Jtc Share Discussion Threads

[mroalan] 31/1/2021 11:38

Pension fund Equitix has added its voice to calls for ministers to help prop up the struggling cross-channel Eurostar service.

The fund is one of the joint owners of HS1, the high-speed rail line linking London to the Channel Tunnel, which depends on the Eurostar for about a third of its revenues.



Panic setting in? mro.

[sunshine today] 31/1/2021 09:41

If you want a stab at beating the market, start with low cap companies, with a real business and cash on the books.

Unlike a short, the maximum you can lose, is your original investment.

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My research, and independent sources.

LSAI 0.78P Mid

1/ Tiny market capitalisation, just £4.6M , of that , Net cash £1.2M.

2/ Analyst , two months ago , projected medium term, annual revenues of $50M .



3/ LSAI company presentations, 80% margins on verify software.
( Found on LSAI company, investor page.)

4/ Based on a reasonable growth PE of 20 , that would equate to LSAI having a Market capitalisation of over £500M. ( 100 times plus , current share price )

4/ £19M unused tax loss

5/ New report 2021, from LSAI client, (InMarket) , with annual $100 revenues ( 2nd from last paragraph)

We’re The First And Only Company To Offer Certified Location Audience Data: InMarket is the first
and only company in the industry to offer certified Location Audience data, third-party verified for data
accuracy and precision by the industry leader Location Sciences. Location Certified audiences build trust
and allow brands to buy with confidence, knowing an independent third-party review has assured the
precision and accuracy of the chosen audience.



2nd from last paragraph from the report.

5/ Finally: About Location Sciences Group PLC: (LSAI)

Location Sciences is the pre-eminent global location verification provider to the $160 billion digital advertising industry. Working in partnership with brands, media agencies and suppliers to reduce ad-wastage and improve the effectiveness of location-based advertising campaigns.

The digital advertising market-place remains unregulated and un-monitored, with an estimated $19 billion wasted on ad-fraud in 2018. Location Sciences has developed Verify, the world's first independent location verification product. Utilising sophisticated machine learning and pattern recognition technologies, Verify detects location ad-fraud and shines a light on location data inaccuracy with the aim of bringing back integrity, transparency and trust to the market place

[chestnuts] 31/1/2021 09:39

Jailbird

In Japan the housing market fell when interest rates dropped, and fell 80% with very low interest rates, when values get ridiculous which they have the market does correct,

also we have had a massive housing building, and just lately we have had 1.5million immigrants leave the Uk since August,

and when people tell me theres an housing shortage where are all the people who are not housed at, what we have is a housing market which is owned by the buy to lets which as squeezed the housing market a bit like Gameshop

[jailbird] 31/1/2021 09:15

Lefrene Can you say why you think that Couple of my thoughts .1) interest rates would have to rise. This could cause catastrophic collapse of housing market , repossessions etc . Government surely will not allow that to happen We have been talking about inflation for years but not happening .2. mass unemployment . The pandemic has been supported by furlough. It look like the government is hoping vaccines will reopen the internal economy , allowing them to end furlough .Do will we see mass employment large enough that will impact housing market .I am not sure of either happening in the near term . The economy is already fragile and cannot take any major shock . Government will keep supporting as the stigma with printing money has disappeared . The money tree is being shaked freely for now .I see a mini boom over the next 2 to 3 years for countries who reopen their economies . After that I am not sure what will happen .

[7kiwi] 30/1/2021 23:23

What are the WSB crowd going to do to silver?

[maxk] 30/1/2021 18:56

No no, it's different this time..

[chestnuts] 30/1/2021 18:56

Lef

I agree completely about a property slump , i feel sorry for the young kids who have these giant mortgages ie £250k with just joint incomes of £50k, i know a few of these young couples and when i ask them what happens when interest rates go to 10% and there house is only worth £100K from £250k they just say it will never happen. As the advice they have been given is interest rates will stay low for yrs, Well we will have to see if this happens.

[lefrene] 30/1/2021 18:38

chestnuts, Broon couldn't run a sweet shop. He took over an economy strongly recovering from the fall out of the 1988 bubble to 1995 property slump, and set about creating yet another property bubble. They had to prop things up in 2008 since the capital of the middle classes would have been wiped out by another crash. In the USA it's mostly possible to walk away from a mortgage by just handing the keys back to the lender. But in the UK any debt not repaid by the sale of a repossessed house, remains an albatross around the neck of the former mortgagee. Hence the 90's slump dragged on for so long. In my view we are now again on the cusp of yet another property horror story.

[jailbird] 30/1/2021 18:27

Filtered , another one part of the ramping penny trading group

[fireplace22] 30/1/2021 12:56

Tony Manini, of Asiamet notoriety perhaps?

[the chairman elect] 30/1/2021 12:53

TSXv:CCCM

LSE:ARS

Ref: Tony Manini of Asia Met fame other copper play namely C3 Metals / TSXv:CCCM



CAD$4M has now been uplifted to CAD$6.5M which is extremely positive especially as there is a major drilling campaign about to start at the highly exciting copper play at Jasperoide in Peru.

[mroalan] 30/1/2021 08:54

India Plans to Introduce Legislation to Ban Cryptocurrencies
By Pratik Parija and Bibhudatta Pradhan
January 30, 2021, 7:06 AM GMT

[spittingbarrel] 30/1/2021 08:00

Banning naked shorting is a ridiculous idea, how would market makers be able to make a two way price?

[chestnuts] 29/1/2021 23:34

7Kiwi

It was on BBc news tonite that they have now retracted the statement, but the damage as been done, they were worried that vaccines would be smuggled through northern Ireland to England and Scotland, so it looks like the Uk is not going to get any more pfizer vaccine, so i wonder if the Uk government will block any vaccines going to europe when we have had our quota.

[7kiwi] 29/1/2021 22:48

EU threatening to erect a hard border for vaccines between EU and NI.



More and more like the Mafia every day.

[che7win] 29/1/2021 21:07

So the EU are now imposing a hard border on the island of Ireland. After all their protestations during the trade deal negotiations, the EU are responsible for tearing up the agreement negotiated less than one month ago, and all to cover up their own failings. DISGRACEFUL.

[lefrene] 29/1/2021 17:41

chestnuts, I agree, the markets should be left to sort themselves out, but of course the big merchant banks have caused such huge problems in the past, that the State has had to step in time and again, to protect the real economy from being devastated by these gamblers of other people's money. What has happened is socialism for merchant banks!

Just make it a criminal offence to gamble with other peoples money. There must be a host of Bernie Madoff's out there who never get to feel the consequences of what their recklessness has done.

[mroalan] 29/1/2021 17:15

As part of its plot to block vaccine exports to the UK, the EU has invoked Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol. This has effectively removed Northern Ireland from the EU’s customs. In plain English, Article 16, the so-called safeguard clause, allows both the EU and the UK to unilaterally suspend part of the Northern Ireland Protocol (which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU’s customs territory) in specific circumstances.

[7kiwi] 29/1/2021 17:15

It's not just naked shorts.

If you buy a put option, that's out of the money, the broker probably won't sell the underlying to square his book. But if it starts to move close to or into the money, the broker will probably have to sell some underlying to square their book, but maybe not all of the position. But if the put options sold are greater than the float, then you have more short than physical shares available.

It ought to be quite easy to:

1) Ban naked shorting altogether
2) Limit the total amount of shares sold short (after being borrowed) plus put options sold to say 15% of the float.

That would avoid most of these problems. That and decent risk management in the hedge funds. What were they thinking? It's not as if it's a new phenomenon, look at what happened to VW shares about 10 years ago. The risk managers should be sacked and the traders who built up these stupid positions.

[chestnuts] 29/1/2021 17:10

Lefrene

Gameshop

What should happen the government should mind their own business and let the market sort itself out ie hedge funds get burnt, if they do some thing it will prove that the usa is just a corrupt government. If you short any thing you take the chance of losing everything,

One thing the government should do is to see who is naked short and fine them and make them close the position, and also put the hedge fund managers in prison for a little while to stop this, Then point this out to the directors of Morgan Stanley who suppose to have a very large short position in Silver.

[alphorn] 29/1/2021 16:51

lef - a good article on naked shorts updated this month. Worth a quick scan. It should not happen - so any indication of it must be investigated.

"What Is Naked Shorting

Naked shorting is the illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. Ordinarily, traders must borrow a stock, or determine that it can be borrowed, before they sell it short. So naked shorting refers to short pressure on a stock that may be larger than the tradable shares in the market. Despite being made illegal after the 2008–09 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems.

Key Takeaways:

- Naked shorting is the now-illegal practice of selling short shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist.

- Ordinarily, traders must first borrow a stock or determine that it can be borrowed before they sell it short.

- Due to various loopholes in the rules, and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems, naked shorting continues to happen.

- Although controversial, some believe naked shorting plays an important and positive market role in price discovery.

Understanding Naked Shorting:

Naked shorting takes place when investors sell shorts associated with shares that they do not possess and have not confirmed their ability to possess. If the trade associated with the short needs to take place in order to fulfill the obligations of the position, then the trade may fail to complete within the required clearing time because the seller does not actually have access to the shares. The technique has a very high risk level but has the potential to yield high rewards.

While no exact system of measurement exists, many systems point to the level of trades that fail to deliver from the seller to the buyer within the mandatory three-day stock settlement period as evidence of naked shorting. Naked shorts are believed to represent a major portion of these failed trades".

[mroalan] 29/1/2021 16:19

GO to 56 mins in re countries having to register for VAT then deduct same and forward to HMRC looks complicated lots of CO,s just won,t bother.mro.

[the chairman elect] 29/1/2021 14:48

Yes BITCOIN going mental - also of course bodes well for Canadian listed BITCOIN MINING & BLOCKCHAIN player BlockchainK2 ticker TSXv:BITK

[lefrene] 29/1/2021 14:16

Alp, that's the stand off. As I understand it the Reddit crowd intend to hold their shares, thus there are none available to close the shorts, thus the shorters who need to close have to pay a high price to get them. But since the little guys can't be allowed to win, I presume some device will be invented to allow the short positions to be rolled forward. Ultimately yes a holder could get burnt, but as I understand it with Gameshop there are considerably more short positions than shares in existence!