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Well the big day's almost on us , i'm nowhere near ready of course ,as usual i'll be rushing around on mon. and tues. ---Hope you're all well and ,and in the main, profitable in your trading. This year's been quite good to me ! Looks like" chartist " got it wrong again on the DOW convergence pullback ----but i think a pullback is still on the cards , before it goes much higher ( but i've been wrong before , many times ,lol.)---I wish you all a Merry Xmas & Happy New Year. ---I really don't know where 2013 has gone , flown by somewhere. ?? ---I hoping for a bit of the WHITE stuff soon --makes it seem a little more xmassy , got a sledge somewhere in the garage and i've got plenty of hills where i live to use it on . VGL "A" , "S" , "A58" and everyone.

Yeh, i spreadbet the Dow and Ftse a lot----have done very well this year on the Dows remarkable run from 13100 to current levels !!-------Different trading platforms will very often have different spreads for the same stock ,so i can trade at the best possible prices. -----i can also get positions re-instated very often on one or the other platforms if a "spike on open or during the day "takes me out " It 's really very useful to have at least two different platforms to trade from. IG index allows most AIM comps. to be traded and most IPO's whereas Finspreads is limited on those two but allows trading on quarters ie; mar, jul, sep. Saturn Trader has a lot of useful trading tools ie: Charts, etc etc. SO that's what i mean by Flexibility. But VGL to you whichever you use. GLA.

must try and sleep now ---(too much damn caffeine earlier on ) sleep tight all .

benefits from Spreadbetting are commission rates , capital gains , and capital tie-up. No one is suggesting your trading is a problem , far from it ,if yours are done thro' ISAs then tax issues are probably minimal (don't know for sure) . Spreadbetting only has the spread to consider when going long or short , which can save an enormous amount of money over traditional broker " buy "commission + " sell "commission + stamp duty. But even better , with Spreadbetting you can buy an sell thousands of shares with only minimal amounts of cash on deposit in the account. as it only requires a "deposit" and "margin".whereas you would have to have tens of thousands of pounds in a traditional broker account as you are actually buying the Shares in question.!!------I have three Spreadbetting accounts (to give flexibility ) and three main traditional broker accounts (again for flexibility) ---I find i tend to leave my long term holders in traditional accounts , esp. high div. stocks etc and play around in the spreadbets for easy in and out shorter term trades. It's each to his/her own , but give spreadbetting a go --it can add another dimension to trading for you + you can "short" or "hedge " shares if you wish --i short trade and see nothing wrong in that , others think it's the Devils tool and i should be burnt in the Hell -fires!! Again ,i say, each to his own . GL in all your trades ,whichever method you use.

man after my own heart --- a spreadbetter . GL.

joining me tonight on the nightshift ? No Santa rally with this one but still a bit of fuel in the tank . Let's wish for 122.0 p on monday eh .? --------------" A Long Time Ago In Bethlehem " ,(So The Holy Bible Says ) (Bony M ) This share was 440.0 p-- Aagh those were the days. GLA.

Who bought in at the time of my last post has done well ---Will be interesting to see if 355.0 p is broken now ( downtrend res.) -- But VGLA in here.

Me and thee got the bb to ourselves again this cold evening --- Yeh, fgp certainly making us wait !! I think we had the santa rally today in most shares after the DOWs meteoric rise yesterday and FTSE today. --- sooooo i think the boat may have left without us?? --- Not a song this time , more a reflection " The Night Times are The Best Times." - GLA.

posts, my friend. Agree most def. that too many uncertainties and unknowns exist at this mom. in time . An " educated guess " is the best i think you could give right now. However, well worth watching proceedings very closely IMHO . GLA ( i know you'll probably hate me for saying this but i am owning up to having a small short on at the mom. --Sorry---.

Still going strong !. GLA.

Record highs on the DOW and FTSE up by 60 points ain't gonna lift this one today. JMVHO. ya-all.

As long as we hold above 115.0 p we're in with a chance . --but i know what you mean. . Thought of another golden oldie i like appropriate to now.--"Working on the Nightshift"-- i know ,bit obvious really , but better than watching paint dry, just (lol)

Now-- 5 year high and all that , jolly GLA .

like i got the nightwatch again ?

fell into that one , didn't i (lol) GLA .

'course , if we all believed in charts and charts only, nobody would Buy or nobody would Sell --and clearly that doesn't happen . So once movement occurs, in either direction , then charts and moving averages etc. "kick-in ".But that first step must be made, by someone, on other things like comp. fundamentals , debt ratios, order books , ebita, pe etc etc etc. or perhaps just putting a blind fold on spinning around and sticking the pin in.(lol) GLA.

" Underweight"----well at least it's not a Sell note, something to be thankful for i suppose ??

If it does get to £1.40 then that's xmas and new year holiday paid for --- --GLA.

Spot on with 88 p Was resistance back in 2005 ---will act as potential support now. Below that is ,as you say, a bit of a lottery --Probably doesn't matter much below 80 p or so as buying at that level with a 68-70 p stop is the right trade ,if you want to take the gamble. Personally ,unless your going to run something like a split short/long ( think they call it a butterfly ? ) i would be waiting for a buy entry on the upside with volume. Somewhere round about the £1.00 level as this would mean it had at least conquered 95 p and 97 p which will act as potential resistance going forward. Not a healthy share to be in at the moment from a chartists point of view!! But everything could change rapidly if a buy-out or takeover or merger or any one of a thousand possibilities occurs. Anyway enough rabbitting on --Just wish you all jolly GL cos i think we're all going to need it with this one ,me included !!

For your insite. Apart from the obvious investigation going on with RSA , what is their level of debt likely to be going forward , not forgetting that there has already been a substantial injection of cash to plug the immediate "hole".