(Very) Late trade22 Sep 2023 08:00
Kaneonaim pointed out last night the late 500k trade at 5p, timed at 13.29pm on WEDNESDAY. Now if you look at the trades for Wednesday, you will see there were no trades at all between 11.25am and 16.03pm. That is, no buys and no sells. Clearly, they were trying to work that order, but interestingly it was NT to buy for large parts of that 4.5 hour period.
Now roll on to yesterday (Thursday) morning. At 8.42am I posted on here that there was what I would call backwardation (I know that usually relates to anomalies in contract and spot prices) between the bid and offer price. Basically, it was 4.96/4.94 which indicated to me that a MM had a large buy order to fill. That is why I bought the 100k and 75k, as price was obviously going to move up.
So, the question is now, as Kane correctly eluded to, how many other delayed trades have not yet been reported to the market?
MM's have an obligation to disclose when a worked order is complete. Yes they can delay an hour or two I guess, but not a day and a half. So why did they do it?
Today, is going to be very interesting. I remain of the belief that any decent revenue enhancing RNS is going to cause a real spike in the share price. Those of us who are accumulating, will be well rewarded. It is just a matter of time in my opinion. However, this needs to be thought through by all, as gaps in trades leave room for interpretation. My trading strategy, however, remains clear though. GLA.