Member Info for BradSmith

Many thanks Lekka, I have always tried to pass on my experience to others throughout my career.
Junior programmers, in particular, seemed to benefit. Many IT eengineers keep their knowledge to themselves believing knowledge is power (if others don't have it).

Now I am retired and my wife passed on, my main contact with the outside world is fellow dog owners and chatrooms on LSE. So you poor devils are suffering my habit of a lifetime, passing on knowledge! I took a job taxi driving and kept it going because it was fun meeting all sorts of people and my wife had stage 4 cancer in 2012 so we knew her life was limited. Thought it would get me out and about afterwards but then my aneurism put paid to taxi driving from February. My long term plan lasted from September to February - nothing seems to work out for me easily. Putting the bike back on the road is quite a challenge - but it might be cheaper than going to Switzerland.

The IG posts can be summarised quite simply - I think they are compelling, but in a nutshell, comparing them to my inherited dealer after sticking with TDW and their takeover broker for too long to do ASX trading (and UK etc)....

IG has no annual fees (for accounts above £15k) and charges of A$10 (£5.50 and rising) , a little bit better than over £200pa plus £20 per trade? If ASX is cheaper than AIM/FTSE shares they could be the one to buy?
The fee is A$10 if you opt for multi-currency accounting (0.1% if it is over A$10) and trade in AUD.

And just think , your AUD value, whether in shares or cash, is increasing as the pound weakens!
Currently, a win win but the £ might reverse its trend one day. No problems, deal on AIM for £8 a trade or £5 for frequent traders.

Good point to close this thread.

For those who did follow my experience of IG , the bank transfer of £60 is now on my account though the chance to buy at 4.2p equivalent on ASX is not.
They say "up to 3 days" but of course the £250 minimum does not apply.

End of ramp , which I tried to do in an open minded way.
No more from me on how IG works for share dealing , except to say there have different LLoyd accounts for share dealing deposits and CFD dealing. And paying by credit card through Paypal does not appear to cost more than through a debit card. Use sensibly if you take advantage of that facility. Only use if you pay your credit card off every month!
If you do, it is a free pay-day loan if the price is too good to pass on TLOU or TOU. GLA.

Charlie? You left a 6 of your name.

How funny?
Take away my posts and you are left with Graham and illigitimate grizzly.
And what do they talk about? Their half of the messages are about ME!

I remember Grizzly btw - his own board does not like him, I wonder why?

He does not care about TOU on ASX ? A gold star there for the most ridiculous shareholder statement I have ever heard!
What if they went bust you twerp?

Dinger, your
"I for one am fed up with your ramblings about your roof, bikes, boots, other stocks and trading platforms your unhappy with."
is probably the biggest complement of my life! It brings back memories of he last few months.
I could not think of anything that you have posted EVER!

If anybody could clutter up this board I'd be amazed - it is so voluminous that I cannot even see my filtered posts.

Thanks to those of you who supported me in my hour of need , I do appreciate it.
If my adversaries had been here as long as yous, I'd be more concerned.
I think we know that they are the newbies who paid the earth and expected the universe tomorrow.
They'll have to put up with the dark side of the moon in the distant future (for them) instead and will get no pity from me after this.

Graham, hardly anybody posts on here or gives a tick!
You might take your own advice and not bother reading this board, and get a life, OR post something TLOU that is of use!
We are in the dodrums waiting for the RNLI to arrive in HMS Gas Flows so don't expect much other than the few who are still posting here.

Tom Corvid was the principal guru on here, hope he is still invested , but he is in the Crow's nest I suppose?
Tom is HMS Gas Flow on the horizon yet?

I have illustrated how IG and TLOU are almost the perfect combination.
You can trade TLOU at £5 and TOU at $A10.

TDW customers who did not leave pay £20 for ASX which is a hell of a lot of TLOU shares potentially.
One day maybe it won't buy many at all.

to but or not to buy .... that is the question, no, tis the answer!

Hi 1M, did not expect anybody to be up :0)

You are right but that was my fear ..... adverse results published and a huge sell off .... I guess someone tried to buy at 7.5c but hit the sell by mistake?

With this broker I am both investing and trading.
CBA have a healthy dividend coming in the next fortnight.
I use that nominee dividend ($Aud) to but TOU on ASX to avoid FX charges.
If I get a dent price post ex-div date, I'll reinvest the capital from CBA into TzOU as well, if not let it ride to the next divi in February (pays over 5% pa). Cheers

Sugar set up a new payee - not easy when your effing bank times you out whilst you get the infomation.
Tip: Send the incomplete payee details and get back the errors - they then know you are!
Fools don't register screen filling fields until you submit (I think this is what happens).

Anyway sent £60 which did not arrive immediately , still not there after 5 minutes , and sod's law , the 7.5c has been replaced by 8.9c so panic is over and I've wasted my time and yours, sorry.

Poppy was out of her bed, so it is her fault unless I woke up to pee?

Major alarm over , still showing 7.5c to 9c but paper loss is sensible now.
Sods law I have $92.02 in my account , so I tried to buy at 7.6c.
Minimum purchase is $90 and I don't have enough after $10 commission charge!
Funding is a minimum of £250 which is a bit rich to discover if someone really is selling at 7.5c.
I can do a Bank Transfer for less but will they get that today? Suppose I can find out!

Woke up and saw I was thousands down.
The spread, if it is to be believed is 7.5c to 9c on ASX
So someone is supposedly selling at 4.2p equivalent and there are no takers?

ADVFN report an initial sell @ 9.1c of 250k shares, followed by 350k bought @ 9.1c and 9.2c - so nothing unusual there.
Hunting for adverse news and finding nothing - seems ok. Will continue looking but I don't understand this?

Thanks RHB - it does look remarkably like the outline of this link
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIUMPH-SPEED-TRIPLE-PLASTIC-TANK-REPAIR-ETHANOL-PROOF-FLOWLINER-ARMOURCOAT/192194196817?hash=item2cbfaab551:g:kE0AAMXQHDlRbl3S

but is solid (no hole on the top) and white.

I have had the bike from new and had no issues until now.
It is not on the invoice unless it is fuel treatment @ £19.14 , too cheap to be it?

tuckupp, is that 'Strange' post a cut and past or did you summarise it badly?
Poor use of the English Language if he is a journalist!

ffcmember , when I went to school four pence was eight pence below a shilling , literally , on all fronts.
Blackjacks and 'fruit salad', kiddy sweets, were 8 for an old penny!
Four domino ciggies were 6d and you could buy a box of matches for a half-penny!
My 1/6d pocket money would get me into the cinema for 9p and buy the forementioned items when it was my turn to buy the matches.
We used to set fire to the unused matches so they were not found by our parents.
I lost my fringe and eye brows doing that - never grew the eye brows back properly! Girls would love to have the thin ones I have - no plucking needed! Will LSE change that to asterisks?

I think there is distrust of anything AIM, African or to do with mining.
This is not a diamond mine, mine you it is a diamond.

All 3 distrusts apply but Botswana and TLOU look trustworthy and we cannot do much about the third until we are trading!

Boy George (GOD, George o'Dowd) seems to have a lot of fans. Not a chatroom anymore but a Culture Club?

Quickie on the bike, the fuel sender (in the tank) has corroded so the fuel shortage light is permanently ON.
Looked in the tank and all I can see is a pure white plastic 'something' part of the tank? Very smooth, shaped like a tortoise, wraps round the frame I suspect?
Could not see any petrol. Too shy of taking it to a petrol station and finding it only takes a litre or less, so will fill a can and top it up at home.

I thought about a dipstick but it would be impractical unless it is flexible - a piece of rubber tube perhaps?
Anybody got an old bike that uses a dipstick type of measurement?

I like the look of the Green Kwakis Jim, enjoy!
Vans,bikes,buses and automobiles half done!
Stalled it in 2nd when I thought I was in first, and some swine drove up the hill by house so I had to stop before driving onto very rough gravel track and completing a 180 degree turn! If I could have kept rolling it would have felt a lot safer!

Anyway Poppy was pleased to see me!

Taking her on the bus for the first time to go back for the van now.

Boots were very good, shaped heel is comfortable, but changing up is tricky - I have to hook my foot under gear lever and swivel hips and leg to lift it! Changing down is a doddle apart from 3rd to first?

It was at the poxy Canford Bottom lights , 3 lanes all with traffic, and 17 traffic lights in all! Put in for the 2012 Olympics for the sailing in Wemouth for 2 weeks! What a waste of millions!

Just found my helmet packed into a crate - and remembered one of our previous dogs when I first bought it.
Ziggy went mad, barking and growling at me until I took it off.
Cannot recall if Poppy ever saw me in it - so I put it on. She was under the dining table because I told her she wasn't going with me when I turned the computer off! She ****ed her head from side to side as she does when trying to understand you, but just lay there! She is so special!

I am going mad! Just walked out to the Berlingo to make sure I can drive it in boots - started the engine - and then remembered I'd bought an automatic because my consultant said it was iffy that I should drive to Dorchester to see him after I got out of hospital. Previous car was a manual! So I'll take my clobber over in the Berlingo, drive the bike home, and take Poppy out on the bus to collect the Berlingo, and hope the fox does not eat the chickens.

I think he put the polyhalite in Germany and it invaded Yorkshire successfully :O)

Happy days Scot!
Just fished out my bike gear and I must have been confusing getting into my boots, with Liz getting into her's.
My Alpine stars are a zip plus velcro and open up like a fan - no problem getting into out, just a bit of a tug of war to get it off.
I am still wearing my hospital shoes (Darkos) slippers with a decent sole , but walking in the boots is not that uncomfortable!
Oh! I have a prosthetic boot I was forced to wear (like a ski boot) - I think I might have remembered how tough it was to get into that? Got it at home , it was needed to stretch my tendons because equine foot gives them an easy time! and if they contract there is no getting them back to their original length without surgery - cutting them?

I found my bungies for the luggage rack , and , a footrest saucer for soft ground - like Wimborne Town's car park - the edge of the practice pitch :O)

Like the guy who fell off the roof of a 10 storey building was saying as he passed a 6th floor window - "so far so good!"
Courtesy of Steve McQueen in the Magnificent 7, bless him!