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This is all a bit depressing. We could do with some announcements about new clients from the 'advanced pipeline' which was flagged in the November results. We're a long way off 40p now!

OK - it's official. I don't understand markets. Shell today produces rubbish results and has no clearly articulated prospects and it shoots up. Alkane, which two weeks ago unveiled solid real gains and clearly has excellent prospects, goes down. Am I missing something?

Perfectly reasonable trading statement, solid, if unspectacular progress, lots of potential and the board is a sea of red! Strange. Perhaps ALK has the basis for an increase in the divvi with the final results. That would show good intent. Still a strong buy in my view - really hard to see a downside unless the fracking applications are either tortuously difficult to get or are turned down. Remember it's not the tory government - despite its fine words - which gives planning permission. It's the locals they have to convince.

Over £1m spent on two blocks this morning. 46p+. Is Total in the market already!!!

Interesting, both today's RNS say two institutional holders - Henderson and Hawkwood - have sold substantial volume - but no indication who's buying! Must be a new buyer as an existing holder would surely be over 3 per cent notifiable by now. That's promising. But I wish we didn't have to wait so long for the half year figures. Last year EPO took the full three months. Acker 1977 I see no-one answered your question but you only have to check last year's RNS to see the £8m placing. Meanwhile - Friday afternoon!! - Panmure G have lifted their valuation to 52p.

Anyone got any ideas about that one million deal which went through today? My screen shows it in grey - not sure why - as opposed to the usual blue or red. It may show up in an RNS if anyone's stake-building. Or it might be fresh buying interest - even better! I'm beginning to seriously like what's happening at EPO. The danger is that some of the big banks who want a piece of a low cost payments system come in and close it out to the small investor. If the board can fend them off for a while then this stock could perform really well.

41p paid today! And some decent size going through the market. Expect some profit-taking now but it's beginning to look as if there's real interest in this stock. Let's hope EPO keeps making the deals to sustain the optimism. 50p this year anyone?

This looks like very good news. The deal's income expectation lifts EPO's gross revenue by around 50 per cent. Another couple of those and we're hitting break even! Not sure why you would give a customer, even one of this size, stock options. But the strike price, especially the 31p, is interesting. I reckon shares magazine was right with the 50p estimate. Might even get there before 2015 at this rate. I'm certainly not selling my stash yet but I'm bracing for the short termers to profit take.

It took 4-5 months to break through the 20 and then 30 level. We've been stuck around 40 for about four months now. Maybe this is the breakthough where we leave 40p well behind and push on towards 50. This is one of my better investments - good sector, steady growth, good management. I hope ALK don't get too embroiled in long and costly legal wrangles on the fracking front - that's my main concern right now. There's a lot of local opposition even in the north now which will have to be addressed. This pathetic government could do more to alleviate concerns on this; but they probably won't.

EPO has 385m shares in issue and over 10m have changed hands in the last few days. Clearly they haven't all gone one way but if the big buys have then we're close to an RNS on a notifiable interest. Let's hope the buyer can keep us in the 25-30 zone for a while, at least until some of the new contract win information comes out. I'm looking for 30 on this one early next year. Then who knows?

work very well, especially for relatively illiquid stocks like EPO. If you look at the actual number EPO has been trading at it's pretty much stuck on 20p last few days but that very wide spread on the bid/offer create a false impression of movement. Still, it is disappointing not to have the price firmer after a £1m buy two days after results. Perhaps if one or two of the jam tomorrow contracts come in soon then we'll see a push towards the 30p level. Patience needed here for a few months yet!

Given that Henderson and Alliance between them own around 30 per cent and, unless I've missed an RNS the other main shareholders are also funds or PIs, any industry takeover effort would have to start from a fairly high SP level in order to get some traction. ALK is also cash generative, has a good assets, a strong balance sheet and great forward-looking potential (which is why most of us are here!). I'd say a takeout price would have to be a 50 per cent premium on current levels. And that's for a recommended deal. Contested - who knows!

EPO shold learn to communicate with shareholders better than it does. Perhaps a few investors attending the agm could make that point! Fingers crossed for next week then - let's hope for a summary which attracts new investors and gets the SP pointing toward 30p

I'm not a chartist by any means but ALK has shown interesting resistance to getting through 20p, then 30p and now 40. Both the 20 and 30 levels took a few months to break through properly, and we seem to be doing the same with 40. But the fundamentals and prospects are so much better now so I'm confident. The interesting question is what happens around 50p! Some decent cash flow, profits and a dividend rise will answer that one!

I'm going to be a bit generous here and assume that recent EPO silence on its own activities were because of its takeover of Baydonhill. But now that's done and dusted the next big event will probably be the 2012-13 annual results. We need four things from this: higher revenue numbers, lower expenditures (or at least a slower rate of increase than revenue), information on when Baydonhill will be cash generative, and finally some signals about short/medium term prospects. Probably too much to hope hat EPO will be profitable in 2013-14, but next year???

I'm a bit of an amateur about diamonds but this seems to me like a very decent rns with lots of upside. I guess the big catalyst for a good rise will be Firestone's ability to find and not smash big gem quality stones. But at least they know they are there now! I'm going to assume 3p is the low and the only way is up now.

Does anyone have any insight as to why EPO takes nearly five months to get its year-ends out? I was hoping there might be some insight on a much improved 2012-13 but do we really have to wait till November? If EPO can repeat its 2011-12 performance then I reckon we're looking at 30p and a re-rating!

Anyone got any suggestions why this stock has come off from 235-240 in the last few weeks. Where's the bad news? I thought the US economy was improving (apart from this little budget flip).

Understood modern markets. When I was taught economics pricing theory vers 1.01 said that when there were more buyers than sellers prices went up. Today - 150,072 shares bought, 18,982 sold. Result price fell.

Meant to type 'unquoted assets', not asses, though it comes to much the same thing.