fsa investigation?
ADVFN PLC
24 November 2006

ADVFN PLC (the 'Company')

Exercise of Options

The Company announces that options to subscribe for 150,002 ordinary shares of
one pence each in the Company have been exercised at a price of 1.25p per share.
These shares have been allotted and application for the shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM has been made to the London Stock Exchange. Admission of and
dealings in these shares are expected to commence on 1 December 2006.

Yes Analyst is right. 2007 is crunch year. It will either be taken over or run out of cash.

nothing changes there then...same old toss-ers posting..lol!

kayak Those last financials were so iffy re expenditure that it's impossible to tell what's happening with afn. I go along with Patience Wheatcroft and don't trust management one inch.....

Maestro (63)

Most of those 'same old tossers' you so, arrogantly, refer to, are firmly behind the current action being taken and at the present time are in a far better position than you to support that cause. The reason for that is because there minds work in a constructive manner rather than the destructive one you clearly have.

Words mean nothing, the fact you are a non-shareholder means it's none of your business and the type of action you favour only reflects your own twisted take on life in general.

Far from encouraging you to return to ADVFN BB's others should realise that should you manage to do so, any future reasoned and planned action, would no doubt turn into total disaster.

Bloomers

Indeed ! The action taken has brought publicity to the money spending and had the result of ADVFN changing the way they run their business. The AGM on the 10th Jan should see Mr Chambers telling shareholders they can see a change in the way this company is run. Large shareholders (Institutional and Private) have told Clem that this must be the case. (Believe me .... the Institutional investors have been very, very vocal recently).

As for ADVFN not existing next year, well I think for a company with this many eyeballs that very unlikely.

The fact is they have made some mistakes and are now rectifying that. I think we all make mistakes in life and move on.

If, however, you don't rectify when you make a mistake .... you pay the consequence.

My view on the shareprice ?

With the changes 6p - 8p
Without 6p - 8p (because the shareholders will remove the current management)

DougalDog

I know we are all of different minds as to how things should be done, but at the end of the day we all want the same, and that is a profitable and, more importantly, successful company.

There is no doubt that unless revenue is increased and expenses reduced we will have neither. I don't care how that is achieved as long as it is but unfortunately they are more adept at telling us what won't achieve it than what will. That is what is griping everyone, their stubborn stance and their inability to deliver under the policies they have set.

I am pleased to read about the more major shareholders having been heard but I don't really see a change of heart when 'the man' posts on the other thread.

I never saw you as an optimist, but should your prediction be anywhere near the mark I might just sack 'Mystic Meg'

bloomers..tradx,loverat,isis are the usual toss-ers i was referring to..surely you can't dispute that?

Dougal / bloomers

I admire your confidence but exactly how many worthwhile eyeballs do you seriously think advfn. has actually got?

ALP, ONL and AFN = the same bunch of directors are getting their salaries and exes from all three!

Rbees

I'm surprised you are able to read confidence into my post because there isn't any. I was merely responding to a previous poster who just may or may not know more than me. The point I was making was that if DOUGAL's post is accurate you wouldn't know it from the attitude of the 'boss man' on the other thread today. But he could just be fronting it out to save face. Perhaps we will find out at the AGM.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to MoneyAM, where you are free to have this discussion.

RBees

Looking at the expendtiture on AFN for the year I think a lot are wondering if it isn't paying the exs of all three. It certainly shouldn't be.

MM, you stirrer :-))

Just a thought but has anyone look beyond the executives and into the staff of AFN?
The problem, if ANY, could be the "leadership" or those who ("can do, won't do, all pay, no work ...")

Stirrer, moi?

Chambers should scrap all euro sites..total disaster and concentrate on US and Japan sites...US sites look like they are doing well with loads of advertising plus they give a list of subscribers unlike UK site where he won't disclose the actual numbers...should be made to by shareholders

I would be interested to see a list of how many subscribers have visited the site in the last month!

It has seemed quieter for a while now, only a few good threads left.

Totaly agree Andy.

Looks to me like the UK board is suffering for some reason. Less and less well known names disappearing by the day.

Surely this will have a negative effect on there revenues.

Maybe slightly grasping at straws here. Facts are facts. They have gone from an average of around 37M pages views daily to a little under 60M recently, in six months.

If they could control the manic spending they may even have a financial success.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=advfn.com

Fair enough DD, but as you know as well as I do how many are being converted to
money subscribing subscribers rather than freebies???????????????.

DD,

I must say that page view statistic is impressive, and I have to admit I'm surprised, given the quietness of the boards recently.

Presumably that figure includes the foreign boards that have just come online?

If so it would be interesting to know when each one started up, and the individual monthly figures for the last six months to see where the real gain is being made, ie UK BB , or the new foreign ones.

Sometimes due to internet glitches, I enter via the US BB, and that seems quiet, and sometimes via the German one, and that looks quiet too, so maybe the Italian or Brazilian one is generating all the traffic?

As Goldfinger states, I don't see many new faces on the premium BB, which suggests many are only visiting the free boards.

take it from me the european sites are dead...new US sites are doing well,not surprising with the performance of the dow...subscribers should be signing up in their droves this new year...especially if they cut the time out to a few seconds