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Found this this evening from ************* (hope the link works), sorry if it doesn't http://www.*************.com/views/26718/photome-s-shares-are-under-developed-after-press-scare Regards CM

Velo - thanks for the article; very interesting. It seems sentiment has temporarily turned for PHTM. I have seen this happen to another of my holdings, GBG, which reading the fundamentals would seem unfounded. The share price fell from over 300p to not much above 200p but it has recovered. Value will out as some would say. I am trusting this is the case here and that the share price will recover in the same way. I only have 1000 shares here, so 1p fall/rise equals £10 in real terms, not massive. That said I am not one for sitting in a share for ever and will if I deem necessary sell up and move on. I could have invested more in the first instance, but like to hold back to see how my investment is going so that if I feel it is going well I will invest further, usually averaging up. I think yesterdays news is still working its way through as such things do. Good luck all Regards CM

Good evening folks. Just found this on stockopedia from today: http://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-23-jan-2017-flo-sthr-ppb-phtm-bms-168181/ I think there is little for me to add to posts made today. I would agree with what was said about the Directors Dealings, showing large buys last month at a price of around 157p, plus the very positive RNS with the latest trading update, the reason why I bought in. Today just shows what can happen, what can come completely out of the blue. No 2 ways about it; today has been a huge disappointment but these things happen and who said investing was easy; if it was none of us would be here. I still feel overall positively about PHTM. Very often these things blow over. There has been no indication of any profit warning, fundamentals seem to remain intact. Lets see what happens from here Regards and good luck all CM

Good evening BT, welcome back; hope you had a good time away. Oh you smooth talker!, "still a young(ish) man"!. I'll go along with that, thank you!. Lol. May think it and act my shoe size at times but sometimes the body is at odds with my mind!. Thanks for your comments. Hmm, problem is still hanging around a bit. Tried cycling some of way to work yesterday, very easy usually but was creased when I got back to the car later. Time to listen to the body!. Ease up a little longer. Impatient person am I. Nice to be above £3 again. Yes, back in profit overall if I look at the last 2 trades in GBG. Finished the anti biotics so the next question is...........where is that Glayva?!. Hmm. Aha, yes, I see it!. It's over there!. Excellent. All the best, keep well Regards CM

Returning to my post this morning. Whilst out this afternoon I realised that I think you can get a free trial of stockopedia for either a couple of weeks or maybe a month should you be interested. Regards CM

Good morning HFW. Is stockopedia worth the money? - to be honest I have a friend who very kindly gave me a years' subscription to the site so it cost me nothing. I found it very useful but I haven't renewed the subscription so far. To me it isn't particularly cheap but if by using it it saves the subscription fee by having access to better research and therefore making more informed decisions whether to invest or NOT invest in a company then, yes, it is possibly worth it. It is a personal choice. How it compares to other sites I am not sure, but I certainly found it useful. What I do use is Paul Scott's Small Cap Value Report on stockopedia. That is free. Paul is very good at giving unbiased reports on companies reporting. He does not make recommendations. Worth a read in my opinion. I think you can probably get access to it by Googling it and going from there. This is just another tool to my own personal research. No need in my opinion to get bogged down with so many different platforms, it can confuse things and just takes up even more of our valuable time. If you feel you are getting what you need from sharescop then good. The comment you make about volume of a message board chats vs. returns is very valid. You will find that the boards that have the most chats are almost entirely the worst performing shares over time. They tend to be the cheapest (lowest cost) shares ie costing pennies to buy, have large spreads, pay no dividends, do not make profit and some don't even have any revenue. Many are pie in the sky. From my experience a steady rise in share price based on sound fundamentals, and I have to say a degree of luck, is always going to be more successful than on flawed fundamentals and a huge degree of luck. Good luck all and regards CM

Craidg, I would like to back up what oldbadger has posted. Wise words. May I be so bold as to suggest a book which I have found invaluable to my investment approach which goes into research and many other factors to improve our performance. It is by Robbie Burns, the Naked Trader "How anyone can make money trading in shares." It is a very easy read, cuts out all the jargon and speaks directly to each and every one of us in everyday terms. It is a light read, doesn't go into high brow equations or alike and is straight up. I still delve into frequently, picking out bits when I like. It is full of common sense. By far the best book I have read regarding shares. Gosh, some I have read/tried to read have been so dry that it is easier to throw ones hands up in the air and believe it is too complicated and give in to those share tips and broker notes believing they know better (they don't). We can all be successful with a little application Good luck and regards CM

I invested in PHTM on 9 Dec at a price of 159p. I found the report below of interest. I have posted it before but for those of you who may have missed it I have posted it again: http://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-9-dec-2016-phtm-bju-abdp-wtm-frp-161773/ Craig - a 30-40% profit would be very good but key to successful investing is to run ones profits. So, it it gets to those giddy heights then perhaps reconsider. There may be no reason why the price could not go higher. If things really look good it is possible I will average up - into strength. But of course, we all have to do what is right for ourselves at the time, regardless of others. Good luck all Regards CM

Good evening DD, And a Happy New Year to you too. Trust all is well with you. Glad to see you still around. Hopefully this will be very successful for you and all others invested here. May put a cheeky buy order on this over the weekend. If it moves away, so be it and good luck to all. Regards CM

Thanks Laughton. Watching this closely. Surprising just how quickly thinGs can change, one way or the other. As I have posted previously elsewhere, if a share is worth investing in, then it will be tomorrow and not just today. I am prepared to wait; and if I miss one then so be it. Other opportunities will arise. Good luck all CM

Possibly, but have to be careful of investing on the back of any recommendation - they are read by market makers too and inevitably push the share price up. Often it is good to wait a little while after news has come out and pushed the price up, awaiting a retrace, although that can take some discipline and the understandable reaction is to jump in. Of course the retrace may not happen. I would rather miss out on one rising share price than jump in too early and see it go down. After all, there will always be other companies around to invest in. Awaiting developmentns. Regards CM

Holders here may find the followig article by Paul Scott today interesting; h ecertainly enthusess over G4M: http://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-6-jan-2017-craw-zyt-g4m-165336/ At present I have no holding, but do in BOO, which is also mentioned in his article. Folks who hesitated to buy in at 60, 70, 80p and more will likely be kicking themselves now that share price is above 130p. So what here?. It is often difficult to decide to invest in a company whose share price has and continues to move North steadily. It is easy to convince ourselves that it has gone too high to justify investing only to see the price continue to rise. Likewise, regarding selling out of a share whose share price continues to fall - surely it can't fall further - ineitably it does. I prefer to invest into strength not weakness. So, I will do a little more research before deciding. Do my best to make the right decision (as I see it at the time) rather than hope. Need to watch the spread too. Good luck all CM

Good evening BT, good to hear from you and thanks for the kind words. I agree with you in that I think we have to sit out the games being played, if that is what is going on. Perhaps we are guilty of over analysing things, who knows. I am reasonably happy with my holdings at present. If I worried about every up and then down then I would drive myself nuts. I think if we can get ourselves into a position where we can rest with our investments then we are doing as well as we can hope for. Who knows what is ahead of us this year. Talking of which - I didn't know I would be taken to hospital yesterday. Seems I have/have had a lung infection, although appendix was suspected initially. I'm over the worst of it all being well, but time stands still when one is in real pain from 1/2 midnight to when the doctors surgery is open. Part of me was thinking, perhaps I should sell all of my shares and get the money into my bank account so there would be easier access for someone else. At times like that it makes me realise that it doesn't matter how well our investments are doing if we can't move for pain and how valuable good health is. So, unitl I have finished the anti biotics etc, the Glayva will have to stay where it is with the top screwed on tightly!. Can't even celebrate my birthday tomorrow with a shot............or can I?, hmm. All the best BT, kind regards CM

Good evening BT, good evening all, Hope all have recovered from the festive activities, or have the strength to see what is left of them through. I have had just the 2 days off, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, but that is the way of retail, and what little time I did have off was good and largely peaceful. I had quite forgotten just how good the odd swig of Glayva was!. Regarding GBG. Today would suggest that it closed 2p down. I would question that. The closing price was based on the UT which is usually shown as after market close and can pretty much be disregarded. In my opinion the real closing price was the one immediately before close of play. If you take the mid price of that trade then it would show a closing price down by around 1/2p or so. I would quite expect the opening price come next trading day to show up by around 1 1/2p, the difference between the UT trade and the more realistic closing price, (last trade). Does this really matter?, no, not really I guess - it's more of an observation on my behalf but one which is usually proven true. So another year draws to an end. I hope it has been a largely successful, happy and healthy one for all. And here is hoping for a better 2017 in all aspects. May the bottles of Jura become larger and cheaper, with BOGOF (buy one, get one free!). Ok, so the season of good will doesn't go quite that far!. Regards CM

Just to back BT up; had I not bought and sold out on a number of occasions here, and just left my initial holding alone, I would have been far, far better off. Not just this share but others too; bar the occasional dog of a share which had I kept hold off I would have been barking mad!. Sometimes doing nothing is the hardest action to take. It's knowing the difference between one and the other. I am seeing this as no more than a short term blip???, or more like a period of consolidation which is always healthy on which to build a base of support. Must go. A Merry Christmas to all and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Regards CM

From todays RNS. Photo-Me, the instant-service equipment group, was notified that on 20 December 2016, Serge Crasnianski, chief executive officer and deputy chairman, purchased 2,892,607 ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 158 pence per Ordinary Share (the "Transaction"). More encouraging news. Regards CM

CEO bought nearly 2,000,000 shares on December at around p. That would seem to be one very large and encouraging buy. Perhaps that is what has pushed the share price higher today. Regards CM

GB Group: Berenberg reiterates buy with a 340p target. I never try to take brokers ratings too importantly, but it is nice to have a positive rather than a negative. Maybe it has helped to push GBG higher today after being down earlier at one point by around 7p or so. Regards CM

Good evening BT, good to hear from you as always. Another good day, another good week. Over the last month the share price has now risen by around 30%. I second your thoughts over OG. It has been good to have you onboard OG. Stay tuned in. The weather may be mild here BT, but today it turned decisively wetter. Last night wasn't too bad lying out in the woods waiting for the dogs to find me whilst training. There was a first last night. One of the dogs swam across a river to find me!. The 2 of us do get on fabulously well mind you, so perhaps he just couldn't wait to walk/run upstream to the bridge to cross. He then swam back across the river to his handler to bark at him to let him know he had "made a find"!. Glad to say the handler had more common sense. No telling how deep the river was at that point and it was flowing quite fast. The first I knew of the dog finding me was when he shook over me!. He's a great fella. Interesting to see you had a holding in RPC. I had a holding there a couple of years ago and made a reasonable profit including the dividend. Since then the share price has moved North considerably. Congratulations on your success; that is what it is all about and makes up for those blips we all inevitably suffer and/or should be avoiding. BT - as long as it is you that has the red coat and dodgy beard and not Mrs BT then things are fine my friend. Enjoy the Jura. Regards CM

This may be of some interest: http://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-9-dec-2016-phtm-bju-abdp-161773/ A very encouraging report. Of particular interest was: The Group's performance for the first half was ahead of the Board expectations and the Board therefore now expects the Group's profits will SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEED CURRENT MARKET EXPECTATIONS for the financial period ending 30 April 2017. Robbie Burns, The Naked Trader, in his book "How anyone can make money trading shares" in the chapter "Trading Strategies", Strategy 2: Get to love the phrase "ahead of expectations" says the following: "I really love buying companies which put out a trding update stating tht their current trading is "ahead of expectations" or "better than expected" or which is generally extremely upbeat in a similar way. This is because yu know pretty much for sure that the next results are going to be really good. Time and time again I've seen shre prices of companies issuing short but good updates in-betwwen results go markedly higher for weeks after such a brief statement. Often they then go higher still as the good results coe in especially if good trading has continued." Nothing can be taken for granted of course, nothing ever can with share investment. I watched the share price over the last 90 minutes or so with it being my day off. I was looking to see if I could buy in for around 161p or better still 160p. I thought I had lost the chance but was given a 2nd chance late on and bought in at a fraction under 159p. Not a mega investment, just a toe in. The closing price is showing 158p. I believe this is inaccurate because it is using the uncrossing trade. The more accurate price is the last price showing before market closes which is 159.25p. Backwoodsman - didn't know you were here, good to see. Lets see where this goes from here. Good luck all Regards CM