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waiting for 258p before a rise. am i dreaming?
No, I'm not Mike, was about to by 5000 Hoil on Thurs morning at 2.85, then MD of my company walked in so i quickly exited pc and did the full 'visit' thing thus never got round to buying, saw they were 3.25 when i looked this morning. I hope you managed to buy back and profit - doh - lol - to add insult to injury they then told me there were no pay rises this year! - i thought that was just public sector!!!
Support 172, Resistance 179 Hope all is well with everyone
I have Smiths news on my watchlist also, makes me think of the housebuilder sector a few months back when Barratt and co all lost about 25% of share value, then bounced back in around a month, very much hoping this is the case with Smiths, TNI and el. I think TNI is possibly one of the few shares currently where TA will apply (rather than Events), have a you got a current support/resistance level on your charts? Personally I think theres one more horror to come from Japan yet and we could see 5400/5500. But thats just a very personal gut feeling. they do seem to be clutching at straws in trying to cool those reactors. As for Prty, when do you plan to buy next, last week in March or first week April. and did i read somewhere that the shares get suspended for three days whilst the merger completes? Bob
good for you :) I am waiting for LLOY and TNI to see how they will behave tomorrow, its still a bit dangerous so i prefer to wait with what i have than buy in. Definitely VED makes me happy today, tni as well as its bouncing from that 46-47p level. TNI: Vol Sold 184,517 Vol Bought 201,011 Turning into some positive volume lately. While the party caught up as well it was 1:2 buys:sells at noon STAN is impressive today but it took some big hits lately i think STAN is keeping the bank sector alive today.
Well i am certainly a lot happier, all my portfolio is now blue again apart from TNI. lets hope we get some stability back in the market and of course give TNI a kick up the back side :) I tend to agree about the lloyds thing it has not moved at all yet. still i wont be to unhappy if some of my other stocks mature first as i can then jump in there too
mecom and smith news on the rise, mecom about 6%, tni as well ,is the news sector in favour? Party still nowhere, WIN nice move, TNI seems have bottomed. Bank sector still not convinced it will hold, ftse 1.5% up and banks barely on the blue?
hey mate, i still believe this is a buying opportunity but as you know it is never that easy to predict the markets. stick to your rules and risk management strategy. i have 2 tranches between 59-60 in lloyds. two more orders set at 58p and 55.5p just incase. would have no more funds to burn if we go lower than 55 really. focusing on lloyds and kaz atm. still have some TNI at . . . . 64! lol
in very much the same position as Ivaylo, my main problem is margin, great buying opportunities, but i need to keep my margin in the account to support any further falls, particularly with lloyds, especially if we do see 54/55p ish. although its still holding well at present. However if this melt down occurs then we will see another 2-300 points coming off ftse. Been watching a lot of 'doomberg' last few days and they've had some great guests on. Chap last night confirmed that with natural disasters there is normally a fast rebound, although he said due to magnitude this would be slightly more protracted. Cita group chief economist this morning stated similar. Barclays capital and a few others feel markets now gone too low But as the cita bloke said, the market panics and factors in the worst possible outcome. So it really is how these reactors develop, personally i'm hoping they cool as my sister has lived out there for 14 years teaching the very poorest of children, although 300 miles from current infected area, but god knows how far it will effect if a meltdown. TNI, want to buy more, might increase my margin to buy, but was so badly burned in the last banking crisis, do not want to put myself in that position of loss, or more importantly stress and anxiety ever again! also worried i won't have funds to pay for the prty! Arkk - you bought many lloyds between 59 and 60?
I hope you are right and i hope things are got under control soon, for our sakes but mostly for the poor people that are living the nightmare
in regards to party i will have auto buy at 168.5, i think we will hit the low again either on a spike or further down but good buy nonetheless. TNI - btw had a higher high and closed above yesterday's close its all positive, even though it crashed 6% theses technicals are positive. Dont mind it going further down but i will be relieved to see the bottom here :)Actually yesterday almost qualifies as a bottom but lets see. Now i got my cards down :)
party held nice today even for a moment i thought too good to be true, sells almost double than buys, its further on the way down. TNI i have been averaging all the way down, i will keep doing it, got some at 49p (uwinsum good for you u sold, i did not), but next tranche will be at 40p, my idea is to offload at 80-90 which i think definitely will happen this year, this will give me over 60% profit depending on where the bottom is found of course. LLOY - same idea here, i bought at 59.8 and i will average all the way down, and i will wait for 90-100p which again DEFINITELY will come this year. Again for some over 60% profit. All i will trade probably for this year will be those three stocks, i have 1 tranche in SAR at 2p though - long term there to whenever there is a licence agreement or someone buys them looking for 8-10p. Probably will get with another tranche if it goes to 1.5p and may trade it on the spikes. Also i got 2 tranches of VED,2118p average and i will offload in less than 3 months looking for an exit at 2800p and maybe a bit over. Now in regards to lloy, i think it will go down to 53-54p, i dont think 59-60p will hold though, even though i bought i did it believing long term it will come good but my next buy will be probably 55p then 53p. FTSE might really go to 5400-5500, actually on the previous retraces i was thinking it would go down there but it did not happen, now there is a reason for it to go all the way down. World news + stress tests coming, Portugal got its rating downgraded also now it is believed Portugal will definitely get a bail out as bond rates are getting higher and higher. Also today the forecast for UK growth was downgraded to 1.5% as long as i remember. So lots of issues short term, but what i think it will be short term shock and awe then watch one of the biggest rallies ever, i am thinking of 6500 ftse min to 7000 max, something like what happened last year. Therefore i am bullish medium to long term (this year) but bearish short term, all stocks will come good i am sure about it, we will be remembering about those low prices with a smile soon enough :) So my game is heavily in LLOY, TNI and PARTY ( will start buying below 170 but it it starts moving i am all in again looking here for 250-300p exit nice eh?). Good luck all Netley where u hiding mate? :)
as one rather patronising guy said, i think on LLoyds board, this is events, not TA, once we have good news on reactors then stocks will react with a sharp rise. I hope good news comes over the weekend so i can long futures as soon as they open.
Not looking good, FTSE futures down again. i spoke to a stockbroker i know this afternoon and he seemed upbeat and was looking for 5400-5500 as the bottom. Im really starting to doubt this market now and wonder where we are going to end :(
cant keep buying for ever guys lol
In at 67 on TNI - live and learn, never make same mistake twice - which is probably why i've not rebought. agree with you on Black horse.
sold my 49p top up for 52p this morning as i dont like the look of it. still got the rest at 56 unfortunately! lloy again looks strong. if its above 60p by monday and things have calmed, i will look to buy if poss. its had an opportunity to get ugly but so far has not done so. would be happy if 5600 ftse holds.
Prty - still watching. LLoys - really toying on whether to buy more as UWS says, has held up fantastically, TNI i was orginally going to buy at these levels, but have shyed off, could well have bottomed, but may well yet see 40p.Could ceertainly see a bounce before lloyds, but don't fancy yet more red on ths share.
are we seeing a back test of the low yesterday or will be see the next leg down?? whats your thoughts chaps. bit dissapointed with TNI, thought we may have turned a corner but people still buying so perhaps it was just a test by the MM's to see what bear feeling is out there
o/t . as i know lots of us are keen LLOY watchers. Didn't she hold up well yesterday??!! i didn't expect that if i'm honest. the acid test of course will be the rest of the week starting today as we all know the LLOY likes to confound the rational and will often fall on a ftse up day. lets see what today brings.
thanks mate, didnt buy enough as i had the fear inside me too so i was hesitating. yes after following some historical data and indicators, i believe in one years time the real crash is likely to begin. and as TIE said, we should atleast have double tops on the indices before that :)
you are right mate. its was risky to buy yesterday but i had a plan and so far its doing well. i also was debating with myself about the moral issues of this situation but at the end of the day this is a market and its a place for everyone from every moral level. i did not short yesterday. . . not even thought about it. i lost my country 10 years ago not to nature but to human greed and erogance which hurt my people even more, so am praying for the japanees people everynight. anyway, i would like to think that my small buys yesterday did contribute to the rise in the markets we saw before close :)
i a thinking of getting some IFL, just wait to see if it will keep falling and if 19p will hold this time. TNI held nicely Vol Sold 236,464 Vol Bought 391,568 Just for the last 30-40 min over 250 000 were bought, i think 48-50p will hold and will mark a bottom.
today selling was the right thing to do, tomorrow buying will be the right thing to do as well as NIKKEI is 6% up, ftse 32pips up , dow 43pips up, and markets tomorrow will go back to normal, currently markets are recovering, banks held nice as well. I would not want to be caught in a free fall like 2008-09. 1-1.5p difference on lloy wont make me rich :) but definitely made me safer. So i will get in first thing in the morning. What bothered me was the strong reaction the second day of the tragedy and the reaction in europe. If you like going long on indices dax and dow are your best bet i think, just personal view though.
interesting, lately i have been staying here mostly and lloy once in a while so i have not read any posts regarding morality but i have thought about the morality issue, i realize every time i go in profit someone is losing and that bothers me lately. I get money from work and business and i am happy about it, share dealing is for fun(for me)and really that morality issue has been bothering me for some time. Other than that you are right shortening the ftse and not nikkei does not make you a better man, all the same!