Member Info for jamesmaggs

Forgive my skepicism but are we really that inclined to follow investment advice from RBS,their record as a business model over the last few years hasnt exactly been one to emulate!!!

They normally bounce once the sentiment changes and someone or other realises they,re cheap as chips at this level and puts it about,but i can only back that up with mindless optimism i,m afraid,its always been a cyclical stock in the past and has a credible business so why not.

Its just preparing for a big bounce mate,just needs to be a bigger bounce than before!

On the point you raised on access to the internet at work mate,i recently got an i-phone and have managed to get lse and live shareprices too with considerable help from someone a lot younger than me as i,m not techie,they can be downloaded as applications with no extra cost as you have the internet on these phones for a few quid a month,worth looking into although not having access has its advantages too!!

Well lets hope so eh,lots of buying gone on since we climbed on board,could try and predict but i wont,i think its the patience game,fully loaded and ready for making a bit!!!

Fact is mate,none of us really know and the only thing we can predict is unpredictability!!! Cosalt and all that,just going to sit tight for the time being,i honestly believe my impatience is my downfall so will try and curb that. Work is getting busier,time of year maybe but a good sign and the bulls and the bears can carry on pontificating whilst we sit and wait!!

definately,thats well over the notifiable threshold surely?

Thats 5% of the company changed hands! both confirmed buys,watch this space.........

I just dont know mate,i seem to have so many all or nothings at the moment,can i cope with another? Sitting on PYM,AKT,NVTA,HVE,UEN,PLUS,MWA,CSLT,VOG,TNZ and of course those badhawks,waiting for some kind of recovery. I,m maxed in a few like jarvis,speedy hire,rok,spice and took a "management decision" earlier to take a painful and capital losing garage sale of 40k of the badhawks and used the proceeds to buy even more uk coal and clear my open position once and for all. My inclination is to sit on what i,ve got now, 38 holdings including those delisters and gone busts which still seem to show on my nominee account. The split is about 60/40 in monetary terms between non-yielders and recoveries and the half decent stuff like glaxo,vodahone,balfours,scottish and southern,cable and wireless and a few oddities like winkworths and wichford. I want to trade out of some of the bigger gamblers which have essentially been a series of averaging down exercises and try and manage the p/f so that i,m 25% in gamblers but say 4 or 5 companies and top up on the decent stuff on dips once i,ve cashed out of the larger gambles,zipping in and out of things has been fun but the hawk thing has pretty much killed all my gains and the remaining 60 need to go to 50p or more i guess to break even,to quote you when you,ve had a bad investment day, "what a world!" any thoughts mate/?

No i buy on a t-10 normally within my nominee account,i.e. 10 day settlement but as i,m prone to bounce around in a few things its like a rolling road,so on occasions i,ll sell on a t-3 as its mixed in with other things,never done cfd,s as i dont understand them other than i could end up with a bigger problem than a paper loss if they go the wrong way,so i dont!!

Do you mean buy them or cfd,s?

£2655 on 50k of the little sods (down)

Hopefully they,re too busy signing up new contracts and making money so they forgot!

Or hectors house,magic roundabout,scoobey doo,arabian nights,oh those halcyon days of stress-free living! Yep we,re alternating between both boards a bit!!

what a dull shares day! my sympathies on the cub situation wolfie,makes it difficult. tv best ever banana splits,never seen it repeated anywhere,remember that one?

no mate,its james,s ex thats driving around in the car he stupidly bought for her(expletives deleted) but thankfully no claim on the house he lives in,somewhat happier without her in it,ha,ha! And the new g/f is a much better prospect and lots of positives it would be inappropriate to mention. Advice,everything in your name next time,rent the house out or tell her it belongs to someone else and shack up in one of those lodges at the aquadrome!!!!

The bounce,where is it? BBY at least up a whole penny last time i looked,looking a bit red on my p/f today except balfours and uk coal up a fraction,boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

missed out on the TAN bounce but think slugs did okay there

Good luck with those banks mate,watching these closely now,suspect we,ll be positive in a few weeks but nothing quick,would like to be proved wrong and see a massive corrective bounce and a do i/dont i sell at 50 or wait for more dilemma,or am i more delusional than normal???

Well good luck with them,decided to average down on SPI this morning for a quicker(potential) exit. F4 as you say could go either way,got enough of them already,will trade NVTA in and out over a base holding i think,just nervous of anything that goes up a lot quickly these days! Looks like i,ll be popping inti sainsburys again shortly.........