RE: The last real buy yday hit at 13:38 for a noble £982.14 May 2026 07:27
What that tape mainly shows is:
Repeated sizeable sells being absorbed without total price collapse.
Market makers holding a relatively firm quoted spread around 0.35 / 0.45 despite heavy supply.
Mixed flow: chunky sells, some decent buys, plus the usual meaningless tiny trades you see in illiquid AIM names.
The key point is this: if there was absolutely zero real demand, those 200k–1m share sells would likely have smashed the bid far harder and stayed there.
Instead, the market kept finding buyers around the mid-0.3s.
The tiny 10-share prints are mostly noise. People massively over-romanticise them on bulletin boards. They can be testing liquidity, automated fills, odd-lot matching, spread nudging, retail scraps, or MM housekeeping. On their own they prove nothing.
So the honest answer is:
It looks volatile and speculative.
It looks like a battle between sellers exiting and buyers stepping in.
It does not conclusively scream ‘criminal tape painting operation’ from that data alone.”