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Quote: More good news for medical research firm Optibiotix Health which advanced a healthy 3.5pc or 2.5p to 73.5p, after securing a huge manufacturing deal with Indian giant Tata Chemicals. The deal will see Tata manufacture a chemical designed to help reduce cholesterol by up to 22pc. The product will be used in Tata's food and nutrition business. EndQuote

This moning's RNS provides news that all the plans are still on course. I am not sufficiently skilled to recognise any negative nuances and it seems to me to be good news that the trials are proceeding well.

Thanks Elrico for sharing. Well worth listening to and SoH's enthusiasm for his company is infectious. He is both open in conversation but careful not to over-step the mark when it comes to divulging market sensitive information. To hear his talk on the background to the SACCO tie-up echos my own sentiments that this is going to be good for us as shareholders. I know some have derided TW's comments as overt self-interest and it's easy to take a pop at him but aren't we all after that to a large extent. Whether we get the jam soon or not is still down to market variabilities but ignoring the day trading element of Opti, it simply has to be looking good over the near and medium term.

TP Group‏ @TPGroupUK tweeted today: First machining operations at TPG's Advanced #Manufacturing Centre in Dukinfield

Well I see there is a further recommendation on this today from TW. It is of course encumbant on oneself to do research and not follow blindly, but it's always good to see someone else, even if it is TW, confirming one's own views. The SACCO link does seem really good for Opti - they are long established with an excellent reputation which they'll want to maintain. Their website is already promoting the tie-up with Opti - so really good news imho

Do we know the likely cycle of announcements ? I was thinking Sara Edmonson who made an earlier shareholder presentation will have been back in harness 3 months following maternity leave, both as CEO of Po Valley and also non-exe director of Saffron - she's a clever, dynamic individual - the type that gets things done. Recent large share purchases might be a prelude to some positive news in the next few weeks ?

Topped up just now 10000 @ 38.3p So clearly a lot of these Sells are Buys. With luck they'll be a bounce back once the market realises the underlying product has now been proven.

With more Sells showing today and yet the bid firming, suggests some delayed Buys are in the offing.

Thanks for this Freddie . . . but do you think it will have just been a lot of hot air ? Picking out one sentence - I'd like to believe it could be true ! "The aim of the review is to ensure that the UK is the fastest place in the world for the design, development and widespread adoption of medical innovations. "

. . . and again at the end of Friday's trading we saw another 2 lots of 150k shares showing as Sells but clearly were BUYS. Good News again imho

We're seeing once again MM delayed deals - this time 2 lots of 350k showing today as Sells - but at 16Aug 15:28 with a price of 17.25 they must have been BUYS Good News imho

He did a very good interview with MD O'Hara recently which Joy13 repeated below. Today TW reiterated his bullishness on OptiBiotix with the following comments: QUOTE: It is August and volumes in most small caps are thin. Most sensible folks are sitting on a beach. But there has been one persistent seller who has been belting out round number parcels for a few days. He/she is not big enough to be a notifiable holder but that has hit the shares. You then throw in some folk who are bored with a lack of news and then others who are just panicking and selling as the share price slide means something must be wrong. It is not, it is just that seller and the bored punters. We expect a raft of announcements within weeks including ones with real names you have heard of and ones that show real revenues being generated. There is no balance sheet issue here to worry about and the company is in great shape. You cannot say if the seller is done and if we are at a low but we know the shares are cheap. And thus for the first time in a couple of years FIML - the company owned by Tom Winnifrith's family's trusts - which already owns vast numbers of Optibiotix shares has gone into the market and bought more. The stance is VERY STRONG BUY and we still see these shares being 100p+ far sooner than most folks think.. ENDQUOTE

I like your sentiments Hugh-Jarse - I topped up too this morning at 57.79 The noises coming from the company are positive - they seem to make an effort to keep the interest going in the share. Obviously, hard sales information will move it properly.

But it is a bad day on the main market so you can't expect to be immune . . .

Dinoken - thanks for posting. Like others I came in to TPG when it was called Corac 4 years ago - in my case on the promise of "The secret UK stock set to profit from the shale mega-boom" Umm - well they had clever engineering with their oil-well compressors - but no mega-boom. Although I have averaged down successfully in other AIM shares in the past, it's not a given that it always makes sense - there's no unlimited cash pot to draw upon. So my average is a high 11p But, I really do feel this time the company in its current form, the reputation it is gaining for engineering excellence, particularly the Maritime division, made me take up my Rights and added in the recent offer at 6.5p. I am feeling quietly confident about TPG and expecting to hear some clever deals coming out from management this year which will add strength to the SP. I'm hoping that I'll have the patience to avoid selling to reduce my losses but stick with it for another 4 years. One to tuck away imho.

Mylastquid - as I understand the RNS you link to, it is to Stonelliance. This is a joint venture with the US government (Fox 59% owned) the latter which has funds available for peace-building in the country. It's primary aim is to build training opportunities for Kosovans and promote Kosovo rather than Fox although the spin-off must be positive IMO. External funding of $100 million will be sought - led as I understood Chris Gilbert to previously say by the US Gov't in collaboration with the Kosovo G'ov't. Fox has long maturity concessions in prime quarry sites but these further sites if and when they come on board will promote Kosovo as a leading supllier of marble.

Good find Ctw - I thought it was a very balanced review with a realistic price target.

Today's RNS gives FOX a cheap way into the US and use the energies of Frank Kaloshi to do it. I would judge that he has the contacts and energy to present Fox Marble without Fox needing an expensive US presence. The factory is finished and tested and the RNS clearly states it's Fox's own finished products that are to be shipped. This could prove to be a very clever move by Gilbert.

It's always a possibility as I've seen in previous years this type of movement in other shares that had been neglected by the stock market. But it takes proper management of news flow and RENE has clearly not been good at that - which is why we are where we are ! Neil Woodford's comments have clearly been the catalyst for the current turnaround - I really hope someone picks up these comments and the BOD act this time.

The article highlighted the extent that Russia supplies much of Europe's gas especially now that output from Holland and the UK has fallen. It further said that the US following sanctions on Russia by President Trump would be exporting Liquified Natural Gas and went through the economics of natural gas by Russia against the costs of freezing gas for shipment from the US and then having to unfreeze it. The essence of the piece was how reliant Europe is on Russia for its gas and if the current sanctions do impact on Russia's ability to supply it, then it must auger well for other suppliers. Although it wasn't said in the article, we can see how such actions can only help smaller local gas suppliers like our own SRON !