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Came in this evening to check finances bank and share account and found my Hoodless Brennan had lost ground by a few bob. Everything looked ok until I got down to RTY ... they're showing it as closing at 10.25p buy and 7.25p sell. They've got to be having a laugh - thats a mighty split for new investors to take on! Can only assume it'll rectify tomorrow morning. Anyone would think they don't want to sell anymore!!

Felt sorry for any one caught in AXE - nice rises for the 2 days prior and then BANG ... gone!! The last time I had that was with Bradford & Bingley which was a sad day! As to trading here, last time I looked, ADVFN was showing 11 trades on the day with volumes of just 52,458 buys against 47,017 sells. As Izzyskint says, when you see the buy figure moving past the million, thats the day to jump on board the roller coaster again! This isn't a bad price at the moment and there's lots of gossip on all the forums. Will have to wait for the next RNS I suppose.

You're right, but it really is a very poorly worded announcement. The cynic in me sometimes wonders if these announcements are just put out by Boards when they realise they've missed the boat first time round just to free up a load of shares! Got to laugh, but I'll be looking out for board member purchases now!!!

Unbelievable drop, but what a shot in the foot from DISL with that announcement? Not exactly inspiring was it and can only assume they don't spend much on a PR department!! It looks to have bottomed out at 1.9/1.65 now, so I remain in profit, but not by as much now!! Trust this will bounce back, but what an afternoon!

Still a very large buy to sell ratio of 24 to 1, but only a handful of trades today. Just waiting for this one to be noticed by the mainstream before it kicks off proper and in the meantime, I'm happy to hold for the RNS feed on this to complete my trio of results this week.

I don't see 5p today - next couple of days maybe who knows? This was one of my 3 picks at the weekend (RTY and IVS being the others) and its now well and truly my best performer of the week. Still think RTY will be bigger once the buyers come in, but this has been well pleasing. Only disappointment is that I couldn't buy too many when I bought on Monday morning.

Only 2 sells today at 11.40 and 11.44 by the looks of things with 12 buys and a 3.5 to 1 buy to sell ratio. As you say, we need an RNS at some point to rekindle this one.

Last buy was 1,000 shares about an hour ago at 11.875p and I've just been offered 10.6p for my holding.

Definitely on the up and 250,000 at 2.1p just gone through.

Definitely moving up again and I want to see 12p here at close to make up for my IVS shares which have done nothing so far. Come on Rutley.

Like Shaon, I suspect this will shoot up again soon, but MM's keeping a big spread despite the volumes. A few profit taking sells going in, but still a 4.5 to 1 buy to sell ratio. I'm confident that they'll regret cashing in so early as I'm looking for this to rise quickly again after the tree shake. But whatever, its a good day for all involved. Like others here, I had terrific trouble getting my orders in first thing this morning and had to rush out so only got little lumps in the end. WIll check the live price shortly because its worth a top up. I only see good things here IMO.

All buys so far this morning, yet the SP remains rock solid. Hoping this is the lull before the storm.

Thanks for alleviating my small doubts on this one yesterday Shaon. I could only buy small blocks of this first thin but am sitting on a nice healthy profit after just a few hours. Also have DISL performing well and am just waiting for IVS to kick off now (which I thought would do best of all) and I'll definitely be enjoying a very nice liquid lunch!!

This is the only 1 of my 3 picks this morning that hasn't properly kicked off. RTY and DISL have already shot up yet this one has lagged behind. I have great expectations that this too will shoot up further shortly as others see the potential here.

Good posts here and like the look of this one - missed the boat Friday, but luckily I had AFC instead. If I decide to go with my hunch on Monday and the price is right, I'll only be getting 10 or 20,000 at most as most of my money is tied up in good places at the moment. I do however have one or two small concerns here - the biggest of which is why the buy to sell ratio was so small on Friday (at just 1.5 to 1) when there was a 50% upsurge in the price? And there's someone dumping large numbers of these at various intervals too. Anyone have any views?

There's a few I'm looking to buy in to on Monday opening and this is definitely one of them. I wouldn’t normally touch the retail sector at all, but the caravan and leisure industry is getting good press at the moment and is seen as a big growth area in the current financial climate as others have indicated here. Broker reports suggest DISL have got healthy market share growth, reduced costs and have cleared old stock, so to me, they look a decent safe option. I missed the boat on Friday where they increased 20%+ and with buys outstripping sells almost 3.5 to 1, there look to be seriously good buy signals here. Plenty of scope for growth I think.

Looking at their reports and performance over recent years, I think the SP has suffered a proper battering for its property portfolio depreciation, but like many in this sector, it does look cheap as you say. In its favour, it continues to receive good rental revenue by the looks of things and I like the strong link to government bodies as they rarely default. Another positive is that the share price looks to be fighting, so its no longer the falling knife that it was last year. As ever, its just a matter of buying in at the right time I suppose, but it looks a good long term option when confidence in this sector gathers pace.One to watch I think.

Calm down Paulson! You're on here all the time and post more than Postman Pat - even you've got to be right sometimes! Anyway, keep your fantasy world going, but I'll continue to play the game in the real world. TTFN x

Calm down madam(!!), but lets see how your tips do over the coming weeks eh? You may well be different and good luck to you if you are, but I stick by my view about the main subscribers on here. Most give it large about having thousands in here, hundreds of thousands in there, but almost always, its after the event - hindsights a wonderful thing! I'm happy to play with money that I can comfortably afford to lose and I never put more than a couple thousand on a single share. Thats the way this should always be done and to me, its a fun pastime that's far better than just picking a horse - thats it! I don't need to gamble - my mortgage is paid up, employment is rock solid. I have an ample final salary pension scheme and some rich relatives too!!! I've converted most of my shares to cash of late with good profits and my only loss was £150 on Lloyds, so I'm now looking for some new investments. I'm happy to say what I'm in:- I've long term holds in BRR, CFM and CNR (and aside from CNR which I still think has great potential, I think you'll agree I'm not picking too badly with my research am I?!!). Earlier this week I bought in to AFR and ABH which I think will do ok too. As to next week, I have my eye on this share, VLK and a few others, but I'll see on the day. I'm confident I'll be doing well in 2009 and my only concern is what to do with BRR next week which I bought at 2.25 & 2.4p. If you have some views on that, then I'll be happy to read them when I log on next. TT

Can't see this as a 10x share in the near future, but there is promise for reasonable increases in the short term. As to oilbarron, were you having a laugh with those tips? I genuinely can't see UKC, TIG and COH going anywhere fast and only TAP has any chance of making a small return.