Why are we again at 10.5p bid?

It doesn't add up...

Good Results + Strong buying pre results + Christmas online buying soon = Price drop

Then again some companies that have debt for equity hanging in the balance, poor results and bankruptcy around the corner and they go up!

Why sell now at a loss?

Wont that be a kick in the teeth when we see 13.5p 14p again!

Best of luck all.

Todays telegraph Questor column. Not a particularly accurate view of recent events, but positve in the main.

Retail Decisions' rally in the cards

Bid speculation has helped technology tiddler Retail Decisions pull off a modest recovery in recent months. The shares, which crashed to 2.25p last year, after hitting 361p during the internet boom, were back up at 16.75p this week.

The speculation began when institutions started picking up shares in the group, which is chaired by former Kingfisher director Nigel Whittaker, and has a market capitalisation of just under 50m.

The company's cash cow is a business in Australia which issues fuel cards that corporates give to their on-the-road salesmen to prevent dubious expense claims.

Profits from Down Under help to fund the company's other operation, which is where the real growth potential comes in. This unit supplies clever software that allows retailers to conduct a host of checks on card transactions, such as whether a card has been cloned.

The biggest threat to Retail Decisions is the introduction of "chip and pin" technology which aims to cut fraud by making card-users enter a identification number - this could affect the group's deals with the big stores.

However, the increasing use of credit cards over the internet and telephone will keep demand for the company's kit high. "Card not present" fraud is growing rapidly, at 25pc a year in the case of internet transactions, and businesses are under increasing pressure to protect against it.

Oriel Securities, Retail Decisions' house broker, forecasts that profits will rise to 6.8m this year. That puts the shares on a forward multiple of 11. Worth a look

Any tips are good news so we should be in for a blue week next week.

Hope you didn't bottle out and sell Douggie, it could turn out to be one of those "kick yourself" decisions.

Analysts seem to be becoming more positive about the overall outlook for shares towards the end of this week, so we could see plenty of general market upside next week also.

mornin all... still holdin an hopein ;o}}}} D.

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Douggie

Definitely time you took another holiday my friend. It appears theyre having real fun with this one still (unless there is something going on we are not party too!!!). looks like the pain is going to continue until we get some news to stop it and it looks like that will be the half year trading update and then interims, the trading update should be 1st week in July.

Continuing to hold for the long term.

I think that there may have been another director buy today.

26/05/04 10:14 16.7 721,448 O 16.25 16.75 Buy

120,000 worth of shares.

Things certainly look healthier today, another rise tomorrow and the "Friday special" will do nicely..

not a lot of interest here trade or post,...;~[

Douggie

Just sitting and waiting on this one - it will come good but is going to need news to do so. Hopefully that will be a trading update at the start of next month.

Happy to hold and wait for the long term

16p still holding as a low-point resistance level. Agreed that trading update is crucial, esp. as it would provide some detail about the effect of petrol prices in Australia on earnings, and perhaps even give some further indication on on-line company take up of RTD products. Keeping fingers crossed.

Interesting programme on BBC 1 - hot plastic - started at 9pm. All about credit card fraud - not directly linked to RTD but interesting all the same and will raise the awareness off cc fraud.

After RTD's recent attempt to get back to 20p, which failed with no support and the present holding at 16p - IMO there is a strong chance of testing the 14p support level in June.

Don't forget that there is a trading update due in the first half of July (9th being bandied around), if T20 traders are buying in on the strength of the Oz cash cow then they will probably do so around the middle of next week.

This doesn't leave much time in June for any significant drops, but plenty of time for a hike over 20p again - though as usual, who knows ?

Check out the RNS folks - Travelocity chooses RTD's CNP system - this is just the start. Nicely blue already.

Are you still in Douggie ? :-))))

What a nice surprise this am. Especially as the wifes ISA bought a load more yesterday.

:)))))))))))))))

Yes overgrowth I'm still in with everything crosed :o}}}}

Buyers back in this am. inc myself with 21k...

Great news. We now need more announcements over the next month or so in order to generate increased volume and consequent price momentum. We remain bogged down in a stagnant trading range but today's news should keep us above the all important 16p level for a while longer.

THIS IS BIG!

Travelocity did $4 billion worth of travel in 2003.

See RNS

This is the last chance to get in @ 17p. Never to be seen again ! (IMHO)