UK 15:07 Saturday, 31 October 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
Disclosure: The author has a short position in one or more of the shares mentioned. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from ShareProphets). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Would you pay Warren Buffett one pound to manage 5 pence of your money? No? I didn’t think so. Would you pay anyone a quid to manage 5p of your cash (that’s right you break even after he or she has twenty bagged the investment) No? I think we can agree that you would be crazy to do so. No argument there.
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Comments
Daniel Victor
All that I can offer you is some wisdom from the late lamented Bob Beckman,who died at the end of the last century.He said ‘the market will always do what it has to do to make sure that most people are mostly wrong most of the time’. So by some arcane means the fact that people are shorting Concha must be causing the shares to rally.I have no idea how that works,though.
Slim McFizzlebeef
Free float manipulation? Concha has looked a wrong’un ever since Chris Potts (the first stockbroker fined by the FSA for market abuse) took out a spread bet over 3-5% of the shares.
J P Spaghetti
I tell you Slim – that Mr Potts still (even this year) seems to have a knack for taking significant positions JUST (for example, the day) before significant developments hammer share prices. The guy’s remarkable.
J P Spaghetti
Re. CP again, perhaps he arrived at his decision to open a spread bet on CHA after reading the tea leaves – BOOM BOOM! Right – bedtime.
Kind knievil
Wow, do you get paid for writing the fact you’re losing on a short. Cant see the respected columns queuing to sign you up somehow.