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Blimey folks. The misery has really taken hold here today.
VELA is far from dead and is currently valued very attractively despite the less than perfect investments and the long wait for news on AZD1656 (Try and find a listed org with a pool of investments with an MCAP of just 4mil).
It wont take much to light the fuse on this firework. I just hope that not too many retail investors will be talked out of their shares on the cheap before the rise.

Come on. Keep selling those shares cheap so I can keep topping up on the cheap!
Its been only a couple weeks since Laiker and Cooke had to notify VELA of their growing holdings. These guys are not buying to throw their money away. Something is in the pipeline to push them to make such significant buying decisions.
And before anyone shouts "ramper" - The holdings RNS's are there for all to see.

Unfortunately my average is significantly higher than yours thanks to me buying a large chunk pre SGS/AZD1656, however, being able to buy at this level is quickly lowering my average and presents a good opportunity to cash in when the news flow improves or our investments pick up.

That's another top up sorted while the MM's were being slightly less harsh with the spread.
Happy to keep loading up while shares are cheap. We are currently valued at a similar level to a cash shell so only need one or two investments to perk-up for there to be a justifiable rise. If AZD1656 turns out to be a winner then I stand to make significantly more than I expect! Either way, happy with the risk v reward at this level.

That may well have been me as I have been waiting for another opportunity to top up, however, I get the impression the MMs are hoovering up shares from retail investors on the cheap for a large buyer.
I have not been able to get a price at less than 0.28 despite shares being handed over as cheap as 0.25. A far bigger spread than what we were seeing a few weeks ago.

Rather irritatingly the MMs are willing to take shares at .26 but wont sell them back to the market at any less than 0.29. Come on guys I am looking for a cheap top up :)

Classic little drop today on very little information has led to retail investors giving away shares at a discount. An hour or two later we are back where we started with investors willing to fork out a few thousand pounds to take cheap shares while they can. All I can say is; "fair play".
At this level we are essentially valued as a cash shell with the added benefit of a portfolio of investments (not all good) and potentially big news on AZD1656 (although the Igraine resignations have completely baffled me on that front).
Time will tell but I reckon this is bargain basement with plenty of gains to be made!

A bit of a Googl-ing brings up a couple of potential candidates:
1) Chris Cooke of Time Partners / C5 Capital
2) Chris Cooke of Capital Futures
Looking at the information available online my money would be on the first of the two (although both I am sure have the knowledge and resources to amass the volumes published today) .
Either way. Its nice to see some very confident buying recently. If it wasn't for beer money retail investors bailing out on the cheap I am sure we would be at a far higher SP right now!

And we have another Holdings RNS denoting that someone has been loading up while small investors continue to hand over their shares at a huge discount. The movement of wealth from the impatient to the patient in action!

I agree to some extent, however, I fit into neither group particularly well having held since mid 2020 (pre SGS). I have luckily been able to average down a little but have a long way to go before I am in the black (hence not taking too kindly to being called a ramper). Its purely an opinion, but I think Laikers recent top-up is a good indication of potentially good news on the horizon. Lets face it, the BoD surely cant pick any more stinkers (even my poor attempts a trading AIM shares have done better in recent years!)

Shots fired.... and all missed!

I reckon we are heading for another RNS confirming that Laiker has enlarged his position.
Retail investors are continuing to hand over their shares at this level despite seeing a big hitter clearly loading up. Unsurprisingly we are seeing an uptick in the number of doom-mongers on the LSE board who are either not standing by their investing decisions or looking for a cheap entry point.
I agree that the BoD's decision making up to this stage looks pretty unremarkable, however, the whole point of investing in disruptive new tech or bio med is that it takes time (sometimes years rather than months), however, the rewards are big when things go the right way.
Dont like VELA? take a look at a low risk investment fund to 5-10% per year!

Laiker has clearly been loading up for quite some time while retail investors have been handing over shares at a whopping loss for the last few months.
You don't end up with a 6% holding unless you are confident of a return. Based on the current SP he has at least £300k riding on VELA. Huge payday if the stats align.

Well done to those who have held on, showed great restraint and patience.

I very much doubt it. If this was a pump and dump the SP would be significantly higher. There are a huge number of retail investors in VELA at north of 0.0071 so the SP would have to double.

The SP is going up! Its just a shame the volume is so low!

In fairness I haven't seen "Boom" for a while!
VELA has attracted a bit more online/social media coverage in the last few trading days so I wonder whether we are now seeing a bit more interest from new buyers/investors. The SP is currently at a level where the rewards could be very significant if news breaks (the big one we all want to hear about is AZD1656)

Nice to hear some positive coverage: https://ukinvestormagazine.co.uk/uk-inflation-berkeley-group-holdings-and-vela-technologies-with-alan-green/

The top line is that the SP is significantly underweight and does not fairly represent the VELA investment portfolio. The only way is up!

Its purely an opinion, but I think we are officially at the bottom of bargain basement levels with the current SP .
Granted the SP is way down on where it could or should be, but the rest of the market has taken a pounding this week and VELA has sat solidly between 0.00275 and 0.0030 while we have waited patiently for confirmation on the Truspine investment. Now that is out the way we should hopefully be in for a bit more positive news. The BoD also have £ in the pot for further investments so you would hope are already on the hunt.

There we have it. The Truespine investment stands and the BoD have addressed the administrative errors with the broker involved. At least a line can be drawn under the issue and fingers crossed Truspine proves to be a winner in the long term.
Next stop AZD1656 news!

I must admit, I am a bit baffled that the BoD are taking so much time over the Truspine stuff.
If it was my business, I would not want to be sat on an investment that hadn't been correctly assessed or signed off!
As I mentioned last week, the BoD could even win a few fans by showing that they don't take this sort of thing likely and were subsequently walking away from it.