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Poundland ---yes, went short @ 416 p (best i could get ) --so fingers crossed for both of us !! -- Dax has dropped off a cliff this morning ---Ukraine, Eurozone etc conspiring against it atm i suspect !! ---grabbed 50pts. on a long off 10618 this morning ---out now , wait and see time !! -- GL.

Evening !! -----yes, QPP all over the place atm, you did well to gain on it . --might try to get back in again myself on any more short-term weakness !! -- VOD has done well recently, bit of an uptrend developing there ---would think it may suffer a bit from BT's deal with EE , so looking at a lower entry level now , perhaps 225p !! -- With you on Poundland ---will try and gauge the "mood" in early trading !!-- definitely technically overbought by a fair stretch , so would expect a drop back ---but by how much is the question ?? ---- I'm short IMG again ---and old favourite , so fingers crossed again !! ---gonna get it very wrong , one of these days (lol) --- OIL up, i see, on a reasonable "dead cat bounce " --GOLD dramatically down ( way past supp. @ 1240 ish ) --got a small long @ 1235 , so b/e atm . -- Got back into AV the other day with a small long @ 526 p ( was looking for 520 p to add tho') .-- Got out of ESURE too early and my BRIT still very undecided on direction -- May look to go long on AFR again if it drops back any further !! -- GL. --- ( wood-chip ceilings and embossed anaglypta walls --been there , done that, got the tee-shirt (lol) ---

You say Sainsbury's "will be squeezed out by the fight between the bigger players " ---last time i looked Sainsbury's was third in the list of the top four supermarketts after Tesco and Asda with 16.5% of current market share -----so only those two are bigger atm.-- Another interesting snippit of info --it is not losing its market share to Aldi as fast as Tesco, Asda, or Morrisons are !!--- GL sir ----

I'm trading thru' a S/B platform , so altho' this method can sometimes have a tiny weeny effect on the underlying Market Movements of a stock ---it is pretty much regarded as having no effect at all --- Just a bit of clarification .--- GLA.

Afternoon ------the key words there are " over the next few years " !!!!! ---- If you are prepared to wait and ride out the ups and downs , then perhaps you may be rewarded !!-- A lot of people here, however, will be waiting a long time yet just hoping to break even !! ---- Just an opinion ---(i think you know what i'm about to do again) ---- GLA.

Iconoclast ----"what if " i go short again now ---good idea do you think ?? -- IMG along with SBRY and ITV and three others i can't remember now , -- were tipped to be the 6 companies most likely to be the subject of a takeover this year. !! --nothing happened on any of them yet tho' ----- GL sir ----

395.7 p not 295.7 p !! ---gone up another 10 p since ---never mind ( damn-lol) --- I told you --get yourself a S/B account !! --lot less hassle ( unless the platform crashes in busy periods , as they always do !!! ) ------ National Grid !!--that's one from "our " past , i think, ?? ---not sure on that one sir ---could see 905/900p ish first now !!----- Just an op. so GL. I'm trying to play the Dow and dax volatility after better than expected NFP's today ---bodes well for further Index rises in due course --seems that the US economy is still on track !! --well , until the next global "catastrophe " anyway (lol) -- GL.

GS ;-- Just dumped my Carclo @ 127 p ---gone overbought now short -term ( hope i don't regret that trade , as 150p was on the cards !!) --but good profit at 127p !! -- GL.

Good Tip ---what did you get in at ?? -- The best i could get on a S/B long was 383.5 p @ 08.04 am ( just £20.00/point or 2000 shares ) --closed a few mins. ago @ 295.7p for a 12.2 pt. gain ( £ 244.00) --- GL.

the cat out !!! ----- Non Farm Payrolls again tomorrow i think ---means more turmoil on the markets (yawn )-- GL.

Talking about sweets and jars ---there is a little shop in my local town that has every conceiveable sweet you could imagine from one's childhood and beyond ----humbugs, aniseed balls, sherbet fountains, jazz drops, red licourice , ad infinitum --all in exactly the same jars --row after row after row of them !! I could spend hours in there (lol) -- GL.

I don't get it right every time (lol) --but i'm retired now and this is just a hobby ( a stressful one ,i have to admit ) but a hobby never-the-less !! --- IMG may be in an uptrend but it's going to be painfully slow on the sort of daily trades there has been of late -- It's cracked the 240 p level again ---next difficult one is 260 p -- AVSOME is right in his assumption that there is just not enough "appetite" to drive this one forward atm ----time will tell of course --- In the mean time play the peaks and troughs !! --- GL .

Storming ahead again ------

Start Spread Betting ---no stamp duty or capital gains !! ---- GL.

Again pretty much concur with previous poster on ITV , altho' i personally wouldn't take too much notice of broker Citygroup !! -- I sold out a few days back @ 231p on the RSI overbought flag and went back in @ 222 p -- It has a good defined top channel line ,indicating higher to come and bottom channel line, indicating perhaps a drop further to around the 215 p supp. and bottom channel touch( also current 50EMA level)----it'sdefinately an uptrending channel , albeit a converging one !! It was on this years list as one of the top six companies most likely to be taken-over ---altho' none of them have come to pass yet !! --- No worries from a technical perspective atm , that i can see !! -- GL ---apologies to everyone else for straying way OT .------

Yes, pretty much concur with your sentiment --- hence the mention in my post about that 480/490 p level , altho' i suspect we won't see quite that low !!-- Brokers are , in the main, still positive and it does have the takeover/merger in its favour !!--- time will tell -- GL.

What's your starsign? -----is there one that represents a swift change of mind ?? --- just wondered -- GL.

Forget , i still hold several thousand certificated shares in IMG from 171 p !! -----so i'm not a complete "cad" !! (lol) ------ GL.

Good Luck with Lloyds ----a lot of shares , 1p movement gives + / - £350 .00 !! ---an almost impossible chart to make any sense of , except to say that 72 p looks to be a good bottom ---- but Brokers are positive !! -- GLA.

Hope that's not touch of dissent i'm detecting in your post about my shorting practices ?? --thought you , at least, were ok with it !! -- Iconoclast has his opinion and he's entitled to it ----not shared by me ,but that's life, i guess (lol) ----- To answer your question ---i spreadbet ----long and short available on IGIndex ( it's called "force open" ) ---long and short available on Finspreads by using DFT and one of the quarterly futures spreads ( march, june etc) ---- Not liking "bragging" about money made normally ----but with AVSOME and his perpetual " pumping for pennies" posts i delight in showing him that pennies can add up to quite substantial amounts over time !! --- GL sir -----don't let the "b*******ds " get you down ---don't get "sentimental" about a stock/share , cos that'll lose you money ( unless you are employed by the company that is ) ---and never forget , unless you're invested./ trading to make money , then find another hobby or profession as this one is just that----ALL about making MONEY !!!!! lots of MONEY, !!!!! lotsand lots of MONEY !!!!!! (lol) ----