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Early yet, but just buys so far this morning and a quarter pence tick up to 17.75-18p.

It just means that the cash needed to keep them going is so high that banks are unlikely to risk it as a loan. Therefore they'd take a part of the money in shares, which means BFC doesn't have to pay it back, but also means serious dilution for existing shareholders. The bank wins, the company wins, shareholders get diluted but at least the company survives and can move forward. However, look what happened to MOB when ZED took a majority stake for cash (which MOB used to pay off debt). Complete disinterest in the company and the shares are down 20% below the ZED buy in price.

It just means that the cash needed to keep them going is so high that banks are unlikely to risk it as a loan. Therefore they'd take a part of the money in shares, which means BFC doesn't have to pay it back, but also means serious dilution for existing shareholders. The bank wins, the company wins, shareholders get diluted but at least the company survives and can move forward. However, look what happened to MOB when ZED took a majority stake for cash (which MOB used to pay off debt). Complete disinterest in the company and the shares are down 20% below the ZED buy in price.

AIM companies suspended for more than 6 months are delisted. It may still be a company, but it won't be listed on the stock exchange, unless it re-applied of course. No listing for KWI shows up on my trading screens.

Yes, still in, more's the pity. Not a large holding (not at this price anyway!) so (un)happy to sit and wait I guess. Could be a long road yet, but I still feel untimately they'll come good. Glad you steered clear of JSP and went for TAN. TAN has too much going for it to stay low for long, those downward blips just provide another money making opportunity!

I've only had one punt, a day trade which was profitable. I expect a lot of volatility for some time yet, potential profits to be made but not if you get in at 16p, they drop to 12p and rebound to 15p. Opening both a long and a short CFD might be profitable though ;) I might buy in again if they get below 14p, but risky at any level.

Quite a fall yesterday and more buys than sells so far today. They said that a debt for equity swap is likely so that is now priced in to some extent. That said, when they do finally announce it happening I'd not be surprised to see another fall, from what SP at the time is anyones guess.

Another profits warning and a delay in the results is never good news, results are now due on the 11th April. They do say that they view 2007 'with confidence' though. I don't think this is likel to do a 'Jessops' so a share price recovery on the cards at some point.

Recovery? Well I lost enough on this three legged horse first time round. They crashed big time then recovered and then tailed off over several months. I can't see me putting money back in here.

No one watching then? I got out a while back on a hefty loss. Glad I did, as looking through some of my previously held stocks I was a bit surprised to see these had dropped this low. They had a huge placing a short while back at 10p to keep them going, amazing to see them now at 6-7.5p and third on the fallers list today.

Out yesterday at 516.5p, good account trade, up 6.5% after costs. Will look to buy back in if they dip back below 500p.

I swear this stock was sent to haunt me. Over the last couple of years I've taken a real pasting, but hung on in there in the opinion that they'll eventually turn the corner and return to profitability. Last week they touched 20p and I seriously thought about another top up. But how many times do you do this, there has to be a limit? Alas I chose not too, and then yesterday they announced the completion of the sale of the injectibles unit. This had been a serious cash drain and really needed to be sold. The shares rose on the news and buying has continued this morning, now up to 25.25p on good volume. I can't believe I'm saying that SKP may now be a worth investment, but we may finally be heading back towards 30p.

As far as I'm aware (please correct me anyone?) all of the free services have delayed prices. I use TD Waterhouse, when trading via their site the data is delayed, but you can get live pricing when attempting to deal. However, I updated to ProQuote, their quarterly subscription service, which provides live steaming prices and trades. It also uses more market makers so the trading range is typically a bit smaller. I'd say you have to be pretty keen to go for this though, I think it's £75 a quarter if you trade infrequently (with the price falling if you trade a lot).

Rapid movement this afternoon, jumped above 500p a few minutes ago and attracting some buying.

FEP, Ouch, not telling. Oh ok then, 96p, not one of my better decisions but not in too heavy so no problems leaving it long term there. Am looking to move something else this week though, as have become a convert to LNG for the longer ride. Originally went in fairly heavy on a T10 account trade looking to sell by the 3rd April, but they are doing so well. Even with the profit taking I'm up 60% after costs, never had that before on a share and the more research I do the more I think they are a sure thing. P.S. Davius, not Darius (the singer)

Well I'm new to LNG. All of the long termers certainly think so, and at the curretn SP (18.75p) they are only valued at £13.4m. Figures suggest that they might hit profits of up to £6m this year, which makes the P/E a ridiculous 2.2. Even if you think that the market is a little worrying due to regulation issues (and Europe is looking to deregulate) this rating is much too low. Even if it were 6 then the SP would be 50p. Give it a year and they could be higher than that, and of course much sooner if someone makes a bid (I'd have thought they'd tie in beautifully to Ladbrokes). Not sure how long it will take for you to see much of a return on 19.75p but I'd agree with the others, much further to go if you take a longer term view.

I'd agree re profit taking, but with such a huge increase in turnover on this stock over the last few days it's likely to continue to move. SP now back above 20p, quoted at a 20-20.75p spread, buyers bring the price back up after each string of sells. If you go back to last week, turnover was just 25K shares on Tuesday, rising to 12m on Thursday and then 4m on Friday. Up at 6.5m already today, I don't think LNG is ready to go back to tickover just yet. We could see further rises before the interest dies down. Doh, make that 20.75-21p!

5p to to 21p seems a decent enough return ;) Shares topped out at 21-21.5p but have suffered a bit of profit taking since then and came off to 18.5-19.5p before the buyers came back in. Still a good rise from last Friday though and with the buys at 2.3m way above sells at 1.3m they could well creep back above 20p this afternoon.

This was mentioned in the TAN recommendation the other day, only recently floated on AIM it looks like a good investment to me. The share price is above that at the placing in December, but not ridiculously so. An RNS in January said prelims due in April were likely to be in line with expectations. These are for profits of £2.9m, rising to £5.6m in 2007 and £8.3m in 2008. That would put them on a forward P/E of 13 for 2007 and 9 for 2008, a low rating for a company expected to grow at such a rate. I would have thought a 12+ rating for 2008 would be fairer, putting the likely SP at 128p or higher, around 30% up on the current price. Interesting market sector too, packaging, and unlike SEO it already has contracts with the likes of Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's. One point of note from the placing release: The Company intends to use the net proceeds received from the Placing to fund a significant proportion of the cost of implementation (including capital expenditure) required by the new contracts it signed in 2006 with GS S.p.A. (Carrefour) and Ortofin S.r.l. in Italy, and with a supplier to Wal*Mart in the USA. Buy some now and come back in a couple of years.

Up to 19.25p already today. The speculation that we should hit 20p at least looks to be coming good...