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Axion Power Concentrator 51: Beginning Jan. 19, 2012, John Petersen's Follow-Up Article On FINRA Data 184 commentsJan 19, 2012 11:04 PMA follow-up article article by John Petersen on FINRA Data
Slicing and Dicing Axion's FINRA Short DataJohn PetersenA few days ago I wrote an article discussing the FINRA Market Maker Short Sale data that H. T. Love was kind enough to share with me. I spent the weekend slicing and dicing with the data trying to get a better feel for when various selling stockholders influenced the market and what their relative impact was. My working thesis is that shares held by Blackrock, Manatuck Hill and one-quarter of the 2009 private placement purchasers are in strong hands while the following stockholders or stockholder classes have been pressuring the market over the last 21 months.
(click box to enlarge)Working from the FINRA data, I calculated the number of shares that flowed into the market during each quarter starting with Q2-2010. Then I allocated the selling volume to Special Situations and Quercus based on their SEC reports. All sales that couldn't be specifically allocated ended up in the unknown column. The only number that's an outright guess, rather than documented fact, is Q4-2011 sales by Special Situations, which I've highlighted in red.
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The relevance of this kind of analysis is that it offers fascinating insight into when the selling pressure was exerted and by whom. Reporting stockholders like Quercus and, to a lesser extent Special Situations, draw the bulk of the attention (and blame) because they report their activities to the SEC. In reality, the substantial bulk of the pressure came from invisible hands that were in there pushing and shoving around the exit along with the big boys. Like I observed last week, it's been like a fire drill in a sumo training stable.The importance of this kind of analysis is that it shows why the selling pressures of the past are not likely to be repeated in the future. I was surprised to see that the heaviest selling activity occurred during the Q1-2011 run up and the Q2-2011 run down. In both intervals the heavy hands weren't Quercus and Special Situations. Instead the bulk of the shares that flowed into the market came from the invisible hands.On a go forward basis I see the market as more supply constrained. The remaining shares that are potentially available for sale break down as follows:The Quercus Trust2,530,851Blackrock7,150,000Manatuck Hill7,200,000Strong 2009 Investors3,600,000Total20,480,851
Quercus has been very consistent in its selling and I think we can plan on it accounting for 10% of trading volume until the last of its shares are sold. I believe the other potential sellers are more likely to hold, particularly if the price continues to firm. That belief and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Since total trading volume in 2011 was 77.7 million shares, as compared with 22 million shares in 2010, the market must find equilibrium soon.Back To Mayascribe's Instablog HomePage »
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Last comment in the previous Concentrator from Mercy Jimenez:
In the last Concentrator Bangwhiz asked about my theory that the market makers' FINRA short reports and private placement shares. The answer is worth repeating.
Many thanks for such a solid and accessible explanation of the concept. It sure helps a lot. Can we tell much yet from the last few weeks? Are private placement sales starting to dry up? Sorry if this has already been covered.. a little bleary for some reason. debate fatigue I think...
I'm infatuated with the FINRA data because it's a whole new series of data points that I didn't have before. Those points, as stand-alones, don't provide much of a picture. When I overlay the FINRA data, sales that are reported on Form 4, major stockholder reports on Schedule 13D and fund holding reports on Schedule 13-HR, the picture gets far clearer. The big problem is timeliness. We get daily data from FINRA. Quercus files a Form 4 about once a week. There are only a few Schedule 13D filings per year. Fund holding reports come out four times a year. So while there are a lot of clues, there are no definitive answers until all the data is available.
Thanks John for explanation. So high short sale numbers mean PIPE and related holders are selling and low short sales indicate retail sellers correct? We are assuming that little to none of the short sales numbers are traditional short sales.
You want to be careful with terms like PIPE because they have specific meanings and usually imply a specific source. I believe the 2009 private placement purchasers have been the primary source of shares that flowed into the market over the last 20 months, but there's no question that stockholders who bought in earlier private offerings contributed something to the total. The shares sold by the bankruptcy estate, for example, were originally issued in 2004. The shares sold by the busted hedge fund came from a 2006 preferred stock offering.
jakurtz: You may be on to something. If you were sitting near your laptop when Chuck Trego mentioned the words "ongoing concern" during the last CC, the bottom fell out of the stock almost instantaneously.
That is my thoughts. I think over time we have taken for granted the idea that all retailers in this stock are strong hands. While a lot of us that follow it very close might be I have to believe that their are just as many that stumble across JP's writings, get really excited about it, make an emotional buy and just as easily make an emotional sell...it is just the nature of the beast.
It's a bit of an Occam's Razor thing for me. There is nothing else I can think of that would explain the FINRA numbers and the correlation between those numbers and known data points is too close to support an alternative theory. The bottom line is this additional data set is new to me and I don't know the answer, but I've found a theory that correlates well with numbers that defy explanation under alternative theories. Welcome to the inside of my head as I try to puzzle things out in public view.
BW - I have no idea how many MMs there are for AXPW, but I can tell you who is showing up after hours Friday 3/20 with "reasonable" bids and offers:
If you go to http://bit.ly/A3TYY3 and pull up an Axion quote, you can select "short sales" from the menu on the left of the page. This value represents the current balance of true short sales at each reporting date. The number bounces around a lot because of normal market making activity, but the total has always been insignificant. Since the number is consistently small, I believe nobody other than market makers are shorting Axion and even the market makers are being very cautious. While nobody reports market maker long positions, my experience is that market makers try to keep their long and short positions as close to zero as humanly possible.
This is more of what we should expect with AXPW financing...AONE only down 10%. (sorry with Schwab I can't post just a link)
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* Proceeds to A123 from sale of units are expected to be approximately $23.5
* Says offering priced at $2.034 per share
* Entered into definitive agreement with an institutional investor to sell an
aggregate of 12.5 million units
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The deal is cooler than the Bloomberg blurb indicates.
That may be true, but ... maybe AXPW is undervalued?
and..it depends on what the money is used for?
and...if there are new sales to justify expansion?
Hi F-Kru,
I am not following your thoughts here, could you explain?
Actually , I think I get it. You mean to say, ..." ~8% of outstanding shares." NOT market cap. Market cap is the outstanding shares multiplied by the price per share.
Axion's shelf registers up to $28 million of securities that can include common stock, preferred stock, debt instruments or almost anything else a clever lawyer can conjure up. It is not limited to 18 million shares. Some months back Tom said the board authorized him to go looking for $18 million in financing. What the board will ultimately approve depends on far more variables than we could ever nail down today.
Another thing to keep in mind is that AXPW's offering is expected to be a response to a need to increase production capacity for orders in hand.
I'm still of the opinion that some pretty significant news/announcements will hit the wires before the shelf, which will drive up the share price.
HTL, I believe you recall correctly. From the 11Q3 10-Q (page 15),
"We believe that the currently available funds at September 30, 2011, along with internally generated funds, will provide sufficient
financial resources for ongoing operations, working capital, and capital expenditures through the second quarter of 2012."
>John, thanks for the clarification. This kind of flexibility would be very nice to have for Axion.
Things look differently with the information that John provided, that AONE can raise up to $100m. That's 35% of the current market cap, so that compares better percentage wise.
Question for John or anyone else. If there are multiple parties interested in financing because they believe the company will succeed and want a big piece of the company then could one of them actually pay a premium to get in? I keep assuming it would be at a discount, but if risk is off the table could it be feasible that someone would pay lets say a 10% premium as opposed to a 10% discount? Is that even feasible?
It could be feasible, and it is possible but not probable. At the current price of AXPW stock I just don't expect it to be at as much discount to the price/shr. as we once thought.
As we just saw with AONE, the stock price could actually go up soon too with the uncertainty out of the way. The market does not like uncertainty.
Her comment is what made me think of the possibility. There's not enough shares available to establish a significant position in the company. Also, if someone wanted to become part owner in the business I own, I wouldn't be selling them a portion at a discounted price.
Its possible but unlikely. If you wanted to buy in then you would just buy on the open market. It may take a while but you'd atleast get a position without restrictions. I always assume the discount is due to the restrictions that usually come with these sorts of deals.
In a registered direct deal there generally aren't any restrictions but if the deal is a respectable size liquidity is a concern. Conventional wisdom holds that direct investors can't resell shares at a rate that exceeds 10% of daily volume without adversely impacting the price.
Given the share squeeze that Maya refers to, and I believe we may be in by this time, I would think it unlikely to be able to accumulate 5 mil shares before the price went up more than 10%. With a 10 day avg vol of 425K shares, you would have to buy every available share for 2 full trading weeks.
3 simple expectations for AXPW this year would make me very happy:
2. Get positive feedback on how well the product works and ROI.
3. Follow up orders in the 3rd & 4th quarters of this year.
More standoff 1st hour ...
below .50 offer needs to be 5000 shares to be seen on Level II
above you only need 2500 ...
.50 has been a S/R line frequently the past 5-6 months. I think a lot of people are averaged + or - .10 cents around this number. See chart here: http://bit.ly/AnbOQ2
I find it very useful to find support/resistance lines to make sure that one is using volume to support that criteria. When I look at a long term Axion stock chart it is clear that the majority of accumulation has occurred between $.55 and $.90 between January and April of this year and has occurred between $.50 and $.33 the last couple of months. If I understand human psychology of stock ownership ( and there is no evidence that I do) those scared purchasers early in the year sold at the end of the year. This means that little resistance is left. Forget the charts on this one. Large purchasers at $.57 from the PM are gone. Weak hands that bought early in 2011 are gone. From this point on its simply a matter of how much profit the shareholders want to keep.
Another place to keep track of Axion, called http://www.stocknod.com
Linked within the stocknod site is this yesterday mention of Axion:
That's two days in a row - yesterday 111K @ 50 shown as a sell and today 100K @ $0.49 shown as a sell.
It's not uncommon for a big buyer to come in with an offer that splits the spread between the bid and the ask so if the prior transaction was at the ask and it was followed by a spread splitting buy from a big investor, it would report as a sale in your calculations even though it was in fact a buy. Unless you're willing to assume that market makers are putting their capital at risk going very short on a very volatile stock you can pretty well count on the real buy-sell ratio being 1:1 every day.
My buy/sell is *not* a tracking of transaction volumes. It is an assignment to those categories by ADVFN trade reporting based on whether the trade is very near the ask, the bid or somewhere in the middle (assigned to "unknown").
So somebody (a mid-level functionary for say quercus or equivalent) who has a task to sell X number that day (say 100K shares) waits and watches how things are shaking out that day, and when satisfied that there's no big action, hits their sell at what looks like a decent price for the day and then heads out for early happy hour? Enter next week, repeat, if at end of day shares held does not equal zero, goto beginday, day=day+1? ;)
Well, maybe 100K wouldn't match, but ...
Interesting discovery. I just went into my Zecco Community and learned that there are 33 people who own Axion shares. I've never participated in Zecoo community anything; chat, blogging, whatever (just a tad busy here!). But was amazed to see how many people from this cheapo, small time trading outfit who hold Axion shares.
Sorry, Occam, I deleted my comment which probably deleted yours. I realized my question was not correct. I have been seeing someone bracketing the bid/ask spread with .0001 above the bid and .0001 below the ask both at 10K shares. Interesting tactic but I can not see how it would work well. Anyhow, I was wrongly thinking it might have been you after you talked about your 2 10k buys, but then realized it could not have been.
I think buys below .50 are a good bet going into next week, it feels right to me too. good luck.
Hi jakurtz:
Assuming you read my comment, I bought 3X10k chunks today using limit orders... which became limit on the offer, once I realized how tight the market was... a good thing, IMO.
JAK: it may be the market-maker, but it can also be an individual's order. Especially when spreads are tight and a trader wants to improve the chance of order fill, they can place on order with 1/100th penny amounts, moving ahead of less attractive prices, and hoping someone will meet it with either a limit or market order.
Sometimes I will move .0001 "ahead" of a big size order if I'm concerned there won't be enough liquidity at that price to fill us both, e.g., if I'm feeling the momentum in a direction is about to reverse.
Metals are Precious, contributorFolks
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Viridity Energy makes Bloomberg
"Viridity doesn't charge for its software; it takes a cut of any revenue its customers make by selling to the grid. Jeremy Rifkin, an adviser on energy policy to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European heads of state, notes that similar technology has helped over 1 million buildings in Germany sell their power to the grid over the past four years."
Youtube video clip. Laurie Actman of Viridity Energy discusses the benefits of smart grid technology for buildings, cities and sustainability.
painomanshi: Excellent Power Point presentation. SEPTA mentioned again.
Normally yes...however, due to the extent, amplification and scope of JP's initiation and Maya's extension of AXPW...EV...power storage blogs et al...I was actually able to follow and understand main concepts...and I hail from mainly community bank environment (with many M&A scars to show)..one of those naive "stupid" "hick" bankers referenced in Liar's Poker...
General Info I thought some folks might enjoy. It explains why I try to understand some of the stuff I do. It makes me hope I'm not one of the "dumb money". It's one reason I don't rely only on TA, but try to mix in what I can from FINRA, buy:sell ratios, understanding the mechanics, and external information as well.
HT, Great article on the Market Makers!! I am slowly learning how the market works with your analysis, JP's supply and demand theory, and others' comments. The article on the Market Makers helps clear the fog a little more. I've come to realize that all these graphs and numbers are simply tools to get inside the collective mind of the unknown investors.
Great article for getting a sneak peak at "behind the scenes" activity of a market maker. Thanks so much for sharing.
All I could take away from it is this: Don't get spooked into selling absent serious material reasons. Follow the company. And if you believe in it, accumulate, albeit warily. If the opportunities come, make your moves, but don't be jumpy. You're probably not smart enough to beat the short term traders at their own game. Remember why you believe. And if the thesis holds, so should you. Don't let yourself get shaken out. Keep tracking the fundamentals. Don't get played. And In the fullness of time, when the real developments come, pennies won't matter...
"This inherent power of position enables the MMs to move the markets at any time up or down. As a result, the only way to draw them out of their favorable position is going long. Now this does not mean just any company but to effectively nail the MMs, Longs must find the great company on the floor and accumulate long before the MM tactics and games begin."
(AXPW): Just thought I'd pop this up alone today.
OT Completely> Just bought a used Tmobile LG Optimus T budget android 2.2 smartphone for $61 on Ebay to replace my budget symbian OS Nokia Nuron. Came today and works great - loads Concentrators almost as fast as my old laptop over wifi. No data charges using wifi to surf.
HTL...if your right about the MM's being caught short (and I believe you are) then next week we should retest the .58 a couple of times. I think the MM's get burnt trying the pull backs because too many are building positions on every pull back.
I know that Mercy and someone else mentioned that they were having trouble getting orders filled and they were filled in small blocks. Sounds like MM's having to fill the orders and being naked short at the end. That's probably how we got from .25 to .58 so fast too.
Metals are Precious, contributorLT
Just to let you know. Way back in 2009 , when buffalo roamed the earth, it took 5 days to accumulate 5000 share of Axion stock.
LT: I'm not so optimistic. With the likely bank behind the MMs, they can likely exhaust buyers eventually.
Metals are Precious, contributor
My very cloudy crystal ball says that we get a run up to .60-.65 prior to CC on expectation of positive announcements regarding sales- that is if there is no positive news before CC. Depending on sales and financing info at CC, we could go then + or - 30 cents (as low as .35 or high as .95) within several days.
If positive news before CC, we get run up to .80-.85 and +/- .20 after CC.
Did I mention my crystal ball only works sporadically, has a large crack in it from being dropped on the floor, and frequently gives out incoherent and nonsensical information - kind of like it has been hitting the Becherovka too often.
Imagine if you did tax loss selling near the end of December, and you were expecting to re-establish your position 30 "wash rule" days later ... Ouch.
Princeton Power Systems (PowerCube Inverter maker) has a new job opening ... Senior Director of Sales posted 1/20/12
Its been a little while since I chimed in. Let me start by saying thanks,, for all the great info that is shared here. It is appreciated.
Speaking of crystal balls and future views.. well, I seriously need to get new glasses,,or something. The share price is holding up much better than I thought it would after a serious double in two weeks. There may be a lil re-test to the mid 40's and then a climb over .50 I see the next resistance in the .60 area, and wonder if there is a lot of blue sky / easy sailing above that? Anyone see much resistance after .60?
After all the noise and hoopla I dont see the shelf being much more than a hick-up and it most likely will be a starting gun on a 100 yd dash imo. There may be a hickup there, but unless its on really horrible terms it will act as a catalyst for some share price increase. Hope all is well all over Axionistaville.
Japan Girds for Summer Power Cuts
siliconhillbilly, contributorComments (2754) | + Follow Following - UnfollowI heard on Frontline (PBS) a while back that the last nuke plant in Japan would go down for refueling before this Summer. None are being refueled/restarted yet. I recall that nukes supply about 20% of Japan's electricity.
I like PbC batteries just fine, but they need something to CHARGE them. What is Japan going to do for Energy? Solar and wind won't come near generating enough, even with massive battery storage. I see a lot of sweating there this Summer.
Longer term, will they install lots of gas turbines? What fuel? Possibly liquified natural gas? From where?
Actually I think it's closer to 30-40% that they were getting from nuclear, so it's worse than you think. All I've heard them say is that they are going to buy lots of fossil fuels to replace all the nuclear plants. Won't that just make all the environmentalist happy! And yes, they are going to have to borrow like mad to pay for all those fossil fuels. Not going to be pretty.
siliconhillbilly, contributorComments (2754) | + Follow Following - Unfollowmag: I own pipelines and processors, but not much production. The flood of NG is going to do bad things to "those that drill" unless the US rapidly ups our consumption of NG.
Looks like LNG transport ships and companies that own the LNG infrastructure will do well, but even 25% of Japan's energy can't make them all that big a customer.
I'll stick with playing the fall of the Yen. Carefully.
Short term I believe you are correct, shb, but long term...
I like a small Canadian company that does all kind of pipeline assessments:
Hi, everyone
Thanks to all for the many posts re: the Grid & Viridity.
Futurist> Awhile back you posted "BW,
I find it very useful to find support/resistance lines to make sure that one is using volume to support that criteria. When I look at a long term Axion stock chart it is clear that the majority of accumulation has occurred between $.55 and $.90 between January and April of this year and has occurred between $.50 and $.33 the last couple of months. If I understand human psychology of stock ownership ( and there is no evidence that I do) those scared purchasers early in the year sold at the end of the year. This means that little resistance is left. Forget the charts on this one. Large purchasers at $.57 from the PM are gone. Weak hands that bought early in 2011 are gone. From this point on its simply a matter of how much profit the shareholders want to keep.
I might add that in the final analysis it all boils down to revenue ramp at meaningful numbers. Futurist alerted me to Axion's plans to start selling the PbC in reasonable quantities 2009 - didn't happen. 2010 didn't happen. 2011 didn't happen. I'll give them 2012 to start moving product, and that realistically translates to end of Q3 2012 - I am not going to expect a miracle in Q4 2012. If nothing meaningful happens by Q3 2012 I might just have to give up, take whatever losses I have and move on.
>bangwhiz ... As time rolls on, the PbC is showing itself to be a truly viable product. It is not a secret that Fortune 500's like to do business with their peers. It is no secret that manufacturer's are loath to not have multiple vendors for same/similar components. There has always been the threat that Axion could be demonstrated to death.
Another Axion relationship to put on your radar:
>LT ... It probably isn't relevant but I've never heard of the "e3 Supercell " before. I admit that I only found Axion in 2006 and don't know much about it prior to that but I don't remember this designation in the scant reading I did. Just curious and I like it even better than "PowerCube".
LT: I'm not smart enough, and am most certainly not informed enough to make that call. What I do know is that I want every scrap of info about Axion Power I can find, we all can find, parked into the APCs.
LT: I guess I used the word "not" too many times. I'm feeling scrappy today! I have to go over to a pal's place and watch "his" Giants play for the right to go to the Supe. But...he's a chef, and one that's going to be on Iron Chef in April or May. So the eat'ns going to be pretty good.
>Mayascribe ... What would have been even more interesting would be; Whatever became of the demonstration results? Why did they not become Customer No. 1? It is at least as exasperating to me that we have no testing results as it is no customers. All reports are thing are going along ... fine, but no reports and no sales won't keep the doors open ... and so I wait.
When I use the bloomberg app on my iphone, the summary that bloomberg gives for Axion is "Axion Power International researches and develops on a hybrid electrical energy storage battery based on E3Cell technology".
In 2005, Axion was based in the Toronto area and Hybridine was a local integrator of wind and solar systems for small commercial installations. They did some small string testing on very early lab prototypes, but as I recall they didn't stress the batteries as heavily as Axion wanted. After Axion bought the New Castle plant in 2006 and moved from Ontario to Pennsylvania, I the relationship wilted.
I don't want to seem defensive, but I've seen very few companies that release testing results on prototype devices that are still working their way through the industrial engineering process. The 2004 and 2005 vintage devices were hand-made cells with one lead-electrode and two carbon electrodes. Starting in 2006 we began optimizing the design for the laminated electrode assembly that's been the focus since 2007, work that couldn't begin in earnest till after we bought New Castle.
>JP ... I don't mean to be derogatory . I'm quite aware of the trials & tribulations in manufacturing, customer demonstration, etc.. By all indications testing on Axion's PbC is going well. No one has walked away but to-date there is no confirmation that either BMW or NS has actually put the product into the field for "real world", final phase, testing. The final phase, fast tracked or not, can tack on another 6-18 months.
Like you I'd love to see Axion talking more about exactly where things stand in their various testing programs but I've seen the dynamic from the company side, both with Axion and with other clients. Any time there's a big player on the other side of a relationship, and it really doesn't seem to matter what the relationship is, they clamp down on the dissemination of useful information to a level I'd have never imagined possible. Some worry about losing a competitive advantage, others worry that you'll sully their good name and others still want to control timing to suit their own PR needs. The one thing they all have in common is an iron fist. It's as frustrating for a company like Axion as it is for stockholders like us, but it's also the way the game is played.
I think that was the original term for the PbC batteries.
Maya, as I read the Hybridyne Power - Axion press release, Hybridyne was investing in development of an electronic control system for management of power flows from "renewable energy" sources to the grid. Seems to me Axion's choice of power controller for the PowerCube indicates Axion choosing to go in a different direction. Also, based on the content of the PR, if there is a continuing relationship I would expect Axion to function as a supplier of PbC batteries.
Bang & DrR ... very good comments to you both. I have always said that the biggest problem AXPW faces is "market acceptance" and "competition will only embrace PbC if customers demand it".
Lux Research just updated their information about Axion January 18. I got an email alert about availability. See it here. http://bit.ly/wIWigE
John, you keep mentioning how BMW and NS are actively testing PbC batteries for their respective applications. I find this very plausible, but I can't help but wonder what indication we'd get if the batteries failed one of the tests. Isn't that the sort of information Axion Power would want to avoid publishing?
I'm long AXPW so I believe the narrative here. I know if the technology failed, everybody would sell, but in reality, there's a continuity of performance. If BMW decided the PbC was not right for their cars for any reason (ranging from technical to pricing to personal issues) and simply stopped testing them, how would we know?
>Deamiter ... Cessation of testing by BMW or NS or VE would be material news impacting the business. It would be required to be made public as soon as Axion knew. I believe it is a SEC requirement (?) to stop insider trading. Your statement [quote] ... we don't have any reason to think there's a problem ... [quote] is true at present. You might want to visit the Axion website and listen to the CC & read the SEC filings.
Thanks, I'm up to date on Axion calls and filings.
Deamiter: On Nov. 28, I heard TG state that even though the shareholders think it's taking a long time, BMW is fast tracking the PbC. Also heard that a NS order will occur in the first quarter. Both, for whatever reasons, have been delayed (though I hold that BMW has not been delayed, because of what I heard board member Bob Avrill say on July 20).
Axion holds an earnings call every quarter and management provides a general update of how things are progressing with all disclosed potential customers. The discussions are usually not as detailed as some of us might like, but they are express representations that the testing relationships are proceeding apace. If things start to go badly, the nature of the discussion always changes and becomes more conservative, guarded and qualified. Since relationships tend to strengthen or deteriorate over time, there isn't always a bright line "failure point," but you'll always know whether relationships are weakening or strengthening from the tone of the updates.
Deamiter>" I hope I'm not coming across as bashing" You didn't. This Concentrator is not just a bunch of cheerleaders. We are collectively focused on due dilligence activity - we all want to get the best reading of the tea leaves possible. If the Concentrator threads were nothing but happy talk it would be just as useless as Brand X's basher threads.
>Deamiter ... To finish up here, my (?) was because I'm not sure what exactly the SEC regulation is. I have no doubt about Axion's management. They play their cards close to the vest but I could never imagine withholding news or neglecting shareholders like that, regulations or not.
Metals are Precious, contributorDRich
That's exactly how I see it. I tend to assume the best of everybody, but that doesn't mean I don't seen potential to be let down. When I'm putting significant money into a stock, I suddenly feel a lot more critical of sources than when I'm just reading about a little company with an amazing technology.
Metals are Precious, contributor"I might add that in the final analysis it all boils down to revenue ramp at meaningful numbers. Futurist alerted me to Axion's plans to start selling the PbC in reasonable quantities 2009 - didn't happen. 2010 didn't happen. 2011 didn't happen. I'll give them 2012 to start moving product, and that realistically translates to end of Q3 2012 - I am not going to expect a miracle in Q4 2012. If nothing meaningful happens by Q3 2012 I might just have to give up, take whatever losses I have and move on"
We get updates every quarter. In the last call Mr. Granville told us that the BMW testing had gone beyond the bench and into vehicles. He also told us that BMW was "fast tracking" the process because its needs are so great. He explained that there was some timing slippage at Norfolk Southern because they needed to obtain environmental clearances but the technical aspects were progressing smoothly.
To clarify the revenue expectations that prevailed before Bangwhiz knew Axion existed we have to set the way-back machine to early 2008 when PbC electrode assemblies were made by hand in the pizza kitchen.
Wow, it really sounds like I need to go back and listen to that conference call again. Maybe I somehow missed it -- I don't think that's possible, but my memory is far from infallible!
On an unrelated note, anybody know why the link (at bottom right) to my inbox sends me to a "page not found" message? I never used to bother signing in so maybe it's old news I just ignored, but it seems weird that the inbox (which claims I have 1 new message) would be broken like that.
I believe as recently as the last CC, TG said, in response to a question about the rather long accumulated duration of testing, that Axion was in actuality on "the fast track" with BMW... I think he also said something about being in regular contact with them... but I may have that wrong. If anyone else remembers and can place the quote exactly, it could help with the discussion above. But I would think that if we were indeed on the fast track with them only a couple of months ago, any cessation of activity would necessarily be significant news...
As RR said, trust but verify.
>MAP ... I've been listening to Mr. Granville and watching company behavior for years. Other than not saying enough, what they have said was always straight with no PR flare. A rarity that I've grown willing to trust with a technology that sold itself (to me) before I found Axion in 2006.
Metals are Precious, contributor481086,,,,,Fast track doesn't always equal a sale!!! Again, i am a new kid on the block, but i also want to make money as well. Again, what is "regular contact "?? I AM putting my money where my mouth is as i am HOPING that we all are wealthier in a few years.
Safety is not an issue with the PbC. The only question is whether it will give automakers the all weather performance they need for the vehicles they want to build. So far it looks like the only product on the market that can stand up to the performance demands of advanced stop-start systems within the cost constraints. That's a nice position to be in.
To All: I just finished transcribing the BMW relevant portion of the 15 November 2011 CC. I listened to the mp3 several times. Maya, I can only assume that TG repeated the "fast-track" verbiage at the PJM/Veridity event, in addition to his using that same description in the CC earlier that month.. to my mind, that only reinforces the idea that their relationship is very much ongoing. What follows is my best verbatim transcription of the question and answer from the CC:
"Yah, hi my name is Paul Domasi, thanks for taking my call. I
wanted to know if you're still working with BMW in the Start-Stop
program. I know you were doing testing with them.. is that still
Unfortunately I can't really capture emphasis or intonation, but after listening to the exchange several times, I felt no undertone of uncertainty, doubt, or insincerity in anything TG said. Quite the contrary, it only reinforced my already established impression of a singularly prudent and straight-shooting individual.
481086: Yep. My time sequence was wrong. Dang! I hate when that happens. Hate to admit when I'm wrong (don't we all?). But will freely do so when that happens. The "Wiki-effect" I so covet about the APCs.
Maya, glad we got that sorted.. though I would have been happy for sure to learn that TG had indeed repeated the fastrack characterization at the VE event, and I'd have been eager to hear the amplifying details too...but ticked at myself for having missed it the first time. And as far as civility is concerned, Let none other than the code of Axionistas be our guide. ;)
Great conversation Deamiter, MAP and all. It is never a bad thing to go back and confirm why we know what we know. Fine stuff. Time can play a cruel trick on the mind sowing seeds of doubt when you are just sitting around waiting for big things to happen and those big things at times begin to feel like they will just never come. Going back to the drawing board and reconfirming the progress, reconfirming your knowledge and preparing is a good thing.
To add to what JP and others have said regarding management's representations on timing with NS, I specifically asked TG about the timing of orders from NS on the phone after the last CC. Tom said he expects an order or at least an announcement regarding their testing in the first Quarter of this year. He had previously expected it last quarter of 2011 but the EPA required an environmental report on any change in equipment in their yards due to ongoing compliance issues. Of course the change to batteries is, in part, in order to meet those compliance issues. But still the change required an analysis and a report and will require EPA approval. That is the reason for the 90 day or so delay, straight from the mouth of TG to you, via my ears.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Bo Ryan is one of the best college basketball coaches in America.
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It was absolutely shock city, baby! Amazing to see Wisconsin beat this Indiana team in Assembly Hall 64-59. It is a tribute to Bo and his kids to win on the road with first place on the line in the Big Ten.
Then again, Ryan has had Indiana's number lately, as well as Tom Crean's. It is hard to believe Ryan is 9-0 versus Crean.
When Wisconsin was blown out by Florida earlier in the season, there were a lot of naysayers. The Badgers are now 13-4 and 4-0 in the Big Ten. My friends, Ryan's teams find a way to win. They control the tempo of the game, do a great job of passing the ball to get a good shot, utilize that shot selection plus tenacious defense to come up with a formula that equals victories.
Ryan's teams make adjustments. When Josh Gasser went down with a serious injury, they adjusted. Veteran leadership is a positive that makes a difference for the Badgers.
When you think about vital players in the Big Ten, names like Jared Berggren, Mike Bruesewitz and Ben Brust don't always come up. These guys flat-out play hard every possession. Who is undefeated and No. 1 in the Big Ten right now? Be honest: How many of you had the Badgers in the top four in the Big Ten this season?
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- - Shields On GSP: "Im The Best Guy He Hasnt Faced" (http://www.mmaforum.com/ufc/67214-shields-gsp-im-best-guy-he-hasn-t-faced.html)
Shields On GSP: "Im The Best Guy He Hasnt Faced"
St. Pierre would smash Shields.
St. Pierre would brake Shields.
St.Pierre is a legend and induct him into the HOF NOW!!
You broke our post-chain-in-the-making AND made a bad opinion in ONE POST.
As far as I'm concerned, Shiels is only about ~top3-4 WW in the world.
That being said, GSP would maul Shields.
Thanks, I thought and I thought on what silly thing I should say, I came up with something good I think, it will take over this topic starting noW!!!
I like Jake but he has nothing to threaten GSP with. I dunno if it was b/c it was at MW but if Shields fought GSP the way he fought Miller he would get beaten very badly, if Miller was able to TD Shields and pass his guard as consistantly as he did and also get the mount and his back imagine what GSP would do to him. Also I'm gonna assume it was due to MW but Shields gassed fairly early in that Miller fight and GSP has a relentless pace.
GSP is a bad match-up for everyone at this point but Shields is literally tailor made for him imo. GSP by sub round 2
I find it funny how Shields mentioned Co-promotion. Did he miss the negotiations with the UFC and M-1 Global?
GSP would murder Shields, it's a no brainer. Shields is a great fight but GSP is on a whole other level.
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Web posted Thursday, June 11, 1998 5:31 a.m. CT
Editorial: Heat, drought making fires far too dangerous
"It's just parched," Canyon Deputy Fire Chief Joe Rice told Randall County Commissioners Court Tuesday.
That succinctly sums up the weather conditions for the Texas Panhandle.
In response, County Judge Ted Wood wisely has issued a "declaration of disaster." Outdoor burning is prohibited and so is the use of fireworks. The judge has the full support of the rest of Commissioners Court. They authorized him to keep the ban in place as long as necessary.
The fireworks issue was not on Tuesday's agenda so court approval to extend that prohibition technically will have to wait until the next meeting. Commissioners let it be known, however, that they fully support the fireworks ban.
Rice even advised against allowing weekly controlled trash burns.
If residents think trash piling up is inconvenient, they should consider how inconvenient a fire would be, said Commissioner Jan Reid.
Excellent point, Commissioner.
Area wheat crops are nearly ready for harvest, said Osage Fire Depart-ment Chief Scott Johnson. One spark could mean financial ruin for a Panhandle wheat farmer, he said.
Two years ago, this area faced a similar situation. This time, it appears to be even worse. Gov. George W. Bush has gone so far as to declare 80 percent of the state in a drought and in severe danger of fire. That proclamation includes all of the Panhandle. It's only June and the state is seeing August-like conditions of heat and dryness, he said.
In 1996, fireworks manufacturers and distributors sued the county for banning their product over safety concerns. The county prevailed. Wood warned a similar suit might be filed this time. That didn't seem to phase commissioners.
One of the most outstanding attributes of Panhandle people is the way they pull together in a crisis. No doubt scores of local people would help battle runaway brush fires to keep their neighbors' crops and homes from being destroyed. The best way to show forth that commendable attitude, however, is to make such heroic actions unnecessary in the first place.
Don't burn.
Don't set off fireworks.
We'd love to hear your feedback. © 1998 Amarillo Globe-NewsWebmaster
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