Yeah? I wouldn't use that sort of metric for choosing a course of action. I don't care who says any particular thing, I just assess that thing regardless of who said it or how the information gets to me.
But, hey, if you want to use that line of logic, when the report which caused the crash came out, I dropped that hot potato and escaped with a very small loss. You're still holding and got burned by the hot potato I dropped to avoid being burned. So, by your own logic, I'm a much better person to listen to than you are.
But, again, I don't care who says what and I don't think anyone else particularly should. If you can't make your own calculations and analyses, you shouldn't be trading or investing. You certainly shouldn't be playing with a high risk company like QPM. It doesn't matter whether I say it or anyone else says it, the reality which anyone should be able to see is that current shareholders are going to be shredded by dilution. So many holders are saying things along the lines of 'don't listen to the doubters, this thing will be funded, it will be built, it will happen'. That's great, but it's a decoy argument. No one is saying it's not going to be funded, they're not saying it won't be built or it won't happen, and I'm not even seeing many at all suggesting it's unlikely to be successful. The problem isn't the technology or the ability to get funds into the company to make it happen, it's just the reality that the amount needed is so large, that current holders are going to be holding a small fraction of the company once funding is finalised, compared to what they are holding now. You're literally needing 10x the market cap in funding. Current shareholders are going to end up with (probably) less than 10% of their current ownership of the company. Two billion dollars is not a trivial amount of money, there are dozens of countries which don't have annual GDPs that large, and that's not going to just be thrown at this company for free. It is unproven technology, there is risk involved, anyone buying in is going to want a discount (you can't blame them), anyone loaning money is going to want interest (a debt trap is a very risky proposition for shareholders, especially the almost inevitable delays in developing a new technology meaning interest will get nasty, further funds required, more dilution, etc).
You can sit there saying it will happen, I will agree, but if you ignore the reality that existing shareholders are going to be harmed by dilution when the company needs $2B and has a market cap of only $200M, you're kidding yourself.
It doesn't matter if I say it or anyone else says it or if it's a reality no one talks about, it's still the reality. No one should take my word for it, they should see it for themselves. You talk about my trading decisions as being bad, ignoring my profitable trades on QPM and ignoring the fact that you held and ridiculed me for selling and then continued holding while the price fell. The 'mistake' I made was the same one you and everyone holding made - we assumed the market was going to be given a DFS which would show the situation to be better than it turned out to be, and instead we got a statement showing a massive cost blowout, and not even a DFS (another company promise broken). I'm glad to have quickly jumped out and made only a marginal loss rather than holding and sitting on a larger loss, waiting for funding to be arranged which would dilute me and stick me on an even larger loss, then sitting around for years hoping to one day break even.
I'll gladly watch and wait and buy in when the dilution is done and delays are making everyone feel terrible and lose hope, when management fails to meet their own deadlines as their track record indicates will happen (or if it starts looking really bleak, I won't buy, which is much nicer than holding on until making the painful decision to sell in a year or few at a large loss). If you're not kidding yourself you know how this is going to play out, and it doesn't matter who does or doesn't say it.
It's probably a great project, but even if all the risks with getting the technology right etc eventually pay off (they probably will IMO) why hold now rather than buying later at a lower price?
Play the ball, not the player, but if you are going to play the player, don't be a blatant hypocrite and mock them for something you've most recently done a worse job of.
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