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At the start of the New World Oil & Gas (NEW) forward selling fiasco Liam was cited as being one of the “innocent” forward sellers, who “accidentally” got himself embroiled in this mess. In fact, Liam was the primary example used to paint a human face on perhaps one of the most reckless market acts ever witnessed on AIM. Unfortunately for those who chose Liam as the forward sellers’ poster-boy, he has not behaved well. Posting under the username “Awkward Turtle” across social media, Liam is quite removed from being an “ordinary” private investor. Mr Turtle, as it is perhaps more appropriate to call Liam, is a small, yet revealing, part of something far more sinister and well coordinated.
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Mooboy
Oops.
You can feeeeeeel the panic in his message.
His time is nearly up.
Lols.
wildrides
Good exposure Ben …………… I for one would like to trade Aim on movements caused by fundamental news instead of ceaseless ramps followed by dumping and unwinding lasting as much as a week to a year in duration . Some people are making huge money from the new and exploitable investor . Unfortunately the exploited learn the tricks and eventually become the exploiters . We need to break the cycle.
DUCK AND DIVE
There isn’t enough here to lynch Mr Turtle, imho.
Gary Newman
Wildrides,
Same for me and why I’ve moved away from AIM over the last 18 months or so, as those that actually get good news rarely enjoy any sort of lasting rise. A lot of the shares having good rises are junk that get hyped on some amazing news that is supposed to be coming, which rarely ever turns out to be as good as the hype and are often perfectly picked for a pump due to their low liquidity and fact that there could be news (even when there often isn’t!). If you were to look at all the shares being pumped on Twitter and the forums 3-6 months back I doubt many of them are performing all that well now – which for me is an indication of how good (or bad) those companies were in reality!
When it comes to forward selling, although I’m not a fan and think it should be banned, whilst it is still legal I accept that some people make their money in this way, but personally I just tend to avoid those shares where flipping is going on, unless it is just a quick trade off the back of it.
Unfortunately with NEW the company was total junk anyway (still is!), and barring a squeeze it was screwed and in need of funding, so had nothing else there to back up any sort of real value – certainly not the levels the SP rose to. I still can’t believe people were stupid enough to be buying at crazy highs – hence my sell recommendation at 0.65p and get out whilst you could!
Troyska
Mt Turtle is equally manipulative of many stocks that you at ShareProphets do not seem to have the heart to criticise. RRR being one of them.
Mr Turtle was a huge ramper of RRR when certain ‘high net worth individuals’ got stock in a placement a short while ago.
Funnily enough Mr Turtle was all ‘great news coming, this is going to explode’ blah blah blah – and the SP has done nothing much but go down since, with the exception of the ramping spike when i assume those High Net Worth individuals got out and left the pillocks and noobs holding the worthless confetti.
Tell me Ben – why doesn’t ShareProphets look harder at the likes of RRR? You’d have a field day.
Or is there something else that we don’t know, a reason why?
LE
Troyska, this is a great point and I would love for somebody at this website to provide an answer.
How the actions at RRR towards shareholders have, and continue to, escape the radar of this website I will never know. I appreciate there isn’t the time to cover everybody, but unfortunately it only adds fuel to the fire of the allegations made by other bloggers regarding selectivity of targets here.
When Mr Turtle began involvement with RRR, at the same time official RNS’ were telling holders that there were new, committed investors coming on board. What utter piffle.
wolfcastle_22
Troyska and LE, I have mentioned this before regards RRR for a good 12 months or more for this site to investigate, or highlight Mr Bell’s destruction of shareholder value………but it never happens……even though this site is the bee’s knees……….RRR seem untouchable………for reasons unknown
Gary Newman
LE/Troyska,
It is one that I’ve considered but never saw much point covering – I am not a fan of the company at all and certainly wouldn’t be advising anyone to buy, but by the same token I’m not sure it is really a sell either at these levels as most will have lost such a big chunk of their original investment that it would hardly be worth selling now for the pittance they would have left.
I remember selling at around 17p in late 2010, was only off a quick trade though, and has certainly dropped an awful lot from those days!
The problem with AIM is that there is so much junk on it these days that you can’t cover all the bad ones – and a lot of the time doing so doesn’t really serve much purpose unless there is some wrong-doing (aside from destroying shareholder value!).
Just my view of course and think you’d have to be mad to put a penny in RRR these days!
Tom Winnifrith
Folks
All the writers here are 100 free to write whatever they want. If anyone wants to stick it to Bell and RR ( or Regency Mines or Greatland where he is – I think – a NED and which has been a total dog) they can do just that. We wont stop them.
Equally I will not – and cannot – instruct anyone to have a pop.
Would I buy RRR? No. steve & I are not tipping any mining stocks right now. Strikes me that all are dead money pro tem although there is a case for having some physical.
will i devote hours to researching RRR in order t say something new and which has not been said before because an awful lot has been said before in all sorts of places. What is its market cap? Sod all. What is more interesting for me as a writer? That or Greece, China, Quindell, nailing Rosslyn or Jiasen perhaps.
This site is about liberty – no one tells its writers what to write about or what to say. And i am no different to the other writers in that regard.
Has AB covered himself in glory at RRR? Clearly no. But was he a hero over Horse Hill, fighting off Lenigas threats to give a counter view? Yes. As a journalist that is my balanced view
T
Pain Au Chocolat
After todays shocker of an RRR RNS you may wish to reconsider having a closer look at Andrew Bell and his Quindellesque croney equity swaps. The destruction of shareholder value has now reached a proportion which surely merits further investigation. AIM at its very worst.