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Thoughtful Investing 8 minutes ago

There was a huge bull spike at 936k shares at 3:09 pm. Biggest vol of the day by multiples. It drove the price to $6.60. Someone is a believer. It has settled back on low vol to $6.42. No short attack yet.
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Funny thing is it has been higher with less good reasons.  But it's still nice to see green again.  At least until it falls back to earth :)

 
Wonder if the huge volume was shorts covering early, trying to get out before a run-up if one comes at all at end of day.

 
It’s amazing that an incredible day for me aligns with most of you guys too since GOLD is my biggest exposure (up 3%)... Throw some company stock crushing, CYDY crushing, my tech stocks crushing... It’s the kind of day I want to sell on a high note.

 
bshell27 said:
EVSI has been decent. Forgot who mentioned it. 
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I tossed it out there last week but am reluctant to make any sort of stock recs after cobalt turned around and made me look like a fool.  

But if you're following this one, we're heavily interested in our funds.  Threw this together today.  Thought some might like to read it:
 

EVSI produces patented, portable, solar-powered EV chargers with units deployed in over 100 municipalities across the country.  While there are others that supply EV Charging units, they are all electrical grid-tied connections which can take up to 24 months to install due to the arduous process of managing general and electrical contractors, consultants, engineers, specialists, permitting, etc. and not to mention the substantial amount of dollars spent all along the supply chain.  EVSI, on the other hand, is rapidly-deployed, off-grid, solar-powered, energy storage, EV service equipment agnostic, charging solution.  Their biggest customers are New York City and Electrify America (subsidiary of Volkswagen Group).  EVSI is well funded and deemed an essential business by the State of California, so the day to day operations continue, and customers receive these critical infrastructure products on schedule.

And more cobbled together from other articles:

The EV charging stations market is projected to reach $27.7 billion by 2027 from an estimated $2.5 billion last year, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 34.7% - (Source: Markets and Markets Research)

Electric Car Charging Stations Are Finally About to Take Off – (Source: Bloomberg)

With EV sales poised to rebound faster than traditional autos, charge point networks are suddenly an attractive investment.

By Laura Millan Lombrana and Rachel Morison

The electric vehicle sector has been stuck for years with a chicken-and-egg problem. Until there were extensive networks of public charging stations, a critical mass of people would never feel comfortable driving EVs—but until a critical mass of people were driving EVs, there was no sense in investing in extensive networks of public charging stations.

It may be the coronavirus pandemic that finally breaks the stalemate. BloombergNEF’s latest Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook predicts that EVs sales will experience a smaller dip than traditional auto sales as a result of the broader economic squeeze, and that they’ll bounce back more quickly once the market recovers. EVs and the infrastructure needed to charge them have also been a part of many of the stimulus packages announced by European and Asian governments. Just in the past few weeks, Germany included chargers in its €2.5 billion proposed economic package, and the European Union announced that it’s aiming to have 1 million public chargers by 2025, from fewer than 200,000 today.

“There's absolutely a case for vehicle charging infrastructure to be part of the recovery,” says Matt Allen, chief executive officer at Pivot Power, a U.K. battery and charging developer. Fast chargers demand large amounts of power in one location and the installation is difficult and expensive, he says. Government investment could help companies clear that hurdle, create much-needed jobs, and give the economy a further boost as the EV sector expands.

“It will make smaller, more niche projects more investable because more EVs driving around mean a bigger customer base,” Allen says, adding: “We want stimulus, not a long-term crutch for the industry.”

The key is to get drivers past the so-called anxiety range, or the fear of running out of battery life and winding up stranded on the road. Until recently, however, that wasn’t a challenge anyone particularly wanted to take on, says Javier Guerra, a managing partner at private equity firm Satif Group and an early investor in California plug-in venture ChargePoint. Carmakers had no incentive to build chargers other brands could profit from (Tesla Inc.’s chargers, for instance, only fit its own cars and are mainly designed for home use), while utilities, oil companies, and institutional investors considered the sector to be too young, too risky, or both.

“When I started to look at [EV charging] back in 2016, very few people saw the point, and there was little money to be made,” Guerra says. Since then, the cost of EV batteries has declined by 43%, according to BNEF, making EVs much more accessible for the average car-buyer. That, together with stricter emissions regulations in Europe and China, has convinced large investors that EVs are poised for a breakthrough.

Oil companies and utilities especially are well positioned to dominate the EV charging market. Oil suppliers already operate strategically located fueling stations for internal combustion vehicles, and utilities control electricity production and distribution networks.

“I don’t think there are clear winners yet,” says Aleksandra O’Donovan, head of electric vehicles at BloombergNEF. “Oil majors invest in EV charging either because they can or must as it is mandated, and they can afford to hedge on the future.”

Based on its estimates for EV adoption over the next 20 years, BNEF projects that 12 million public EV charging points will be needed globally by 2040, up from fewer than 1 million today. That will require a worldwide investment of about $111 billion.

Oil majors and utilities have rushed into the sector, starting with Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which bought charging network NewMotion in 2017; the company now owns or operates 142,000 chargers across Europe, and entered the U.S. market last year with the purchase of infrastructure and software provider Greenlots. Rival BP Plc, meanwhile, acquired Chargemaster and its 7,000 stations for $170 million in 2018.

Utilities see the electrification of transport as a potential savior. Global electricity consumption is expected to slow as industries and appliances become more energy efficient, but EVs could help prop up residential demand.

“As an electric vehicle user you don’t need to go to a petrol station anymore—you leave your house fully charged. It’s a completely different concept,” says Luis Buil, global head of smart mobility at Spain’s Iberdrola SA. “We’re already in the grid and we can guarantee that the power you charge your car with is 100% renewable.”

Iberdrola announced in March that it would accelerate plans to spend 150 million euros ($170 million) on its own fast charging network. And French utility EDF, which already owned over 100,000 charging points across Europe through its subsidiary Izivia, acquired a majority stake in Pod Point in February, which has more than 69,000 charge points in the U.K. and Norway.

The holy grail charger for automakers, oil companies, and utilities doesn’t require a grid connection at all. Shell and Tesla, among others, are working towards building a mini-power station with solar panels that can generate and store enough energy to provide a consistent source of charge. If, or when, available commercially, it would make electric vehicles and charging infrastructure fully green.
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And, I know we aren't supposed to get political in here and I apologize up front, but listen to the CEO of EVSI speak about current events.  This guy is slick as owl crap and boy, do I wish the CEO of CandyLaynd sounded more like him.  

 
fantasycurse42 said:
It’s amazing that an incredible day for me aligns with most of you guys too since GOLD is my biggest exposure (up 3%)... Throw some company stock crushing, CYDY crushing, my tech stocks crushing... It’s the kind of day I want to sell on a high note.
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Amazon is up 7.5% and I’ve barely noticed. Crazy. 

 
Off CYDY topic: my son is turning 16 this weekend and I want to give him a couple hundred to play online. I don't care about squeezing pennies here or there, or "you would be better off doing XYZ". I want if he finds something he's interested in, he can buy some shares.

What would be the best platform for that? I just want to set up and fund and then give him one of the keys.

 
Bogart said:
Off CYDY topic: my son is turning 16 this weekend and I want to give him a couple hundred to play online. I don't care about squeezing pennies here or there, or "you would be better off doing XYZ". I want if he finds something he's interested in, he can buy some shares.

What would be the best platform for that? I just want to set up and fund and then give him one of the keys.
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Schwab is really nice because the checking account connected to the brokerage account has zero atm fees anywhere in the world, zero foreign transaction fees, and zero fees for having the account.  Zero trading fees, too.  If he goes to Europe one summer, it's nice not getting gouged by atms and purchases.  The online brokerage account is high quality, too.

 
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Don Hutson said:
Schwab is really nice because the checking account connected to the brokerage account has zero atm fees anywhere in the world, zero foreign transaction fees, and zero fees for having the account.  Zero trading fees, too.  If he goes to Europe one summer, it's nice not getting gouged by atms and purchases.  The online brokerage account is high quality too.
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Think there's a pretty steep minimum to open, no?

 
TD Ameritrade has a paper money option on Think or Swim.  Could offer to match a certain amount if he ends up in the positive category.

 
Bogart said:
Off CYDY topic: my son is turning 16 this weekend and I want to give him a couple hundred to play online. I don't care about squeezing pennies here or there, or "you would be better off doing XYZ". I want if he finds something he's interested in, he can buy some shares.

What would be the best platform for that? I just want to set up and fund and then give him one of the keys.
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It gets a bad rap (rightfully so in many cases), but Robinhood is quite intuitive and easier to pick up than some of the other apps. Can't buy CYDY though....yet...

 
Bogart said:
Off CYDY topic: my son is turning 16 this weekend and I want to give him a couple hundred to play online. I don't care about squeezing pennies here or there, or "you would be better off doing XYZ". I want if he finds something he's interested in, he can buy some shares.

What would be the best platform for that? I just want to set up and fund and then give him one of the keys.
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The Cash App. Slivers of stonks. 

 
I’ll be watching the end. Have two limit orders to sell a bit under 1/3 which with $1 per share for the rest would basically break even so profit will be every penny over $1 for 2/3rds. I hope it blows up although who knows if the limit will hit. Going to be ignoring work for 11 minutes. 

 
fantasycurse42 said:
That's 10x my free roll, but I've pocketed about $5k, so I've got that going for me.

You buy back at $4? 

Good luck to us all!
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I bought back what I sold earlier at 6.5 and 4.5.  I took profit way earlier too.  Basically between me and the wife.  We are on a total freeroll.  I don't mind turning a small profit but I couldn't stomach a loss after all this.

 
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stbugs said:
I’ll be watching the end. Have two limit orders to sell a bit under 1/3 which with $1 per share for the rest would basically break even so profit will be every penny over $1 for 2/3rds. I hope it blows up although who knows if the limit will hit. Going to be ignoring work for 11 minutes. 
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Someone unloading 40K+ at $6.40. Not sure we will break through. 

 
Don Hutson said:
50% chance Whyatt is indeed a longtime FBG subscriber who finally felt compelled to create a posting account and a 50% chance he found this thread through a Google search.  Who cares.  He is far more knowledgeable than any of us so his contributions are helpful even when they are anti-CYDY.
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He's been respectful in his discussions and it isn't like, even if he is a paid short or the like, that he's sneaking up on anyone.  I welcome his inputs and put on my rose colored glasses when reading his stuff.  Just like I put on my googly-eye glasses when reading FC42.

 
Golf Guy 69 said:
I bought back what I sold earlier at 6.5 and 4.5.  I took profit way earlier too.  Basically between me and the wife.  We are on a total freeroll.  I don't mind turning a small profit but I couldn't stomach a loss after all this.
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This is me too. I've locked in $5k of profit and I've got 7,297 shares I'm rolling along with.

I can't imagine a worse feeling than walking into my account in 2021 and showing a loss on a stock that I started buying at 29 cents that got as high as $10. 

 
fantasycurse42 said:
This is me too. I've locked in $5k of profit and I've got 7,297 shares I'm rolling along with.

I can't imagine a worse feeling than walking into my account in 2021 and showing a loss on a stock that I started buying at 29 cents that got as high as $10. 
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That would suck.

so would walking up to $CYDY being on CNBC with an opening price of $15 and having it run from there and having sold half your posistion.

No Right or Wrong answers here

 
General Malaise said:
Too many times to recount, GB.  I probably attended 100 or so lunches/presentations with junior minors that did little more than break my heart over the years.  
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Where is the break between a "junior" miner and a regular miner?

BTW, I stay away from that many lunches with junior minors.  That's... creepy.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
This is me too. I've locked in $5k of profit and I've got 7,297 shares I'm rolling along with.

I can't imagine a worse feeling than walking into my account in 2021 and showing a loss on a stock that I started buying at 29 cents that got as high as $10. 
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I can think of lots of worse feelings than having a loss on a stock that I went in on for a couple thousand bucks, that was also sourced off a fantasy football message board. 

 
stbugs said:
I’ll be watching the end. Have two limit orders to sell a bit under 1/3 which with $1 per share for the rest would basically break even so profit will be every penny over $1 for 2/3rds. I hope it blows up although who knows if the limit will hit. Going to be ignoring work for 11 minutes. 
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Sold 6500 shares. Leaves me with 14k and feel a whole lot better. If it stays above $1, I’m whole.

 
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