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And the winner of today's oxymoron is ~~~~~~~~~ 🙃

Today's close takes us back over (just) the 50 and 200 day moving average and well past the 100 day MA. RSI is still on the lowish side and momentum has finally got moving in the right direction.

We have all been here several times so let's see how long the uptrend continues 🤞

Go easy on Crafty, he is a busy busy guy and deep down he means well.

OB I wasn't aware of that, let's hope it pays off fwiw I still think political donations from UK listed companies should be stopped but accept that's never going to happen

Moulding is 100% a conservative and uses our shareholder funds to make donations to the conservative party which I think is totally wrong and not just by him, by any public listed company to any party. And unless I am mistaken if the hotel, it's facilities, it's food and drink have been gifted to the Labour party that would need to be declared and I am not aware that it has. So the best they will have got is "mates rates" and even that would surprise me unless it's come via Gary red Neville who Moulding seems to be in awe of 🤷

In the final analysis people are free to do what they want as individuals with their own money but please do not use shareholder funds to dabble in politics.

I did wonder what tools Ingenuity was using to protect itself and it's partners. Demonstrably excellent security is mandatory to not only survive but to prosper and no sane third party would ever consider a partnership without undertaking due diligence on the technology used to deliver the service.

I imagine there will be a lot more security tools in use, the critical functions will have at least 2 layers. This is now standard and the big online players like gambling, banks and streaming companies will have 3 layers with a significant redundancy in each layer.

When I get some down time I will have a nosey around Elastics web site to see what their all about

The professional shorters like Qube must have made a huge amount of money out of THG over the past few years. For them THG is akin to a perpetual cash machine 🙄

You could say about almost any share on any exchange. There are plenty of examples of UK head quartered business whose fortunes have considerably improved in the past 12 months and that's reflected in their share price but not THG and taken in the round the current economic backdrop is ok and more likely to improve than decline

I admire your fanatical support of all things THG but the only that matters are numbers in results ( preferably without tons of exceptions).

All the other stuff is akin to white noise

Good afternoon Hermit, I not falling out with you or anyone else, it's not my way. We have a difference of opinion and that's fine by me. It would be a strange old world if everyone thought the same as me.

Re not selling, earlier in this thread I explained why, but simply put "I read the tea leaves wrong 🙂"

Hermit, you don't know a single thing about me and if you are rash enough to think you can work out my background and experience from what I post on here then you are truly a fool.

Obviously I don't have nearly as much money as MM but is that the only way to judge someone? My business experience is extensive, both in the UK, Europe and America and fwiw I have done all the things you mentioned, albeit on smaller number, t/o tens of millions but always profitable. None of this makes me any better than a lot of people posting on here but I have seen and done enough to know that MM's behaviour is the main reason the SP is depressed and will probably remain depressed until he either sells up (highly unlikely) or he focuses on actually delivering shareholder value.

And finally for the umpteenth time, I don't hate or even dislike him, how could I because I don't know him as an individual but I do dislike his disdain for the private investors who have invested in THG.

You deserve better, I deserve better, we all deserve better from him.

For clarity I will challenge Crafty's statement that the THG / Frasers deal brings together two of the UKs top entrepreneurs.

Mike Ashley definitely is Matt Moulding definitely is not. Honestly I wished he was but he is not and only MM fan boys would try to suggest he is.

Good morning Crafty - it may surprise you know I have given a thumbs up to quite a few of your posts including the last one. Onward and upwards 🤞

I meant given Coggles away for little or no money as an inducement

Mezza unfortunately I didn't. I use chart analysis in an attempt to fine tune entry and exit points and on this occasion the charts (or my reading of the charts failed me). I am not upright because the share price has a clear history of being pushed up and down so I will wait patiently for the next upward wave and hope this time I make the right decision.

Ps I think the Fraser's tie up is positive but it's hard to know for sure without any numbers, it would be disappointing if MM has given it away as an inducement to get them to use Ingenuity 🤔

Could please explain what you mean by "one hand tied behind their back?"

I cannot see that there are extra rules or conditions pertaining to THG shares. All classes of shares get traded by short termers and this happens across the globe.

One of the primary reasons THG attracts somewhat more short term trading than normal is it was floated at very high and to my way of thinking an unjustified IPO price. Since floating it's issued multiple profit warnings and it's run by a belligerent CEO whose behavior has a history of driving the SP down.

Charlie boy was meant to help mitigate some of the above but he hasn't come close to doing so,hence the current awful share price.

Obviously I sincerely wish the SP was much higher but it's becoming clear that takeovers never get past MM and his mates, an MBO looks far away so we are left hoping MM and the board can trade their way to a better SP and the current SP suggests that the broader investment market is not too confident about tha

Your right and my apologies for taking a long established investment blog at face value. I should have double checked, it was circa 270 last September and it's currently 570 which is a great return but nowhere close to 400%.

It was as low as 38.5p in March 2020 and I only wish I had been invested in it back then 🙄

Since a low in Sept 23 Warpaint shares are up a staggering 400% ! Their operating margins increase every time they report. 21 it was 7.6% 22 it was 12.4% and in 23 it was 20.6%. Growth is also better than THGs, they are forecasting 18% for this trading year but in Q1 they achieved 28%.

Please keep these figures in mind when THG report beauty numbers next week.

YIAB - you make your point well - maybe I too sensitive to the use of the word Troll 🤔

Yesiamabeliever ------ a poster who refers to anyone who posts anything he/she thinks is negative as a troll.

This is this type of schoolground name calling behaviour that "hellodolly" recently referred to when commenting on how the THG threads quality had declined over the past years.

Everyone is entitled to give their opinion, even the perpetually boring & negative Steve 2k.

Regrettably it's become somewhat tribal, there are a small number of vociferous posters who are totally for or against THG. Both sides are completely intolerant of opposing viewpoints.

In the final analysis it's a share we are all trying to make money from, it's not a football or rugby team so there's no need to be partisan. MM is a CEO he is not family or a good friend or some Musk/Bezos super star, equally he is not the devil incarnate or anything close, so again I don't understand posters fan boy blind support. I am often critical of his running of THG but I don't hate him or wish him ill. He has done a good job, however I think someone more experienced would deliver much greater shareholder value but I am happy to accept others think otherwise. These are simply my opinions, I am not trying to win an argument or impress or anything else. Here's to a good weekend for one and all