As you know I have been following Vonage since its IPO. It has consistently trended down for the entire year and a half since. But recently, after briefly dropping below $1 per share, VG bounced hard with heavy volume back close to $3 per share (with a one-day rise of 131.3% on October 8th).

Maybe it’s just a blip in the downtrend to $0, but it is the best sign of life I have seen since the IPO. If VG can ever get back over $3, I’d be convinced that the down trend has broken.

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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Here’s an interesting idea that I thought about the other day. What if humans aren’t the smartest species on Earth? What if something else has evolved that is smarter? Maybe we just don’t recognize them - like an ant doesn’t recognize us. Isn’t it possible? Imagine that something god-like has evolved from us already - we just don’t see or notice them because we are too dumb to understand or comprehend it.
I think it is definitely possible. Humans are very egocentric. We think that evolution’s goal was to make us - the smartest things in all of history. Million and millions of years were spent refining what we are today. Maybe an ant thinks the same thing about themselves, not realizing that we are much smarter than them.
Perhaps there is something godlike living amongst and around us right now.
Even if there isn’t already, I believe there will be someday. This is part of the idea of the Singularity - we are evolving quickly. Something much greater than us will eventually emerge, just as we have evolved from bacteria.

He was also in Philadelphia this week.