RE: Buys showing has Sells16 Dec 2020 10:08
"I believe it is because the broker sold you the stock. It's the broker that reports the trade. Happy to be corrected."
This is a very widespread misconception. The direction of a trade (buy/sell) is never reported, only the date, time, volume and price. LSE (like everyone else ) uses the mid price to guess the direction of the trade. In this case Badbat was lucky enough to buy below the midprice which at the time of the trade was 3.4, so LSE guesses it was a sell. (The * against the buy/sell used to link to an explanation of this fact but I can no longer see it.) There is a lot of juvenile rubbish on BBs about MMs misreporting the direction of trades to fool punters. This is not only impossible (as there is no way to report direction) but would be a criminal offence (called fraud) and probably a go to jail one at that.