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Nope, never said i was a broker (that’s a different beast, lower form of life, lol).

i was a market-maker in OTC FX derivatives for a US investment bank, back in the ‘80s. … but i’m afraid that doesn’t give me much insight into how UK brokers would try to manage short equity positions in ex-AIM companies 30+ years later.

[if i had to guess, i would assume both parties on a moribund delisted ex-AIM company would both preferred just to close out and flatten the books, so perhaps if the shorter could not provide actual shares to close, they would long ago simply have negotiated a price at which to settle which both parties could live with, reflecting (a) that it was a rubbish facade of a company with no money left that had gone bung, balanced against (b) the remote chance that it might one day be worth something. — but that’s just a guess.]

I think part of the game amit & his associates played has been to focus attention on supposed shorters, in order to divert from the utter lack of any evidence that cloudtag has ever had any kind of meaningful product, ip, tech, services, or business. (fascinating use of classic magician’s misdirection.)

Martin/soyo, i get that you are upset and stressed, and i share some of your opinions about amit and cloudtag, but, politely, you are overdoing it a bit with the posting … i think peeps do get your view by now, so maybe chillax just a tiny bit and let’s wait to see how amit plays the game today?

11:38, i may not be remembering right, but i think shortly after the delist wshak was saying he would buy cheapie ctag shares, which was presumably because he had an open short of borrowed shares to close (rather than a s/b). someone else too, but can’t recall, maybe lucien?

Martin/soyo, at 10:19, you wrote “I hold around 300k across my accounts…” but then at 10:38 you claim a “total of 365K shares”.

i can understand why people call you out about discrepant numbers.

? … share support operation seems to be running out of steam a little?

c’mon carlito, do your bit!

? Is 19:42 meant to be a good example of mac only posting facts, rather than speculation or opinions? - lol!

Chimers: “… we ain’t going to serve him with anything where he lives now.”

? but what evidence is there about where amit lives now?

(… me, I don’t count anything amit may have told someone by phone / email etc as evidence; where’s the verifiable / public domain info?)

… just wondering where this idea comes from…

I thought share price was meant to be irrelevant to the enthusiasts who are here for the asset sale? … oddly seems to be treated as irrelevant on days when it shows as red, but relevant when it’s blue, funny that.

Https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shares-fall-abstract-lung-cancer-trial-data-disappoints-2023-10-18/

21:25, same poster.

You someone famous are you?

[etc.]

Who’s that then?

20:57, nah, they did that one already ages ago.

Sirius, african minerals and cloudtag, to name but a few, all had huge numbers of posts as they spiralled into pi wipeouts,

the notion that plenty of posts on a chatboard means positive things for a company is utter ****-witted stupidity.

“Like Del, I spoke to Keith this morning and even asked him, in the absence of any sales of assets will the company be able to continue.”

… clearly, as they used to say on the WRN board (well, at least before those criminal charges were filed), “happy, confident and relaxed” - yay!

in other news, i am ‘hopeful’ winona will accept my proposal ‘shortly’. if she doesn’t crack on before year end [although tbh haven’t yet decided which kind of year i actually mean] i shall have to refocus my efforts on spikeyV.2, with an M&A emphasis on sigourney weaver.

EUA must be doing something right, eh, top of the chatboard!

? perhaps the horrifying prospect of vast, widespread and bloody slaughter in the middle east between multiple parties with decades long festering enmities somehow makes some pis feel more confident that the prospects for peace in the near term between russia / ukraine are good, with a resumption of lovely, happy, economically prosperous global trading relationships?

“I repeat that no one is any worse off now since last November’s statement.”

? how do you *know* that, rktech? — me, i strongly suspect he’s sold even more shares since then [occam’s razor is my guide re motive], but it’s hard to evidence.

equally though, i think it would be pretty hard for you to evidence that he has not?

14:33, excellent post, & i had the pleasure of giving it the first tick up.

11:57, king, agree not many libel cases where defendants found guilty despite writing the truth, however plenty of libel cases where entirely truthful defendants are forced to settle before the case goes fully heard, as the legal costs of going through the court case would potentially be ruinous. that kind of intimidation to preemptively silence others in the UK has been extremely useful to more than a few oligarchs and one or two british television personalities / presenters / comedians. … however, it’s pretty darned rare in relation to s***** AIM companies.