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Do you mean to say that you too would have sold OCDO at 1340ish earlier if you had them?

Yes, heard that news re airports on Today programme R4 at 6am. I listen to business news on R4 every morning at 6.15 and 7.15. I also have TUI shares which have suffered this morning, I guess from that news and the extension of time to ground the 737MAX, a double whammy.
If I had rebought FEVR late yesterday, I think I would be selling them now at 1590, Fancy the round number of 1600 will be a profit taking point for many.
Feeling slightly smug that I might have called the bottom of the present dip in PLUS about right (maybe).
Simultaneously feeling stupid that I didn't follow my own advice from only 2or 3 days ago to buy OCDO for longer term holding as well as trading. Doh!

Sorry T, thinking too much about my stuff, of course you were out of OCDO this morning so couldn't take advantage of the nice 1350s peak,....as am I at the moment, hardly credit I sold as cheap as I did. Have a sneaking feeling that we wont see less than 1315 again for a longish time, think I will be buying at 1320
That youtube video link I sent is one with the lyrics for me to try singing along. Ha. I use the wording singing very loosely. I used to watch BB in the hour before the open and keep it on during trading but have got out of the habit, that tinkerly music they showed over the summaries started driving me crazy.

I love that phrase "a learning experience" My reply is "why do I always have to pay (usually heavily) to learn"? I know, we don't usually value things unless we pay a lot for them. I tend to buck this trend and live a simple life and kinda hate what share trading is doing to me but it does get me up in the morning. I will try to stick with your method for the week as previously mentioned, so my latest foray into FEVR is "off the books". Just been interrupted by an alert to remind me to buy PLUS below 918, at least I now have the funds to do this You watch, that will probably go down like a stone now.
One nice point of buying back into FEVR is that I now have all of them, 1250, in one account now.
Do you listen to music while you are trading? Probably distracting but this is what I am listening to at the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jHXu86O01w

I wouldnt normally admit to this, but as it's just you T thats reading this (!), I have just bought back into FEVR.

yes, agree wider gaps between buy and sell is better for your method of course. But to recognise low activity days and accept smaller margin on those days but still make a little must be a good thing. I sold OCDO too soon this morning but still made £225 ish.
FEVR is making me mad, still have my "original" 250 shares though. Nearly bought back in at 1540 but just couldn't do it, it felt wrong even though it now looks like a trend rather than a spike. Breakfast early for me then arrange my dignitas appointment...LOL

error I made was not buying back in at 1492 at the close yesterday

OCDO doing well, SadAct doing badly, FEVR has got away from me

have reset alerts on ocdo for 1315 and 1337

sold ocdo at 1340.26, had an offer at 1342 something but it rejected it after I accepted

dont follow fibo charts, no. Worrying a bit about FEVR getting away from me, first instinct yesterday was for me to buy at 1492 at the close. OCADO alert sell 1337.5

by the way, misinformed you yesterday, watching 40 shares, own 18 shareholdings, actively trading 7. Still too many.
I have set some alerts to warn me of price levels in OCDO, then I will shout at you.

morning, oil down? yes, trouble for TLW but I am waiting to buy back into HUR so swings and roundabouts I guess.
Your OCDO 1310 to 1335, is likely I think but now your range is down to 25.
I'm going bolder and suggest 1305-1340, but uts only a feeling. Setting some alerts for me and you.

I'm tracking about 40 shares, trading 18. The HUR holding is by far my smallest at 10,000 at 25p odd. I was really just practicing your system on them. Generally my holdings are £10k and up in a share so dealing charges are moot. As you know I prefer non stampy for previously discussed reasons. OK, so 18 is too many and to be honest 3 or 4 of those are long term holds that I don't frquently trade but I would feel vulnerable with anything less than 4 and I think 8 would be an aiming point for me. Also you have the advantage of the possibility of another shares activity while we are watching OCDO frozen in the 1320 to 1325 headlights.

of course, i'll help with anything I can, especially regarding alerts.
Bear in mind lately i seem to have had more than my share of good luck. No doubt we will talk about limits and ranges tomorrow morning.
Your 50p range seems large to me...great if you can get it but I am shooting for something more modest. 50p on 1320 is 3.8%, take off one stamp duty and you get 3.2%. I looked at how (and if) this would apply to my other shares. I know, I know, all shares trade in different ranges and with different degress of volatility. with HUR today it had risen by 2.2%. (Risen from open), its a no stampy so I thought it was worth a go. I cant remember but think it fell to -0.7% so thats when I bought back, not exactly a shake, downward spike, visually, but enough for me to make a turn. I tried the same with IGG but it has stamp duty and I was a bit gung ho about it, it could yet work well for me.
The alert feature on the IG trading platform is simply setting a threshold for the alarm to go off, either sells above x or buys below y for example. Because of my wide range of shares its the only way I can "watch" them. I tend to set an alert close to the level where I want to act. Then I may set another alert higher/lower depending on sell/buy, or set a limit trade or actually watch it closely and buy/sell from a quote. By the way, I find IG a more "honest" MM than ii. The old TDW was good, but ii are always paring the prices a bit and sometimes dont honour a buy. It is one advantage of using two platforms for trading the same share to see how they compare. Incidently the IG alerts have a "mobile push" so I get then whereever i go with the mobile, Town, Toilette, Garden etc.
Tullow, really kicking myself, I felt I should have sold at 55, regrets, I've had a few.
Your last point about PLUS vs OCDO, I find PLUS more volatile and it has no stamp duty (reg in Isreal). It also pays a stonking divi. It has other problems though.
Note to self: volatility isn't just variation of high to lows, its variation over time. We all want to invest in a share that moves a lot several times a day, the most I have managed in a day is 3.5 trades on the same share. I know someone who claimed 18!! Maybe he made 50p each time. LOL

it was £14946.50 NOT £1496.50, sorry

My alert reminded me to buy some PLUS at 918 yesterday but I was skint. Now I have some funds.
T, if you are wavering at buying at what you see as high prices at the moment, why not buy some just to get you into the game?

My daily report, got back from my outing to a friend’s house. I was lucky as alerts to stock prices went off at their house and I used her wifi to actually trade.
OCDO, watched the little beauties all day and never traded them. However, if I had some loose funds during the day, I would have bought more OCDO at 1310. I was hoping to sell at 1338 or more, the same as yesterday, I know, the range today was small but I have some bought at 1318 and am keen to try treacle’s system for a week of taking smaller profits, but hopefully many of them. I had an alert to warn me to OCDO getting above 1334, this went off at the end of the day but I never saw 1338 or more. I nearly took 1335.5 which, after stamp duty would have given me a 0.6% profit roughly. I didn’t, rule 8 tells me tomorrow is another day. If I had been at my laptop at this I would probably have had a limit sell active at 136.5 and it MIGHT have triggered but I was working on my smartphone.
FEVR, didn’t know what to expect, which way it would go etc. Thought it might have plunged further so I was sort of trigger happy to sell and couldn’t sell on that 1498 peak first thing, I thought it would go higher. Anyhow, I couldn’t buy more in the dips (no funds) so later sold on the apparent spike at 14.50, I sold 1000 at £14.95 could have done slightly better this raised £1496.50. Now I was hunting for a shake. At 15.15 they were down to 1470 so I bought 1015 shares which cost £14934.52. Lucky for me they started heading up again and I was ready to sell again, this time at 16.10 selling 1015 shares at 1498 raising £15205.15. I pondered buying at 1492 in the last minute of trading but didn’t. Wish I had in a way as I am kind of worried about being out of them.
OK, so at the start of the day I had 1250 shares, 250 in an isa account and 1000 in my ii normal account. This is a stupid way to operate and is yet one more example of my crazy system. So I haven’t made much , in fact £270 but that is more than 0.
HUR, had 10,000 HUR (another no stampy share), thought I saw a peak at +2.2% so sold at 26.276 for £2622.60, then I looked for a shake, bought 10,137 at 25.789 costing £2619.33. Saw them going back towards earlier peak, acted too fast sold 10,137 at 26.191 raising £2649.98. Now I want to buy them back but they have carried on up to 27.26 closing at 27. I shall be hoping to buy back in tomorrow but think I might hace missed some profit. However, a small profit was made, £27.38. I think the number of shares I have in HUR is too small to be messing around with but a profit is a profit.
WJG, Had an auto sell set up at 257.5 but it didn’t get there. Complication here is that a 5.8p divi goes ex on Thursday.
IGG, sold 3284 shares at 692.8 on a mere 1.2% rise, I have delusional expectations to buy back below 679 but think I might have made a mistake. I did buy them at 570 something but that was 10 months ago. But I have liberated some funds now...to be continued

Yes, I have a note to self to sell at 1338, not much time left though

Sold again at ,,1499