| To: Manfred who wrote (34581) | 4/17/2000 11:22:00 AM | | From: Manfred | | | |
ROBO - it is my favorite short und longer term. A very quick mover (very thin). MemCall technology has a huge potential.
Manfred |
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| To: Manfred who wrote (34543) | 4/23/2000 2:09:00 PM | | From: baystock | | | |
A very insightful report on how and why bubble's develop and burst
By Eric Janszen
"A friend remarked to me last week, "You've been calling this stock market a mania since the middle of 1998. Do you still think it is?"
The question itself is a marker of a stage in the lifecycle of a financial mania. No two financial manias are alike, but were a mania a love relationship, it'd be a multi-year affair rather than a one-night stand.
This is not what we imagine from watching footage of the most famous mania ending, the crash of 1929, the first such collapse captured on film (and surely not the last). Grainy black-and-white documentaries leave the
impression that the market crashed on Black Monday and soup lines formed by Friday. In fact, the market took some three years to bottom out and many mini-rallies took place along the way to the depths of the 90% decline, dragging down many who escaped the first wave of destruction.
The 1920s bubble was only a few years in the making. Our bubble has had nearly six years to form. It cannot be expected to disappear like that glorious rainbow-colored orb your brother maliciously jabbed. No, wrong analogy. The word "bubble" does not convey the financial mania dynamic faithfully into the physical world. Some manias run for a short intense period like a fireworks show run amok, quickly burning out. Others develop in fits and starts, like a storm rising up in great waves, falling back, then rising still higher. The current bubble is of the latter type. The storm has been raging for years. And lately, the waves are getting pretty wild.
Every student of the markets knows psychology plays an important part in market dynamics, although no one knows exactly how. No tools for measuring sentiment or other elements of market psychology have statistically meaningful predictive powers. But at core, it's surprisingly simple. Humans mostly decide what to do by observing others they perceive as similar to themselves, comparing the observed behavior to their personal normative standard, and taking action that is an average of the two. Each individual has his or her own reference point for what is "normal" behavior but an individual will act in ways that are very far from their personal normative boundaries to a lesser or greater extent depending on, 1) the number of other people "like them" who are behaving like each other and, 2) the length of
time the group has been engaging in the behavior.
A financial mania, like any aberrant and self-destructive group activity, grows as new entrants and the passing of time legitimize the activity. Much
research demonstrates this dynamic of human behavior, including studies that followed the famous case of the woman who was stabbed to death over a period of hours on a crowded New York City street many years ago. The studies concluded that if you are attacked, you are far safer in the company of a single witness who is likely to judge the inappropriateness of the attacker's
behavior and take personal responsibility for your rescue. In a crowd, individuals take the inaction of others as a cue that inaction is the right course, leaving you to your unhappy fate. It is no revelation to apply this concept to group dynamics in financial manias, for as Charles MacKay observed way back in 1841's Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds, "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
The individuals with the strongest will or motivation to employ their personal standards in contradiction to the group's behavior naturally join in last. In the case of a financial mania, the most risk-averse members of society join in when intuition misinforms them that the risk is at its lowest, because so many people are involved and the mania has lasted so long. In fact, that's when the risk is at its highest. This is the so-called "widows and orphans" stage.
The friend whose remark launched this piece is a financial advisor in Boston. She works for a staid firm with many rich, elderly clients. She noted last week that she was beginning to get calls from her most conservative clients, asking why she had not recommended the purchase of Internet stocks, angry that they were missing out on the spectacular capital gains. These are men and women who lived through the crash of 1929. This development alarmed her. And well it should -- for it portends the final stage of this financial mania, the one that draws in the those who can least afford to lose, those too old to make their money back. They are also the final source of new money for the mania, indicating that the mania is about to run out of fuel.
What sets up a market crash is the anxiety that forms from cognitive dissonance. As the mania progresses, an ever-widening gap develops between each individual's reference point of normality and the extreme behavior of
the group. An unconscious desire to close the gap by any means intensifies over time. In the latter stages of a mania a number of influential figures in
the mania step up to address these anxieties with elaborate justifications,such as Irving Fisher's "scientific" analysis of the New Era economy that
"explained" the historically unprecedented stock prices in 1929 and, in our time, recent books such as DOW 36,000 and DOW 100,000. In spite of the analytical acrobatics, each mania participant's normative compass remains intact and the anxiety persists, leading to the desire for mania participants to "throw themselves from the precipice for fear of falling," in the words of
Ambrose Bierce.
What causes each individual to jump is an unpredictable event that causes an epiphany. Imagine participants in the 1920s mania viewing a film in 1930 of themselves in a soup line. Still think they'd standing in line to buy stock with hard-earned money, or borrowed money? All this happens in the mind's eye during the epiphany. Unfortunately for each individual, the destruction of
the mania feeds on itself by the same process that caused the growth of the mania: observed behavior of other participants. Whereas before they were all
buying because they saw everyone else buying, now they are all selling because everyone else is selling.
In my last piece, I identified the four events that will most likely trigger the mania's end: credit squeeze, bankruptcy, fraud, and weakness in the real economy. Since then, three of these elements have developed. Long-term interest rates have risen 250 basis points, the SEC indicted Tokyo Joe for pushing stocks he owns, and home and SUV sales -- the bellwether consumer items of the mania -- have begun to fall significantly. So far no high-profile bankruptcy has developed, but all that is required to create an avalanche of bankruptcies is the failure of the Fed to quickly reflate the money supply after the next correction; if public and private
capital hides for more than a quarter or two, many unprofitable iTulip.com companies will not be able to raise new capital in the markets to pay the bills. As these companies fail, more capital will be frightened away from the market, causing more to fail, and so on.
The end of a mania is a sad event. So do not be impatient to see it end. For afterward, all that once seemed a community of warmth and lightness and fun
turns cold, dark and lonely."
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| To: TokyoMex who wrote () | 6/13/2000 10:18:00 AM | | From: beats_the_s_p500 | | | |
Nova Pharmaceutical Inc. Gears Up for Annual Gold's Gym Convention
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Nova Pharmaceutical Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NOVX) announced today that it will be a premier exhibitor at the annual Gold's Gym convention to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada July 5 - 8, 2000.
The annual show hosts all of the Gold's Gym franchise owners, operators, and fitness trainers from around the globe. The convention offers a once a year opportunity for vendors, such as Nova Pharmaceutical, to conduct business eye to eye with the decision-makers of the gym chain. Gold's Gym has over 500 locations worldwide, making it the largest fitness chain, and is home to over 2 million fitness enthusiasts. Nova has reserved a 20'x 20' island booth and will offer a "show discount" for all purchase orders written at the show. Nova will be sampling five of the twenty-three nutritional items in its Gold's Gym Nutrition product line. The five products include ProStak, Thermo XP2, GO, BioNx Whey Protein, and 5-5-1, a Creatine drink.
Gold's Gym locations gross monthly supplement sales between $1,000 to as much as $11,000. A successful conversion of all Gold's Gym locations to carry Gold's Gym Nutrition products could result in annual sales of $8.3 million for Nova. Gold's Gym Nutrition products have been proven as a successful seller in current participating Gold's Gym locations. CB Bruton, General Manager of the Gold's Gym in Burlington North Carolina, said, "My sales for the Gold's Gym Nutrition products are growing every month. We have now removed all other nutritional products and have gone exclusively with the Gold's Gym Nutrition line." Mr. Bruton adds, "My personal favorites are the ReFlex and ProStak products."
Ralph Mann, CEO and President of Nova Pharmaceutical Inc said, "We recognize the importance of distributing our product line to all of the Gold's Gym locations throughout the world." Mr. Mann adds, "Our goal at the show is to achieve 100% participation from the most recognized gym chain in the world."
About Nova Pharmaceutical Inc
Nova Pharmaceutical Inc. is a publicly traded company on the OTC Bulletin Board (ticker symbol:NOVX). The company holds a patent for its weight loss product, NxTrim, which held the number one selling diet aid in the California Drug class of trade through 1999 according to data provided by Information Resources Inc.
Nova Pharmaceutical Inc. is the sole manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of Gold's Gym Nutrition supplements. The company markets twenty-three items under the Gold's Gym trademark.
More information about the products and services of Nova Pharmaceutical Inc is available at the Company's web site www.novanx.com. The Company also hosts an informational web site for the Gold's Gym Nutrition line of products at www.goldsgymnutrition.com.
Certain statements in this release are "forward looking" statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
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SOURCE: Nova Pharmaceutical Inc.
CONTACT: Ralph Mann, CEO & President, or Jim Ayres, Vice President & Secretary, both of Nova Pharmaceutical Inc., 888-495-6682 |
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| To: TokyoMex who wrote () | 6/14/2000 3:27:00 PM | | From: blake roberts | | | | |
A stock at 52 week low buying out an airline? Get it get any better...well LSVE has been in talks to buy out an airline. It's rumored news is right around the corner. Could they have completed the acquisition? time will tell. In the meantime we have a brand new security trading at the 52 week low and ready to take off on news. 600K float, and MM apparently short. Take a look at investmentny.com for Due Diligence. Solid story indeed. |
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| To: TokyoMex who wrote () | 6/20/2000 1:41:00 PM | | From: Silly Rabbit 1 | | | |
Company Press Release
Family Room Entertainment Announces the Commencement of Principal Photography on `Good Advice'
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000--Family Room Entertainment Corporation (OTCBB:FMLY - news), a producer of high-quality content for film, television, and the Internet, announced the commencement of Principal Photography on ``Good Advice.''
``Good Advice'' stars Charlie Sheen (``Wall Street'' and TV's ``Spin City''), Angie Harmon (TV's ``Law & Order''), Denise Richards (``Wild Things''), Rosanna Arquette (``The Whole Nine Yards'') Estelle Harris (TV's ``Seinfeld'') and Jon Lovitz (``City Slickers II'').
The story centers around an extremely successful Wall Street stock broker (Sheen) who loses everything including his girlfriend (Richards). While struggling to get back on his feet, he loses his arrogant and self-centered ways and finds true love (Harmon).
``Good Advice'' is the second title under Emmett/Furla Films' new financing-production banner, Family Room Entertainment. The film will be produced by Mark Burg/Oren Koules of Evolution Entertainment, Randall Emmett/George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films and Arthur Chang of Kingman Films International. The Executive Producer is Michael Bolton of Passion Films. Co-Producers are Steven Fenton and M. Dal Walton, III.
Family Room Entertainment is currently filming ``Ticker'' starring Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper and Steven Seagal.
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Contact:
Family Room Entertainment Corp.
Dal Walton, 323/850-2868 |
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| To: TokyoMex who wrote () | 6/21/2000 10:55:00 AM | | From: beats_the_s_p500 | | | |
LevelRed Launches Website
Wed Jun 21 09:35:00 EDT 2000
SAN DIEGO, Jun 21, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- LevelRed.com, an online and
real-world community for young men and women on life's cutting edge and a
project company of Zandria Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ZAND), today
announced the debut of Phase 1 of its website devoted to providing information
and community feedback on the nightlife, entertainment, and lifestyle interests
of Generation X. The portal plans to offer media rich content, e-commerce,
webcasting of events, community tools such as chat, clubs and e-mail -- and
more. The fully enabled site is scheduled to premier on July 15.
"We are very excited about the first phase of our site," said Earl Wong, CEO and
president of LevelRed. "The community and potential partners now have a true
feel for what we are building. If you like what you see -- we know you will love
what's coming!"
"The real key is to complement the on-line activities and information with an
equal profile off-line strategy. We believe that the only way to reach this
demographic is to target their interests and provide them something of value. We
are convinced that LevelRed has the correct model. As an example, LevelRed just
completed a very successful local premiere of GROOVE, an independent feature
film set during one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene. It
explores the complexities of a uniquely 90's subculture through its many
characters, revealing how raving is an opportunity to connect with life or
escape from it. The enthusiastic synergy generated with our community exceeded
all of our expectations," Mr. Wong concluded.
Headquartered in San Diego, LevelRed.com is an irreverent online and real-world
community that offers entertainment and lifestyle-related information, commerce,
local events, and self-expression opportunities for young men and women on
life's frontier. The fully enabled LevelRed web site is scheduled to launch
nationally on July 15, 2000. LevelRed's parent company, Zandria Corporation,
specializes in developing innovative project companies.
Except for historical matters contained herein, the affairs discussed in this
press release may contain forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These forward-looking statements may reflect assumptions and involve risks
and uncertainties that may affect LevelRed.com, Inc.'s and Zandria Corporation's
future business and prospects and could cause actual results to differ
materially from such forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Zandria Corporation
CONTACT: Zandria Corporation, 619-616-3115, irdept@levelred.com
(ZAND)
prnewswire.com
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