Member Info for jamesmaggs

Anyone still holding TALV?

Had seeing machines at 3p and sold too early!! I quite liked them too.

Had an in/out on TYM recently,florospar or something like that....what does it do? Mind you if we're talking rare ones I'm mindful after losing what I made on those noventa ones and tanzanite! Bought some LAD last week.

And I had some cluff as well, gas from deep coal.

No chainsaw this weekend langyy,just the spade and sweat on my brow!! Interesting arbor culture going on up your way Lego!! Good one AA!! Mos,tempted on any of them? I had the pure circle ones in the past, something to do with sweeteners/food additives or was that something else can't remember now.

I noticed the IC piece on GRPH too mate. Good point Lego but if I'm honest I've probably lost more than I ever made on chasing specs but made up for it with a couple of huge gambles,one was jpr from five to doubles and the rest by going in heavy on quality stuff like these,clln,imperial tobacco,shell type of ones then reducing when they popped back up. I'd find it impossible to wait for any spec to 8 bag as I'd have sold them well beforehand unless I thought they'd pay a six percent div!!!! I think we're a right pair of country boys with our trees AA!!

Well I've stuck my beak back into them and the graphene nano ones in case they follow that IPO. I remember when carbon fibre first came out in fishing rods and now its everywhere!! I think the Aussie has lost interest in shares after a uranium one had a placing too many..they suffer from them too!!

Any thoughts on the graphene ones?

Whittled down the mains to 25 holdings and the sipp below 50 now. More meaningful makes more sense and less to fret over,having said that if I fret I get shot nowadays,not worth worrying over(says the bloke with Zimbabwean gold minersetc etcetera!!).

What about those graphene things...bought stratmin and GRPH in case they follow that IPO that I didn't buy!

More tree planting planned,leaving the chainsaw behind this weekend mate!!

If we're still around we'll be moaning about selling too quick and buying too early and getting cut on falling knives!!!!

Sad story there mate but I bet he enjoyed the buy in price despite the outcome.

I keep an eye on the annual yield from current main acc holdings as a base mostly of stuff I don't sell but I'm always tinkering around the edges to try and increase the annual yield. The best share is one which has a rising yield and a rising SP...bp was that but not as much now but still holding big time. I think barcs is another as it should be 3 quid and if it pays 11p next year it probably will be? AA I think we're all astute on profits as we've seen them evaporate so many times so we take that judgement without believing the dream?

I believe in divs and gut instinct mate. Divs provide a security blanket if they don't move the right way as well as income. Gut instinct is that moment you chuck your hard earned into the abyss.

Vog only a few as haven't added recently! Mwana loads as I have added loads fall into recovery plus embryonic in some ways...problem comes with reading a website and starting to believe!!

In the time it took to compile that post there's a new subject I see? Some up,some down,overall slightly down on value but up on hope factor!!!

Well mate I'd say there are three types of share gains that dreams are made of. Firstly the spike,the ultimate being the tulips but all I know of that is in the Wall St film. Secondly something embryonic like an explorer finding some,I don't follow them nowadays but I did play around with gulf keystone in single figures which makes you wonder on the if's or maybe buying something like Vodafone when it was just an idea?! Thirdly there's the big recovery one,best example in living memory is next which my late father often went on about his mate who bought a load at 6 or 8p when they were priced to fail...imagine that with divs reinvested?!!! Truth is we don't live in dreams and any of the three that went beyond our realistic aspirations would be whittled down and sold off chasing the 'next' one with the proceeds?

Well rok and Jarvis spring to mind too and yell was quite a chunky one plus rbs might as well be if you kept any pre-crash,the rock,Bradford and bingley,hbos....yes mostly banks I guess. Mind you I've a few tiddlers hanging around on my sipp with zero value....how annoying is that! Might ask my broker to move them into a newly created graveyard account!!

Of course! It reminds me of all the innuendo around a certain support services share that went pop a year or so back called Connaught!!!