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Long term holders who don't want to trade are best advised to hold their shares in a certificated form rather than a nominee account, then their shares can't be loaned out. With a nominee account or share ISA, you don't technically own the shares in your own name. Especially if the company was called Beaufort.

It's a complex picture, but quite simple to understand. Hermitage Capital (in the news because of Bill Browder) had been used in the late 1990s as a proxy to take over Russia assets when Yeltsin was President. Yeltsin turned to Putin, whi saved the day for the Russians. The western establishment is trying to keep a lid on this and maintain Russia as the enemy. Trump is part of the changes we are seeing worldwide.

Lol, gawd. If you put out rubbish, then it needs countering.

The 1-year, 2-year and longer charts for RIO TINTO is on the up. Short term fluctuations happen, but they haven't affected the trend in commodities. Trump's trade wars as you call them are really about a global rebalancing.

As for BCN, a tiny part of the herd's got spooked, and its down 10+%. Like we've never seen that before.

Nice way of rationalizing it. You're right of course. Best of luck, napkin.

It doesn't always work, but I always try and hedge if I can and with ALO/CRA I paired it with GGP, which I got in at 0.16 in late 2016. Due to GGPs rise, I had just about broken even with ALO/CRA's losses. Ironically, I did buy some more CRA when they relisted to average down, then sold half of my holding and put it into SSX. I'm down 25% at today's SP of CRA.

Alo had great prospects, but it just wasn't to be. If CRA can up production while keeping a lid on costs and everyone happy, then a significant rise from this low is still possible, depending on world events and the copper price of course. Still some way to go yet though. We live in hope. I'll stick with them, but I've only got a fraction of the shares I once had.

This stock can swing upwards in a few months on positive news. I recall when it went from 0.5p to over 3p in a couple of months last year. I'm sure I'm not confusing it with another share, either.

As for being the worst share on AIM, then this isn't one of them.

They're not BHP Billiton. Things are ticking along, that's all you can hope for.

We're in a halfway house at the moment. It's just not time for a big rise, but it will come in the coming years as EVs, power tools and the like rise to prominence. A lot of people who planned to be long term holders just got in a bit too early, although this share has been vigorously traded at 0.5 and 0.3, so opportunities were there. Like most AIM stocks, they follow a certain course after peaking...

If you look at the whole EV battery market, graphite is used a lot more than lithium, but lithium provides the essential salts that make it all possible. I'd personally be in graphite and lithium for the long term. And this stock does have a reasonable long-term future, especially with the Chinese involved, who will be the ultimate driver of the lithium market.

With these sort of yields, it is effectively ThyssenKrupp. They'd be daft to pass up on it, long term.

The US dollar index isn't going down any time soon, due to capital flows into the USA and high confidence in that country. At some point, gold will go higher WITH the US Dollar, as confidence dissipates in the rest of the world.

Plenty of manipulators out there that may briefly 'wobble' the short term price, but whether they have any real effect is very unlikely. The manipulators are looking to make a quick buck, not stay in a stock for months on end.

Thank the Lord they've got assets in the USA. Trying to get anything done in mainland Europe, especially Scandinavia, is like trying to draw blood out of a stone. Launching a rocket to the moon would be simpler.

TYM is oversold by some margin, and should recover to over 1p next week. However, I agree with your comments about AIM. Large parts of it have many pitfalls, full of the worse excesses of human nature.

Anything lower than £8 should be firmly rejected.

No man is an island. If everyone thought like you they'd be no development whatsoever.

I'm guessing it is the lithium effect spurred on by SAV's steep rise today, which has helped junior miners like KOD as well. EMH had a bad day in the afternoon, but that may be due to capital flow to SAV.

As a famous forecaster once said, time is more important than price. Granted, he wasn't referring to AIM shares. It was certainly a tight spread near the end of today's trading. It's not as if KZG haven't got any assets and an income stream -- assets being the key word here. I appreciate the concerns about the company though. Still a little way to go yet...

In previous years, Hoc always seems to make its high in the July/August timeframe. I'd say the low was in in April.

With dividend bandits like you around, that's unlikely.

Who knows on AIM, you could be right. If the figures are to be believed, selling 2.5 milion shares moves the SP down nearly 18%...I mean, c'mon. Scaring the herd today? That's taking the pish. Looking at the patterns today, kod had a similar stair-step decline today after 2pm, plus some others in a lockstep manner to Kazera. I'm sure that's just a coincidence...