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So, a dark November starts with a dismal fall towards 25p.

I'm getting geared up for a long miserable winter.

And I'm old enough to remember the 2 WORST WINTERS in British history:

Mike and Bernie.

It's funny how so many of you pull possible share prices out of the air (1.32p is the old favourite).

Look, a buyer looking at SOLG will offer £2billion (for example). There are 2.2billion shares in issue, so that works out at less than £1 a share. It doesn't matter that you bought at 25p and want £1.32p - you'll only get £1.32 if a buyer is willing to pay £3billion for Solg.

And the more time goes on, the more shares are printed, and the less your slice of that £3billion becomes. The disconnect here between what share price you want to be taken out at, and what dilution is doing to your investment, is bizarre.

In the end you may not have much of a choice. I was in KAZ, where many investors were holding on for something like £11 a share (it had been that high once anyway) and the management accepted an offer of £7.50. No one else really had a say. Because they hold so many shares, they still get a huge amount of cash, whereas at your level, with your holding, it's a damp squib of an ending.

£4 a share for SOLG? Why not? We just need someone willing to pay £9billion. And that's before any further dilution.

When I first bought SOLG there was less than 1.4billion shares in issue, now 2.2billion. Dilution is not your friend - you are running up a down escalator all the time. Dilution happy board members are not your friend either - they can be issuing themselves options while you are sitting loyally on your shrinking nest egg.

Sometimes I wish Quady had been around to tell me to buy Bitcoin in 2012.

If this share doesn't hit 30p again so I shall squeal and squeal until I make myself sick. And I can you know.

Monte you have learned the No.1 rule of investing. Always do the opposite of what Quady says.

The 25s? Is that a thing?

Mmmm... I've been tallying the number of your posts mate... I call it the Count of Montecristo.

I'm not sure why takeover / bid fever is starting to affect so many on this board - are you just edging yourselves out of boredom towards that tickly feeling or is there something concrete to point to outwith the groupthink of this board? I don't see anything happening until the CEO issue is done and dusted. The usual machinations by the usual suspects seem to be just that - the usual machinations by the usual suspects. When the old £1.32p a share figure is brought out of the cupboard to be passed around like a talisman, there is usually something to it (or more to the point, other speculation has already put us up at 35p).

SP is twitching around the 26/27p level with no movement, so me old crayons ain't predicting nothing and I is very quiet.

However if we suddenly jump up to 30p+ for any reason in the next few weeks, I shall return my old custard tarts to tell you that me old crayons predicted this rise. Oh yes they did.

And I should add, I hope for the first time that Warren Irwin is right.

Apologies for the typing errors too.

"We are looking to fund Alpala, and with the right engineering company, build."

Quady, if this really is the case, then prepare for dilution forever.

Ultimately the MCAP of the compnay could double, or triple, but the price of the shares in your purse or in your wallet will not go up accordingly, becasue that increas ein MCAP will have been funded and fueled by the printing of millijns - even billions - of new shares that devalue your existing nest egg.

Not a great problem for a trader who will ride the ripples in price and cream off the fluctuation profit day by day, year by year, , but for a long term, inflexible, faith based investor like you - sitting on your shares like a broody hen on a china egg - it spells a long twilight struggle into a downward spiral of lost value.

So I hope you are wrong.

We need someone with the strength of Stalin, the ruthlessness of Pol Pot, the business acumen of Warren Buffet and the charisma of JFK. We need a tall man on a horse, not a little one trying to paddle a canoe.

Plus, he has to be sensitive to the growing issue of trans rights, gender pronouns etc.

But will this BoD be brave enough to appoint someone whose main, first job with be to fire a much needed rocket up them?

"We also know this is being held back."

Oh... that would be Adam Smith's "invisible hand of the market then.

"Time to switch off, sit back and wait for the main event."

I'm guessing you won't though.

For trading (and holding long, long term) one of the BEST shares I have ever been involved with.

Just dumped all my Lloyds shares after many years. Reducing my exposure to the stock market generally. But if these dip down to 24p or so again I'm probably going in for another £10k at least to sell at 28p. It's a no brainer.

Thanks a lot guys... now some Boxing Day a couple of years from now ITV is going to shove this on as afternoon filler along with a 3 hour Harry Potter snoozefest and I already know he dies at the end?

"I'm Pussy Galore."
"I must be dreaming."

Now that was perfection.

I was going to say this tomorrow but:

I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE OUT OF THIS ONE OVER THE WEEKEND.

I still might say it tomorrow actually.

I've had a look at XTR. No Quady on the message board, so it can't be worth investing in. Back to the Loch with you, Nessie...

Quady, I must admit to a guilty pleasure in watching you totally demolishing Warren Irvin on here. I very much doubt he'll show his face anywhere near SOLG in future with you on his case.

Which got me thinking - with all this high quality analysis, advice and insight you provide several times a day, have you ever thought of monetising that?

Would you, for instance, consider opening an OnlyFans account?

First of all, thank you Quady for explaining what an "electric car" is. I had no idea such things existed.

My question is - if I hold a mirror up close to my face and walk backwards fast enough, will it become yesterday?

Thank you Quady for explaining the low volume.

Now, could you kindly tell me where I can get some petrol this afternoon? The wife needs a lift to Shawfield Stadium. She is going to the dogs.

Quady, you're the guy that knows everything, so I'd appreciate an answer to this question:

The second season of Space 1999 was awful for so many reasons, with so many stupid changes. But that alien woman who could change into animals.... she was an alien but all the animals she could change into were earth animals only.

What was that all about?