RE: Alexander Mining3 Apr 2025 11:11
Some good rational background there, thanks BIKWIK. It's good to hear some facts against the wild speculation from keyboard warriors who air their frustration at lack of movement of share price by making wild assumptions. I need to also balance this problem with soe rationality.
There are some other things I want to clear up about AIM in particular. First of all, this is not an Enterprise company in the FTSE. It's more akin to a start up. Therefore the same sorts of rules don't apply because there are simply less internal resources. To speculate that the leadership aren't doing enough or any good work without knowing their day-to-day challenges (baring in mind that there must be hundreds of challenges operating this type of company in this type of jurisdiction) is just naïve.
Salaries for start ups often require employing people who are willing to take some risk with their career because small companies like this are high risk. Therefore again, treating it like an enterprise in terms of salaries doesn't make sense when you have to consider the challenges of recruiting good people who are willing to gamble with their career and livelihoods.
Stating that leadership should put their hands in their pockets and spend thousands to buy shares is also ignoring the likely reality that they simply don't have spare cash lying around. People live within in their means wherever they are located in the country so to think that all the board are super rich, highly paid with tens of thousands of pounds to spend on shares is equally naïve.
Anyone who thinks you can analyse a chart for an AIM company like this one simply doesn't understand maths. Statistical analysis requires large volumes of data otherwise it's nonsense. Judging chart patterns on 40 trades a day is laughable.
This type of company on AIM only moves the share price based on newsflow. The only thing the board can do is keep up the marketing so that investors are aware and watching for when the news happens. This is simple business. No marketing, no sales.
The AIM market tends to move when there's nowhere else to make money. In the last 5 years tech stocks and bitcoin is where all the money is being made so why gamble on AIM with risky companies like this when you can safely invest in something more predictable? There are likely to be more traders when the other markets drop. This is what happened during the pandemic and with the chances of a trade war looming and a strong gold price, i suspect we'll start to see eyeballs return.
Next time, before you get out you pitch forks, consider that there might be more too it than the loudest angry person might be depicting. It's important to hold leadership to account, but it's only useful if it's isn't just wild angry speculation.
Ask fair and sensible questions and be patient. Don't get emotional. You shouldn't be gambling on AIM if you're emotional.