RE: Can’t believe17 Nov 2022 17:09
Must agree, not all are sells. When I see 2 transactions of similar amounts, and "clustered" within seconds or maybe a minute of each other, I tend to think that someone is moving shares from a regular dealing account into an ISA (if it's under £20k). Today there were a few transactions of either similar value or similar number in clumps - there were even 3 identical trades (fishy?) as there are usually contra entries (pairs of + & -) - so as all three transactions were below the midpoint, it looks suspect to me. One scenario could be "sell £500 shares, and here is £300 cash on top so buy £800 into my ISA" - so the dealer sold, then bought £500 but put them back into the regular account by mistake, so had to sell them again before adding the £300 in cash to buy £800 of the same shares into an ISA. All sorts of genuine mistakes take place as well as underhanded transactions - we will never be told, but we can be wary.