Something that came to my attention today was the rapid trading of massive blocks on $PROG.
I want to credit u/AwarenessProud1079 for this research, as he has established an interesting link between the original CEO of #PROG and his new affiliations
The OP of this post references "Andrew R. Midler" in his post, and states he wasn't able to establish a link between himself and any entities... but I was.
And my findings were... interesting to say the least.
What makes this interesting isn't just that Andrew Midler appears specifically in Progenity's filings referenced in the redditor's post, but it's the companies Savitr also has an investment in.
Savitr is heavily invested into Progenity to the tune of $217M but also Savitr made a recent heavy investment in a company called "ImmunisAI" which we can see here (source provided by u/AwarenessProud1079)
I found it an EXTRAORDINARY coincidence that Immunis and Progenity are both in the same field of cancer research and early detection, both invested by these large bio-tech and pharmaceutical focused funds.
Upon brief research into this company, I found a familiar face on their board.
Say hello to Dr. Stylli, the former CEO and current Executive Chair of both @Progenity and now Immunis.AI
Not only do I think that u/AwarenessProud1079 is correct in his analysis, I think his findings indicate something much deeper going on with Savitr, Athyrium, and Progenity, owing to the tremendous sum of money it had invested, the large block transactions, & the dramatic SP drop
I believe this sell off was engineered by both of these hedge funds in an effort to accumulate even more shares of Progenity from the market, and they are being frustrated by the lack of "cooperation" from retail because we refuse to sell.
The ATM offering was their last chance.
This accumulation of $PROG shares by these firms suggests that these partnerships are about to make the company extraordinarily valuable, whether that may be in the short or long-term, and these two funds are playing games to build a combined majority holding of more than 70% FF
The sale of $PROG to another firm can be organized by more than one hedge fund, if they cooperate to sell their shares to a large pharmaceutical firm, assuming that is their end-goal.
But given the research Immunis does, there could be more than meets the eye here
Just the news from immunis.ai/news/ alone suggests some significant overlap in these company's research and business focuses.
A partnership, if not an outright merger, may be in the works for these companies, but that is purely speculation.
In any case, there's a very firm link between these companies. They are tied together at the hip, and I'm very certain that Dr. Stylli knows all too well what the investment plan is for all of them.
A buy-out, merger, or beneficial ownership for any or all of these companies...
All of these actions would be bullish in the long run, but how long we would need to wait to see this play out is entirely up in the air.
We don't know how long these firms have been working together, and more research needs to be done.
Regardless of how long it takes, I take these actions and links between these firms as a strong sign of Progenity's future being extremely secure. I'm looking forward to the next set of news releases that come from these companies, but I'll be watching them ALL very closely.
I'll keep digging into all this. Hope everyone did okay in the market today. Bit of a flat day, but consolidation is bullish, and I'm happy to see us stair-stepping back toward $3.
For now, I'll be at work between my job & setting up the discord. Sorry it's taking so long.
Oh, and remember, as always, patience is 🔑
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As others have pointed out, the cross actually happened yesterday. Today was confirmation and continuation of the trend.
Note that we gapped up in PM and filled that gap this morning before we re-bounded back up to test $2.70, a level of continuous stubborn resistance.
This doesn't mean that every day will be green going forward. What it means is that the stock is likely to enter into a long, ongoing bull-market with prices rising on a long-term trend.
Algos that trade on technicals look for these patterns to find an entry point.
Market maker and hedge fund Hail Mary sell offs continue to attempt to drive down the prices of every meme stock to attack the conviction of everyone in this trade.
This is the ultimate dip before the ultimate rip.
DD to follow
OBV (On-Balance Volume) is an indicator that shows the trend of buying versus selling based on the sum of share trading volume regardless of share price.
It is a general rule of thumb that the OBV rising means buying and OBV falling means selling.
OBV is best used when compared with other indicators to determine share price trend such as MACD, RSI, Bollinger bands, etc.
These are "oscillators" that show when a stock's price is likely to reverse its current direction and predict volatility.
$PROG shorts and market makers are telegraphing a move to the upside. To everyone who is freaking out and calling this a dead play, you're looking at consolidation. Calm TF down...
Wyckoff Accumulation final phase of consolidation is following trend.
Market makers and call sellers still have until Tuesday to make their deliveries. This activity demonstrates an engineered sell-off. They need panic selling in order to scoop up shares on a discount before the next leg up.
The fewer who sell, the less we move to the downside.
We're going to go through some volatility this week as they play their games. T+2 to deliver options and an additional T+6 for market makers to close the outstanding FTDs that result.
Have patience and let the algorithms burn themselves out. They're operating on auto pilot...
Back in the rising channel once again, this time after a hedgie load up and over 150k calls expiring ITM last week. $PROG is still moving aggressively toward a steady climb and short squeeze.
Technicals looking good
Plenty of calls on the chain for this Friday, but pretty modest in comparison to last week. This is a very weak gamma ramp relative to that.
We are still waiting for unhedged calls to be delivered today and tomorrow, so we can see some significant buying today....
... but we will see how it plays out on the charts.
Shorts were not covering last week, which means they were most likely trying to return and re-borrow shares that were failing to deliver.
I'm going to cover one last item on $PROG today. I was looking at the Unusual Whales FLOW that Hootmoney posted, and there is definitely something happening here.
The OI on $5 and $7.5 calls for $PROG went absolutely nuts in the afternoon today, and I only just noticed.
Almost all of the bearish volume came from selling call options at the end of the day, which I STRONGLY suspect is being done in order to quickly secure premium and scalp some cash before the options expire.
This is a very common action, but for it to happen in these numbers...
... holy shit. There are 111,295 calls OTM on $PROG between $5 and $7.50
That's a combined 11.13M shares on the table.
Those weren't there this morning.
A fair amount of these may be retail, but many times more are likely coming from market makers & HFs.