Here’s another excerpt from the story above ; …Dunkley has...

Here’s another excerpt from the story above ;

…Dunkley has posted more than 300 times on HotCopper as either GoldatWidgie or Lenin. After being contacted by The Australian Financial Review, Dunkley confirmed he was both users. “You are not required to disclose your identity [on HotCopper] nor limit yourself to one identity. I suspect that many have more than one handle,” he wrote on HotCopper.​

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing. HotCopper, in fact, has been a hotbed of small-cap and micro-cap spruiking. On rare occasions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pursued spruikers, largely when it suspects them of market manipulation through so-called pump-and-dump activities – selling a stock after pushing the price higher…​

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….Auric managing director Mark English said Dunkley’s online double act was “the world’s biggest storm in a teacup”. “All sorts of people post under all sorts of pseudonyms. Ross has always disclosed his financial interests on every post that he has made,” English told the Financial Review.​

While GoldatWidgie – a reference to Widgiemooltha, one of Auric’s operations – has been bullish about the company’s outlook, shares have slumped 40 per cent since the start of the year despite the price of gold reaching record highs and lifting stocks across the sector. …​

More things that make you go ‘hmmmmm’.