wrightster Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I'll have to check on figures but in HMV,DES,BT & RRL at the mo, waiting for LLOY & RBS to drop again to buy in and keeping my eye on TW & HAWK. Just bought 84,000 RRL shares. There's a "drink" for you when they reach 5p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 I'll have to check on figures but in HMV,DES,BT & RRL at the mo, waiting for LLOY & RBS to drop again to buy in and keeping my eye on TW & HAWK. Just bought 84,000 RRL shares. There's a "drink" for you when they reach 5p Don't hold your breath. 10% down since purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrightster Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 thats nothing thats just intraday movements, i bought higher than you and bought in the recent rights issue, "IF" they hit the big time a 10% drop is not a concern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted March 15, 2010 Author Share Posted March 15, 2010 "IF" they hit the big time a 10% drop is not a concern. if a bull had tits it would be a cow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 I would be interested in this, i use the free pro real time charting which a guy from LSE set me up with. Can those who have expressed an interest then post what stock they have, their average buy price and current price and what they intend to do in the future. Also, any tips which you haven't bought and are tracking. MNR. Average buy 71.5. Now at 82.25. Holding until they let Walbrook in the City. Hoping for 150 within 12 months. MML. Average buy 208. Now at 231. Holding whilst the Chinese keep on buying gold. Exit point 300? CEY. Average buy 106. Now 127. Gold again so same strategy as above. Exit point 180? LSL. Average buy 271. Now 277. Have contacts in company so knew about buy-out of Halifax. Sold at 310 and re-entered 40 points lower. Chairman VERY bullish about 400 + in next 12 months. Biggest mistake? Bought RMV at 200 a year ago, sold at 280 last summer. Stock now 600. Could have made £20k + Also, not buying GKP before they went mental and became a 12-bagger (went from 10 to 120 from July to October last year) Not tracking anything as the price of a decent Boxster tied up in MNR and therefore spend a lot of time on the toilet........ No need for toilet today!! MNR hit 105 on rumours of letting their prestige building (Walbrook) in the City to Lloyds or Bloomberg. Strong talk of £2 so anybody with some spare cash ought to bung some of their 2010/2011£10,200 ISA allowance in to this one IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris84 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 I use iii.co.uk but I don't go for the spreadbetting or any of the other CFDs. I find spreadbetting to be much the same as a share tracking bank account. CFDs are dangerous, they allow you to play with large value shares with you only having to put down part of the money. It lets you play with money you don't have so if you can only afford say £1000 they would let you deal in over £10000 worth of shares. If those shares lost more than 10% you would lose all your investment plus end up oweing the share broker the difference, BAD idea. I just deal with what I have. I hold safe (more safe than other) and risky shares to the ratio of about 5:1 Currently holding: BP from £5.76 now £6.32 VOD from £1.38 now £1.51 SBRY from £1.30 now £1.32 CW (work for this company so they give me one share for every share I buy) from £various now £0.92 - company split a week ago so now own CWC as well ROC from £0.07 now £0.32 VOG from £0.052 now £0.043 Some profits in there. Plus most paying dividends with a yield above what I would get in the bank (6-9%) Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, you can make upto £10k profit from shares in a tax year without paying any capitol gains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 I would be interested in this, i use the free pro real time charting which a guy from LSE set me up with. Can those who have expressed an interest then post what stock they have, their average buy price and current price and what they intend to do in the future. Also, any tips which you haven't bought and are tracking. MNR. Average buy 71.5. Now at 82.25. Holding until they let Walbrook in the City. Hoping for 150 within 12 months. MML. Average buy 208. Now at 231. Holding whilst the Chinese keep on buying gold. Exit point 300? CEY. Average buy 106. Now 127. Gold again so same strategy as above. Exit point 180? LSL. Average buy 271. Now 277. Have contacts in company so knew about buy-out of Halifax. Sold at 310 and re-entered 40 points lower. Chairman VERY bullish about 400 + in next 12 months. Biggest mistake? Bought RMV at 200 a year ago, sold at 280 last summer. Stock now 600. Could have made £20k + Also, not buying GKP before they went mental and became a 12-bagger (went from 10 to 120 from July to October last year) Not tracking anything as the price of a decent Boxster tied up in MNR and therefore spend a lot of time on the toilet........ Hope some of you guys took some of these tips. MNR now 121 - up 72% CEY now 138 - up 31% LSL now 298 - up 9% MML now 266 - up 28% Latest tip - MERE - but get in today as news is imminent on the sale/let of a prestigious building they own in Zurich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 I use iii.co.uk but I don't go for the spreadbetting or any of the other CFDs. I find spreadbetting to be much the same as a share tracking bank account. CFDs are dangerous, they allow you to play with large value shares with you only having to put down part of the money. It lets you play with money you don't have so if you can only afford say £1000 they would let you deal in over £10000 worth of shares. If those shares lost more than 10% you would lose all your investment plus end up oweing the share broker the difference, BAD idea. I just deal with what I have. I hold safe (more safe than other) and risky shares to the ratio of about 5:1 Currently holding: BP from £5.76 now £6.32 VOD from £1.38 now £1.51 SBRY from £1.30 now £1.32 CW (work for this company so they give me one share for every share I buy) from £various now £0.92 - company split a week ago so now own CWC as well ROC from £0.07 now £0.32 VOG from £0.052 now £0.043 Some profits in there. Plus most paying dividends with a yield above what I would get in the bank (6-9%) Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, you can make upto £10k profit from shares in a tax year without paying any capitol gains You can make as much profit as you like and pay NO tax if you trade in a stocks and shares ISA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 72% I need to start my spreadbetting soon Need some advice on how to do it as safe as possible though... have been burnt by the bloody 'hit warrants' a 10 year ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 72% I need to start my spreadbetting soon Need some advice on how to do it as safe as possible though... have been burnt by the bloody 'hit warrants' a 10 year ago... Don't know anything about spreadbetting. Sorry. I also know NOTHING about shares other than what I've read on forums over last 12 months. It's a bit of luck and intuition I suppose and maybe picking markets (property for instance) that I know a little about. PS - MERE up 14% in last 48 hours. News of the Zurich building may have been leaked to traders but nothing released to the stock market yet. Lots of talk of 200 price (currently 131) within 12 months but again, it could be 50 and you lose thousands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 72% I need to start my spreadbetting soon Need some advice on how to do it as safe as possible though... have been burnt by the bloody 'hit warrants' a 10 year ago... Don't know anything about spreadbetting. Sorry. I also know NOTHING about shares other than what I've read on forums over last 12 months. It's a bit of luck and intuition I suppose and maybe picking markets (property for instance) that I know a little about. PS - MERE up 14% in last 48 hours. News of the Zurich building may have been leaked to traders but nothing released to the stock market yet. Lots of talk of 200 price (currently 131) within 12 months but again, it could be 50 and you lose thousands. thats it, if you understand gain and loss and then bundle in a bit of risk there you know that you can loose but also win. At least you make your own decision instead of some junior handling your fund monies... Fair play to you What forum do you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 www.iii.co.uk www.lse.co.uk www.shareprice.co.uk www.thisismoney.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Is this affecting things at all? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/w​ireStory?id=10380019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Is this affecting things at all? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/w​ireStory?id=10380019 Page unavailable?? What was the story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/iceland-volcano-grounds-air-traffic-10380699 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/iceland-volcano-grounds-air-traffic-10380699 Not really. FTSE up 0.6% today. 4 of my 6 stocks are down today but 2 are gold miners in Africa/Phillipines, 2 are UK retail and commercial property companies, 1 is a European property company and 1 is an Australian oil/gas company. There is no logic usually. When a big firm announces "record profits" or "increased turnover" (somewhere around 7:00am on any given day) the share price more often than not falls on opening at 08:00. Most "news" has been leaked days and weeks before and the "announcement" is usually factored in prior to it being made public. A good example is the tip I gave on MERE. I heard 2 days ago that they were about to complete on the sale of IZD Tower and the price has risen from 115 to 140 on rumours so when it is announced as "news" it may jump a bit more but it may fall as the profiteers who bought on the rumour sell for a quick buck. Catching these waves, and having a job that allows you to do this, is the key to short-term trading. I don't have a strategy just ride the waves................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Good man... used information from forum gossip with pretty good success in the past... not sure it's legal to spread them though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Good man... used information from forum gossip with pretty good success in the past... not sure it's legal to spread them though! Arrest me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Good man... used information from forum gossip with pretty good success in the past... not sure it's legal to spread them though! Arrest me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 this volcano incident must see some effect on the stockmarket... train and boat services are up and flights down to nill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 this volcano incident must see some effect on the stockmarket... train and boat services are up and flights down to nill... It has had an effect on them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARphotographs Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Always been interested in buying stocks, but never sure where to start. Any websites you can advise where to read up to get an understanding of everything? What is the best way to start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andlid Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Always been interested in buying stocks, but never sure where to start. Any websites you can advise where to read up to get an understanding of everything? What is the best way to start? Well I'm using spread betting so not buying the share itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_betting Look at those links posted in the thread they are pretty good, then you need to decide where to trade from (broker). Quick tip, don't invest any money you cannot afford to loose. A good while back I started with fonds got pretty bored quickly and moved onto shares that bored me too pretty quickly and you need a big investment to start off with to see any big gains so moved from that onto stock options and from there warrants and then concluded with me melting myself with hit warrants You need to have some sort of interest in reading the business news I'd say and soon enough with a bit of trading you get a feel for what's what. I used a broker in Sweden a good while back but for the UK market I've got no experience in brokers and can't advice you where to turn. CMC markets does exist in the UK and they had a pretty good help guides on their webpage and offer some sort of startup pack once you register with them. http://www2.cmcmarkets.co.uk/en/content/education.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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