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So a couple of things to add. It's an obvious thing to state but perhaps misunderstood, MM make the market, IE they are obliged to provide liquidity IE if any one wants to trade they are obliged to trade in a certain size if they publish that price. Therefore they set the share price, so they manipulate the SP all day every day.
They have a book of stock and they can either run it short or long but their objectives is to purely make money. Tricks they might play is to shake the tree. Here they drop the price early, may though a round 10p price to encourage sellers. They take on the stock to then run the SP higher.
Just touching back on this.
I used to work as a broker some 20 yrs ago. If we were trying to work a large order, a MM may take it on by giving a price for a block of shares and to then work the rest through the market, either to a group of institutions or lots of smaller trades to private investors.
The MM would hold the price to protect the large order price conditions, but he would be obliged to trade with whomever contacted him.
Clearly one MM is holding the price to fill a large buy at a fixed price.
Does anyone have informed insights into total global numbers recruited? I suspect that with the slow start and the drop off in UK admissions numbers will be quite behind the curve.
I hope it will accelerate from here as UK admissions increase.
My guess, 300 - 350 completed.