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whilst your approach is probably the most sensible bothwell ,the situation is exerting a sort of horrible fascination to see what happens next.two things have struck me since this morning.first mellon now has 27.5% so there is very little scope for him to finance the company in this way again if he is to avoid going over 30%. second the s/p is now so much lower that using the financing method of issuing more shares is going be even more difficult and perhaps extremely so if we get,as i think very likely, a very adverse market reaction next week to the announcement that there are no new investors. how on earth are they going to finance in a less dilutive way (as suggested by them) the exciting chinese opportunity?

agreed bignose and all that is really happening is that mellon is increasing his holding through the provision of CLNs to finance the tax and gibson is doing the same to a much smaller extent to cover his salary because they have no money. no new investors ,vague talk of CBD opportunity etc.glad to know the company is excited.im not!

read em and weep indeed.it hadn't occurred to me yesterday that there might have been a falling out but i think you may have hit the nail on the head bignose.disgraceful that they still haven't paid the aussie tax but haven't announced it until today.havent taken it all in yet but extremely disappointed on first reading.

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/FFWD/fastforward-inn-ltd-directorate-change-krwmkzaah98riif.html

hopefully this is it

sorru have tried to post link to todays RNS on fast forward (FFWD) stating that mellon has resigned as chairman and director of FFWD but it hasn't worked.only for background info and probably of no significance for regent

RNS FastForward Inn Ltd just by way of general information re mellons overall activities.not suggesting it has any particular significance for regent.

yes bignose odd trading.my version of AAstocks is showing 15 trades all as buys in the last 9 mins of trading.13 are tiny ones of 10000 shares each so perhaps part of larger order .overall volume of 600000 shares is tiny which demonstrates how the price can move on substantial volume.is it possible its an attempt for some reason to raise the s/p before tomorrow?probably not but who knows!

evening bignose .been on grandparent duty till now but find both articles very interesting.one seems to mirror in some ways the yooya /regent proposal.certainly seems to be a lot of activity in this area.i think you will find regent are quoted in both articles and in terms which mirror those quoted in the article re MYMNeutraceuticals which you kindly posted on the 8th august.i completely agree that it is very interesting that regent with no apparent current involvement in this area(?) seems to be the go to source for quotes ahead as you say of other more obvious candidates.whilst acknowledging that we need to be careful before drawing conclusions based on scant evidence,i do think it suggests some sort of link is in the offing which would tie in with the last announcement re yooya and a new chinese opportunity.maybe more on this tomorrow?

on ADVFN someone has posted to say that they have emailed the company today re trading update and had reply to say they are planning to issue it early next. week.no idea how reliable this is but if correct suggests tuesday or wednesday next week (monday is a bank holiday)

the trading update is likely to be tomorrow or friday if it follows the time line of previous years(except for last year when it was brought forward to accommodate some specific news).no guarantee of course so could be next week.apart from the intrinsic interest in the update itself re trading etc, there is the question of whether it gives any update on the progress of the formal sales process.

fully agree bunco.for those who want to see the text of the update (its well worth a read) its reproduced by a poster on ADVFN.

not exactly a buying frenzy before the interims 50000 shares traded in3 trades.less than £1000 worth.still at least s/p was flat

in simple terms no deal brexit equals falling pound.falling pound makes PHD more attractive to say US investor or purchasers.obviously its more complicated and nuanced than that ,but personally i would not be too worried about a no deal scenario in relation to phd.

good question!

thanks for the update bignose.hopefully the interims will clarify.

well private ryan that could certainly be true but personally I'm inclined to view it as a small positive.note the comment re the study funding.just my opinion of course.

good man kettle!keep it up.see todays RNS.interesting!

http://spendmatters.com/2019/08/16/proactis-in-play-arbitrage-and-analysis/ I'm not a subsciber so cannot access but if anyone is a subscriber and can post a summary it would be very interesting it is dated the 16th august so up o date

agree with that bignose.at least its interesting to speculate whilst we await news cheers

https://www.deacons.com/zh-hk/news-and-insights/publications/a-reminder-for-listed-company-substantial-shareholders-to-comply-with-disclosure-requirements.html

sorry was trying to post this link but it didn't work.i don't suppose the fine was much of a deterrent but it was a criminal conviction.also to answer your second question the volatility could be because the free float is smaller than we think but as you say we just don't know .getting geared up for interims now when hopefully things will be a little clearer re sales etc