RGEN and IMNY? RGEN up 16% so far today, and IMNY up 20%!!!

I don't really have any biotech stocks yet, but I expect that biotechs will fuel the next big bull market much like tech stocks did in the 1990's. The problem is that biotechs will be much more volitile. When the tech companies made their big run they just had to invent something and market it. These biotech companies have to go through a much more difficult path. They have to go through the FDA to get apporval, not to mention the moral implications some of these biotech durgs will have to fight through.

By the way how did you come accross these stocks? Are there anymore biotech stocks that haven't gone through the roof lately?

Kendricks, it seems like you have been hit pretty hard lately on some stocks that were battered down, but never recovered. I try the same approach, but stick to companies that I know have the strength to stick around even through the hard times. That's why I bought BOA (bank of America). All of the mutual fund scandles hurt the stock, but it is a great company that has diversified streams of income. I am confident in the next few years the stock will do real well.

That's also why I bought Liberty media and why I was thinking about buying IBM before their stock jumped.

Anyway, my chances of beating the S&P 500 over a ten year span is pretty low anyway, so I will probably start shifting my cash into Vangaurd 500 Index fund.

I've been scooping up contracts on my biotech list (PRX and APPX) and they have been starting to spring back to life recently. The group has been sluggish lately, so I'm anticipating a cyclical bounce... best of luck all.

I took a loss on GADZ and FTUS, and am down on ROXI. But other than that, AIA and BCGI (covered call trades) came roaring back, IMNY has been kicking ass, and RGEN is doing very well. I also bought IVII this week at 12.72, so that one is doing well also.

I came across IMNY, XNVA, and RGEN by scrreening for stocks with low debt equity ratios and low price to book value ratios, that are selling near their lows. I'm still waiting for XNVA to do something, but it looks like it will. I also was day trading GLGC (which I found using this method) but missed its big jump.

I was actually looking at Liberty Media when it was around ten, but unfortunately didn't buy it.

I think that IMNY and RGEN have more upside left, so I am going to hold them after today's bounce. My average price for IMNY is under a buck, though, so I probably wouldn't buy it here if I wasn't already in, although I do think it could continue to climb.

I'm not aware of any other biotech stocks trading at value prices, although I will be looking.

Oops, that should have been ASIA, not AIA.

Ben…thanks for the ride to the border. I recently made the annual contribution to my ROTH IRA, and I am still deciding where to invest it. Thanks for the tip on Invisiline (sp?), I’ll check it out.

FWIW, I have one for you. Indevus (IDEV) has been bouncing between $5.50-6.50 for the past several months. They are a small pharmaceutical outfit. They have no R&D of their own. Their modus operandi is to license promising drugs early in their development and shepherd them through the FDA approval process. Typically they find drugs which are currently marketed in other countries and try to bring them stateside.

I have owned my shares for several years, and taken a real roller coaster ride. BTW, IDEV used to be called Interneuron Pharmaceuticals (IPIC). They marketed “redux”, which was one half of the “fen-phen” fiasco (remember the diet drug combo which had pulmonary side-effects?). That started the roller coaster. Anyway, since then they have had two drugs which looked very good, but tripped up at the stage of Phase III testing (the final step before submitting a New Drug Application to the FDA).

Last June IDEV finally did submit an NDA to the FDA for “Trospium”. This drug has been in use in Europe for about ten years. All that history, plus a recent Phase III test (which had great results) were included in the application. As I understand it, if the FDA decides to deny an application flat-out they have a time limit to do so. In the case of Trospium that date comes in February. Once we are past that date, only good news should follow. Recently the price has crept up over $7 in anticipation of possible imminent approval for Trospium.

In the near term, approval would mean a nice jump in the price. Probably over $10 per share, and maybe even a double of the current price. Of course, a denial means the price craps out to the $2 range until another of the drugs in their development pipeline moves along to the NDA stage. And that would be months, or years away. My average cost is just a whisper above $3 a share, and I am satisfied to hang in there until one of their drug candidates steps up to the plate and hits a home run. It is a bit more speculative to get in at the current price.

My fantasy is that Trospium is approved (of course). That would create a steady cash flow, allowing them to speed up the pace of the development of the other drugs in the pipeline. One or two of those drugs has the potential to be a block buster. And that’s when I retire early……May all our fantasies become reality!!

Ben, Kendricks, donde esta?

I'm sure you remember that local company I hyped a while back. Well chapter 7 liquidation now. I know for a fact that a few execs are attempting to revive the company. My question is: If the company restarts is there a possibility that it will trade the current shares or are those shares essentially worthless now; that is, if a company restarts after chapter 7 does it have to be privately held or trade under a new corp? If the answer is no, the old shares can be traded as the restart, there is an extremely risky but possibly high payoff opportunity out there.

Hmmm ... the market SHOULD be moving up, with the election just ahead. If it doesn't, Bush is dead meat.

Even worse, the market predicts overall economic metrics by some six months, but if the economy is flat six months from now, things will not bode well for next year, either, when the government starts cutting spending.

What did ben and ken retire?

damn eltoro i sure the hell hope u hung on to that siri stock !

Ive been pretty quiet lately, sticking with mutuals and some company options...

High flying Taser(TASR) just got hammered today by 30% and is trading at 14 because of an SEC investigation and today's warning. This was trading at around 27 last week. Probably more fear and panic to ensue in the next few weeks. Could be a good bargain. Any takers?

I noticed Tasr today also and seems like the last time I looked at that stock it was running away at like 72 or something.Split adjusted 36

I would say no thanks.