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Argus Media also now showing an increase in Chinese FeV prices.

https://www.argusmedia.com/metals-platform/price/assessment/ferro-vanadium-80-v-fob-china-PA00144230000

I remember it was an email sent to YTSS on the 6th. Hope they don't mind me sharing:
"We should get the Q2/H1 results next week. It would be tempting fate to make any further comment but I believe the principal of investing in good management should win through in a difficult environment."
So, no guarantees of today but doesn't sound like they're too far away.

So let's get this right: the large sell that triggered the reversal of a rising share price now actually never happened after all and they're now free to be sold again when the time suits. Well that all seems nice and fair doesn't it.

Agreed faramog - I was just replying ConMan's question.

Pretty sure it was 13.26-13.5 at the close

'A battery that doesn’t blow up, doesn’t use scarce rare earth metals, and can power your house for 20 years — is it possible?' Why of course it is...

https://sifted.eu/articles/voltstorage-tesla-powerwall-alternative/

OK, I'll have a go:

2) Products:
Largo produce the lower priced, lower V content V2O5 (with the intention of diversifying their product range to include Fev and V2O3 at some point later this year)

BMN already have that diversification and produce all of those: 
Vametco: Fev (Nitrovan)
Vanchem: Fev, V2O5 and V2O3) with the addition of vanadium electrolyte once the EL plant is completed

@bassguy to answer your question, I have absolutely no idea why I can deal pre-open but I can, and my account is a stocks and shares ISA. From 7:50 I get quoted a price in BMN only, not in any other shares. Some days I can only buy, some days only sell, most days both, very rarely neither. I've tried to find a pattern to this so that I might get closer to being the 'big money' that I'm most definitely not. No idea, there isn't one that I can see.

I wouldn't want to get too excited but I've just been quoted a pre-open bid of 12.375, against last night close of what 12?

This Largo Crux interview's an interesting watch. Most notably because they seem to be repositioning themselves - they're no longer a Vanadium miner, they're a "Clean tech solutions provider", presumably hoping the market will view them differently, with additional focus on V203, titanium and VRFBs. I don't know enough about Largo's operations in sufficient detail but I get the impression from the way the CEO was talking that they're a significant way behind Bushveld when it comes to VRFBs and I mean light years.

The other point of note at the end being that the CEO is buying shares in the company (and with a smile on his face the size of Guatemala) because he thinks the share price is 'ridiculous'.
You think your share price is ridiculous - guess how we feel.
https://youtu.be/27wg6a31VH0

Thanks for the IFBF link - it's a lengthy but interesting listen. I do like hearing Mikhail speak - he really is engaging and articulates so well. He makes it clear that BMN's production expansion is mostly intended for use in the battery market.

"We're trying to triple our production output...where's that vanadium going to go? I would be so happy...and our board would be so happy if a lot of that went into storage. That may not be the mindset of every single vanadium producer but that's what we're trying to do".

As we see yet another day of the share price and this company being the plaything of a grubby, rotten market, it's Adam Rousselle of Renewable Energy Aggregators who closes with the blinder as was posted at the time:

"I think the whole world is going to be depending on Mikhail much more than they're paying attention to today. I think his company is in the centre of this entire industry, and we need his leadership and we need his assets and I can't make it any simpler than that.."

By which time I sincerely hope Bushveld have long since sent this message out: "Stuff you AIM, you had your chance you greedy parasites and you blew it."

https://youtu.be/JcP1XTjYrTE

SF, agreed, that was always my feeling - £5006 = £5k after broker fees = PI selling.

Alfa, that was my next suspicion that it was simply dressed up to look that way. Frankly, I don't know what to believe any more.

I really hope you're right @SquirtyFlower. The thing that stood out for me wasn't that they were £10k sells but that they were £10006. Just about every single day for months someone's been drip drip dripping sells of £5006 sometimes several times a day. They're fairly innocuous looking because they're never a round number of shares, until you spot them and then they scream out at you. You'd surely think they're connected.

Sadly I missed it too but appreciated the Match of the Day style highlights posted yesterday. Very much liking the Adam Rouselle quote aimed at MN.

No problem VV (my uncle had one of those in the 70s).

Not wishing to clutter the board with this but for the benefit of other IG stocks and share ISA holders they added this :
"Yes, you will be entitled to voting rights and dividends via us in case if you are holding shares in a share dealing account."

And as SF quite rightly said:
"In the case of CFDs and Spread bets you will not be holding actual assets in the market. You will be betting on price movement of the asset without holding the asset."

Yes, I think that must be the case SF. Gave me a small fright though! IG insist that I do three trades a quarter or pay a small account fee. That leaves one more to do by Tuesday. Hmm, now what will I buy...

This thread alarms me slightly because my BMN shares are also held in an IG stocks and shares ISA, so I emailed IG this morning.

Their reply:
"Dear Mr C,

Thanks for your email.
No, your shares are not used as borrow for short sellers. You are the owner and holder of shares and these are not used by the company."

Hello, I caught it on R2 too. Hope you don't mind me jumping in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_two

From 12:25

For what it's worth daitom, my take on you is that like many of us you've been here a long time and over the last year you've just become utterly ground down by a seemingly bottomless pit of shares being dumped to control the share price. Sell some, buy some back, sell some, sell some more. To hell with the cost. The share price must be controlled. It feel like a war of attrition: grind down the poor, simple, clueless PI until he eventually just throws in the towel and skulks away cursing an unfair market. Well sod that.
Respect to you for being airborne. Twenty odd years ago I did a solo static line jump with a military instructor. I loved it, in fact I enjoyed it so much I've never felt the need to try it again since!

I'm so sorry to hear your news Pdub. I've followed your posts for over six years now - thank you for always being such a voice of positivity for the rest of us. Stay strong and take good care of yourself. JC.