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Well, with the disclaimer that I could well be looking for something that doesn't actually exist, I also noticed the last of the 115+ £10013 sales was on Friday, the day Alfa posted about them.

Instead Monday had five sells of £2006, Tuesday I confess I can only see four of them and today there were 5x £2006 sells. Could be completely unrelated of course.

On Friday Alfa posted a weekend challenge for us. Alfa, I'm assuming you've also noticed the change in tactic that appears to have taken place since Monday. Seems a curious coincidence wouldn't you say?

Well, when they add up to 115 trades this year alone there's unquestionably a pattern there isn't there. I'm going to risk sounding a bit thick here but why a trade value of £10013 rather than £10000? Without spotting the pattern I'd look at any of those standalone trades and simply assume PI who wanted £10K after broker fees.

...so, to add to that the number that preceded 10 41 would be...
08 44

but apart from it being a daily £10k seller I don't get the significance?

Each consecutive day at those times someone's been selling 40 odd thousand or £10k's worth of shares.

Well that was quick. Just like Likeahurricane, Lordflatulence appears to have... Gone with the Wind.

Damn, I've just realised I'm probably not meant to post email addresses. Sorry about that.

KN, if you did want to write to the BBC, the writer of the article is a business correspondent so possibly not the best person to write to. Having previously owned a BBC email address many years ago my guess would be ian.westbrook@bbc.co.uk. A better bet might be the BBC's Science Editor: david.shukman@bbc.co.uk

JC

I was about to add 'declared short position'.

Very useful Endion - thanks.

Interesting, the discrepancy between Euroclear and Shorttracker's figures - Shorttracker only ever had the size of the short at 0.71% or roughly 8m shares whereas Euroclear's figures suggest it was actually as high as 10m.

KN, it was the same for me with my Android phone then someone suggested losing the www. prefix on the web address and it did the trick.

JMC

Great work Paludina and thanks for sharing - your work's very much appreciated.

numpty5 - yeah, absolutely.

numpty5, I don't really follow them but the last time I looked CAML (who had slightly higher EBITDA than us last year, $126m more debt and aren't going to be involved in the most explosive growth industry since the advent of the internet) paid out a 7% dividend. I'd be OK with that.

Well, as if by magic REMX have today reduced their BMN holding by....175k, down to 4,064,471 which must surely account for one of them. The second, a reporting error perhaps? Or an inter MM transaction (he says, searching for the 'I'm now getting a bit out of my depth' emoji). Alfa?

Thank you Ophidian, that's truly very much appreciated, though I think you're being quite generous. My methodology was rather crude, however I think the aim of your exercise worked in as much as it's made me want to try harder to make useful contributions when I can, which isn't always!

Yup. I'd agree.

"Bushveld operates the Vametco mine and plant near Brits in North West and it generated 742 tons of vanadium in the quarter, which analysts at Peel Hunt said was 14% higher than their in-house forecast."

So how is it that a humble PI (Ophidian) nailed it to within 9 MtV yet it took them by surprise? It doesn't sound like they tried very hard.

Looks like Vaneck have reduced their BMN holding by 400k. Now 4,239,471. Assuming a 48 hr delay before reporting then on Monday I suppose but no obvious looking trades that day.

Thank you