RE: Price opening3 Jan 2021 20:59
It's not being shorted, you couldnt get the borrow and the spread betting companies dont offer it afaik. The drop was simply because of the annual accounts which had significant inaccuracies in them. This will be corrected by RNS in the morning, hopefully along with some more news which should allow the SP to rise back to where it was (or higher) pre Thursday. Sadly retail got spooked by the drop and the MMs being as they are took full advantage of this. Prior to Thursday they struggled and struggled to get hold of stock unfortunately some obliged last week and let them have quite a bit for next to nothing, possibly due to stop losses (which is why I never use them as I've seen it so many times before with fake drops to trigger stops) but probably due to poorly researched holders or traders hoping for a quick 10% or so on what they believed, due in part to the hype on the bulletin boards, would be significant news in the annual report. It pays to ask yourself the question why did you invest here? Has anything (other than the SP) fundamentally changed since you invested here? Do you have faith in your research? Answer these questions and that should determine whether or not to continue to hold. I've asked those questions many times about Alpha and the answers confirm my continued investment here. I'm still a buyer when funds allow, hopefully be freeing up some more profits from other investments tomorrow and that money is going straight in here especially if the MMs drop the price to try and get a few more. That's assuming theyll even let you buy, my guess is theyll be taking anything you want to let them have on the cheap and it will be NT to buy until they've filled their dirty pockets