Jax-Tiger

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$6200 mortgage
$400 electric
$2000 two car payments
$280 auto insurance
$200 grass guy
$5500 credit card bill mine
$1250 ranch payment
$1000 credit card bill wife
$1000 groceries and tolls
$200 cell phone
$150 HOA
$45 natural gas bill
$250 water bill

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So 3/4 of a million mortgage? $1000 car payments?

You have a very highly leveraged lifestyle. Most people won't carry that into retirement. I will not have a house payment or a car payment when I retire and move into my forever home, if I can help it. I pay off my credit cards every month, although I am using them more to accumulate perks/benefits.

I want the simplicity and security of fewer bills and a less complicated financial footprint.

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My only concern is if they push it under $4. Doesn’t that reset the clock on the uplist?

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Not necessarily. There are other alternative criteria. I don't know the details, but it's not a hard and fast rule.

I think they would probably do something, if needed. One possibility is to a reverse split, where your share count would be halved, although, ostensibly, the value of those shares would be doubled.

I don't think it will come to that because everyone knows that they want the stock above $4, and if it gets near that threshold, there will be buyers stepping in - including many on this board, who will buy more shares.

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I’m sitting tight and watching the price shite just as I predicted right after I bought.

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I think their 4200 hr corrosion test is completing soon. This is the leading standard in the industry and could lead to an explosion in buyers.

Per Gemini:

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Sparc Technologies (ASX: SPN), in collaboration with HydroGraph Clean Power Inc., is conducting 4,200-hour cyclic corrosion testing on graphene-enhanced coatings. This testing, based on the ISO 12944 international standard, aims to validate the durability of HydroGraph’s FGA-1 Fractal Graphene within Sparc's ecosparc® additives, specifically targeting high-performance solvent-based coatings for industrial infrastructure. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Details of the 4,200-Hour Testing

Purpose: To validate the performance and durability of graphene-enhanced protective coatings in harsh environments.

Standard: ISO 12944, the leading standard for assessing steel corrosion protection.

Material: HydroGraph’s "explosion synthesis" FGA-1 graphene is being added to Sparc Technologies' ecosparc® coating additives.

Background: Previous laboratory testing (1,680 hours) on water-based coatings showed a 39% to 60% reduction in scribe corrosion creep.

Commercial Target: The 4,200-hour testing aims to accelerate the commercialization of these coatings in the global protective coatings market. [1, 2, 3, 4]

This initiative is a crucial step for Sparc Technologies to prove the long-term effectiveness of its graphene additives against traditional anticorrosive methods. [1]

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This is essentially how I lost my whole arse on NBIS last fall

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Can you imagine where we would be if we had employed the current strategy with NBIS in November? July '27 options instead of December?

ELVA or ENVX?

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I usually am one to hold forever until it goes back up

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This is more of an emotional response.

Taking a loss isn't a bad thing. You can report the loss on your taxes, and it frees up money for a stock you like better.

If you wait for MRLN to go ip 25% but OUST goes up 30%, you'll end up with fewer shares in the end.

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What are you thinking?

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I am thinking that every dollar that this goes over $230 is a dollar that is going to someone else. So I don't want to be sitting on $115K that could double and not see a dime of it.

I also think that if I'm the one who bought the calls, I'm not going to exercise it any time soon. I wish they would, because that would let me off the hook.

The original payment for the options is moot. No matter what I do, that money is mine, so I'm not subtracting it out, just to make myself feel better.
It's gonna be $40k ish to buy them back. But that would save on taxes, for now. The issue now that I have is that I could spend the $40K and be done. I was paid $15K for the options, and I've probably made a little money on that.

If the price is over $230, the options will be excercised, and I will have to pay taxes on the money.

So... What are the options?

It's gonna be $40k ish to buy them back. But that would save on taxes, for now. The issue now that I have is that I could spend the $40K and be done.

What are you thinking?

NM

I might just wait for one of NBIS's famous price drops so I can just buy 500 shares to replace the ones im going to have to sell. I'd have to borrow from my margin, but I would pay it off when the calls are bought.

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at $24. we letting it run or cashing out?

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I have some 1/27 calls that are 60% profitable.

I will probably hold for now, until I want the money for something else...