RE: 3m buy9 Feb 2019 10:24
I think that it could just as likely have been either. If the time on the trade was when it was completed, it could have been worked as a sell from the morning (which might explain why it appeared to have been within the spread, because the SP was 20% higher at 0800 and a sell of that size would surely have been at a discount).
If that was the case, and the seller was an existing large holder who has agreed to take 3m shares from the placing then no TR-1 will appear.
If it was a buy then we’ll will have to see that holdings RNS I’d have thought, but if a sell then in the above scenario, maybe we won’t. Questions would be raised it it were a sell worked from the open, considering the contents of the RNS at ~midday..
Additionally, if it was a buy then why did the SP fall by 20%? 3m is half of the volume for the entire day.