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Hi TT,

That rumor was doing the rounds on iii yesterday. I agree though, it does look about right for a placing, but if it was fact I would have thought we would have heard firm news by now. But with our level playing field/100% straight markets, who knows!

Bounce?

Just spotted this quote and comment from a book review of, 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay'.

Quote.....''A person is intelligent, people are stupid."
Reviewers comment...."Whoever once said that must have been referring to stock market manias".

No doubt most 'individuals' thought today movement of the sp was ridiculous, but as crowd sentiment!
So it's very apt for todays investor movement in RKH.

as is equally often said, hindsight is foolproof! ..... for myself, i'm very glad i bit the bullet at 465 this morning, though the result of the sale was "no blood"; sp could easily have continued to plunge, though it happens that it did not ..... indeed, i bought a few back at 461 which makes the position pretty o'weight once more, but i may well trade these

Not sure I agree with your post #2933 greekman. We only found out about the recent DES equity issue on the day it happened. There was no hint of it from the press or on the bb's in advance. I wouldn't be surprised if RHK just announce that a placing has been successful.

Go on go on go on..!

Got things right today on this 450p plus an upsurge back to 500p or nearabouts....well 480p....

but did you buy at 450 or just talk/think about it?

Harrycat,

Could be right. But I look at the markets as having more leaks than a sieve.
For example, the FSA are looking into the last 12 months of mergers and acquisitions, as there were unusual trade movements in almost 50% of these prior to general news release. That is a massive number.

No.....just before closing last night...came in 475...going long....thought it might drop to 450p.....wished I'd waited.....just my guessing was right.... not my investing....if it carries on up tomorrow...I'll be pleased....

guessing is easy - there's never any pain attaching!

Like a virtual portfollio...no emotion or real money to lose and the decisions are easy.

Greekman - perhaps FSA could save some time. As I suspect they'd be better looking for deals that are entirely without inside knowledge.

"insider"......what exactly does it cover? It would be easy enough if it applied to Directors/execs/employees working in a Co that is about to do a deal (or whose Results are out soon). But what of their partners/spouces/friends etc.

I believe it is easy to spot by looking at deals larger than (Say10k) within 7-days of a sp rising more than 20%, 20k within 5-days and . . . . .

But what do others think?

10k????????????
haven't you omitted at least one 0??????????

10k is serious peanuts, if that isn't too bad an oxymoron

Anybody going to the AGM tomorrow ?.....bring back some nibbles and a few bottles of bubbly...or is that not what they are about ?,.... these do's ?...

Note the venue change to accommodate the larger than expected number attending.

Hangon,

Agree that insider dealing is difficult to fully define.
If you go out to 'Do' insider dealing you should get what you deserve, but if you are told some info in a sort of general chat way, that should not have happened it must be very tempting to act on it. For example....If you had a relative who works for a company in a position of authority, that you held shares in and they let it slip that the company was in difficulties and was about to go under, would you calmly just sit on your holding till it became an official announcement, or sell asap.
I know what I would do.

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Mnamreh,

Totally agree. What I am mainly saying is that I would not go out intentionally to gain info, but I put it to you, if you were in a position where you were inadvertently given inside info to a situation in a company that you had say an investment of 10,000 and that info indicated strongly that if you sat tight you would likely loose the lot, would you act or not.
I am just trying to be honest, by saying I would probably (OK almost certainly) act on the info I had.
I see a huge difference in coming by insider info be default to by intention.

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well i'm honest enough to say "of course i'ld act" ..... and when is inside info inside info? - e.g. what if you overhear something in a restaurant or a train or similar? ..... that is far removed from actively seeking confidential info