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£300k buying today on top of around £400k late reported trades from last week. Looks like there's an investor on the prowl. Makes the drop to sub 40p last week look mighty suspicious. Does anyone monitor these markets for unfair trading practices!

Anyone got any ideas why this excellent prospect has dropped below 40p again? I've got a monthly buying programme for my SIPP on this so I don't mind averaging down occasionally but why this isn't pushing 50 again is a mystery to me. Another long wait till we get some 2014 numbers I guess.

http://www.otcbb.com/investorinformation/investorinfo.stm I thought originally SEV was aiming to list on Nasdaq! OTCBB does not trade listed shares. As the name indicates it's an OTC bulletin board which 'does not trade in listed securities'. So either this is a first step on the way to a proper market listing or SEV has seriously pulled in its ambitions to list. I'm not sure therefore whether Tanfield will be able to use an OTCBB price to fully value its holding in SEV. They could trade out of them if there's enough liquidity on the OTCBB but that's the problem, there usually isn't. Still, on the positive side, at least we will get some sense of public value out of this manouvre and TAN could use that as a reference point for a private block sale.

And another thing! There's almost a 10p spread on this stock. which means the value is up or down 3 per cent depending on whether the last trade was a buy or sell. When you're carrying a big position it's really irritating. If you look at similar priced stock the spread is usually a penny, sometimes less.

If today's trading doesn't look dodgy then I don't know what is. Gets driven down steadily all day on tiny volume trades then £385k gets picked up at the low. Anyone would we didn't have regulators!

Woolly - could you enlighten the less informed among us i.e. me, and tell us what the Public Sector Contract income is and why it's important to ULT in eight days? (Seven now?)

Sixty points off in three days. No diary announcements, no RNS, no news - what's all that about?

What is it with this government? Smug, inherited millionaires like George Osborne decide that making a few bob is really bad for the rest of us. So just when housing gets going after six years of depression he dumps on it. Apparently it's an attempt to create a 'balanced recovery'. It's a joke.

EPO is keeping a flow of quality new deals. State Street is a first class name to come onto the books. This year's year-end announcement will be really interesting but a bit of patience needed before we see the detail. If this isn't touching 60p by the end of 2014 I'll eat my mouse.

For a company like Ultrasis the promises are worthless until they turn into deals. They have had their board changes, they have arranged what should be a lucrative partnership in the US and reorganised the web delivery. Somebody needs to get out there and get some contracts signed and grow revenue, otherwise we're going nowhere. Until it moves towards sustainable profitability there will always be selling pressure from investors who get fed up waiting.

Are you sure Germanicus. Isn't that the loan? TAN has always said that without a listing it's not possible to value Smith equity holding. It would help if TAN produced its 2013 annual results! They said on two occasions earlier this year these were intended for publication in April but no sign yet! Can't be difficult - it's a holding company!

Gambling - I'm not sure but you may not be able to put non-UK listed shares into an ISA. They've only recently allowed AIM shares into ISA's. Not definite on this but worth checking.

It's another three weeks to June 6 when we get the interim statement. Meanwhile this is becoming increasingly volatile and on a slight downward trend. I appreciate there's lot's of talk about housing overheating but at the moment it's mainly talk. So BWY's SP should be doing much better. It's well under most of the broker ratings too.

I think on this occasion the board may not have done a very good job of explaining why this is a good deal. Egdon is up 25 p.c. on the news and ALK is down 10 p.c. But remember that although there's a lot of excited expectation about shale gas there is as yet no commercial shale gas extraction in the UK. I'm with Vernony. ALK has been given a slug of relatively liquid assets (shares) in exchange for a minority participation in future shale gas success which will be developed at no cost to them. Meanwhile they get to develop everything else on the shared sites plus doing what they are already doing very well thank you, i.e. CBM/CMM. Looks good to me - no way am I selling this baby.

This happened to me before when a UK listed company delisted on London and went to Nasdaq. Basically the UK shares get bought out and cancelled. You get whatever they are worth on the day. You don't get Helsinki listed shares instead. If you want those you have to find a way of buying them fresh.

Looks like the market likes this deal. Lots of buying, mainly fairly small but a few £10K +. A nice quiet ride to 500 would be most welcome.

Well that looks like that then! Trading a non-LSE listed stock is difficult and expensive. Your broker has to have access to that market, there's a foreign exchange risk and the cost of trading plus tax makes it expensive. You can do it but it only works for fairly large transactions held for some time. Sorry, but it looks like this game's over! Pity, it seemed we had come off the bottom and were about to enjoy the recovery.

At the moment the Smith stake is not valued in the Tanfield balance sheet. It never has been. A listing will automatically create a value and allow TAN to sell the stock on the open market (unless there's some sort of handcuffs on the TAN stake which is unlikely). So finally TAN will be able cash it in. But there's been so much dilution over the years it's difficult to work out how much it's worth now. The good news is that whatever they get will be distributed as a special divvi. It won't cover my losses but it means it's worth holding onto what you've got until it comes through.

Excellent announcement. Must be within sight of breakeven now, maybe not this financial year but next? Really good long term investment building here.

Nice one! Although not huge 23,000sq ft around Old Street at £23 psf is well worth buying. WKP should be able to get at least 30 p.c. more yield out of that and increase its book value. More of these please in the push to get back up over £6.