bobo24 May 2011 22:16
Since resigning, Cawkwell has bought another 200,000 Kryso shares and claims to have taken a 500,000 share 'buy' spread bet with a bookmaker.
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• THE self-styled Evil Knievel has built up a legendary status among the legions of day trading share punters.
When Cawkwell moves on a stock his actions are minutely dissected on investor website chatrooms.
Having made a huge reputation with big stock market bets, often controversially 'short-selling' companies to make a profit on falling shares, Cawkwell, 59, has been compared with a Bond villain - a baddie of capitalism moving share prices for his own end from his London lair.
Though an inveterate gambler, Cawkwell says his investment decisions are based on the fundamental health of companies' balance sheets using his qualified accountant's eye.
However, his decision last year to become a public company director shocked his followers. 'The term poacherturnedgamekeeper does not begin to describe it,' said one commentator.
Cawkwell is holding out hope of a return to public-company life at some stage. 'Some people may think I am a scallywag but they are misinformed,' he said.
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