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joseph, you've answered your own question. The news was "not too bad". Unfortunately "excellent" is what is required in today's market.

You're assuming that the shorter has some superhuman power - in that he "knows" that the share price is going to fall. I guess it depends on how much bottle he's got. Who's to say that it's not going to go from 180p to 280p sometime after results and then never see 120p again - ever..

Yes. A shorter finds someone who owns the shares (say the price at that time is 120p) and borrows say 1 million shares. He promises to give those shares back to the owner and pays him a fee for borrowing. The shorter then sells those shares in the market at 120p Some time later the share price is 70p and the shorther is very happy because he buys back those 1 million shares, returns them to the original owner and pockets the difference. But if the share price goes up to 220p (for instance) the shorter is now very frightened and decides he can't sleep at night so wants to get out. He has to buy the 1 million shares in the market but now they cost a fortune. He returns the 1 million shares to the original owner and hides in a cave licking his wounds.

Edison research note out yesterday - http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/research/report/gear4music-holdings785608/full

You can't do this without IQE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjH8Q4xsKpo&feature=youtu.be

Nothing new here, at least to anyone on this board - I guess they're just catching up - https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/shares/2018/03/01/iqe-answers-the-short-sellers/?utm_campaign=Copy+of+ICDailyEmail_new2016&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=

Was it that obvious? Probably got a few years left though. Besides, I already own some Next and a LOT of BooHoo. I'll be very happy to see SOS double over the next year or two. Bit of a punt though, I have to admit.

Probably not in my lifetime

Anyone else hearing those pips squeaking?

Can anyone who had to suffer their TV ads have been surprised to see that customers and potential customers have chosen to look elsewhere? Advertising agency should be fired and another with half decent ideas appointed.

Unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

Is that a new closing High?

Bad day all round pretty much.

IC came out with a SELL rating today. Phew - finally, light at the end of the tunnel.

They call it right (as far as they're concerned) by selling high and buying low. Actually that's a bit simplistic as not all hedge funds operate as only short sellers. The hedge funds are in the business of spotting opportunities to make money. In the end, if IQE are a good company and if they can realise their potentail then long term holders (such as me) will be suitably rewarded. In that event I'm sure that the hedge funds will have bought back in long before. Just becasue they are short now don't assume that they are going to maintain that position in the hope that the SP will go down to zero.

Trickymatters - if they managed to sell at anywhere around or above the 140p mark then it's hard at the moment to claim that they're ripping off their customers (investors). They've called it right big time (so far) and if I was a Hedge Fund manager/investor then I'd be pretty satisfied with how my call is going. They're a lot cleverer than me - I had a lot of chances to sell out at 50% above the current price but choose to hang on in the hope/expectation that all will come good in the end. The current daily slide is hard to take though.

Apologies if these links have already been posted. I'm still trying to find out more about ITM and how it plans to make profits. Came across these two positive stories (about Hydrogen powered cars) rather than about ITM specifically. Hope theyr'e of interest to some others on here:-- http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/93180/hydrogen-fuel-cell-do-hydrogen-cars-have-a-future http://www.nextgreencar.com/fuelcellcars/

Please don't shoot me down in flames - I don't own any of these shares and am still trying to understand how it works before buying in. Hope someone on here can help answer. I can see one big positive is the take up of carbon fuelled cars/trucks. Much better bet as far as I'm concerned that all electric. And I see that ITM has some kind of arrangement with Shell - they have a (very) few of their plants on Shell forecoarts in the UK. But how does it work - does ITM simply build and supply the plants to Shell and then, presumably, maintain them? Or does ITM rent/lease the space on Shell forecourts, install the plants and then make their money dependent on how much Hydrogen is purchased by motorists? If it's the second option, why aren't they rolling them out a bit quicker - it's chicken and the egg - if motorists are confident that they will be able to find somewhere to fill up with Hydrogen then they're far more likely to buy a Hydrogen fuelled car. Apologioes if the above sounds pretty stupid.

So, which is best - hydrogen or electric? And it's a feature on Tesla that gives the answer (it takes 1 hour to refuel an electric car from 25% charge to 100% charge even at a Tesla Super Charge site). That may sound OK if not in any hurry but are professionals going to be happy sitting at a services on the motorway when they have targets to meet? I wouldn't even be that happy when going on holiday. Most people want to get from A to B as quickly as possible, don't they? https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/video/visit-only-telsa-supercharger-station-140000715.html

I don't think the LSE data is to be trusted. Closing price was 105p - not 110p