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Afternoon everyone, today is OK for me but nothing special. Firstgroup going quite well, maybe something to do with possible bugger special div than the touted 30p. I already held these in wifes portfolio and sold a few off at a good price, but missed the recent high. I have then bought back similar amount at 77. This was after sale of US stuff the special div is for. So will that special div have an ex date before or around time of that sale? Or will it be around the time they announce what that dividend might be? If still to come these could be a good buy at 77 as in theory you will get a fairly good return of over 30p a share quite quickly and still have your shares at whatever value they end up. If that happened I would think that should be a fair bit more than 77 less 30+, but if so it seems to good to be true>
M CWR is Ceres Power, I got them because of Primary Bid. I had a little patch where I was almost using PB as a tipster, buying after their offer, close to that offer price This seemed to work well for CWR and Yellow Cake they were both quickly up 10% or so. Got GSF (Gore Street) as well which has stuck where I bought it. I then stopped this strategy as I was low on funds. Since CWR has crashed down so now it does not look such a clever ploy anyway. I'm not ruling out doing it again though.
CWR is a hydrogen fuel cell producer, I am not entirely sure how all that works but am interested in Hydrogen as it has such clean emmission. CWR also has a tie in with Bosch, so I have heard, this makes me feel they are on the right track despite their fall, so have av'd down and sitting tight.

thats, last night ..... I keep missing things out

Watched a webinar last by AJBell one company TWD looks pretty interesting. Lightening and shrinking wiring through printed circuits, this should be a winner in EV's, planes and other equipment that compactness might be as important as weight. I missed the bit on Yellow Cake which is why I wanted to watch, I am the most disorganised person.

AMD and BB both up over 1% in North America and Xiaomi up 5.5% in HK, so I am feeling confident about today. I know they are all techy, but usually that bodes well for rest of market. They also knocked back a few quid off my losses yesterday

V £430 inc. fees, should have read, so was investment including fees, I don't get involved in anything but simple buying and selling.
No CFD or spread betting wizzes for me! I have enough trouble with the simple stuff as you can see.

My AMD and BB shares have turned positive, maybe we will have a bounce!

That was £430 inc. fees, you can see why I misbuy.
I also typed lost £33k loss, but saw that before i had you all think I had £million portfolio, I have some way to go for that yet

T, never got any steel company, it is probably going on back burner for now as I have next to no share cash left.
Not sure I want to risk any rainy day money yet. Will look at Thyssen, I do like the idea of a German company.

Hi, late start for me today, looked at my big old losses.
Thought maybe I would buy £500 more of biggest loser checked and that turned out to ENT.
And I came to London today as I had to go to Guys and you've guessed it to ENT dept.
This is a perfect combination for me to buy a share who needs DYOR!
So clicked on buy and bought 30 (had sold 30 on 27/4...so was kind of rebalancing)
£430 in fee's that was good as had looked at sale and was £504 in.
Went ahead and then could see I had missed ENT shares and bought DUNelm.
We'll see now if that was a good bit of luck as I will leave I am building the DUN position and to a degree I had enough ENT.
I do need to concentrate or I will be DUN up by myself
Over 3k loss across all my p/f today, not that sure things will bounce tomorrow either, but lets hope.
Good afternoon and evening all.

C. Did not get to do anything was busy on other stuff so no SBRY yet. I have busy day tomorrow, back in London so probably will be same, Wednesday could be the day for me and SBRY. Already have Tesco in my wifes ISA, they did a chunky special divi, though that's partly what's kept price down. I meant to not reinvest it but forgot to take the auto reinvest off so now have plenty.

Morning, back in Oxfordshire at my mums, weather today for me is quite nice, I like that fresh just rained atmo.
Have been thinking about selling up my MKS and going SBRY, they've had some Czech muz buying up a stake. And also a new woman aboard can't remember her name. I like the idea they are going to department storise the bigger places, but maybe I am wrong.
Also I think I might like to get some steel company shares, not entirely sure why just appeals to me. If any of you have some suggestions, they'd be welcome.
Looking to sell BARC and FGP short term buys from last week this week if I can.
R. Yes my flat in London is not far from Fulham. Clapham North is okay, not as upmarket as most of Clapham, which suits me and my pocket. I always quite liked the idea of living in Fulham, my sister lived in Queens Club Gardens in the mid eighties and another friend lived near the Hurlingham Club, in a really nice house. All a bit out of my league but I had fun visiting them!
I came through Fulham on my way to mums home on Saturday on a bit of a nostalgic run. Haven't been that way forever!
Nice week everybody!

C. not sure about flair at least as far as end result goes. Have had Blackberry for a long time now since I had a Z10 phone a samrt phone with what I found an excellent OS. Unfortunately I was in a minority, people wanted BB for physical keyboard which really was them hanging on to the old days, or if they wanted a smart phone they wanted and Apple or maybe some Android all with loads of apps which BB never got their act together on. BB have changed now phones no more, some cyber security and some automotive software. Their QNX system which was behind Z10 OS seems to be promising to auto makers which I think they have a few tie ins to, Ford for sure and Merc, at least they were on the F! cars for while, not sure they are now? So I do think some time they will come good but it may be I will wait 10 years for that (from 2013).
Xiaomi, I got hugely excited about end of last year, loved the way they package their products bit like Apple, and they are well priced. They do some cool things beyond phones, scooters, don't have one, scales bought some for daughter, smart watches, little compressor I have that and quite a few other smarty stuff. they al;so are making a foray into EV's. For me they have gone of boil, bought at 20 and followed up to 30', but they have come down to 25's now. I hate android phones which I have one from them, still want my BB but no longer around.
So flair maybe some day but not yet.
Have 3 other foreigners which are pretty good AMD, PUMA and Philips, love them all and have for long run, but not much divs.

Missed out on T's TED, but at least caught some CWR in the 1070's looks to be shaping up okay. Will be long(ish) term hold as an averaging down of what I already have.
C good luck with your CMCX

T, typical, good tip! Missed by me as well,was thinking about but unfortunately not in front of my mind

Beautiful day here in my Clapham flat, my home really, where I rarely get to sleep in my own bed. I can get up and just slob around. Spend my life now at my mums in Oxon, as wife looks after mum as live in carer, so though it is the house i spent my youth in it is not home. It is also a tied cottage (though they are not run like this now) so cannot realistically spend any proper amount on changes as there will be a time when we need move out.
Had profits trimmed a bit by my BB shares and Xiaomi last night, so hopefully today will see me get back to where I was at beginning of week.
Still thinking on CWR and PMG for today in my usual dither, we'll see. Will probably just pick one.
Good morning and good luck to you all!

Ended day £500 up after looking to be £100 down with 15 mins to go.
After all that talk of retail I bought some RCDO., some engineering therapy.
Think I must dip into CWR in morning seems no reason for drop beyond similar fuel cell producers poor results.
CWR have Bosch as partner so should be safe (read all this on share chat on Yahoo so hoping it is correct)
Might get some PMG tomorrow too, they seems to be bubbling about a bit in the way things do sometimes before they rocket off (usually without me aboard)

Like JD too, had some but then sold too early quite a while back, I need look around and spot next Puma, might be some Chinese outfit

Understood, makes sense now thanks T, I have not been paying attention!

Bit more on BOO, you can't stop me now!!
I was on Debenhams website the other day looking for some closing down bargains. Half the stuff or more on there was Boohoo. don't know what the stores are like. Is this some tie up you are all aware of, might in mean BOO is looking at some B&M, thats bricks and mortar not Mr Leahys mob

T, yep TED sounds and look good, though they had some scandal too, founder a bit abusive. still I guess he is well out now?