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Looking over some of the companies Michael Earl from Shadowfall has attacked in the past.

Blue prism - a leading robotic process automation company (RPA)

Earl voiced his concerns, chief among them was the software company’s alarmingly low research and development spending in a highly competitive and technologically advanced market, alongside soaring sales and marketing expenditure. ShadowFall’s note sent the shares down by 10 per cent on the day of the note publication.

Sound familiar?
Another tech company.
That’s exactly what he’s saying about DT now.
And he trash-talked Blue Prism after opening a short position.
BP was bought out by SS&C for $1.6 billion not long afterwards
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Future (the media group) another one of Earl’s targets - same s**t - opens a short position then follows it up by trash talking the company.

Future delivered market-breaking results last week - £271 million profit - shares rose 8 percent on the day.

Earl’s behavior is fraud. If he did the same in the USA he would be behind bars (they have regulation there). Taking out shorts on companies and publishing false allegations right afterwards is a criminal offense in the US - so why is it permitted in the UK. That’s market manipulation at its most blatant.

And he only preys on UK listed companies, because he knows he couldn’t get away with it anywhere else.

How on earth can the FCA permit market abuse on this scale?

Bobo

“Lower R&D spending than peers is a fact, but this is in part due to the nature of the product and the total figure is rising anyway”
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R&D costs were listed at £44 million on their income statement two weeks ago. Can SF elaborate on their false claims by telling us how spending more could improve the product? No of course they can’t because they know nothing about the business.

Shadowfall is a boiler room operation run by ignoramuses who don’t have a clue how to value stocks - least of all tech companies.

Their gambit is to short companies and then trash-talk them down with fake news - exploiting people’s ignorance of tech shares. What SF can tell you about DT would fit on a postage stamp.

Romaron

My observation of this board is that there’re too few posts pertaining to Darktrace and too many off-topic posts.

It’s alright to deliver sanctimonious herd-driven sermons but that doesn’t teach us anything about DT.

At least my posts address the forum’s subject. Not everyone has an encyclopedic knowledge of markets as I do, but why post when you have nothing to say?

And as regards shorting - it’s big part of markets and one most novices know nothing about. Also, any links I post, like the excellent one from the WSJ last week, are from reputable sources, not obscure publications whose articles are mostly fabricated and a smoke-screen for advertisements.

Any speculation made by me is based on hard facts, not wishful thinking.

For example, Shadowfall and their boiler room accomplices speculate that DT don’t spend enough on R&D among other false information they disseminate. But until it becomes illegal to short a company while simultaneously propagating fake negative views, shareholders will have to live with it.

Old Troll

In case you didn’t know this board is meant to be about Darktrace. It’s not a Troll forum. Virtually every single one of your posts is composed of anbuse and personal attacks.
And not a single word about Darktrace.
And you castigate others whenever they express their views on Darktrace.

You really need to see a psychiatrist because you are sick. Obsessed too - which I find very disturbing.
Here are your last several posts or so. Endless abuse. What kind of madness is going on in your twisted mind?
Read them and weep!
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“Bacchusll you are not missing anything. Same old, same old, someone crying about shorters after getting violated because they are as thick as mince.

Oh you are definitely not getting blocked Toff. Every time I see your posts I laugh at how stupid some people really are. ?This will never get old. Take a bow for your out and out stupidity.?“What I find especially satisfying is that when I sell my shares for £7/8 I know Shadowfall are going to be the ones buying.”??Hahaha it’s like a fine wine just gets better with age.

Tough guy Toff trying to be edgy about posting Monday. Fill your boots Toff most people have blocked you anyway for being a clueless ****

I agree Watchman its difficult to know who to trust and who not to at times on this forum with such quality content being posted at times.?I blame the shorters must be them holding the price back. It wont be long till they will be begging to buy my shares for £7/£8.?Wait and see I tell you just wait and see.

Charles you must be desperate if you want to get in to a conversation with that Buffoon. ?I think I am one of the only members that has not filtered him yet. He makes me laugh you can read in his posts the pain that shorters have caused him. That makes me smile because the proclaimed King of the Game has not a pot to **** in because shadowfall did not buy his shares.??And I know this because he is??ToffAppleton??A Peasant in Kings Clothing

Toff said it before and will say it again you need to man up and stop crying in to your keyboard. This is not going to happen?“What I find especially satisfying is that when I sell my shares for £7/8 I know Shadowfall are going to be the ones buying.”?You got played and missed what was happening. Your infatuation with Shadowfall has cost you big time. It is funny and I love the fact that you had already mentally spent the money from your 700 shares but now reality has dropped and its back to beans on toast.??And I know this because you are??ToffAppleton??The King of the Window Lickers

Sheltie he is attention seeking. He got ripped a new one when he was outed for the delusional fool that he has shown.?Even the original support he had from Charles and Kitty has disappeared.?If they are distancing themselves from him says all you need to know.?He is just a bottom feeder.
Toff you need to man up and stop crying in to your keyboard. This is not going to happen?“What I find especially satisfying is t

CR

It was certainly a very unusual event. Average volumes are round about 3.2 million trades a day, on Friday there was almost 12 million.

Most of those trades came after market closing. Under normal circumstances, when shares are traded market makers are bound to match every sell with a buy. According to this website all those after hour trades were buys, which suggests short covering.

See - with shorts the stock is borrowed so there’s no need to match sells and buys. It’s what the king of the game refers to as parallel trading.

If this is the case, I’d find it very disturbing to know the market would allow blatant manipulation on this scale. It indicates mass-shorting by several players in collaboration with each other. Which is fraud for want of a better word, because they are conspiring to determine price movement.

Who knows - they may open up millions of more shorts on Tuesday and attempt to pull off the same trick.

As far as what it means to the shareprice on Tuesday, I don’t believe it will have much impact, because there’re no trade imbalances.

Darktrace faces numerous challenges from hyena hedge funds. Firstly it’s a tech share - and it’s been shown that tech firms get slaughtered on the London market. It has no idea how to value them, and being one of a tiny handful of tech shares on the market exacerbates the issue by putting it under the spotlight. Secondly, because of the opaque nature of the business, it is difficult to value - hyena hedge funds exploit the lack of tangible assets and knowledge to their own means, by creating false narratives and issuing ambiguous statements (that can’t be proven or disproven) basically they are inventing negative stories to support their short positions.

If what I’ve described is the reason for Friday’s trading volume anomaly it would be down to DT to file an official complaint to the FCA. But unlike American regulators, I wouldn’t expect any censure. The FCA has shown us time and again it’s a toothless fairy, unfit for purpose.

Heavily shorted companies suffer as a consequence. Being heavily shorted brands a company a risky investment and weighs on its shareprice. And that applies to companies in rude health. But that’s all intentional, that’s how hyena packs manipulate markets.

CR

You post in the early hours of the morning.
Just curious - you’re either an insomniac or you live in a different time zone

Which one is it?

Old Troll

Toff most people have blocked you anyway for being a clueless ****

But unfortunately you haven’t.
Is that because you’re a clueless **** looking for guidance from the king of the game?

I’d suggest you join the herd and block me because you’re no match for ToffAppleton.
And his weaponized words

Tat

“2 million Buy yesterday.

Another 1 million Buy again today by the looks of it, that comes after the Uncrossing trade (UT)”

It never ceases to amaze me how novice investors focus on individual trades. You get this c**p on every one of these obtuse boards.

But let me tell you something!!!

The only number that MATTERS is the CURRENT shareprice!

That’s how much it’s worth!
Irrespective of any IMAGINARY number or UT trade.

And I know

Because I’m the King of the Game.

Sheltie

Well at least the board’s come alive again.

That’s the Lion/Wildebeest factor:-))

Sheltie

“Don't forget, let's keep this a "Post Free Zone" on Monday”

I’m going to make a point of posting on Monday.
Not because I don’t respect the Queen, but because I don’t see why someone who is obviously so bereft of trading acumen, should try and impose his will on everyone else so he can give himself a pat on the back.

I’m a lion among wildebeest
And lion’s don’t look kindly on wildebeest.

I had the honor of meeting the Queen on more than one occasion and she commended me for my individuality and single-mindedness.

Sheltie

“I'm 90% certain, that it's 80% guaranteed, that this will be taken out by TB. Almost certainly. 100% guaranteed. This will go to £12+++”

What is it with all these nonsensical claims?

I’m the king of the game - and even I can never be certain of anything when it comes to stock movements.

Don’t make yourself look foolish by making outlandish predictions.

Remember - everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face…

And then they’re not so certain anymore.

New

“Always open to shorting attacks…..”

Looks as though there’s been a concerted bear raid on DT today - with lots of pile on trades.

They timed their raid for today because it’s the bank holiday weekend. If memory serves they attacked DT on the Friday, on the last bank holiday. Todays fall has textbook bear raid written all over it.

Pity we don’t have US style regulation to protect our companies - determining a shareprice by mass-collective-shorting is gross manipulation, pure and simple.

Does Truss really think she can convince ARM to list in London, where it will get trashed by hyena hedge funds and boiler room operations; and trade at a fraction of the value it will in the US. It would be suicide for any tech firm to list in London because of the huge intelligence deficit. Wise & DT must rue not listing in New York.

Nid

“East and West as bad as each other”

I’ve heard lots of dumb statements on these boards but your’s gets the gold medal.

CR

Wise is a dead cert for a takeover, it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.

There’s been very little M&A activity in the financial sector since the financial crisis, but all that could change. Valuations for UK banks are paltry. Once again you’ve got this issue with an intellectually challenged market, incapable of valuing shares fairly. Add to that factor the weakness of the pound and you have virtual bargains for overseas buyers. That’s why all our decent British companies get taken over.

Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs must be running the rule over Barclays. Barclays shareprice trades on the cheapest book value of any ftse100 stock.

As for Wise, I believe it will get swallowed by a big bank. HSBC would be a front runner. £8.50 a share would be enough to close the deal.

CR

You can add Rolls Royce to that list

About £7.8 debt

One of the ftse100’s most indebted companies.
Not a great choice of investment.

CR

“We are told Dark has cash
No real debts “
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From reading your posts, it seems as though you have no access to DT’s financial data.

Don’t you read balance sheets before investing - as part of your due diligence?

Darktrace has £60 million registered as debt in the form of capital lease obligations. (quasi-debt)

Cash & equivalents show a healthy £391 million on the balance sheet.

Heavily indebted companies are best avoided in my experience. Ones to watch out for are

Wetherspoons - £1.425 billion debt
Aston Martin - £1.3 billion debt
Vodafone - €40 billion++ debt
BT - £22 billion

Carrying excessive debt weighs on a stock’s shareprice - that’s why telecoms have underperformed so badly in recent years.
And it’s a red flag for insolvency.

Cineworld is a textbook example of a company that drowned in debt - $8.9 billion including their lease obligations.

I wouldn’t bet against Wetherspoons going bust in the current economic environment.

Stump

“So if they are shorting, it's below 0.5% of the shares.”

If you read the link to one of my previous posts today you’ll know that the V shape in a shareprice’s movement frequently signifies short-term shorting activity.

I don’t doubt for a moment the continuous volatility in DT is down to Shadowfall and their accomplices shorting the company when it reaches to a certain point, and short closing when it falls to a certain number - hence the V shape.

As you know volatility is great for making money. When a share fluctuates as wildly as DT it will attract legions of short-term traders (like myself)

And when good news is announced the SP can rise precipitously as shorters rush for the exit.

Below is an exert from the article.

“That’s evidence that the stocks continue to fall, not just pop back up in a V shape, which critics have noted can happen if a short-seller covers on the day of the report. 

But the existence of the V-shaped pattern elsewhere has led to calls for more disclosure from several places — including, interestingly, from inside the world of short-selling.“

Ocado may be a laggard in its sector, but it’s the king of cashburn. Only Rolls Royce can compete.

Still trading on a massive price/earnings valuation. Realistically it should trade for pennies.

Investors ought to expect yet another hefty cash call while the shareprice still trades in pounds.

If the Business model can’t turn a profit after all these years, you have to question whether Ocado will still exist in the not too distant future.

Farmer

You made a number of personal attacks on me in previous posts, then when I finally responded to your provocations, you contacted LSE and got my post removed.

Well that shows what kind of a man you are!
If you’re going to pick a fight, don’t pick it with someone infinitely more intelligent than yourself.

I very rarely filter anyone but I can’t stand rats.
You’re history.

Very informative article explaining the dynamics of the murky (under)world of shorting.

The content will be beyond the comprehension of some of this board, but some will find it extremely insightful.

Bullet points to look for are…

1) Activist short sellers - paid by murky hedgefunds to spread lies and misinformation about companies

2) Big hedge funds bankrolling boiler room operations to spread misinformation on short
targets

3) hyena hedge funds collaborating to attack their short targets - by actioning “pile on trades” through voluminous algorithmic trading.

4) publication of fabricated, negative news to determine a favorable outcome.

5) how big short funds avoid litigation, through using individuals to spread mendacious news on social media platforms.

And numerous other crimes, hyena hedge funds commit to manipulate stock prices

For those of you that don’t know.
Muddy Waters (an infamous short scalper) is in league with Shadowfall.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1pgz6k9kjs50v/The-Dark-Money-Secretly-Bankrolling-Activist-Short-Sellers-and-the-Insiders-Trying-to-Expose-It