Right...8 Feb 2022 09:14
So as any seasoned poster on this board knows, my opinion is worth more than most, why? Because I took the time to put "Trading" into my username, now that we're all in agreement, here's the issue, thats not really an issue:
Nothing here is bad, the CEO of an oil company decided nearing the end of a tax year that he was going to allow himself the option to buy an additional few million shares, after making a discovery that could quite frankly turn the company into a multi-BILLION pound company do any of us actually grudge him that? I don't, did he get lucky? quite probably but so does every phucker that wins the lottery so get over it, he's the man in charge and he can do anything he wants as long as the board approves it, don't like it sell up.
HOWEVER, with that being said the better thing for him to have done here is to actually have set the buy price higher than what it's trading at, the only issue here is that he's essentially given permission for traders to trade it around the current market price making a few percent here and there for probably the foreseeable future, I don't think it's market manipulation I think its just foolish on Art's part but it is what it is and if you're a long term holder like me it really doesn't matter
TL