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.

Press Mention : will appear in tomorrow's Times Newspaper.

Retail Decisions, the credit card fraud prevention specialist, put on a further 1p at 25p, with last months upgrades given momentum by rekindled talk of a management buyout.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8211-1381157,00.html

Another day with the price supressed and small sellers being shaken out. Then again at the end of the day 2 2m trades showed up - the big boys are happily mopping up the retail sellers. tonight was also the close for the TM100 valuation although outcome is not usually announced for about 10 days. will run the calcs later but im pretty sure rtd will be included

Did we make it into the Tech 100?

WT.

Walktall

by my calculations i think rtd will make it in by 2 places. LSE will not confirm until they release officially in about 10 days time. Nice also to see our buyer is still there - another 1.5m today

Post from advfn: - this appears to confirm that we should be in

Techmark ex Sharescope 30/11/04 End of Day. DYOR

No. Name Capital (m)
1 Vodafone Group PLC 93,725
2 GlaxoSmithKline PLC 64,752
3 AstraZeneca PLC 33,825
4 BT Group PLC 16,612
5 mmO2 PLC 9,913
6 Elan Corporation PLC 7,731
7 BAE SYSTEMS PLC 7,505
8 Reuters Group PLC 5,507
9 Smith & Nephew PLC 5,009
10 Cable and Wireless PLC 2,691
11 Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC 2,535
12 Sage Group (The) PLC 2,473
13 Cobham PLC 1,609
14 Warner Chilcott PLC 1,601
15 LogicaCMG PLC 1,385
16 Kidde PLC 1,282
17 Misys PLC 1,186
18 Meggitt PLC 1,094
19 ARM Holdings PLC 1,057
20 iSOFT Group PLC 871
21 Spirent PLC 682
22 COLT Telecom Group PLC 672
23 Computacenter PLC 512
24 Spectris PLC 503
25 Dimension Data Holdings PLC 450
26 Ultra Electronics Holdings PLC 445
27 Renishaw PLC 440
28 SkyePharma PLC 417
29 Northgate Information Solutions PLC 337
30 Whatman PLC 324
31 lastminute.com PLC 323
32 Xansa PLC 316
33 Acambis PLC 273
34 Domino Printing Sciences PLC 269
35 First Technology PLC 268
36 Cambridge Antibody Technology Group PLC 246
37 Kingston Communications (Hull) PLC 238
38 Psion PLC 229
39 Emblaze Ltd 210
40 Intec Telecom Systems PLC 204
41 ebookers PLC 202
42 ITNET PLC 199
43 Thus Group PLC 192
44 Anite Group PLC 188
45 Alizyme PLC 187
46 Gyrus Group PLC 184
47 DICOM Group PLC 171
48 Gresham Computing PLC 170
49 SurfControl PLC 169
50 Innovation Group (The) PLC 168
51 Autonomy Corporation PLC 165
52 Detica Group PLC 158
53 royalblue Group PLC 147
54 Filtronic PLC 146
55 iTouch PLC 143
56 RM PLC 141
57 Amstrad PLC 140
58 AVEVA Group PLC 140
59 BTG PLC 139
60 Corin Group PLC 138
61 TTP Communications PLC 132
62 Morse PLC 131
63 Zetex PLC 129
64 Imagination Technologies Group PLC 127
65 Pace Micro Technology PLC 125
66 Protherics PLC 124
67 AEA Technology PLC 119
68 Plasmon PLC 114
69 Eidos PLC 114
70 Ricardo PLC 109
71 Axis-Shield PLC 108
72 Trafficmaster PLC 103
73 Isotron PLC 101
74 NSB Retail Systems PLC 99
75 Marlborough Stirling PLC 94
76 Oxford Instruments PLC 94
77 Radstone Technology PLC 92
78 Easynet Group PLC 87
79 Torotrak PLC 87
80 Alphameric PLC 86
81 Linx Printing Technologies PLC 85
82 Phytopharm PLC 81
83 Xaar PLC 77
84 BATM Advanced Communications Ltd 76
85 ICM Computer Group PLC 75
86 Axon Group PLC 75
87 Retail Decisions PLC 72
88 SDL PLC 66
89 Superscape Group PLC 66
90 Oxford BioMedica PLC 62
91 Horizon Technology Group PLC 57
92 Microgen PLC 56
93 CML Microsystems PLC 54
94 Kewill Systems PLC 51
95 Fibernet Group PLC 48
96 MTL Instruments Group PLC 48
97 ARC International PLC 47
98 GeneMedix PLC 46
99 Antisoma PLC 44
100 Celsis International PLC 42
101 ML Laboratories PLC 41
102 Tadpole Technology PLC 39
103 Macro 4 PLC 39
104 Alterian PLC 37
105 VEGA Group PLC 35
106 Medisys PLC 35
107 Genetix Group PLC 34
108 Redbus Interhouse PLC 33

Just thought you folks might like a little chuckle. On the 12th of March I tried to buy some shares in RTD online. Being a total novice I cocked it up totally and eventually placed the order by phone. The share price was 20.6. As you know the price has been well down since then. So I did what all good investors did I stuck my head in the ground and got on with life.
I was of course delighted when the share price started to head north again and eventually into profit. (Many thanks to the folks on this thread...I would have sold if it weren't for your comments). Anyhow to cut a long story short. I checked my portfolio yesterday only to discover that I had in fact bought two lots of shares and therefore have twice the profit (+20%).
Isn't it nice when that kind of mistake works in your favour?

Still holding

Cheers

B2B

B2B

Great to hear!!!!! Beginners luck - youve had plenty if youve got a double holding here. Plenty more to come in the long term (and prob short to medium too)

Just to prove its not only beginners SKP trades at about 70p - today a trade went through for 537.1p - a severe case of fat fingers and no doubt a bollocking from the boss!!!

Belated thanks Fundamentalist. Had to go out.

WT

B2B LB Mine is a pint. Cheers

Isn't this thread quiet withou Douggie.

I vote for the return of douggie even if he is a sphinx

Lots of people taking profits today, however notice the 1.5M bought just before close again.

Surely if this was a single insitution investing they'd be over the 3% by now ?

Could well be more than one big buyer in the wings which will really help to mop up sells from those taking early profits.

Plenty of time to take profits methinks. I'll be waiting for a while until we get closer to 1 (it's going to happen).

OG

if you look at the trades there is actually 2 trades for each of these large buys. On that basis it appears to me that there have been 9m of these bought in large chunks recently which is a fraction above 3% - however there may be more than 1 buyer.

TM100 announcement is the 13th then onwards to results (assuming no contract announecements in the meantime)

And here is the news - Goldman Sachs have bought 10m (3.44%) (sorry i underestimated by 1m)


Retail Decisions PLC
03 December 2004


SCHEDULE 10

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1. Name of company

RETAIL DECISIONS PLC

2. Name of shareholder having a major interest

THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. ('GS INC.')

3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding
of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest
or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's
spouse or children under the age of 18

(A) GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO, a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of GS INC., acting as
custodian for its customers; and
(B) GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS INC.

4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them

(A) GOLDMAN SACHS SECURITIES (NOMINEES), LIMITED 5,675
(B) GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL A/C CREPTEMP 10,000,000

5. Number of shares / amount of stock acquired

NOT INFORMED

6. Percentage of issued class

NOT INFORMED

7. Number of shares / amount of stock disposed

NOT INFORMED

8. Percentage of issued class

NOT INFORMED

9. Class of security

ORDINARY 1P SHARES

10. Date of transaction

NOT INFORMED

11. Date company informed

03 DECEMBER 2004

12. Total holding following this notification

10,005,675

13. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

3.44%

14. Any additional information

N/A

15. Name of contact and telephone number for queries

RICHARD AMOS
(01483) 728700

16. Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
this notification

RICHARD AMOS
FINANCE DIRECTOR

Date of notification

03 DECEMBER 2004

So who are Goldman Sachs buying for?

certainly not me :)

I must come clean. I have instructed Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, Lehman, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley et al to purchase various tranches of shares in RTD. I expect to own the whole company, by proxy, within a matter of weeks at which point I will create a new encryption and testing standard for internet payments. I expect to take over most aspects of commercial dealing on the net by next July whereupon I will be sufficiently rich to buy all the investment banks and put them into liquidation - nasty people. My doctor says that I am responding well to medication and that I should be in a position to buy Glaxo and AstraZenecca by Dec 2005. After that I will take a year's sabbatical, probably at that nice country house nearby (Greenpastures Home - "comfortable residence for the mentally challenged"). Please do not congratulate me - I amsimply following a pre-ordained path to greatness. Life is so simple nowadays.

I am convince by pachandl - for those that aren't, could it be an MBO?

NEWS FLASH
The shares are being bought for Douggie

I didn't know Tony Bliars non de plume was `pachandl`!!!

I am off for a swim in the sea - Bude air is so refreshing at this time of year ... or should that read Bermuda? Very confusing.