Trading Summary - February 19.
Overall, today ended up being a satisfactory status quo day for $TMPS as the clock keeps running down on letting the contract for the 2020 MAC + recent USAF developments becoming public.
Prior to the open and at the open there were minor manipulation attempts to get cheap shares on the bid as reported contemporaneously.
These failed due to myself and at least one other already having a bid in higher than the price shorted at and then hitting the ask as well at both the incorrect ask at .2551 and the next ask .2880.
Unfortunately, in the few minutes it took MMs to sort out the incorrect Level 2 of .2552 x .2551 then .2880, others failed to hit the ask at .2880 to get the .3000+ break.
Instead, they tried outbidding the .2552 with a visible .2600 and .2650 with limited success.
In addition there were invisible bid fills (below the display threshold) as high as .2765.
Towards the close, a second attempt was made by those trying to get cheap shares to walk the ask down to the artificially low levels of .2800 then .2700.
That didn't work for them as the .2650 bid remained in place and 2,700 were bought out on the low ask at .2800.
Throughout the day, multiple traders were outbidding each other from .2500 up.
Notably, the first 30,000 shares - half the 60,000 bought all day yesterday - were bought up in the first 1.25 hours by those wanting to guarantee to add / scale in under .3000.
Overall, 37,612 shares were bought today - all as near as makes no difference (when considering .75 > 1.00+) to the 2020 high of .2900 - at prices as follows:
.2880: 5,000
.2879: 500
.2800: 2,700
.2765 : 4,872
.2716: 5,000
.2650 / .2655: 6,040
.2600: 3,500 [none after 10:02:41]
.2551/.2552: 10,000 [none after 09:31:24]
Very little is being offered under .7500.
The Industry Day for a potential 2020 CAS AAR MAC to replace the extant contract awarded to $TMPS (but larger, multi-company and for twice as long) was held on September 12, 2019.
The new (from Nov 2019) Government website beta.SAM.gov shows that it is still the USN's intent to award a Multi (company) Award Contract (presumed to be $TMPS + Omega as the only companies in the field available in the timescale) for AAR in DoD 2020 Q2 (which ends March 31, 2020).
Keep an eye out for developments on the future contract to be awarded up to March 31, 2020 (latest).
Companies interested in being considered for inclusion in the 2020 MAC were required to provide inputs to the USN by January 8, 2020.
The deadline for those companies interested in being considered as part of the 2020 MAC to provide information requested by the USN - and / or to comment on the Draft Request For Proposals (from the USN to interested companies for them to bid against) has now expired.
Progress of the 2020 MAC staffing that is releasable to the public can be viewed here [reference CAS_AAR_RFI]:
https://beta.sam.gov/opp/db6fb963242c46a4b242...lues=false
The next thing we should see is an update at the Federal government website showing the actual final version RFP.
US TRANSCOM is now in agreement with the USAF that contracted out AAR should be considered to alleviate the shortfall in availability caused by the numerous, long delays to the KC-46A tanker program and has already held an Industry Day which was attended by 12 interested companies.
30% of the US TRANSCOM requirement is for "probe-and-drogue" - the type $TMPS can provide.
Some of these were manufacturers for new build aircraft (eg Airbus) and some may be operators of Red Air aggressor fighter aircraft considering buying ex-military tankers to expand their operation - Omega and $TMPS remain the only US companies currently owning military tanker fleets.
A 2nd Industry Day for the US TRANSOM contract opportunity was held on December 17, 2019.
Progress of the US TRANSCOM / USAF AMC contract opportunity / review staffing that is releasable to the public can be viewed here: [referenceTRANSCOM18R013]:
https://beta.sam.gov/opp/fb4c98b5704e47c7a034...40652/view
On February 10, the USAF FY21 Plan called for the early retirement of a number of KC-135s and KC-10s - making contractorization of part of the its task even more likely.
https://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=5671176
Also watch for any developments in the UK with wholly owned subsidiary Tristar Air UK Ltd and / or work on the Tristars.
Warning ! Anyone who is seen posting nonsense on iHub on any on the thinly traded stocks I'm a shareholder in - especially when small paint downs are also seen along with undercut asks - can expect to have their user ID passed to the SEC which has now started to take action against those using the exact modus operandi I have detected and commented on for the past 2 years:
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-216
Overall, today ended up being a satisfactory status quo day for $TMPS as the clock keeps running down on letting the contract for the 2020 MAC + recent USAF developments becoming public.
Prior to the open and at the open there were minor manipulation attempts to get cheap shares on the bid as reported contemporaneously.
These failed due to myself and at least one other already having a bid in higher than the price shorted at and then hitting the ask as well at both the incorrect ask at .2551 and the next ask .2880.
Unfortunately, in the few minutes it took MMs to sort out the incorrect Level 2 of .2552 x .2551 then .2880, others failed to hit the ask at .2880 to get the .3000+ break.
Instead, they tried outbidding the .2552 with a visible .2600 and .2650 with limited success.
In addition there were invisible bid fills (below the display threshold) as high as .2765.
Towards the close, a second attempt was made by those trying to get cheap shares to walk the ask down to the artificially low levels of .2800 then .2700.
That didn't work for them as the .2650 bid remained in place and 2,700 were bought out on the low ask at .2800.
Throughout the day, multiple traders were outbidding each other from .2500 up.
Notably, the first 30,000 shares - half the 60,000 bought all day yesterday - were bought up in the first 1.25 hours by those wanting to guarantee to add / scale in under .3000.
Overall, 37,612 shares were bought today - all as near as makes no difference (when considering .75 > 1.00+) to the 2020 high of .2900 - at prices as follows:
.2880: 5,000
.2879: 500
.2800: 2,700
.2765 : 4,872
.2716: 5,000
.2650 / .2655: 6,040
.2600: 3,500 [none after 10:02:41]
.2551/.2552: 10,000 [none after 09:31:24]
Very little is being offered under .7500.
The Industry Day for a potential 2020 CAS AAR MAC to replace the extant contract awarded to $TMPS (but larger, multi-company and for twice as long) was held on September 12, 2019.
The new (from Nov 2019) Government website beta.SAM.gov shows that it is still the USN's intent to award a Multi (company) Award Contract (presumed to be $TMPS + Omega as the only companies in the field available in the timescale) for AAR in DoD 2020 Q2 (which ends March 31, 2020).
Keep an eye out for developments on the future contract to be awarded up to March 31, 2020 (latest).
Companies interested in being considered for inclusion in the 2020 MAC were required to provide inputs to the USN by January 8, 2020.
The deadline for those companies interested in being considered as part of the 2020 MAC to provide information requested by the USN - and / or to comment on the Draft Request For Proposals (from the USN to interested companies for them to bid against) has now expired.
Progress of the 2020 MAC staffing that is releasable to the public can be viewed here [reference CAS_AAR_RFI]:
https://beta.sam.gov/opp/db6fb963242c46a4b242...lues=false
The next thing we should see is an update at the Federal government website showing the actual final version RFP.
US TRANSCOM is now in agreement with the USAF that contracted out AAR should be considered to alleviate the shortfall in availability caused by the numerous, long delays to the KC-46A tanker program and has already held an Industry Day which was attended by 12 interested companies.
30% of the US TRANSCOM requirement is for "probe-and-drogue" - the type $TMPS can provide.
Some of these were manufacturers for new build aircraft (eg Airbus) and some may be operators of Red Air aggressor fighter aircraft considering buying ex-military tankers to expand their operation - Omega and $TMPS remain the only US companies currently owning military tanker fleets.
A 2nd Industry Day for the US TRANSOM contract opportunity was held on December 17, 2019.
Progress of the US TRANSCOM / USAF AMC contract opportunity / review staffing that is releasable to the public can be viewed here: [referenceTRANSCOM18R013]:
https://beta.sam.gov/opp/fb4c98b5704e47c7a034...40652/view
On February 10, the USAF FY21 Plan called for the early retirement of a number of KC-135s and KC-10s - making contractorization of part of the its task even more likely.
https://investorshangout.com/post/view?id=5671176
Also watch for any developments in the UK with wholly owned subsidiary Tristar Air UK Ltd and / or work on the Tristars.
Warning ! Anyone who is seen posting nonsense on iHub on any on the thinly traded stocks I'm a shareholder in - especially when small paint downs are also seen along with undercut asks - can expect to have their user ID passed to the SEC which has now started to take action against those using the exact modus operandi I have detected and commented on for the past 2 years:
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-216
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