I write this as an older head and a long term holder of these shares. I can be reasonably confident in saying that all those listed as presidents on this forum have seen the present pattern of share price behaviour on a number of occasions in the past. I suggest that any person reading this post put up a graph of the share price over the last 12 months and examine it. A cursory glance will show that 1 year ago the price rose to $2.87 and then wobbled its way down to under 80 cents and back up again tending to plateau at more stable prices around $1.50 and higher more recently. There have been ups and downs all the time and, perhaps, the only behaviour of note is the more stable position in the last 4 months. Look at the first page on this forum, when it was inaugurated, read who was on it, look at the price back then.

I realise that many on this forum are new, or relatively new to it. Some appear to have placed all their money assets into it and I can understand the fear and disappointment with what’s happening. I ask you all to be patient and sensible and I’ll tell you why: this technology really is special; you are invested in an endeavour that, for most of us, will only occur once in a lifetime. The problem is that very few have the remotest idea what this company really is and no mechanism for serious evaluation of what’s on offer. If you read the publications of the sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, about investing he will tell you understand what you’re investing in. Indeed every book I’ve read on successful investing will tell you this. Some suggest you invest in shares of companies you use every day e.g. supermarkets, or food, energy, because you will understand your investment. Unfortunately, this is not easy with PTK.

POET’s technology is not simple to grasp, it is complex. Unless you have a serious grasp of processor technology and the market in which it operates, it is difficult to see why we can be so calm in the face of these share fluctuations. Understand this though: as you read this, there are processors being evaluated to compare a number of factors with existing Silicon processors and there are going to be shocked at the results. Why can I say this? Because a company like Apple would never, ever waste its time and send a Vice President into a tiny Canadian venture company to review the technology unless there is something serious going on. Nor would a retired chief executive of the second largest processor manufacturer in the world become chairman of a tiny Canadian venture company and in front of cameras tell an audience Wow! Unless he knew something is going on.

If you look at the background expertise of some of the presidents on this forum, senior managers in advanced technology firms, sales experts, technologists, investors. Ask them what they do, go on, FJ, Oogee, Rainer, Eileen, IAS, RVH, BCD, G88. They are not dumbo, fast-buck merchants, these are serious people, highly experienced and who tell us all, repeatedly, what’s going on. I’ll tell you one secret: they know what’s up, they know the value of knowledge here and they know precisely what’s coming and they ain’t selling.

This company has in its grasp intellectual property, patent protected and developed over more than 20 years, that offers the means to suddenly alter the perception of every company that uses microchips who have to address a series of stumbling blocks cropping up in Silicon technology. Speed of processing, light transfer of information inside and outside the chip, low power consumption, reproduction of all types of memory function, laser and mixed signal capacity, system on chip integration not achievable in Silicon. These chips can be produced at low cost in existing factories with minimal investment costs and there is a huge potential further development over many years. It really does not get bigger than this because the market into which it supplies is huge, vast, gigantic any adjective you care for.

So when you see the share price fall, don’t be dumb, be sorry for the loose grip some have on their shares. They will live to regret, hold the shares tight, watch the news, it will come.

David