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The 1.96 (ish) are buys the 1.90/1.91 (ish) trades are sells ... you only have to look at them.
What’s with the FCA nonsense just buy some more ... and fill your boots, when this goes bananas.
The FCA would have about 3000 issues more important than showing a wide, fake spread. As someone put the other day with no one looking, us lot and not the outside world know the real buy/sell.
It’s been manipulated since (without any significant trades) they turned the price round from its southerly drift, at 1.60 ish a few days back. A point three gain on 1.60 is about 20% seeing as you can sell at 1.90 ... so what exactly would the FCA have to look at ???

..... so Friday and Monday this has been chalked up first thing on no trades of significance.
Thought it was surprising it was drifting back to pre ‘spike’ levels.
If we are to one day take off from these levels (it’s average down/ top up time)

You are right ...a few fleecing the many.
However the volume (which few AIM shares sustain for any period) means .. comments like “a quarter of ‘X’ companies shares were traded today” ... means it’s full of people punting cash almost like going to a bookies rather than research bearing fruit.
Heed your hunch is as much about Aim shares as it is advertising Betfair (or whoever it is).
Clp never seems to stack up ... I remember being on holiday and selling 200,000 down as with the price over a penny it seemed good... but I trimmed to 150,000 as I didn’t really want to lose too many of my ‘flock’
.... it’s “sell on news” so not all down to market makers ... parting the many from their hard earned. I just bought 300,000 back to replenish most of what I sold at 37 and 38.5 yesterday... it has to be done !!!

...I used to think “in right at the beginning here” as late 2013 I had positions with buys at 0.48 ... 0.62 ... and many under a penny as we smoothly moved from 1p to 2p .... and up up and away to 10p and above.
Being in Turkey on holiday April 14 ? (Maybe 2015) and watching us fly to 4p when Lenigas and other (billy bull...ers) ramped our way to BBC Surrey ...back into the high ones before heading off to the 10p plus, mentioned here.
So as someone who loaded a million (half at 21.6 half at 22.?) ....in addition to more buys at 24/25 there is no point thinking this is the bad boy that makes you rich (if you don’t sell). I watched a lot of mine go to ten, then watched them retrace... and some of the hearty chaps from those early days I am still holding.
Sanderson hasn’t been as sold on the story as clearly I was.
...and therefore ....
The moral of this (don’t hit the sell yet but) is ‘leave some for the next man’ .... enjoy the profit... but DO enjoy it ... because you haven’t stumbled across the ‘holy grail’ here, you’ve invested in something way oversold ... that is on many radars, and that has some good upside ... if you interpret things correctly.
There’s more in this run I’m sure but having had millions of shares for years, from 0 to 11 and back again, and who now maybe has just over 5 million... I’m not going anywhere ... but still I have more ‘skin in the game’ than people in the company.
‘Note to self’ ....Don’t fall in love with a share ... it’s an inanimate object !!!! Profit is profit !!!
When we see somewhere that you are happy with ...take money off the table... I wish I had !!!

Well actually although it showed 22.5/23.25 for awhile they would take any amount off me at 23.25 on the bid.
Not anything you can rely on but when the market makers behave like that you are usually in an upward trend (I was dummy selling 400,000 then tried it again with 800,000... both were able to go through at and slightly above the offer)

Not sure why most of Friday they showed a lower ‘bid’ but they were taking any amount off me at 21.5 (so those are sells showing as buys) and the real buy/sell figures were higher.
I’ve been loading up a couple of extra wedges ... this week (actually since at 15.75 we started to flicker) so I don’t kick myself “that it was obvious the price was creeping North” and I hadn’t participated in a few extra to sell into the rise.
All these people ‘it’ll be next week!!!’ ...
..... seen AP at a petrol station and he said it’s sorted.
..... know somebody who holds pens for Zimbabwean ministers... well ... they’ll be right one day. I feel with that recent AP tweet (out of character) and the fact last October is now a ridiculous length of time ago.. it might just all fall into place very soon.
I kept buying into Ast the lower and lower it went ...waiting for permit/signature ... and lost a fortune, I kept buying into EQT/QFI/ARS ..I feel this will be like those and will add Vast to the list of ‘baggers’ x1. X2. X3 relatively soon.

.... the tweet the other day, which is not normal for Vast.. I thought might have softened the last couple of days, and seen us start to rise. Down from 0.26 to 0.20 means the share ‘starts winking at people again’.... but after a year (in October) of potential Vast transformational news in Zim having false started more times than I care to remember... it must be on many people’s ‘watchlists’ and at the sniff of movement, people putting 2 & 2 together and thinking it’s Zimbabwe sign off

I am surprised with what is about to happen here potentially that the BB is not awash with people claiming false dawns ... and usual twitter ramps etc etc.
Having increased my long term holdings by some amount recently I was hoping the price would be carried along nicely.
Best way for a share to build a sustainable rise is FACT and a deal being done that will also allow the SP to climb coupled with volume.
The good side of this share is it’s quality assets ... but from my post the other day that the net was gaping, and that Gasgoine had just flicked the ball up over the Scottish defenders head.... he’s taking along time to pull the trigger, and get celebrations underway

...it’s not a different exchange we need it’s a different approach.
“Oh it’ll be Q1 2021” .... just smacks of apathy, everything to do with the company. Other companies are affected by Covid 19, timelines slip, ours get lumped back a year...
Great assets, great potential, but a scruffy, laid back, ce la vie, kick the can down the road attitude where a change of name, change of exchange, reorder some stationery with a pretty new logo (and name) seems to be the only work that gets done.
Someone wrote here recently “I feel some shares are just unloved and will always be out of favour”
No, just some companies lack dynamism, and an ability to move things along in a timely fashion. Stop spending money on new letterheads, assets won’t jump out of the ground on their own !!!
Losing patience here (unfortunately I should have done it before most others bailed, not after to at least see some of my returned).
I’m off to work now ...hope someone at the company reads this after 11 when you all get up.
.... by the way ... where the P sticks up more than the other letters have you thought of the logo having a cute dormouse asleep, with its head resting on the P like a pillow, toss the idea around in the pub today lads. Looks cute

Love it when MM’s mark it as down on dummy quotes. Was 1.80/1.90 at open so they could show it down 0.15
Like posters have said real price to sell goes 1.90...193 now 1.94 (to 2.10 on the offer) but apparently that’s down according to any quote. The MM’s only marked it up to 2.00 last 3 or 4 minutes so they could mark it down on open. You are right they are not trying to encourage buys.

Ebioss changed their name.... that explains a lot. Being a holder from the 1.7 days right down to the 0.12 and back up I wondered what the significance...of this company being clear meant....Akles Corp being Ebioss who had a holding at 5p equivalent sold out.
I get that now thanks, I need to keep up... I must have let my research standards drop down when it was almost written off.... this EQT and was effectively ‘priced to fail’ at 0.12 under that previous over promising under delivering gaffer.

....no I never use them, but a pal I used to work with used to scatter them around to protect to the downside. I thought if there were some people would have put them at a round number like 0.40.... so for example if a share was 0.44/0.45 on a spread...were they able to go 0.40/0.45 for thirty seconds just to take it out?? I’ve only been trading 30 years, do finance as an IFA for a living ... but yet was unclear.
Thanks Applegarth for the response, I guess however it’s like the wild west as a MM (and there may well be no rules or even FCA guidelines-that they would no doubt still ignore anyway)

....I know MM’s can see stop losses and therefore can take them out as sells, but can they widen a spread just to do that (not that I’ve got one but for example if it remained 43 to buy can they drop the bid to 39.8 to take out any at 0.40 for example).???
I sold a chunk at 0.54 yesterday and have just brought the little guys back into my pot at 0.43 so guess I was slightly premature as she drops further.

Remember first buying in here during the ALba/Ukog/Prim days..... then I saw Neil Ritson who couldn’t have looked more like an arcitypal spiv from a Doctor at Large/Genevieve type movie ...I remember thinking he didn’t fill me with confidence...then I heard him interviewed.
It’s not rocket science why I too am down like the rest of you. My only top trump is ...I’m blissfully ignorant as to the level of my losses. (I bought some more at 0.85 and some more today ... on the basis someone will do something right eventually and this will turn)

If it’s the worst thing that there’s a leak and the decision makers (and cronies) that ultimately find ink for the pen, line their pockets (as I would unfortunately expect) then I can live with that. After the false dawns (it’ll be signed when people are in the right place (Oct) it’ll be done this month (Dec) ... hopeful March...) ... then 8 months late... I’ll live with it ...cos that’s dealing in an area like Africa that in most countries talks of ‘being open for business’ ... the reality is still corruption/ new cars/greed.

It’s building (now 0.188 as you say) which is a nice steady rise.
Either later this afternoon or this next day or two, it will finally dig itself out of its last three months BORING trading range where it’s just been marked up and back between 0.15 and (at best) 0.18.
My ‘junk’ warrants extended from June last year, and again from December are going some if they are going to be of any use. (We were obviously being rewarded from being in early days with them ...yeah right)

On the addage that you can tell when something’s drifting when they’ll pay the bid and no more this has been showing 0.175/0.19 for a while (maybe an hour) when they’ll gladly take any amount off you at 0.186 & 0.187 during that period of time.
Read into that what you will but it appears on that alone to be only going one way.
(I hope so as I added a few hundred thousand twice on two T20’s this morning...and I can sell some of the ones I own into the rise)

......some companies rightly get slated for not keeping shareholders informed, but with communication on the 15th May, 26th, 28th and a pretty clear message as to what is going on Tony couldn’t have green lighted much more clearly what was about to happen.
Yes I get guidance on deadlines being missed (owning Vast you become an expert on them) but to be chalked down Friday/Monday during the latter part of the afternoon...then again this morning....with where this companies mkt cap is going ‘its as close to an open net as AIM offers you’ ..... although I bought most of mine after buying back in in the 1p’s I had to get some more late yesterday (too early) and again this morning.
... I think this is staring us in the face as a ‘BUY’ with a much higher share price and Mkt Cap than is reflected at 3.4/3.7..(we’ll see)

It’s certainly building as they are continually edging up the bid. NT to buy.
Marked contrast to the drifting lower from the recent highs of 0.13.

Gutted I sold a few at 1.28 only a week or so back after the share was tipped.... thought it would be usual AIM ‘spike’ ...but it appears to be re-rating nicely.
This has been undervalued for a while and why even as a long term holder (4yrs) I’ve kept buying while I was buying under what Colin paid Oct/Nov last year at a penny or so. Still cheap but sometimes you have to buy/sell with the external forces I suppose, rather than anything to do with fair value. (You could pick them up around 0.55/0.60 seven eight weeks back...when nobody wanted to hold anything)