RE: miner49men >"selling ORT after a news release. That pattern has been very consistent in the last 12 months. I caution you that when everyone thinks that pattern will be the same is the time when it changes. Hopefully that happens on our next announcement."
Rory, i share your hope, which i think is actually more of a LIKELIHOOD. For we have to also point out that there was SO MUCH cheap paper overhang on ORT in 2011, not just the cheap warrants but the folks who had bought ORT for under 20 cents before July 2010 or grabbed a bunch of shares under $1 or $2 thereafter over the next several months. Also, after the murkiness over the PEA n.r. release at beginning of Dec., there were likely lots of tax-loss sellers by those persons or institutions who bought when stock was in $5s and $4s in April 2011 or window-dressing by fund-managers to make sure that ORT looked profitable on the books after these managers had bought for 3.20 in the PP last Summer.....
Now most of the cheap paper holdings have likely been exhausted, and the tax loss selling is done.
If we get NEWS OF A LICENSING ROYALTY, that will be the BIG FACTOR to heal the stock's erratic behavior, IMO, and any shorts are fried, b/c this will prove an independent confirmation (if anyone still needs it) that ORT's breakthrough metallurgy process is for real, and that there will be ongoing revenue sources that have nowhere to go but up, up, up. Every guaranteed 5-10-20 cents of earnings from royalties will mean a more predictable income stream, and serve to inflate the future P/E turning ORT into a colossal growth stock.... So that a P/E of 20, 30, 50 or higher would not be unwarranted when the co. is actually producing other revenue from HPA and then later SGA, hematite, etc (including REEs).
That's when we should see all the speculative trading and shorting on ORT turn into a robust pattern of accumulation as more institutions and hedge funds step in to grab a $3 or $4 stock that could easily be $30 or $40 in 18-24 months.....
All just my opinion....
--timothy