Member Info for ITwizzkid

Haha they literally knock on my door once a week "just to check my papers" - first time it was very intense, 15 or so big cops at the door! Ah man I would love another retrace but as you say I dont think it's on the cards. Average is now around 50p so not too bad haha. Eh well good luck with your investments - I'm back soon to good old UK, hopefully to world cup glory and all that

Everyone would get skin cancer and cataracts

Should be a scorcher all year IMHO - China an up & coming customer, with (almost) unlimited resources, and as someone who lives here, I don't think the air can physically take much more pollution than it has now. Health risks here are terrible. Must be careful what I say - sure they read these boards - but clean energy will be increasingly in demand. Estimated 300million Chinese to live in urban areas by 2015 = more pollution than ever & therefore more demand for clean energy. Also the weak Euro will do wonders for all EU manufacturers that ship abroad, eg. to JAPAN (tick), CHINA (tick), US (ok not many but tick!), UK (tick), and continuing feed in tarrifs around the world will continue to boost profits. New facility in Germany to produce raw ingredients will improve margins a LOT (yes a LOT - I will need to go estimate the figures). I'm just hoping for another slight retrace so I can pick up yet more of this on the cheap. This is my favourite share in my portfolio right now, despite the 2-year decline

Hi blade. Back it up with facts. Rumours are nothing.,,,,,,,,, British the sells and buys are paid for by the market makers aka the "MMs" that you will hear a lot about on these boards. They're the ones that buy shares at (say) 100p and sell them at 102p. The spread between the buy and sell prices is caught by the MMs; that's how they make their money. Usually every sell and every buy is sold or bought by the MMs, who adjust the price they will sell or buy at according to the number of shares they have available. Regarding Aviva and Lloyds: both good stocks - good to keep in your watchlist. Good luck :-)

Majority of that was just one seller - 475,000 shares sold by them. No news that I know of - other than the divi was just paid out :-D

So the results are out. What do you guys think of the current situation? Seems like the loss is quite... huge... to me, as I anticipated, but interestingly SP is climbing nicely today. Earnings should be much better over the next few years, but for now SP is too high for my taste

http://www.titaneurope.com/news/news.asp?id=152

thanks man but the market doesn't currently reflect the value so I might as well take advantage and buy direct. callmeace: I dont think there are any more efficient technologies - for the price, solar panels are still the most cost effective, reliable etc. There are other techs, but as far as I know, other than the very experimental ones, PV delivers the most watts per area.

Because I love it. PVCS is one of those awesome rare stocks that has immense potential for growth, great cash level, fantastic management, intelligent investments, is actively reducing costs, operates in a great & growing market, and is incredibly cheap right now compared to just historic earnings - and with the huge reductions in costs and increase in production, those earnings have only one way to go: up. They are still essentially in their infancy, having gone public to raise the cash to build a huge solar wafer production facility, and the future is beautifully bright. The management own plenty of the stock & operate with an owner/manager mentality - safely and honestly. I would be happy to buy this share at twice the current price.

Any word on when the FY 2009 results are out - was supposed to be during May...

back up to 27p ... bouncy bouncy

Why the sudden drop - any news? Nothing on the TSW website

sorry if I sounded harsh dude! I like your posts, they just irk me a little bit sometimes lol. Anyways just keep holding, you'll do fine.

How were you mis-sold these shares? Aren't you responsible for your own research before buying shares? Nobody forced you to buy them right? And have you ever seriously considered what a GREAT company this is? Right now all shares are doing pretty ****ty, but this is due to the overall economic environment across the world. I think it's a testament to the strength of these companies that the shares have NOT dived as much as the rest of the market, at least in the last few weeks. When the economy at large recovers I think this company will do great, and that right now is a fantastic buy point. The price might go up or down from here for the next few weeks, months or years, but you get 1) a current dividend of 4c/share and 2) part ownership of a good company, in a growth industry. I'm seriously tired of you constantly whining about how badly the SP is performing. Sell up and go away. Or stop complaining, buckle down, and enjoy the rewards in a few years time. Try this: don't look at the SP for a whole year. Then see where it's at. I predict 30% higher at around 60p, I could be wrong, but long term this company is very unlikely to go broke, and very likely to continue to grow well, reinvest profits, enhance their technology and reward us shareholders.

I think it's 2 cents...not 2 euros...but that'd be nice! syntaxity - I agree, and I love that sharp is one of PVCS's customers. I think they'll do very very well in the next few years, I said 20years just for lack of a better timeframe haha! But I'm a firm believer that the market for solar panels will soon be massive compared to now (and it's pretty big already). GLA

Looks like it's bombing to me - the SP is racing vertically to test its lowest point ever. No sign of uptrend that I can see. Sorry to be negative - I do own this stock and think it's a great company, but the SP is not exactly positive right now. Down over 50% over the past year, down 75% in 2 years - I can see this getting to 30p or lower by this time next year if this continues. Major fears are: massive subsidies from governments are likely to be reduced across europe as governments cut spending; fairly easy entry to market so lots of competition, especially from China - recent oversupply & very low profit. Overall though, in 20 years this industry will be much, much bigger than it is now - especially as prices come down & consumer trends shift to renewable energy. Hold for long term and it should be rewarding. The price should become more and more attractive in the next few months.

I think the PVCS sp is still falling... how do you sleep? Dude seriously did you risk your house on this or something? Why are you so antsy about a great company with fantastic potential, great earnings and a great product in a massive growth industry? But seriously, if you can't sleep you should sell. Next stop 25p lol

... thanks for all the posts and research. Just FYI I would never just sell on a rumour; I actually bought in before the RNS at a very decent price - but the RNS got me quite jittery to be honest. £260m revenue is a lot less than was predicted by Seymour Pierce (their broker), and unless they have VERY drastically cut costs since their interim report I'm expecting a large pre-exceptional loss for the FY 2009. I'm also expecting them to have quite a lot of difficulty just keeping a steady cash flow going, to the point that I think another year of low earnings could bankrupt the company. If they can get through this next year they should be ok though & a great long-term (5+ years) recovery play. I will be potentially buying back in after the FY report, but I want to see those figures first! GL everyone

Thanks for your input - I was also surprised that there was no mention of these loans, and I too thought there could be two Titan Europes. I'm still not sure, since the articles all seem to say that Titan Europe is a financial vehicle... but I suspect you're right, and so this, coupled with the reported revenue to Dec 09 of £260m, which is less than I was expecting, has prompted me to sell out too (fortunately not at a loss). I'm afraid I'm expecting TSW to post a fairly substantial loss to Dec 09, but I will be very interested to read the year end report in May and may reconsider my position afterwards.

I don't know why this would have anything to do with TSW. I thought it must be related at first, given the name, but apparently it's a SPE (special purpose entity / financial vehicle) incorporated in Ireland. This page gives a LOT of info about what it is, what it does, and how much loan is issued, to who and so forth. No mention of TSW though: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/eu/page.article/2,1,4,0,1141180833507.html Let me know if I'm wrong though, if this really is TSW then obviously it's important information for all of us here. Cheers