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On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

My latest fav creation is the swine flu prevention handshake: a thumbs up fist bump. I now see people doing it even when I'm not involved.

Also, DoubleGuns and myself are going to patent swine flu beer and cider cans, made of coloidal silver. Slogan: "Have an apple cider a day, to keep H1N1 away."

On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

Hopium! Hilarious, John.

I'm with you. I put 100 shares of ZBB @ $1.47 on the board the day you suggested I should. Nothing out there on the wires about why it, or Axion dropped, though last Friday I sold off most of my Axion, as well as other stocks to go to cash because of some charts I study, especially, (SPY), and the over all mounting negative market sentiments. Yesterday and today, I reintiated an Exide position, and am looking at increasing ZBB and re-acquiring Axion, soon.

No less than four people on this site predicted today's moonshot rise in the market, yesterday.

On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

Thanks, John. I put some shares on the board. You now have another pair of eyes.

I'm not all about short term, I still have shares in my brokerage account that I never sold all the way through this fiasco. Even in my e-gamer account I still have shares of Jaguar Mining I bought last November. But you're right, I do maintain tight stops, and will take profits if a stock pops like ACPW did. The Jeckyll and Hyde in me...

Giddyup ZZB.

Thanks, again.

On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

Will do, John. Is there any reason you think the stock's going to bust out soon?

On EESAT and Energy Storage Opportunities on the Smart Grid

John: Great summation of your trip along with investing angles, combined with a new slant. As you know, I have shares in Exide, Axion, and Active Power. Although I sold off much of the Active Power after the recent huge surge, and will reaquire after the stock settles.

My e-gamer plan right now is all about oil and junior miners, and a few H1N1 stocks, with a small smattering of other stocks.

I'll keep track of the batt sector by maintaining ownership of the above batt stocks, and your terrific columns. Currently, unless some accelerating event occurs, I believe the short term dough needs to be planted in the other above sectors. Long term, though, the energy storage sector will go from rust belt thinking to glitz and glam thinking.

Again, good article. Glad for your safe return!

Battery Investing for Beginners, Part 2

From an investing standpoint, John, I don't understand why/how your debaters continuously ignore how the cheap stocks are outperforming the cool stocks, almost by orders of magnitude. May the distant future be replete with battery operated cars powered with green electricity pumped into lithium or other cool-type batteries. But for now, and the near term future, and this is a wild guess, some 200,000,000 to maybe in the next few years, 1,000,000, maybe 2,000,000--because of new potential fleet development--cars will still be running on gasoline, powered by lead acid batteries, as compared to alternative battery powered cars. Again, this is a guess, because there is a surge in NiMH powered cars. Still, the numbers anyway you calculate them, there are and will continue to far more cars currently on the road and being produced that are being powered through conventional batteries.

What I'm gathering is that more than a few commentators in your columns I've been reading since July '08 are writhing and screaming about how you ignore all the potentials of the future (I was one of them back then). Yet, it is apparent to me, other than the very kind Don Harmon, that no one is putting serious money behind their beefs. If they have, you have more than proven to this investor, that their money is languishing.

Our government, through it's recent generous awarding of billions to the battery sector underscores how important batteries are for national security reasons. But what goes into the batteries (REEs) is far more important. That China controls 97% of all the world's REEs scares the bejesus out of me.

For your pro-lithium readers I suggest they check (AMLM). Possibly, a within-the-USA answer to where lithium will come from. But that mine is still three years out from "possibly" producing lithium for batteries.

(That's the way I'm playing lithium, and (ALML) was one of the very few stocks up in yesterday's market evisceration; up another nickle today)

Battery Investing for Beginners, Part 2

Don: I only read the first sentence of your comment. Matters not what followed, to me. I've read pretty much every one of your knowledgable, informative comments. I KNOW you're a good guy, participating in a GREAT idea. I'm all behind you and so hope you win out. Yet...and...

...However, your first sentence is a little out of touch. As in...ever hear of Johnson Controls?

PHEVs and EVs: Plugging into a Lump of Coal

John: Good article for you to check out by Dian L. Chu, "The Alternative Fuel and $300 oil."

You can find it in the "Macro" section of SA.

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

Well, pull up the mizzenmast, too! Uncle Sam is blowing a pleasant multi-day blow our way.

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

As I'm about to lay my head upon the pillow, I feel like it's: Twas the night before Christmas.

I'm putting out some cookies and eggnog before the fireplace.

In the wee morn I going to the stock market casino ready to bet hard on the Energy Storage Sector.

Thanks for the tip, John!

Do you like fruitcake?

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

See what happens when you're having a new dishwasher installed? Sorry for the duplicative post.

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

ginchinchili: Well put (and I would give you more than one thumbs up if I could)! You are free to look at my e-trading long portfolio right here on Seeking Alpha (I've yet to add Huntington Bank (HBAN) of which I acquired a few shares today. I believe that list contains fundamentally sound stocks, with exception to the risky, high upside biotech stocks; many are way up from where I bought them. All of them I've studied thoroughly, and I'm on their corporate e-mail lists. I would never post anything about any stock I haven't studied with DD, unless it's a cool technology that I believe this forum should be made aware; part of a team effort.

I don't list, though, my day trades, which usually are a blend of banks, miners, shippers, and of course, ETFs. Today, for instance I'm riding Excelon Shipping (EXM).

As for the talking heads, I have banned myself from watching Cramer--insert expletive, as he has cost me way too much money--and more and more am tuning out CNBC all together. Just too much noise and outrageous opinions that I used to find intriguing, even humorous, but now I find to be a waste of precious time.

I will stand firmly, though, with my rant about Goldman Sachs.

Thanks for the advice and comment!

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

ginchinchili: Well put! You are free to look at my e-trading long portfolio right here on Seeking Alpha. I believe the fundamentals for each company listed are pretty sound (I've yet to add Huntington Bank, some of which I aquired today). I don't, though, list my day trades, which usaully are a blend of shipping stocks, banks, mining stocks, and of course, ETFs.

As for the talking heads, I've banned myself watching Cramer. In fact, more and more I am tuning out CNBC all together.

My musings above are the results of studying this market--and it's history--60 to 70 hours a week for about a year and a half.

Thanks for the comment!

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

All this makes me wonder about how in advance the Goldman boyz know this already. Is there any transparency of this, and how they have traded this ARRA announcement?

Cracks me up when you say: "Like many in Washington I don't read legislation before it has passed."

The more I learn, the more I feel that any investment is off kiltered; that some entity--some analyst--will prescribe advice that I should let go--take profits--of my shares of stocks that are way up.

The amazing part of all of this is that no time ever again in my lifetime will there be a better time to be involved in the stock market. But, there are so many shananigins going on, so much manipulation, that it's frightening in how I can compete.

Investing common sense says join the club. But I'm beginning to believe that nothing makes sense. Yet, sentiment does make sense. This whole market thing right now is more about hype than fundamentals. I will stick to my premise that going long is the best way to improve one's portfolio, for right now, and that now is only weeks away, or months away from aborting, once again. Every major recession model I've read about states that this is another head fake rally. The question is when to yet again get out and go to cash. But, heck, I'm riding with the flow, as false pretense as I see it is.

The good part right now is how things are looking up, temporarily, of course. The crazy part is to figure when the next pull back Part Two is going to occur.

Of course, Goldman Sachs already knows this, has "planned" this, as history has already proven.

Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Continues to Outperform Cool

John: Haven't had time to peruse the usual banter here John, because tonight I have been studying the next bubble that Goldman Sachs is planning: Cap and Trade.

I won't--okay I will editorialize about my feelings of how GSK has repeatedly raped the world of trillions of dollars, and now is planning to do it again with (knee) Cap and Trade, or how the Obama administration is rife with Goldmanites, or how Sachs gave his campaign nearly a million in contributions, or how GSK is going to dominate the soon-to-be carbon credit commodity bubble, ect., ect., ect....

What I would like to gather are your thoughts of how batteries will be affected by what likely will be approved sometime this fall.

My guess is that Cap and Trade is a positive for batteries, and it better be, because what I've read tonight means the electric bill will go up by anywhere from $1500 to $3000 annually. Just hoping my batt stocks offset that some.

So, what do you think?

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It seems Axion and Exide are on the move, likely due to the Cash for Clunkers. I sit on the fence on this one, as those two stocks are benefitting from this policy. However, what I don't like, or maybe want to know more about, is how in the hell can Ford be advertising government rebates of $3500 or $4500 for the purchase of a gas guzzling F150?