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If I'm close to knowing what I'm doing here, and I'm not totally convinced of that that enormous sell today at 213.80p should set the floor here for the rest of week. We must start tomorrow above that and stay above it for the time being otherwise MM's will lose money. The two buys after it were in the 217p / 218p range so who knows !!!!!! No more top ups for me guys. What is it I've got now Steello 2million+ that's a lot! !!!!!! I wish. Anyway I'm done four top ups later and just shy of 4500 shares at an average of 221p. Will do for me. Good hunting if you guys are still hunting. D.

Nail on the head Smokey, it's all about holding your nerve !!! See you've got the top up bug already. Bad news can come out about any share at any time most of the time without warning. To my mind we never had any bad news but alas we still got blootered' As far as I can see we are all in here reasonably averaged, although probably over extended slightly, but we are not stuck, one good days positive trading will put us all in profit, wish I could say that about my whole portfolio. D.

Yes welcome back Smokey, it's a wee bit of a mini roller coaster at the moment, you know the share well enough. Still loads of these smallish buy and sell trades I don't understand ?????? Download the link Steello uploaded very interesting stuff for the amateur. agm next Friday, ex divi the following Thurs. so you would think we would start down a different road maybe middle of next week. We'll see soon enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steello why did you have to predict it perfectly today? D.

Hi smoke was wondering what happened to you. Look nothing wrong with being careful there's all sorts of ways of doing this, you've taken your profit that may well prove to be the right decision who know. Steello, Soleman and I have been swept up in the optimism here and are fairly confident in our choice. I don't need stop losses retired for the moment ! So never far from the tablet. That was an interesting bit of news, rest of us missed that, it's good to know their reasons for selling. Biffa's been very flat since ipo 180p. It's traded between 173p and 177p since. Half yearly out 30th this month I'm hoping there's info in there that gives it a wee push. D.

I remember GKP very well I had been in and out of them half a dozen times before the much talked of £4 + share price I had 2850 shares at an average of £1.50p.when the share was at its peak. Anyway was to greedy never sold and the rest is history not sure but I think I ended up bailing around a pound. I remember thinking I was a fool at the time but at least I got some of my money back. It took me a long time to realise that I hadn't lost £10k but saved £3k. I made the mistake of being to attached to the share " won't do that again " D.

Hi Guys With what I am reading and learning from other people on here my feeling is the marked is set up as to make it almost impossible to know with certainty which way a share will move, obviously. It makes sense when you think of it, if the form/best horse won the race every time there would be no opportunity to bet. On here we all think the clues because that's all they are are telling us this share is undervalued therefore we are" betting" it will go higher. The MM's possibly thinks it's undervalued as well however it's their job to keep the market going at all costs and caste seeds of doubt by constantly raising and lowering the share price dramatically in some cases to create movement in the market resulting in buys and sells. Recent examples of keeping the market going at all cost would be GKP and XEL both companies were crippled with impossible debt levels for years and yet the markets kept going, both companies announced massive dilutions 85% and 95% yet the market kept going, in GKP's case it's still going, unfortunately in XEL's case not, well not the Pi's anyway. My view is that in the stock market I'm only betting on a grander scale than I am when I'm putting a bet on in the bookies. In both cases I study the form and place the bet. All that being said I believe I've made a good bet here, do your worst mister MM I'm going nowhere till I get a good return for my stake here. D.

Sorry steellol, I know I said I'd signed off till Friday but I thought I had to comment on the supposed " sell " pattern this afternoon. I know your still working so you would not probably have seen it. Early afternoon just as we started rising again hundreds of tiny sells from 1 to 300 shares started to go through, it was endless. Price went down again. I'm not a believer of the conspiracy theory where shares are concerned but it was definitely unusual. My buy went through as a sell this morning we must have bought within minutes because there was a five grand trade on the same page as mine also a sell but when I rechecked your post it was exactly your price. Probably just a coincidence both of our buys went through as sells !!!!!!!! To put a top hat on it two enormous trades after the bell yes you've guessed both sells. Aye right. D.

I'm with you Steello, I'm all in if we have missed something we will soon know about it. No more hoping for dips anymore, sorry to anyone waiting for a lower price We've been stuck in this 210p - 225p range for weeks now obviously it could still go sub 200p but only on negative sentiment, I'm no seeing that. I'm out of here till Friday afternoon, no more business here till I see which way it goes. Back on chat Friday. D.

Guys I see the Donald thinks Nigel would make a good middle man between the USA and us. Yes I do believe he would be the perfect middle man but only between me and the kettle !!!!!!!!! D.

Plenty of diversity in those three companies guys. Will have a look over all three next couple days. i make a point researching at least four companies every week, most fall by the wayside for one reason or another but some make it onto my radar. my last three buys have been mistakes not because the're bad companies far from it, I just got my entry price wrong. Patience not my strong point. D.

Laird one of mine misjudged the bottom now stuck in at £1.67p. Achieved a wee peak last week on announcement of a new director, chat seemed to think he's some kind of merger & acquisition guru, whether he is or not it got the share from the 130's. to the 140's. I'd have a look at that rns and the chat around it. Lrd supposed to be an in and out for me but alas another mistake !!!! Soleman's I'll have a look at your targets. Better day on Genl today not in there for much but the spike was still welcome. D.

Steello, Debt restructuring seems to have been the reason for ipo. It's all in there in the ipo prospectus, It's a lengthy complicated tome for a working class guy like me. A £78m. note was paid off in full by the proceeds. There are other important financial matters, loans, drawdown loans etc. Dealt with which I am still working through. I'll be back if I come up with anything relevant. That was a dip, but not dippy' enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D.

Sorry I was wrong, Advent " ARE "still the holding company for dfs. Our discussion of last night sent me back to the books for another look in finer detail. Should have done it before I replied, sorry. The ipo prospectus of march 2015 states that Advent are the holding company after submission to lse. Can anyone shed any light on this holding company situation, it appears a lot of companies are set up this way. My personal experience of this was during my forty years working for RR. they changed their company set up three times finally becoming RR holdings. Nothing changed as far as I could see I just assumed it was for accounting reasons D.

Loads of information on that dfscorporate Web site. Would advise anyone in already or thinking about getting in to have a look on there. I think Wikipedia is out of date Re dfs ownership ?????? Advent owned dfs prior to ipo would seem they held on to 12% after. That made me think their big holding reduction wasn't as relevant as it could have been. they had their cake and are eating it again ! Yes like yourself I would rather Re investment in the company as opposed to buyback. D.

Fellow dfs'rs Has anyone read the itinerary for AGM. ( available dfscorporate. ) There's obviously loads of proposals from the board but the one I've picked up on on first read is the bod's intention to seek permission to instigate a possible buyback of up to 10% of current available shares. I'm personally not that keen on buyback but at least it shows that the bod is expecting good cash flow in the future. D.

SIx o'clock start sunday morning Steello I'm impressed. Still do aim but no more oil minnows, I've made two big mistakes since gambling/investing again. Into LRD using your tactic but alas in to early, stuck in in the high 160's share currently mid 140's I'm confident it will come good eventually. Stung by esure, was really confident quick money to be made during the gocompare de merger but what do I know. Goco tanked and esur flat as a pancake. Again I'm confident both companies will come good eventually, that word again. D.

My story remarkably similar to your own, I only got back into stocks and shares 4 months ago, been early retired now a couple years n' just got fed up with getting no interest from the banks.Freed up 20k from pension and here I am. Don't do the speculative stuff anymore, been down the gkp,xel, etc, etc route sold out years ago, feel bad for the guys over on those boards there money is gone in the wind. I would love to have topped up on last week's drop but my last £1500 was waiting for iqe to hit 28p. Only got as low as 30p so badger not in, low and behold shot up to 36p. on Fri. 20% in a week that would have been nice, wasn't to be! Looking for a dip into 214/215 range next week to get the last of the pot in here, if it doesn't happen I'll be happy enough I'm already in with a reasonable amount. D.

Thank you Soleman I knew you were the man for Steello's query. I'm expecting at least one maybe two dips in the price leading up to ex divi date. I've freed up a wee bit of cash to take advantage if that happens. The £2.40p. Paid by ii's a few weeks ago I think will be the floor in the short term after divi caffuffell is out the way, it's certainly not true value, what is !!! D.

Think Soleman's the best bet to answer your query about cancelled trades beyond my remit sir. D.

Good evening Steello I'm chuffed that you've finished the week with a "washed face" onwards and upwards for the dfs boys. The badger has done slightly better I've turned a five ton loss into a gain of threepence halfpenny. If I wasn't retired already it would be on the cards. D.