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If you want to know wether things are OK look at the vix .... I don't know how much of that is down to the fear of a Biden victory but if it jags higher on Tuesday I would say a lot - toehrwise I guess its the virus

Vaccines will take a long time to roll out even if they ever work 100% effectively, and aren't suitable for everyone anyway (the old and immune deficient etc). The treatment also has a long term future for COPD - which would possibly still have been years away were it not for good old covid. There is no reason to be worried.

Spot on

Yes I sadi to target and someone said impossible. Of ocurse it's not impossible, it just takes money. Which of us would not be happy with £30 ? That is why I think it will probably be less, though I feel pretty sure others will think to counter that.

FTSE below weight due to brexit as well as virus. Not holding my breath on a reolution to that one. However CINE is a relatively cheap entertainment option.

One great rule on AIM is if you like the shares prospects "buy the placing". You have to slice the rises because you know a placing is always just around the corner, but when it comes you must already have done your thinking about it because, see the placing, buy the placing - just as all the annoyed and angry holders bail at 8am

All of a sudden she's top of my portfolio - even beating XILX ! - I am sure she was down early doors - I can see you are all a bit puzzled - so am I - but I hop eit keeps going

This is of course also why you slice every rise on AIM. Buy the placing price, slice the gains we do exist to fund these companies growth - or to fund the lifestyles of the execs - depending on what the comapny is doing. If an AIM stock is growing back it - if its not pull out on a rise - simple...

Yep - made it easy to know where my top up money is going this morning.

Well actually you should always aim to purchase at the bottom. Vix is now down 35% today. So VILX should be up by the order of 80% from yesterdays close - did 15% today. However what I also noticed from my records is it starts slowly then in panic mode goes up more than you would expect (they are futures of futures) and then comes down sloly on the retrace. So by tomorrow my vilx will be at 10% and I should be able to wether any sell -off. The bedwetters in the yahoo artciles are predicting a sell off. I recommend those who haven't got one get themselves some sort of hedge bet while we wait for the Darl Lord Mooky to deliver.

Yes I thought it was a bit of dirty dog market manipulation but the vix is till going up.... I've just been back through my vix, vilx, FT350 records for March and the similarlity is uncanny, FT didn't really show anything in the first week, but the vix and xilx did. Second week a bang MOnday opn, then Thursday and Friday (always the FT100 bad days) with a recovery of sorts on Wed, Anyway it's a 5 week pattern so I won't bore you - the thing is you are right, there were recovery days when it was good to get out and then fall days when it was good to buy the close (at least a little flutter) and of course sell Vilx at the same time. So yes there is always a way to make money - but you need a hedge. Myhedge is the vilx - because I remember the 3UKS and 3ULS spreads were horrible during this period but the vilx spread is never that abd and it's beta is prodigeous. I reckon with 10% VILX in your portfolio you will cf your index tracking shares you will always be able to cover any pullback - whereas obviously you would need 25% 3UKS or 3UKS. The downside is VILX is a pain when the markets are happy because it decays about 5% per week. My tip for anyone trying this is go for 5% VILX - get used to using fixed price buy and sell orders, and if it works for you - increase it to 10% when you suspect a **** storm like this is kicking off. My advice to anyone is always watch what the vix is doing - it does oftne predict a change in direction in the market by a day or so - which is exactly the edge we need, GLA. M

I did tell you all about hedgng in the vix and the vilx this morning. I was trying to help. This is the fault of the SP500 market today - and guess what - its rising ever since 16:30 BST. I saw this all the time when I used to trade boosts - that why I don't ade indexes anymore - they are as badly manipulated as stocks these days.

Oh tick up - that was quick..!

Teabags - wish I knew how to invest in plastic free ones.

Yep being played just like an AIM share. News will come when we least expect it - so big boy insiders get the biggest share of the benefit.

Just to let you know VILX and vix rose sharply yesterday even as SP500 rose sharply. I have not seen this before. VILX is an excellent hedge against short term index losses. No I do not have a clue what is going on - because trying to read politics and national economic indices is even more of an insiders game - but fyi I've removed one preset top slice this morning - the one on VILX.

They will do anything, literally anything, to try and stop the buying and use of UK tests and cures in the US - remember demestos-gate. Just have to keep buying the dips and waiting for realism to return.

Zak Mirr is a journalist whole likes charts. Charts don't tell you waht is going to happen, they give you potential trading patterns. If you listen to what he says he not only indicates this constantly, but often he will say that a target is unlikely or only indicated by the data. I get it. I read the charts. I'm mindful that not only investors, but now algorithms in computers trade on the basis of chart patterns. The truth is if trades follow the chart patterns, the chart patterns will be a useful predictor, but they are not a fundamental of the business, and ultimately fundamentals of the business will dictate price.

Yes I thought that - but now I'm beginning to wonder if it was all a con. If its a con, his reputation/credibility will be ripped up in tatters - and as I don't think he's too worried about money, I think he will say anything he has to say as soon as whatever it is ?a signature? is secured- beause it will be his reputation he cares about.

It was that git TW trying to destroy Birtish innovation on behalf of his US paymasters.