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think of anything new/ useful to add, but it's nice to be here. been a nice little earner so far. gla.

morning rylidan. good theory, yes indeed, that's probably why it's such a busy bulletin board, with tens or even hundreds of posts a day, & twitter all abuzz with those multiple accounts trying to talk it up - but then again, perhaps not? good luck with your theory.

seemed a bit early to be on the gin.

(perhaps unwise, plenty of volatility left in this one, but gotta live a little sometimes, a boy's gotta have fun)

a few more today.

shorts can indeed keep positions open for years. ... depends of course on availability of willing lenders, and the price that they demand in order to loan out shares. illiquid shares relatively expensive to short over long periods, whereas weir for example had very large short positions sustained over several years (but the company still did ok).

? when did you have the information that the SFO had started an investigation into QPP? i thought that market was well aware that FCA was looking, but no announcement had been made, had it, that SFO were investigating. .... was there a previous public announcement before today that SFO were investigating?

good bounce for you there, well done on entry timing.

shire, make that bid, you know you wanna. lol.

cheers, so a banking licence at stake then, interesting.

"Daniel Stewart, the investment bank offering corporate advisory, institutional stockbroking and wealth management services." ... is dan really an investment bank??

i think there's a lot of trader action in gbo, with all the share price tactics going with that, has been for weeks on end, well months really. - but compared to some other bulletin boards of much shorted shares, gbo bb remains a relatively peaceful place. (imv kowloon was the last prolific deramper with a one way view.) on the whole, the professional traders are just getting on and doing their own thing, irrespective of the sporadic chatter on this bb. doesn't seem to be a share where blog postings addressed to small pis make much difference.

cheers. i am long here, fairly comfortable to remain so, but admit a little puzzled.

any thoughts on why this share has been under the cosh so much recently? no terrible news, and no terrible sp dives, but certainly struggling to make headway or hold.

matthew 7:6.

ash, try a little reading about buffet? he was (is?) a pretty selective investor, not generally into small, newish, high growth techie stocks. good luck.

... mind you, to be fair, i think i was 'ok' at trading volatility, rather than particularly good. partly about youth & inexperience, and partly 'cos i struggled to get alongside our sales team in a 'win-win' mentality with some of our customers. (i was more into bobby fischer's school of gamesmanship back then.)

"However, if Warren Buffett listened to all the negative style advice being pumped on to this board by shorters on a daily basis about AIM listed companies, he would not be one of the wealthiest people in the world today" ... mind you, warren buffet probably would not be one of the wealthiest people in the world today if he had spent his time investing in AIM-type stocks. buffet didn't. instead, he looked mainly for companies with long established track record, stable management, dominance in market share, including in particular strong price control power.

"I can't imagine you were very good at it :-)" ... based on what ash? (i'm fairly happy that i resisted the temptation to buy several p higher.)

£4 million director sell and the price hardly shifts. wow.