Member Info for jamesmaggs

Oh no, cover blown! You,ll have to contact my private secretary at the palace from now on!

Calm down,calm down mate, its all in the past! Best financial advice i,ve ever had was split your cash into property,equities,cash and corporate bonds and work on having no debts,including mortgage, mind you the guy who gave me that advice is in debt up to his eyeballs and his ex is having it away with all his readies! On the HAWK front,i wont bore you with stats,just facts; i,ve owned them in varying quantities over the last couple of years between 20p and c £1.20,they,re currently 39p,had a placing to fund extra drills at 35p a while back(institutions happy to put 22 million quid their way),small time producer presently,no political risk (in the states not bongo bongo land),proven gas and oil reserves,good news coming their way i.e. at the lower end of their trading range,have a look....also broker targets much higher and i,m holding for a takeover or at the very least 60/80 achievable, dyor and all that but i believe they,ve got some upside anyway!

As you once reminded me,so many sweets on the shelf! You and i too have lost money by jumping in and out too quick. I reckon if we set up a unit trust of shares we,ve sold,it would be a real winner! As far as pensions go,i stopped paying into mine a couple of years ago when they shifted the retirement age to 55 from 50. I may be a bit naive here but i just dont trust them,so my pension is a portfolio of shares,some corporate bonds,own property bought and paid for and somewhat depleted cash reserves,but i also have my own business which like any business is either feast or famine and i guess you could argue thats my biggest investment(and mostly pain in the wotsit). The only thing i,m focused on is to try and make some dosh on my own merits and if i,m going to lose money on investments, i,d rather do it myself than listen to the excuses of a fund-manager! Pensions etc are so complicated so i guess its worth the fee if they come recommended, but i still dont trust they,ll pay up when they,re supposed to!

Not at all mate,i asked for your opinion so i,m not going to be offended if you disagree! HAWK is one i really have researched(believe it or not) and i just have a dogged belief they,ll come good. When it comes down to it,research doesnt really make a scrap of sense as these types of stocks are all about luck,sentiment,timing i reckon. When share prices rise because companies "dont lose as much as expected" etc,wheres the logic there! So my hawking strategy is to sit it out and topslice if/when 60p comes along. I must admit i,m tempted by rockhopper but the only way i,ve ever made any money on shares is by having larger consolidated bets as i always seem to sell too quick,so more in less has worked on a few for me. As far as funds go,anyone who says they,re flush at the moment is either very lucky or lying after the last couple of weeks! Cosalt i,m really naffed off with, that 25p spike in the 00 time,i really thought would be back with a vengence,but sobeit, i,ve kept about 10k of them just in case........

Well,you can call me the last of the big spenders,just bought a modest 5k of NVTA, just to tuck away,one never knows,havent really got the appetite for any big stuff till i see some positive movement on hawk etc. Hows the beer fesival going by the way?

Crikey,you have been researching! Will look into both of those,particularly like the noventa things. Cosalt eh,what a disaster area. Had a major cull yesterday and took a hit on 3/4 of my cosalt and cleared out loads to buy more BBY,HAWK and MWA. I,ve just top sliced my mwana and topped up on centrica of all things,less of a worry if you follow me. The rout of the last couple of weeks has been somewhat scary and so i have a tendancy towards more holding than trading. I,m holding so many hawk now but i believe they,ve got so much potential,i can cope with the dips better than some of my other ones. Work for me has been busy too,run up to xmas maybe. Dont know what to make of hardy,theres normally a good bounce on those types of stocks but looks like you may have to wait a bit longer. Hope the level 2 is helping you out with the big miners,the day range on those is fantastic if you get it right! Will report back on here on the two you,ve mentioned and have a look at HAWK if you get a moment

cheers bud, wouldnt go on that site they,re all swearing at each other!

You were looking at their charts on the 21st oct, FDL bud on the site

come on lonrho,double figures!!!!

Thats been a long time coming mate! What about the findels?

All i can say is i have a penchant for obscure african miners and this does seem cheap from being overlooked rather than anything else, an uninformed view probably but i,m in with 10k anyway. Also got into fidel earlier but not posting on that site,looks a bit tetchy! Sorry off-topic peter

No wonder its been valued at 17 grand! Cheers for the background and links, reassuring to see you at least perusing this one riddler,hope you,re well!

Nice little share this one,have dabbled a couple of times before and currently in at break even. Reasonably liquid around the 10k mark,one mm at 25k,dont know about larger quantities as i,m not at that level. Their cash/debt ratio is about even stevens and when the interest in buying gemstones perks up, i,m sure they,ll be well up there. A friend of mine has a tanzanite ring valued at 17 grand so she tells me and theres clearly an exclusivity about these as its the only working mine in the world,is that right?

cheers mate!

oh well,i do like to buck the trend,just bagged some more at 8.002!

Hows the head?! Ended up having a few pints to wash down a curry with the boys,lovely! Have no strategies today,just going to sit tight and see if this is the big correction and see whats left afterwards i think,will advise of ant buys/sells but it all seems a tad shaky again!

Good idea,not long behind you!

You know,when i go to sainsburys or wherever,i keep a close eye on prices and as my girlfriend just pointed out,doesnt stop me chucking 1000,s at some speckie share that no ones ever heard of,on the other hand,being risk-averse never gets you anywhere, so yes we,re both crackers but speculate to accumulate and all that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

changed my mind, BP gone,bought more hawk,mwa and lonrho,must be mad!!!!!!!!!!!!

keeping my blue chips for yield and sanity,so tempted to sell my bp and buy more hawk,sty,even rbs but have decided to sit on the sidelines for now. The whole market has talked itself into a correction but if BP can make however many billion it has on the current oil price,oilies not a bad sector to be heavily into