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If you do not subscribe to The Times or The Daily Telegraph then you cannot read the articles. With that in mind, can some kind person copy the actual articles here, otherwise they are just unopenable links!! Tomorrow will be fun either way! Thanks....

Ivy ‘nail on the head’ and EXACTLY what I had been thinking myself. Where GL has gone very wrong is in not being a bit more combative with the FDA. Of course he wants to kiss arse and not p*ss them off, BUT, I feel that he got the mix all wrong and maybe they felt that he could be pushed around a bit. I strongly feel that much of this comes down to his total inexperience at this level and dealing with these types of very egg-shell, push-pull, scenarios. I may be being harsh, but so has the fall in share price over which he presides. I just always had a ‘gut feeling’ that he was a bit lacking in ‘charisma and commercial bite’ - both of these were going to have been needed over the last few weeks. They spotted it too and took full advantage in my opinion. And don’t get me going on his conference call performances! They were like a VERY bad act on Britain’s Got Talent!! Perhaps the best thing for MTFb would be to have him replaced as CEO? If that happened, you’d probably see the share price shoot up to 6p just on that news alone. . .ATB and have as best weekend as you can. Keep smiling though!

Hi Ivy, great post; balanced and articulate as ever. Truly sorry to hear about your dog. I LOVE dogs and it would cut me up horribly, so I get your distress. Chin up and all the very best. :)

Good post to the opposite side of the argument jimmybob. Written and posted at exactly the same time it seems! ATB

Someone asked if he should sell up and realise his £281 (from over £3,000 invested) and I said “yes”. I’m not exactly going to say “no keep them as it’s going to fly”; not now - the parrot is dead. It’s gone from a high of 70p (2015) to 3.58p (today). That’s a drop of c.96%! “This Parrot is not sleeping, it’s dead”, John Cleese said to the unscrupulous pet shop owner who insisted that there was a great deal of life left, in the very dead parrot. Sometimes, you just have to accept that you backed a duff. I did that here. Tough, but that’s AIM; it’s a casino and it is not helped by GL (also about as value-add to MTFB as a dead parrot) who I have “always” had major reservations about. I’ll say no more, as folk can easily make their own minds up as to what to do. Said with great “humility”, as it is a truly sad, and exceptional example, of yet another epic AIM fail.

Assuming you are looking for the big returns, which will take us into 2020. Well worth the medium term wait in my opinion . . .

yes indeed. But I suspect that it is 'last chance saloon buying' in order to heavily average down. As you say, you'd be bonkers to be buying in from new here! What would you actually be 'investing' in I wonder!? ATB

Billiboy4 - yes is the short answer. I seriously expect this to drop to nearer 2p over the coming weeks, as the current Market Cap of £10m is still far too generous. This company may not be here this time next year. You'd have been better off investing in a polished t**d!! My opinion only, but the future looks very bleak for MTFB now. Take the £280 out and treat the wife - she 'may' just forgive you then!!

Hi cliffts85. Sad day for sure. So many names that have been here since the very start and have kept positive and loyal; only for their investments to go down the pan. I can ride this but I guess for others it’s a very unpleasant hit on their bank balances or pensions. Horrible really. GL, as you say, worried me from the first time I saw him doing an interview. But “I Failed to Bail” - so my fault only. By FAR my biggest error EVER - Lesson1: NEVER be swayed by boards like this!! Go with your gut and stick with it! All the Best to you and all others that have been here from the very start - hopefully you know who you are! ATB

Sadly, we have all been taken for a ride here by GL and his few men and dog. They have used our invested money to pay themselves rude amounts of money, fly Business Class everywhere and generally enjoy the finer things in life. It’s all over here now, though they would have us all believe that they are going to turn this company into a multi-billion pound outfit! How stupid was I?! I feel embarrassed now and should have ‘gone with my gut’ three years ago. I just felt GL was really dull and unimpressive - but listened to others! Doh.

Yes, that helps for sure!

Uninvestable and now too expensive at 4p.

As it is continuing to bump along at the 20p mark; which strongly suggests that we are at the bottom. This in turn suggests that this might be a great time to buy-in, average down or just top-up an existing holding that is already at c.this price?

You couldn’t make this company up. What a car crash it has been since day one. From an early days high of 70p - based on hope, to a current low of 4.5p - based on fact. Donald Trump would probably say: “ Graham Lumsden is a stone cold loser”. I would tend to agree too! I don’t fancy MTFB’s chances at all from here. I have wasted a lot of time and money in this hound...sadly. ATB

Many thanks for that JB

If so, then can they post the article in today’s Business Section in The Daily Telegraph (on today’s First Oil News). Can only read the first paragraph if not a Subscriber! Thanks.

No. In my opinion it is far too early to be saying that. Today is today and yes, this does happen quite a lot (buy on rumour / sell on news) but I think that we will be moving above 60p next week. . .if not before. AIM is a fickle beast indeed, but the cream always rises to the surface - much like oil in this case! A great day here for HUR. ATB

We can kiss goodbye to 60p yet again. 60p has repelled us every time. It is so bloody frustrating that we just cannot get out of this 40p - 60p channel. We have been stuck here since April 2018 now.......aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh

the remaining shorters will be getting rather worried now, as they are still surprisingly high here (2.1%). But they gotta close their positions sooner or later! Let's hope for a sea of blue today (or orange, if you're colour blind). ATB

Welcome Aboard and all the best with your investment here in Petra Diamonds. Should be a sound one - assuming you’re in for the duration of 2019.....