Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Stock Market Driving you Crazy? Diversify your Retirement Portfolio really Self-directed with IRAs
Look at your retirement funds in order to be able to add? Stock market volatility may be difficult to determine which stocks and mutual funds continues to grow in a nest egg.
Do you want other options in the future when you save a contact?
Not-really self directed IRA. Really self directed IRA to manage the entire retirement investments. This means you can place a real estate, promissory notes, mortgages, deeds of trust, tax liens, equipment leasing, mobile homes, private investment, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and the foreign exchange (forex).
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Investors have Been Taking Advantage of Self-directed IRAs for more than 30 years ...You Can too
Successful investors has been investing in real estate and other assets with the self directed IRA over 34 years.You may not know, this possibility exists, because most of the IRA custodians and does not provide a really self-directed IRAs, which allows Americans real estate and other non-traditional investments.
Although it is possible to invest in a wide range of resources, should know what investments are not permitted to IRA. These are: art, travelling rugs, antiques, metals, gems, stamps, coins, beverages and certain other tangible personal property; they have informed the IRS and cause lose, as well as any self directed IRA income tax consequences (see IRS Publication 590 for more information).
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Why wait for Tesla or, A better place? Kandi technologies is already a profitable EV & quick change battery company
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« The Cruel Realities of EV Range | Main | Kandi Technologies (KNDI): The Business » Why Wait For Tesla Or, A Better Place? Kandi Technologies is Already a Profitable EV & Quick Change Battery Company Part IArthur Porcari.
Ever hear of China based NASDAQ listedKandiTechnologies (KNDI)? If you haven't, you're not alone. No financial writers, no analysts, andno significant institutions or funds are interested. But theyshould be. This series will go into the reasons why.
In
Kandi is already selling EV mini-cars by thethousands. Kandi landed a joint venture with three multi-billion dollarCompanies for quick-change battery charging, with the first stationsopening in November.Owns a mortgage free modern tenbuilding, 2.7 million sq.ft., 400 acre complex with manufacturingpotential of over 100,000 vehicles per year. In
The company is significantly undervalued.They have been continuously profitable and trading underreplacement value.The stock is trading at 50% off its high year to date. I have closely followed KNDI and have been a shareholdersince the day it started trading in the US in mid 2007. This isa company led and controlled by a very conservative non-Englishspeaking, well connected, very wealthy, CEO who even to this daystill personally guarantees the majority of its debt. Not because hehas to as I will discuss later on in the Asset part of this tome, butbecause it keeps the cost of money down. (Know of any other NASDAQCEO’s who only hold 60% of the current 21 million shares and ispaid an annual salary of $24,000 a year that has that much confidencein his company? I don’t.) When I say conservative, I am speaking ofa man who flies coach, hates to announce anything until it is doneand almost always surprises on the upside.While I have met the CEO once, andspoken to him through a translator a total of three times, I neitherclaim, nor do I care to have, any special access to information otherthan what is published both in the US and in the PRC. The latter,thanks to the Internet and Google Translator, I must add is atreasure trove of Company information that we don’t see published inthe United States.
Intrigued? The rest of this series will be published over thenext few days.
DISCLOSURE: Long KNDI
ArthurPorcariisaretired former regional stock brokerage firm President with 37years stock market experience. His finance background includes, threeyears a stockbroker, ten years a brokerage firm President, an OTCMarket Maker, twenty three years an Investment Banker to include 14years as Managing Consultant to Corporate Strategies, Inc. a firmspecializing in advising young public companies and companies aboutto go public on the “Ways of Wall Street”. He currently





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Forex Trading Secrets success-is it Really Secret?
Forex investing
Has many advantages, rather than invest in foreign stocks or characteristic of the market. Forex market turns over three trillion dollars a day on which the largest financial market in the world. This is exceptionally more than stock or property markets around the world. In addition, the foreign exchange market is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.This market has never shut down! this means that you can make money when it is easy.
Forex market is also very liquid. Little or nothing of transactions shall be made in cash on the hard disk, but carried out by electronic means.Due to its size is never a lack of any potential purchasers and sellers of foreign exchange trading. These are the elements that are doing so simple and easy to do. You do not have to search for buyers, you don't need a broker and you can make all your computer at home.
Forex market is extremely volatile, see vary several times a day. This is a huge impact on the result of multinational companies.This volatility is, however, which gives the opportunity to make a lot of money money speculators. these investors take advantage of the prices of the continuously variable currency hope how profit. The idea is to a certain price currency purchase and sell it at a later date, there has been an increase in the price. Profits are two entries in the margin.
In order to allow a successful forex trader, you are familiar with the impact of market forces require currency prices. With their high-performance computing (HPC) market that operates on the market prices are the result of supply and demand (this is assuming a floating exchange rate). Invitation to tender for the export of foreign exchange trader shall be responsible for the future is to understand and define the market forces, which can increase or decrease the volume of supply and demand in a given currency. The following are examples of these market forces.
Known to the Large operators have a direct impact on the prices in the mass itself simply by buying or selling a particular currency. This may be due to speculators after each other's decisions. For example, if the major forex investor to purchase all of a sudden huge amounts of Us $, is often to do the same if they are following a good investment for many investors. Ability to perform foreign exchange transactions online, by buying and selling currency is made very simple.No longer needs the connection, and pays an insurance broker to go through the process on the other hand, a public event.
On-line forex trading has become increasingly popular in recent years, automatic forex trading software.Forex robots are known this software often called to make money without having to lift your finger.Unfortunately, it does not work simply this. This is the reason why many of these programs are in the process of the upgrade version of scams.It is not a smart start investing money, forex before acquiring knowledge of the market and the factors that affect currency prices.
Some forex trading software Online is legitimate. they make you buy and sell more simple and equity analysis easy to visualize the process. many of them to update the currency rates make it easier to monitor multiple times per day, in conjunction with several other properties., such as these software saves a lot of time part-time investors who find it difficult to keep track of the market in a consistent way.
Forex trading benefits people are increasingly turning to in order to achieve the tools like Fapturbo robot software., however, the software is not enough, and therefore Bishop type Forex training.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Alice in EVland; six impossible things
Many of my regular readers know I'm a working securities lawyer, ahumble scrivener who writes reams of deathless prose that privatecompanies use to raise money from investors, and public companies filewith the SEC in the form of registration and proxy statements, andannual, quarterly and current reports. I've spent a couple years as anoil company executive and a few more as board chairman of an advancedlead-acid battery technology developer. The balance of my 30-yearcareer has been devoted to natural resource and technology-based businesses that neededsomebody elses' money to pursue their plans and had to pass through agatekeeper like me to get it.
It's a fascinating job because I need to develop an encyclopedicunderstanding of a client's business, operations, technology andindustry before I can begin to offer sound advice on importantbusiness, financial and tactical decisions. In The Devil'sAdvocate, Al Paccino described a law degree as "the ultimate backstage pass." Themovie line may be a slight exaggeration, but like most of my brethrenI've learned that ambitions, optimism and bold plans are universal, failure ismore common than success, and mediocrity is more common thanexcellence.
Along the way I've developed a kind of sixth sense for business modelsthat will or will not work. While I haven't seen every fatal error abusinessman can make, I can spot most of the common ones in my sleep.While part of me hates to tell an bright-eyed entrepreneur that hisbusiness model can't fly, I'd rather ride my bicycle for free than get paid forworking on a deal that violates my "life is too short" rule.
I started blogging a couple years ago because of a love haterelationship with my own profession; one that always informs but oftenfails to communicate because full and fair disclosure of all materialfacts in compliance with the rules can never do a good job of explaining a business strategy andintegrating the facts in a way that maximizes comprehension. My goalwas to share my knowledge of the energy storage sector and helpcontemplative investors understand where the sector is going as
Over the last year I've gottenbogged down in a series of absurd arguments with philosophically committedEVangelists who obviously slept through Economics 101, another violation of my life is too short rule. Since one of my favorite financial writers,
Alice laughed. "There's no usetrying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."
I'm going to borrow John's theme and identify six impossible thingsabout electric vehicles that most investors choose to ignore or simply don'tunderstand.
Impossible Thing #1 – Zero Emissions
The gold standard of vehicle electrification is the Prius from ToyotaMotors (TM). With anadmirable ten-year history of user satisfaction, a base price of$21,000 and a design that maximizes fuel efficiency by using a1.3 kWh NiMH battery for hybrid drive functions, the Prius delivers acombined city/highway fuel economy rating of 48 mpg, which is twice the2011 model year combined fleet CAFE standard of 24.1 mpg.
According to Toyota, the 2011 Prius has tailpipe emissions of
Impossible Thing #2 – ConsistentMarginal Returns
Like all things in life, electric vehicles are subject to the
The Toyota Prius uses 1.3kWh of batteries to slash fuel consumption by 50%;The GM Volt usesanother 14.7 kWh of batteries to save the next 30%;The Nissan Leaf uses another 8 kWh to save the last 20%; and
The Tesla Roadster uses another 29 kWh to satisfy the rangerequirements of people who have a commute of more than 30 miles,
There may be a "PHEV-light" alternative like Toyota's planned Plug-inPrius that gets to a more optimal point on the marginal utility curve,but the big battery behemoths have all the long-term potential of the
Impossible Thing #3 – Available RawMaterials
Like all things in life, electric vehicles are subject to rawmaterial constraints. Each year our planet produces a few kilograms ofaluminum and copper and a few grams of rare metals per person. It isimpossible for more than a handful of politically favored elites to usehundreds of kilograms of highly refined and processed metals to reducetheir personal consumption of oil, which is produced at a rate of 616kilograms per person.
Impossible Thing #4 – Assured BatterySafety
The green press is full of happy stories about the improvingsafety of lithium-ion batteries. At the same time, Federal regulatorsare focused on
Impossible Thing #5 – Assured Recycling
EVangelists invariably assume away battery recycling issues withblithe assurances that somebody will solve the problem before usedbattery packs become a disposal problem. However, nobody has been able todemonstrate a cost-effective lithium-ion battery recycling process. Theprimary recoverable materials are steel, aluminum, copper and some raremetals. While these materials were highly refined when they went intothe batteries, they lose the original processing value in recycling andthe recovered metals aren't worth much more than any other scrap metal.Since there is no recycling technology, a discussion of the problem promptly degenerates into "second life" mythology,where electric utilities will become dumping grounds for used batterypacks that have outlived their usefulness in transportation.
Impossible Thing #6 – Economic Payback
Even EVangelists acknowledge that the incremental investment in anelectric vehicle will not be recovered over the life of the vehicleunless oil prices soar to levels that would crush the global economy.Most investors are concerned with return on investment. A businessmodel that can't offer a return of investment is worrisome.
Any one of these six impossible things should be enough to give acontemplative investor pause. In combination they spell disaster forinvestors in electric car manufacturers like Tesla (
Most of us know that money managers,analysts and investors tend to follow the herd, but few of us everreally cometogrips the unappetizing corollaries that:
Unless you're the leader the view never changes; andIf you follow a big enough herd, you'll spend a lot of timewallowing in manure.Disclosure: I'm a formerdirector of Axion Power International (
The best peak oil investments: Accell and six other bicycle share
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Tom Konrad CFA
This article gathers all the bicycle and e-bike stocks I've found in one place, and takes a look at a recent find: Accell Group (ACCEL.AS).
When I first became interested in alternative transportation as a peak-oil investing theme in late 2007, I was frustrated at my inability to find very many good alternative transportation stocks: The list of bike stocks I found was already very out-of date, and the lists of rail transit and bus companies I found did not distinguish between publicly traded companies I could invest in, and private companies I could not.
Almost three years later, I finally feel I've found enough publicly traded alternative transportation stocks that I feel I have a chance of finding a few good value stocks. My alternative transportation stock list has expanded to 27 names, and is still growing with a new reader suggestion every couple of weeks. Recently I published lists of nine mass transit stocks and three mass transit operators. I also found four bicycle and moped stocks, only to find that list instantly out-dated because of three new reader suggestions and one bike manufacturer I found among the holdings of the Powershares Global Progressive Transport Portfolio (PTRP.)
List of Bike Stocks
In the interest of having a list of bike stocks all in one place, here are the ones I currently know about, along with where to find a more detailed discussion of the company's business and fundamentals.
Dorel Industries, Inc (DII-B.TO, DIIBF.PK),
Giant Manufacturing (GTMUF.PK, TWSE:9921), and
Piaggio & C.S.p.A. (PIA.MI, PIAGF.PK) are discussed in my first article on bike and scooter stocks.
Advanced Battery Technologies (ABAT) features in my second list of electric and hybrid electric vehicle stocks.
Shimano (SHMDF.PK), sometimes called the "Intel of the bike industry" is discussed here.
I have yet to write about these bicycle makers:
Accell Group (ACCEL.AS) was suggested to me by Peter Cox of Greentech Opportunities, whom I met at the San Francisco MoneyShow. I take a look at it below.
Merida Industry Co (9914.TW) is a bicycle company based in Taiwan. I have been unable to find an English-language version of Merida Industries' annual report or other filings. If any readers know where to get them, or some other source that includes Merida's full financial statements, let me know, and I'll write about it in a future article.
Accell Group
Accell Group is a Europe-centric manufacturer of bicycles, bike parts, bike accessories, and fitness equipment.
The stock trades on the Amsterdam stock market with the symbol ACCEL. The company owns a wide portfolio of national and international bicycle brands, and the company's strategy is to buy and cultivate brands that are or can be leaders in their respective national or functional niches. The company's annual report lists 18 "main" brands with focuses on everything from bikes for kids (Loekie), to high-quality bikes and e-bikes in the Netherlands (Koga-Miyata), to bike parts suppliers like Junker and Brasseur. If there is an underlying theme among the brands it is attention to research in innovation combined with sophisticated distribution and marketing.
As I discussed in my first bike stock article, I'm most interested in bike stocks because I expect rising oil prices to stimulate the use of bikes first for short trips and errands, and then for commuting.
This trend is already much more advanced in Europe than in the United States because of their more compact cities, higher gas taxes, and greater awareness of green issues. This has helped Accell's brands to stay in the forefront of e-Bike and commuter bike development, and possibly giving them a better understanding of what the future bike market will look like than rival North American manufacturers. With a greater focus on volume production, Asian bike manufacturers such as Taiwanese Giant (and possibly Merida) with a greater focus on volume production rather than technical innovation and tailoring bikes to their customers needs are more likely to be followers than innovators in this regard.
Accell might be better in a rapidly rising oil price environment where bicycle demand grows and changes rapidly, while the volume manufacturers are more likely to have the advantage in a more slowly evolving environment associated with a more gradual rise in the price of oil. As I recently discussed, I think the more likely scenario is highly volatile and rising oil prices, giving a slight advantage to innovative companies like Merida and Shimano.
Liquidity and Valuation
The following table summarizes some of Accell's important liquidity and valuation ratios:
Accell's liquidity is good, and the company is not highly leveraged. The high 4.8% dividend yield should be considered in light of the fact that Accell has a policy of setting the annual dividend at around 40% of the previous year's profits. This allows the dividend to fluctuate over time, allowing a higher average dividend than would be likely in a company with the same level of profitability but a fixed dividend policy. Despite the financial crisis, revenue and earnings have been growing steadily at least as far back as 2002, with 12% compound annual revenue growth and 22% compound annual earnings growth over that period. The most recent 6 month earnings statement showed more subdued growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 3% and year-over-year profit growth of 9%, but high growth is not necessary to justify Accell's quite reasonable valuation.
Conclusion
Overall, Accell seems a good value play in an industry that should benefit from rising oil prices. The only company included in the list of bicycle stocks above with a comparable valuation is Advanced Battery Technologies (ABAT). ABAT has the advantage (at least for US based investors) of trading on NASDAQ, but is a Chinese company and only about 46% percent of its sales consist of e-bikes and batteries for e-bikes, while Accell gets almost all of its sales from bikes and bike parts. If I had to buy only one of these seven at current prices, I'd buy Accell. In fact, I currently have an open limit order to buy the company at only slightly below the current price.
DISCLOSURE: None.
DISCLAIMER: The information and trades provided here are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to buy or sell any of these securities. Investing involves substantial risk and you should evaluate your own risk levels before you make any investment. Past results are not an indication of future performance. Please take the time to read the full disclaimer here.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Diversify your financial investments down risks
When examining a monetary investment, it is good to consider not only the number of places but also where and how you can invest. You have probably heard "diversify" more than once ... especially when it comes to stocks, bonds and mutual funds. The reason for this term has been recovered is often of the most successful investors take measures to disseminate their funds in a number of investment opportunities.
Fortunately there are now Internet-based companies that make it easier for you to diversify money. these companies can help you through the process of portfolio management, create several venues through the money and building solid credit history with the loans covered by.
When you find the Internet-an investment company that is right for you, be sure to examine all is before taking the leap into one, in particular, to offer. some companies provide an easy way to invest in stocks, Forex market, and even other types of investment gold. are commercial property, private equity, hedge funds and real estate.
Why diversify?
Equity during the period of application, in many organizations, helps reduce the risk at the same time, also your chances of profit. For example, if stocks to invest in a number of companies, the two companies may occur even if the third reduction in the value of the stocks is increasing.This gives you the option to take advantage of your bets instead of all the eggs in one basket.
Delving into account a large number of different venues, such as real estate and stocks, gold gives you the opportunity to see which of these works is best for you, for example, the stocks may not be a viable option of play money, but real estate loan to invest in commercial property to open the door for the purpose of promoting investment future profits.Or perhaps enjoy the thrill of the stock market and select the company stocks and investments Forex diversification.These two are similar, with the exception of Forex is to invest in currencies pairs, when they are traded through the international marketplace. Currencies are traded on the US dollar and the euro, such as in pairs and make money on the basis of the value of the currencies of the trade.
Select the correct Investment Company
You can select which of the investments, an investment company, remember to sign in to your own advantage, now and in the future will look for the search company with., ready to partner with you to create a steady flow of income-is not one that is of interest only to build your own business at the expense of the customer, consider offshore company, which has the advantage of greater flexibility with regard to the economic environment.
Read all of the terms and conditions of which the investment company's you need to know at least at the time of signing. start-up investments, the necessary quantity of the duration of the time limit for payment of the amount of the return, etc., when you know what to expect, feel much happier to use third-party company's Portfolio.
Multiple venues through the Internet-investment management company to maximise your investment in to potential while you have you have always wanted to try experimenting with different investment opportunities to profit.
Chris Robertson has written a Majon International, the world of the most popular internet marketing companies on the Web.
For more information about Diversify Financial investments.
Managed Forex account-types of investments
Today's investment is really difficult to find out, which is in particular that best applies to your situation. There are several, you can select the types of investments. They are all wonderful, but all are not as wonderful as a managed Forex account. Other investments not a member of the same security's managed Forex account. Just take a look at the fair, is expected to be 20 Forex investment opportunities and leave they decide it is up to you, which works well on the economic situation.
Types of investments for your structures:
1. ADR or American depository receipt-stock that may be traded in the United States, representing a number of shares of the company, which is a foreign
2. an annuity payments, which are a fixed amount to be paid to you on a regular basis over time, that the life of the annuity.
3. Investment Fund, which is a closed-end is working very closely in the same way as the shares of a mutual fund, but the demand and supply in philosophy.
4. Collectibles-hanging material items carrying the money for a long time waiting for the top dollar
5. Common shares you own a piece of the stock in the company-
6. Convertible securities can be converted to the company's stocks
7. the Company issued bond issue-you are the company's money lainanneelle a certain amount of time
8. Hyödykefutuurit agreements-agreements on commodities, and other items in the future
9. life insurance protects your income when you die
10. interest-this is great if you are looking for short-term investments and refunds
11. the term of the mortgage-backed securities-you own a full part in the
12. Municipal bond issue circulation and backed-up government-short
13. mutual financial lumping other people and someone money to invest the money for you
14. stocks-you can have the right to purchase and sell
15. the preferred shares of ownership in the company-without voting rights, the rights
16. properties as an investment by buying and selling it to try to get a profit and Buildings
17. REIT or Real Estate Investment Trust-to invest without owning the property properties
18. the Government of the United States Treasury obligation
19. UIT or unit Investment Trust-registered trust to sit and accumulate in the maturity
20. zero-Normal coupon, there was a security bond without physical coupon
You have put in place a system of other types of investments; however, none of the above investments can give you the security that has managed Forex account can offer. If you own a managed Forex account is the ability to speculate on the movements in the exchange rate between currencies in the Forex market is large., after you find a reputable broker that the lending institution tukikieltoa. On your decision to make, or how to pass a deserved the money-. you can select the term is in the list-23rd high risks or managed Forex account, which you can count on good results will lead to an increase in the money.
Ryan Moxie helps you understand how forex investment can make managed Forex account.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Which factors makes you more confident as stock investor
Stock investment is one of the largest sectors of investing in modern conditions. From the layman to see all the rich invest in shares of different companies. But that means that the stock market is an easy place to make money…
You may be surprised to learn that only 10% of investors in real growth in market share, while 70% and the rest are indifferent huge losses. Yes, many others closed and wait for a happy ring a bell. But this is not a professional.
Stock quotes are nothing more than images of human emotions. Painted on canvas emotions are greed, fear, hope and euphoria. As a disciplined trader, you can use psychological demons that pursue other ventures. So your psychology plays an important role in their profits and losses in the market. Taming the mind first of all, you should know before investing in the market. And mortification phrase comes from the best business plans.
If you’re going to invest, we want to do as a professional. Make a plan and stick. Time makes small changes many times, but investors fear that disaster minors and selling them with great loss, just because they have no plans.
Analysis and how to choose the best broker for your needs is no easy task. If you are new to the market than not to know that online brokers are divided into two main groups, their function is different from one another.
Full service broker offering the best deals on their investments and retirement plans to be better. So if you plan long-term investment than is necessary to fully service broker.
In addition to the commission for the transactions may be charged. Other expenses may include charges of market data. It can be charged for access to data link program.
Money management is an important part of the securities market. Investing in stocks and management of income from market prices is that every investor should know. If you are new to trading stocks will help you stay alive, and learn. This money management strategy will help maximize profits while minimizing their losses.
Without sufficient information of the company’s financial position, we recommend to avoid investments. The information contained in the financial statements show the financial sustainability of the company, also evidence in the capital reserve, revenue, invested sectors debit and credit columns, liabilities and assets, etc., some important factors that affect the market value of the company.
In addition, goodwill and reputation of the company owner and CEO should be noted, before investment in time. This applies to brokers can be done, and you even friends who are on the market over time can help you.
Political state of the nation is directly related to market shares in the stock market because not only make money, but also a place defined Nations development and economic stability. No riots, strikes or terrorist activities of the main problems can give impact on server market.
Thus, before invest everyone must do more in-depth analysis of state and government or political party in power, so that the plans and strategies brought the ruling party may prevent or facilitate action.
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Kandi Technologies (KNDI) Stock Valuation
This is the last installment in a four-part series on Kandi Technologies (KNDI). Part I was an introduction, Part II took a look at Kandi's Business, and Part III looked at the company's financial condition.
What’s With The Stock Price? KNDI, like most US traded China stocks is currently trading approximately 50% below its January high for the year, and 60% below its 2008 all time high. Unlike most, it's numbers are growing dramatically. Perhaps not too a-symptomatic when one considers how little Wall Street knows about this company brushing it with the broad China Stock brush. The Company currently has approximately 21.7 million shares with the CEO owning 12.3 million. At the current price of $3.25 a share, it is obvious that either the stock has yet to be taken seriously, or the “market has little clue” as to what is about to happen with the opening of China sales this current quarter, or perhaps both. I suspect “both” is the correct answer.
Short Interest While the reported short interest has dropped significantly to the recently reported 904,000 from month ago high of 1.18 million shares, so also has the volume. In January when the stock hit its high of the year, average daily volume (ADV) was in excess of 550 thousand shares. A month ago the ADV was around 175 thousand shares. This past two weeks it has dropped to under 50 thousand shares per day. With the solid base that has been built in the low “3’s” and the decreasing short position, it appears that the short sellers are now beginning to realize that this Company “just might be real”. But with the declining volume and still very large percentage of shares short, a question could be raised, did they wait too long to start covering? It is very likely that the Average "Days to Cover" could jump to 20 or more days when reported on Sept. 24th. As an old OTC Market Maker of ten years, years ago, who worked with a number of "old, but no longer bold" short sellers, I can attest that shorts don't give up easy. But in a rapidly performing company, they do give up. Voluntarily or involuntary, in most cases, not until they are squeezed. As in the case of most China stocks, KNDI's short began with it's large run-up late last year, accelerated when they announced their $10 million funding, and further accelerated with the sharp downturn in virtually all US and Shanghai Composite China stocks. IMO, the major difference in KNDI's case is the, to date, almost total lack of hedge fund longs, leaving most of the float+ in the hands of long term investors who have done their homework and continue to patiently hold or add to their positions with each bear read attempt. At no time is this more telling in KNDI then by watching the stock action after one of their several very positive press releases or outside published articles. After their first PR of the year on January 4 which caused the stock to gap open at $.45 hit an inter-day high of $6.16 and close at $5.72 on all time single day record volume of 1.84 million shares, virtually every PR since, no matter how strong, has been met with aggressive raids hitting bids.This is a common pattern in any stock that has a major short position in that the short seller will do whatever he can to kill enthusiasm and keep momentum buyers from jumping in and running him over. This works to a point, but once long funds and institutions start buying, particularly from a low daily volume base, the future quick upside moves can be impressive. The likelihood of this happening soon is anyone's guess, but there has been a small but growing institutional interest in the stock, tripling since the beginning of the year. The top five each have positions almost too small to note, but each of these could easily decide on any given day to add a million shares which could be catastrophic to the short seller. Not so far fetched now that China sales are beginning.
Technical As can be seen by the chart below, KNDI has strong support in the low $3 area. For the past month it has been trending higher and nudging up to the 50 day moving average at 3.32 and just above the upper Bollinger Band. This is a very similar pattern, but on lower volume, as was seen the month just before the extended heavy volume break-out on no news in early August.
Value Compared To Other China Auto Stocks In deference to the short, an unknowing investor might look at the current 30 PE as rich, compared to other more well known China auto stocks. And if all one were allowed to look at was this number based on history, I might agree. But, let’s throw in another very important factor, “growth”, and look at what comes out. One important variable that should be taken into consideration in comparing other China stocks is; “where was the market for these other stocks during the 2008-9 economic downturn”? We know KNDI was exclusively exporting non-essential “toys for big boys” to the US, so obviously they took a big hit in both top and bottom line. But most other China stocks were able to ride out the storm selling domestically giving them reasonably good numbers last year allowing for a much lower 52 week PE. For comparison sake I will use a modified one year Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio. In the case of the other more well known stocks; I’ll take the current PE for the formula “dividend”, last years earnings and this year’s analysts consensus to calculate the “growth” to be used in the “divisor”. For KNDI since it has no analysts following yet, I will pass on my higher estimate and instead use well known and respected Wall Street pundit Jim Altucher’s estimate published in a recent story of around $.30 per share for the full year (ten times earnings), to be used along with last years earnings to calculate the divisor. Now we know with a PEG ratio the closer the number gets to "1.0" the more fully valued the the stock, the smaller the number, the more undervalued the stock. So let’s run a few of these modified PEG ratios. KNDI’s PEG ratio with a current 30 PE would be .05. Auto China (AUTC) with a current 7.5 PE, the PEG would be .14. China Automotive (CAAS) with a current PE of 15 would generate a PEG of .36. And Sorl Automotive Parts (SORL) with a current 10 PE would give a PEG of .53. I would have also added Wonder Auto (WATG) with its 12 PE, but since the analyst consensus is flat to negative growth for this year, the number would be meaningless. So using this comparison, each, other than WATG is undervalued, but KNDI is three times more undervalued than AUTC, seven times more undervalued than CAAS and ten times more unvalued than SORL. A last, but important comment here that may shine positive for getting the KNDI story out to Wall Street. As previously mentioned, Mr. Hu doesn’t speak English. For that matter, neither does any other member of the Management team. Additionally, due to Mr. Hu’s conservative penchant for not putting anything out until it is done, to date, Company guidance has been out of the question. With no one here to field questions in English, there is no wonder no analysts and few institutions are following the stock. (Even the well respected China Analyst website after a recent rally in the price above $4 ranked KNDI as the #2 on it Aug. 8, "Top 10 Rebounding Auto Stocks" seems to have forgotten that KNDI is even a China stock as can be seen by this ( link.) However, during my last translated conversation with Mr. Hu a month or so ago, I brought up the possibility of the Company bringing a new top level Executive on board that is US based and bi-lingual. To my pleasant surprise, I was told that such a search was already underway. Last week I was further told from a normally knowledgeable source, that such an individual has been chosen and should be announced shortly.
Forecast
Based on my assumption of the second paragraph above, China consumer sales revenues for the second half should be at least $15 million with $2.5 million net profit. Other China Government sales should reach $6 million adding $1.3 million net profit. Historical, conventional export sales, should reach $25 million for an additional $3.1 million net profit. Conservatively total is $46 million in sales and $6.9 net profit or approximately $.31 a share for the second half of the year and $.40 for the full year.
When one looks at the Company’s prior record year, 2008, on $40.05 million in sales they delivered $4.92 million net (eps $.25). All of those sales were on much less profitable all export sales requiring shipping costs to the US, plus US Distributor fees for their lower margined off-road recreational vehicles. With what could quickly be a majority of future sales being made in China selling directly to the Government and self distributes to dealers, 2010 margins should increase significantly over 2008 making my last half forecast quite reasonable.
Bottom Line
In my 37 years in the market as both a market professional and investor, I have never seen such an apparently undervalued speculative Company with such a seemingly clear road ahead to potentially be a multi-billion dollar participant in a potential Trillion dollar space. I apologize for the length of this article, but if you have had the interest to get this far, then hopefully you will find as I, that Kandi is a “sweet” story at least worth "putting on your radar".
Arthur Porcari is a retired former regional stock brokerage firm President with 37 years stock market experience. His finance background includes, three years a stockbroker, ten years a brokerage firm President, an OTC Market Maker, twenty three years an Investment Banker to include 14 years as Managing Consultant to Corporate Strategies, Inc. a firm specializing in advising young public companies and companies about to go public on the “Ways of Wall Street”. He currently blogs on Seeking Alpha under “Corstrat” and has in the past been an on-air guest as well has a guest host on Business Talk Radio Network His passion and particular expertise is for small cap emerging growth companies.
He currently is and has been a shareholder of Kandi Technologies since it was first listed for trading in the US.
Why Baby Steps For Fuel Efficiency Mean Major Revenue Gains For Lead-acid Battery Manufacturers
If EV evangelists have everything their way and lithium-ion battery developers can achieve their lofty cost and performance goals, your long-term future may include a car with a plug. While we wait for that glorious day to arrive your short-term future will almost certainly include a car with stop-start engine technology.
The issue is simple – sitting at a stop light with the engine running wastes fuel and fouls the air. Depending on traffic, weather and driving habits, the waste can range from 5% to 15%. On a personal level the waste may seem modest, but on a national scale the numbers are mind-boggling.
The solution is simple – use cheap and effective automatic stop-start technology to turn the engine off every time a car rolls to a stop and automatically re-start the engine when the driver takes his foot off the brake.
If all cars in the US used stop-start systems, the nation would save 10 billion gallons of gasoline a year while reducing CO2 emissions by 100 million tons. I think saving the equivalent of 50 BP-class oil spills per year is a worthwhile goal. The EPA and the NHTSA seem to agree because they've recently adopted regulations that are expected to drive stop-start technology into at least 40% of the new car fleet over the next five years.
Ford Motor Company (F) has already announced plans to ramp stop-start engine production to 1.5 million units a year by 2013. Other automakers aggressively pursuing stop-start technology include PSA Peugeot-Citroen, BMW, Hyundai, Mazda, Nissan, and Volkswagen. Market penetration estimates range from 10 to 20 million cars per year by 2015, and those estimates will be woefully inadequate if Chinese proposals to require stop-start systems on all internal combustion engines by 2012 are implemented.
The key takeaway for investors is that stop-start technology is not a somewhere over the rainbow solution. The technology is real, it's proven and it's being implemented today in auto factories worldwide.
Reduced to basics stop-start systems are simple. The automaker replaces its normal starter and alternator with a belt driven integrated starter generator and then adds the necessary control electronics. After several years of experience with over a million stop-start vehicles in Europe the biggest issues are battery problems.
Stop-start systems are hard on starter batteries because instead of starting a car once for a normal commute, a car equipped with stop-start can restart the engine 10 or even 20 times. Heavy accessory loads that must be maintained while the engine is off increase the complexity. In stop-and-go urban driving, where two-, three- or even four-light backups at busy intersections are not uncommon, the battery strain is enormous and performance deteriorates rapidly.
Initially, the automakers' response to battery issues was to upgrade from commodity starter batteries to higher quality valve regulated lead-acid [VRLA] batteries. Since their stop-start systems still fell short of optimal performance, a more recent trend has been to use two high-quality VRLA batteries instead of one.
I frequently write about a new generation of lead-acid batteries that use carbon additives or components to increase cycle-life and power while reducing the time required to bring the battery back to a full charge. Last week I found an obscure presentation that Axion Power International (AXPW.OB) used at last September's Asian Battery Conference in Macau. This presentation is the first document I've found that shows how several different types of lead-acid and lead-carbon batteries perform under simulated stop-start driving conditions.
The testing protocol began with a one-minute discharge at 50 Amps to simulate engine-off accessory loads that was followed by a brief 200 Amp starter load. It then measured the maximum current the battery would accept and the amount of time required to return the battery to a full state of charge.
The first graph shows the performance of a high-quality VRLA battery. The 4,000-cycle test period is roughly equivalent to six months of urban driving at 30 stop-start cycles per day. The downward curving blue line shows the maximum charge current the battery would accept as the number of cycles increased. The upward curving black line shows the amount of time required to restore the battery to its initial state of charge.
The second graph shows the performance of a high-quality VRLA battery with high surface area carbon added to the electrode pastes. While charge rates and recharge times improve, the performance degradation is still pronounced over the testing period.
The third graph shows the performance of a high-quality VRLA battery with conductive carbon added to the electrode pastes. While charge rates and recharge times show additional incremental improvement over high surface area carbon, the performance degradation is still pronounced.
The final graph shows the performance of Axion's PbC® battery, a battery/supercapacitor hybrid that replaces the lead-based negative electrodes with carbon electrode assemblies. Further comment seems superfluous.
Several publicly held energy storage companies are actively developing solutions for the stop-start market. Johnson Controls (JCI) has sold the lion's share of stop-start batteries to date and seems content to stick with traditional VRLA chemistry while focusing its research and development efforts on lithium-ion batteries.
Exide Technologies (XIDE) and C&D Technologies (CHP) are both actively developing VRLA batteries with carbon additives. Exide is focusing on lead-carbon batteries for stop-start applications and C&D is focusing on lead-carbon batteries for stationary applications.
After seven years of research and development, Axion Power International (AXPW.OB) is just now making the transition to commercial production. Its multi-patented carbon electrode assemblies have been designed to work as plug-and-play replacements for the simple lead electrodes used in battery plants worldwide and its goal is to become a leading manufacturer of high-value electrode assemblies that will be sold to other battery companies that want to offer a better product to existing customers. Axion's manufacturing partners include Exide Technologies and privately held East Penn Manufacturing. It has also entered into a development relationship with Norfolk Southern Railroad (NSC) and quietly conducted product testing for a bevy of first tier automotive OEMs over the last 15 months.
The last serious contender in the stop-start game is Maxwell Technologies (MXWL), which has partnered with Continental AG to develop a stop-start system that uses conventional VRLA batteries in tandem with Maxwell's BoostCap® supercapacitors to satisfy the requirements of stop-start applications.
Given the amount of press and PR hype that have surrounded automakers plans to make tens of thousands of plug-in vehicles over the next few years, most investors are surprised that they haven't heard more about plans to make tens of millions of stop-start equipped vehicles. The only explanation I can offer is that plug-in vehicles have a great deal of long-term PR value while stop-start systems involve bread and butter production decisions that will materially impact the bottom line over the next few years.
If dual-battery stop-start systems become the norm, the short-term revenue gains for a handful of lead-acid battery and supercapacitor manufacturers could easily amount to a couple billion dollars per year. Since high quality VRLA batteries and carbon-enhanced products will typically command a higher margin than commodity lead-acid starter batteries, the bottom line impact should be impressive. For now, most of the likely beneficiaries of stop-start technology implementation trade at bargain basement valuation multiples. As the automakers begin announcing design wins for their upcoming stop-start product lines, that dynamic will change rapidly.
Unlike the lithium-ion advocates, I don't believe in the absurd idea of "One Technology To Rule Them All." Given the size of the market and the variety of potential solutions the only thing that matters in my book is being in the game. Since September is traditionally the month when first tier automakers introduce their new product lines for the coming model year, I think things are about to get interesting.
Disclosure: Author is a former director of Axion Power International (AXPW.OB) and holds a substantial long position in its stock.
8 Diverse Types of Investment That ensure your financial future
I know that almost all of the world's people are concerned about their economic future. I do not know anyone who does not exist. And if you are already married to a man or woman, you are sure you think your children that are intended for college forward over the next few years. Some are also tired already. That is Why most retirement an early age. I will, they are just at the end of the normal work. Who does not want to be sure that he is a progressive economic life? No one, right? And I also know that you want to retire without the data of the financial situation of the brooding.
Most people are so. Unfortunately, it is also a lot of people who do not even know what to do in the event of their hard earned money. They do not know how to invest. They are not aware of the fact that there are different types of investments. If all you know about saving money is the calculation of the pig-Bank, hiding somewhere in your cab file then you should really about the types of investments.It Is actually eight. Stocks, debt securities, real estate, foreign currency, investment funds, certificates of deposit, insurance and savings account are investments that could be used.
-Stocks buy enterprise or part thereof. Become a stockholder of the company. Therefore, they own the rights there.You can use this type of the return on investment of the corporation the shares dividends receiving. means of gaining profit in this second way is a small amount for purchase and sell it at a higher price. Stocks are also considered to be minimum.
On the other hand, bonds to invest in is similar to-lending money. Usually it takes a government agency. Therefore, the investment in this type of risk is less than stocks.
-Real estate investing is to buy the property and then sell it at a higher price of real estate investors soon. Some sold their possessions. They only use it for rent.Why does the money flow to them on an ongoing basis, but not that massive money than its re-selling is. we are now a buyer's market in such a way that it is better if to buy properties today and then when the time changes to re-sell or sublet their unused contracted a seller's market.
-Foreign currency or in foreign exchange (FOREX) is the currency investments luetteluna.It is always open and can be used through the use of the Internet. Such an investment you need to trade currency pairs in pairs in the hope that there is more value in trade.
-For investment funds when you place, you must join a group of people that also invest in mutual funds, in principle, you can and other. distribute the costs to the hiring of a professional manage your own assets, and most of the wide range of different investment funds includes investments, such as high risk, long-term, short-term, stocks, bonds, debt securities and the like.
-Certificates of deposit, or CDS, savings accounts, are similar, except they pay better. more reason is simple: when you open a local financial institution with A CD, you agree to leave money during the time period is not specified; usually the shortest time is six months of the year, but you may agree, for a period of two years or even for a term of five years.The longer the customer undertakes to keep the CD, the higher the interest rate.
-Some choose life insurance as an investment.Many have investment properties and the taking up and pursuit of activities or financial adviser can help you select the correct.
-Savings accounts offer very little return. in fact, despite the technical feasibility of investment, they can hardly longer. They are certainly a very good way to teach children the process, even if you save it.
They are just some of the diverse types of investment. you can also put a company on the company, which will only invest in their own company or place.
Do you want to also enter investment world? take a look at these investment tips and is ready to show that you can also have one superb investors in the world., or if you are looking for only the information about investment, then this site is for you.
How to start stock investment with small funds
So, you have accumulated some money and interested to invest in stocks with the small fund. You’ve heard that you can get more profit by investing – that is true – but you do not know where to start. The below strategies will help you on how to start and then continue to invest with small fund and grow wealth and reinvest.
People often think that to become an investor needs a lot of capital, you probably need a few thousand dollars to achieve this goal, however, that unless you start investing you will never learn how to do it and profit from it.
You need capital and investment strategy with the support of reliable knowledge of markets and trading tools to help you ride them into profitable way, but still money to put upfront, their experience and quality of your trading tools, you always need time for each investment to mature and give you back.
For example, you can invest in the forex market, trading currencies. ROI can result from price movements over a period of time, so you can open a long position on EUR / USD and hold it for two days to get 3%. If you repeat this process every two or three days, you can easily get 20% more revenue per month. The same applies to investments in the stock market, which has its specific features, but eventually works the same in many ways.
Having lots of money, it is not so critical, how to start as soon as you can with a consistent investment plan, as this will give time to turn a small investment in a significant amount of money from which can be ultimately in life.
This plan can be set by you based on your own knowledge about the market, or you can just use trading tools to help you do a good based on reliable trading strategies that will ensure sustainable growth of your equity and keep you from losses.
It is important to remember that making money through investment objective can be achieved if you are well prepared for the markets, and depending on personal style as an investor, you can learn and your device, its own strategy, or you can just use the shopping tools as software or services with a signal opportunity to help you accomplish as a professional.
You looking for stocks that had been steadily increasing income over the years and still opportunities for expansion, for example, that revenue can continue to grow. It is also usually reflected in price, which will have a long, steady, gradual upward slope. A good source of information when choosing stocks Value Line Investment Review.
If you can not handle the types of vibrations experienced by a single action you can do investment in exchange for funds (ETFs), index and mutual funds. From a small amount you can start investing in ETFs or mutual funds. ETFs trade on stock exchanges and are bought through a broker. Mutual funds are sold through various fund companies to be directly. Vanguard is the leader in index funds, but many other fund companies sell their index funds.
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