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Been in contact with Darktrace investor relations about todays anomalous trading and they told me they were aware of the issue and taking it up with the FCA. Also stated that the share was suspended for the last several minutes of trade during market hours due to the dubious trading pattern. Traders should be able to bear me out on this factor.

Below is an explanation of what happened today.

“A bear raid is an illegal act of ganging up to lower stock prices by coordinated short selling and spreading negative rumours about the target product. Often a bear raid is used by unscrupulous short sellers who want to make a fast buck from their short positions.

What is The Aim of a Bear Raid?
The purpose of a bear raid is usually to make windfall profits through short sales over a short period of time. If the bear raid succeeds and the target stock sinks, short sellers will buy the shares back cheaply on the open market.

Short-sellers make money by first selling the shares at what they believe to be is a high price, and then buy them back to close their position at a lower price.

In a typical bear raid, short sellers will collide in advance in order to create massive short positions in the target stock. As the massive short interest in the stock raises the likelihood of a short tightening that can trigger significant losses to the shorts, short sellers can not afford to wait passively for months before their short strategy works out.”

And let’s fac it - tech shares listed on the UK cesspit are targets for every shorter in the world.

Toff

Have a great (extended) weekend.

What an overt bear raid that was. Like a pack of hyenas swarming over its prey.

Treading water until the yank markets opened.
And then absolutely trashed.
Talk about obvious!

Every tech share that lists in the uk gets absolutely destroyed. Only garbage tech stocks like Moonpig and Deliveroo list in this current climate because no other market would accept them.

Darktrace like TransferWise are getting systematically destroyed by a combination of overseas bear raids and zero regulation against fraud in the crock of s**t that is the uk market.

Oldman

“Ah okay I did attempt a polite response. Was not aware you had anger issue”

Do you really think I can’t read between the lines old man?

You’re irrelevant. Meaningless. Meaning I won’t take the bait. Got that!

Matt

“No-one's forcing you to invest in the UK, or anywhere else.”

OMG not that old chestnut. If you can’t do any better than that tired old cliche don’t expect to converse with me. I’m in a different league!

Old

“Toffee I complimented on you on what I thought was a good post”

I don’t need written explanations or confirmations off you to judge my post. The upticks do that.

That Darktrace has crashed since the Dow opened.
Sure sign of a bear raid.
Orchestrated by JP Morgan.
Through rogue boiler room hedge funds based in London.
Feeding multiple sell trades through algorithm trading for minuscule amounts of shares.
The London market is so obtuse and antiquated it can’t spot FRAUD

If there’s one but for 10,000 shares
And 50 sells for 2/3 shares it will mark the shareprice down precipitously.

How much longer are UK politicians going to allow this kind of abuse!

Old

“I personally am not a fan of broker reports”

I’m no fan of beancounters either.

The objective of my post was to expose JPM’s criminal activity. Ask yourself if Darktrace’s US peers trade at valuations seventy percent higher than DT why are they slapping derisory price targets on it? The only motive is FRAUD!

Unfortunately the UK doesn’t protect its most valuable company. They all get trashed and no matter what sector they belong to they trade at a huge discount to peers which belong to normal markets.

And the tragedy for our country is the incredibly low valuations attract predators and they get taken over, meaning the benefit of their success goes overseas.

My verdict is that Britain has got to smash the current system that values UK shares. Go through it with a wrecking ball. Remove every market maker - introduce US style regulation and start over from scratch. The current system is rotten and corrupt and stacked against every single investor

Twenty -one years in the doldrums now. The world’s worst performing stock market. Great companies reaping abuse because of the s**thouse index they belong to and the loose regulations that invite market abuse.

And finally - our slimy politicians are only too ready to bash uk banks, uk house builders, uk utility companies but not ONE of the slime balls is prepared to protect great British companies from vulture funds, asset strippers and predators.

The Permabear 100 has become a symbol of national decline!

Despite trading at a HUGE discount to their US peers JPM are slapping ultra low price targets on Darktrace in an attempt to drive the shareprice down.

I know three things about JPM…

1) they’re affiliated with boiler room hedge funds in the city who manipulate shares with erratic
algorithm and robo trading under instruction from JPM.

2) They are targeting Darktrace on behalf of US cybersecurity firms who are losing market share to a superior competitor.

3) JP advised their clients to short Darktrace before attacking it with derogatory price targets and comments.

What really angers me is that US regulation prohibits outright manipulation but in the UK market (which is policed by toothless fairies) they can manipulate stocks with impunity.

This is what Berenberg has to say about Darktrace.

“Cybersecurity group Darktrace (DARK) is seeing an upswing in profitability and Berenberg says investors haven’t seen the last of upgrades to guidance.

Analyst Benjamin May reiterated his ‘buy’ recommendation and target price of £10 on the stock, which slumped 11.7% to close at 400p on Wednesday.

The group has delivered yet another guidance upgrade, with adjusted Ebitda margins for the year now likely to be 15-17% – up from 10-12%.

‘What is clear though is that the company is not experiencing any slowdown in growth,’ said May.

‘Indeed, with fourth quarter estimates looking very conservative, we do not think this will be the last guidance upgrade.’

May added that the company is going through a ‘significant upswing in profitability, evidenced by an almost 30% increase to our Ebitda estimate’.

‘We think that the penny will eventually drop and circa 70% discount to US cyber peers will start to unwind,’ he said.“

This is a textbook Bear raid. A concerted attack by JPM and all the rogue hedge funds under their wing.
JPM slaps obscene price targets on US tech companies but their bean counters have put a paltry valuation on Darktrace.
The motive of course is envy - JPM are trashing Darktrace on behalf of their US rivals. It’s also a common practice for JPM to advise their clients to short a stock and then attack it with downgrades and derogatory updates. As they’re doing now.

All illegal in the US
But not in the UK

Where all the bears of the world come to hunt.
And wipe their feet over British companies

Before taking them over for peanuts

Like they did with

Morrisons
Meggitt
And William hill

But to name three.

Matt

Frankly, it's the same as any other market!!

Is that why the

Dow has nearly quadrupled since 1999
And the Dax has almost tripled

While the ftse has risen about ten percent

It’s common knowledge to the informed that the ftse100 is the world’s worst performing stock market

And it’s got considerably worse since Brexit
Do your research before making false assertions.

Hella

“Why invest in scammy UK stoks at all? These number can't lead to a sell-off. Dark Should be definitely going to Wall Street for listing“

Absolutely. The Scammy uk market destroys everything it touches. Our slimy politicians really believed ARM were going to refloat on the ftse but they opted for the Dow.

The world’s sickest market has a special hatred for tech stocks. It would have decimated ARM like it has Wise and other techs. Floating techs in the uk is corporate suicide. Uk markets are engines of wealth destruction!!!

Hella

“I HATE SÓ MUCH UK STOCKS.”

And you’re right to hate them. The uk market is incapable of valuing shares fairly. Unlike decent markets the uk trashes its most valuable company. It’s bitter and twisted and a terrible reflection on this horrible country.

Abdul

“they see a 0.01 increase and cash out,”

Totally wrong. Short it long day traders couldn’t make money on this dog because the spread is too big.

Legin Three of your posts from the last 24 hours “There is value in this business greater than where it currently is.?Takeover of some kind could happen or the restructure of finances as advised.?Only up from this level___________About to move North again_____________With Alex Snow leading the way, this business has the greatest chance of fulfilling a sale or financial restructure.”__________What you’re doing is criminal - and it’s not just with Sensyne- it’s with a whole host of stocks I don’t see how luring in novice investors into failed companies benefits you other than to satisfy your twisted personality. I’ll take it up with LSE tomorrow. They beat much of the responsibility for not rooting you out!

Mozac

“We’re all gamblers, otherwise we’d buy premium bonds”

There’s an element of truth in that, but you can manage risk to a great extent.

First and foremost is choosing the right stocks.
Secondly is spotting turkeys before they go in the oven - as Sensyne has done. The writing has been on the wall for months.

Managing winning positions is easy, it’s losing positions that pose challenges to investors/traders.

Unfortunately most novices hold & hope - as we’re seeing with Sensyne. Knowing when to fold is key - sure you’re going to take a loss but you won’t get wiped. Losing is part of the game - you just need to keep those losses to a minimum. But more importantly you need to accept when you’ve made a mistake - liquidate it, learn from it and move on.

The sad truth is that most wannabe traders would be better off in premium bonds. Hard for the ego to accept I admit ( especially for Gordon Gekko fanboys) but much gentler on the pocket.

Too much sun

“big buyer in the background.”

What’s he waiting for - Christmas?

The shareprice has fallen to less than tuppence from £1.85 last month. Surely any big buyer would have shown his hand by now.

What we are seeing is IIs dumping millions of shares for whatever little they can salvage

And retail investors like you are buying them.

Jesse Livermore referred to that as the transfer from the strong to the weak. Or more pointedly the sale by the knowledgeable to the clueless.

“The Company's healthcare products include a variety of applications, including decision-making support, remote patient monitoring, diagnostics, prescribed digital therapeutics and the recording and presentation of healthcare data in a clinical setting.”

What a load of nonsense. In other words this company had no product whatsoever. It was nothing more than a consultancy business. Any investor worth their salt should have seen through the fancy spiel.

A consultant is someone who tells you the time from his wristwatch (if it’s working) but very little else. And they charge fortunes for doing it.

Little wonder this investment tragedy went to the wall.

And as I post the shareprice has just hit another all-time-low. 1.8p to sell. 1.85p to sell.

Will the next raft go suckers enter the fray when the shareprice drops to a penny.

You bet they will!

One born every minute.

Chadvine

“Toff
I think you should open a short a 2.2p”

That’s if it’s still trading on Monday
And the opening price could fall to a fraction of a penny.

And at 2 pence there’s very little left to short.

Toomuch

“over the next few months, Board, with the support of the Noteholders, expects Alex to effect a restructuring and refocusing of the business on its core real world patient data business unit”

Yes but to succeed a company has to have a viable product in the pipeline.

Otherwise they’re worthless

When shares get marked down to pennies timeframes of a few months are wishful thinking (or desperation)

Scnd

Is that an acronym?
If so I’d be most interested in what it stands for?

“At this sp price you good get a buyout very soon”

Or more likely the market is pricing it to fail.

Stocks that fall to fractions of a penny rarely get bought out!