had this on my watchlist for a bit and decided it was time to buy today. recently in shares mag and it does seem to be a share for today's times.

apn website

latest results

latest news

yip. saves you a job when you're hanging wallpaper ;)

bosley---APN trying to claw back yesterdays fall, got to expect a bit of profit taking now and again. I'm sure this is going to be one hellava stock especially with all the security issues around atm, and beyond.
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hope so. lots of competition around but it is a very big, global market so i think there's room for everyone.

There could be some stakebuilding here going by the volume of trades on Friday

What an exciting little co this is.
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very happy with it so far, george.

that chart gets better looking by the day ....... bit like me really ;)

Pity your eyesights fading ha! ha! ---yes I'm very pleased that I sold PXC for these, sitting on a nice profit already but will hold for a while longer yet.
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george, ain't nowt wrong with my eyes ...... it's the rest of me that's knackered ;)

shares magazine tips a similar company today , qdg. worth a look at their results

last set of qdg results

qdg thread

Been away for a couple of hours, if that's what happens to the sp, perhaps I should go away for a month. Thanks bosley I'll have a look shortly.
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yeah george, might be an idea to 'koff for a few months ;)

summat's going on. just had a look at trades and there isn't exactly a ton of large buys going through. but, who's complaining :))

bosley------had a look QDG have a market cap 3 x that of APN and they have nearly 9m cash, may be a good fit I don't know, but certainly same area ie surveillance. Meanwhile APN forges on and those 14.16pm and 14.18pm trades were almost certainly buys.
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250000 x trade gone through. some people think x trades are a good sign in small caps.

down a bit today, but never mind, it's been a good week .

i guess this explains last week's rise and then fall on friday.

Appian Technology PLC
29 January 2007

Appian Technology plc / Ticker: APN / Market: AIM / Sector: Technology



29 January 2007



Appian Technology Plc



Results of Annual General Meeting



Appian Technology plc, the AIM listed provider of Automatic Number Plate
Recognition systems ('ANPR') and traffic management products, held its annual
general meeting on Friday 26th January and all resolutions were duly passed.



* * ENDS * *

Does anyone know the reason for recent weakness.
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there has been no news so i would imagine there's a bit of profit taking going on. moved my stop loss close to here when the sp went up so i'm hoping it doesn't drop any more.

With all the recent ballyhoo over ANPR and congestion charging, it's bound to have an effect on this technology. This busiiness has been smouldering for rather too long IMHO but the recent flurry does look like "earnings-recognition" - what we need are some long-term contracts which will result in a decent income...and then we might see a sniff of a dividend (in future years) - until then we can only watch as punters take profits from earlier "lows" - who can blame them?
However, as with so many businesses, you have to balance a profit "now" with the potential in the future - I usually sell too early.....but not this time! I think there was some suggestion that punters should take profits - a wise play if you bought recently and are only trading.....but very few of us manage to trade that well, so "our" profits will be more modest....and each time you pay a fee to yr broker (and spread!)....

Sure it's a waiting game - but unless you have something better to invest in ...?
bosley would appear to have it about right, IMHO.

hangon, you're quite possibly correct about holding and waiting, but, for me, this needs to bounce up now from here or i am out.

rns 1

rns 2

and we got a little bounce.