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A far better day. Have stayed on the sidelines but keeping an eye on this one possibly with the intention to top up a little. Hope you SUNites have had a good day elsewhere too. Regards.

Vast majority of trades this morning were sells; vast majority of trades this afternoon were buys. Maybe investors realising there is value to be had here......maybe. Hmm........

Any thoughts?. Feel tomorrow will be important to see how the shares re-act to todays announcement. Results seem to be affected most by lack of repeat orders from industrial business, but the outlook appears better. A fall was inevitable. Intend holding for time being; disappointing nonetheless. Regards.

Not the results we would have liked, but it would appear from comments in report that the set back is (hopefully) temporary and the outlook brighter. Glad I didn't buy more shares ahead of the report, but may be a buying opportunity shortly. Share price a little below what I bought in at. Haven't had enough time to look in depth at results, will do later. As with any disappointing results, the share price gets clobbered. Regards and gla.

Hello pintofhsb, good to hear from you. It's always difficult to know when to sell; sometimes we get it right, often we get it wrong. I sold out having made a little profit on the fear the market was going into free fall and I might lose all profit if I didn't sell quickly. Mistake. But I only realise that with hindsight. I don't think we are anywhere near out of the woods yet generally and there will probably be other buying opportunities. I only have half the holding I had previously. If the share price rises then I will wish I had invested more; if the share price falls then I will be glad I hadn't!, what to do!. Invested back into GBO, again half the holding I had before; similar story with MONI. I wish you good luck pintofhsb, hope your other holdings are doing well and that in time we will both be beyond the pie and chips at the local plus the odd pint or two!. Regards.

Back in with a smaller investment a few days ago. Just about everything down today so no real surprise here. Hope your investments are doing better than mine pintofhsb. Mkt. has gone crazy just now, some falls are beyond reason. There is little news out there we didn't know before, yet it seems the mkt. enjoys picking at scabs!. Regards and good luck. Looks like pie and peas are back on the menu!.

Do you still have a holding in SUN?. I may well be back in tomorrow, Monday. I got the call wrong when being stop lost out of SUN, I didn't expect my stop loss to kick in but the danger is that there can be a sudden fall back in the share price which catches you out, which has happened to me previously with FENR, stop lossing at 75p from 80p and now at somewhere over £3 - £4 I think. The market is still going to be volatile, so I'm not going to invest as much as previously, holding some back. I am back in MONI, again to a lesser amount and looking to re-invest in GBO despite a heavy loss recently. Heaven only knows what will happen this week on the mkts., toss a coin. Hope your other investments are going well. What are your thoughts on current situation?. Regards

At any other time, the good news today would have had a positive affect on the share price. But as things are nothing seems to help. Need to keep an eye on the general mkt., but this is now my only holding and only a small one, thankfully. May be talking to myself here, but hey, that's life. Gla, regards.

Sorry, set loss should read STOP loss. Regards

Pleased about todays rise for you, a rare speck of blue in an ocean of red. But beware, this may well be a one day rise!. There is no safe haven at present though. I would seriously consider taking your profit and running, whilst you can. I do not say that lightly, believe me I am not trying to deramp this share, I truly wish you the very best and of course you must do what YOU feel is right, not me. Shares on the whole are not re-acting to good news and are still being marked down. Keep a close eye on this. May be worth setting a set loss so you don't have to try and contact your broker to sell. Having to wait 20 minutes to get through can make a huge difference to the price offered to you; I experienced this years ago and appealed against it; by doing so I at least had the commision written off - maybe that is a tip you may wish to consider!!. Mulledwine's post could equally apply to GBO, MONI and a number of other shares. The mkt. is reacting indiscriminantly (sorry about any wrong spelling). It doesn't matter it seems how good a companys' prospects are at present but this time WILL pass..........eventually. The best of luck. Hope your other investments are holding up. Keep posting. Regards

Any ideas what the market may do on Monday morning after the rating downgrade on the USA credit worthiness?. Some say the news is already priced into the market price and the real worry is over growth in the USA. Bankers are meeting right now in the Eurozone to try and deal with the possibility of debt contagion to Spain and Italy. There is little room for manoevre to help growth by cutting interest rates. It is likely that the first indication as to how the markets will react will be watch what happens overnight in Japan. I have read on one bb that the poster expects the London mkt to open a good deal higher; I'm not so sure, unless some deal can be thrashed out overnight re. Europe. At best, I think the market will open cautiously and await its' lead from when Wall Street opens; it may then jump up, or......, it may sink again. I'm looking to buy back into the mkt but will keep a close eye on developments; at some time there will be a buying opportunity. Any thoughts anyone?. Good luck. Regards.

Does anybody else have shares in ECK. I recently bought in, and despite the mkt. jitters wasn't stop lost out of it today, much to my surprise. Haven't a lot to say about ECK just yet, not a lot of news it seems, apart from saying there was a strong buy recommendation from Growth Company Investor recently. Have any of you Eckohites any views?. Regards

Stop lost out of this today, wasn't expecting it to jump back up, so not a good call. Will await to see what happens and may jump back on board. Best of luck folks. You may see me on ECK bb, bit like FPO pintofhsb, very quiet. Regards.

Totally agree with b1uesky. Although I have no shares in VIP, nor PSQ for that matter, as a shareholder in MONI we were subjected to Shri9 comments and posts constantly, day in, day out, the same thing over and over again, cut and paste, cut and paste. Shri9 even threatened to try and get MONI suspended if he/she could (see MONI bb). I can only think the purpose was/is to ramp up PSQ at the cost of other shares. Whereas I believe everyone has a right to free speech they also have to live with the possible consequences and such comments are very close to the mark as to what is acceptable and what isn't. We all need to do our own research. It can be useful and interesting what others post but we also need to be cautious. I wish all well, good luck folks. Regards.

Sorry to hear it b1uesky, but grateful for small mercies that he/she isn't boring the wotsits of us all here. See what you mean though having just visited the VIP bb; it's the same old cut and paste job again. Perhaps he/she is looking to get VIP suspended in the way he/she was threatening to with MONI. Shri is being missed on the iii bb as well, they are asking what has happened?. Interesting to see what happened when I Googled Shri9; gosh I MUST have been bored!. Regards.

There has been more sell trades than buy trades recently, but nothing huge as far as value goes. Can't see this moving North much at present with no news out but see no reason for it to head South much either. Still within 20% of years' high so still has relative strength. No change in fundamentals, see no reason to do anything other than hold, but that's imo. Seems like most shares down today. Gla. Regards

By August please!, it will help make up for the loss I'm taking on GBO at present. You're doing well here pintofhsb if you have been here for 2 years, congrats!, good to hear it!. Regards.

I haven't got shares in fpo pintofhsb, but I just couldn't have you talking to yourself; it looks a lonely bb. There is life out there!. Good luck. Regards.

Most of the criteria I quoted on my last post for MBO has come from reading "The Zulu Principle - making extraordinary profits from ordinary shares", a book written by Jim Slater. Although published back in 1992 much of it is still very relevant to todays investing and is worth a read. Some of the examples given of companies are a little dated as of course are some of the figures but the principles are the same. Perhaps I shouldn't have said about the share price for MBO only being the same as 1/6th of a first class stamp, again I am sorry if this caused any offence, it wasn't meant to; it's everyones perogative to invest in whatever company at whatever price and I was not being judgemental. It's just at that sort of price it is off many investment companys' or institutions' radar and tend to be high to very high risk. Yes, if they pay off they will pay off big time, but I have bad experience from investing in very small companies. Still on my watchlist though. Regards.

My first thoughts Lacey as I look at MBO is the size of the spread, 5.25-7.00, thats 33.33%, far higher than I would consider investing at, I mean, if you multiply the sp by 100, would I be happy at buying shares at 700p knowing that to sell them I would only get 525p?!. I am sure there is good potential for MBO, but at present it is difficult for me to see the wood for the trees when comparing MBO to MONI and PSQ etc. The free float is around 22%, I believe. There are a no of factors I like to look at with any company, how many shares do the directors have?, who else has an interest in the company?, what is the mkt. cap?, no of shares in issue?, does it make a profit?, is the share price at a relative high?, i.e is it within 20% of its year high?, if it is near the year low then there is usually some worrying reason as to why it is. Does it pay or is likely to pay a dividend?, what or who is the competition?. Some of these questions are more important than others and don't all need to be positive, especially with a young company. Personally, I feel uneasy these days at investing in any company with a sp anything below 20p, although I do make an occasional exception. At 7p it is worth only 1/6th of a first class stamp, (sorry, I am not meaning to be derogatory to anyone), but of course I fully accept that it is early days and the sp may rocket up. I wish all those invested in MBO well and success. I will add it to my watch list, but I am fully invested at present. Regards.