The Most Dangerous Game

Ktoyou

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It is not dangerous game hunting, or high stakes poker. This is the most dangerous game. It makes you feel good about your future, that house with land you desire, the new truck you wish to buy and it all seems so near. All looks so good, why not invest all and get those big returns?

Sept 15, 2015 4:46 p.m. ET
Novavax Inc. NVAX, +0.36% shares advanced in the extended session Tuesday after the vaccine developer announced a promising animal study for one of its vaccine candidates. Novavax shares rose 4.5% to $10.63. The company said pregnant guinea pigs given the vaccine candidate transferred protection to their offspring from respiratory syncytial virus, a lead cause of infant infection.

Aug 15, 2016 at 3:59PM
Turning to Novavax, this biotech is scheduled to report top-line phase 3 results for its F-protein nanoparticle RSV vaccine candidate in elderly adults this quarter. If this experimental vaccine hits pay dirt its ongoing phase 3 study and goes on to become one of the first treatments ever approved for RSV -- a virus that infects the lungs -- it would undoubtedly be a huge win for shareholders.
After all, Novavax's experimental RSV vaccine candidate is forecast to generate somewhere between $1 billion and $6 billion in sales as a preventative RSV treatment in adults aged 60 or older, depending on its pricing scheme.
The company's goal, assuming a positive readout, is to file for the vaccine's regulatory approval in the U.S. in 2017 and with European authorities by 2018. This proposed regulatory time frame means that the vaccine could reach the U.S. market by 2018 and become commercially available in Europe by 2019.

Sept 15, 2016 6:15 p.m. ET
Novavax Inc. NVAX, +0.36% shares plummeted in the extended session Thursday after the vaccine company said one of its lung infection vaccines did not meet endpoints in a late-stage clinical trial. Novavax shares plunged 84% to $1.30 on volume of more than 16 million shares. The company said its study in older adults for a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, which can cause bronchitis and pneumonia, did not meet primary or secondary clinical trial goals.
 

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That's why whenever a Christian says gambling is wrong I ask them if they own any stocks, because the stock market is gambling, plain and simple.
 

Ktoyou

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That's why whenever a Christian says gambling is wrong I ask them if they own any stocks, because the stock market is gambling, plain and simple.

Wrong. If you believe in free enterprise, then you partake, even if you just sit on the sidelines. Our system takes more faith than it does to play any hand in the Middle-East. Living is harder and takes more courage than dying, this I know.

What do you know? What is the game here?
 

patrick jane

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Wrong. If you believe in free enterprise, then you partake, even if you just sit on the sidelines. Our system takes more faith than it does to play any hand in the Middle-East. Living is harder and takes more courage than dying, this I know.

What do you know? What is the game here?

What is your point with the OP? it reads like some folks invested in a company that was on the verge of making billions and the stock fell from 10+ dollars to a dollar and some change because their drugs didn't pan out. I'm saying that playing the stock market is gambling !!! What do you know?
 

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That's why whenever a Christian says gambling is wrong I ask them if they own any stocks, because the stock market is gambling, plain and simple.

So in your mind someone who invests in a company that employs people and provides a legitimate service is the same as rolling dice on a table in Vegas?
 

Ktoyou

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What is your point with the OP? it reads like some folks invested in a company that was on the verge of making billions and the stock fell from 10+ dollars to a dollar and some change because their drugs didn't pan out.
That is what happened, but those investors are not playing the most dangerous game. This game is buying it now!

These past investors, and that is all they were, once the drug failed in testing, they, being chickens, sold out their interests and lost money, selling while the price drooped, as they jollying to be first to chicken out and sell, had they not sold, the stock price would have not changed.

Now the company is set for new owners, there may be some swingers, but, in the long run, they will be a few brave souls who care about what the company does and wish it to stay in business.
 

MarleneJ

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As an aside to the very obvious stock market references, I am so grateful to R &D with regards to new medications and vaccines.

I take some really pricy medications, or I cannot get out of bed, feed or dress myself. So yes to this company for doing cutting edge research, even if it does not directly affect me.

As for making a profit off these meds, I have some reservations about using the stock market like this. But, I guess the bills have to be paid somehow.

Try very conservative investments and diversify, if you don't want to lose a lot of money! LOL
 

patrick jane

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That is what happened, but those investors are not playing the most dangerous game. This game is buying it now!

These past investors, and that is all they were, once the drug failed in testing, they, being chickens, sold out their interests and lost money, selling while the price drooped, as they jollying to be first to chicken out and sell, had they not sold, the stock price would have not changed.

Now the company is set for new owners, there may be some swingers, but, in the long run, they will be a few brave souls who care about what the company does and wish it to stay in business.
OK, I get it now :)
 

Ktoyou

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Allergan is paying a stunning 500% premium to buy a clinical-stage biotech

Allergan is paying a stunning 500% premium to buy a clinical-stage biotech

The usual premium on a company with no approved drugs is closer to 50% to 100%, so why so much :idunno:
I do know that is the name of the game.
If Tobira succeeds in getting approval for its treatments for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) — fatty liver disease that is not caused by alcohol — it will put Allergan in a strong position to treat one of the major causes of cirrhosis in America, behind hepatitis C and alcoholic liver disease.

By 2040, those who are middle-aged, and younger, may have a lifespan of 100 years
 
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