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There have been several multi-million pound trades, including a buy of over £20m of shares! Up over 3% today and hoping the rises will continue...

The share price briefly went below 420p. I've bought some at 424p today. Not sure why it keeps dropping and hoping for it bouncing back to 500p or so in the near future.

MTFB dropped to 7.9USD. 7.9USD for 20 shares is 0.395USD per share. At the current exchange rate this is below 30.3p per share! Don't know the cause of this drop, but there could be a drop coming on Monday.

I already bought a small holding in LUCE at 61p and hung onto them as the price slid below 40p. I had been debating whether to buy more. The CEO and Epic investments It bought a load at 40p in August and the price climbed to high 40s. They have recently slipped back to 44p and IMO probably (hopefully) won't go much lower. I've just doubled my holding at 44.7p as I suspect the CEO and Epic would buy more if the shares dipped to nearer 40p again causing them to rebound.

Latest results are lacklustre but not as bad as current price suggests. I'd feel more confident if the new CFO would buy a load more shares so there are no more accounting skeletons in the closet!

I bought RPC at above 900p last year and some further shares this year. The break-even is just under 880p. I was watching the share price continuing to fall and had set-up a buy last week if it hit 677p. Missed the big rise today by a few pence... :-(

Yes, looks like an over reaction as figures don't look too bad. Just bought some at 286p. I've previously owned the 2 biggest daily fallers, DOM and ULE. I lost money with ULE and made DOM made me a profit. Can understand the ULE fall but not why DOM has fallen so much...

Yes, the bid/offer spread is also very high at a difference of 2.2p (over 7%). Normally these are within 1p of each other so we'll need to see whether the bid gets dragged up or the ask gets dragged down...

Also why is the share price quoted as 32.5p which is higher than the ask price? Very strange...

RPC are also quietly buying up their own shares. Previously they were buying around 32K shares per day, but now have ramped the volume up to around 290K shares per day over the past 2 days. I would have thought this would have caused a decent rebound to back above 700p.

I have a limit sell at 66.4p and hoped LUCE would have hit that today. I had the same idea where if I buy low and sell at around 10% higher within a week or 2 then take the profit and wait for another dip to buy back in.

This share price is all over the place, so you might be lucky and get for 670p. As RPC are buying back shares I'm hoping for a small bounce and will be surprised if share doesn't finish above 700p. I bought RPC last year and some more this year - my break-even point is north of 800p! :-(

RPC have been buying back their own shares. If they buy back now at the current price won't the share start to go back up again? Last year I think they were buying back shares when the price dipped below 900p, so having the opportunity to buy back at below 700p must be good news for them! It seems like RPC hadn't been expecting this, as they had been buying back (albeit small amounts of) shares in the past few days...

This 10% drop in share price is really confusing, as their full-year figures look very positive! Revenue growth of 36% to �3,748m driven by acquisitions and organic growth of 2.8%. Profit and cashflow are both significantly up. Surely the market wasn't expecting better results than these!?!

I bought in at �3 after the Italian accounting revelations and then bought more at �2.90 thinking that this must be the bottom. I would buy more BT shares now if I had some more cash to invest, but don't want to put any more money into shares right now. The dividend is the only positive thing about the price right now and I'm re-investing the dividends and getting more shares that way. I did sell around 20% of my BT holding at 232p. I took a hit in the selling price to buy another share. This helped reduce my exposure to BT (as they made up around 40% of my share portfolio). BT has since dropped 11% and the other share is only up 1%, but at least I reduced my exposure to BT and bought a share that has risen slightly. I'd need to sell one of my other shares to buy more BT shares so need to weigh up whether it is worth doing so or not. IMO BT looks cheap at the current price, but there probably aren't going to be big movements in the short term. It is more of a long-term hold.

Providing there is no further bad news on the accounting front, the share price is currently looking good value at around half the price of the 2016 IPO. There wasn't much point looking at their previous trading figures, as they were incorrectly stated. I looked at the products they sell - LED lighting and they are also making British General, Masterplug and Ross. I have a British General consumer unit and they are pretty good. Not quite the same quality as Hager or MK, but they do the job for a lot less money. I've also had Masterplug products and they work well. Ross has also been around for a while with a reasonable reputation. So Luceco seem to manufacture and sell decent stuff at reasonable prices. Another good thing for me is seeing they still have some job openings advertised, so they still want to recruit rather than make a proportion of the workforce redundant! As for the accounting fiasco, they have recently appointed Matt Webb as CFO and if he starts buying soon then the recent price plunge could turn out to be a market over-reaction.

I know the feeling and have bought a few shares that have fallen after purchase. I bought BT at around �3 and it's nudging �2. Imperial brands and Saga have also dropped so I've been selling some of these at a loss and buying other shares. My last 3 share purchases have risen, but the market usually does well between March and June anyway.

I bought some at 61p. This is the 2nd consecutive day of reasonable rises now. Let's hope it continues for a bit longer!

I first bought in at low 30s and then topped up at low 40s, so around 37p is my break even point. I was wondering how close the share price would get to the 31p placing price and today it just dipped below that price! I was going to rush in and buy more, but the out of control bus analogy that DayTrader made me sit and have a think. I've set-up a limit buy between 30 and 31p - I'll just have to see if this threshold is crossed in the next few days...

So Autotrader have just released some pretty good trading figures. The shares initially spiked to 388p and now have slumped back to 330p. I'd love to know what is cuausing all this volatility! :-) Almost a 15% movement in a couple of hours - strong rise initially and then fell through the floor!

Yes it looks like I jumped in too early on Convatec - bought the day the shares plummeted for 220p. I thought they were a "safe" bet as I was getting in at below the IPO price and it was just the market over-reacting. Now they seem to be trading between 200-215p so this is what people are valuing the shares at. There is a big bid/offer spread again at closing which is unusual for a FTSE100 company - was saying share price was 208, bid 223, ask 193p.

At 15:35 it had the share price listed at 198p, buy at about 222p and sell at 174p. I've never seen a % bid/offer spread like that on a FTSE100 company - only on penny shares. What happened at 15:35ish to cause this?