Ortus Vct Share Discussion Threads

[maxwellman] 02/9/2004 14:37

9th on the leader board

[maxwellman] 02/9/2004 14:36

any reason for the rise today ?

[one for the money] 02/9/2004 09:10

Moving on up, yet again, this morning.

IMHO...For those who haven't, get researching.

Cheers
john

[shoggoth] 31/8/2004 14:35

Someone thinks he's Simon Cawkwell. Would make sense since he sees the negative side to everything.

[the knowing] 31/8/2004 14:33

Does anyone think Biswell works for the Berlin Exchange ;-)

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 15:40

RNS Number:1423A
Matrix Communications Group PLC
25 June 2004



Matrix Communications Group plc
('Matrix' or the 'Group')

Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange Removes Unauthorized Listing


Matrix Communications Group plc is pleased to announce that following the
determined efforts of the Company and its advisors the Berlin-Bremen Stock
Exchange has removed the Group's unauthorised share listing.

Upon the emergence of the listing the Company immediately sort legal advice. The
Board recognises that the listing, which appeared without the knowledge,
approval or cooperation of the company has caused some uncertainty in the
Company's share price and would like to reassure shareholders that there was, at
no time, any trade activity conducted through the unauthorised listing.

Ian Smith, CEO, commented:

"Over the past 18 months we have transformed the Group into the UK's fastest
growing network communications integrator, building value through both organic
growth and acquisition. In everything we have done we have been acutely aware of
our responsibility to enhance shareholder value. We treat any matter that
threatens to undermine the integrity of the Group with the utmost seriousness
and will remain vigilant in responding immediately to resolve any such matter."

-Ends-

Further Information:

Ian Smith, CEO
Matrix Communications Group Plc: 01342 871 888

Andrew Tan
Hansard Communications Plc: 020 7245 1100


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END
STRFGGZVRKVGDZG



Matrix Comms.(MXC) Click for Fundamentals
Name

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 15:37

LONDON (AFX) - Matrix Communications Group PLC said the Berlin-Bremen Stock
Exchange has removed the group's unauthorised share listing.
The company said it had immediately sought legal advice after the listing
appeared without the company's prior knowledge.
It said at no time was any trade activity conducted through the unauthorised
listing.
CEO Ian Smith said: "We treat any matter that threatens to undermine the
integrity of the Group with the utmost seriousness and will remain vigilant in
responding immediately to resolve any such matter."
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[dfgo] 30/8/2004 15:35

THIS IS NOT A HOAX

click on news in ADVFN header and enter MXC.
you will see rns where MXC were delisted because they listed illegally

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 15:25

day_dreamer

They are listed

email Meridian or phone and ask them if they know they are listed on berlin
exchange THE first day trading 23/7 04


New Companies at the Unofficial Regulated Market
Find the new enterprises of the previous months in our current Newsletter
Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 ... Next Page
Listings (384) filter by companyName of Company Month Of 1st Trading Broker Country Branch Security Code No ISIN sort by first_trading_dayCompany Day Of 1st Trading Broker Country Branch Security Code No ISIN


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Security Details
Charts
Orderbook
Security Code No
ISIN Company
Broker Country
Branch Day Of 1st Trading
887293
JP3164630000 SQUARE ENIX Corp.
1162 Japan
n/a 23/07/2004

A0B8CA
US0774541066 Belden CDT Inc.
1170 USA
Electronics Assembly 23/07/2004

A0B7EF
US6412551045 Neurometrix Inc.
1170 USA
Medicine 23/07/2004

A0B52Z
AU000000AAQ9 Australis Aquaculture Ltd.
1170 Australia
Food 23/07/2004

A0B5ZR
AU000000MOG6 Moby Oil & Gas Ltd.
1170 Australia
Commodities 23/07/2004

A0B7EG
GB00B01D7F15 Meridian Petroleum Plc1170 United Kingdom
Commodities 23/07/2004

813746
HK0193012348 Capital Estate
1162 China / Hong Kong / Bermuda
Real Estate 22/07/2004

A0B69Q
US5797931004 McCormick & Schmick´s Seafood Restaurants Inc.
1170 USA
Food 22/07/2004

A0B7A9
SE0001234923 Effnet Holding
1172 Sweden
Internet 22/07/2004

A0B7D7
GB00B01S4S86 Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) plc
1170 United Kingdom
Telecommunication 22/07/2004

A0B7AA
GB00B01DW905 E2V Holdings Ltd.
1170 United Kingdom
Electronics Assembly 22/07/2004

A0B7GL
GB00B01QLV45 Premier Foods plc
1172 United Kingdom
Food 22/07/2004

A0B7KX
US45166R2040 Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc.
1170 USA
Medicine 21/07/2004

878442
TH0088010010 Padaeng Industry
1162 Thailand
Commodities 21/07/2004

A0B7ZT
ID1000098809

[shoggoth] 30/8/2004 15:04

Is this a hoax to scare people away from investing in these companies? Just a thought.

[day_dreamer] 30/8/2004 15:01

Dont suppose Vog is in there as well.

Both newly floated oil and gas companies and both seem to
have suffered a lot with their share prices on very little
selling of late.

Can anything be done to stop this ?

Gravy

[day_dreamer] 30/8/2004 14:52

You mention MRP Meridian Petroleum !

Now that would make a lot of sense because the price has
seemingly been manipulated of late but this would all make
sense now if this share was part of this scam.

Gravy

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 14:50

The Knowing
This was news letter 85
they say total number of hits 1967 Morrisons 4 up from the bottom look at the
decline in the share price from march

DFGO - 2 Jul'04 - 15:33 - 182 of 601 edit



Regulated Market
Find the new enterprises of the previous months in our newsletters
Current newsletter Newsletter No. 85, January/February 2004


Page: previous page 1 .. 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 next page Total number of hits: 1967


Company Code Country Description 1st Trading Day Broker
DATAMAT S.p.A. 580562 Italy technology 05.03.2004 1172
Eniro AB 579941 Sweden Internet 05.03.2004 1172
SNIA S.p.A. 577973 Italy chemistry 05.03.2004 1172
Wallbridge Minin 940769 Canada Diversified Minerals 05.03.2004 1170
Capio AB 578021 Sweden healthcare 05.03.2004 1172
WEDA BAY MINERAL 923959 Canada Gold Mining 05.03.2004 1170
BCA Antonveneta S.p.A. 575489 Italy bank 05.03.2004 1172
BEDE Plc. 565342 England technology 05.03.2004 1172
IPO Board.net AG 565135 Austria investments 05.03.2004 1172
Walloper Gold RE CA9329031079 Canada Medical-Whsle Drug Dist 05.03.2004 1170
EnerTAD S.P.A. 541858 Italy renewable energy 05.03.2004 1172
Metro INtern. B.S.A. 541607 Sweden publisher 05.03.2004 1172
WOLFDEN RES INC 260819 Canada Diamonds/Precious Stones 05.03.2004 1170
X-CAL RESOURCES 874540 Canada Finance-Other Services 05.03.2004 1170
Metro INtern. A.S.A. 541605 Sweden publisher 05.03.2004 1172
Solarworld AG 510840 Germany energy 05.03.2004 510840
Robert Walters Plc. 502815 England recruiter 05.03.2004 1172
Gemina S.p.A. 502726 Italy bank 05.03.2004 1172
YORBEAU RES A 872300 Canada Medical-Biomedical/Gene 05.03.2004 1170
TXT E-Solutions S.p.A. 502721 Italy Internet 05.03.2004 1172
TIGER INTERNATIO AU000000TIL3 Australia Medical-Biomedical/Gene 05.03.2004 1170
TRI ORIGIN MINER AU000000TRO8 Australia Airlines 05.03.2004 1170
USEC INC 915633 USA Computer Software 05.03.2004 1170
Compania de Minas ADR 900844 USA Gold Mining 05.03.2004 1170
401 Holdings Ltd. 157451 China transport/cargo 05.03.2004 1172
Great Northin IRN 985158 USA Medical-Drugs 05.03.2004 1170
William Morrison Supermarkets plc. 880225 Great Britain supermarkt 05.03.2004 1170
Truax Ventures C 893948 Canada Diversified Minerals 05.03.2004 1170
Trivalence Mng 911856 Canda Computer Software 05.03.2004 1170
Trio Gold Corp 885386 Canada Oil Comp-Explor&Prodtn 05.03.2004 1170




GaussFactor - 2 Jul'04 - 15:35 - 183 of 601


Enoch

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 14:38

DFGO - 2 Jul'04 - 15:38 - 184 of 601 edit

see post 182 of 182


you were listed 5/3/04

4 from bottom

you are possibly being naked shorted thats why price droping

DFGO

[dfgo] 30/8/2004 14:29

TK
I posted this on mrw thread

DFGO - 2 Jul'04 - 15:20 - 177 of 601 edit



DID YOU KNOW WILLIAM MORRISON LISTED ON GERMAN STOCK EXCHANGE




choose ABOUT US
choose NEW COMPANIES
choose LISTINGS on the right of new companies

THEN GO TO PAGE 64 SCROLL DOWN AND YOU WILL FIND THEM

150 british companies listed there 26 added since 26/6/04

Regards
DFGO
ps Suggest you email the management and ask if thy know about it

[the knowing] 29/8/2004 22:50

Stockgate" and Naked Shorting – Is it Happening Here?
by Wendy Durham 1st June 2004

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuesday 1st June 2004


Naked shorting is the sale of fictitious shares – i.e. the seller either is NOT required to make an undertaking that he can or will deliver the stock he has sold, or simply fails to deliver. This practice – thought by many to be immoral - is quite capable of bringing a blameless small company to its knees through no fault of its own, although it is fair to say that some weak organisations do cite it as an excuse for their own poor share price performance. On 1st April 2004, new regulations in the US made the practice of naked shorting just about impossible, by requiring that sellers of any stock must be able to deliver the sold shares within 2 days of settlement.

Between January and April, hundreds of US companies found themselves listed in Berlin, on the Berlin Stock Exchange, without their knowledge or consent. Why might this be?

An overview of what is being called "Stockgate" appears here:



The Financial Times had this to say:



Another of the many commentaries from the US is here:



All of these cite the "arbitrage exception" to the naked shorting rules as being a loophole which can be used now that these companies are listed on a foreign exchange. The wording of this exception – Rule 10a-1 (e)(8) is as follows: (NB – "paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section" refers to the short selling rules)

(e) The provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section (and of any exchange rule adopted in accordance with paragraph (a) of this section) shall not apply to:

(8) Any sale of a security registered on, or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on, a national securities exchange effected for a special international arbitrage account for the bona fide purpose of profiting from a current difference between the price of such security on a securities market not within or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and on a securities market subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; provided the seller at the time of such sale knows or, by virtue of information currently received, has reasonable grounds to believe that an offer enabling him to cover such sale is then available to him in such foreign securities market and intends to accept such offer immediately;

Nowhere is the actual use of this loophole spelled out – but the implication appears to be that the stock is SOLD in the domestic market, in anticipation of immediately BUYING at a lower price in the overseas market to cover the sale and make a profit from the difference in price. However, for this to be a "loophole", there must be an advantage to the US seller – thus one can speculate that if the seller then fails to purchase in the foreign market, the wording of "reasonable grounds to believe" appears to permit any number of excuses for such failure to cover the short. In the meantime, the now-naked short remains open....or is eventually settled via the stock borrow program of the US Depositary Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTC).



So what has this to do with UK listed companies?

Go first to

Choose About Us

Choose New Companies

Choose Listings

Then browse through the pages to understand the sheer scope and scale of what was done in just a few weeks during March and April 2004. Allegedly, the bulk listings began earlier than this, but I cannot find evidence of dates on the BSE's website prior to 1st March.

145 UK listed companies – largely small caps and speculative stocks – have been listed on the Berlin Exchange since 1st March. At the same time, hundreds more companies from all over the world, but mainly from the US and Canada, were also listed, largely by the same brokers - 1170 and 1172. It is notable that the majority of companies listed are small cap and/or speculative stocks, particularly the huge number of mining and exploration vehicles.

A Google search turns up very many US companies complaining bitterly that within only weeks of the effective outlawing of naked shorting in the US on 1st April, they have discovered that they are now exposed WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT to the same activity via – apparently - the arbitrage loophole. The Berlin Stock Exchange deny that the exchange is being used for naked shorting, but it is a remarkable coincidence that highly speculative US short targets, many of them already in severe trouble, suddenly end up - in their hundreds - listed on a foreign exchange within a very "short" period indeed of the ending of the practice in the US. It is a fact that one of the complainants, Goldspring, which now appears to have been removed from trading, had been listed in Berlin in late November 2003. Its price experienced a fairly volatile rollercoaster ride, from 0.45 Euros in November to approximately 0.8 Euros by mid-Feb. On 1st April the price in Berlin was 0.7 Euros, but immediately began to fall sharply, and by early May, when Goldspring requested the removal of their listing, the price was down to 0.4 Euros. Interestingly, no volume AT ALL was recorded for the stock during the entire period of its listing – a common feature of the recently listed US and UK stocks. There is virtually NO trading going on in Berlin in the shares of these companies. Which once again raises the question: why were they listed?

Are UK companies also being targeted via a similar route?

Of small cap UK companies that have suffered recently, Bioprogress and Proteome Sciences spring to mind. Both have halved from recent highs, partly due, it has been thought, to organised shorting by hedge funds intent on destabilising a substantial margin trade position to bring the stocks ever lower

Proteome Sciences (PRM.BE) has been listed on the Berlin Stock Exchange since Autumn 2000. Bioprogress – as discovered by a sharpeyed ADFVN bulletin board poster known as "Scram" - was listed on 21 April 2004 (BPRG.BE). Both companies are known in the US through an earlier listing on the OTCBB in the case of BPRG, and commercial relationships in the case of PRM. On 1st April – the day from which the focus of US naked shorters was switched to stocks listed in Berlin - Proteome was standing at £1.90 per share, having reached £2.30 on an earlier high, and had been trading steadily for the previous month in the £2.10 - £1.90 range. Bioprogress had come off an earlier unsustainable high at £1.60 to a 6-week trading range of £1.00 - £1.20.

On 1st April, Proteome Sciences' share price began to fall sharply and by 28th April had reached 90p.

On 29th April, just 8 days after listing in Berlin, Bioprogress began a rapid descent to 75p by 14th May .

Neither have recovered more than a fraction of their earlier highs.

Coincidence?

Perhaps – but perhaps not.

Many companies have had a hard time of it during April and May, which has been put down to poor market conditions, macroeconomic effects throughout the world, and general underperformance. In the particular cases of Bioprogress and Proteome, traders were becoming increasingly nervous as expected commercial deals failed to materialise.

However, six other UK companies were listed in Berlin on the same day as Bioprogress – 21st April. Their short term charts make interesting reading:

Regal Petroleum – share price declined from 10 May

Pipex Comms – share price began a decline at the end of March, which has steepened since 29 April.

RAB Capital – share price commenced a decline on 20 April, corrected a little on 26 April, but resumed an overall downtrend on 28th

African Gold – share price decline commenced 22 April, flattened off from 26 April – 6 May, and then resumed the downtrend.

Oystertec – follows a similar pattern to Pipex, though the price has since recovered

ASK Central – the company was under offer, which became conditional in early May – hence there was no share price effect.

Several more UK companies were listed on 28 April. Of these:

Supercart's price – already in decline from 54p to 36p – fell to 23p between 29 April and 20 May.

Visonic, after two weeks of trading sideways, commenced falling sharply on 30 April

Omega Int began to fall from £1.23 on 4 May to £1.04 by 20 May

The charts of two more companies listed on that day, Dignity and Polaron, show them to have been good short candidates. Dignity had experienced a sharp rise – and Polaron appeared to be rapidly declining. However, neither appeared to have suffered ill-effects after their Berlin listing.

Another group of UK companies were listed in Berlin on 1 March 2004. A review of their charts is even more interesting! The companies involved are Golden Prospect, Gold Mines of Sardinia, Glencar Mining, Eurasia Mining, Avocet Mining, Randgold, African Eagle, Oxus Gold, Griffin Mining and Tertiary Minerals. It is worth noting that most of the UK companies listed since 1 March are highly speculative, many illiquid, and several were already excellent short candidates. In fact, one has to wonder why this relative handful of 145 companies have been added at all, if it were not for the fact that most of them, at some point, will be or have been first rate shorts.

All the above looks at only a few of the UK companies listed in Berlin during the last 3 months, and any evidence that they are being targeted by naked shorters is purely circumstantial. However, the charts and the general absence of any trading in these stocks on the Berlin Exchange do appear to be telling a story.

It is clear that there are many more UK companies enjoying a Berlin listing, in addition to the 145 that have been listed since 1st March this year. A random input of various UK tickers, particularly those of speculative stocks, into the Berlin Exchange's search facility turns up a result in many cases. Some will no doubt have chosen to be listed there – others may as yet be unaware. How many more of these older listings are now increasingly vulnerable to a shorting community focused on the Berlin exchange? Proteome Sciences might be a salutary example.

Finally - could it be that the "generally poor market conditions" which have been given as a reason for sliding prices in many UK listed smallcap and speculative stocks have been a symptom rather than a cause?

Wendy Durham 1st June 2004

[spights] 27/8/2004 12:43

The knowing.... can you print the list ...on the Berlin Bourse ...

[the knowing] 27/8/2004 12:24

on the PRM bb Mashman posted this link.



Makes interesting reading and also has some good links to Berlin Bourse.

[jonck] 27/8/2004 11:07

Thanks Spights - problem is only half the article has been copied above so it is easy to lose the comtext - now I have read the full item and know where it has come from it reads quite differently.
By the way, have not seen you in Bj's Pub for some time, Pop in any time there is always a drink on the bar for you (on Jak's tab of course!!!).

[dfgo] 27/8/2004 09:58

meridian oil
virgin mobile

[the knowing] 27/8/2004 09:53

Got it through the search engine thanks.

Seen

THUS
PXC
ISYS

[dfgo] 27/8/2004 09:51

The Knowing

the latest listing are on the page where you click listing 309 off them

[dfgo] 27/8/2004 09:04

The Knowing



Click English version up on right handside.

then click about us.

then click new companies.

on the left next to filing companies click listings.

the page that comes up should show google listed on it.

to continue click page numbers above.

Regards
DFGO

[the knowing] 27/8/2004 08:55

DFGO

Post the link to the list please