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Given that Diggle knows a lot more about what's going on than we do, that's probably not a bad indicator. Vulpes will certainly have a better idea of things than some of the bedsit-dwellers and conspiracy theorists who have come and gone over the years here.

Follows on from the 250k late trade yesterday. Or as they say on the dark side, 'somebody supplying big chunks here for quite a while.

Somebody really wants out....'

Ignoring the fact that 'somebody really wants in' if we use the same logic. Only difference is that someone wants in in big lumps, presumably from an accumulation of scraps, and less today than yesterday.

Pretty much primed and ready I'd say Ray. Ready for a run for sure, but probably allowed downhill one.

Nope. Nothing.

He won't be able to tell me anything that isn’t in the public domain though. I'll just read the RNSs and watch his video again. See if I've missed anything about imminent funding or progress with 201.

Wow! Four new research grants. None of them to Valirx.

Has anyone actually listened carefully and enquiringly to that video? He's trying to talk up an 'asset' which he says they have been sitting on for 17 years and has basically produced nothing of note, it's been stagnant for a good few years now, and now they are going to apply for a new patent before doing a(nother) safety and tolerability test on it. Patent application and grant (if granted) is what? 18 months? 2 years? And how long did the last and unconvincing safety and tolerability test take? Several years in a clinic in Tblisi? So in other words, 201 is a dead loss, long live 201 part 2, but no mention of hard cash inbound in the next few months never mind the next decade. And if the cash position isn’t keeping him awake at night then where is it coming from?

And unlike any other shareholder the CEO gets a salary every month and an annual bonus. If holding a few shares gets another placing or two away, then the salary keeps flowing to make up for the loss on his share purchase. Nice work if you can get it.

Yet another wholly owned subsidiary to hold a wholly unsuccessful product which was given to VAL 15 years ago and has yielded nothing - apart from cost. This is the latest in a flurry of RNSs, none of which even the most charitable must acknowledge have no prospect of generating any income for years. So, what are they going to do for money in the intervening time? I'll say a placing is looming ever closer, but any other suggestions would be interesting to hear, as long as the words 'if' and 'could' 'might' and 'should' aren't used in every sentence.

Good try Ruck, but maybe stick to stirring on the dark side. Your efforts today here have been transparent and frankly a bit painful.

Can you imagine the gloating and carping here if Scancell had 'narrowly missed' a target in trials?!

Incidentally Drac, I have no knowledge of anyone's losses but I assumed you had made some in Val as you ramped it mercilessly a few years ago and slated Sclp at every turn. Looks like my intuition was correct. I'll just sit back and see what develops here. And remember Dracula, stay out of the sunlight and avoid the garlic bread.

That's hilarious - 'A Sad Individual who derives his pleasure from hearing of an Investors losses' says the poster who posted 'LTSHs Nil, Traders 10. IMO.'

Either be smug as a trader, or be a 'victim' as a downtrodden punter, but you can't wear both hats at the same time. Grow up, sunshine.

We're not talking the past here - it's very obvious that buying and selling at the appropriate points would make money, whereas the net capital gain here is nil. But there's no need to be copying and pasting the vindictive tripe from the other side, especially when you don't acknowledge it Drac. Presume you're still smarting from your losses in Val?

So who's best as an indicator of possible direction? An organisation with a member on the board and a responsibility to investors who has just forked out a million quid on open market shares, or some anonymous 'experienced posters' who don't post here because they've been banned, and unlike Vulpes are not in the business of making money for their clients?

Hmmm, that's a tricky one....

That link seems to have missed off the paragraph about upfront payments to VAL. Or any payment figures, come to that.

The million upfront 'booking' fee was in June 24, then in the early December 24 they licensed the next Mab like the original one 2 years earlier. The fee was around 5 million then I think, same as the original - can't remember if it was usd or gbp.

It says a lot for the glacial pace of serious science that there were 2 years between the two deals, but the fact that they paid to reserve an option on the second one might suggest that a) they were impressed by the first and b) they weren't the only ones interested.

Patience is a virtue!

I take it you aren't disputing the need for a placing in the next month or two then?

THX? Is this the same THX that had an exclusive deal to raise nothing in three years and then walked away, or is there a different THX that we have missed somewhere among the Big Issue sellers?

Agreed - buying shares on the open market would be a very strange move if you had even the faintest hint of a placing being considered. Presumably Vulpes don't read or heed the prophets' postings on the other side....