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ive got £100 on a 5 mins sprint on the AUD/USD

I would have head ache if it were real money. I lost on the gold sprint only just though .10 of a point. others currently showing a loss About to have a dabble at pairs dealing and mean reverting pairs. Thank goodness it’s not real money lol

got a 2 hour binary on All session Ford Motor Co £2 a point

got £20 on gold rising on sprint markets

Hi hot it’s just getting my head around it all, with share you have the money and buy and sell and use stops, simple. Spreads more to it, that all Points, Stops, limits, slippage, trailing stops, trailing stops, guaranteed stops, margin requirements, Risk margin, slippage margin. Shorting Daily prices. Aug Sep Dec prices etc Being aware of dividends (which you pointed out) Using a stop order to open up a position or a stop to close using a limit to open or using a limit to close. The different ways to trade on leverage. Futures, binaries, options. FX trading. haven heard of buterflies but understand hedge shorting Nothing really complex just needs a little time to practice it all and I have been busy PS I have 2200 Sainsbury shares. I hope rumour plays out. but guessing its just a ramp Good luck with your positions on IG all sound good to me Clue in relation to GS what news from middle earth hotentot ?

Hot in response to one of your earlier posts post Yes emotions play a massive part in ones trading. The problem also is that computer programs don’t do much better, if they did we would all buy the program. A recent tip I picked up was to each morning imagine it’s not your money, but trading is your job, you have a boss to report to each day and if you lose too much you get the sack. This brings me back to why I do better with my other half’s P/F than my own. When someone close to you puts all their faith in your trading abilities the sense of responsibility lays heavy,I take more care and less risk. With my own money I take more risk and trade more frequently. Maybe I should hand over my cash to my other half might do better that way lol Since last post I bought and sold RR at a small profit, bought into PMG last night at 218 happy with that Also happy with my HSBA buy up 13p but unhappy with GSK drop Dummy spreads still playing around with the weird tickets, one trade on HSBC which completely disappeared of its own accord? I have done a couple on ftse 250 indices DFB , plus bought and sold a few shares. It’s so different from my simple trading account with all the different ways to trade but I ill prevail in time. Ps have a long on oats and AUG long on some soybean meal. Will look at fund My other thought is what to do with what’s left of my dummy £10k. So i am going to buy 10 of the most obscure oddities i can find and see what pure luck will do lol

Apologies guys and gals for not responding. I got weigh laid (somebody offered me some money to do some work; yikes!! I mean real cash. The folding variety, not the stuff that comes and goes in ones P/F (mainly goes) I am concocting a post as I type and will be back ( like Arnie)

Conservative earnings estimates In the circumstances, it’s hardly a surprise that analysts are upbeat on Safestyle’s prospects. Ahead of this week's pre-close trading update, analyst Toby Thorington at Edison Investment Research was predicting a rise in current year pre-tax profits from £15m to £17.1m to produce EPS of 15.7p. However, these profit estimates are based on a £7.7m increase in full-year revenues to £132.5m. In the first half alone, Safetsyle’s revenues rose by £5.6m, so these forecasts are looking too conservative. Edison had already upgraded their EPS estimates by 9 per cent following Safestyle's full-year results at the end of March and I would not be at all surprised to see another upgrade for this year and next post the interims in September. Currently, Mr Thorington expects the company to report revenues of £139m in 2015, to produce pre-tax profits of £18.7m and EPS of 17.4p. On this basis, the shares are trading on a modest 11.5 times 2014 earnings estimates, falling to only 10.5 times 2015 forecasts. Moreover, with the benefit of a cash-rich balance sheet and robust cash generation, the dividend is forecast to rise to 8.7p in 2014 and 9.7p in 2015. This implies a forward dividend yield of 4.8 per cent, rising to 5.4 per cent in 2015. In my opinion, a prospective PE ratio of 11 is far too low for a business in an earnings' upgrade cycle and one where the share price is well supported by a bumper prospective dividend yield. Target prices Having initiated coverage on Safestyle when the price was 138p ('Window of opportunity', 23 December 2013), and last updated the investment case when the price was 195p (‘A clear cut buy’, 28 May 2014), I still feel my fair value target price of 230p is achievable. If the shares reach that level they would be trading on 13 times 2015 EPS estimates and that’s before factoring in the likely possibility of earnings upgrades later this year. Such a rating is not punchy at all once you factor in the robust cashflow performance of the company and burgeoning positive net funds position. In fact, Edison forecasts operating cashflow of £18.3m this year, rising to £20.1m next, only a third of which is needed to cover the cost of the aforementioned progressive dividends. As a result the company’s net cash position is expected to more than double from £4.7m at the start of this year to almost £11m by the end of December. That’s the equivalent of 14p a share. Strip this sum out of Safestyle’s shares price and the cash adjusted forward earnings multiple drops to a modest 10.5for this year and a bargain basement 9.5 times EPS forecasts for 2015. Offering 28 per cent potential share price upside to my target price, I rate Safestyle shares a strong high yielding income buy on a bid-offer spread of 178p to 180p.

Shares in double glazing company Safestyle UK (SFE: 180p) have been trending down modestly on profit taking since peaking out close to an all-time high in the first week of June. But with the 14-day relative strength indicator (RSI) no oversold, and positive divergence on the chart, I feel this is an opportune time to buy in ahead of the half-year results on 18 September. Indeed, I strongly feel a return to this year’s high of 217p, and to my fair value target price of 230p, is fully justified. In a pre-close trading update yesterday the company confirmed that revenues have increased by almost 9 per cent to £68.3m in the first six months of 2013. With the benefit of margin growth, expect profits to ramp up when the company reports its interim results. Safestyle’s products continue to prove as popular as ever with its market share increasing from 7.85 per cent to 8.24 per cent since the start of this year, according to data from FENSA. This is a continuation of a strong trend as the company has boosted its share of the market for nine consecutive years and almost doubled it since 2007. As the lowest cost national retailer and maker of uPVC windows and doors, Safestyle has a cost advantage over smaller firms and the advantage of being able to target market its audience in a more focused and cost-efficient way given its greater scale. The decision to expand into the affluent south and south east market is playing a part too as these geographic areas have benefited most from the housing boom and the robust UK economic recovery. A record order book, improvements in margins, volumes and prices all highlight the material change in buyer's confidence in the housing market overall, as well as more solid employment prospects in the UK. In turn, existing homeowners are feeling more comfortable when it comes to making discretionary spending decisions such as buying new windows. They have to be because the average spend per order on Safestyle’s replacement windows is over £2,800. Furthermore, householders are far more likely to make major capital spending decisions of this nature if it can add value to their properties. In estate agents speak, this is the ‘move or improve’ scenario for homeowners. That's something a rising property market guarantees which is good news for Safestyle, the largest retailer and manufacturer of uPVC windows and doors for the UK homeowner replacement market. Last year, the company installed 250,000 frames. It’s also worth pointing out that housing market transactions are a lead indicator for repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) spending, so with industry experts expecting the regional housing market recovery to continue for some years to come, then this should feed through to further growth in the replacement window and doors market too. Conservative earnings estimates In the circumstances, it’s hardly a surprise that analysts are upbeat on Safes

Hot and Gs thought I had posted yesterday but I am hacking into BT Wi / Fon whilst out and about and the connection just disappears sometimes. Gs interesting P/F in wifeys Sipp, hope its doing well. I have done much better in my partner’s accounts than my own. I take much more care and less risk, has to be a lesson there I guess! I bought more RR yesterday on a 3 chart signal at 1023 but charts can be a bit deceiving in holiday periods when volumes are thin but here is hoping. Hot still trying to get to grips with all terminology and peculiarities of spreads. There appears to be endless ways of making a trade, so currently I am working through their manuals or should I say trying to decipher them, before I put my hard earned shekels onto the table. I will prevail though, I hope? will look at sspg

Yes you were right i was using the Wall Street daily (sep) but i still made £5 lol

thanks for that, Dam Rookie i am !! Yes i will go live soon then i can reduce my fretfull 5 to 6 hours of toss / turn awake sleep to absolutley no sleep at all

Hot many thanks for that extremely useful and helpful information (and you are not interfering but helping) thanks. The divi thing could be a real danger if I wasn’t aware and now I know where my Ftse 250 long disappeared too( but as yet I can’t find any history of how the trade went ?) GS I award you the Golden Balls award for bravery for buying more smiths if it was in your account you would have to declare and interest in the company or possibly even a takeover. lol Plus we must all buy more stuff form Amazon as Smiths supplies the packaging Viva la smiths Go Smiths GO GO GO !!

Te he closed it for £5 profit, good one

Hot it took me that long to find my way around the ticket but finally got it on at 17034 with a stop at 17071 and a limit of 17013 currently in profit,was in £10 profit now its going back up and in loss as i type, good fun though . oh know its blue again, now red now blue £5 up going to try and close it now in blue

thanks hot ill try that and see what happens, will let you know. I tried a long on the Ftse yesterday but it disapeared at the end of the day so i must have presed the wrong key. got two dummies in on RR and HSBA ( which will now both be in a loss PS i am quite pleased to see a MACD histogram on the T/A

GS ladbrook should be worth watching for sure. It’s just the markets are so up and down lately and now the holiday period is on us volumes with be thin which confuses everything. Hot I would hold onto ITV as there is a takeover rumour just started today. Took mini profits on VOD and AV by way of stops today. Took stops off RR due to volatility Safestyle up 10% but it will go further as IC have done a new article on it today, so holding IG I have opened a demo acc and trying to get my head around points instead of shares and £ etc but they don’t put margin on the demo acc so it’s not quite real . Good luck all

everything up :::: ICAP is shedding more of its brokers and shutting down some of the instruments it trades as the world's largest interdealer broker battles to keep its biggest revenue-generating unit profitable.

Decent RNS out on safestyle could be a good time to get in now ( which is much lower than my buy in price) also IC will propably update them now Again thanks for that, 50 p a point sounds even better for my self as a newbie. Ill get my head around it all no doubt, just on IG but i will take a look at finspread now you mention them

Wed, 16th Jul 2014 07:00 RNS Number : 4151M Safestyle UK PLC 16 July 2014 16 July 2014 Safestyle UK plc Half Year Trading Update Safestyle UK plc, (AIM: SFE), the leading UK-focused retailer and manufacturer of PVCu replacement windows and doors for the homeowner replacement market, today issues a trading update for the six month period ended 30 June 2014, in advance of its Half Year results announcement on 18 September 2014. Revenue for the first half of 2014 is expected to be £68.3 million, an increase of 8.9% on the previous year (2013: £62.7 million). Profit growth for the six months is expected to show good progress, reflecting the Company's underlying strong trading performance and improved margins. Safestyle's market grew by just over 4% in the six month period. Following a strong first quarter, as anticipated the rate of growth slowed in the second quarter. Against this background, the Company continued to increase its market share in the period to 8.24% (7.85% as at 31 December 2013 for the preceding 12 months)