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So when do I win the "just for fun" any time until 31st December prediction? I said 1.25p and as we have already had 1.26p trades today so I am thinking it might happen very soon. Still give it a few days and those buying in now will be trying to talk it up again. Fat chance. This is a nice gravy train for the bod and apparently there is another first class carriage for "consultant" friends! All ultimately paid for by the shareholders.
It is actually quite pathetic how they have released this rns. Timing wise.
Cperkin - try engaging your brain to understand what you are reading rather than how you can ramp or attack any other posters.
My "just for fun" prediction remains that the sp will reach 1.25p at sometime between the other day and the 31st December 2019 - as you had defined the dates. I have said that I may throw a few quid at this when it goes sub penny but as I have explained at length before I think that the sp will be ground down too slowly to get to that before the end of this year. It is not hard! Also what is the point in changing "predictions" after the closing date? You could just keep changing to whatever the sp is!
Can anyone let me know how much the board are paying themselves in order to "get going"? Obviously it is either too much or not enough dependent on how you work out why nothing is "going".
Oh and whilst I am here can someone give us a run down on the "just for fun prediction" league table as I think there was only one or maybe two who predicted a downward trend!
Come the sub penny price and I may have a look down the back of the sofa to buy a few but until then whatever kind of "bargain" Solo is it will be an even better one next week!
"Don't know why the bid is on 1.35 when 1.42 is the actual price?"
I honestly (really honestly) do not want this to sound nasty but I have to ask do you know what the differences between "Bid", "Ask" and "share price" are?
"Do ya think I'd pump money into a something I wasn't realistic about?"
The circumstantial evidence suggests at least a "maybe" ArielArrow. Mind you I have been known to buy a lottery ticket myself every now and then so I should not say anything.
Now the "just for fun" prediction. Well it is early days I know but at least mine is now closer than it was on the deadline. Everyone else seems to be further away than ever. Sill no doubt the sp will bob about a bit before grinding its way down. I just don't think another speculation spike is going to hit - even if that 25 year license is granted quite frankly although it would be novel to actually see it happen! That would be one hurdle to get over not the finishing line! No I think Solo is actually going to have to deliver first - now there is a truly scary thought seeing as they never deliver anything. I was having a read around the websites recently and saw Solo described as a "sucker share" - well I thought that is quite a succinct moniker, sorts of says it all. As ArielArrow says you take your chances but you also need to understand that to do so you have to "pays your money". However there is no reason to buy now. None! Just wait and get it cheaper tomorrow/next week/ next month/ next quarter etc, etc.
I thought my post of a few minutes ago was perfectly clear Cperkin. I was and am still saying what I have said for three years and that is stagnation is the overwhelming condition that Solo is in and that the costs of running everything and keeping the BOD living in the way that they have become accustomed to on that gravy train will inevitably cause the sp to suffer. How many investors are unlikely to sell because, in essence, they believe they have already lost the lot is what I cannot know.
To be absolutely clear then if you want a prediction from me I would be forced to say that I doubt very much I will be buying Solo between now and Dec 31st hence I now believe the sp will be somewhere between 1.5p and 1p. So for the sake of giving you a number I will say 1.25p and still very slowly dropping.
"Looking at what is happening at a UK listed oil and gas company this morning. I upping my price to 12p."
Not happening here though is it Steve58?
Also whilst I am happy to see my name against a sub 1p "prediction" I have to say that is not exactly what I have ever said. To be clear I have maintained that there may be a profit to be made in Solo "at the death" and that in my opinion that would be around a 1p or just sub 1p level. I have also said that whilst the general malaise of nothingness continues this sp will stagnate, bob about and generally slowly drop. Hence the only thing is the timescale as whether the drop reaches that level by 31st December 2019 is really dependent on how stubborn investors are and reading certain recent comments like (I paraphrase) "I have lost so much it is not worth selling now" has made me reconsider the timing.
Hence I am happy to have myself on the list as sub 1p but have to be honest to say I just don't know how stubbornly stagnant this sp will be grinding down. I do not know enough about the spectrum of investors and what there likely averages are.
Of course if the fabled speculation spike and following inevitable crash happens then the entire list might be all correct! I doubt that though but you never know there are as they say, one born every minute.
The only "dreams" your likely to have here will have Freddy Krueger popping up!
You need to wake up and smell the coffee!
"Wait and see" is the normal mantra thrown back so OK lets wait and see. I have been doing just that for nearly three years and so far things have gone completely as expected because it was "bleeding obvious". The Gravy Train costs money to keep on the track and ultimately you are paying for it. The risks keep stacking up with every week/month/year/decade that passes and the rewards keep getting more and more illusionary. Still chase the dream if you want and if you can get a few mugs to do the same you might make a few quid otherwise it is stagnation or slow drop - as ever..... I may put in a few quid when this goes sub penny as there may be a tiny profit to be made "at the death".
I go into the weekend more than happy to be "out" just like the last 130 or so weekends!
It never changes Perky does it?
You have given the same mantra in one form of another for several years now. Years! In actual fact the only possible reason to hold Solo shares is an imminent rise because it is self evident that the sp will stagnate or slowly drop otherwise (and that is exactly what has happened and continues to happen). So whilst you are correct in that the only reason anyone holds shares is a belief that they have a potential for growth you are disingenuous in your constant use of "data" to continually hint that the rise is always imminent. Who knows one day you may be right or perhaps never! One thing is certain and that is for two or three years you have spun the "imminent" line be it hinting at a month or a quarter of even a week or two to something big - and it was not imminent at all was it? The new bod seems to be just as good as the old at paying themselves and achieving zilch...... Keep waiting will be the call ... again!
What the hell am I being accused of now??
Have just taken a look and see what Ariel Arrow is referring to. Certainly not me and not sure why anyone would think it was. Over the years there have been some very peculiar buys/sells with Solo. I am sure such strange trading does happen with other companies as well but to what purpose here I am not too sure. It is definitely not me though. Whatever it was for and whoever did it the result seems to be of no significance either way.
"You seem more and more like a Pro plant imo."
Well your opinion above happens to be totally incorrect. I do quote other people a lot because I like to hold them to account. I like to specifically show their ramping and highlight why what they are saying is often deliberately misleading or "spun" far too positively - "ramped" is the normal description.
As for an investment nanny. Well that is the normal go to insult I receive when the rampers cannot dismantle the arguments about Solo (normally straight after being accused of being some kind of "pro plant")! Smoke and mirrors? I don't need smoke and mirrors to make my points they are all there in front of your noses. They are the basic facts of a company in a toxic situation it cannot get out of without third party intervention resulting in the stagnant cesspit of an investment vehicle it has inevitably become. The long slow sp decline is the ultimate display of this. The smoke and mirrors are what the rampers require to get people to part with their hard earned here.
I am not your nanny Babelfish66 (or anyone else's) - I wholeheartedly encourage you to personally buy into Solo! Take all your own advice and plough in! Go on do it today! All you lurkers out there who click the "recommend" button can do so as well. You might collectively get the sp ticking up you never know. Let's see.
I have looked back at the post you moaned about Babelfish66 and to paraphrase Lord Nelson "I see no caps!" So I have not got a clue what you are going on about.
Also Babelfish66 you can join the ever growing list on people who have made very much the same comments to me on here for years and who eventually disappear or change the subject. As for "positive image" I take it you mean outrageous, unprincipled and often devious ramping for your own benefit at the cost of unknowing newbies. If this is such a fantastic buy stop telling everyone else about it and start buying it yourself, perhaps them the sp would not be so low and sinking. Good luck.
"there is a new BOD and Management team, so the past performance is not relevant"
Well the above comment is wishful thinking at best and downright idiocy at worst. There is more to how well a ship sails than who is currently at the helm particularly if the ship is sinking and it has no sails never mind wind in them.
Still it is exactly what has been said, in other guises with other new impetuses, over at least two and a half years probably more. Also just how long will it be until this "new" BOD are just the BOD? How long till they need to be assessed for having achieved nothing? It is the situation Solo is in which is relevant to the share price and that has not changed and that means the recent past performance is going to be continued. 3rd parties hold Solo over a barrel and their motives do not necessarily coincide with your own.
", I would be disappointed if there is nothing by the end of June"
The moving goalposts edge forward yet again I see! I remember you being "disappointed" in September 2017 and probably well before that as well. It never ends...... eventually you have to start thinking the "last bus home" has already gone or perhaps is just missing. At the moment Solo seems to have been waiting all night for it and most of the next day as well.... and all the time the background never changes either - a stagnation of the sp and a slow drop with an ever increasingly manic set of desperate rampers ready to say anything to try and get some interest here. I'll just hang around and watch nothing happen - slowly.
"Any positive news at this stage would be transformational to the shareprice imv."
Any (genuinely) positive news would have been transformational over the last three years! But yet it never comes.
Waiting for license? It's like "Waiting for Godot". Even when (if it ever does) that license does turn up that would be the start not the actual delivery. Rampers here are saying how much this is going to be worth when Solo wins the race and they cannot even say when (or even if) the starting gun is ever going to go off!
"Hey solo'ers. Guess who I bumped into in Eldon St (London) yesterday? Yep, you guessed it Neil Ritson...!"
Was he laughing and on his way to the bank?
It is, for me, interesting to read your comments ArielArrow. They are almost word for word the same as so many I have had thrown at me for a number of years now. So many different "happy" investors (I really would have difficulty estimating how many in total) telling me this and that - putting the world to right etc. The strange thing is so many of them have now gone - luckily for them as it turned out they got the message and sold at a loss - and guess what? If they were here now they would thank me because the sp has continued doing exactly what it is always going to do unless something "big" happens - it is going to bob about and slowly drop.
So Ariel I do believe that eventually there may be a profit to be made with Solo (and that is why I am still here) but at a lot lower level than now and as to when well that is anyone's guess. Be happy with your investment but do remember your are not the first, second, tenth or even twentieth to say the same thing to me. Check it out - the actually sp chart would suffice if you don't want to trawl through loads of posts.
ArielArrow - first of all the one thing I have said about Solo is that the sp is in (and will remain in unless something very unexpected occurs) stagnation. The sp may well drop slowly which is what I have also said because of the inevitable erosion of paying costs and keeping that gravy train moving but essentially it is a stagnant pond.
The sub penny prediction really could be sub 1.1p or maybe sub 0.9p I don't know I have no crystal ball! However the fact that Solo is in this toxic situation means this is not fortune telling but rather just reporting the situation as it is now and how it has been for at least two and a half years! That the general movement is down is the point - the penny or whatever other figure is just about how long to get there and my opinion that when it reaches that level other things may well happen.
"I am expecting a deal (not closed) to be announced before the end of next month based on the below."
Oh look Perkin's gone to the "month away" approach. It is generally a month or three months depending on what has been said most recently. Both never seem to happen though, or at least not over the last few years?
As for Zebbo's comments! You know I pop onto this forum every few weeks just to spend a minute seeing everything is exactly as it was when I last looked and Zebbo's comments reassured me on that point. This share is ALWAYS cheap! The problem is that over the years it tends to get cheaper and cheaper. The same arguments have been bandied about for several YEARS now! There is always something to jump on - like the new board. So what? Nothing happening looks pretty much the same with a different set of passengers on that gravy train.
See you in a couple of weeks - unless you want to start flaming the painful but obvious truth and then I'll stick around a bit and point it out to all the newbies you are trying to get to throw their cash away. Oh and just in case anyone doubts my words just think about it - if this was such a fantastic bargain they would be buying and keeping quiet so as to get as much as possible - they would not be shouting about it and trying to entice you to spend your money now would they?