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Way out West eh !...as in the Marx Bros go West. Sounds like your friend is walking way over 100 miles. He'll be a shorter pilgrim than when he started that's a fact and so will his boots. Canterbury is roughly 70 miles from London as the crow flies and a bit less as the horse flies. Pilgrimages used to go right across europe in the middle ages but as I'm approaching the old ages I'm not up for it anyway. John Bunyan (named after the lumps on his feet) once wrote a book called the Pilgrims Progress. To reflect the new faithless age we live in I hear its being re-written as The Pill's Grim Progress. To further reflect on the utter madness of life in the Uk, I trotted off to vote in the european elections to find over twenty parties on the paper I was handed. Amongst the loony tunes fringe.....wait for it.......The Roman Party. What the hell does that stand for. Re-building Hadrians Wall to keep out the Scots, more legions, cheaper sandals and an end to the druids. Almost as good as the Monster Raving Loony Party, who put up a candidate in Dover back in 1979 standing for cheaper cat food and more funfairs. The MRLP also had a policy for feeding dogs luminous food, so you could see their mess at night and not tread in it. So who says England is'nt full of outpatients let loose on society. Onwards and upwards for Aor. Ctp another of my underwater investments has stuck its periscope above the surface today Perhaps it'll stick a torpedo into a couple of shares I want to buy more cheaply.

Well walking 20 miles does your leg muscles no harm, but road walking can pound your knees a bit which is'nt good for them. Where did you set off from out of interest?..... Most of the buyers tend to turn up in the afternoon so the low volume so far may not matter. Tempted to add but might leave it. Bought in too early at 64p on a deadcat bounce but I think this will slowly pick up.

Actually getting some trade now and a small tick up in the price. As you say who knows with this one.... Did I read on a board somewhere that you are going on a walk to Canterbury...?? Long ago in the mists of time I was at school there. Archbishop Ramsey and all.

Looks like you'll get your mid forties entry price in this negative market.

wrong board, but you have received a strong tip from simon Thompson in the IC Sp target 275-300p

From todays Investors Chronicle: MATERIAL PROFIT. It is not inconceivable that a London listed materials developer could change the world as we know it. IQE: Remember we said silicon is dead, or at least dying a slow death? Well, IQE has a possible alternative - gallium nitride (GaN). The welsh company makes wafer products for wireless products for wireless devices such as smartphones made by Apple and Samsung, and claims that "GaN is a much better material than silicon in virtually all aspects except cost". Iqe uses GaN for high speed data applications, and it is certainly better than silicon at handling high voltages, high temperature, and high power. Large diameter wafers (silicon discs), which layer GaN over silicon carbide (Sic), bring costs down too. "Gallium Nitride is fast becoming the material of choice for amplifiers, switches and other devices in base stations", say Iqe. and the potential could be huge. According to Lux Research, the power electronics market will be worth $15billion in 2020, with SIC and GaN taking a 22% share. And GaN could "revolutionise residential and commercial lighting". In the Uk alone, lighting uses a fifth of all electricity generated, but roll out LED alternatives and the country's electricity bill could shrink by up to 15%. True, Iqe's expansion has not come cheap and net debt is uncomfortably high. Still, a compound annual growth rate of 17% out to 2016, according to N+1 Singer, renders the shares, on just nine times forward earnings, too cheap.BUY. .............END OF Certainly sounds positive does'nt it. Something's going on here and judging by the large buys yesterday other believe it too. No reaction so far from the share price. A nice thought that Iqe could be involved in a serious materials development and real game changer.

Don't worry. A lot of us are getting burnt in this market. The best thing is to get in at the lowest price here. If it heads for the forties so be it. I can average down. Just look at what the directors have been paying for stock - around 85p plus. Last time it turned around sharply in the seventies and went to 130p or thereabouts. Maybe we're going for lower lows and lower highs. Riddler paid in the sixties and he's made money twice here. His technical analysis on this board ten days ago or so is quite good. With Mr market in his current mood you can chuck all logic out the window. It should reach the sixties again at some point.

Looks like my buy at 64p was a deadcat bounce. Should have waited. I can add but worried that this may fall further before moving up. all happening on small volumes. Any thoughts?

Absolutely nil trade this morning this platform.

This stock only reached this level at the beginning of the month, so it may track sideways for a while before making its next move. Hopefully up but down a bit is not out of the question.

No trades after mid-day here which seems odd. Is this traded on ISDX as well. In which case that's where they must be. Very volatile day here with sp ranging from 54.50-65p a 20% difference. As you say MMs have got wind of something going on. Out of interest are you still in CTP.... ? Lack of news appears to be driving the share down.

Well even Max Hastings has said that the second world war was won in Russia. Nearly 30m people died there...a truly frightening statistic. From the same charity shop I picked up a book called Russia's Heroes 1941-5 by Albert Axell published in 2001. For me a good read. WW2 is a source of many an interesting book. some charity shops have a history section with a reasonble selection.

Tpl is definately a bizarre story. Every drilling success is rewarded with a fall in the sp. Bought in at 46p.No I'm not topping up as the market is'nt a great place right now. Made a few bucks in FLX but that's shot up on no real foundations. Take a look at Zioc if you are not in it. Could potentially be very big with the usual caveats.

I have in my hand Antony Brett James 1812 Eye Witness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia.......published in 1966. A good read. 600,000 men marched in and barely 30,000 broken men staggered out. Napoleon's Grand Armee never recovered. N o book unfortunately covering the 1812-15 period. I picked the 1812 book up in a charuty shop.

Luck b**ger you say. There's nothing wrong with a bit of luck. Wherever you go there's profit to be made.

Thanks for your reply but it looks like we were trying to catch a falling knife here. Sp very poor this morning but I will hold on.

I assume you got a good entry price. mine at 64.4p was not exactly clever. We seem to have sellers driving this down to minimise our gains. Still I believe that we're around the bottom of the current trend. So when the sellers leave we will hopefully get on a recovery path.

That's my buy at 8.05am 7400 shares at 64.4p. Was initially quoted 67p but managed to sneak in a bit lower. HSBC direct did me a favour on this occasion. Should have bought last wednesday but lacked the courage of my convictions. Seems to want to bounce back today. Hope that will continue. Don't like the spread though but that may improve with better trading volumes. You should get your entry price sometime today. Thanks again for your sunday posts.

Considering £5k tomorrow morning too. It looks like the bottom to me with an mc of under £3m.

Thanks for all the hard work you've put in here. Have'nt looked in here since last week. When I suggested this in the GC forum you seemed a bit indifferent but I guess you needed to revisit this properly. You were here before trading it at a much higher level and thought from a trading point of view this had fallen back enough to be of interest. Are you in this or just considering the risk. Aim is a duff place to be in with many shares coming off for no reason and others like FLX after a placing at 18p leaping to 44p on no news. Can't keep up with the volatility and would prefer bottom fishing and wait for events to drive up a share like AOR, which looks to me to have been literally dumped by a market unsure of its IP model. Aor looks interesting even with the usual risks attached. await your further thoughts on this.