Big money starting to pile in...

Things apart about "Maestro"s antics, I did selected earlier today and has moved up since..........

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:42:19 GMT
Category - UPS
Nickname - Master RSI
Epic - AFN
Mid - 2.55p
Reason - Some interest on the shares as the L2 is also improving to 6 v 1, the chart is due for a bounce from a large round bottom on oversold Indicators, results are due next month

I agree - and have bought a few again.

Could it be (perish the thought) that Chambers has listened to his very unhappy shareholders and Hodges has taken his finger from his backside and they have decided to stop wasteing money and concentrate on the numbers?

If the advertising revenues for UK, US, Brazilian, Italian etc. sites is indeed rolling in (as I think it is) - all that had to be done, was reverse about 1M of spending (un-necessary development staff, un-necessary Directors expenses etc), and they have a very healthy profit making company.

And a healthy share price (something they did not seems very interested in six months ago).

Sorry for sounding like an "armchair dictator" telling the massively successful Mr. Chambers what to do. But maybe, just maybe they have decided to act.

Rich - you may have been very wise - we'll see.

Feel free to cut and paste as you wish.

- four weeks to go to the interims.

Looking dead dodgy today, hopefully the 978 buy has reversed the trend ;)

There was a 1.5 mil buyer mopping up shares this afternoon. The interims are out at the end of the month and at the last AGM the CEO promised to be more aware of shareholder interests ...... so imho at 2.5p AFN is now very undervalued (and the 1.5m buyer agrees with me)

I'm holding on the expectation that the interims will support an sp of at least 3.5p. A return of 40% in a month will do me!

rb

brazil site has nearly 2 full pages of messages today...thats about 25% of uk bb...very good news

Dougal Dog

Sent you an email on the action line yesterday if your looking in.

Hey Bloomers

Sorry mate have been in Oz (very nice)

I'll pick up now.

Seems they have been busy doing f"ck all while I have been away - well done Chambers and Hodges - the moronic duo ride on. My suggestion of ditching 12 very expensive and "doing nothing development staff" seemed to have gone unheeded.

The French and etc etc etc "non profit making" (understatement) sites still keeping very happy staffers in "work". Well done Clem .... firm and decisive management still at work at AFN.

See Guy has forked out to go over 3% - maybe he knows something we don't - surely Clem and Mike ain't listenng to .......... Eeeerrhhh Shareholders.

Good Luck Guy - think you may need it - as far as I can tell those two complete muppets are still running the place??

Lovely to be back in Blighty - pity the first thing I saw was red - thanks Clem and Mike (actually.......... Mike's probably not here).

Well a 9% rise today after rises the days before and steady buying ...... Guy did have a word in his ear - good man.

My guess is that Guy and those "in the know", have heard that they are indeed kerbing the spending and that revenues are coming in from the US and Brazil sites.

Looks like the next Interims will be the complete reverse of the last results - revenue up .... spending down. Hhhmmmm wonder why?

It woz Clem wot done it !!

God ... Can't believe I'm about to say this ..... this is a very attractive share - there I've done it.

Interims are out and ADVFN is still making a loss....

No rich

Spending down - revenues up (as I predidcited)

Still a loss

Still two muppets in charge

But clearly (as the interims text shows) they have listened (staggeringly). Chambers - explaining the costs (albeit not in detail - no mention of Directors "fees")

But no - a move in the right direction

Would be better though to move to push Hodges and Chambers out - but watch this space one that one.

Big buys presently.... on weak market here - funny that.

Up 20% in 17 days - not bad I guess.

Looks like people are buying in to the fact that they have stated they are going to be revenue positive in 2007 (not spending all the money).

Could be very good here from now on - who'd have thought?

hello DD

Nice to see you still in the land of the living. Been away for a few weeks but just seen your post.

Doesn't look quite so good now eh!, and certainly not a lot of action from any of the majors. I see Clem was quoting that ALP were having all kinds of success with ONE repeat ONE of the IPO's which, as you can imagine, has sent certain factors into raptures so nothing changes there.

I don't know if you caught on to the fact that I sold out, at a loss, and reinvested what was left into other companies but I am glad to say that I am clawing back the losses slowly and should I choose to re-invest in AFN then hopefully I will be able too buy more shares than I sold with my current profits.

That will not happen under the same set up as at present but any acceptable change in policies could see me back.

Hope things are well with you and if you are posting, or have any tasty morsels, drop me an email and the relevant detail.

Bloomers

Seems things are moving in the sector. Moneyam next to go ? Rumour is that DL went for 11m plus.

touchy



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i thought moneyam was owned by FT group

Maestro - I think Moneyam/Shares Magazine is privately owned. One of the founders of Advfn founded Moneyam, Moneyam supply data to brokers just like Digitallook so they must now be on someones radar and Shares magazine must be an attractive media for a Broker to own.

touchy

looks like its happening..big money getting in friday

"One of the founders of Advfn founded Moneyam, Moneyam supply data to brokers just like Digitallook so they must now be on someones radar and Shares magazine must be an attractive media for a Broker to own"

;-0

big AL..monayam is owned by the FT i think

:)