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T...Gino here, yes I realised that slip. I see we have been on this board for 10+ months now and the OCDO board for a few weeks prior to that. I understand and kinda approve of your system. I tried it myself for at least a month back in feb/mar. I can't quite remember why I stopped, I know I was having trouble to easily measure how well or badly I was doing. Also, it irritated me having to get the platform to BUY "by value" rather than by "number of shares". Perhaps, I think, this got tedius as I dealing in several shares concurrently. I guess I feel I have to be doing something else with my time whilst waiting for share A to rise/fall. So for me, that means trade with share B and C etc., simultaneously. I remember trying to trade with one share holding on "your method" with the rest on "my method" but that didn't seem to help. Also, with my penchant for trading in tranches, that just added extra layers of complication. Ha. I'm not complaining really, well, a little bit maybe.
Roast chicken tonight although I voted for a traditional sunday lunch. Have a good weekend.

T.... We certainly have different trading styles don't we? Where you see stress, I see excitement. (note to self...it's certainly not exciting making a big loss though). Yes, I did say that I was trying to reduce the number of my holdings and I have exited three (CMCX, GRG and MRW) since Christmas but gained one (ARB). I am expecting to exit TCM very soon and hope to sell TTG as soon as it shows me a soupçonne of profit. I think I will also sell ARB as it is much more tightly reated to BTC than I expected. Perhaps a little more research was called for there!
Spurred on by CSDI's actually defining a strategy for each of his holdings, I am part way through an analysis of mine. I have become somewhat blasé with my stock picks. I think I could make more profit with more decipline.
Me too...trading PFC after the SFO event...it is the non stampy aspect that aided my attraction to them, as it has with ASC (and previously FEVR). With no stampy it is much more profitable to do more micro spike/shake trading. Looking back at ASC on Wednesday, buying at minimum, selling at maximum that day would have yielded 5.8%, I achieved over 9%and didn't really hit the max and mins in the curve often. But you know this stuff, my point being that no stampy makes all the difference in such trading, i.e. when one is taking a 1% profit, stamp duty can be half of it! I am saying this for my own trading reinforcement, sorry! So I may well be adding PFC to my "active duty list"again after a year's hiatus.
As ever T, thanks for your comments. Have a good weekend.

Reading the Times business stuff and a couple of articles have reminded me of my previous investment strategy of buying into distressed companies. Didn't you, T, used to invest in whichever share, or fund? that performed worse in previous year? By distressed I mean court cases, bribery, errors in accounts, etc. I recall making a nice return on tsco when they had that accounting mess and it was "only" over £250m ish. Anyhow my attention today is drawn to Bab**** and Petrofac, both candidates for this "invest when on the ropes" strategy. Note...this strategy has risks, as when I tried it with CLLN and lost my shirt, a six figure shirt at that!

Sidi, excuse me commenting as this looks like a private conversation but I notice that you too hold ARB and GGP.
ARB I am new to as I only bought them for the first time a week ago, one of those shares I have meant to buy for a long time. I don't think I will be a long term holder but I do believe it has got a special appeal and will do well.
GGP on the other hand I have held for 9 months and have even started trading a percentage of my holding. It seems to be treading water at the moment, even slipping back somewhat. Expected news seems overdue now but when it arrives I think will will see 38 to 40p or more. That news should come anytime now.
I mostly post on the Red Braces chatroom. I know the problem using a mobile phone with these "reverse" chat boards, they definately need a "Last Page" button on the mobile phone pages so we can get to the latest comments quickly. Good luck with your investments.

O...think you should see an easy 5 if not 10% on BOO. Glad TTG are coming strong again, glad their monday run up to 220 wasn't just a flash in the pan. Feel so tired yet need excercise, just been for a little cycle ride on an old bike that hardly gets any use, let's just say it has "issues", meant to do a loop tour of the village but front brake cable snapped so took it as an omen, turned around and came straight home. Saw no other people or vehicles, usually I would see 3 or 4.

Hope everyone had a good week and made some money. Made 179% of my target. Portfolio increased 8.2% on week.

T....feel bad doing it but just bought another tranche of ASC at 4797. ooo errr

O...SAGA up 4% (note CCL -2.5%).

Blimey, where will ASC land it's down to 4840 now

V...noticed that PLUS has gone a little bit positive. As I think I said before, I have 2 tranches at the moment, both of them out in the wilderness at the moment but, as you have said, the dividend is coming up.

Just noticed that RENE (another of my pet AIM phamas that I first bought at less than 2p several years back) is up 16% at 130p. They had a placing end of last year at 70p, I took all my entitlement and applied for a load more. I got my entitlement and about 70% of the extras. 70p to 130p is OK by me.
The IAG RI is another case in point. What was it 82? strike price? They are double that now. I know I am lucky but RIs have always been kind to me. I have just gone glassy eyed thinking about COB (Cobham, subsequently taken over) and how well I did out of their TWO or was it THREE RIs in little over a year. Stuck with it and it paid off.

T...what can you do? 4888 is my ASC re-entry point but I could believe they will go down another 150-200. Doh!

m...lots of discussion on the TUI chat board yesterday about RI and dilution, some of it amazes me. I don't know how people can invest in things but not understand the system they are invested in. Like driving a car blindfolded or maybe a Tesla in autopilot mode. Think the blindfold is best...at least one would be nervous and alert. I think in the Testla I would be nerdy and asleep! Ha, I can't talk, I do some daft things but I usually have half a reason at the time. Sometime I will list some of my stupidist mistakes, the list is long, perhaps LSE would ban me for hogging server space.
Cricket on the moon discussion?.....I love it.

T... well done on your ASC trading. You predicted a bit of a collapse from their high and it happened. My tranches are slightly off the money at the moment but I can wait, its a caravan in Bognor for me, let alone Tenerife. No, unfortunely, didn't buy ARB in pennies but I am in profit and holding, I am quite enjoying the bitcoin excitement...Anyhow, parking problem here for any more Teslas as NCYT, RENE and TUI keep delivering them!
Was contacted by friend in France and their vaccination figures are terrible, where ours are in the millions, their's are in the thousands. It seems that culturally, the French are anti-vaxers, expected take-up is only 40% compared with ours above 70%.
O...Good to hear Agers talking about Johners on the radio yesterday, brought back old times. Perhaps we should send a cake out to them.

Happy Birthday Wikipedia.

Good morning Brigadiers.

Feeling tired, too many early mornings I think. 3 day weekend in USA. Hoping Boden stimulus plan and vaccine plan will help our share prices at least it shows somebody is at the helm over there
Remind me to get the merlot breathing.
Good luck all.

New Year, new Spreadsheet dilemma at SadAct central accounting....Just the way I set the spreadsheet up but it is giving me my average weekly return instead of actual weekly return (please don't ask!) this means that this week's target is boosted by exceeding last week's target. This is making it easier for me to meet my target and is inclining me to under-achieve.
C...I know you use portfolio value change as a performance indicator, mine has increased 7.2% this week so far. Sounds very good but is mostly down to the increases in NCYT and SNG. Last week my portfolio was DOWN by 2.8% but I made 230% of my weekly target. Figure so far this week is 178% of weekly target.

Forgot to mention SAGA up 7% today, interestingly similar rise to CCL.

T....no, shopping trip is thursday mornings and I left it to OH to do the work as we didn't need much...she uses her electric bike to get to the bus stop in the village centre. My eye has been off the ball as regards ASC. I am frying bigger fish at the moment with ARB, BTC went back up to $40K as I expected which has dragged ARB up 14%, was 18% earlier. Have agonised over whether to take some profit on IAG but haven't so far. Also, my TUI that I stupidly bought have recovered a bit, well, 4%.. HUR which I still have is up 5% and the star performer NCYT is up 6%...because I own 98% of the bl++dy company, my portfoliio shoots up when NCYT goes up a bit. Disappointed with SNG today, I truly expected it to continue up. Just bought more ASC, actually the only trade I have done today. (14 trades yesterday, 13 of them were ASC, I should get a discount!). Hope everyone has had a good day.

T...yes, had a quote in the 5390s, wish I had taken it now. I will next time.

T...had a quote to sell ASC at 5381, dithering, want a little more. They don't seem to be so volatile today.

R...Can somebody with 17 golf courses be bankrupt? I expect it's all on credit and the phrase moral hazard comes to mind.

oops, I meant OH's mum is 93, not OH!

No, no news about vaccind for 93 year old OH mum