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The SP's been rising lately but I had reconciled myself to losing my entire investment. Drat!

I'm just wishing I'd bet the ranch! Instead of the patio area...

But I hope it's not a bubble. Fast expansion of the business would do wonders for the SP. Agriculture + Africa are two places I want to be invested in.

It's no use asking other people's opinions - you have to form your own! Which means RESEARCH. Strop talks a lot of sense and I would concur with him that The Naked Trader is essential reading although Robbie Burns cautions against investing in AIM shares - but that's where the spectacular gains (and losses) are to be found. There's no short cut to riches but what I've learnt since I started investing 5 months ago is to definitely have a stop-loss in place and also have patience. If your analysis is correct maybe the Market just needs time to catch up.

In today's FT AGTA get a more than favourable mention by David Stevenson: "If its managers can scale up and build a network across the southern half of Africa the value of AGTA to a bigger food processing conglomerate could be huge." I'm wondering how huge...

It went up 11.76% today without any buys or sells - keep up the good work!

CFM rose 33% today and I was hoping for a similar rise in AGTA! Maybe when he's trousered his profits in CFM he'll invest them here? Something is defintely going on!

Why are people selling? NTBR have posted good results during difficult times. Having fallen off a cliff is the economy about to fall off another cliff? I don't think so. If things get much worse the Government has to pump more money into the Economy which will benefit NTBR. They are not focussed on one sector - they have many strings to their bow!

...for the names of the directors alone! Is that any worse than asking a chimp for his opinion? Seriously, this share has been recommended more than once by Investors Chronicle who have trawled through all the figures. And at a much higher SP! Not that I religiously follow Investors Chronicle - they are right some of the time. And I am too!

Yesterday 4 massive buys had no effect on the SP. Could they be Director buys? AGTA's been getting some favourable press lately and I'm impressed by their expansion plans so I've bought another 28,000.

No, I went down with Woolwoorths and I'm determined to go down with Dawsons too!

...to the person who bought 50,000 shares today! I presume you share my opinion that Dawson are way over-sold, that they have other profit-making businesses apart from newspaper distribution and that the muppets who terminated their contracts will regret their decision! Reports of terrible failures on the part of the new distributors have not gone un-noticed. Not that that will help DWN who will have to exit their old business but let's hope that their profit-making divisions attract attention...

And buys outnumbered sells today by more than 10-1. If the company's plans to radically increase production come to fruition we will all be glad we invested at this ridiculous level.

But Sells beat Buys by almost 3-1. I think "Investors" have the jitters - a further downward plunge is on most people's minds. I'm a Contrarian so my blood will be the first to be hosed off the streets! Ha1 Ha!

It plummeted around the close of trading...

Weren't the recently announced results outstanding? Yet "investors" still sell. I know about "buy on the rumour and sell on the news" but this is ridiculous! I'm starting to question my whole Investment Strategy - I try to identify "under-valued" shares and hope that the Market will catch up but I'm beginning to think it's a waste of time. The only way an under-valued share gets recognised is when there's a Takeover Bid! Or is it all to do with the dodginess of the AIM Market? I think a rational retreat from AIM into the FTSE 250 is called for. Much like RAB's apparent decision but it hasn't helped their SP!

I've been reading OHM's website and if they can only get some more contracts the SP will rocket - hard to believe that 2 years ago it was 45 times today's price.

Phil Edmonds’ African food group Agriterra expects a turnaround to profits as it contemplates a move into sugar. The AIM-quoted company, which began life as Sudanese oil flop White Nile, owns two mills in Mozambique and buys corn from local farmers at half the international price, operating in each district as a monopoly buyer, and makes corn flour for local consumption. Based in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, Agriterra, which also provides farmers with seed and fertiliser in exchange for corn, is embarking on an ambitious expansion programme, says spokesman Jeremy Gray. This aims to add capacity and lift annual turnover in Mozambique from below £3 million to £50 million by 2011. Gray says the company, which lost £2.1 million in the six months to last December but still has £6.5 million cash and ‘ten years' tax breaks in Mozambique’, intends to increase its beef herd from 600 cattle to 10,000 in three years. He adds that Agriterra, steered by Edmonds and his right hand man Andrew Groves, is planning a move into Tanzania, which will need £6 million four two mills. In addition, the company is contemplating moving into sugar in southern Mozambique, where land is becoming available, which is potentially attractive but capital intensive, needing plenty of water,

After someone invested £65!!! Please can someone invest £65k and it might rise 6,560%!

This share is heading UP whether you like it or not!