Sean K
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Golly, 30 could really be on the cards here. Seen a couple of big sells go through recently, one today pushing it down. Must be either people not believing, or needing cash, or expecting other opportunites. Or, maybe just a flight to safety with the speculative end of the markets caving in...
I'd have to revisit this around 30....
Opes Client A's missing millions
Michael West
April 12, 2008 - 10:52AM
There's an old City saying that the stockmarket goes up by the stairs and down by the lift. The metaphor turned reality on Friday as the implosion of margin lender Lift Capital smacked an even larger client base than has Opes Prime.
The attention of clients and their lawyers will soon turn to referrals, that is, the liability of financial planners and brokers who advised their clients to borrow from Lift, and sign over their shares in the process.
Before we get to the latest on Lift though, there are some rather stunning developments breaking in the Opes saga.
It appears that mining entrepreneur Norm Seckold set in train the demise of the prime broker on March 10 when he called for his $100 million of stock back - and Opes couldn't deliver.
Where is it? Seckold hasn't got a clue. The director of Bolnisi Gold, King's Minerals, Cockatoo and Planet Gas had become nervous in early March as Tricom was toppling and tried to get out of Opes.
He still has $15 million of stock missing. It seems Seckold is the mysterious "Client A'' mentioned in Melbourne Federal Court documents whose assets were transfered to the British Virgin Islands company.
This company has been led about by some of the most incompetent criminals on the planet!!!
No wonder us mug punters, investing on misinformation, have NO hope.
It's perhaps why the sp has been heading south for a year too!!!
This company has been led about by some of the most incompetent criminals on the planet!!!
No wonder us mug punters, investing on misinformation, have NO hope.
It's perhaps why the sp has been heading south for a year too!!!
Once you have built up a portfolio of shares a 10% rule is a good one too. I have a little over 15% of my shares in KMN which is rather annoying because it has left me exposed but I'll grin and bare it for the moment.
Well, I take it back about the 'criminal' comment. My reading of this is that Norm has pretty much done the right thing, apart from not paying the orignal load back in a more timely manner. Although, you could say that he was trying to take a shortcut to converting the options and shouldn't have put himself in the position in the first place. Just how those shares were 'lost' though must make you wonder.The $15m "lost" shares, are 3.5m CXC shares that weren't returned to Seckhold after he paid out his margin loan before Opes went bust. Hence Seckhold is suing as he's not unsecured creditor with no title to the shares, they should have been returned.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23534545-601,00.html
If TA and S&R has any merits then you'd expect 30 to be close to the bottom, maybe 20. See chart above, not much has changed. However, perhaps in this environment, 'probabilities' count for zip.Glad to hear my dark suspicions that Norm was loaning his shares out proved to be wrong in light of the facts
Now hoping my top up @ 0.30 of a week ago is close to the low.
But I don't see this as a reason for a 40% jump over 2 trading days and over 18 mill vol. Ah well ignorance is bliss
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