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No answer on this so far. So, I've decided to test it and trade alongside the pro's! Let's see if it works. Just small amounts mind.

There's one of each RI and Non-RI just landed. I still struggle to understand what they mean.

Looks like Barc are long/short, favouring long. Also looks like they're buing and selling actively. If you look at the SP, it's clearly moving by 2-3p (5-7.5% around 40p), although the trades aren't getting that much profit, it does give an idea of the size of the available profit. I'd imagine that they're doing this to make money. But, if you look at the bb and examine your own feelings as the SP rises and falls by 5-7.5% on sensible volume, it's clear for me (and many others) that the SP movements are affecting us. My guess is that it's triggering PI's to transact (e.g. LW? I think this morning). I haven't transacted today (I added yesterday and that was probably related to similar movements; i.e. getting over excited about Barcl or someone else fleecing us).

So my question, is this trading activity by the pro's designed to exploit the excitement and fear of us as PI's? Is it just 'part of the process' that helps pro's position correctly and pushes PI's out of positions for the reasons they don't even understand?

I'd love to get a feel for this, so if anyone has a view or better still knows how this works, I'd be very interested to hear.

Also it was yesterday when they sold just under 40p

They decreased by 400 thousand or so. At that level it's maybe nothing much to worry about.

It's very late surin, isn't it. It's based on the RNS's from WG and Sid, so it's taken 4-5 days for it to filter through to us as SH's via our brokers. At this point it doesn't matter as there is nothing new, but you'd think the update would come more quickly than that for those who don't sit watching SP's and screens all day.

It's an alarm for me, just so if I was away from the screen at that moment, I'd come back and check something. Can't even remember what it was. I didn't change my position on this occasion, but the alarms are very useful as it's easy to let your concentration wander and sometimes you really need to be 'on it' when something happens.

Opening volume eased off ove the first 15 min period, but it's still up there with recent highs

Here's the chart of 15 min vol vs price for those of you that are interested in that sort of thing.

https://screenrec.com/share/K0ONT6i8y5

More than a solid start and extra-ordinary volume for the first 7mins. That is interesting.

But I bought a small number of shares at 324ish (5000). Speculative as there isn't a lot of evidence that buyers have overwhelmed sellers.

I've just received this. I assume it relates to the RNS's from WG and from Sidara following the FT article, rather than progress since.

"John Wood Group PLC has announced that it has received details of a possible cash offer from Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Shair and Partners Holdings Ltd (Sidara). If the offer becomes official, it is expected that you will be given the choice to sell your shares to the new company with no dealing charges.

Sidara has until 24 March 2025 to either announce its intention to make a firm offer, or to confirm it does not intend to make an offer. There can be no certainty an official offer will be made."

It either happens or it doesn PI, this time it did. Listen, M&A sounds like it's something you have direct experience of. Is it M&A that attracted you to YOU or did that come later and what about YOU makes you think it might be a target. There are a lot of companies on the UK markets that appear to be undervalued and it's not an area that I have any particular knowledge of.

I imagine, that it's low Mcap, low number of shares in issue are 2 factors that make it easy to take, but they're not really what attracts a suitor.

Andy, I'm seeing 479/480 (i.e. here) or 474/475 short term, but significant risk of dropping to around 422. Now that we've got some real fear and panic on the go thanks to the new US president, 422 area looks less and less unlikely to me.

I've been watching that and thinking exactly the same Bigw, I think WG is disconnected to an extent from the wider market at the moment. Big falls in the US also

QW, coldspy has absolutely no ide about volume. If he did, he would not interest himself in 'buys' and 'sells', he'd watch the actual volume (real figure, not fairy dust figures that he comes up with) and understand that if it goes up, there buyers are stronger than the sellers and if it goes down, the sellers have the upper hand.

He spouts the first nonsense that comes into his head.

Explain

'in isolation'

I can't keep up with you WillyC

Here's your latest comment

"Shorters are panicking now....as they struggle to increase their short positions above 6%"

but on Feb 28th (4 days ago) in response to the following comment

'you lot obsessing with what shorters are doing'

You put someone down with this

"LOL - I admire your efforts in trying to explain global investing to some on here - especially those believe 'shorters are panicking'. Those who are shorting wood are doing it as part of a strategy - they aren't betting the family home on the short"

What is your actual view on the shorts?

For me the price has now reached what I thought it would. Currently at 318. This could co-incide with an area that some buyers might take advantage of (i.e. could be support from around 320-313), but a more obvious support would be around 293/294. For me, it's now a case of just watching to try to figure out whether there are enough buyers to turn the SP around.

Winner, what do you think?

Filter him SG, he's abusive and not knowledgible

Thanks SG, always good to see the thoughts of people who've had direct experience of this type of scenario.