Dont worry. I m still holding on to my 100k shares bought 5 yrs ago. I set my target at 6.50 after sold some earlier, however some reliable source told me that they couldn't produce enough to meet all demands for the last few months and some customers are paying premium to get what they want. I have revise up my target to above 8.00 now
Correction is normal.... especially for this one which has been running
Today, Its was a good chance for me to accumulate ... As long as the fundamental remain unchange & the Aluminium price above Usd 1950, my Target to accumulate till 20k shares! Lets wait before today closing...
8wpwtmt8... don't worry too much. We just have to wait for the good news to be announce next week... when price adjustment coming the share price is at least 50% higher than current level,,
Joel, wish u good luck! Btw, will so excited if the Bonus issue come with free warrant is true! Superb!... Hold tight till end of this yrs before the entittlement sure u will make big profit!
The Next Biggest Theme In Commodity Play : Booming Aluminium Era
As the major auto manufacturers move into high-volume aluminium cars and the aluminium producers increase their output of high-performing alloys to cater to them, 2014 will mark the beginning of a dramatic growth in aluminium usage in automotives that will certainly come at the expense of steel. .................................................................................................................................................... STEEL VS ALUMINIUM: Automotive Aluminium – The Start of An Era April 17, 2014 - 13:20 GMT ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Ford is making its 2015 model F-150 pickup truck not with a steel body, but with one made from aluminium - a move that has massive implications for the metal's usage.
It was news that will have passed many people by, but for anyone with a stake in the aluminium industry it was a huge, market-changing, earth-shattering development: Ford is making its 2015 model F-150 pickup truck not with a steel body, but with one made from aluminium.
It is not the first aluminium-intensive vehicle to reach the market. The light-weighting benefits of aluminium have already been showcased in cars such as the Audi A8, with its aluminium frame, and the Jaguar XJ, built with an aluminium sheet-intensive monocoque body.
But the Audi A8 is a luxury sedan car of which only about 12,000 were sold last year in Europe and the USA. The XJ is another luxury vehicle, with less than 8,000 units sold in those markets last year.
The Ford F-150, on the other hand, has been the highest selling car of any kind in the US market for the past 32 years. Ford's F-series pickup trucks sold more than 760,000 units in 2013.
"The real revolutionary change that's happening is that aluminium is now moving into high-volume cars," Alcoa ceo Klaus Kleinfeld said in a recent interview at the Yale school of management. "It's been an accepted, well-working solution for high-end cars for a while. But what we're seeing now is a broad-based transformation from steel to aluminium [in the autos industry]."
Aluminium producers are now predicting that aluminium's usage in autos will double in just a few years - and it's not just the producers.
"Their numbers are accurate - aluminium sales will more than double in the auto industry over the next few years," industry consultant Mark Bodner said. "Steel cannot catch up with the pace of substitution."
But why now? Aluminium producers have been extolling its light-weight, ultra-recyclable, no-rust virtues for decades, and yet steel has maintained dominance in car manufacturing.
Kleinfeld pointed to regulations governing fuel consumption levels, as well as rising fuel prices changing attitudes towards more fuel-efficient cars within each class of vehicle.
Aluminium-intensive vehicles cost more to produce than steel cars, but are cheaper to run because of their greater fuel-efficiency, thanks to their lighter weight. As fuel prices rise, the benefits of aluminium come into sharper focus.
"More than 80% of consumers are now willing to pay up for a more fuel-efficient car," Kleinfeld said. "[A consumer] wants, in the segment of large pickup trucks, the most fuel-efficient pickup truck. That's what's changing."
But there is a third reason - the development of new aluminium technologies that raise the performance of the metal against steel in areas other than its main strength of light-weighting.
Innovation in alloys The growth of pure downstream aluminium producers such as Novelis and Sapa has led to a spate of alloying innovation, as companies seek to position themselves as solution providers to their customers.
"These downstream companies diversified their suppliers, and research and development was focused on products, not processes, and customer service improved dramatically," Constellium ceo Pierre Vareille said at a recent Metal Bulletin conference on aluminium alloys and their applications.
"All large, downstream companies, whether integrated or not, are now developing their own proprietary alloys," Veraille added. "These developments are triggered by customer demand. Co-operation with customers is the key to developing new alloys."
In the past, aluminium in cars has been mostly confined to cast parts and extrusions, and mainly toward the high end of the autos spectrum. The emergence of new aluminium sheet alloys is now translating to growth in car body panels t
From Mr Querty: PMetal down for 2 days because it is overheated. The MACD is too high, thus the price must retreat to bring it down. However I expect to see it trending sideways for the next 1 - 2 weeks before it can resume its uptrend.
Just hope that the Federal Reserve will delay the US interest rate hike to June 2015 and not March 2015. If not the US dollar will keep on going up and commodities prices will keep on falling.
We need you badly here Mr Querty during this difficult time of uncertainties. Please come back to guide us with your chart interpretation. Anyway we can find him in LBALUM forum.
Good news,, Real-time chart show good formation of support at RM7.08 and Buy signal at RM7.11.. This afternoon should move higher.. Time to Re-enter now for those who have sold recently..
Note : Even KLCI performed badly this morning.. down 18 points, Pmetalstill able to hold its ground steadily
If u really understand the value & the future stronger growth of Pmetal, u wont sell it at all now. Any correction price is the best chance to accumulate, unless u r the speculator... Think twice if u really wanna sell now. My suggestion is to be patient n hold till the Ex date of Bonus entittlement date... Then u may see the big different! Good Luck & Cheers...
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Posted by joel > 2014-09-12 11:42 | Report Abuse
I sold all my 7 lots already today.
Maybe will back back if reach below rm6.80 next week.