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The spread on this stock is really rather horendous. Clealy, there is a signal to discourage take up of activity here, as the spread is completely unjustified.

First Casey-Jones: I don't believe you are shorting, but if you are, I feel you will lose. Qinetiq is not HMV. Totally different ball game. - badrick - just one motto says it all: Semper Eadem. - Good luck all with your trading. And I apologise to anyone if I gave offence.

Leaving aside distractions, historical narratives, and prejudices: what have we left? We have an innovative management team intent on effectively Americanising this company. Firstly, make it lean. Secondly, secure cash flow (Quinetiq by definition is engaged in long term on-going contracts - the nature of the security business). Then move to a model where able employees are encouraged to perform and reward them with stock. This is typical in many software firms, such as Microsoft, for example, or even Logica. The management is re-orientating the firm towards a business model that works in the modern world, and not chained to past bureaucratic mores of Whitehall mandarins. Cameron et al typify this paradigm shift. Feisty winners will emerge from their general budgeetary sqeeze (and re-allocation of resources and incentives), and the management of Qunietiq are determined to be among them, if for no other reason than they will be most handsomely rewarded as a result. Self-interest always wins the day. Whatever your personal status as regards this company, I wish you and all and sundry well. For my own self, I am sticking with this stock as long as this present management is in place. Have a nice day.

If ths company is getting hammered, losing all its staff (and its business model is based on human talent alone) why the devil would you get in on this stock at any price? Sounds untterly incongruous and irrational to me. - You clearly fail to appreciate that the staff who are asked to leave are in the same mould as tenured civil servants with the same mind set to boot. One saw a plethora of such characters in education, for example. The management is working to get this company lean and fit, to concentrate its resources and its strengths (human capital) about the most able. This is smart strategic management. And it cannot but win in the long run. - I have nt far more faith in competent, focussed management, than disgruntled ex-employess. Make your own mind up, as advised in affairs of this kind.

The fall in share price since this stock's heyday has been extraordinarily precipitous, mirroring the collapse of NatWest when it dreamed of owning the world under the stewardship of a overly wistful (and latterly shameless) buffoon. Property cannot decline indefinitely, but on the other side of the coin, debt can become overwhelmning, especially with banks the way they are behaving now. I am going to follow this stock for a time. I have been burned before, and this teaches you the virtue of patience. It is far better to buy at 50 pence on a rising stock, than 18 on a sinking one. As yet, I can figure anything out, so will just follow and watch.

TIme will tell.

This stock is subject to such nonsensical gyrations that that has to be scheme behind the shadows of straight-laced gambling. In more senses than one, this is a casino stock on a rigged roulette wheel. Fun to watch!

Given the unfolding nature of defence (cyber warfare, etc) intelligence is the key. This alone informs me that this stock should double from its current value. The recent purchase by BAE and Safran of France for the assets of L-1 in the USA is targeting intelligence assets. Qinetiq is surely among the leaders here. So I will wait for the 200+ pence level.

What is firing this stock is the Brazilian assets, that are due to be valued in November. BG, Shell, Exxon, and a few others, signed on to the Brazilian leases before the government then stamped down on such generous terms. Basically, the government did not realize it was sitting on gigantic petroleum reserves. The markets makers want to pick up the stock as cheaply as they can before any formal announcement. This has the makings of a singular event. Be wary, but there is a lot of promise on the upside. Brazil is the future, not Greenland.

We are entering a defence paradigm where intelligence and signal processing will surge in importance and valule. Qinetiq is well placed to reap some of this high value work,. QQ should also be pushing its pilotless drones in the civilan sector, including agriculture, border and traffic patrol, etc. This is the method follwed by those companies involed in night vision, for example, although Qinetiq has a far greater swathe of talents to offer the civilian sector. Takeover managers may see this too.

Thanks for your remarks. However, looking at the pitiful number of shares traded, (and the majority of those are borrowed short term for CFDs) represent nothing other in my mind than some broker trying to push down the price really rather deliberately. The contracts that BAE has endure for years. They have a global footprint, and greeat assets and skills to fall back on. BAE is a gaming chip that day-trader play with in the certainty that this compnay will not tank, no matter what happens to Barclays bank or anyone else. I would say that the share price is woefully underpriced, and this depressed state keeps people out in the hope of catching it lower. Also, given the gyrations of the market, a lot of smaller investors are holding off from the market. Patience pays with these big companies. The constraint of programs llike defence spending force them to take a long term view. Investors ought to do the same (unless one is a speculative day trader). Finally, if recent events has proven anything about markets it is that fundamentals are simply not a factor in the share price. We are at present in a casino world, like it or not, until all that cheap money the central banks are stuffing into the pockets of bankers comes to an end. - Best wishes and good luck with your trading.

Good companies with sound business fundamentals, assets spread not too thinlly, and good cash flow, the market-makers keep depressed. This is a tradig tactic, and no more. Very much like the tyrannies and dictatorships like those prevalent in Asia and the Middle East, the rulers 'own' the countries, They 'own' everything, including the population whom they regard as chattel and serfs. And these pigs can price these assets any way they like. We are not in any free market. This one is manipulated to the bone just like any other operation. You have to learn to anticipate these egregious pigs is all.

The market makers suspect that BLT will up their unsolicited (aggressive) offer for Potash to $45billion plus. This will continue to chip away at the share price. It may get some respite from the imminent Aussie election, but if the management of BLT insist on progressing with the aggressive bid, the price is very volatile to the downside, in my opinion. As always, it's a matter of judgement. But I am waiting till at least Friday before making any decision on this one. Good luck,.

Looked at physically, I see there competing constraints here. The first is the exaggerated movement of the share price. Each dip is accompanied by insistent buying from BAE in their share buy-back scheme, hence mopping up all the surplus. As a consequence (and secondly), the diminishing quantity of (real) trading shares will diminish. Thus (thirdly) the price of the stock should spurt up for no fundamental reason other than we reach a critical point (of inflection). If the number of (real) shares traded remains thin (as opposed to the fake borrowed shares traded by speculators and those engaging in CFD bets, etc) then once the share price reaches that plataeu, it should, all physical forces considered, remain there. The only other thing that will knock it back down then are major external shocks, such as political or other shenanigans. Comments on these speculative scenarios presented here will be most welcome.

Numbers are not dates, and I can't see the Aussie Shelia demonstating any integrity whatsoever. This is one for the Kangeroos and the Koala to look at. No worries unless you do a stinger, my son. Jees, wots he on about?

The stock closed at 1925 on Wednesday, and it's a tough call to figure out where it will open, the day trading range, and more importantly, where it will finish. I think this day is saturated with sentiment, so we will need to watch that closely for the signals.

This board has grown somewhat quiet. The share price appears to be holding its own, but like other stock, mighty and feeble alike, are caught up in the uncertainty sentiment that pervades all asset classes. Looked at as a long term dividend asset, this is a stable and solid stock to own.

The market makers driving this stock down have no stake in this company. They are whorring corrupted worms, and it is a disgrace that they put petty thieves in prison and allows these worns to rob everyone blind. Never criticize a banana republic, because these worms are worse than the worse corrupeted . These worms here hide behind the illusion of transparency and law. Sham all of it.

And in this sense, it makes the stock market, rotton to the core, alas.

If ever there were stark and perfect proof that crooks run this stock market, it is the spectacle of BG's share price collapsing as it makes huge profits and increases its revenue stream. This is not any irrational behaviour of the markets, it is clear proof of crooks running this market.