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Distateful?, Thornback? Good typo - Donk is certainly not an artist in the kind sense of the word :O) (I'll leave it there, there are other types of artists but it would not be p*** & c** in the current climate).

I think it explains Donk/moagi abuse of MM and me - we were working against his aims (sub 2p) by trying to find positives about the company. I found myself in the middle in the days MM stated his opinions as absolute fact and people were believing his posts. For some time MM has improved imho by producing links so we can decide for ourselves if we agree with him - and indeed Donk/moagi has dropped his belligerent abuse. Incredibly (to me) my criticism of MM brought claims that I was a deramper from some idiot! I'm glad those days appear to be over.

Whizzer appeared to be a deramper but restricted his rants to whether the board was satisfying his expectations.
We all know BTS's history and his criticism is very similar to Whizzer's - suggesting both are reacting to disappointment rather than deramping.

We had a clever version of Donk on Sirius who appeared for all the world to be so knowledgeable, and commanded respect from most of us, until Scotman revealed that he was using his influence to do very nicely thank you by pumping and dumping against the messages he was putting out. He was possibly one of few to have profitted from his years in SXX.
He helped give the rest of us Nephritis!

I think we share similar views on Sekaname, MM - I always thought they were entertained because the Govt did not want Hobson's Choice on preferred suppliers. I think TG would play fair but the Govt could have been held over a barrel at negotiations on prices.

Searching Afdb (and there is enormous amounts of data) I found this from 2009.
It belies the theory that KE was into methane years before Tlou and mugged TG into buying an inferior site.
If this was written today I reckon Botswana would be listed.

"Oil and Gas in Africa
"The continent’s poor management of its natural resources has been a recurring theme in recent debates and need not be repeated in detail here. While there is ample evidence of countries that have managed their natural resources (gold and diamonds, for example) in ways that have benefited their populations (Botswana,Namibia, South Africa), the continent has yet to see success stories in the case of oil and gas.
However, with the ever-increasing discoveries of new oil and gas (for example, in Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda) and prospected fields in many countries (Sierra Leone,Mali, Kenya), the oil and gas sector still offers a unique opportunity that can be harnessed. It is critical for the continent to learn from the failures of the past in designing strategies that fully maximize the benefits of the new oil and gas discoveries."

KE sold TLOU a coal mine , TLOU bought a CBM site , which one was mugged?

Donk, do you remember posting about CBM funding from Afdb? My recollection is that there was a list of maybe 6 projects including 1 in Botswana ( north of the country? ). I think I ruled out the possibility of funding from Afdb after reading it.
(My search engine doesn't run on my mac).

Poll position in what respect MM?
Regarding that 100Mw, the newspaper article confirms my belief that TLOU are still committed to 2Mw up to 10Mw of that 100Mw with Sekaname committed to 97Mw.

i.e. "Last year Tlou Energy and state owned Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) siGNed a Pilot Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the first 2 Mega Watts of power from the Lesedi project. A grid connection agreement was also signed which enables the injection of power into the BPC grid."
That puts Sekaname on poll imho!

That said, I don't think they have a hope in hell of winning the race.
Once the red lights go out it will be neck and neck, with both stalled on the grid. After a long wait, TLOU will complete several laps (the whole race) with Sekaname still on the grid if they have not retired to the pits.

Faced with a racing car and a retiree , I suspect a new agreement will be prudent , maybe a second 100Mw which will be likely to replace most of the first one. If Sekaname prove me wrong, Botswana will be more than happy because 200Mw is a small fraction of their needs.

As to the negotiations, I guess TG has a better idea of his costs than Sekaname will. Both companies need to take care to strike a deal that eventually produces enough profit whilst not offending the buyers!

ASX closed up over 7% and higher than options price of 8c at 8.4c , UK still above 4.4p too.

Thanks Jeff, I don't think people are selling silly numbers intentionally.

if there is 999 shares available @ 4p and 200 @ 4.1p and you offer to pay 4.1p for 1000 shares then you receive 999 from seller 1 (cheapest shares) and 1 from seller 2.

Seller 2 is now at risk! He will be looking to sell the remaining 199 @ 4.1p at this stage!
He is now liable for the commission on his trade , a partial sell of 1 share!
If the 199 sell then his 200 will be complete for one commission, and your 1000 the same partial fills but onecommission.

BUT if those 199 remain unsold (or seller cancels or deletes remainder) then a partial sale of 1 share becomes a full trade and the seller will be miffed! Trades completing in the middle of the day are probably cancellations .
It is possible that the first partial fill is too close to the cancellation for the seller to be informed in time.

I cannot remember if they ask you to confirm how many are being cancelled to give you a chance to change your mind?
I don't suppose it happens that often.

Sorry Jeff, just twigged your meaning!

The half-billion odd are the full issue which have all been sold to the existing shareholders. The number will be increased when the option shares are issued. I should not have joked and caused the confusion. I've paid for my sin with my post telling granny how to suck eggs. It was difficult to write and not be patronising and took ages.

I once told my parents and their friends how well my oldest son was doing in his first week at primary school!
He said they had taught him to write, and when asked if had learned his a,b and c - and he answered no I can write poems,sonnets, essays, novels and more!
I asked him what he'd written , and he said, "Dad! I don't know! They haven't taught me to read yet!"

The wife of the couple did not realise it was a joke and , to everyone's, but her husband, embarrassment started ranting about the state of schools in 1976! Pure silence ensued.

Jeff, you'd be the new Guy Ritchie and own the company Lock, Stock and Barrel , two of them smoking, t'other true.
You'd also be the winner of a game of Monopoly :O)

The true number will change after every successful transaction of course.

If you want to buy at a maximum price (your limit) ypur broker will pick up shares starting with those at the cheapest sale price (subject to your limit price) until your order is filled.

If your order is incomplete then your choice of trade becomes important.
"Fill or kill" terminates if there are none available or if there a partial fill (even if it is only 1 share - which answers your opening question).
Otherwise your order will stay on your broker's books until close of trading if your bid is only for a day , or until your period lapses, or is cancelled by you, or is filled.
Beware - you risk being charged commission on each day they find you some more shares.
I hope that addresses your question, which I did not understand tbh.

If you offer enough per share you'll increase the number available from shareholders who find it to hard to refuse.
The numbers on the books is available from L2 trading, which costs more than basic trading accounts of course.

Just timed reboot to loading and using an Exel spreadsheet and nothing else.
Took a massive 8 minutes, but from thereafter everything seems to be instant on a 4 year old Pavilion (HP) with only 8GB RAM so that is my problem I think. Modern machines might have more.
Machine is never powered down so 8 minutes after each reboot is acceptable to me.

Just over half a billion if you have enough money Jeff :O)

Sorry, cannoy help - I think you might need someone with L2 account.

I have spent all morning trying to optimise my laptop speed.
It was running so slow - initially because Microsoft were downloading a new version of Windows with no indication!
Once that laboriously finished - it was still slow! No surprises there.
Looking at Task Manager there were loads of Google Chrome background processes - though I rarely use chrome!
I decided to unistall chrome which failed because of those background processes!!!
I started killing them, but as soon as I stopped one, I got it back again!
I killed the two google recovery processes, then the chrome.exe, and succesfully unistalled chrome!
Then I went into startup and turned off just about everything and rebooted a few times because that was slow!
It improved a bit , but is still not quick. Once it is running though the machine runs beautifully. Signing out and signing back in is also very fast - dead chuffed!

Opening and closing Google Chrome stops Chrome but not those background processes!

mrmoagi, and I was preaching at Donk :O)

Donk, MM is not referring to a report - he omitted the quote marks but was quoting the TLOU RNS - same as I did at 10:46 in the last paragraph. This are improving , he did at least tell the whole story! He must have a sexier voice than mine, he got 6 ticks against my 1 but he was doing a sales job, and I was reluctantly pointing out a possible delay. Funny old world.

BTS has it occurred to you that the sells are all above 4.4p the option price?
You, of all people, must realise there are punters out there who are borassic but entitled to option shares.
As soon as the price falls they will fear that their profit will totally disappear - and they are taking that profit in cash or shares in desperation.

They have it wrong! They are dragging the price down (for no good reason , as alway, nothing to do with TG) because they shouldn't want the options UNLESS THE PRICE IS GOING TO EXCEED 4.4P BY JUNE 2022 ?
Will ASX follow tonight?

TLOU not replying to K is miffing because none of us seems to know how to buy the options for sure.
Was MM really in charge of a team on traders? You'd think is everyday for him, but he's not helping. Perhaps he is like the permies I contracted for at BP - they want to be managers and are happy to reward contractors for doing the moagi-work, whoops!, donkeywork.

I'm wondering if each broker handles options differently which could explain the lack of detail in the RNS from TLOU (who only quoted 8c on ASX)???

1939-1945 and Winston Churchill comes to mind ...... if all he had was TLOU shareholders to call upon we'd now not exist or be talking German! The nation stuck with him and hope TG will still be here on VB day (not Visual Basic but Victory in Botswana day). And down the pub his knockers will be telling everybody how great he is?

With our ability to turn good news into no news instead of the usual alternative , I don't want to comment on current events because the remotest bad news will be Armageddon on here! I mentioned it when the RNS came out, there is a possible delay ....

"However, we can confirm that their investment committee and board have discussed and are favourably disposed to Tlou's proposal. They are now proceeding to get a third-party technical review of the project as part of their due diligence process. Once this report is assessed an investment decision can be made."

Hitler was not beaten in a day!

At 5.1p and 8.8c , the current LSE and ASX prices , both are 10% above their respective ooption prices.

Have you heard anything back from TLOU , Kernow?

We are all at liberty to do that surely donk?
MM might censor you, people who don't like you may filter you, and others might be abusive or like your post or , most likely , send you to Coventry! It is all part of love's rich pattern.

Anyway, after a 90 minute discussion with my younger son, I have emarked on another spreadsheet.
He is qualified up to the eye-balls and has recently changed his trading habits.
It got the old grey cell working and seems to make sense.

He protects his positions and buys or sells impassively compared to his father who keeps the faith in his investments!

I'm sure many do binary chops at high prices, and buy back when the trough approaches.
His idea has changed towards retrieving his stake but keep the profit invested! If you lose that profit it is not total disaster and if they build , happy days! I downloaded all the daily prices since 2015 so it might be interesting to see what was possible using his approach. I may take your advice and keep the results to myself. Especially if it works!

ASX is more volatile than LSE currently - I'll repeat the process on ASX history too. Closed at 8.8c 10% up on the option price.
I'm in pocket on all my TLOU accounts now. A bit better than your forward thinking, heaven forbid, that the price was heading towards 1p for a second time!

I did not say thousands have bought in for the first time , many will have been window shoppers but of those who did buy , they will be no worse off for seeing selected items from old timers here.

I don't suppose TG knew he was going to be ill and GG would take the reins either - he is not Mystic Meg or TLOU would have been testing the TLOU vaccine instead of pumping water out of a desert! Both the volume of water and covid took everybody by surprise ..... and those two factors might just be mitigation for a few miili-seconds delay on your wish list.

And to wrap up - what makes you think "most of us" want to talk about the future when our CEO and a Govt don't know?
I'm not into science fiction , history is far more interesting imho.

moagi, how do you know who is watching this board, far less what experience they have?
You don't!

And neither do I!

BUT, a big but, it is virtually certain that our rapid turn round since the last RNS, which must have put us in the top risers table several times, will have attracted investors in their thousands! How many of them are au fait with TG's CV and Tlou's history? This is a chat room not a seance! I am certain of that!

Listened to it all, and it confirmed my idea that Sekaname and Tlou were both looking at roads to sell comprssed gas in cylinders at that time.

Given the upgrade to produce and deliver electricity power direct to Serowe (with massive savings on the cost of delivery long term?) perhaps the 5 year delay will eventually be beneficial to our dividends (not planned for years to come- we are going to plough early earnings back into expansion and solar energy).

ASX is open and my IG account shows the link below (phone dealers to trade)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-HHjl1CYFPHt3jhg2JLK5yZNjsutDmQ-/view?usp=sharing

Mirror mirror on the wall ..... hee haw ycmiu!

I found the podcast that I have referenced a few times!
no wonder I could not find it ... it was issued back in June 2015, pre-Selemo and ought to be so dated, but there is very little change between then and now (haven't listened to it all yet).

I believed him then, and I still b;ieve him now!
It is very compelling though the timescales were not expected but any of us I guess.
Happy listening for first timers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yyYJiNpdWM