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Given that it's an open offer, why would anyone pay the market rate rather than applying for placing shares?

Miss you all. I have been having a lot of fun on non-boring shares! This AIM malarkey is hilarious fun. Either lose lots or make lots, and rarely anything in between. Miss you all xx

....looks to me like a very deliberate walking down of the share price. I'm sure it's not though. Hopefully the BOD don't make the mistake of bringing out another 'we don't know why the shareprice is falling' type RNS, that didn't go so well last time.

I check the prices of my boring shares several times a day, usually when I'm on the loo, it's very rare that they move swiftly, or so swiftly that I might miss something major. None of them are anywhere near my desired exit. I fully appreciate your comment that my position isn't so relevant to you, and this will explain why you missed me saying what my personal plan with CUP will be. I'm happy to share this with you if you are genuinely interested. As for missing this years big news, then yes, I was caught out. Again, if you are genuinely interested I can share those details with you. If you'd prefer to carry on our humorous sparring, then that's cool too. My work commitments sometimes mean I can't post on message boards, so sometimes I miss things. I will be away tomorrow, Tuesday and perhaps Wednesday but will try to keep an eye on my spicy fun AIM shares in case there is some momentous news. You never know, we live in hope! I suspect you have got me all wrong, I try to be the funny one. Never have I been so mis-labelled as this.

It's all about scale, dear Queenie. Is my main interest volatile shares? Really? less than 15% of my PF is in those shares. The rest is in incredibly boring things. Is there any point posting on the boards of those boring stocks? Sometimes I do. Very, very rarely - the reason is that not so much happens. I have more in EMG than I do in all of my AIM stocks combined, but there's little to be gained by posting on the EMG board. So, from a financial perspective, my main interest is not volatile shares, but I do like a little fun times with more risky things to spice things up. 2009 is quite recent to me - it's only a few years ago. If that doesn't constitute being new to something to you, then so be it. Gladwell's 10,000 hours springs to mind. I don't really hang on TW's every word I'm afraid, and I was rather busy at the beginning of this year. Perhaps I should've paid more attention as I was a CUP shareholder since 25-10-2012, and paying attention to the esteemed Mr Winnifrith would've saved me some money. My buy in price was a slightly spectacular £2.0096 having read good things about CUP by Michael Slater (not the cricketer). Your conclusion that I am trying to pull the wool over people's eyes or I don't do much research is as inaccurate as it is amusing. Bravo. I wouldn't know how to pull any wool over anything I'm afraid. Your constant obsession with me is becoming quite exciting, I hope you're enjoying it as much as I do. Perhaps one day I can become a fully paid up member of your inner circle.

I didn't see TW's apology about CUP saying he'd got it wrong. I've seen a number of his articles on Shareprophets running the company down, and much more recently than March too. I don't rate TW's views at all, but I think that a lot of people follow what he has to say. Perhaps the numbers of his followers are falling. It would be incredible if he did say in March that he'd got CUP wrong and people should buy it, as he'd been anti-CUP before then and also very much so since then. As you say, that really would appear to be a spot of pumping and dumping. I know Zak Mir posted a few articles recommending CUP as a buy.

I'm happy for CPP holders/traders if it's doing well. I'm quite new to this, we all have to start somewhere, and it gained my attention for having some pretty substantial movements up and down. I think it's too volatile for my taste, and also I've taken positions elsewhere. Obviously I was the first to post that viewpoint from Lucien Myers, so hopefully it helped someone along the way. Onefreesharetip is a free subscription, so I'm surprised that no-one else had posted it up. I certainly wasn't holding a sell recommendation, I have no view on that one. As for CUP, I really believe that the company will recover if it makes some smart choices. It has guaranteed it's cashflow for the next few years and is sat on a healthy cash pile whilst being profitable. I think that once the BOD sorts out what it's strategy is and then chooses to share that with the market then it should return to it's previous valuations. I don't think that it will see £2 again in the foreseeable future given that valuation was on a previous business model, but I don't think £1 is out of reach.

Hi Cuppers I'm one of those strange people that will answer a question honestly if asked. Also, I very rarely volunteer my position, what's the point. That said, I never go short (I wouldn't know how), do CFD (I wouldn't know how) or spreadbetting (I wouldn't know how). Ivor asked me if I'd sold, so I said yes. I sold out of CUP on the rise to 67p recently, I lost an absolute fortune. I am annoyed at myself, but there you go. We make choices, some right and some are wrong. Why would I come on and say I've sold? What would that achieve? What I am not going to do is run the company down, deramp, berate other people's positions be they long or short. I'm broadly supportive of CUP, but I think that it will bounce around in a range for a while and I wanted to free the cash to trade a bit. I've had two shocking positions crystallised in quick succession - ENRC and CUP. These have cost me approximately 10% of my PF value. Luckily I have managed to trade profitably for the past few weeks and have pretty much recovered one of those losses now, although today looks like it will be a terrible day for most shares. I sold ENRC out of frustration and a bit of fear that the deal on the table would get worse. I see the SP got to approximately 10% more than the price at which I sold, but I made more than 10% trading the 'proceeds', so I feel OK about that choice in the end. I did go on the ENRC board to say I'd sold as I was so furious with how the process was going and needed that catharsis. I wish CUP well, I hope the people like iLeeman do well out of it, and I hope to come back in when there are consistent rises and the forward strategy becomes clearer. FWIW my motives in any share are clear - I want to make some money. I come on BBs for some banter, some conversation, and some information to help me make some money. I'm sure I'll see some of you around.

iLeeman - I'd be surprised if there was another RNS about this. There have been 2 on the matter already - one in March and one on the conclusion of the KPMG work. Given that the programme had nothing new in it why would they bother with yet another RNS that says little more than 'look what we said last time'. Also, the company is obliged to release market sensitive information to the whole market via RNS. It didn't. It put it's response on it's own website first. My thoughts : no RNS on this. Price should finish up today - it has all been a case of 'sell on rumour, buy on news', the selling was completely overdone in the panic and some people will have copped for a loss in the process. Now some people will be cleaning up.

Still tanking. All those new posters seem to have gone quiet. Is it still going to 35p?

....that is a 'no-brainer' and 'needs no de-ramping' it certainly attracts a lot of people when it's in the red. People who are nowhere to be seen when it's in the blue.

Got this one wrong! Out at 850, now look. Well done everyone who kept hold.

I'm also out. I was originally in at £10.87 in May 2011 and averaged down to about £7. £8.50 was enough for me.

....what do I know! I wasn't expecting too much, so 4% is very nice indeed.

Not sure why this would rise based on those results, they were pretty much in line with expectations as far as I can see. Will check back after the usual first hour's non-sense.

If you believe that to be the case then the rational thing to do is to sell everything now, isn't it?

Oh come on. So close.

The trend is definitely upwards, although not smooth! Seems to be a series of higher highs and higher lows as it pulls back slightly. £8 seems to be a round figure resistance, I have no idea whether or not it is a technical resistance level. Come on SGP, let's got over that figure and then power forward on the back of the results.

POW! Now let's keep it.

It does look odd doesn't it. Looks like we might be in for a 52 week high today or tomorrow. Back to the old days!