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We used to have shares here but sold out a long time ago. However if it continues to drop to the 400p or less mark we will be looking to come back in.
It has been added to our other recovery stocks to buy back into now they have dropped, CRST GFRD plus the bargain basement FFWD with a NAV of around 17p with the latest news (11.4p presently quoted), ( we do already invest in FFWD so it would just be adding to the present holding to lower the average which does show us a loss)

Some one paid 10.499p a couple of days ago and must be looking at a 15% loss on that deal already, almost as big a % as us!!!!!!!!!!!!! they probably already held stock and were trying to lower their average.

We have added this to the top of our recovery stock list , May possible drop some more yet, especially when the FTSE has its summer dip.
GFRD has also been added and a general watch on builders. They (builders etc) always have their ups and downs which gives us all a chance to buy on the downs before selling with the ups.

We have added this to the top of our recovery stock list , May possible drop some more yet, especially when the FTSE has its summer dip.
CRST has also been added and a general watch on builders. They (builders etc) always have their ups and downs which gives us all a chance to buy on the downs before selling with the ups.

Thank you Lord Snooty, we came across them when trying to establish how many market makers and where the shares are held for FFWD. think they were dated either March or early April. There is so much un-information on the web it can put you off looking.
The SP is a bit disappointing especially after the buy price almost touched 10.5p. The MMs seem happy to let it drop again, do they know something?. With anomalies in the trading price, such as the final purchase of 20,000 shares last night costing 9.51p then this morning the only two trades, by the same person?, of 52,841 were bought for less at 9.41p. So we imagine there must be two MMs for this to happen.
We are only here to invest in FFWD and do not "love" the company as some of you do. It is a gamle investment for us, we do still have 100% faith we will make money finally, it may take longer than some of you anticipated but the returns should warrant the wait. No further investment by us in FFWD this month, all though very tempted. this months money will probably go to either IIT or AAM.
So if any one knows how many MMs there are please let us know.

Are these of interest to you, although you have probably all seen them, if so our apologies.

https://simplywall.st/stocks/gb/diversified-financials/aim-ffwd/fastforward-innovations-shares/news/who-owns-fastforward-innovations-limited-lonffwd/

https://simplywall.st/stocks/gb/tech/aim-ffwd/fastforward-innovations-shares

Is that the april 19th RNS?

INTU; WE TOOK A LOSS A LONG TIME AGO OF AROUND 10% WILL LOOK AT IT AGAIN AS IT IS GETTING LOW.

ALWAYS HAD INVESTMENT TRUSTS AS PART OF OUR PORTFOLIO BUT NOW THEY COMPRISE MOST OF IT. LOVE THE FRONTIER ONES AND SMALL COMPANIES.

SOME STOCKS WE MADE LOSSES ON AND BOUGHT BACK AT A LOWER PRICE THEN WHEN WE RECOUPED OUR LOSSES SOLD OUT, OFTEN TO EARLY.. CRST WAS OUR LAST EXAMPLE OF THIS.

WE MUST ALL FIND WHAT WORKS FOR OURSELVES AND STICK TO IT. NOTHING IS GUARANTEED.

READ AND LISTEN TO EVERYONE AND MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION ON WHAT YOU FEEL IS RIGHT FOR YOU.

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO BUYING AT THE RIGHT PRICE. WE ALL LEARN THE HARD WAY.

NOW WE WANT THE EASY LIFE SO OUR ONLY GAMBLE AT PRESENT IS FFWD (SHOWING A SMALL LOSS BUT THE nNAV IS 2P ABOVE THE SP.

EVEN STOPPED THE OPTIONS. YOU GET OLD AND CANNOT BE BOTHERED UNFORTUNATELY.

WE ADD TO OUR PORTFOLIO EACH MONTH SOMETHING WE THINK IS CHEAP.
ITs THAT ARE AT A LIFE TIME HIGH WE WILL SELL.
THEN EITHER WAIT FOR A DROP IN THE MARKET OR BUY IN TO AREAS ETC THAT ARE LOW (TO US).

NOTHING SET IN CONCRETE AS MARKETS VARY.

JUST FOLLOW THE GUIDE LINES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Sorry forgot to mention,AVOID wide spreads on ?Investment Trusts

We are looking at Galiford as a possible buy once the price settles.

After 50 yrs of trading it is still the same, shares drop far more and quicker than they go up.

Don't trust Directors, market makers in fact anyone, They are there for their own benefit NOT YOURS

We now invest almost completely in Investment trusts (90%) who buy Med, small, Aim, VCT overseas Frontier markets etc etc. Especially those who invest in medium and small companies they go up more than the established ones.This way you get a good coverage of everything. Which most investors cannot afford to do or have the time either. Occasionally we buy recovery stocks Pan African, INTU , SEE are among those we are looking at Crest if it falls back to 340s (galliford may be one once the price has settled) Mining and oil stocks when the price of the commodity is down. .

One fairly safe way to invest is
BUY when the market / share has dropped and has settled.
SELL when the market/share hits a high
If anything drops 10% GET OUT your first loss is your lowest loss

Do not buy at the top like most tend to do. At the moment the market is in the middle so there are still some low priced Investment Trusts JESC, AFMC, BRFI, ANII, IGC, BRWM, PHI, FFWD ( which could make u a fortune, plenty of chat on here re this one, some not so good), IIT, ASL, SLS, AAM, VOF, TRG, JUST TO MENTION A FEW (We are invested in all these).
We also sold Options on stocks that are low but covered them buy buying 10% approx. lower.
Good look and do not rely on one share. Bigger the range safer the investment.

You are correct about smelling a rat.

We meant to add as per Lord Snooty's comment

Closing buy price yesterday was 9.82, Now the buy price is 9.725 a drop of 0.095p.
The last sell price yesterday was 9.57 and has dropped to to-days last sell price of 9.3001, A 0.27p reduction.
Yet they mark the share down 0.4p. whereas the current mid price should be 9.5105 compared to the 9.7p mid closing price A drop of 0.19, which is no where near the 0.4p drop they indicate.
Not that this makes the slightest difference in reality as you never know what you will be quoted until you ask. Just us nit picking.

We noticed yesterday afternoon that there were two buys of 50,000 who paid 9.95p and 10p. followed by two small buys at 9.82p then a buy of 100,000 at 9.82p. Why then did the price DROP for someone purchasing a larger quantity.
If we had paid 10p for 50000 then see someone buy 100000 for 9.82p (with no sales in between) 75 mins later we would be annoyed and wonder why.
It is not unusual to see this kind of price variation. But that is AIM
Does any one know how many MMs there are for FFWD, is it one or two ?
On a serious note the big sales do appear to have reduced to what you would normally see, with larger purchases just looking to edge above them. So maybe and only maybe the SP has settled down and it is not getting forced down by either a few or one big seller. The next few days should give us a clearer idea. excluding all RNS's

Thought the trading was pretty steady when we looked this morning and it even showed signs of moving towards the 10p to buy mark, until lunchtime when it looks like one person sold £80k worth in 4 deals, which certainly knocked the price with it being way above the quantity that most trades had been today.
Would be nice to know what the reason was behind this sale. Unfortunately all the buyers stopped after those 4 sales.
Following the later 9.14p sale we note there was a deal at 9.5p (Buy/Sell?) which indicates the MMs are not keen on buyers coming in at the lower part of 9p. suggesting they are not expecting more in that quantity to be sold. However only time will tell.
Remember FFWD is NOT a one company set up where bad news leaks out, they have a number of companies that they invest in. May be a very good buying opportunity at 9.5P

We have read the link you sent, which is excellent for beginners and ancient people like ourselves.. Thank you for it. We picked up other links while watching it and for any one who has not seen them or is as ignorant as ourselves they may be of interest.

These may be Junior school subjects and we apologise for those of you in Grammar school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BGCKkgW8CU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xGLc-zz9cA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93E_GzvpMA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15R1Kkqosc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZK_kzf6go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_CT7aclSaU
https://iot-sas.tech/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QTASbX3S4&feature=youtu.be

However thank you again Matador for the FACTOM link (No. 4) which most may like to refresh upon.

Thank you, have opened it to read later when we get back from hospital

To get the SP moving upwards rather than sideways, really good news has to emerge that actually makes the financial position of FFWD look stronger in £s not prospects. Still wondering why so many sales at this price, must be investors who only look at the SP not the foundations. Plus a few who think that will buy in cheaper, as will those who sold at 10-13p earlier in the year. We did put a lot down to people using the loss to offset gains for tax purposes's and will buy back in. This is supported by the drop after the new tax year. Others may well be putting them in to a new ISA
For ordinary investors FFWD are just another I.T. "fiddling with aim companies" They do NOT look any deeper. We in fact were about to sell our holding before we looked more in to it well over 12 months ago, as it was doing "nothing" Now it is a very large % of our investments. Any stock we move out of is looked at very carefully first.
When good financial news arrives for FFWD (and remember FFWD can only issue an RNS about an investment they hold when they get news about that investment themselves) and the price starts to rise, then the ordinary investor may well come in (after missing the bargain basement). They will be buying when the P/E is 12 rather than 4, and push the price up further. Investors like to see proof of a stock being a good investment rather than one that has a future. Just look at the stocks with P/Es of 30 or 40 to see investors still coming in at that price. One blip when the P/E is 40 sees a massive drop in price and big losses were as their gains are very limited with a high P/E. Value stocks are overlooked time and time again. We have gone for value because if it is just a technical rally that puts the stock up it is still profit and often a big % profit.
This is going to be a long , perhaps very long wait for FFWD to rise considerably , but we must have patience. Not panic, add to our holding when we can at a low price, thus reducing our average. Do not start quibbling with each other over minor items or ideas. We all have slightly different opinions and each will have some merit. Probably only a very small % of FFWD stock holders actually look at these posts on here.
Any links you see that are of interest please post on here for all to look at.
We think that a few holders have an average price purchased of between 12p and 24p so we do understand their frustration, especially if they cannot add to their investment to reduce the average. If you do not need the cash from this investment try to just look occasionally and hopefully one day you will see your investment back to your stake and past it with hope. There are other I.Ts which also have dropped a lot i.e. AAM, AMART, ESO. THey all generally do not go up until the main market is fully recovered and people look for areas that have not recovered.

To get the SP moving upwards rather than sideways, really good news has to emerge that actually makes the financial position of FFWD look stronger in £s not prospects. Still wondering why so many sales at this price, must be investors who only look at the SP not the foundations. Plus a few who think that will buy in cheaper, as will those who sold at 10-13p earlier in the year. We did put a lot down to people using the loss to offset gains for tax purposes's and will buy back in. This is supported by the drop after the new tax year. Others may well be putting them in to a new ISA
For ordinary investors FFWD are just another I.T. "fiddling with aim companies" They do NOT look any deeper. We in fact were about to sell our holding before we looked more in to it well over 12 months ago, as it was doing "nothing" Now it is a very large % of our investments. Any stock we move out of is looked at very carefully first.
When good financial news arrives for FFWD (and remember FFWD can only issue an RNS about an investment they hold when they get news about that investment themselves) and the price starts to rise, then the ordinary investor may well come in (after missing the bargain basement). They will be buying when the P/E is 12 rather than 4, and push the price up further. Investors like to see proof of a stock being a good investment rather than one that has a future. Just look at the stocks with P/Es of 30 or 40 to see investors still coming in at that price. One blip when the P/E is 40 sees a massive drop in price and big losses were as their gains are very limited with a high P/E. Value stocks are overlooked time and time again. We have gone for value because if it is just a technical rally that puts the stock up it is still profit and often a big % profit.
This is going to be a long , perhaps very long wait for FFWD to rise considerably , but we must have patience. Not panic, add to our holding when we can at a low price, thus reducing our average. Do not start quibbling with each other over minor items or ideas. We all have slightly different opinions and each will have some merit. Probably only a very small % of FFWD stock holders actually look at these posts on here.
Any links you see that are of interest please post on here for all to look at.
We think that a few holders have an average price purchased of between 12p and 24p so we do understand their frustration, especially if they cannot add to their investment to reduce the average. If you do not need the cash from this investment try to just look occasionally and hopefully one day you will see your investment back to your stake and past it with hope. There are other I.Ts which also have dropped a lot i.e. AAM, AMART, ESO. THey all generally do not go up until the main market is fully recovered and people look for areas that have not recovered.

WELL DONE, AS USUAL

MUST READ AGAIN TO TAKE IT ALL IN

PROPER JOB THAT

The holding in Factom in 2017 sept and 2018 both indicated 400000 shares held , with a slight value increase in 2018, however in 2018 there is the additional valuation of £4,599,000 for "Safe advance" which is eight times more than Factoms share valuation . So once this is listed in shares it may be the missing 1.63 %, after the inclusion of the money invested in Factom from other sources. The cash holding has been reduced to £886,000 after Emac deal so the NAV is about 11p. Will FFWD be looking for a R.I. to bolster funds, we hope not, but it could be on the cards if they see something to invest in. 1 new share for every 4 held at 9p?
No doubt you younger sharper sloths will enlighten us, on any error we have committed, if we can find your answers when we look next!!!!! with the pages of posts on the FFWD site it is not easy to look back. Although they do appear to be less posts today. Hopefully the bickering will have stopped.