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If you do find a way, best to PM rather than post on the board.

Wow. AIM punters. The board need the ability to support investees, so propose they be allowed to dilute by 15%. So punters reduce the value by over 20%.

No, they feel they need the ability, should it be necessary, to raise funds at short notice in order to maintain the existing percentage stake in investees. In other words, if an investee needs to raise funds, Tern want to be the ones to provide those funds rather than having their holding diluted by someone else providing the funds.

..head hurts.

If you'd been here for a long time, you'd understand how that presentation was a game changer. A shift in behaviour by the company that can only presage progress. Also, price rises to reflect true commercial value have been stymied in the past by placings. But we know a placing is not possible this time. Finally there are hints a-plenty that commercial action of some sort is imminent, probably connected with DA. Yes you're going to get traders pumping it, but there are underlying drivers too.

It's not about numbers, it's about percentages. And about preserving and so being able to use gains. Growth can be exponential. Really get the concept of exponential into your head. It's vitally important in this game.

Linear growth vs exponential. As you move up the curve, you can afford to reduce risk.

I think you've put your 7k in a good place. Let's say you triple it here (could be a lot more). You'd be lucky to find as hot a share as this one. So reduce your ambitions and aim to double every six months. (remember that exponential thing). Rome wasn't built in a day. If in five years time you're saying 'I only put 70k in', that will be because you benefited from exponential growth. But you have to choose the right stocks for that to happen.

Just for the record, my 200 quid Sennheisers are currently popping to this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA3WK7PJNFk

You sound a sufficiently cautious gambler to do well. But tread carefully and good luck. Be careful. If the timing is right, and you extract a wedge from here, you might look at some EV metals mining stocks like EMH. But no recommendation being made here. Won't multibag like Tern probably will, but if you're investing the kind if sum that you may be able to extract, safer options with fewer bags become attractive. It's ok to make 200k from a 100k punt. What would that have taken with a 10k punt? And if it's safer...

Which is why putting all your money into one stock is very foolish.

In fact, if truth be told, if I hadn't inherited some money that enabled me to recover, 'being good with danger' would have been the end of me. Always have a plan B.

I crap myself. But I've taken risks all my life. Take a punt on the big possibility rather than the comfortable one. Even though I live a quiet and solitary life now and if I'm honest, most of those punts haven't paid off. If life can be described as a sine wave of varying pitch, mine has reached higher highs and lower lows than most. Being 'good with danger' translates simply into being ok with a gamble. The answer is, yes I incline that way, in a calculated way, but it's driven me right to edge on a few occasions, and on reflection, probably isn't the best attitude to have. I did give up paragliding when my first son was born though.....

Tern's not the only share I've been spiked on. It wasn't Tern's fault. It's the AIM sheeple and rainbow chasers. What's happening now tough is, in my opinion, much more solid. And real.

... I seem to have taken over the board. I'm feeling more optimistic than I have done in a while, and things were pretty scary for a while back there. So I'm hitting the cypriot Tsivania and maybe shooting off a bit too much :-) I'll shut up now.

But it is looking good, isn't it??

macali, no one knows if there'll be dividends or share buy backs or what will happen. But no, if it's divis, you don't have to have held for a year. (are you sure you should be investing in AIM stocks? Its a dangerous market)

It has done. And any share can hurt. But Tern was as much a startup as it's investees. And while I haven't always held this opinion, it may turn out that AS has played a bit of a blinder keeping things going whilst simultaneously holding onto such large percentages of investees. Which is largely what it's all about. It's been a hard few years, but it would seem that things are now finally coming to a head and bearing fruit.

I know you didn't cam. The thread was referencing a post on advfn.

Humbo, I first bought in here I think in 2014, then sold out. Bought back in again in 2016, and for a long while it was my largest holding. But it didn't happen. I got trapped. Being an amateur fool. Like most of my investments, I was right, but 4 years too early. Maybe I should make a living as one of those futurist writers. At one point I was 80k down for a long time, and I had to sell two thirds of my holding just to survive- I used to own over 2 mill shares (nothing else was performing either, for the same reasons). Now, everything is taking off. Including Tern. I've already recovered my losses. I'm not going to make anything like what I originally hoped, but c'est la vie. I'm still going to make enough to be safe and comfortable. For the rest of my life. I can't ask for more than that. And if the wilder predictions are even vaguely accurate, I'll be very comfortable.

But no, I'm not hovering over the sell button.

Yep. Potential is fantastic. Listen if it sells for 30 billion, I'll fly to the UK purely to kiss your backside. And believe me, I'm 200% heterosexual. But it isn't going to. I'm ecstatic that I feel able to raise my estimate above a billion. I think that's fantastic.

The wireless headphones on which I am currently listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvY8pb-KPwI is an IoT device. One day, I'm sure Sennheiser will get around to securing these headphones, hopefully using Keyscaler. But at the moment, they won't Not in the next few months.

haha, yes indeed j33. I'm sure it is. I wasn't once, but I am now.