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"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.

you still an enthusiast here?

cheers threeputt, well done us, profit is profit, and profit banked is true profit! - so i'll raise a glass to us both. it's been a lovely rise, but it does feel more a time to sell than buy, & the dir sale seems to say so too.

mind you, fewer top rated investment banks go bust than AIM companies. all these arguments concern risk management, rather than eliminating risk (and risk can be very profitable, i used to buy and sell risk for a living.) some of the challenge with gbo comes because there isn't a clear established history of how well this particular management team do with making major acquisitions financed by relatively high coupons which hence must perform quickly in cash generation etc. -- so they might be great at it, or they might not be, but we lack much historic data to help make the call.

29-Jul-1518:13:00699.0803199,996Sell* 734.00739.501.398MO

yes. there has been some persistent buy-side pressure for a few days now. small fish like you and i have little chance of understanding it, but one does wonder if there is some stake-building going on, with a holdings RNS to come in a week or two? happy to be a mushroom here.

tung, blinkx, moni, qpp, all very good object lessons in importance of profit-slicing and using disciplined stops rather than always doubling up. bur iof, lord that was traumatic, that was my v harsh but memorable lesson re the pain when i forgot to deploy stops, doh! : (

i don't know, it's fallen so far and so fast that many of the lt holders still left in are probably just a bit punch-drunk and reeling, understandably, or else have got to that point where they've lost so much, it hardly seems worth pulling out the remainder (tho' not a rational way to invest, in my view). and of course, some still in have studied it much closer than i recently and may know more than i do about sale / JV prospects. presumably there are also a collection of shorter-term types in who bought sub-10p expecting a bounce to trade on just as a correction .... for those types, presumably never a starry-eyed thing, just a punt which they hope pays off more times than it falls across various falling shares. sageAIM used to chase falling shares a lot in that way before he got banned, the newish poster mcmony who's been on this bb and on moni reminds me slightly of his style & interests. me, i think moni probably had a window of opportunity but wasn't quick enough off the mark with landgrab and sign-ups, and has got left standing in the dust of apple-pay, tho' should have been able to capitalise on its android capabilities. it's a salutary lesson for companies like tung, how the market can punish if landgrab is too slow, and also how vulnerable share price can be when the actual performance metrics are very hard to see or understand for most ordinary investors -- increases the vulnerability to shorters a lot.

once upon a time i had a very large holding in moni, it was actually my biggest AIM stock for a while, i'd started to build it around 30p, increased, traded it a bit and took some profit slices when it was in 60s/70s, & touching 80 i think. but then it started collapsing, bit by bit, and the shorters also got their teeth into it. i gradually lost confidence and sold out piece by piece, final chunks kicked out down in the 30s again (with a credit to jolly for helping me remove the stardust from my eyes about it, i'd got over-sentimental). not been back in yet. so it's a bit like blinkx also was for me, i made money decent overall, but if only i'd got out sooner or sliced more aggressively i could have made a lot more, missed opportunity. -- now, i don't follow it very closely, so not really sure what is going on at this stage . .. but no, i doubt it's worth a punt .. someone might just take it out, perhaps, but it seems to be burning money rapidly with nothing to show for it and remaining major investors seem to be abandoning it big time, hence very heavy selling. very sad to see. cash value currently somewhere around 2.6-3p i think, but it just feels bad, very bad, a dead share? dunno, hope there is something left for those still in it. shame for the UK.

nicely under the pi radar

moni getting perilously close to total wipe-out. perhaps a little pi fear re shorted tech-ish aim stock felt here in sympathy?

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Clinigen-posts-strong-results/story-27500547-detail/story.html

700

[almost] deja typo.

(sad lol, wish i'd waited)

perhaps i should for the 'Lhude sing cuccu!' bit to know outlook changing.

....almost... dark forces having a good day today across many shares. ?winter is icumen in?

market placing some bets re whether divi levels can hold.