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Well you know more about it than i do! My "extensive research" involved a call to the broker to check the liquidity on buying 10k of them and a quick scan over the usualdebt/cashburn ratios on the back of a mates tip! Those IFL seem nice and volatile,hoping they catch a ride on ferrexpos rise. A friend was banging on about wichford but dont like the debts these boys are carrying, are you out of galliford try now just out of interest?

did i mention those TNZ i bought, another obscure miner! Went for a modest 10k but look interesting,any thoughts on them and the buying on mwa has gone bananas today but not the S.P!

just posted you and sage on IFL,as i,ve joined up,got sick of inchcape touching 30 and dropping back everytime(please dont go up inchcape),so i,m in and out as it were. Thanks for looking at those assuras,will ride them out but losing 10-15% on the midprice in the first few days is always a niggle and makes me inclined to get shot of them at the earliest as the optimism of the initial buy in has gone by then, HAWK, dont know what to think of them but have waited this long,may as well wait another 6 months!

Sounds like you,re having a better day than me! Just skimmed off a few HMV and INCH on minimal profits but needed to buy some more BBY and pay for my top ups yesterday. I,m not messing around with "open positions" if i can help it at the moment as works a bit stressy and if i,m in "gambling" mode,need to be watching all the time! By the way, i bought some assura group last week and have already dumped half at a loss but wondering if the other half will ever go up,just bought on a whim really,do you know anything about them?

They,re not miners,have got all sorts of fingers in pies e.g. tractor distribution contracts,hotels,port facilities,planes etc kind of middle brokers doing deals in the african way, i.e.diverse interests some of which could be quite lucrative and profitable especially when the winds of change once again blow through southern africa,in my opinion! good luck with those other things mate

oh no, we,ve been rumbled! Dont think its a secrecy issue,more that we,re able to be more open about our respective strategies and scathing or ultra positive about certain shares without looking like rampers or de-rampers!With you on cosalt by the way

off early today so cant wait for a reply,looking at minerva and IFL but need to see some profits on my gamblers before i get in on either although i,m nervous of the smaller commercial realestate ones at the moment due to their debt piles and the rents and terms being agreed are not landlord-friendly in my opinion,catch up soon mate

Buy with a 6 in front if you see it,if you see a 5,fill your boots,inmy opinion,although there are those who believe anything in single figures is a bargain if you,re in for the longterm,as i am.

Are they de-listed then? I,ve got some regent inns,cattles,cambridge mineral resources,tomco,irvine energy, all in that category i think, avided buying haywards and batemans as a sniff of delisting gets me running for cover! It doesnt mean they,ve gone bust though,just saving the 200 grand or whatever it costs to be listed till things pick up? You,re so right about never looking back, woolworths,pendragon,those barclays shares i bought for 50p and sold for 84p.................................................. The only time i,ve ever made a real killing on some shares is when i,ve gone all in for a consolidated bet, johnson press springs to mind, however i,m in the scatter mode as i,m reluctant to flog anything at the moment and my big ones are hawk and balfours,moni is a longtermer as i,ve managed to convince myself they are like buying into the likes of vodaphone in the days when cellular phones came with a wheel barrow to make them mobiles!

Thanks for that, i think i,ve had all of them but never in any quantity or longevity, my biggest oilies are BP for yield and HAWK for the (potential) capital growth. Hope they come good for you mate!

no worries bud, was tracking minerva but wary of all this refinancing debt etc,reminds me of johnson press i.e. at what cost......sitting with mwana but would probably reduce at 15, add at 10,but keep a base holding in case mugabe snuffs it! just so frustrated that hawk is getting good drilling updates etc and is still sitting on the mid-30,s nest and those GKP things that i sold ages ago for about 10p have just gone over a quid, its not fair!!!! Have you never looked at MONI, i really believe in them and am actually averaging "up" on them,instead of reducing on a rise. ENEG looked like the sort of things that go up for half an hour and then once the bid actually exceeds the purchase price and costs becomes yet another averaging down "opportunity" , no i didnt buy,em either!

Not really that bothered as theres a yield and i,ve only got a few of them, hawk however really needs to get off that nest as its my biggest holding and i keep buying the damn things everytime they go down a penny,so i,ve got far too many of them now! Or maybe its a good thing as i,ve now built up an amazing stake for when they get taken out at 2 quid,we wish!

well done on that mate,looked at cosalt earlier but have got enough of them! my only trades today, top up on moni and 50k of trp,the latter a daytrader or out within a few hopefully, the former,a strategie investment(now thats confidence!), wanted to buy some land this morning but the hawk hasnt flown high enough yet for me to release funds and too scared to build up a large open position at the moment....

I,m beginning to think that everythings a punt thses days,even the so-called investment,yielding shares! Watch everything..........had todays punt on some TRP,hoping they dont find another dry one!

I,m so glad i bought into these last week,not! Any reason for todays drop other than the fact i bought them,please tell me they,ve gone ex-div or something to explain the current drop? By the way, hawk has had more good news and theres lots of bid speculation and crazy numbers being bandied about, i,d just be happy to see them back over 40 in the short term!

Thats wierd,posting each other at the same time! Yes not planning to stay out of bae forever but after newsnight needed to grab a profit whilst it was there and it wasnt by about 10am! I,ve chopped and changed strategies so many times i cant really say what the best one is other than to admit i need more patience,and i want to make a killing on something,just hoping it,ll be nighthawk as its about half of my "gambling" money and being philosopical, if it didnt work out it wouldnt change my life(might be painful,but woulnt lose the house over it) but if they really did take off and i didnt sell them all on a 10p rise,then that would almost be life-changing,or at least give me lots more dosh to put into nat.grid whenever they,re less than 6 quid and have some safe income.....i wish i,d had the guts to sell my cosalt when they were 25p and we didnt hold the stock but the risk of the 00 being scaled back or not being there within a t-10 was too great!!

Interesting strategy,hope it works for you. Those big miners are so quick to react to the flow of the market and the day range is enormous at times. I,m holding my cosalt longterm on a base holding and short term i,m hoping for 25p as thats what they were during the 00 period on the bulk of them. Sitting on my mwana,monitise,plus,lonrho and all sorts of stuff really but dumped all open positioms as i dont want to chase the market at the moment. Bought a few things this week including some tanzanite,seemed quite interesting. Not going to shift my yielders and the biggest consolidated bets are balfours and nighthawk. It was reminicent of the spring this week,watching banks etc falling and the doom mongers making their predictions a plenty. I was holding cash after my panic sale of bae systems, but i couldnt wait to reinvest,so the next best thing was to be trading flat except needing to buy the balfour rights in a few weeks. Good to catch up mate and hope both our strategies work out,mine is to trade less!

Glad you didnt follow me into those others,well maybe you should become a hawker,the other ones,clocked your post,mind you on a day like today........the only ones of mine in the blue were mwa and hmv,why who cares! I dumped half of those unassured assuras and gambled the proceeds on tanzanite,another obscure miner to my collection! good weekend mate

LONGTERM,LONGTERM!

good to have you on board,been holding these for a couple of years now but i remember my father had them and always spoke highly of them and some story about hardy oil shares?????