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Realistic RE: ALY
I was looking for a retail stock LAURA seemed a good bet, low sp management that want a company recovery an announcement of a divi and now the persistent buying of their own shares, I have done well in retail in the past Arcada, Iceland , Sommerfied, Matalan. But dont let that be a guide some of it was luck Im sure.

Realistic, ReGen are a company worth researching, they have some very good stuff in their pipeline and I am confident that eventually they will become a heavyweight, that is assuming they are not taken over, though that might not be a bad thing: they are close to a deal of some sort, how much value it will have I do not know. I would advise you to check them out on their website - http://www.regentherapeutics.com/regen/. Profitability may be close......or not! I am holding the shares long term, have done for some time and am not fazed by the price fluctuations.
HML should have news regarding their potential licensing deal with an "un-named dermatological pharmaceutical company based in the USA" by 16th or 19th of June; mI hope it is good news!
kim

driver and kim. Thanks for the replies. It is always difficult to find out what is really going on. It seems that there are umpteen million RGT shares looking for a home with few buyers. HML must be a buy if they really are that close to a deal.

I have heard whispers that erx is very close to news and next week for hml. hope this is all good as I'm hanging on to mine. latest find for you to check out is IOV again awaiting news for that one but I bought in because the company looks a potential bagger last interims were v. good. what do you think driver??

Any views on The Carphone Wharehouse? I know they aquired Telequip which in turn has aquired Norcom....... Seams this company has a few sidelines and maybe a play at the bigger companies is coming...

Realistic ... I concur HML looks a pretty good bet at the current price though apparently they have had a couple of other deals collapse at the last hurdle. I suspect that is why the price is not already higher.

Moneyplus, I've got a soft spot for IOV as I had a nice little profit on it a little while back. Products look good IMO, although I haven't looked at the fundamentals recently so PDYOR.

Tell you what, I'm going to post a quick comment on the thread. Join me if you wish.

niceonecyril
Well done tipping BLVN it's up about a pound since your tip in April to 244p today.

EPY is going up again after a pull back-half year results due end of September. It's hard to buy many online-I'm expecting good rewards from this one!!

mp
I did spot that could be heading back to 22 leael,

See RIFT news today and also COH trading Update

Watch BRY (contracts flowing, no debt) and HYC (just keeps going up).
Alan

Alan - Noted & thanks

SIlvermede, I second that thought on Rift - just got in at 6.1p and feeling good about it :o)

EPY-half year results out on the 28th interest is definitely rising!!

Silvermede,
Did you notice? HYC +6.38% today as a result of the AGM.
Can't see anything specific eminating from it, but someone must have been impressed.
Alan

From another board interesting post.

Thought I might share my thoughts on market makers while I have a quiet moment, if anyone is interested. There's a lot of misinformation floating around on these boards, it might help people understand a bit more.

I think the key to understanding the market makers is to consider that they are only traders, just like us, buying and selling shares to make a profit. They want to buy at the bottom and sell at the top.

The difference between them and us is that they take a very short term view - they like to keep a 'flat' book overall (holding no shares) to minimise risk. They also have influence over the price movements, as they set the prices.

They have two ways of making money - the first is through the spread, the second is through price movements. They can make money from the spread even with a flat price, by moving from the bid to the offer and back, buying and selling and profiting from the difference between the two. This doesn't really affect us, unless the spread is very wide in which case it's hard to profit.

It's when they make money from the share price movements that we should be interested, because the market maker's interests are the opposite of ours. For them to profit by buying cheap and sell expensive, we have to sell at the bottom and buy at the top. This is achieved in a few ways:

- If a share has been low for a period of time, people have sold out and moved on and the MMs have a holding, they will want to get rid of it. The SP will start rising for no apparent reason, causing people to speculate and buy into the rise. The price may then stabilise when the MMs have cleared their stock, or they may continue the game by dropping the price to encourage selling, and repeat.

- The MMs may go short on the stock. To do this they may raise or lower the price to encourage buying (on some stocks, people will buy in when it looks 'cheap', on others people will see a rise as precluding 'good news and will buy). The price will then fall, leaving you with a choice of holding for an unknown length of time to get your money back, or selling at a loss.

If the SP suddenly rises on good news, with a lot of people buying in, you can assume that the MMs will have previously held a flat book and unless they had prior warning of news and accumulated a decent number of shares through a 'treeshake' (suddenly dropping the price, then raising it again to frighten investors into selling) they will have gone short on the stock. They then have a large paper loss - they have sold shares they do not have and must buy back at some point to balance their books, and have sold them at an average price lower than the current price. Many investors will try to sell at the top, helping to balance the MMs books, but leaving them with a large loss. This is the main reason that stocks 'retrace' after a rise - the MMs will drive down the price as far and for as long as possible, to sap the moral of investors, and hopefully to encourage them to sell at the bottom. It's worth noting that when they do this, sometimes the buying still outweighs the selling. I believe they allow this in the hope that given enough time, the buying will dry up and people will lose confidence and start selling.

If the share price suddenly falls on bad news, the MMs will try to limit selling as much as they can, and will drop the price as fast as they can. This is so that when they do absorb all the sells they will accumulate shares at the lowest price possible, and hopefully sell them back into the market on any bounce or future rises.

Well, I hope that helps somebody.

what do you think of THR they are a hisk risk exploratory share. the last RNS gave disappointing figures but dont how to interpret these. do they mean that they are still a poss multi bagger but not to the same extent as previously thought or more likely dont touch me with a barge pole?
your thoughts if you get a chance please?
i only hold 100pounds worth and can afford to lose it as was a little gamble.
Alex

alan, i'll stick it here.



from what i have read it's not a dead cross. even though the 50ma has crossed the 200ma, the 200ma is still moving up. for it to be a dead cross both the 50ma and 200ma need to be on the down slope. however, if things carry on like this it does look like there will be a golden cross quite soon.

Take your word for it, bos.
Even with 20/20 hindsight I can't see anything in the chart that would have suggested the rapid rise. help me to learn?
Alan