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Look at that waster Wynbore pretending he sold at 82p and that he's now profit taking from 32p cos he f*cked up his last trade. Imagine being so narcissistic that you have to invent a trading history to back up all your idiotic comments - and so dumb that you think people actually believe any of it 😂

For people who repeatedly trash stocks and/or argue on investment forums, being right matters more than making money. They have low self-esteem and therefore argue publicly to reinforce their self-image. It's a way to gain status in an environment where lack of career success/trading track record isn't visible or provable.

Every reply, quote or argument provides a small dopamine hit, reinforcing their behavior. They have the illusion of Influence and genuinely believe their comments can move sentiment or price - even though their words have zero real-world impact.

Their behaviour has four overlapping traits: sadism, narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy . Facts rarely change their mind even when proven and they keep returning daily despite “hating” the stock

If you you encounter these lunatics (Touk, Thorn, Wyndbag), the healthiest response is disengagement. Arguing with someone whose goal is psychological relief rather than truth is almost always a complete waste of your time.

Bear this in mind as we move into 2026.

4,000 posts on a "punt". What a psycho.

For people who repeatedly trash stocks and/or argue on investment forums, being right matters more than making money. They have low self-esteem and therefore argue publicly to reinforce their self-image. It's a way to gain status in an environment where lack of career success/trading track record isn't visible or provable.

Every reply, quote or argument provides a small dopamine hit, reinforcing their behavior. They have the illusion of Influence and genuinely believe their comments can move sentiment or price - even though their words have zero real-world impact.

Their behaviour has four overlapping traits: sadism, narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy . Facts rarely change their mind even when proven and they keep returning daily despite “hating” the stock

If you you encounter these lunatics (Touk, Thorn, Wyndbag), the healthiest response is disengagement. Arguing with someone whose goal is psychological relief rather than truth is almost always a complete waste of your time.

Bear this in mind as we move into 2026.

"Like I say I am not actually an idiot. I dentifiedd at 32p that it was likely to go up and sold mid seventies."

No you didn't. You're an idiot and will always be an idiot.

Icecool: "This is going to take a long time."

Wasn't that always the case? All this hysteria because a multi-billion $ deal hasn't been struck TODAY. With these excellent updates, Avacta will have no problems with funding. RH's last raise barely affected the SP, so why even worry about future dilution?

Avacta know what they have and don't want to give it away on the cheap - the more positive data they can extract, the higher their bargaining power. So you might have to wait another year or two for a potential 20 bagger? Ever had a 20 bagger in your trading history? You won't be complaining.

Of course, like any share it could all go tits up - but after recent data, Avacta is much stronger today than it was yesterday - yet the SP dropped 25%. Seriously?

The amount of brainless numbskulls selling here is absolutely unreal. I hardly ever trade, but this feels too easy.

Looks like CC has drained the swamp.

"No partnership or license announcement then the market won't react."

HEMO moved from £1.24 tp £17.90 without a cash injection related to any license or partnership.

Broke my golden rule investing in crypto here - never again. Thankfully sold at 0.0105p, so limited damage at 7% loss, but what a con game the whole crypto/Bitcoin world is. Its entirely based on sentiment with no foundation whatsoever. What are these crooks paying themselves? You can be sure they'll walk off loaded while shareholders lose everything. Good luck.

For a laugh I asked Chat GPT: "Shorting a biotech right before major oncology data—even if you believe the prior data was overly optimistic—is generally viewed as a very high-risk, high-stress, potentially catastrophic trade."

Imaging shorting a company that's on the verge of releasing groundbreaking data that has the potential to transform cancer oncology based on hugely encouraging data that shows it's working better in humans than animals. I seriously can't think of a more cretinous decision to make.

Surprise, surprise the village idiot believes in charting. If it goes up, won't be because of a "5 wave up pattern".

"5 wave up pattern" 😂 I'd sooner bet on astronomy than that tripe.

@GLR1990

"But to say the 'fall of AI' will mean demand for RE's will fall of a cliff and the investment case is over is outrageous, when RE's are used in a whole host of applications from military use, wind turbines, Ev's, electronics and more."

Where did I say demand for REs would "fall off a cliff"? I simply said that overinvestment in AI is creating a widely reported bubble that could crash the markets and set back producers like MKA, and lots of other companies. In my eyes, that makes MKA a potential short-term risk and nothing more than that.

Try and be a bit more like esduk, who's offered mature responses to my posts rather than hysterical ones.

You must have missed the bit where I said the CEO was corrupt. I'm not comparing how BMN and MKA were/are operated, simply how the renewable roadmap they predicted never arrived despite all the predictions of widespread battery usage. People bought on a vision that never materialised but everybody thought would.

Cheers esduk. I'm sure Mkango will be fine whatever happens and will invest at some point, just not sure when.

@esduk

You make good points, but as a former holder of vanadium producer BMN, which was strongly tied to renewables/batteries/aerospace and eventually went bust because it tried to run before it could walk (and the CEO was corrupt), I'm wary about accepting growth predictions tied to future demand from certain sectors.

You say "We don't care whether some pre-revenue or unprofitable AI companies tank or go bust" - well MKA is pre-revenue and requires private placements to survive. Should the AI bubble trigger a market crash, it won't just affect AI companies but the whole economy. Of course, the big tech will survive, but as BMN proved, non-profitable companies struggle to keep the lights on until investment returns.

If you believe too many of the pump merchants (not suggesting you're one), you can easily think the things you describe will happen in a short-term timescale, the reality is typically very different. There is definitely major potential in MKA, but until the dust settles on this AI bubble, it's edging increasingly towards risk in the short term.

Of course, I could be completely wrong and wish all shareholders good luck. I will certainly keep my eye on MKA.

@esduk

"Whether there is a bursting of the AI bubble or not, I think the AI buildout will continue at pace. "

Yes it will, just as Internet companies eventually became profitable. But in 2000, few of them were. There lies the correlation with the AI bubble - too much investment too early and a lot of companies are going to sink if there's a crash.

The top two drivers of rare earth usage in the future are energy/clean tech and AI. While defense is strategically critical, it's smaller in volume compared to the big clean-tech demand pools. However, if anything, Trump is retreating from the energy transition.

It's all rather uncertain at the moment, hence why in the SHORT TERM I don't see a major recovery here.

Current situ with AI seems eerily familiar to the dot.com crash of 2000, where over-investment led to cancellation/slashing of large telecom/fiber buildouts. If the AI bubble bursts, the same will happen in relation to capital expenditure for data centers, robotics etc.

Where does that leave demand for rare earths and investment in companies like MKA? This is no longer looking an attractive investment in the short term.