 decide what to do with MVIS. I’m familiar enough with the long-term MVIS shareholder crowd that many of us know each other. The last twelve months have seen an influx of individual investors that seem to have quadrupled the number of voices on the most active board I track, reddit. Their enthusiasm is so energetic that I’m mostly holding back and letting them run the conversation. Besides, I don’t think they want to hear from an old guy who has seen the downs as well as the ups.
Much of the new crowd is emotional. Except for a few detractors, many are very optimistic. Almost all are just learning about the company, now. That’s natural. That’s how I started, too. (re: selling AAPL in the mid-80s as a protest)
Where will it go? Of course, none of us knows and all of us are guessing.
One fresh shareholder optimistically wrote about the stock going parabolic. Hear my sigh as the aerospace engineer kicks in. Yes, a parabola can point up, but the most frequent use of a parabolic trajectory is in ballistics; as in, something rises at high speed and then crashes back to create a crater. That is a possibility. The handy thing about investing is you don’t have to stay for the entire ride.
While in aerospace mode I thought about a curve I prefer, the hyperbola. Rise, rise, rise, and escape. That’s a model trajectory for satellites that escape Earth’s orbit.
Ah, but stocks can’t rise forever. They are limited by the wealth of the economy.
A more common curve sounds somewhat scatalogical for some: the Sigmoid Curve. A stock starts low, rises quickly, approaches a new and higher level, then levels off; possibly repeating.
All of the mathematics are fun for me to play with, but what are the numbers to attach to decision points? The mathematician in me says there are too many unknowns and I probably don’t know all of the equations. MVIS is in the midst of an emotional, subjective, speculative phase with the promise of near-term objective news.
One of the advantages of investing on the Internet is the availability of many voices. From various discussion boards, private messages, social media, and analysts’ videos it’s obvious that there is no agreement. Up, is popular. Whether that stops here, or at $33, or at $100, or higher is being debated. A few point at zero, or close to it. The market will tell us, but we have to wait, and we have to decide to act or not.
I could use some money. Balancing tax losses and gains makes that a bit more difficult. (Waiting for $155 would normally seem ridiculous or take too long, but in this market sentiment – shrug.) I also don’t need the money – right now. My style of investing doesn’t require checking on the stock every day. (see my book: Dream. Invest. Live.) I do so mostly for entertainment, but when it might be time to act, I check for real. I intend to hold because I endured decades of pessimism and am willing to endure a long spell of optimism. I will sell if I need to, especially because of the pandemic and its effect on the economy. Holding can be difficult as it rises from $18, just as it was somewhat difficult to believe it could rise to $18 from $0.15. I’ll be watching intently because until significant, positive, (financially) quantifiable news is released it will be difficult to tell the difference between a hyperbolic trajectory and hyperbole.
Eight or 9 years ago I started reading your posts on SI. I never bought because the fundaments were poor. When the Wuhan virus hit, I looked around for bargains and learned MVIS was up for sale. I bought alot of shares, largely because of your posts. Thank You!
Glad to hear it worked for you; but it also sounds like you did the real work that mattered. Good luck to both of us.I am going to have to disagree with you. While I agree, that boys shouldn't be pampered and neither should girls because it can foster problems later in life. Not letting them express themselves could lead to a host of problems and well that could be worse.

Crying can relieve stress, tension and is also shown to help prevent dryness in the eyes, so its healthy. It also releases oxytocin and endorphins which can help with physical pain, obviously with emotional pain too. Its also a natural response to things, so saying its bad is kind of stupid. 

Yes, there is also a point where someone is probably crying too much, but I think its more of the fact that if someone is crying everyday as an adult, they probably need help. 

I think parents should actually teach their kids how to vocalize what they are feeling instead and help them develop skills for managing emotions, feelings or just teaching them how to communicate.There's a theory that he poisoned himself, which is actually pretty plausible. He's the definition of the "I've won but at what cost" meme. His victory came at a high price.

Both his brothers dead, his wife and sister dead, both his sons dead, his dragon with whom he shared a deep bond with dead, he was constantly taking milk of the poppy to alleviate his burns, he was permanently crippled, he couldn't have sex, not to mention he never had a love for ruling either. More tragic than Rhaenyra imo.

So yeah suicide seems pretty plausible to meCHANDIGARH: Close on the heels of AP government coming out with an ordinance to tackle the predatory practices of micro finance institutions (MFIs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced the constitution of a sub-committee to look into the functioning of MFIs.
RBI governor D Subbarao, however, did not commit to come out with any regulations to deal with MFIs. “I cannot really speculate on regulations,” he told reporters after the meeting of the central bank’s board.
RBI’s move has come a day after the AP cabinet approved an ordinance providing for a three year sentence and Rs 1 lakh penalty for MFIs harassing borrowers for recovery of loans. “We discussed the AP ordinance as well as what really falls under RBI (purview),” Subbarao said.
Stating that RBI regulates Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFCs), he, however, said that there wer a vast number of companies under MFI sector falling out of the purview of apex bank, adding that RBI does not regulate the interest rate of a large number of MFIs.
A bill to regulate MFIs is also being prepared to be tabled in Parliament.Newbie writer here, posting on my success and my mistakes. maybe you can learn from them.
Okay, yeah, this is the worst. You’ve spent months, maybe years, perfecting that novel. Then months (hopefully not years) perfecting that query. Not to mention the agents who want a synopsis. And of course, every agent has different requirements: No attachments – Everything in the body of the email – PDFs only – Word doc only – Synopsis – No synopsis – 1st 10 pages – 1st 3 chapters and on and on...
2) I’ve received several requests for partial or full submissions, but they’ve all come back with a form rejection. Yup, this one’s hard too! You’ve gotten your hopes up that maybe, just maybe, an agent or publisher is going to like your work, then bam! None for you! But yes, there’s a sliver lining here too. So said agent or publisher read your letter. Either they liked your query, or the writing sample, or both. Worst case (and you’ll never know) they weren’t very impressed by the writing or query, but thought the premise of your story was interesting enough to give it a try. Unfortunately you have no idea why they decided to reject, but you do have something. The query worked. Or maybe your writing sample was strong. The idea has promise. Maybe the agent didn’t connect with it (universal agent code for they don’t want to represent this story) but that’s okay. From what I gather, an agent has to really be in love with an MS to represent it. You may just have to go through a lot of query letters before you find the agent that does. So keep sending out those queries, because clearly something is working.
3) I received a personalized rejection on my full submission telling me what they didn’t like about the story. Well, honestly, this one isn’t too bad.  Why? Because you know what you can work on. Or, in one case for me, I knew that agent wasn’t right for me anyway, so I didn’t feel bad about the rejection. She thought the story was going to be more character driven by my query and writing sample, but was disappointed to find out it had a lot of action. Cool! I have no intention of changing my YA novel to remove the action, so no biggie. She wasn’t the right fit. Now, had she said I did too much telling instead of showing, or the middle was boring and bogged down, or my MC was too whiny and annoying, then I have concrete things to work on. Not that you have to take what an agent says to heart. He or she is only one opinion, but it does give you something to think about.
4) I received