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37,572 shares worth £120,423.90, or around £3.21 per share.

Pound is doomed. Both the government and Bank of England say they won't do anything till November. Loss making tech companies with debt might keep tumbling in the coming 2 months until interest rate is raised. On the other hand, the market should see that Darktrace is debt free and chances of getting acquired only grow higher as pound falls (finger crossed).

Omg, why make things complicated?

AGM stands for annual general meeting where shareholders vote for things like board directorship. Most votes are in the hands of insiders, to me it is pretty pointless for small shareholders to attend.

Don't rely on the government to sort out the economy. GBP has fallen over 20% against USD in a year and is still falling, eventually Darktrace will be too cheap for TB and other US companies to not buy.

Many stock touched all time low yesterday including Oxford Nano and Moonpig. Also, a number of companies look set to going e.g. Cineworld, Made.com, losing over 90% YTD. In comparison, Darktrace -23% YTD seems not bad given big companies like Alphabet, Apple are also in the range. Perhaps that is what set the good companies apart from the rest, the good ones fall 30%, and the bad ones over 70%. However, all the drop happened in 1 week time and I wad deeply disturbed by the unreasonable 11% nosedive. While the SP continue to fall over 3% yesterday, I was okay with that as that's inline with the greater market.

I was clearly emotional on Thursday (not helped by the cough I've been having for 3 weeks), and I'd like to thanks everyone who share their experiences. Let's hope the market recovers on Monday.

Moonpig just nosedived -10%, at rate faster than yesterday's Darktrace.

Those shortsellers or hyenas are targeting tech companies one by one. I noticed this pattern a while back, Darktrace SP are usually in opposite direction to other UK tech stocks. The other stocks get a moment to breath when they are attacking the select victim.

deepjoy, thanks for sharing your experience. I hope one day I can say the same to younger investors in the future about believing in the company fundamental. In fact, I actually said that to my wife when TB news broke, about holding and trusting own research but.....

BacchusII, the 250p IPO was only available to institutional investors who participated in IPO. The share price shot instantly to around 330p on its debut, so yeah, most people are losing money, apart from those short term holders who knew how to sell at peak and buy back later ; and that proves to be very lucrative way of making money.

Clued, Seaking1, I said that to deal with my emotional pain. I feel like I've been betrayed by the market manipulation. The earning has been increasing quarter-by-quarter but really but that has no correlation to the share price. They have proved the critics wrong about their technology by winning many awards, about the market size by growing customers base, about the business model by turning into profit. It is a flawless execution. What more can you ask for? Perhaps one, that is they do not piggyback bad news to their trading update: the call off of acquisition talk, the bulk selling of employee shares. They should have learned that by now that bad news do not get neutralised by good news, the bad news will just get amplified 100x.

Politicians lie, because politic is their only survival skills, they'll do whatever it takes to keep their job. Similarly for trading, the traders will do whatever necessary to pay their salary, so they all resort to shorting, that is an easy and sure way to make money. If they are reading this, I want to tell them this, "if you keep doing this, and kill off all the fish (other investors), eventually there won't be any fish left for you to fish. You have to think long term and stop acting so shellfish."

I was hoping to learn from some wise people about how to survive the bear market but current climate is unprecedented to many people, and almost everything I heard is proved to be wrong except those that call to sell.

The only hope to recoup my investment is a company buyout. I do not see it any other way, not in 2 years time.

Hopefully the mini budget will rally the market.

Yes, the volume looks suspicious. I remember you saying in the past that you reported it to FCA, did they respond to you?

My trades via HL are registered as off-book.

Darktrace is today's FTSE (all shares) #1 faller. If there was an annual award for the most number of top faller, Darktrace would win it.

This is NOT just the market or Nasdaq thing. There are many loss making, young companies like THG, Deliveroo, Trustpilot, Oxford Nano but they didn't drop (as much). In theory, Darktrace's superior business fundamental mean it should outperform the said companies even when the market falls. For some reason, the share price is just so prone to collapsing, perhaps it is the image problem.

Stupmy, do not trust Google's aftermarket, its algorithm sometimes just wrongly picked some after-market trade. For after market, go to London Stock Exchange website for definitive price, or Yahoo finance.

I use Google Finance chart to look at the real time volume, and I previously said a 200k and 300k sell between 2.46pm-2.48pm set off the big fall. However, now I look at the individual transactions on London Stock Exchange, they both look like a buy. Many of the transactions that followed were not automated trading i.e. they were most likely to be sold by private retailers. Unfortunately, I was one of them who sold when SP dropped below 320p.

Maybe, the shortselling past has created some paranoid shareholders who started selling after misjudged those large trades as sell. Once it is set in motion, the automated trading bot will pick up the signal and start selling and that must have sealed the destiny for the day. I bought back the shares I sold but that doesn't seem to be enough to reverse the trend.

To be honest, the next result isn't going to help, it never did. The market disregard the fundamentals. I can see my money get stuck in this for 2 or 3 years.

What a huge difference with just about 2 weeks ago, it is like falling from heaven down to hell. It is now the first time it drop to 300p, but this time the entirely market is also down, can't see when this will bounce back. How can this be happening?

The SP fell -5% in the morning which is not too unreasonable given the interest rate news but it was the two large sells after 2.30pm (200K and 300K shares) that set off the big fall to -10%. It doesn't look like shortseller to me, perhaps one-off selling by US investors.

This stock just doesn't make any sense.