RE: L217 Feb 2022 09:31
I hold a decent position and imo downside is limited but upside far greater. The last raise was mainly to expand in the US, so they clearly have a clear vision there. My largest positions are medium term ie minimum 1-2 years (you can see them on Twitter on @Stefano_shares as nothing to hide there) and I have a small fun pot. I worked in finance, but not broking so others will be more qualifies than me, but got a better idea on L2 etc after a few decades of investing and makes mistakes and learning. My take is as follows. I'm paying for L2 on here but it only gives you a hint of the market makers active in the share, but definitively not the market depth. If you use a broker (I use 3) and ask for a quote for a large trade, say as an example £100,000 worth of EISB they will either approach a MM they are close to and who seems to have done many trades on the stock recently or ask within an electronic platform called RSP used by MMs and brokers what size and price they would be able to trade in much bigger chunks than what you see on L2 (ie the look is similar but much larger sizes) for example on L2 you see that you can buy 10,000 at 10p but on RSP they see that a market maker is in reality allowing you to buy 100,000 in one go at 10.5 (ie usually the bigger the chunk the wider their spread, basically the higher the buy price as size is larger). The market maker might buy sell either for his trading book or its clients. So if you go further, that market maker who allows you to buy 100,000 at 10.5 might be working an order for a large seller who wants to offload 1,000,000 shares. So in reality the true depth of who is willing to pay what for large trades is not visible on L2.