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Share price back to where it started. P&D extraordinaire. :D I don't invest in the P&D stocks, therefore I never get burnt. Just happened to notice that a lot of the same faces have been in these pumped up stocks in recent weeks. Some of the faces are in and out in a couple of hours, leaving others holding the baby.The shares with few in free float are easiest to pump. Not saying all the stocks that have been at the too of the leader board have been a P&D exercise. Some are popular shares that are widely followed . Shares like this one is what I'm referring too. Either way, no long term hold, not an investment and profits are taken after the sudden big rise. A gang always appear to PR for a bit before "disappearing" to search for the next TARGET. The AIM casino at its best, lol. Place yer bets.

P&D......same old faces, lol

not for me....I like an escape route, lol.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM !!!!

maybe she means you are quick to please :D

P & D apparently....fingers were pointing at someone but I may need to investigate further into who that was. Mostly WRES and some MAGP now, with little interest elsewhere atm. NCT were just a short term play for me as I saw the potential from an oversold position, lol. What's your main holding?

I don't hold any of these jolly. I just popped in for a visit yesterday to keep you company. Don't like illiquid shares. I only like the highly speculative, white knuckle rides, lol.

Agreed. Just enough shares atm to keep oneself interested and earn a little, but if all heads south, plenty of cash reserves to capitalize and make a significant difference. I see your purchase in here was miniscule....wise.

That is why I, like yourself, have a strong cash position.

nice to agree for once. Tempted to buy ceratain shares that are due news, but know they will go lower if market corrects first. Protecting gains are paramount in the current climate and the markets are not to be trusted. Liquidity can be a big problem when it comes to selling and the feeling of being trapped in a share that is falling is not appealing if the market suddenly turns sour. Too many negatives atm and a good correction is needed. It's hard to watch your money evaporate after a year spent growing your bank balance. I watch the big sells appearing on my screen and I know it has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the company involved. It is just plain and simple FEAR.

you said: "i'm happy with one liners & don't need to own to post..but disowned posts,,,jeez" chrisatron replies, "your 10:47 is littered with disowned quotes.......jeez" seriously though, I can't see a recovery this year in XPS and with the stock market jittery, these are only going lower.

Right, off for breakfast to recharge the old elephant brain.....bacon, eggs, mushrooms and a nice strong mug of coffee. 8-)

you should appreciate the company. Not much fun sitting on your own in a deserted room full of cobwebs and a disconnected phone line. BTW, the RNS below is not mine, lol. Significant reduction in performance from the European division. A restructuring is underway which will reduce costs significantly, although this is negatively impacting the current financial year Bob Wigley, Chairman of EXPANSYS, commented: The first half of the year has been more challenging than expected, chiefly as a result of a worsening performance in Europe as we restructure the business to an appropriate scale in line with the market opportunity and difficult economic climate. We continue to experience headwinds in the retail business, but believe the realignment of our cost base will have a positive impact and bring the business increased profitability in the short to medium term. Our DSNS business continues to win new customers, but the predicted network terms changes are having an effect upon profitability. We continue to make good progress within our PJ Media multi-channel solution business and have signed several key strategic contract wins that will benefit the Group moving forward. The Group has spent a large amount of time this year restructuring underperforming areas of the business, and while not complete, we are already seeing operational improvements that are necessary to support the many strategic opportunities we have. However, due to the underperformance of the retail business chiefly in Europe, we expect full year performance to be below current market expectations.

just happens that I have 1% dna of an elephants brain......tusk tusk for challenging me. I only do to others, what they do unto me, lol.

what goes around....comes around !!! Like I said, some one else wrote that post and if you flick back through the pages....there are many many more.

Below post is not mine btw.

I thought I'd write something here,re the results. Expanses are the only shares I hold and like many others I bought them for a number of good reasons - the Market that they are in the CEO (why take a job like this from a big retailer like Carphone WArehouse to a tiny little outfit like expanses for if Mr Catterson can't make this work then it will taint his career prospects undoubtedly), the directors have bought solidly and until now the company has improved.Last hers results seemed to have put things on an even keel but the stuff that cam out yesterday was simply appalling and does not make sense. Two things immediately strike me we are told that the legation action being taken against the company has absolutely no merit yet enormous provision is taken out against this, cash reserves have been spent on what and a restructure will solve all our problems. Expanses has a tiny amount of staff less than 100 so restructuring,downsizing etc whatever you want to call it is not goingo save them a packet and whilst last years closure of their Manchester base would have been a larger savings project nobody should expect it to drastically improve the viability of this company. If expanses had 30 factories across Europe and were going to close half then that would be a radical cost saving measure but outsourcing a few linguists ain't going to mean big savings. I would be interested if somebody could what are the planned restructures and the expected savings. What expanses have always needed to do is sell more.they are in the right Market which is why the "difficult economic times"argument doesn't work, their cost base is tiny (small staff, working through agents etc)they simply need to sell more but make sure that they have the infrastructure (access to stock, delivery times)to make a go of this.I'm afraid the board have had ample time to do this but undoubtedly this company is going backwards not forwards. Don't hold your breath for anything better in Jan as the chairmanship message clearly indicated further bad news. However one positive thing I could say is after a deeply unimpressive re Christmas statement the share price is still over 1p yet the company has been in much bigger messes a few years ago and had share prices much larger than this.perhaps most people have seen through this and if I was looking at this now as a new investment I would leave well alone and I suspect Jansen news will confirm this as a dead duck. Sorry to be so despondent as I like many others thought that this would go places but for the above reasons this company won't be about in 18 months.

Get a life, lol

Me too.

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