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Cheers bud,no access to a P.C. sounds almost liberating.....

Very interesting,cheers for that update,happy to hold and fingers crossed! Just sold most of my centrica and averaged down on mwana and ifl. Mwanas had some recent director buys and all that so who knows. Happy to see hawk on a bounce today,reckon all the oilies are due one,chariots could well be in for a bigger one by the sounds of it!!!!

I dont know mate,once you get that paintbrush in your hand.............................just think of the money you,re saving,whenever a professional lets me down,i relish the prospect of doing the job myself out of principle! Agree on cosalt but just sitting on my 25k of them as i,ve got mounting paper losses on all the usual suspects so am going to sit and wait on everything for the time being,except i,ve added a few jarvis again but might hold them for longer than last time. Just dont think any of ours are going well but will do in time. Work for me is busy,plenty of house moves trying to get in before xmas and the stamp duty reversion,so that normally stimulates some kind of spending,but whether that shows up in any share prices in the near future is yet to be seen. My most positive off the wall take is a bit like the "whats going to happen to the world in Y2K at midnight" i.e. VAT etc early next year comparison,is the capitalist world still going to spin after the new year??? Good luck with DOO, i,m giving that a miss as i think i might have enough shares for the time being!!! Good luck with the decorating and hope you get it all straight before chrimbo mate

Well no big weekend pharma finds yet,will report back if i see any juicy updates. Seem to have got stuck on my consolidated bets recently,just the usual suspects really,not planning to buy or sell anything next week and mindful that my broker minimum charges are going up next year,hey that,ll stop me selling too soon!!!! My only current regret is selling those jarvis for a small profit but needed to balance the books after my non-researched chasing the game group falling knife experience where i panicked as they kept dropping,why am i such an idiot! Happy to hold the angels but only a grands worth so in comparison with hawk,moni and mwana,hardly worth worrying about! Cosalt,slightly better news ahead maybe,as long as they dont go bust in time they,ll be a good recovery one. A friend of my father keeps banging on about jarvis and i didnt have the bottle to tell him i sold mine for a couple of hundred profit to offset my 500 quid loss on those game group shares! HMV looking cheap again,similar retail scenario but the yield is pretty good on them,any thoughts? Anyway off now,catch up soon mate

Okay,cheers for that mate,will check email later or tomorrow morning latest and report back,jamesmaggs@live.co.uk look forward to the full s.p!!!!

I concur! good luck mate,james

Well i think you and i could put ourselves forward for some consultancy royalties mate! Never go on the other boards,just lse,but my own email is my name here@live.co.uk,if you ever want to discuss more privately but only check once a day. I dont mind making the call but i guess as you,ve spoken to him before and i,m just an anonomous poster he,s going to be more willing with you. I,ve never shorted anything as i dont do cfd,s or whatever they are but as i understand it,shorters will only be rewarded on the fear factor,so the good news and particularly production updates and as i said,better still a director buy/notifiable top up would surely eliminate the negativity till they,ve really got something to shout about. My opinion on them has always been that they dont need to look for it so much as prove they,ve got it,i guess they know that too,but some reiteration wouldnt go amiss!!! Let me know what happens mate

I think you mentioned he reads the chat pages himself so if he knows you and me by our "call signs",he would realise we,re not spread-betters but investors and believers who need to spread the word and need that reassurance not only for ourselves but some of the other posters who look at us as "senior members" maybe!!!!

Maybe some confidence-boosting confirmation on the fully-financed bit as perhaps the current drift is fear they may do another placing? Other than that i think the production figures would be more sensible than the take-over hype,unless theres something in it. Also,a money where the mouth is directors purchase wouldnt go amiss,always a great restorer of confidence that one!

I,d say that just about covers it mate other than the takeover rumour that never went anywhere maybe? I reckon they need to employ us to market them!!!! Let me know how it goes bud,actually got my average down to 39.25,which would be good under normal circumstances,but in hold mode. Knocked out the SOLO on that rise,tiny profit but will have another look post-dilution,the angels will keep as think they,ve got some promise bar the awful balance sheet!! I,ve taken it as read on the main ones that we,re fully-financed on drills etc till the end of 2010 and i think the most important thing they need to do is update on production to keep the shareholders happy!

Okay bud,let me know if you reckon its worth going in for. I currently have big paper loss induced mixed feelings about the HAWK dream but confidence as its not just looking for the stuff,just looking for the most effective way to get it out and market themselves for a takeover,now that would be nice!!!! If i had my time again i,d go 3/4 bluechip and 1/4 aim just for peace of mind but it,s now 50/50 so i guess i,m gambling a lot more than i,m comfortable with but need to get back to the starting line and my "sell anything non-bluechip" if i see a profit strategy has been at best a trickle,at worst a disaster as i have a collection of delisters,SD,too it seems, to offset the better choices in that area! I have put a bit into winkworths,notional yield 4.5% and i think a good investment,TATE looking like a good buy etc etc but on that side have the sense to hold on. Mwana may be worth a brouse first thing as the finance director has just bought in,normally a good sign,catch up soon mate

Misery over,just bought some angels,balance sheet not for the faint-hearted but if they go the same way as mwana, i.e. 4p to c.14p,who cares,was worth a grand anyway. Going to trade less as my impatience is costing me a fortune,so buy and hold and topslice if/when i get the opportunity!!!

Oh yes,even in a can its a beauty that one! Point taken on the angels but not happy today after panic-selling those game group earlier just to see them recover later,i know you,ll say dont look back and thats good advice but today i,m going to be miserable. I havent got any ANGM at the moment and todays disasterous trades have left me with another 10 grand invested in nighthawk but average now under 40(just) and the overall portfolio including the grown up ones down 25% which is quite depressing really and if anyone else says the stock market has gone up 40% this year i,ll scream- clearly a lot of it did but only if you bought everything in march and sold them all in october! I blame the banks,the government and my own impatience...........beer time i think!!!!

As you say,too many sweets,bet we could blow a lot of money if we had it on a day like today,hate the feeling of being stuck on a share but apart from my abortive Game group punt going to ride the rest, we,re not alone but there is good news,ruddles county is sub-4 quid for 4 cans in sainsburys at the moment!

Good luck with that one mate,you,re right sit back now i think,favourites topped up at crazy prices!

Cheers for that,you posted me when i just posted you and noon! Agree on SOLO,out on any profit,HAWK,CHAR etc all holds for me. Have so many averaging down options today!!!

Good morning,hope you,re well? Better news on cosalt i see. Have dabbled with RBS and managed a small profit but also dropped a big one going for GAME group,a bit like you,re hardy oil one i.e.chasing a loss for a corrective bounce which hasnt happened. Also in SOLO oil which seem to be going up but frankly the car crash of my portfolio, i,m going to sell any gamblers if they hit profit,any thoughts bud?

As you say,hopefully a good xmas pressie. So you,re not rushing in on SOLO then! Only bought 500 quids worth,yet another maybe,maybe that one. Just hoping HAWK gets going soon as i,m into an uncomfortale 5 digit paper loss now,do you think we,ve done the right thing going in for consolidated bets on our favourite oilies,actually,dont answer that mate,we know we,re in and we believe in them etc,so time will tell. Happy to hold the chariots,cosalt etc etc

I have now! So they are coming back do you reckon? Assuming they are from a quick read,they havent gone bust anyhow,are you going to sell,hold or buy more? My intention was to dump them and use the funds for one of the ubiquitous averaging down options,but would welcome your take as i know you,ve probably researched them more than me!!!!

Good evening mr.non-reader of newspapers! Okay,in between rowing with the girlfriend and dealing with a clients kitchen ceiling which decided to cave in between exchange and completion and the omni-present staff problem, i,ve had a peruse of the weekend ft as promised and theres two pharma mentions;1.good value/dividend growth,yes you guessed it glaxo and astra.........2. PYM gets an airing under "weekend share watch",its got a wide spectrum of things from appetite suppressants to Parkinson,s treatments,25 mill raised further Cogane trial blah blah,looked like a positive update rather than a plug but i suspect the mention in itself could be viewed as positive? Surprisingly mr.schwarz failed to update those of us on innovation group and its 20% loss since he gave it a big plug,maybe next weekend eh,although it was mentioned in the main section as an update on a highly dilutive 00 etc to play down debt and move forwards and the takeover bit not being mentioned,does that sound like something else to you,let me think.....begins with "c",ha,ha! Anyway,back to the grind or better still a decent war film with the dog,avoiding text battles, i,ll let you know,have a good weekend bud.