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I set alerts at the beginning, i.e.now, then refine them after the open if need be. Might yet set a limit buy on ocdo to catch a downward spike at, say 1287.
Playing Manu Chao, loud.
Have my deer stalker hat on too, that I got for Christmas. As to what else? I'll leave that to your imagination

I have set some limit sales, in process of setting alerts. Realised why I didn't do as well as expected yesterday....I wasn't playing any music! Got my red braces on today, and have a little profit that I,m cool about losing so standby, I often do something a little off the wall on fridays, watch this space. GLA

Didn't do much on market, other problems prevailed but think they are sorted now. Did continue to monitor OCDO buy price and nearly bought some more on 2 or 3 occasions around 1291. I didn't buy, you tell me if it closes down then it will open down, so should be cheaper first thing tomorrow (your rule 5, subsection8.1 paragraph 2 LOL). However, I did buy IGG, just after an alert at 678. Happy to be back in here, I sold them last week and they go ex divi 30 jan. I know you don't go in for dividends but they produce an interesting dynamic in the share price that is quite predictable. WJG is a case in point right now.
WJG did what I thought, I very sold as the sell price got towards 250. I had a limit sale active at 252. After all, tomorrow is a rule 8.
I would have liked the extra funds from selling WJG to purchase elsewhere but it wasn't an issue in the end.
As mentioned I bought back into HUR after selling on a spike mon? (Rule 1)
So I didn't sell anything but feel well positioned for the next day, rule 8 again.
Yes ASC did do rather well, think I saw +12% at one point. Do you have any? No, sorry, Rule 10, own only one shareholding! LOL

I just type a long missive in and this website seized up, Oh well, I'll try again.
I use alerts because I am trying to trade too many companies at the same time. I usually focus on one share when I am trading and in case I miss an opportunity, I set alerts on things I want to watch. I usually set alerts at the start of the day, a little outside of my perceived action price. Then when the alert occurs, I will concentrate on that share (some hope), maybe watching it and then transact or set another alert or set a limit transaction or both. (as if on cue, just had an alert to remind me to consider buying IG below 679). I tend to set limit trades at the start of the day in a somewhat optimistic way which act as a backstop.
Alert system should be improved so that it can be programmed to go off if the rate of change of a share price exceeds a criteria, not rocket science! Also as all they do is to play a .wav file, why couldn't they speak " Alert, OCDO above 1399" for example....I know the answer to that...it'll never get above 1399. LOL

Shorting? That be devils work, I use to short (sell shares I didnt have) years ago when it was done on paper and on the phone but scared myself. Now, the nearest I get to spread betting is investing ,normally, by buying shares in the likes of IGG and PLUS500. Do you remember George Melly (died 2007), when asked what he thought of the London Marathon said: "The nearest I will get to the London Marathon, is not watching it on TV".
These days I am happy in my little niche and I bet Treacle will say something similar.

welcome aboard.
I use Interactive investors and IG, complicated reasons but three months ago I looked around at other market makers and in fact thought HL stood out as good value, this was only after they abandoned their charges for transfers. Bear in mind that you will at some point want to "transfer in" your paper shares into a market maker. All the makers allow this of course, wheather its HL, IG, Halifax etc etc. I like the "trading platform" of IG , just a big word for their website and its facilities. I have already got the paperwork to transfer my ii account to HL, although, strickly speaking the process is...open the account, then transfer shares into it either from paper shares or from another account. You could use a site like moneysaving expert to find out much more information and comparison of fees etc That's what I did. It get a little complicated in that although the all charge for a transaction (whether it be BUY or SELL), some charge a monthly or quarterly charge as well and may reduce the transaction charges for frequent traders. Depends how often you trade. I did 17 trades yesterday but that is not normal for me...monday 3, tuesday cant remember,today 4 so far. Good luck and welcome to the politest board on LSE.

There seems definate support around the 1300 level so I feel 1298/1300 will be the min for the day.
It has been a hard week for me this week, it has been a long time since I have really focussed on trading all day long for several days. I am glad today has been quiet, I don't think I could have survived another day like yesterday. (wish it was saturday tomorrow. LOL). I am happy because I have made more than twice my target for the week and am in a good position going forward. As it turned out, I didn't need to go out today (that may happen tomorrow) but there are always automatic limit trades. I checked the other day and about 35% of my trades are using the LIMIT system.

i've been holding my breath for you. Glad you took the plunge, I am having some tea and toast in celebration.
Glad TLW came back and even FEVR is starting to firm up again. Think I wont be selling WJG till monday or tuesday, as expected. My purchase of PLUS yesterday was mistimed, bought at 918.
Pleased to have bought HUR on the dip today but my shake analysis was somewhat off so I didn't get the perfect price but I'm OK with it.
Do you look at Dividend Data.co.uk to see which shares are going ex-divi, when and for how much?

do you ever buy in tranches? Say buy a proportion of what you would buy if you were absolutely sure of the shake. That proportion depends on your degree of confidence. At the moment I would be 65% sure we are at the bottom

My judgement is that we are just past the bottom of a shake, another day, you would be very happy to be buying below 1300

ah, I realise now that you are quoting the numbers on the left hand vertical scale of the graph. The bottom one at the moment is 1290, which will reduce as the actual share price approaches it just so that the graph data is all on screen. The scale range also changes during the day. These are effects of the actual share value at any moment. Glad I found the 1290. Did you buy at 1296? If you manage 1295, that would be a 20p difference from when you sold, good going, even after the 6.5p stamp duty on you next BUY.

I look at each of those, still can't see the 1290. I see 1303, just changed to 1302.5. I give up, you must be busy trying to determine the bottom of this shake. 1298?

my charts seem different to yours, I remember somebody came in yesterday and asked you a similar question

You say you saw the bottom on the chart alter to 12.90? Are we talking LSE intraday chart? Or are you looking at a candlestich display on some other chart, maybe HL? My LSE intraday chart shows bottom, i.e. min as 1304
Happy with TLW of course. WJG now going to delight me by starting to "swallow" the 5.8p divi.

I am impressed, looks like you got that decision dead right.

OCDO generally going in right direction, i.e.up.
WJG went ex divi, divi exactly reflected in dropped share price
SAGA and TLW recovering some of their falls of yesterday
misjudged FEVR but it's no more of a fall than I expected
ALERT reminded me to buy back into HUR which I sold a few days ago. 3 days between spike and shake....I prefer 30 mins like yesterday on FEVR.

I was just about to set a sell alert myself, I'm guessing you are going with your 50p range but minus a bit for flattish trading lately, so maybe you have set it at 1352. I could believe it couls easily get there but I am setting my alert at 1344

I bought some more, I got 1309.0016, it was indicating 1307 but these I bought on extended settlement so I had to suffer that 2p premium. Glad you're back in the game. Well done for calling a minimum (perhaps too early for slaps on the back but I think you nailed it)

I bought at 1317.5, I am afraid that I believed my alert system

1319 to buy