RE: The anti-Shorting Petition26 Apr 2014 13:07
Morning Opium - did you lend Russell some of those shorts (pardon the pun) of yours from the Oxfam shop for his holidays. Somebody was telling him to go to JD sports for something chicer than sports direct.
The BP board eh more than its fair share of double identities over the years and got a little like the rsa bb with alleged know all industry insiders trying to bamboozle people both ways which you can only laugh at when the share price never reflects the comments made - good or bad but usually bad. Granny still holds as I suspect does my old mate Bonz1957 but see that you sold to buy more tesco. Used dougb's technique a couple of times to combat my hmv shares being shorted. LOL set "artificially" high sell targets to stop my shares being shorted and, in the case of that share, they actually triggered 99% of the time. Pleasantly enough, I came home one day to find they had rocketed up over 50% over 24 hours or so, there were numerous double digit percentage rises in a day and the piece de resistance - came home one afternoon to find them up over 200% in the space of a couple of hours. It seemed to annoy netley, philski and thistle but what the heck do I care. If you are going to try it then I know that my broker will only allow a trading plan to remain in place for a maximum of 90 days then it lapses and you would have to set another "artificially" high sell order. There is a tiny charge for each trading plan set but well worth it to ensure that any shares you are holding in a nominee account are not being shorted without your consent or knowledge. atb