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Adrian yesterday, arguably today. Lol. A Freudian slip by Apple, perhaps? per ardua ad astra

''Anyone know why UT trades occasionally appear in the middle of the day with SXX? It's not something I see very often with other shares.'' ..... It can happen to any company on any platform. Highly liquid SETS shares have an opening and closing auction as you know. For the last year or two, they have also had an intraday auction at 12:00. Having said that, if there are not any trades on the order book that cross (i.e. bid higher than offer) then there won't be any trades to uncross. As for SETSqx and SEAQ, in addition to the open and close, they have intraday auctions taking place 9am, 11am and 2pm also. Same parameters apply. Cheers, per arguably ad astra

Lol, I know Cranleigh. Between Apple consistently auto-correcting and this site persisting in substituting � signs for other symbols it cannot handle (in this case the acute accent over e), it is a wonder we make ourselves understood. Cheers, per ardua ad astra p.s. the thumb-up was from me.

''Share price spiked today for no apparent reason apart from mm manipulation selling on spikes.imvho'' ..... 'Spiked', lol. You do realise that the high shown on Google is nothing more than the highest price paid, right? In which case this 'spike' of yours is little more than someone - for whatever reason - buying 'at best'. At no point today has the share price been 34.64. Today's high, i.e. the highest price on the offer side of the order book was 34.30. As for MM 'manipulation' in order to sell on spikes, c'mon fella you should know that market makers (the clues in the name), or retail service providers in contemporary parlance, do not buy and sell in order to trade as we might. They make all they need on the difference in the spread. And whilst it is not unknown for them to 'stimulate' the market with some judicious pricing on AIM sometimes, this is because it causes the buying and selling activity they make their money from the spread on. And finally, this is a SETS traded share. Market makers are not running the book here. Take the opportunity to look at L2 if you can and you will see for yourself. Invoking the dastardly MM genie is just so pass�, don't you know? Cheers, per adrian ad astra

I've had a few dogs over the years... per ardua ad astra

''Wow. A little taken back by people's holdings ere. .I no these boards can be a little deceptive...'' ..... I don't know what you mean. After I've taken my dog for a quick run up Scafell Pike before a champagne breakfast this morning, I'm gonna paddle my kayak from Whitehaven (don't worry the dog's a more than able swimmer and he'll paddle alongside) down to a charming eaterie in Padstow, where Stephane Delourme is going to whisk us both up a spot of oysters, langoustines and sashimi for lunch with Crema Catalina for desert (might logon to buy a couple of hundred thou whilst savouring its tangy, citrusy richness). After a short detour to the Eden Project where they need the dog to dig up a dinosaur bone, we intend a brief hop over to Brussels to sort out some portmanteau thingy a few seem to be having a little bother with, before then jumping back into the kayak for an entertaining interlude of 'chicken' in the shipping lanes of the channel. After later landing at Sandwich for 18 holes at The Royal St George's Golf Club we shall enjoy a few glasses of bubbly at the 19th. This should provide us both with the fizz for a quick jog around the coast, up the Thames Path and along to West St. where we are meeting a few friends for a light supper in the Private Dining Room at The Ivy. Hope you have a pretty normal day too. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

Incidentally, I thought she came across very well in the following: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ppsy0 Cheers, per ardua ad astra

Other than that she can look forward to picking up another ~�40k pa not really Jonesy, no. Although we could take something from the thought that perhaps another company involved in construction/infrastructure considers her highly enough that they see her skills and experience an asset. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

LSE system is down. They are working on it now. No dealing is taking place. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

''just re-read that, and not thought it through'' ..... Indeed, Chesh. And in no small part because polyhalite is invariably pink or grey, eh? Talking of slogans though, I'd be happy with a sticker in my pickup that says something like 'Polyhalite: It grows on you' or mebbe, 'Poly4: A growing success'. Perhaps I should contact IR and see what they can do. Whatcha reckon? Cheers, per ardua ad astra

Good evening, Murray. There isn't any bid or ask because the market is closed. All you are seeing is an obsolete order left on the order book after close today. Of no significance whatsoever. Regards, per ardua ad astra

''Standard practice on these sites.....a thread on plan b being removed'' ...... No it hasn't. Starting Saturday there are several threads starting 'Plan A, B, C or D' or 'plan abc' etc. ''posts with doubts deleted'' ..... Not that I'm aware of. Care to elaborate? ''then the distraction diatribe'' ..... Entirely unrelated. Why the negative, unsubstantiated and conspiratorial insinuations? Anyone could be mistaken for thinking you might have an agenda or at the very least, an axe to grind. per ardua ad astra

Ditchit/Rosewall, not for a moment would I deny that many people have overcome significant obstacles in their lives. And it is to your credit that through your own initiative, enterprise and hard work you have been able to better your own situations. Having said that, you do seem to be conflating individual personal circumstances with the state provided social benefits to which I referred. I have little desire to enter into any ongoing inter generation debate about who had or has it better, as I am neither a baby boomer, nor millennial. In riposte to the original assertion that ''now are the good days'', I simply wished to highlight that for many today - who amongst other pressures might be saddled with the cost of their education - the ambition to live in a home that they themselves own, and that is anywhere near friends or family is little more than a pipe dream. For many of them, lacking the security of a 'job for life' and a pension scheme that their employer contributes significantly to, relatively speaking, now certainly isn't ''the good days''. Regards, per ardua ad astra

''now are the good days.'' ..... I know, right? Free school milk and meals, free university education, defined benefit final salary pension schemes, a hitherto unheard of house price boom, early retirement... sheesh baby boomers had it tough, eh? Cheers, per ardua ad astra

I shorted BARC a few weeks ago for a quick 7%. And I'm not closing my bank account to keep my money under my mattress. What's your point? per ardua ad astra

''And the page three girls have been banded, shocking'' ..... Really, only just? I thought this had happened years ago. Not before time though, eh. They were an anachronistic relic of less evolved times weren't they? No blacks, no dogs, no Irish sorta nonsense. No need for it in a daily newspaper really in this day and age is there, Chesh? If that's what you're after log on to hornpub or something. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

''the end is nigh brigade have managed to stop the SP from moving North with their doom and gloom'' ..... Lol. And there was me thinking it might have had something to do with more people willing to sell at 34p than there are people willing to buy. Bulletin boards: The power behind the market since 1571 Cheers, per ardua ad astra

Chesh is entirely correct. If you do not have DMA then your order will not appear directly on the order book (L2). Whenever you place a limit order and you elect to allow your broker to publish it, it will then appear on their orders list which MMs (or Retail Service Providers [RSP] as you may have seen them referred to nowadays) have access to, rather than the order book of the primary exchange - which is what you see whenever you look at L2. Regards, per ardua ad astra

Many thanks, Ru. Glad uRSirius. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

''as quick as tractable.'' ..... Good for Chris. An unsurprising and suitably ambiguous response to a pretty clumsy enquiry, imo. What else is he gonna say? Don't suppose anyone asked him if he prefers pounds or dollars? per ardua ad astra