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Awl, no luck with the spanner i am afraid. Ellipses says he misspelt sandwich.

My apologies for a typo too - my last post should have read 'Your every wish is my command,.

Awl, your very wish is my command. I hope you will forgive me though if I exclude from Gardin's jurisdiction every company in which I must have some regard for my own future. As to the spanner, Ellipses is a good fellow and I am sure he will oblige.

It has been an entertaining couple of days watching OSD flounder, and to see him STILL denying the bleedin obvious. Or perhaps he secretly credits me as a computer whiz who can hack into and use other [people's posting identities without them knowing and objecting. Be that as it may, it is certainly a turn up for the books for anyone on a BB to DISPUTE a poster's acknowledgement that he posts under more than one name. In my experience such assertions are always to the opposite effect. These boards are full of accusations that different posting names are in fact the alter egos of one and the same person!

Has it not even occurred to OSD that if A4P and 1knocker are NOT the same person, it is rather flattering to A4P that 1knocker (whom even OSD acknowledges has a pretty decent track record) should publicly pretend that he is also A4P? Logic does not seem to be OSD's long suit.

I don't understand the mentality of coves like OSD who resent and deny any success others have, and gloat over the losses suffered by others. Personally, I am delighted to hear of the success of others, and sorry when they suffer losses. Their successes make me no poorer and their setbacks make me no richer. Even more oddly, the one person whose wealth OSD does not resent is Gardin. Yet the vast sums Gardin has trousered (including lavish expenses and 'performance' bonuses) HAVE made him poorer. Gardin has been been paid lavishly at the expense of the QBT shareholders despite achieving nothing by way of revenue ,let alone profits, for QBT. As I say though, logic is not OSD's long suit.

His inability to accept the clearest evidence that A4P and 1knocker are the same person, and his continuing insistence (contrary to the known facts and unsupported by any reasoning at all) that they are not, does make one wonder what prompted his early departure from his job as an engineer. Did a structure he had designed with a 3 ton working load limit fall down because he absolutely would not accept that the two 2 ton weights it was to carry totalled 4 tons, rather than the 3 ton total he had drawn from the air?

If he designed public structures it is safer for us all that his labours are now confined to posting self regardant nonsense on BBs and trying to power his boat's twin outdrives from a single ancient semi-diesel engine!

The top of the morning to you, OSD.

If your IT skills are up to it, you might find it an interesting exercise to use AI to conduct a textual analysis of A4P's and 1knockrr's posts to ascertain whether they are the work of the same person. Or if (probably more likely) yiur skills are not up to that you could sign in to ADVFN and ask 1knocker, either by way of open post or personal message, whether he also posts as A4P on LSE. I you re really suspicious and untrusting, you could even quote to him a few passages from A4P's and your own posts here in response to his from weeks or months ago , and ask him to identify their authors.

A matter of only a few minutes of your time, and you would have a conclusive answer.

Anyhow, 1knocker is as flattered as A4P by your answers to questions 2) and 3).

I am glad that you got off to sleep OK last night, your resolution fortified by the lyrics of KBW's song and your hands safely folded across your chest. It is always a source of satisfaction to learn that one's suggestions have proved useful.

Please yourself, OSD. No skin off my nose.

But

1. do you doubt that A4P and 1kocker are one and the same person?

2. do you dispute that 1knocker posts on numerous investments, in most cases positively? His posts are there on ADVFN for all to see.

3. do you dispute 1knocker's success in successive share picking competitions? There is no way of 'faking' that.

4. Are you feeling a bit of a twit now, OSD? In future, find out the facts before you cast aspersions.

Sweet dreams. If you can't get to sleep because yur mind constantly returns to reflections upon the sin of Onan (a problem to which some Revd gents are prone) you may find it helpful to listen to Kevin Bloody Wilson's song 'I gave up w***ing'.

You and the Dame are clearly struggling, so I'll give you a hand:-

1. dial up the QBT ADVFN BB (the sensible one, not Sharetalk's bulls only ramping one)

2. Scroll down until you find a 1knocker post

3. click on '1knocker'

4 that will bring up menu comprising 'profile', 'threads' and 'posts'

5. click on 'posts'

then, joy of joys, there will lie before you hours of instructive reading and enlightenment on all manner of investment topics, not to mention a broader education extending across maritime through religious, classical and mythological subjects to the night life of dockland, all replete with allusions to Dad's Army, Up Pompeii and even the songs of Kevin Bloody Wilson.

You will perforce (and to our sorrow) have no time to post on this BB for a bit, but when you do return you will do so as a more rounded, knowledgable, and altogether happier and better adjusted character., so it will be time well spent.

I suggest you invite the Dame (panto variety?) to look at the AAZ, ECOR, FRES, BATS, ARB, IMPS and the share picking competition ADVFN BBs for starters, OSD.

When she has fully assimilated all the wisdom of 1knocker to be found on those, A4P will be happy to suggest a few more! It will be a steep learning curve for her, so best not to overload her with too many at once.

No more questions since I answered No 1.

Who has dug himself into a hole, OSD?

Phimx, thanks I'll have a look.

I find BBs quite useful for stock suggestions. I don't buy many of them, either because i know nothing about the sector and would be buying blind or because on investigation I am not convinced. I find negative comments about sjares I hold useful too - either on investigation I disagree and my conviction is strengthened, or I on invetigation I do agree and am grateful for a timely warning tip off to a consideration I had missed.

I try to ignore posts asserting views I already hold. Confirmation bias is one of the most difficult elephant traps to avoid.

Hapy to oblige. I have two (unchanged) handles only, Allforprofit on this board and 1knocker on ADVFN.

Slightly shamefaced admission - each has been known to give the other the occasional plug!

PS the competition was a lot of fun, but also very instructive. On analysis across the comption years, the finishing order depended FAR more on avoiding wipe-outs than it did on picking meteoric risers.nI have taken that to heart.

Totally honest OSD. I have just had far and away my most successful 12 months in the markets. 18 months ago I was beginning to worry at having gone so far overweight PMs. I was particularly displeased at being well down on Golden Prospect Precious Metals (one of the few available junior mminer ITs0 and beginning to think I should at least have been more conservative and gone for Blackrock Gold and General (much as I try to avoid unit trusts, especially in volatile or illiquid sectors), but even Golden Prospect is well up now.

If I told you I have also managed to pull off a £25,000 free carry on Centrus , you would not believe that either, but it is true !![Confession: agreeable as a free carry is, I would have made a lot more if I had not sold down a bit early to achieve the free carry].

I am delighted that you do not believe me. That is the ultimare proof that I really have nailed it this time. Such success is an aberration though, and it was a gamble to have gone so far out on a limb. My problem is that I don't have any conviction at all as to where to pivot to next. I don't know much about big tech, and have hardly any. They are at very high valuations anyway. Oil and gas? Possibly. But there could well be further to first. So I have just been accumulating cash this year.

I don't normally post about my own investments, and only did so because you specifically asked. You won't believe me, and of course I could hab=ve made it all up. If you followed the ADVFN boards though you would know that I won the Odsjp share picking competition (sadly now discontinued) 2 years in a row though. There can be no pretence about that. The finishing order generally owes something to chance on an arbitrary 1 Jan to 31 Dec timeframe of course, but last year I won by a country mile, selecting only from shares and commodities I actually held. Spoiler alert - QBT never featured among my picks ,though (briefly) ARB did.

OSD, I look forward to Sunday's sermon on the subject of QBT, Gardin, false gods and warning against the worship thereof.

I hesitate to give a maestro like you investment advice, and at present I am building cash having positioned myself heavily overweight in precious metals and PM miners between 12 and 24 months ago, but a couple of things you might usefully put on your watchlist are Mc Ewen Mining for the next 5-10 years and, on any decent pullback, the Uranium sector. I bought a fair bit there too when the sector was bombed out and was delighted to see Cameco up 20% today (taking my current return to 7X, though no profit has been made until the shares are sold and the proceeds banked, of course), and inevitably wished I had bought more! I think it a bit high to be attractive at present though. i am very tempted to sell in the hope of getting back in lower (as I did with Fresnillo), but it is a mad market at present and such round tripping is a bit of a gamble - best I think not to be too greedy, and to be content with modest reductions of capital committed on the ales and buy backs.

Anyhow, there are a few ideas for you.

Safer though just to buy something like BRWM (currently still trading at a discount to NAV, I think) or an ETF if you have no real expertise in the sector. Certainly don't buy junior miners unless you thoroughly understand the capital structure (mostly heavily weighted in favour of insiders and market heavyweights with options, warrants and convertible loans whose capital is safeguarded to a degree in the event of failure and yet scoop the pool if the company is successful while the ordinary shareholders take most of the risks), as well as a thorough understanding of the the asset, the local infrastructure, and hoops to be negotiated and capital required to production - don't fall for any of the many 'an opportunity to buy gold at $3 an oz pumps' - there is a world of difference between ore which is (or maybe) in the ground and a kruger in your back pocket!

OSD has cheered up immensely since he bit on the bullet and cut his losses on QBT. I expect that has improved his credit rating, and he is now allowed to run up a modest tab at he taverna.

Quite right. Better to take a. heavy hit today than an even heavier hit tomorrow.

Better still not to have heeded the words of A4P and a few other hardheaded old sweats and sold earlier, or not 'invested' here at all, but that is a counsel of perfection.

When everyone here has dumped their QBT shares, this BB will no doubt become quite a jolly and entertaining forum.

Come on OSD, you really should have learned your lesson. The hit from inhaling 'Easistart' really is not worth the side effects.

It took a bit of time, but OSD has now seen the light.

Moral: take heed of A4P's warnings promptly, and your bottom line will make better reading for it. I am only here to help.

Phimx, you are right. Gardin moves around the globe with the seasons. There is always some crypto jamboree in a summery exotic place for him to attend at QBT's expense, generally with a bunch of his boon companions to whom he has awarded QBT consultancies. We wouldn't want him to be lonely, would we? 'After the summer', like tomorrow, never comes. The sun never sets on their expense accounts.

OSD, I have been thinking about your letter to the Company. I fear it will inevitably receive a stonewalling reply thatthe Company cannot provide market-sensitive information to individual shareholders.

I think you need to be more circumspect,. You need to ak an anodyne question in the hope of receiving an answer from which you can get a line on progress by reading between the lines. How about:-

'Along with many fellow QBT shareholders of my acquaintance, I am immensely impressed by the amount and quality of the work Professor Gardin puts in on our behalf. We are all most grateful to him. I should be most grateful if you will inform me whether the Company is actively considering awarding him a further bonus in respect of his performance over the past six months.'

Mikey, QBT is down again this week - another 13%. If your thesis is right, the BB 'trolls' are a very powerful lot, and you should join them as you can't beat them. For my part, I don't believe that positive or negative comment on BBs moves SPs one iota.

I hope this email passes muster with the LSE censorship algorithm. It didn't seem to like the word S H I T E in my last post. I wonder if it can cope with spaced capitals, or whether it will again substitute asterisks.

osd, it would be ironic if you get the reply 'we hope to be able to respond substantively to your email after the summer'.

by the way, in your last post, presumably 'fight' was intended to read '****e'? predictive text is a damn nuisance.

Have you seen what was posted on the ADVFN board yesterday about your humour, OSD?