stole this from an iqe chapps post9 Jun 2011 18:12
Sorry guys, i was bored:
Rupert, Jeremy, Harry, Miles and Tristran all went to Eton together. They now work for various investment houses in the city. One lunchtime, they all meet up for a glass or two of the old fizz at the Hoity Toity Arms in Canary Wharf. Feeling a little tipsy Rupert says ‘Hey chaps, you invested in that nice little company I told you of a while back’? They all nod in agreement. ‘Well’ say’s Rupert, ‘It would appear that my firm has decided this is a super little company and we want to buy some more. We don’t want to pay silly prices like the personal investors do, so we’ve negotiated a nice little price from our trader friend, John. He used to be a second hand car salesman you know!, awfully nice chap though. He only takes a 10% commission.! As you know this company recently had a historic rise and now some of the Directors have taken a bit of profit. So we’re going to put a rather large short on this company before the interim results are out. We’ll use the bulletin boards to frighten those awful personal investors out of their hard earned dosh, then we’ll close the short before the interims are due. By then we should have bought all we need to at a 30% discount, then we’ll go long and Tarquin’s your uncle. Before long we’ll have doubled our money. I’ll give you all the nod when to buy in. Then next month we can do the same to one of your companies, gafaww, gafaww, gafaww‘. They all laugh hysterically, nodding in agreement ,before ordering another bottle of bolly.
All characters in this work are purely fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely intentional. think this can be used more than once lol!!!!