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I would prefer to see quite a few more of them actually.

It would give me confidence that perhaps the bottom was now in :) GLA.

1275p would tempt me to retake a few here. At least for another trade.

I was unimpressed with the CEO the whole time I was a shareholder (initially with a LTH plan) and that opinion remains unchanged.

But I made some nice capital gains in the end, with a few divs on top, and think the same would likely happen again, if that kind of price hit. Which it may not of course, which is fine too.

As to the politics...as if 'orange' would really be any worse for the US than the current incumbent.

Hardly like the US blue ones have not already been in office for a whole term. Or that this time they plan to undertake a fiscally responsible approach to managing government, or getting their national debt under control.

At best, IMO it is a case of Hobson's Choice. If you had to choose one...well, if you have business/real economy experience, then there is only one logical option.

If you only have public sector, or third sector career experience and knowledge, or a career as a welfare dependent, you might plump for the other one.

That would make a nice change. Maybe SOH can put his hand in his pocket as well, and buy a few hundred K of OPTI, to show them how it is done.

What a complete disaster this whole fiasco has been. And how embarrassing to see the dirty laundry aired so publicly.

Hardly going to attract new money, let alone institutional interest.

Having just heard the update on the Southport murderer, perhaps it is a good thing for the government that it is Budget day tomorrow.

Another thing to add to their already impressive list of shameful behaviour, it would seem.

The Online Safety Bill needs pulling ASAP, so the risk of tyrannical gas lighting going unchallenged is reduced, IMO.

I had/have a buy order in place for 74p-ish, held since not long after I opened my maiden stake here.

Seemed good technical support, although at the time, it also looked a long way off, lol.

I am backing the management team to resolve the issues and get things back on track.

Or be replaced by some new faces who can. Or be taken over, at a price that I think will be higher than now.

Similar to a few in my p/f, which are battered and bruised.

Great upside potential if right. Haircut if wrong. But around the price I currently hold, I fancy the risk/reward play.

Time will tell. GLA.

Small businesses, by and large, are unable to offer lucrative consultancy work, or NED positions, to politicians when they leave office.

Probably of no relevance to policy decision-making. No, siree.

It is just late reporting. In the UK, you can only trade during the hours of 8am and 4.30pm (with occasional early closes eg Xmas). In the US, you do have the opportunity to trade outside of hours. While I have not done so myself, you can see it on various platforms.

Try not to overthink what the opening price might be. Not sure anyone knows the answer, because among other things, you will have a variety of pre-market buy and sell orders, logged right up to the opening bell.

Hope that helps.

And I should have said 'since Maggie was removed'.

While she was not perfect and made some avoidable mistakes IMO, she was the last credible PM we have had. And I am sure a lot of people would love to see someone like that again take charge. Not just talk the talk, as so many have, but to actually deliver.

Can you imagine her giving up UK territory, as seen recently? Or not addressing illegal immigration? Or allowing such a rise in national debt? Handling of the topic of reparations? Allowing us to fall into a position of energy insecurity?

Or many other things that have put us on the road to third world status. Something that I hope can be reversed, sooner rather than later.

Ah yes, the Tories. We have had the same national leadership since Maggie. With occasional changes of rosette, but little else.

Both blaming each other, year after year.

It will be interesting to see what, if anything, RR had not already shared with the media tomorrow.

A practice that was rightly criticised by the Speaker, who also noted how Labour, while in Opposition, made the same criticisms of the Blue rosette's.

Hypocrisy is probably the most wearing thing in British politics, yet also the most consistent.

They will not be after hours trades.

I mean...you would hope so. But then, their decision-making in the short time in office so far, does not give me confidence.

Not unexpected to me - and of course, some seem to think they are doing well, but time will tell.

While I am naturally opposed to high tax (and especially opposed to high national debt levels in any circumstances), if I did think further tax hikes would generate significant net gains for the Treasury, which in turn would be put to efficient and effective use that swiftly drove productivity, then I would acknowledge it.

I would likely be in a coma, or living in a parallel universe, for such metrics to play out in such a fashion (lol) but it would be preferable to how I think it is actually going to play out.

Not that it matters, for what will be, will be.

Anyway, plenty of dry powder, but equally, plenty of open positions, including some I even added to yesterday and last week. In case we get a market bump. GLA.

Well that depends really. What infrastructure and at what cost? Lending terms etc.

Are they going to be depreciating assets, or hold their value?

How about the current debt pile and the increasingly onerous cost of serving it? Never mind adding to it.

The devil is the reality of where we are right now, but sure, let us see what the fine print says tomorrow. And how the bond markets react to it.

But I stand by that same comment where I suggested the delay to audit sign off was sloppy. It is.

Read my comment again. I said mine was more bearish than his.

I did not claim I expected sideways chop.

In your haste to jump on me, you have made yourself look more foolish than my bearish pre-market comment.

Anyway, I am sure that we are both pleased with the SP action today, which is all that matters.

So did I, albeit more bearish anticipations than your thinking it would be a sideways play.

It simply must have been overly priced in. Hence the price action today, IMO.

The inverse of when you see a company smash earnings, but get sold off because they did not beat by as much as the market had priced in beforehand.

We have seen more jam tomorrow, damp squib updates since then though, FriedmanSowell.

We had an OPTI raise/dilution and also saw Stephen sell down yet more SBTX stock.

Also seen a more recent fiasco in the ongoing legal dispute with those IMO highly irregular plans of the PBX BOD. As well as further proof of the utter stupidity of having put it on that opaque index in the first place.

Given all of the above, you need a strong and meaningful Sweet update for this to be potentially good value at the current price IMO.

In short, you need Stephen to do something that he has failed to do so far: deliver.

None of which means this dog cannot be successfully traded again until where I think it is ultimately going to end up.

A different kettle of fish to an investment though. AIMO and GLA, especially the LTH's.

Absolutely no idea. I will be happy if we close above the 50 DMA today, and more importantly, by market close tomorrow.

I plan to take a view if/when we get back to circa 650p. Which will probably be around the 200 DMA by the time it happens.

So many market moving events, just in the next week or two, make my latter statement a massive shot in the dark, lol.

I am inclined to agree with the sentiments of George Gammon and similar, when it comes to the two main players in the US.

Whichever one wins (Trump currently appears to be a fairly clear favourite) it will not matter, insofar as a return to fiscal discipline, which neither appears remotely interested in returning to.

Like I said the other day, perhaps on another chat board, Hobson's Choice.

It is a brave new world, Pokerchips. The delusion of so much of the MSM and a lot of people who generally should know better, really does speak to a nation in trouble.

When I heard that the IMF had backed RR's plans to redraw the fiscal borrowing rules, or whatever word spaghetti sentence used, I actually laughed out loud.

Anyone else get the image in their head of a drug dealer giving approval to a customer to take more stimulants from them?

Sensible labour leader, lol. Oxymoron.

Still, I have spoken with a couple of people IRL who share your opinions. Even think they have made a good start in government. Educated and fairly successful people too. Albeit public servants, rather than people who work in the real economy.

Maybe that 22 billion quid carbon capture 'initiative' will find a way to close the fiscal black hole autonomously.

For that price, it should create a cash surplus for the UK in 12 months. And solve illegal immigration...sorry, 'irregular immigration' and a whole bunch of other things too :)