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AJ Bell was easy - just tick a box at the bottom of each of two messages, or change the figure for the excess shares.

TOB - the message from AJB re Corporate Action also states " If you wish to exercise you excess entitlements, please ensure that you have fully exercised your basic entitlements first. Any applications to exercise excess entitlements may be subject to scaling back."

I think about a month ago he said 50% six months, doubling every year; which is of course incorrect. But I'll happily take either estimate!

I keep wanting to buy more. Tell me it's not sensible for an investor.

Can't buy even 50 shares on AJB at the moment. Good news.

Name-checked on BBC News website article:

The first stage of the human challenge project will be delivered by a partnership between Imperial College London, the Royal Free Hospital's specialist and secure research unit in London and a company called hVIVO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54612293

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Absolute sea of red today, yet SP is unwavering. Draw your own conclusions.

Order or no order, the Company has to decide whether to issue an RNS and the guidance from 'Key UK Listing Rule obligations' is reasonably clear but open to interpretation.

"Companies must notify without delay major new developments that may affect their business if the development may lead to a substantial share price movement. Issuers must also notify without delay information concerning a change in financial condition, performance or expectation of performance if the change would be likely to lead to a substantial share price movement."

Personally I prefer fewer rather than more, but striking a balance can be difficult I suppose. Some AIM companies seem to post when someone sneezes.

[Source: Thomson Reuters-Practical Law]

Any decision to invest at this moment (rather than in a week, or a month, or a year) must be based on upside potential versus downside risk.

It may not be of their own making, but the present situation is creating uncertainty amongst investors and you have to wonder what is driving this constant onslaught through the media.

Check out GErry's post below, explains some of the challenge.

Who are these 'MM's of whom some speak so foully. Methinks I'd like to start investing in them.

Buffaloben yes

It could well fall lower, buying opportunity by Wednesday provided no further media attacks.

Thanks for the posts today. I'm invested and see TSTL as a solid business with great prospects. Yet those with the most information keep on selling shares (and issuing more!) and that makes me too nervous - maybe I've misread this one.

At first I thought it was down to low salaries for directors but highest paid director's salary increased from £222k to £307k, 2018-2019: not huge, but certainly generous when one takes into account the HPD's Gain on Exercise of Options of £1.3m (2018: £340k).

It would be great to hear any counter-views on this point please.

Octopus is an interesting one; most recent investor info here:

https://media.octopusinvestments.com/m/4c08e6bcd0fdeafb/original/FP-Octopus-UK-Micro-Cap-Growth-factsheet.pdf

Not the best review, but that I’m afraid is JC - lives on controversy. Concludes that the Range Rover is better.

Midas share tip today

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-8850329/MIDAS-SHARE-TIPS-UPDATE-EKF-help-Covid-fight.html

Looks like a Bloomberg Terminal format. I doubt it's faked simply because it suggests 15.05 Euros in 12 month time frame. Would any serious investor be that surprised anyway?

Parsley I agree and I'm not trying to second guess. As I said, there can be many reasons whyan employee sells.

To take your point about an employer giving me a note, I think more accurately it would be "here's shares options worth £300,000 now but a recent broker note suggests if you wait a while, they could be worth £7,000,000". I think I'd wait if I was full of confidence. But you're right, we don't know do we.