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Yep, i's gonna soar like an eagle just for Bobby! LOL

Oiluser, I don't know where you are getting a 0.1% mortality rate from.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The data suggests the mortality rate is much higher than 1% and males are more likely to die than females.

The MMs dropped the bid to 1.17p for a few minutes and I was waiting to see how many stop losses or panic sellers they got. Their tree shake didn't work, as there no trades going through anywhere near 1.17p. Glad to see the MMs weren't getting a supply of shares by pulling that trick. The lowest sells were only a couple of algo trades at 1.28p, so no PIs were mugged in that move:

14-May-20 14:55:08 1.30 50,000 Buy* 650.00 A
14-May-20 14:54:25 1.30 5,311 Buy* 69.04 O
14-May-20 14:54:06 1.298 249,000 Buy* 3,231 O
14-May-20 14:53:46 1.28 100,000 Sell* 1,280 A
14-May-20 14:49:07 1.28 32,000 Sell* 409.60 A
14-May-20 14:48:33 1.358 30,626 Buy* 416.02 O
Well played the buyer who bought 249k shares at under 1.3p!

I noticed that too, but don't have an idea of what's causing it. I thought that a tight spread indicated there was lots of available shares for trading, yet regularly going NT to buy and ordinary sells have reduced and algos are doing must of the selling now...

Looks like Mr £x92 is doing a bit of day trading today. This person has been quietly buying in fairly small amounts since just after Easter but now getting in some bigger day trades...

13-May-20 09:05:54 1.19 839,664 Buy* 9,992 O
13-May-20 09:19:11 1.34 148,657 Buy* 1,992 O
13-May-20 09:42:44 1.70 117,176 Sell* 1,992 O
13-May-20 09:43:09 1.652 483,807 Sell* 7,992 O

Either that or it is a couple of random traders that use ii or some other platform that charges £7.99 per trade and they like to buy in rounded chunks of cash...

Which RMS is that Bobby? Maybe the RMS Titanic, as your deramping skills are sinking fast... :-)

Talking of sells, here is one of the MM tricks to mug a few investors of their shares. IMO they had set stop losses at just over 0.8p.
12-May-20 09:19:06 0.8622 136,909 Sell* 1,180 O
12-May-20 09:16:27 0.88 100,000 Buy* 880.00 A
12-May-20 09:16:15 0.88 27,732 Buy* 244.04 O
12-May-20 09:16:00 0.8602 233,525 Sell* 2,009 O
12-May-20 09:14:13 0.855 150,000 Sell* 1,283 UT
12-May-20 09:07:21 0.8038 281,596 Sell* 2,263 O
12-May-20 09:02:10 0.80366 100,000 Sell* 803.66 O
12-May-20 09:01:40 0.8978 441,122 Buy* 3,960 O
12-May-20 08:59:58 0.8998 1,950,000 Buy* 17.55k O
12-May-20 08:59:56 0.80907 439,153 Sell* 3,553 O
12-May-20 08:59:38 0.90 28,000 Buy* 252.00 A
12-May-20 08:59:20 0.91 25,111 Sell* 228.51 A

So MTFB is trading at about 0.9p as shown by the first 2 auto trades. They drop the bid at 08:59 to 0.8p and 3 sells occur, which amount to 820,749 at under 0.81p. They wait 7 minutes to see if their are any lemmings who decide to press the sell button manually but don't get more shares. At 09:14 a UT happens to reset bid back to a more sensible level of 0.855p. Normal buys going through at 0.88p and sell at 0.86p.

They scored over 820k shares at a 6% discount - not bad for a few minutes work!

MrNation, talking of cheap shares the MMs can see the set value of people's stop losses. If enough shares have stop losses set they sometimes drop the bid for a couple of minutes to take out these stop losses and then they have a supply of cheap shares to sell on again at higher rates later in the day to control rises. This technique is regularly employed on AIM shares (seemed to be done on EUA).

There were a significant amount of auto sells after 15:30 up until close - was this the MMs selling some of their surplus stash to fill the later big buys?

I'm one of the original LTHs who bought in 2018 and was 99% down on original investment. I thought my original £3K holding was gone but just kept the shares in case of a miracle. Another LTH said we should chuck another few quid into the hole when MTFB was at 0.13p. I just bought £80 (was the only spare cash I could afford to lose at the AIM casino) but it brought my average down from 13p to 4p. IMO recent developments are very positive and the share should fly. This isn't simply about doing an RTO when you see who joined the MTFB board now!

Today the buys are about 1.6x the amount of sells. This could hit 1p if the holders sat on their hands rather than pressing the sell button...

The holders can influence the price by not selling and MMs would need to raise their bid until they encourage more sellers. The demand to buy is there due to intermittent NT as buys exceed sells!

Looking at the recent trades, there only seems to be 1 buy above £2.5K.

11-May-20 14:05:32 0.880 454,195 Buy* 3,996

Everybody else has kept to smaller deals. There are, however, people who are still building holdings without drawing too much attention. Mr £x92 is back doing multiple small purchases throughout the day:

11-May-20 09:39:33 0.8872 111,814 Buy* 992.01 O
11-May-20 10:27:29 0.879 112,857 Buy* 992.01 O
11-May-20 13:14:44 0.879 112,831 Buy* 992.01 O
11-May-20 13:21:27 0.879 112,831 Buy* 992.01 O

Wow, the GBP must have really depreciated against the USD. Is $1 = £1 now? :-)

I think this is the blog of a guy that posts on this BB called gmf78.

Absolutely bonkers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-kxl6Q8O2A

Did your friend say the area of the planet they are using as their landing site and which Earth timezone they were referencing? 7AM is quite an early start (especially for a Monday morning) and I don't want to get out of bed too early...

Investor6, it isn't over until the fat lady sings! This week one of my zombie shares came back to life and I think it got a bit of a helping hand because of COVID-19! It was >99% down and selling the shares wouldn't even have bought lunch out with the wife and kids so I mentally wrote off the £3K I was down and moved on. The average price I paid for MTFB was around 13p and they were down at around 0.13p. Another LTH thought why not chuck some more money down the hole and I thought what have I got to lose and "invested" another £80 as a pure gamble that a miracle would happen and another pharma would buy us out - this brought my average down to 0.4p. Things didn't look good and they continued to drop to 0.04p. There were a few rumours and a "pump and dump" over Easter where the price went to around 0.7p for a day before MTFB sent out an RNS saying they didn't have a buyer for Iclaprim and it quickly fell back to 0.2p. Myself and several other holders saw patterns in the buying as if there was somebody accumulating in the background. Yesterday MTFB climbed over 600% and finished at 1.49p, but is currently sitting at about 0.9p. If it can hit the heady heights of 4p I break even on MTFB. The chances are not bad for a share that was really screwed!

JTMacs, Aston Martin is so last century. I would be tempted to put a reservation on a Tesla Cybertruck instead! We're still waiting for Tesla to land in South Africa - they were supposed to open their Cape Town showroom in Q3 2019 but it hasn't happened yet.

Amers, sw10000 is right regarding EUA. A random poster (1st post) called TOBD wrote that he was a EUA holder and he had a "friend with inside information" had told him that he didn't need to worry and an RNS would drop on Wednesday 6th of May and it was good news. He made a 2nd post with a link to 3 little birds by Bob Marley. The post was removed and TOBD was kicked off LSE.

There have been rumours that SP Angel could be the new EUA NOMAD. All the posts are like Chinese/Russian whispers. There was even a thread trying to guess what TOBD stood for - I came out with Turns Out Board Delivered The Obviously Big Deal. Let's hope this guy is right about tomorrow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNcsqHwoXI

Mr Nation, they will have even less chance of buying in the US than they will here, as MTFB was delisted over there a couple of months ago to reduce cash burn and the market cap was too low to continue to be listed there! :-)