These are the two names I'm most interested in getting into the HF account// Have not moved on these yet. FLS Flowserve Corporation $53.62-0.52(-0.96%)4:00 PM 07/11/25 PSN Parsons Corporation $74.78-0.49(-0.65%)4:00 PM 07/11/25 These are fine entries I'm just dragging my heels kind of because after my smack talk I don't want to seem like I am endorsing market conditions by buying. These are LT 6 month ideas/
THE WHEEL HAS BEEN TURNED- Whether it be bracing for correction or prepping for a turnaround up after a sell off I often compare the experience to turning around an ocean liner. When you are a first thinker you are the Captain you turn the wheel but it still takes the greater participation of the engines and the workers to actually turn around a large ship. Last 5 days of the S&P = no gain. That's a start. The wheel has been turned.
Thanks for all the emails regarding this post it seems I struck a nerve. You all have been noticing prices going up on everything as well. A good President would have job 1 being to threaten big business to get their prices back down to where they were pre Covid or else... These Insurance companies My lord. We live in a world where simply driving a beat up used car is a financial hardship. That can't stand. For me trying to redo boardwalks in fire island the price of wood! My god. We had to spend ( I just found this number out last night when I asked and it sparked a huge fight with the wife ) -the cost of our wood is $100,000. OK the supposed budget for the whole job was $150K. I am in deep and over my head. Just this year the price of lumber is 23% higher than last year and that year was a spike from the one before... this can't last. How can homes get built? How can renovations be completed.?
The bar scene is tragic. My kid can't afford a mixed drink and at sporting events not even a beer. I talk to the Bartenders/ owners and they complain about rent of course and then alcohol taxes rising four times recently, post-Covid import increases and supermarket price hikes. The price of every element that goes into a drink has gone up. Factor in more staff, insurance premiums increase of 200 per cent, electricity and gas … the list is endless. I mean I'm surprised cost of gas has gone up so much & electricity. Could two components of the bar experience or our total economy be that out of control and have these Economic idiots turn around and say inflation is low.? Lets go through the numbers again. 200% increase in insurance costs and that's just on bars. Not houses. Try having a house in a flood zone. Nat gas +52% it used to be soooo cheap. Our whole building in NYC converted years back because the gas was cheaper than the hard oil. Electricity 36% more expensive. What kind of world charges $35 for a mixed drink after work?
Back to the bars.. anybody priced a lemon lately. Wondering why that fresh lemonade of off the menu at your favorite lunch joint? I LIVE FOR LEMONADE...
STOCK SURFING- This is a practical game. I just read endless crap until some wierd idea comes to play in this case Rats. Introducing: SNES SenesTech, Inc.- Try and ignore the fact I think they did a reverse stk split.. ahem and EPS might be minus $6. Also that they are about to convert warrants to the tune of 1.53 million shares coming to market... But lets just ask ourselves does it work? Company Profile SenesTech, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of a technology for managing animal pest populations through fertility control. It offers ContraPest, a liquid bait containing the active ingredients 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide and triptolide; and Evolve, a soft bait containing the active ingredient, cottonseed oil that limits the reproduction of male and female rats beginning with the first breeding cycles following consumption, as well as Evolve Mouse, a modified version of its bait technology containing the active ingredient cottonseed oil that limits reproduction of male and female mice after one to two breeding cycles following consumption. The company also provides teleconsulting and technical advisory services. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Several cities, like Baltimore, are implementing pilot programs to evaluate the effectiveness of ContraPest in reducing rat populations.
ContraPest is an EPA-registered oral contraceptive that rats consume simply by eating it. It works via two active compounds, one of which induces a kind of menopause in females while the other, called triptolide, limits sperm production in males. Delivered cumulatively over time, the product has reduced populations by 95%, according to Senestech’s own research. Senestech says its compound is non-toxic and poses no danger to other animals or the environment. And although rats must continue to consume it to maintain the contraceptive effects, according to Senestech CEO Joel Fruendt, uptake hasn’t been a problem. “It’s very sweet, so they love it,” he says. “It’s like a milkshake for rats.” Until now, the labor and expense involved in attaining one of the product’s active ingredients had also been a challenge. Used in traditional Chinese medicine, triptolide is derived from a rare plant called Thunder God Vine that grows in the country’s mountains and is mostly harvested by hand. Each plant produces so little triptolide that, in the region, the substance is worth 15 times its weight in gold. That’s where Danish biologist Johan Andersen-Ranberg comes in. He has figured out a way to get common yeast, injected with the proper genetic code, to grow triptolide. “It’s a bit like brewing beer,” he says. “You feed sugar to yeast, and you get this precious substance on the other side.” Yet having discovered a way to produce the triptolide in the lab, Andersen-Ranberg realized he had no idea what to do with it. So, like any highly-trained scientist, he Googled it, and learned that Senestech had recently begun marketing its product based on natural triptolide for rat control. Together with business partner Jon Christensen, Andersen-Ranberg launched a startup called TriptoBio, and entered into a partnership with the American company. Now, while they wait for EPA registration for the lab-grown compound specifically, they’re scouting locations and working on how to scale up their triptolide-producing yeast.