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Dishonest brokers are marking down HL price for what appears no good reason other than to help the shorters. I wonder if there's a private equity bid for HL coming. Bloody crooks.

Search on 'corporate bond funds' or fixed income. Loads!

Usually when it goes down a bit if shoots up again very quickly. I bought some more!

Valuetrap, I find HL excellent as a broker. Very rarely have delays trading and price spread and accuracy is good. Customer service has always been excellent for me when I've needed it. Nice to see some of the shorters closing their positions a bit and HL should do really well as money flows back into Bond funds as interest rates peak and equities and funds as markets rally.

Card was a disaster for me when I started buying and it tumbled from about 180p to the 20s. Had to keep buying and believing. It's now been my best ever trading stock. I may even be able to buy a turkey this year...

And if costs come down and a special div becomes payable, this should re-rate upwards. And chase the shorters away.

Alessandro, your figures are all wrong probably be a factor of 10. Of course income from trades etc in down - the market is in a terrible place. But if the market recovers and interest rates drop, money will flood back into equities as they are so cheap.

The Works has just released poor figures for the last few months and Card is being brought down by this news. Footfall may certainly have been impacted by all the poor weather, but when people need cards they need cards, and a little tatty gift. Seems doubtful that CF will be affected in the same way...

UK stocks - easy targets for shorters. Regulator in UK doesn't care. To make the most money they want to work together and drive the price down. In the UK, most of the 'establishment' care not a jot about UK businesses and hide behind hedge funds and blind trusts. UBS report today is faintly amusing. Seems to be suggesting that banks shouldn't be making money out if client deposits. Hilarious. Shorters want to create more panic and get out, or perhaps someone is trying to take this company private - it's just so cheap at present. Cynical. Yes. But I bought a chunk this morning.

Trendz, not sure quite what you mean... CF online market share is still rather small, especially compared with MoonPig. Cards are increasingly being 'given' person to person as the Royal Mail screws up yet another UK institution with Government help. CF offers excellent products and value for these hard times.

Just been to my local CF shop. Neat and tidy, pleasant and seemingly happy staff, steady flow of customers. Great prices. Lots of tempting tat. Clinton Cards 3 doors away totally deserted. They will take a fortune this quarter...

Hold! Big buyers need stock. Don't let them have it cheap! On this cycle or should easily climb to about 120p and there the ftse350 effect starts to kick in. Decent 3rd quarter update expected in less than 2 weeks.

Once it gets to high 120s it starts to enter ftse350 and should be in great demand.

Looks like a big buyer is starting to acquire stock. Fab value for them at anything under £1.10

Not sure what we'll get mid Nov concerning Q3 results but the trend seems upwards again. Hold hold hold!

Precisely. And third party relationships to shift much more stock are readily achievable and happening. Lower margin - yes - but much lower cost of sale.

Lots of shorting against this stock. Blackrock have just piled in but there are many others... Seems tremendous value, but so much shorting is a worry. I expect many of them are holding long positions as well in other vehicles.

Can only go up over next few months even with high oil / gas and wars going on. One of the best buys on the market IMHO. I am very overweight on this one...

Wish I'd waited a bit longer to top up - current price is rather a bargain IMHO, but no concerns medium term. Good luck all.

Some institution will fill their boots soon enough... I wish I had some cash left to buy at these prices...