Monday the 8th of April was the start of the new financial year - hence significant ISA buying and Bed & ISA transferring was to be expected. But what actually happened - let's take a look... Monday , 8th April 2019 The first manual Bed & ISA trade pairs were...

The first day of the new tax year led to unprecedented numbers of Bed&ISA trades being executed. To the uninitiated these may have all looked like sells, being pinned to the advertised Bid price, so as to yield the largest possible transfer of shares into the tax-free ISA wrapper. Monday...

Following the removal of an unhelpful element yesterday and despite a number of LSE outages we bravely struggle on. Wednesday , 20th Mar 2019 Yet again we see a large excess of sells before 9am:- Yet again they contain multiple 30K Sells within seconds of one another. Yet again the SP...

Following a clear attack of the verbally incontinent a significant section of the LSE community has requested that I undertake a trade analysis today. More than happy to oblige. Monday , 19th Mar 2019 The very large excess of sells before 9am is rather notable:- The patterns of large sells...

Following a significant recovery after what appeared to be a short-induced base of 32p two weeks ago we see sustained price stability despite the presence of rather low trading volumes. Monday , 4th Mar 2019 An early 50K Sell bashed the SP down a little but the damage was not...

Following a significant recovery in the previous week from what appeared to be a short-induced base of 32p we looked forward to see what might arise this week - would the recovery continue, or might further shorting or selling occur ? Monday , 25th Feb 2019 Three 100K Sells before...

As this week has been rather busy, and there is a clear suggestion of shorting behaviour why don't we do a little light trade analysis ? Monday , 4th Feb 2019 1.11M Buys vs 1.07M Sells - A degree of recovery towards 40p. Roughly 600K of >30K+ Buys and 630K...

9:01AM It is important to show the picture as it appears at this point in time - just in case, of course that large Buys between 8:00 and 8:41 may have been hidden from us....

End of Day Rather hockey-stick like. A slowish start with fairly balanced and quiet trading before 10am. Then things seemed to kick on a little - with a number of 50K and 100K sized trades up to 11:15AM. These don't seem to change the balance of trading or the trade...

End of Day After Friday's misleadingly low end day auction price of 37.60p it is hardly surprising that the SP ticked up very soon after opening, this despite a 99,999 trade in the opening auction at 37.50p. We've marked this as a Sell however it is not clear that Market...

End of Day A similar kind of pattern to previous days - many more individual Buy trades (118) than Sells (40) with a general excess of Buys intermittently being accommodated by 50K or 100K Sells. On tuesday, and yesterday afternoon these had come as organised groupings suggestive of short selling...

End of Day Static Bid and Ask for the first couple of hours though the price that you would have to pay for a Buy varies by quite a lot. Although not by quite as much as the extreme outlier at 39.5p (50 shares at 8:50:17) might have you try...

12:50PM Ohh goody something to get our teeth into at last. After an 'interesting' opening auction trade of 50,001 shares at 39.60p which I have conservatively marked as a sell we have a few minutes of quiet and then at 8:06AM the first of a series of 50K Sells. another...

End of Day Almost instantaneous walkdown - in line with the previous day's behaviour. A couple of mid sized (50K-100K) Buys before 9AM helped lift the nett trade position to around +300K, where it stayed until about 1PM. At this point a serious of mid and large (>100K) sized Buys...

End of Day So ... strong buying from the start pushes the nett trade position up to +500K and the price paid for shares up to 43.4p. Just before 9AM the first real Sells come in - a 50K sell then a few very small PI Sells and then two...

End of Day In contrast to the relative calm of the previous 3 days today was a lot more exciting. Strong buying before 9 am pushed the nett trading position positive, as usual, which drew out a 100K and then 150K Sell before 11AM. Just before noon things stepped up...

End of Day Relatively quiet, like yesterday. No Bed & ISA's today - nothing is fixed to the Bid line and trade balance is close to neutrality. Well, until 3:18PM that is... when there is a sequence of trades at 41.5p, a long way above the actual Buy price that...

End of Day Relatively quiet and balanced trading today. Perhaps the calm before the storm. 1,062K Buys vs 947K Sells with balanced MM trading pretty much throughout the day despite a number of trades of 100K or over (3 Buys vs 4 Sells). Large trades at 715K Buys vs 566...

End of Day Very similar behaviour to that observed in the last week - a clear excess of Buys and the SP basically moves sideways. There's a brief walk up the morning and if you were quick you could have sold at 41.2p - and following a classic Bed &...

End of Day Yesterday I wrote: "Same again as yesterday - a clear excess of Buys and yet the price still gets walked down... Total volume only 1.3M of which 844K are Buys and 464K are Sells - an excess of 380K more Buys than Sells. One day closer to...