RE: AIM and other non stampy shares14 Feb 2020 15:08
My most consistent AIM winner has been WJG (although maybe it's not AIM anymore). Got in just above 120p about 3 years ago after an article in The Times (they build student accomodation mostly presold before they start building). Have traded them off and on ever since, now they even pay a dividend. I sold at about 256 about 3 weeks ago, neatly missing their latest run up to an all time high!!
Woodford had about 9% of them I think, when his funds got into trouble, which affected the share price for a while.
Another of my AIM shares is RENE which I had bought at about 2p a very long time ago (2.4p rings a bell). I made some money, they made real progress had a 100 for 1 (or was it 1 for 100 restructuring) then they went to the moon, about 320, I was quids in, sold some, should have sold them all, the collapsed and have gradually, slowly recovered. I don't trade them but I do watch them every day. I can remeber not being able to trade them in the quantities that I attempted but if I did it in 3 or 4 tranches, it was OK. These were effected by Woodford too, I think he held 40% (??) when his fund was wound up.
Yes, AIM can be fun