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The only thing top heavy about Ladbrooks is its cashpile, which is substantial. They can use that to buy back their own shares, increase their dividend, or simply invest it. Market makers are waiting to see what they do before setting off the afterburners on this one.

This stock will bounce up to 200 pence +. The World Cup is filling the Bookies' coffers. Don't let the day traders shake you out.

This recent hude 8 million plus purchase is extraordinary. Should not the share price at least respond? Well, no, it will not, because the whole machinery of the markets is corrupted by insiders, alas!

This whole game is corrupted. Clearly, these market makers have inside information and act on it to the detriment of everyone else, hogging it all and screewing everyone else. What democracy is this? Sham and rotton to the core run by crooked queeerrs like that libDem pricck who the oxbridge wnker brigaage praise. Where are the regulators? Where's the oversight to ensure fair play and transparency. These low bbastardds are crimping everyone. Binladdin ought to blow them all up. They are worse than pimps, lower than pigs,

The spread is narrowing a wee bit. Still rather on the large side, but moving in the right direction.

I just read the email, and have answered. - Good trading. Stay in there:-)

Be patient....

Yes, there was an email address, appended as yahoo.co.uk. And the message read 'Gratis books welcome'. That is the one I sent the message to. - Good trading!!!!

BP, a great company all round, but its present woes are weighing on the entire energy sector. If this were to persist, then BP will continue to slide, say around another ten percent or so. At these levels, serious talk will begin of consolidation in the industry as a whole. This is my take on events. I see BP hitting around 320 ish before any meaningful rebound.

Thanks for the twitter!. I sent a message to the email address provided there.

I have not posted here for a while, and I take on board your comments. The markets' roller-coaster, and the shenanigans of machines, are quirky interludes. If you study thermodynamics, you will see over a given time that the mean establishes itself over time. The transient spikes cannot persisit because they are inherently unstable. And as for machine, I am sure I can beat any machine because they are far, far from being smart. They are brutish at best. In fact, I wrote a book (of fiction) that takes this view in a very original way, and if you care for a copy, send me your email and I will post you one free of charge. - Good trading in the days ahead!

With commodities like Iron Ore moving away from the restrictive practice of yearly contracts to a more spot market orientated trading pattern, the miners were really on a roll, and were in effect becoming money printing machines. The Rudd government's proposal to 'claim the a fair share of these profits' for the nation is in fact reasonable, and Rudd will not back down. The miners are simply smarting and the short traders taking advantage of this bile and petulance on the part of the miners to kick the share price around. The fact of the matter is, the world needs the iron ore and other commodities in increasing amounts, and there will inevitably be a steady rise in these commodities over time, as demand will always keep pace with supply, and moving to the spot markets will augment this persistent and systemic price rise. Thus, once the smarting miners calm down and accept the inevitable, the share prices will rise back up to refect the fundamental worth of the majors like Rio, BHP, Xstrata, etc. - It is claimed that parliament is a formum for male sixth formers. Well, the stock market is a formum of femaale sixth formers, and their hormones are far more fickle and unpredictable in the short run. - Semper Eaden, and Queen Elizabeth the First would say!

What I witnessed today following the employment numbers from the US was the very thing that Merkel and her kind are rattled by, namely naked short sellers taking an utterly absurd number (one month's number) and destroying over 3 percent of the Dow to make profit. It is an extremely lamentable fact that capitalism indeed will consume itself with its own greed, and ridiculous antics like this will only make politicians like Merkel and Sarkozy more determined than ever to clip the wings of finance and the stock market. The blindingly stupid and feckless greed of the short sellers will ruin a good earner for the rest of us. An utterly preposterous day. Nothnig of economic or market value is added. Utterly ridiculous spectacle of shameless greed.

That sounds right to me. Go with your instincts, I say.

WIth companies like BAE, with multiple listings, there is a lot of arbitrage operating all the time. Value is added, and subtracted, on a daily basis, but overall long term fundamentals must drive this company, because it is asset and talent rich. So I see a sustained pick up for the stock back up to 380+ in a timely fashion. I for one am holding on. Unfortunately out of cash, so cannot purchase any more. But we remain content with the allocation that we have! Who do you think will triumph in the world cup? I think I'll take a punt this time round on a team.

The Aussie SuperTax has all the potential for setting off a chain reaction round the world. This is a real tug of war,. On one side mining is at the heart of the world economy, so it is here to stay, and with the likes of China and India, very much a growth business. Also, as miners move away from yearly contracts to the spot markets, the margines are overwhelmingly in their favour. It was this latter point (the other side) that prompted the Aussie government to stake a claim to some of the immense profits about to deluge the sector. Thus, at the current time, notwithstanding any shocks or panics to the market, this affair has grown into a political battle. This will clearly take time to resolve itself. But in the meantime, the world economy will continue to grow, and cash be coming in to the coffers of the miners. The 64K question is: how will that immense windful been shared out.

I don't see the likes of Bitish Aerospace placing all their egss, and assests, in a single market the way you do. BAE have embarked down the road of diversification. They are well established in their 'Home' markets, but diversification is the key. Investors will be looking to long term potential in these new sectors I mentioned earlier. Lastly, governments are simply unstrustworthy and a pack of liars. Defence spending metamorphoses via so many euphemisms and other slight-of-hands and name-changes so that the market remains the same size, only changes. Let's see where the share price goes over the coming weeks. Have a good bank holiday.

Well, I am pleased with the rise today. The management are key to this welcome development, and proves the point concisely and powerfully that a good management team can turn around the lumbering of ships, and put in on course for great things.

Given today's impressive action on the markets, it must make many wonder why BAE is not carried on the general rise. This company is resource rich, both in terms of technology and personnel. And to be perfectly candid, I do not buy the publiized and populists slogans of 'defence cuts.' What we are actually witnessing is a shift in defence spending away from the traditional items, and into less tangible ones, such as cyber warefare and defence, etc. BAE is well positioned here, and 400 pence a share is a realistic target for the stock in the short-medium term.

Isn't this stock a wee bit on the low side? I know that there are onging issues with some of the moral veracity and scruples of the management, but such antics bedevils all 'defence' companies. Given the bounce in the market today, its a shame BAE did not share in the common overall rise, or at least remain flat. - I thnk I'll have a nice cup of tea and a buscuit and think this one over.