And the FTAV chart quiz winner isn’t . . .

CommunitySlacker · 2026-03-09T10:57:42+00:00

The quiz last week aimed to be easier but ended up being impossible. Answers revealed that Surface Transforms faced a significant revenue loss, while VKOSPI and Japan's vending machine count added to the quiz's difficulty.

CommunitySlacker

2026-03-09 10:57:42

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What with everything happening everywhere, we thought it would be nice to give you a break and make last week’s chart quiz easier than usual. Unfortunately, we messed up and made it impossible. Sorry.

Here are the answers no one got.

Chart One is Surface Transforms. The UK small-cap maker of carbon-ceramic brake discs said last week that General Motors had terminated a contract that accounted for nearly all its revenues. All sorts of media covered the share price collapse, from the Daily Mail to the Liverpool Echo, so we didn’t think this was too challenging.

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Chart Two is VKOSPI, the Kospi 200 Volatility Index, aka the Korean VIX. This would be fairly difficult unless you read last week’s newsletter, which included a version of the chart halfway through.

Chart Three is the Japan Vending System Manufacturers Association’s count of vending machines operational in Japan — and honestly, we can’t apologise enough. There was a reason to think this would be an easy spot; we just can’t tell you what it is yet.

Louis is in charge of this week’s quiz. Expect fewer apologies and more competency.

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