A List of Top-Grade Pigs I’m Interested in for 2017

It's almost the end of 2016, and very much a "breakout" year for me. The second you stop looking for the fast track to success, put your nose to the grindstone and just unselfishly WORK toward your goals with pure intentions, things just start to happen. Good things. That was a lesson I very much felt this year, and one I'll always carry with me in everything I do, not just trading. That concept is difficult to grasp at first - "How do I approach my goals unselfishly and in the right manner?" - so I highly recommend you read the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - he goes into great detail on how to achieve that state of mind. It's applicable to many areas of life, but especially applicable to the mindset we need to have as traders. This book has helped me very much.
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I've began to develop a list of pigs who interest me in the coming months of 2017. These are names I believe are largely complete junk, and companies who have every intention of soon manipulating the unsuspecting public by trying to convince us otherwise - through a series of bullshit PRs, Reverse Stock Splits, Dilution, Toxic Financing deals, and who knows what else. But they're names to remember, and expect fireworks and great short opportunities from a lot of them in the coming year.

Always do your own research, that's the only way to learn. These are just some highlights.

SNMX - Oh boy. $14M offering disclosed last week on December 22nd, plus an additional 294K shares. With none other than your good friends at Lincoln Park Capital. Name ring a bell? If not, it should. They’re the firm behind the 100M shelf on good ole Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL), doing big things over there.... Lincoln Park has also recently been involved with a supporting cast of pigs like MVIS, TRXC (currently), NEPH, GALE, PARN to name a few, check out those charts, beauties. Expect similar stellar performance from SNMX whenever they choose to run it. LPC is just waiting to unload on the public now that they have skin in the game.

ETRM - this beautiful little piggy will be re-entering our lives soon on Dec 28th with a 70:1 reverse split, bringing the float down to about 1.6M - perfect humping range. Chatrooms & pumpers alike should have their way with this for a short while, then it’s time to dilute, dilute, dilute, and when they’re done diluting - just for good measure - they’ll dilute some more. Excited to watch this one. Think GBSN/RGSE here - thats the type of price action you’re probably about to see. 

OPXA - Hovering around magic NASDAQ compliance numbers. Only drug candidate failed to meet primary & secondary endpoints. Literally their only one. Not their lead candidate, their only candidate. 40% reduction in workforce recently for cost cutting, but only 20 employees to begin with, so 8 got the axe. The remaining 12 employees are now seemingly working on, well…nothing. Ah thats not true, they’re working on a way to keep the charade up as long as possible and squeeze as much out of this dying pig as they can to walk away with a collateral damage paycheck.  Also shockingly enough, the acquisition firm they had been in contact with, Ares, has declined to acquire the worldwide rights for said drug that does not work. Tcelna is heading to the glue factory. Pipeline empty. Now what? I think you can figure out the story from here. 

SSH - They’re gonna have some fun with this one in 2017. Poor shareholders. Was a valiant effort a couple weeks back to try and get this piggie over 1 and into compliance, they made it to… $ .96 prints I think I saw. I’m a big comedy fan. Would love to fly out to Minnesota for “The Special Meeting” happening on in a couple weeks on January 9th to discuss this piggies woes, should be pure comedy. 

Here’s a snapshot of the meeting plan:

I just imagine an entire room full of Sunshine Heart shareholders who look like this mulling over what they want to vote for:

“Hmm….I don’t know. Julian, Ricky, Mr. Lahey, whaddaya think?” 

They use the word "amend" 3 times in the first 13 words of Proposal 3, that sounds like a good choice to me, no?

Godspeed shareholders. Godspeed. 

HTBX - Main drug candidate is a cancer vaccine in pII, very, very unlikely trial success. Nice 3m or so offering sitting out there. To be issued when? “From time to time” Nice. Warrants exercisable at 1.00 - licking chops anytime they run this trash again like the end of November nonsense. Company also authorized to offer up to another 25M in stock anytime they see fit, which amounts to about 100% dilution from here, should they so please. Cool. I'm rooting for ya HTBX, I really am. Fuck Cancer. But theres a 99.9% chance you don’t exist in a few years, and you take some brave bagholders down with you on the way out.

*Side note: Very important side note. People get real touchy feely when you badmouth a "good" company, as in a company working to save lives, cure cancer, etc - you know what I mean. But here's what they don't get. I don't care what the company does - that run HTBX had at the end of November? Thats pure manipulation and bullshit, where they're duping investors and roping in new unsuspecting victims for their own benefit. Thats the part of these companies we mock. Nothing to do with what they actually do, and everything to do with HOW they behave - with entirely selfish & deceptive monetary agendas. Nobody is wishing they don't cure cancer. That would be amazing if they did. We're simply mocking the way they conduct their business that directly manipulates shareholders. SRPT was another prime example. Great company trying to do great things, but HORRIBLY deceptive management. Just look at that stock chart. Case and point. Same concept if you follow @BagHolderQuotes on Twitter - don't get bent out of shape. He's not laughing at people losing money - theres nothing funny about that, and it happens to all of us as traders and investors sometimes. He's laughing at the things people say about the stocks, which is truly funny sometimes. I'd like to assume everyone is investing responsibly and nobody is losing their house over a bad investment. I know it happens, but thats not our problem, either. If you're an irresponsible idiot with your money, you deserve no sympathy. Alright - moving on.*

TRXC - Just last week they signed a $25M offering agreement with Lincoln Park Capital as well, LPC is staying busy! Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top - run this heaping pile of trash again.  Give me $2 and I’d be thrilled. Float is kind of big at 90M now so don’t have very high hopes here for anything substantial, but any pop on this name is surely a gift. On watch now that LPC is back in the game - expect them to create some waves to push this higher before they start selling to recoup their initial investment and then some. 

AMRS - just received delisting notice Dec 19th, probably nothing happening here for a while. They just received a 3.9M loan & issued notes for it, but that money looks to be going to pay off some liabilities already in place re: a Factory. So they’ll need more. Very low on cash, keeping an eye on them to hook up with someone shady for a toxic financing deal, R/S candidate in the future, but, need to see them link up with their local Josh Sason first before we see too much pumping here. Clock is ticking but they’re safe till June 19th, for now.   

RXII - this one is ugly, and has been humped, dumped, re-humped, re-dumped, and now almost entirely left for dead. This one may not be able to be saved for a 3rd round. On back burner. They’ve duped investors multiple times already. However….if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to NEVER underestimate human stupidity - idiots bought once, then they bought again, so whats to say they won’t a third time? Hold out hope we get the trifecta of humpage here. Not holding my breath, but a guy can dream. 

XGTI & IDXG are self explanatory shit shows, and have been delved into in great detail courtesy of your Twitter research rockstars, you know who you are. It’s printed in boldfaced lettering on every SEC filing these guys put out as to just what kind of true garbage they really are. 

REXX - There are some really bad debt ridden Energy names like our most recent flying bankrupt turd SGY, but this one is the pig of all pigs in that sector. What a disgusting balance sheet. They are out of 5550 compliance like most of the names on this list, but so kindly let us know two weeks ago “It’s cool, guys. We’re going to r/s soon and dilute the shit out of you all, don’t you worry you little baggie masochists, we’re going to give you your fix of pain!” No date set yet, but they’ve got until June 12th to figure it out. Oh yeah, and they have literally almost no money. So expect the process to be aggressive once they are ready to go: R/s, dilute, dilute, dilute coming to a theatre near you in early 2017, stay tuned.  

MNGA - #AnotherOne. Not an energy name, but for plan here, see: REXX. They’ve got until June 12th to get the r/s, pump and dilution party started. 

CTIC - They’re currently out of 5550 compliance, and will soon be fixing that with a nice Happy New Year 10:1 reverse split January 1st, and effective on January 3rd which will have them trading around $4/share. This company doesn’t appear to be desperate for cash nor do I see any sharks circling or financing deals around, so not quite as excited about this one. We’ll see. 

CYTR - good. lord. I’m just gonna leave this here. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799698/000119312516801678/d484879ds3.htm