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Bear in mind the following Yahoo based share prices for Dark then please read on with FTSE schedule below. COP 30th July £7.65p - High of £7.85p touched. Precipitous fall in SP then 19th August at COP hits a recent low of £5.60p - INDICATIVE PRICE FOR FTSE 250 was set the next morning on the 20th August! Then Dark in the doldrums closing at £606.50p yesterday Friday 27th August. If the Dark SP goes up dramatically after the final FTSE 250 data collection on Tuesday the 31st August Could the Stock Exchange tolerate a company indicatively in the FTSE 250 from the 20th August data sweep, reaching the dizzy heights of qualifying for the FTSE 100 by the 31st August final data gathering! This looks sooo conveniently manipulated to me!

FTSE Russell, the global index provider, in a web note dated the 24th August 2021, advises of the following indicative changes to the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, based on data as at Friday 20 August 2021.

PLEASE NOTE: The actual review of the FTSE UK Index Series will be conducted using data as at market close on Tuesday 31 August 2021. Confirmed rebalance changes will be announced after market close on Wednesday 1 September 2021. Indicative changes are listed in alphabetical order.

Indicative FTSE 100 Additions
• Dechra Pharmaceuticals
• Meggitt
• Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets

Indicative FTSE 100 Deletions
• ITV
• Just Eat Takeaway.com*
• Weir Group

Indicative FTSE 250 Additions
• Baltic Classifieds Group
• Bridgepoint Group
• Darktrace
• Draper Esprit
• Endeavour Mining plc**
• ITV
• Weir Group

Indicative FTSE 250 Deletions
• Avon Protection
• Civitas Social Housing
• Dechra Pharmaceuticals
• Meggitt
• Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets
• Tullow Oil
• Wickes Group

This follows FT Russell's own advice which is:
FT
Extract from FTSE UK Index Series v15.1 FTSE Russell released June 2021:
Section 8 - Periodic Review of Constituents
8.0 Periodic Review of Constituents
8.1 Review Dates
8.1.1 The FTSE UK Index Series is reviewed on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and
December. A full review of the FTSE All-Share, FTSE All-Small and FTSE 350 Yield Indices will be
conducted in June.
The index reviews will be based on data from the close of business on the Tuesday before the first
Friday of the review month.
Any constituent changes will be implemented after the close of business on the third Friday of the
review month (i.e. effective Monday), following the expiry of the ICE Futures Europe futures and
options contracts.

"Data from the close of business on the Tuesday before the first Friday of the review month." I therefore make FTSE 250 inclusion to be based on data collected on Tuesday the 31st August 2021. The first Friday of the review month to be Friday the 3rd September. The 3rd Friday of the month to be Friday the 17th September. And inclusion of Dark in the FTSE 250 to be effective the 20th September 2021.

I well remember when the SP was always getting to £6.20p - those were the days!

But August Bank Holiday is going to be a perfect time to launch Cyber Terrorist attacks - ask JayneC. So lets hope it's a Dark Bank Holiday!

Looks like time to buy a Bank Holiday takeaway or two!!

I was feeling under pressure anyway after Just Eat announced that they were creating 1500 jobs in Sunderland, but there is still a river or two to cross before they get to Northumberland!

I did, but there is no BB & its getting lonely out there!

Buy SentinelOne and set up a new BB!

Charles unfortunately the rally has floated across the Atlantic! Maybe that's what they mean about the free float!

Almost the equivalent of a smoking tax on tobacco! There will be no shortage of willing lenders when they can charge a premium & then all they have to worry about is companies reneging on loans when they have stellar cash flows like Shell!!! They can just put their feet up & watch the cricket!

Definitely timing. It seems that they want to announce FTSE 250 inclusion happening ASAP - a day ahead of the schedule stipulated by the Stock Exchange, as a barrier to Dark even having a chance of actually going straight into the FTSE 100. You can hear them saying that Dark has only just got in to the FTSE 250 - let's take it one step at a time!

The British establishment still do not like upstart companies coming from nowhere, with a business that they struggle to comprehend, overtaking long established companies in the pecking order! It certainly gives us a good conspiracy theory for the precipitous share price fall recently.

Why can't they vary it? Why 620? Whatever happened to subtlety!!!

HKK - my thoughts exactly, they do not want Dark to embarrassingly launch itself into the FTSE 100 too soon! Plus the cushy agreements between backing banks bailing out etc.

It looks disturbingly like its associated with "pre-agreements" related to the recent big sales and purchasers amongst financial backers and investment banks. In tandem with the vaporisation of lock-ins.

At 7.00 am so before the markets open. And plenty happening before that. There should be some Crowdstrike effervescence filtering in to the Dark SP when the US markets open this afternoon.

Yes, it should be a good day for Cybernauts tomorrow! It really underpins the upward trajectory these companies are potentially on!

CrowdStrike climbs as the cybersecurity firm is set to be added to the Nasdaq-100

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/crowdstrike-stock-price-nasdaq-100-cloud-cybersecurity-tech-maxim-2021-8

CrowdStrike shares rose Tuesday as the cybersecurity company is set to be added to the Nasdaq 100 index.
The inclusion on the widely watched index will take place on Thursday. CrowdStrike will replace Maxim Integrated Products on the index of large-cap non-financial companies.

Sushovan Hussain the former finance director of Autonomy was sentenced in 2019 to five years in prison in the US after being found guilty of accounting fraud.

Sushovan Hussain, 55, was convicted of making false statements to investors about Autonomy’s revenues before an $11 billion takeover of the British software company by Hewlett Packard in 2011.

The case for fraud Taking place at Autonomy has already been proven in the US. If ML is extradited he will need to prove that he was not involved and had no knowledge of it! But as Finance Director, Sushovan Hussain reported to the CEO (ML) and Board, so that this might prove a little tricky for him!

The US US Department of Justice (DoJ) want to extradite ML to face criminal charges in the States.

It is worth bearing in mind what can happen to a company on which misdirected and less profitable/non-profitable change is forced too quickly. Few will disagree that GEC was once one of the pillars of british industry. A mighty industrial conglomerate on World scale. For years and years Arnold Weinstock was criticised severely for not putting to use the approximate £1bn that was kept in cash reserves by the company.

Then in came one of the big names of the time George Simpson - as ex-British Leyland his appointment should have attracted closer scrutiny. But broadly speaking he determined that the Internet was here to stay - so a bullseye in the first step of his strategic renaissance of GEC!!! He then decided to invest in a series of "profitable" companies, several in the US, that largely supplied hardware to Internet services.

Goodbye GEC, thousands of jobs, and a zero return for shareholders used to a cast-iron guaranteed dividend year in year out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Simpson,_Baron_Simpson_of_Dunkeld

Shell is a vast company. The winners and losers have not been determined in the renewables race, although there are a few front-runners in evidence! I do not expect Shell to invest massively in a particular, capital hungry area, and double in size overnight, because I adopt a realistic perspective. Slow but sure works for me as Shell has always been managed by some of the best in the business.

HKK - Yes, its got to be a great time to buy back in, so I've joined the party again today. Not even quite waiting until I had the 30-day break for Capital Gains since I last had Dark!!! A thousand curses - but we are in for a few weeks of great news as you say.

The FTSE250 entry has been discussed and should be a serious September boost for the Dark share price.

Also Crowdstrike has announced that it will release financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2022 ended July 31, 2021 after the U.S. market close on Tuesday, August 31, 2021.

SentinelOne has announced that it will release financial results and a letter to shareholders for its fiscal second quarter 2022 ended July 31, 2021 after market close on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.

Darktrace -will announce its final results for the year ended 30 June 2021 on Wednesday 15 September 2021 at 07:00am BST.

BNP Paribas bought over 1 million RDSB yesterday.