I think people drive themselves crazy on an every day basis on these boards. They watch these stocks every day and they're consumed with them. They once believed in the company and its concept, and they were glad to invest. The start-up hype and the company's possibilities drove the stock up quick - too quick and prematurely.
After the initial hype, the pps starts to fall - sometimes rapidly sometimes over a longer period of time. The stock had never had the chance yet to find its equilibrium (a condition where a market price is established through competition such that the amount of goods or services sought by buyers is equal to the amount of goods or services produced by sellers - the equilibrium or market clearing price that only tends to change when demand or supply change).
Suddenly, everyone starts freaking. You see the number of posts on these borads go up from 2-100+ per day. This creates a huge pool of confused investors. Some nervous, some loosing hope, the impatient starting to bash, and the few understanding ones that know what it takes and entails to create a start-up.
The extreme nervous kind, eaten up inside by their constant state of insecurity, fear and impatience, starts harassing and bombarding the company, the CEO, the IR and PR companies with correspondence - desperately to find even a crumb of information - a little sign - a speck of hope - whatever it takes to get some kind of a dose that will make themselves feel better for just maybe a day or two - until the anxiousness, the anxiety, and the pain starts all over again.
Than there are the real investors - the ones that have a life. They are the ones that have done their DD, decided the company has real potential, and decided to add some shares to their portfolio. They may look at the performance of the stock once every six months. They have time. They don’t drive themselves crazy and they have no sleepless nights. They can wait. It’s a long term investment. They know how painful it is to build a start-up from the ground up. They don’t even get involved with all these shareholder conferences and PR’s. One thing they know for sure: It takes a company 3-10 years to get to the top 10,000. That’s the investor a company like UPZS is looking for - not the little flippers that just want to make a quick buck.
