By 1984, it was well known that the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver was where the most rock stars stayed while passing through the city.

It was my job as a limo driver to pick the majority (several dozen over 4 years) of the stars up -- usually from their private jets -- and deliver them safely to the hotel drop-off area. I would be on call, and drive-as-directed for the duration of their stay.

In the case of Michael Jackson, he arrived at the Four Seasons through the service elevator entrance, via the Pacific Center parkade, and avoided the crazed fans waiting in the lobby.

On several occasions, the hotel general manager, Ruy Paes Braga, was there to personally greet the celebrities. It would be another four years before his second son, Brian Paes-Braga ($LIX CEO) was born.

From Bruce Springsteen to George Carlin, to Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck, and even Bjorn Borg, they all loved the Four Seasons in Vancouver.

Richards On Richards, and Outlaws were the usual nightclub stops. This was occasionally after eating sushi at Tojo's (Jinya on Broadway), or The Tsui Hang Village, if they had an extra night in town.

One memorable evening started with a trip to "Dicks on Dicks" with Billy and Dusty (ZZ Top), and then an all-nighter at Orestes on Pacific Avenue.

Fantastic memories, autographed pictures and Back Stage passes, and shocking stories to be told some day, dropping names like David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, The Police, Frank Zappa, Kenny Rogers, Queen, Van Halen, ACDC, Billy Joel, Bob Seger, The Kinks, Tina Turner, Yes, Kiss, Deep Purple, Chicago, Eddie Murphy, Joan Rivers, and dozens of other guests to our city.

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During Expo 86, I drove one of Murray Pezim's ex girlfriends from Forest Hills, Toronto. The first three people she introduced me to were Pezim, Lew Dillman, and John MacPherson. She told me that these three raised more money than anyone else at that time. With several of their stocks trading between $10 and close to $20 -- who could argue?

I quit the limo business in August, and celebrated my new career as an investor on my 33rd birthday, on November 8th. That was the same day Tommy Humphreys was born.

And what were Tommy and Brian doing last week?

Hanging out aboard billionaire Dennis Washington's yacht (usually docked next to the Seabus in North Vancouver) in Cartagena harbor.


Tell me these two aren't the Millennial versions of Pezzim, Dillman and MacPherson!

Friday afternoon, Lithium X closed a $8.5 million private placement financing at $1.02 per share.

CEO.CA readers had almost two months to buy LIX late last year at 15 cents following this article:

http://blog.ceo.ca/2015/10/06/fuelling-tesla-millennial-mining-legend-join-forces-in-nevada-lithium-rush/ 

$LIX Lithium X Energy Corp (formerly Royce Resources)

  • Year Low $0.06
  • Year High 1.40
  • Last 1.18
  • Up 2333%

The Dow 20,000 Recognition Wave Update

The Dow is moving increasingly higher from the Black Monday (August 24th) lows of 15,370 to 17602 (up 2232)

  • S&P Low Aug 24: 1,867
  • Today: 2050 (Up 183)
  • Gold, Copper, and Oil all behaving very well

The forecasting models used here are wildly unpopular, and that is exactly what has to happen in order for this to work. There is no sense in repeating the dozens of arguments as to why the markets should hit new lows. There are a battalion of bears out there to listen to if that's what you want to hear.

The easy explanation is that the markets are moving up for technical reasons, and therefore no amount of negative news will stop it for long.

It took decades to understand this. Back in the early 80's, I used to get nervous when the Dow dropped below 1000. That was almost 1700% ago, and will be 1900% soon in my opinion.

One thing is certain. This is a perfect time to invest in the type of small and speculative stocks we like here at CEO.CA. How else can you explain these incredible gains?

Talking Our Books: CEO.CA does it again with $KRN Karnalyte Resources

First of all, last weeks explosive stock, $RLG closed Friday at 0.165, after peaking at 0.21 in the morning. It was up 560% in 15 trading days, and had a maximum intraday peak exposure of 2000% from January 6th.

$KRN Karnalyte had what appeared to be a false start back in October:

  • On September 29th, $KRN had a typical month end drop to 0.52
  • On October 1st, @low-ball posted that $KRN was having a good day (closed at 0.94)
  • By Oct 9, $KRN peaked at $1.33 on 2.2 mil shares for the first 9 days of the month. It slowly drifted down and closed the year at 0.70.

Here is the timeline from last week:

  • 7:14 AM, March 14, @JrMining posted: "bought some $KRN on gut speculation @ $0.99. I dunno, we'll see."
  • 12:15 @low-ball mentions that $KRN was a nice mover today, and traded at $20 when potash was hot.
  • 19:01 @low-ball: Karnalyte Resources $krn plans to begin construction of new potash mine this fall- By Alex MacPherson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Saskatoon StarPhoenix (Source)
  • 19:40 @low-ball: $KRN 28 mil in Cash Shares issued 27,479,010 x 1.25 = 34,348 mil that's how nutz this market is today + 700 million to build mine
  • $KRN closed the day at $1.25 up from an opening of 0.95 on 813,692 shares.
  • March 15: Opened at $1.30 and closed at $2.25 on 1,319,710 shares.
  • March 16: Opened at $2.79, peaked at $4.15 and closed the day at $3.35
  • March 18: Traded 7,259,280 shares for the week or $20,350,716 dollar volume at an average price of $2.80, and hit a final Friday price of $3.03

$KRN Karnalyte Resources

  • Year High 4.15 (new)
  • Year Low 0.52
  • Last 3.03
  • Up 483%

Real time news links, relayed conversations with the company, and general DD, extended from Monday to Friday for the benefit of up to 300 chat site participants at certain times.

CanAlaska Multiplies

From the junior uranium sector, another popular CEO.CA stock has entered multi-bagger territory.

Tommy Humphreys wrote several articles on CanAlaska earlier this year while its shares fetched 11-16 cents:

$CVV CanAlaska Uranium 

  • Year High 0.55 (new)
  • Year Low 0.085
  • Last 0.49
  • Up 647%

Prediction: With this kind of performance, the number of CEO.CA viewers will double, and then double again by next year. Get ready for the millennial investors.

Robert Hirschberg's Top 3 from the Globe and Mail are doing very well:

  • $PGD closed at 0.285 down one cent from its 52 week high. (307% from lows)
  • $LIX last at $1.18, down .0.22 from high. (237%)
  • $NGZ last at 0.07 down .05 from 52 week high. (250%)

$NGZ NRG Metals have a couple interesting projects:

  • Lac Aux Bouleaux property in Quebec has a historical graphite body of 1,320,847 tonnes at 9 per cent graphitic carbon.
  • The project is next door to the Switzerland-based Timcal Graphite and Carbon's Lac des lles mine (25,000-tonne-per-year capacity)
  • Groete Gold-Copper project in Guyana
  • Inferred Resource of 1.59 M gold equivalent ounces at 0.66 g/t
  • (74.8 million tonnes grading 0.49 gpt Au and 0.12% Cu.)
  • nrgmetalsinc.com

$WKM $GPH $RLG and $JEM hit new 2016 intraday highs last week in #MyPortfolio

$SBB hit a new high, and $KRN has been added to the #BeckDex30

The BeckDex 30 Plus

The list is broken down into 3 categories: Under .25, Under .50, and Over .50

Under .25:

$RLG West Red Lake Gold Mines

  • Year High 0.21 (New)
  • Year Low 0.01
  • Last 0.165
  • Up 1550% (New)

$MCC Magor Corporation

  • Year High 0.315
  • Year Low 0.015
  • Last 0.185
  • Up 1133%

$JEM Jagercor Energy

  • Year High 0.08
  • Year Low 0.01
  • Last 0.055
  • Up 450%

$DMA DiaMedica

  • Year High 0.25
  • 2014 Low 0.035
  • Last 0.185
  • Up 429%

$IDI Indico Resources

  • Year High 0.16
  • Year Low 0.02
  • Last 0.07
  • Up 250%

$NGZ NRG Metals

  • Year High 0.12
  • Year Low 0.02
  • Last 0.07
  • Up 250%

$HPL Horizon Petroleum

  • Year High 0.13
  • Year Low 0.01
  • Last 0.035
  • Up 250%

$MSD Moseda Technologies

  • Year High 0.365
  • Year Low 0.065
  • Last 0.195
  • Up 200%

$BAY Aston Bay Holdings

  • Year High 0.32
  • Year Low 0.08
  • Last 0.235
  • Up 194%

$WKM West Kirkland Mining

  • Year High 0.095
  • Year Low 0.035
  • Last 0.085
  • Up 143% (New)

$LAG Laguna Blends

  • Year High 0.40
  • Year Low 0.08
  • Last 0.18
  • Up 125%

$WLF Wolfden Resources

  • Year High 0.21
  • 2014 Low 0.045
  • Last 0.09
  • Up 100%

$GPH Graphite One Resources

  • Year High 0.145 (New)
  • Year Low 0.065
  • Last 0.12
  • Up 85%

$IDM IDM Mining

  • Year High 0.115
  • Year Low 0.065
  • Last 0.11
  • Up 69%

$SKE Skeena Resources

  • Year High 0.125
  • Year Low 0.055
  • Last 0.085
  • Up 55%

$NEV Nevada Sunrise Gold

  • Year High 0.38
  • Year Low 0.125
  • Last 0.19
  • Up 52%

$IN InMed Pharmaceuticals

  • Year High 0.405
  • Year Low 0.11
  • Last 0.135
  • Up 27%

$MRS

  • Year High 0.275
  • Year Low 0.05
  • Last 0.05
  • Up 0%

Under .50:

$WML Wealth Minerals

  • Year High 0.42
  • 2014 Low 0.03
  • Last 0.285
  • Up 850%

$PGM Pure Gold Mining

  • Year High 0.295
  • Year Low 0.07
  • Last 0.285
  • Up 307%

$TV Trevali Mining

  • Year High 1.24
  • Year Low 0.245
  • Last 0.385
  • Up 57%

$BTH Breathtec BioMedical

  • Year High 0.55
  • Year Low 0.37
  • Last 0.44
  • Up 19%

Over .50:

$CRH CRH Medical

  • Year High 5.50
  • 2014 Low 0.65
  • Last 4.48
  • Up 589%

$KRN Karnalyte Resources

  • Year High 4.15 (new)
  • Year Low 0.52
  • Last 3.03
  • Up 483%

$LTE Lite Access Technologies

  • Year High 1.80
  • Year Low 0.39
  • Last 1.64
  • Up 321%

$PE Pure Energy

  • Year High 1.03
  • Year Low 0.18
  • Last 0.74
  • Up 311%

$NXE NexGen Energy

  • Year High 1.55
  • Year Low 0.40
  • Last 1.40
  • Up 250%

$SBB Sabina Gold & Silver

  • Year High 1.06 (New)
  • Year Low 0.30
  • Last 1.02
  • Up 240% (New)

$LIX Lithium X Energy

  • Year High 1.40
  • Year Low 0.35
  • Last 1.18
  • Up 237%

$PTM Platinum Group Metals

  • Year High 7.40
  • Year Low 1.35
  • Last 4.16
  • Up 208%

$KOR Corvus Gold

  • Year High 0.84
  • Year Low 0.33
  • Last 0.75
  • Up 127%

$BAR Balmoral Resources

  • Year High 1.22
  • Year Low 0.33
  • Last 0.53
  • Up 61%

$GLH Golden Leaf Holdings

  • Year High 1.40
  • Year Low 0.44
  • Last 0.58
  • Up 32%

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