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I don't like the sound of this. I thought that the ordinary shareholders owned the company's assets. What are the "underlying" assets? Is this a clever move to take the cream and leave the thin, skimmed milk for the ordinary shareholders?

I'm new to this and don't really understand. Don't the market makers have a discretion to charge and offer what they decide and the wider the "spread" a dealer offers the more profit that trader will make if investors buy from him and sell to him at his prices? There are different trading platforms to buy and sell on. I've never investigated them. maybe we should.

I wish more would learn to type and post without abbreviations. This is slightly TIC (tongue in cheek) but I am often mystified by the jargon and contractions and searching sites like acronymfinder often doesn't give easily findable answers because some acronyms have scores of meanings BION. Statements that look like they might be worth considering have to be ignored as unintelligible. Callately Saunders on the Day Today show was the mistress of high speed City gibberish.

BION is my invention for believe-it-or-not.

I'm annoyed that some fund which I hope is unconnected with Hex personnel has been able to buy shares at a significant discount thereby diluting the shares of everyone else. Would the general market not have purchased those shares to raise the required money and maybe at the current price rather than a discount? My cynical theory is that the AIM market is a good way for American companies to raise cheap, interest-free finance from simps who can then be sidelined.

Please don't discourage him: I keenly look forward to more such poetic effusions to be read with a straight face.

No butcher would have perishable produce which was inaccessible to him so the jest is laboured but I get it: stake-steak.

I am a novice. I got pulled into this by the enthusiasm of a friend who had a friend who was raving about this. It's an interesting departure for me. I thought I had spotted a pattern in the AIM market but maybe not. People read too much into forum posts: I don't have another account as others seem to think. They think I'm an alter ego of Bagzz, for example. If you stare too long into a teacup you start to see things which aren't real and then you get burnt at the stake.

Reassuring.

The lesson from my comparison might be that holding on to a disappointing share, if there is evidence that the company is still in development, is the right thing to do but be wary of the initial share price boom. Neither companies in my post are scams and might reward investors well but investors need to avoid being cheap cash cows.

Wrong. There must be someone else who shares my questions.

The London AIM market is a good place for small United States businesses to get interest free money

Is the London AIM market a good place for small United States businesses to raise cheap capital when they are too small to get a listing in New York and banks would charge too much interest for loans? The business can be a sound proposition which will ultimately produce a profit, not a total con. The “cheap money” comes with the share price rise created by “buzz” amongst investors who buy in at a price that can’t be sustained because the number of shares in issue is too large to merit a high valuation vis-à-vis the size of an albeit sound and profitable, but small, business. When investors realise this and sell out, the share price falls to near its “penny share” IPO value. Then the directors can buy back large parcels of shares for much less than they sold them for. They then own almost outright a productive small-cap business and don’t have the banks on their necks for interest payments.

The AIM investors move on to the next hype.

Look what happened to a helium startup on the Vancouver Stock Exchange with an IPO about six years ago. The “penny share”, with a lot of positive reporting in the business press, rose sharply on the Vancouver stock exchange .The peaking share price was a source of interest-free development capital for the company, as it should be. Then it declined drastically and bumped along the bottom and nothing much seemed to be happening to lift the gloom. But when you look at the trading history of the stock, “persons with significant control” in the company have been buying up large blocks or the stock, 40,000, 20,000, now and again for some reason. It’s as if they knew the business was not a dud. Now, finally, there has been a report that a first shipment has been made. So, maybe, the penny stock investors should have held on. Has the company strung the public along long enough with no news or bad news for the principles to reacquire the stock cheaply before releasing good news? Have they finally got a viable company, bought and paid for with the penny share investors’ cash instead of expensive merchant bank money? Is that how you do it? Is there a pattern here?

The rush to reindustrialise the United States must cause bottlenecks in all sorts of goods and services: builders, electricians, architects, plumbers, cranes and bulldozers, concrete, copper wire, all sorts of high-skilled tradesmen and professionals and plant and land will be in strong demand driving up wages and prices. All lot of imports will be needed including skilled immigrants. MAGA will be raging.

It was classic, contagious, uninformed enthusiasm.

Nope: no connection. I'm just a curious bystander who took a bet after a friend of a friend who I thought knew what he was talking about was manically claiming Hex was the new Tesla. I now see that while Hex might be a viable small* business it's not going to be Tesla as it is too finite.

*"small" in the US Inland Revenue sense which is quite large by British standards.

Helix Exploration, even when selling $25m a year, will be a Small Business in US official terms. AIM allows small American businesses to raise cheap capital via selling shares whereas they would be shown the door in the US. It looks to me that Hex will be a solvent, cash and dividend generating business but won't reward shareholders well due to the dilution of quite a small pie. It will be a nice income for the promoters and they'll say to small speculators, "so long, thanks for the loan of your money".