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You may be right Manchego, although if it happens, other countries will inevitably follow as the bottle is spun on the next poorest country to sort their debts out. It is an unsustainable culture if the Eurozone is to survive, in my view at least although everyone is entitled to their own view.On your point about looking at history, I wonder where some of the wealthier Eurozone members would be today if the Marshall Plan had not been drawn up to help rebuild those countries after the War? Hmmmm, I wonder :-)

You can pinch yourself all you like Manchego....whilst previous Greek governments may have made some mistakes in the past (they would not be the only one), I don't think starving the Greek public to death is a solution to the problem in the civilised world of today. From your hardline "I'm alright Jack" tone, I am assuming you are supportive of Greece leaving the Eurozone? Unfortunately, hardline attitudes like yours are why the Eurozone is stuck in a downward spiral. The only way I can see the Eurozone surviving is for a line to be drawn in the sand such that all intra group loans get written off with a new mandate then drawn up which all members agree to and are held accountable to going forward. I can only hope though that whatever happens at the end of the month, it is a definite step in a new direction to this constant round robin blame circus of past events. The Eurozone is afterall a "marriage" of countries. If one spouse endlessly holds the other half accountable to debts run up in the past for whatever reason, I don't think that marriage would last very long. Do you?

P.S. In terms of tax collection, I would hardly describe The UK government has having the best track record either. I have lost count of the number big international corporates and wealthy business people that are happy to suck further wealth from the UK by using loop holes in the UK's drastically over complex tax law to avoid paying the UK government any tax on the profits they make in the UK. The UK government have had many opportunities to simplify the tax system and close down such loop holes. However, I have lost count of hte number of times the UK government have declared hollow intentions to do this.

Don't believe everything you read in the media Mr BB. Sadly, most news reports (including our very own BBC) are very biased when it comes to reporting facts. Whilst some wealthier state journalists are continuing to report a desire by Greeks to retire early, it is a very short sighted view to take if you seriously think Greeks are retiring at an early age by choice. You only need to take a short drive north of Athens to see the true impact that years of austerity hardship has placed upon the Greek community. Many villages that were once home to various industrial businesses are now nothing more but ghost towns containing industrial warehouses standing empty with broken windows. If only a few more politicians took a drive through mainland Greece before telling the Greek public how it must be, then maybe the Eurozone would start to function as a combined economic unit it should be rather an arena for endless internal bickering between members about who owes what. For the record by the way, I am English and proud to be English. I am also not a "leftist" in terms of polictical views. However, there is only one way the Eurozone can survive and unfortunately, many policitians from wealthier states still don't get it.......the same weallthier states that ALLOWED Greece to join the Eurozone in the first place. Make no mistake, those wealthier states that allowed Greece to join in the first place were not making that decision as they should have been making it i.e. to allow fellow European countries to benefit from free trade with each other and create a stronger economic force to the rest of the world. Instead, those wealthier states allowed Greece to join for all the wrong selfish reasons of creating a market for cheap exports to other fellow European countries and now those wealthier states are not prepared to accept the risk they took in making that decision, sadly at the expense to the Greek public.

It looks like the same old games are being played here again this week with regards to the share price. I really hope the Greek government are strong enough to go through with it and stick two fingers up to Germany's draconian austerity measures at the end of the month. Whilst I am not Greek, I really do think the Greek public deserve better treatment from other eurozone countries (that are supposed to be friends of Greece) than to be continually bullied as a nation of reckless spenders. Yes, the Greeks probably foolishly spent too much hosting the Olympics all those years ago that started all this. However, every Eurozone country was invited to take part in those games and no foolish spender can exist without a foolish lender. Why do other Eurozone countries therefore insist that it is the Greek people only that must continue to suffer? Whilst the public vote governments in to power, I don't think it is fair to continually hold the public as responsible for any poor decisions that get made by that government. Biased economists from the wealthier states will always tell us that it must be this way. However, if a group of friends go out to dinner and then start arguing about who had what when the bill arrives, what "unbiased" economist would then say those friends would remain friends if they all started to tell each other they would only pay for what they ordered? Come on, enough is enough. The Eurozone needs to change and I only hope the end of this month brings an end to all this nonsense that shorters of Globo so love to keep reminding us all of.

Does anyone out there know why this share price has been dropping recently without any new news being issued recently? The share price has lost 12p today alone despite the fact more volume has been bought than sold. The way prices move on the stock market can be a complete mystery at times.....market makers playing games perhaps?

I needed the share price to climb to at least 91p to just break even. After today's announcement, I could not see the share price recovering to anywhere near that anytime soon with big volume shorters still circling and since the share price has for a long time been around 60p, I felt selling up at 63p this morning was the best offer I was going to get on the table for the forseeable future at least. I may be wrong and this might recover but the announcement gave me the impression the company is having a bit of an identity crisis at the moment. This needs to get sorted out and communicated more clearly before I reinvest. As I suspected, the share price has fallen more since I sold and I think this will go further once those more famous shorters and their cronies no doubt get to work again in spreading the love. I was genuinely reluctant to sell but feel the capital could be used better elsewhere over the next few months on companies where shorters have not yet targeted.

There is not enough in the announcement to scare the shorters off here. I have therefore reluctantly decided to sell up until Cupid start to release more regular updates showing evidence of positive progress. I don't often bite the bullet on losses but in this case, I think it is the right choice for the forseeable future since based on today's announcement, this share price could quite easily sink considerably further. There is some strategic vision being given though and so I think it would be worth getting back in at 45p if it goes this low over the next few days.

Here we go.....not long to wait now. Good luck to all those long term holders out there for tomorrow and let's hope all those nasty little shorters get their balls roasted. It is well overdue.

The 2012 full year results were announced on 5th March last year. Can't be long now before we hear something. No news is good news in my view......I totally agree with Cupid's decision to lie low and avoid getting in to pointless tit for tat debates with the shorters when it can silence all those negative people in one fell swoop. Definitely worth getting on board now for the best gains to be made over the next month. Don't forget that whilst Dobbie is no longer in charge as CEO, he has a sigificant holding which he bought at a much higher price which I am sure he is keen to make a return on.

There is absolutely no reason why anybody would want to sell shares in Cupid at the moment. I can only conclude therefore that the shorters are desperately trying to push the price down again today. Only Ennismore is showing up as still having a material short position in this company although since they have not renewed their short position since July, I don't think anyone investing long with faith in Cupid has anything to worry about.

We just need Ennismore to close their short position now and this share price will really start to take off to reflect the postiive steps already taken by Cupid to reinstall confidence in shareholders. Unless Ennismore want to lose a lot of money just before Christmas, I don't think their short will stay open for much longer, at least not at the current 3.5% level.

Looks like this share is really starting to pick up now....and about time. I bet those that did not get on board when it was in the 50s are kicking themselves now although I still think it is not too late to buy as I am confident this will return to post £1 in January.

For those of you still investing long here, we might be seeing some more short positions being closed very soon...it looks like the shorters are starting to get bored with some bigger volumes being bought back today. For those of you patient enough to wait or brave enough to buy now, I am confident this will easily be back in the 70s by christmas and post £1 in January.

Ok, the good news here is that the volume of trades is starting to increase and the share price is slowly moving upwards. I really do think the shorters are starting to bottle it now....and rightly so since their reasons to continue shorting are built on hot air only. Cupid would not be daft enough to issue any RNS now that would play in to the shorters' hands. I think private investors are starting to see through the playground bullyboy tactics the shorters tried on Cupid earlier in the year.

I see TW, LM and friends are making a last ditch attempt to de-ramp this share again today. I still think this company has got mileage and the share price movements today certainly suggest that the shorters are not really sure about their reasons to go short anymore. Jump on board whist you still can since it will be the best decision you make on your portfolio this year. The only thing the shorters do seem to get right in my opinion is their conviction writing i.e. they have made their mind up to go short and their comments strongly reflect this. A lesson to all of us investing long here maybe?

200,000 shares bought at 10.42am. Shorters finally starting to think about closing their positions maybe in anticipation of more positive things to come.

I really don't understand why anyone would willingly choose to invest hard earned money in a share and then knock it....that makes no sense at all in the same way that you seem to regard short term sales as having far more value than cash. Both are important but the point about having cash is that it gives you options to diversify and therefore increase share value in other markets that are more lucrative for the business at the time.

I think SpottedLurcher has anwered your question and I can only assume from the fact that you felt you needed to ask that question that you are revealing yourself as one of the shorters here? It is of course your decision to make as to whether to invest long or short on Cupid although hopefully by now, no one is under any illusion which way I am investing and I for one believe the new CEO should be given a chance to prove himself :-)

I was also holding shares in Cupid on 22nd March but I chose not to sell because I saw through the rubbish that some people were posting on websites to help drive the price down. It would appear that both Ennismore and Tremblant are both still holding short positions in Cupid that they last took out back in July. Their combined short holding represents nearly 5% of the issued share capital and so I still think it is this that is holding Cupid's share price down. At this stage therefore, if you are still on board or planning to come back on board soon, we all need to keep our comments positive and give the new CEO a chance, at least until Cupid tell us they have run out of cash which we all know is unlikely. Onwards and upwards :-) GLA