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SEMINAR: SPEND A DAY WITH ME AND LIVE MARKETS
MONDAY MAY 9TH
If you want more than the book and see me do it live, come and spend a day with me and live markets. (beginners and improvers welcome). See trades from my own accounts, research, level 2, and finding great shares from scratch and tons more. Three course lunch, snacks, drinks ,lots of chocolate, banter and fun with me live all day.
Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "May seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. More details also if you press the seminars button above.

There's a massive discount available for the first ten bookings.
Mail me for details on that one with "May Seminar interested" at robbiethetrader@aol.com

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I rarely do offers - Forex companies in particular offer me eyewatering sums. I turn all this down as I would never put out an offer for a company where I think my reader will 95% likely lose, or be taken for a ride.

Having had lots of mails from people using Stockopedia and using it myself I am 100% confident.

Stockopedia is indeed like a stock market encyclopaedia and a great place to scan for new shares to buy, check out fundamentals, discuss on a sensible bulletin board. Each share gets a ranking, you can use "guru" screens to find shares, there is even a stock screen loosely based on my criteria! There are strategies based on ideas from top investors.

There is lots more really fantastic material and I believe access should help investors and I now use it myself.

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I look forwards to meeing some of you readers on Monday (21st), the seminar
for beginners and improvers.. Or if you can't make this Monday, there is a new date: May 9th, mail me if you fancy details.

If you are coming this Monday be grateful if you could email back your answers to the questionaires asap. These answers are very helpful for me.

Otherwise see you all there, we start at 10am. If you're late don't worry, Mrs NT will show you to a seat. By 11.15am we should be tucking into chocolate waffles!

I hope you all enjoy the day and remember no question is too stupid to ask, there are plenty of beginners so no question is too "silly". I don't use any silly jargon but if you don't understand something, we can go through it slowly

I look forwards to showing you all the tricks I use to get good prices as well as lots of live research, psychology and finding new shares etc. See you all there!!

We spent the whole of a Saturday remembering what it was like pre having a child.

Christopher was out all day filming bits for the school play.

The time! The space! Lolling about in bed with the papers. Off for a walk round, nice cuppa coffee in a cafe, leisurely lunch.

Yes, there is definitely going to be life after child-rearing.

Back to normal this Saturday - football training in the morning then off to watch some terrible championship football as two sides that don't seem much better than the kids' teams play, Fulham vs Bristol City.

Never mind at least there is a hot dog to be scoffed at half-time as some comfort. I still have no idea how these awful players get paid so much money for so little skill.

Meanwhile on Friday Christopher got badly tackled in a football game and we ended up at A and E from 8pm.

It was totally packed but lucky there is a children's section away from what looked like a room with several people who looked like they had one drink too many.

I suggest anyone who is over the drink drive limit in a and e should be treated then given a fine of £200 like a parking ticket.

If it's your fault you got injured because you picked a fight when you're drunk then you pay up, mate.

Anyway, it wasn't too bad, we waited for one and a half Toy Story 3 the movie which was playing so that's about three hours and were back at home at half 11.

The end of that movie still gets me when the kid finally gives up his toys when he moves to college.... sob sob...

Nothing broken, just very sore, painkillers helped and it's all nearly cleared up now though the bruise still looks terrible.

Christopher is a keen skiier so the school is hosting a ski trip near the end of March for a week.

So we've taken the chance and booked a long weekend in Venice.

I can't say I care an awful lot about Venice... frankly I hopefully will never leave the hotel.... (with a bit of luck).

The hotel's on its own island so we can get a boat there from the airport which should be fun.

Our new kitten has settled in brilliantly, she's great fun and loves playing football with a little ball.

The only problem is when she jumps on our heads during the night. So for the moment she's been banned to the kitchen overnight till she gets a little older...

Anyway we love her!!!

If you would like to come to the next seminar the next is May 9th
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "May seminar interested" in the subject line.

Beginners and improvers welcome! Come and spend the day with me, the markets and some lovely people - and of course, lunch, lots of sugary snacks, and even live chocolate waffle making in the teabreak!

My seminars are designed for beginners, dabblers and improvers and deals with everything from how to look for winners, how to research, spreadbetting, level 2 use how to time trades and short, how to use advfn properly and run your portfolio without having to spend money on systems and tipsters.. and tons more.

A lot of the day comes directly from the live markets and I show you many of the tricks I use to get good prices live. And there might even be the odd live trade or 2!

Here's some feedback from from "D"

'It's obvious from his site Robbie Burns is a good market analyst and shrewd stock-picker. He is also a highly opinionated commentator on everything from TV shows to food. Therefore I expected his seminar to be 75% entertainment, 15% general exposition for beginners and-- if we were lucky-- 10% of something I could use to help me invest. But I could not have been more wrong.

The opinions on food and politics etc. though genuine, are I believe a bit of disguise or misdirection for there is a real touch of rebel genius here. And in the seminar, which is 95% hardball, he actually takes you candidly right into the mental process involved in his successful trading, making it a pretty amazing display, even showing his own investment accounts right there on the screen. You can see at once why so many of us are merely stabbing in the dark with our investments.

This is a genuine coaching session in how to trade like him if you put in the graft. I have only bought one stock since, as I am waiting for the tools he recommends, but I got the price down by using his tactics and I cannot recommend the seminar too highly if you are going there to learn. It must be taxing on him to let us at such length and in such detail into the process, which has made him so much money (for--unlike so many other so-called experts the seminars are not a day job). My advice therefore would be to sign up for this while he is still prepared to do it.'

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MAY 9TH 2016 NEAR HEATHROW
Fancy spending a day with me, learning all the ways I have learned over the years to find good shares and play the markets? Well, you can at one of my seminars!
Booking is open for the Naked Trader seminar on May 9TH.

Price is £650 plus vat. However as it is miles away there is a substantial early bookers discount on offer. And a bigger discount for the first ten. Mail me for details.
That includes three course lunch, coffees, snacks etc.
The seminar is mainly aimed at beginners and dabblers though improvers are welcome too.
Topics covered using live market feeds all day include: Market psychology, level 2 - a simple guide to how to use it for better timing; how to value companies; finding companies that are about to rise. I will also cover techniques for handling events such as the recent meltdown and volatility.
Spreadbetting: How to use it to gain an edge and go short. Market makers - how they work and how to beat them; how to stop losing money and make it instead and plenty more.
How to plan trade entries and exits - how to research companies and understand reports, plus all those niggly questions you always wanted to ask. How to set stop losses and targets. Charts and how to use them.
Also covered: Market maker tricks: How to spot tree shakes and use them in your favour, How to tell when NOT to buy a share. I use live ADVFN all day with lots of level 2 and looks at all kind of live market data.
The idea behind the seminar is SIMPLICITY. I don't use jargon or fancy words - everything is in PLAIN ENGLISH! No question is too stupid and the event is held in a friendly relaxed and supportive environment.
The idea is you will come away from the event I hope a wise and better investor with lots of new ideas. I try and translate complex topics into easy bite size pieces. I also aim for it to be entertaining as well as instructive.
If you are interested please e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Feb seminar interested" in the subject line and I will send you full details of the event including comments from those who have come to previous seminars and you can then decide whether you would like to come. See you there!
One seminar attendee Clare wanted to write a testimonial about her experiences at the seminar which follows now!
"I've just come back buzzing from one of Robbie's seminars. What a day! He's just brilliant, and manages to pack an awful lot into one day, and with his enthusiastic and humorous delivery the day just flies by. There are no gimmicks, no sell, no "˜get-rich-quick' promises, just his own solid, sound approach which he has learnt over the years and which works.
He shows you how to minimise the risks and maximise the profits and points out the banana skins on the way. Where the seminar really comes into its own is when he teaches using live level 2. Hearing him talk through his thought processes and reasoning is invaluable, and really brings home everything from the book. He has endless patience answering peoples' questions, and really seems to care that everybody understands.
On top of that, you meet some really nice like minded people and swap e mail addresses, you're plied with
chocolates and coffee all day, have a great lunch and spend the evening getting tiddled with Robbie in the
bar afterwards!
Don't worry about the cost, it's easily worth it, and you'll soon make it back with your new-found investment skills, and in what you're no longer losing. If you're thinking of going along to his next seminar, whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, don't hesitate ""just go!
Thanks Clare, did you want the tenner in cash, or will a cheque do?

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Its spreads are surprisingly tight and interestingly an automated stop loss is applied to each trade - so beginners know what their max loss is from the outset. A super site for beginners.
I use IG Index for betting on the very small companies, the only spreadbet firm I can find that does the smaller ones making it possible to trade AIM cos tax free.

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If you like to trade the FTSE, Dow, or currencies then Spreado has an outstanding tight 0.8 spread - that is incredibly tight. The platform is very good and robust and have used it to great satisfaction and profits.

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At last I can make a decision on the EU vote.

The odious Iain Duncan-Smith wants to vote out.

So I'm voting in, so that's sorted then.

By the way if you want to know whether we will stay in or not the best way of finding out is not what any polls say as we know they are flawed.

The best way is to check the bookie's odds, they are pretty much always right as the money tends to really know.

Currently with spreadex to stay in is 4/11 (odds on) and a vote to leave is 2/1.

As it's a two horse race the odds basically say: "We're staying in for certain."

I'll keep you in touch with the odds if they change nearer the time.

If you want a bet on those odds then, well, if you think we are going to leave 2/1 is generous!

You can bet here http://www.spreadex.com/nakedtrader/sports

I'm surprised the relaxation of shopping law was defeated last night.

In this new world it seems crazy to prevent shops from opening if there's demand. Especially when you can shop online 24/7.

I know they're a bunch of thugs but it's hard for us to resist the "last bank job" storyline of the Hatton heisters.
I suspect most of us have secret unspoken little piece of admiration for these old geezers who had one last go - two of them already at death's door and one won't make it through the sentence.

This is going to be an absolutely huge movie. The question now is, who has some of the loot and where it is? My guess is in the back yard of a couple of bars in Spain...

I can hardly believe it when I read that 21pc of airline stewards had done the deed on a plane plus a good pc of passengers.

Can this be right? I can't quite believe it - they must be joking.

Let's go to a tiny plastic toilet with room and noxious smells while hurtling through the sky in a tin can.. while we're supposed to be working...

It must be the least exciting place to do it. I'm avoiding the actual word btw as this goes out on email to some people and if I use the word the net nanny dept will probably refuse to accept it. Yes, computer says no to your receiving emails.

Gosh I can't wait for the world soon to be controlled by machines. We won't be allowed to drive our own cars due to health and safety reasons.

Enjoy driving while you can. The new "safe" world that's coming is going to be very dull.

Turning to TV, The Night Manager is pretty ridiculous plot-wise a lot of "as if's..."

But it doesn't much matter as it's highly entertaining as a James Bond audition for Tom Hiddlesstone (even down to the running along the beach scene) and Hugh Laurie doing a wonderful audition as the next Bond baddie. (Where's the cat though, dogs don't cut it as a villain pet).

"Stag" on BBC2 is a mystery: is it supposed to be comedy or drama? Just about watchable but only just.

Mr Robot on Amazon continues to entertain as does the OJ saga.

And what can be said of Better Call Saul which just gets better and better? You've got to love the filming of it too, so similar to Breaking Bad. Definitely best series of the year so far.

We're saving the new series of House of Cards till Better Call Saul is over so we have a decent treat left. Girls continues to be a good laugh.

Good place for spreadbets and fixed odds for sport (and the EU vote) is here...

http://www.spreadex.com/nakedtrader/sports

Good quick execution of bets and a great range of markets. Recommended!

Dave writes :
I agree with comments about Dr Who and Breaking Bad. I used to enjoy Dr. Who years ago but I think it's worn out, it's all about celebrity now, like everything else on telly.

I recently was enjoying the Sopranos a friend let me borrow (fascinating story lines) and my son Rob in Australia (an irrelevance to you of course), he said if you like Sopranos you'll love Breaking Bad. Wow was he ever right. I got the full set from Amazon (apart from the last season). I'm having to eke it out it's so brilliant I don't want it to end, that's the sad bit. What about the uncle in the desert in the wheelchair with the bell strapped to the arm of the chair, the missus and me just fell about and many more just brilliant set ups dragging out every emotion.

Agree Dave, love Breaking Bad. Only five to go for me and I won't spoil what happens for you except it gets more and more addictive!
Gary writes :
"For throwing your heart, soul and energy into one fact-packed, full-on and exhaustingly educational day: FIVE stars with no hesitation!!
Met some really nice people too - like me, nervous that it was the most we'd ever spent on a whole day of anything (had we made arses of ourselves?) But no one felt short-changed, especially when you were still going strong when we all wanted to go to bed! One of your delegates, Susan, back for a second time, said to me unequivocally, "you will go away absolutely inspired." I can't disagree.
Thanks Gary, hope you make some money!

Duane writes:
Wanted to say a big thank you to you and Mrs NT for an amazing day of learning and fun at your seminar.

The way you explained the share trading from start to finish was understandable and really interesting, well worth the seminar fee!
It was great to hear such down to earth and honest assessment from a successful trader like yourself. The way you explained everything was good revision from your book and gave further insight into successful share trading.

I particularly liked your live trades and going through your accounts when you gave snippets of why you invested in certain shares and why you kept/dumped them. Also helpful was the way you searched for prospective shares and within minutes discounted them or put them on a short list for further examination and correct entry points. Amazing!
You could really tell that you loved doing what you do and your energy levels to keep going till 10pm was well....... I had to leave at 9pm I was shattered!

Thanks again Robbie I am keen to put into practice what you have taught me. Even though you make squillions from your trades and I am sure don't need to do the seminars for financial gain, but please keep doing those seminars for newbies like me!

Thanks Duane! Don't expect to be doing them foreever but very rewarding for me to help people so expect to carry on for a while longer.
Gabriel writes:
If you are reading this, you are perhaps considering going on one of Robbie's Seminars. You maybe asking yourself (like I did) the testimonials are all well and good but once the euphoria and excitement of attending a Seminar has died down ..... and I am back home in my normal routine and faced with the "graft" of putting it all into practice... will I become a better trader and be financially better off?
Let me tell you that in my case it certainly has!
Book your place pretty sharpish....... is what I say !

Thanks Gabriel!

Terry writes:
Fantastic seminar.

I have always been sceptical of the public testaments you see on web sites
saying how great an event was. Now I'm one of those people!. I
genuinely believe that the tips and techniques as well as the overall
approach you demonstrated will radically improve my trading performance
Thanks Terry, well all the testaments are real but know what you mean and glad you feel it was worth it!
Dan writes :
'It's obvious from his site Robbie Burns is a good market analyst and shrewd stock-picker. He is also a highly opinionated commentator on everything from TV shows to food. Therefore I expected his seminar to be 75% entertainment, 15% general exposition for beginners and-- if we were lucky-- 10% of something I could use to help me invest. But I could not have been more wrong.

The opinions on food and politics etc. though genuine, are I believe a bit of disguise or misdirection for there is a real touch of rebel genius here. And in the seminar, which is 95% hardball, he actually takes you candidly right into the mental process involved in his successful trading, making it a pretty amazing display, even showing his own investment accounts right there on the screen. You can see at once why so many of us are merely stabbing in the dark with our investments.

This is a genuine coaching session in how to trade like him if you put in the graft. I have only bought one stock since, as I am waiting for the tools he recommends, but I got the price down by using his tactics and I cannot recommend the seminar too highly if you are going there to learn. It must be taxing on him to let us at such length and in such detail into the process, which has made him so much money (for--unlike so many other so-called experts the seminars are not a day job). My advice therefore would be to sign up for this while he is still prepared to do it.'

I have 3 great offers from ADVFN.

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This compares to £ 567.60 direct from advfn so this deal saves you £147.60! ADVFN level 2 also includes all the live trades made through Plus Markets which I find invaluable.
To accept this great deal just e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Level 2 offer" in the subject line and I will tell you how to get it.

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Deal two is ADVFN's bronze subscription - normally £88.70 pa - available from me for only £60! (inc vat) That's a saving of nearly £30! You access to the premium bulletin board which contains my discussion forum with direct access to chat to me and some very good traders. Plus you get ADVFN's premium top lists which I think are a must for finding great stock picks. That includes great lists like ex dividend dates, market maker buys plus chart breakouts and downs. All as explained in the book.
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Just mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com if you'd like this deal with "silver" in the subject line.

EMAILS: I do beg you not to send me emails asking me for advice on a particular share. It isn't legal for me to give you individual advice and all I do is send you a mail saying that, which wastes a lot of my time and yours too. This includes asking me what to do with a share, what I might "think" about a share, or deconstructing any of the buys I mention here. I would be grateful, see FAQ for more on this. Of course more than happy to answer general questions not related to specific shares.

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COPYING TRADES: I can't stop you from copying a trade I made but remember the price may already be a lot higher than I paid indeed I hope it is as buying at good prices is what I do for a living. You may be buying at the top and could easily lose money. Also I can make terrible mistakes and have done in the past. I could also sell before you or before the share tanks. I may still be holding in a year when you sold at a loss. Always do your own research, don't jump in blindly. Market makers are very clever at knowing how to make you pay top dollar and then push you out at a loss. This site is about sensible investment and learning how to trade sensibly and is not a tipping site. Beware. Never push buy on anything till you've done proper research and got yourself a sensible price.
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I rarely do offers - Forex companies in particular offer me eyewatering sums. I turn all this down as I would never put out an offer for a company where I think my reader will 95% likely lose, or be taken for a ride.

Having had lots of mails from people using Stockopaedia and using it myself I am 100% confident.

Stockopaedia is indeed like a stock market encyclopaedia and a great place to scan for new shares to buy, check out fundamentals, discuss on a sensible bulletin board. Each share gets a ranking, you can use "guru" screens to find shares, there is even a stock screen loosely based on my criteria! There are strategies based on ideas from top investors.

There is lots more really fantastic material and I believe access should help investors and I now use it myself.

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2016 continues to be a very tricky year for dealing in shares.

The oil price seems to be the only thing that matters with shares in that area and commodities all over the place.

These types of shares which can move up or down 20pc in an hour or two
are beloved of stock market gamblers.

Sometimes of course they get lucky and will be on the right side of it which is when they'll brag to their friends of the 30% they just made.

But the market doesn't give easily and what you get easily can often be given back pronto and more.

What the gamblers make, they will inevitably give back, it's only a matter of time usually. They're after excitement: after all, who wants boring old companies that make money from boring things?

Even more exciting than betting on commodities is "binaries", "Binary options", and all kinds of fancy names for what is essentially gambling.

I can't tell you how many mails I have had from people who have done their brains on all this stuff. Also the number of hopeful mails I get where you just know they want me to validate it.

"I've had this mail from a cfd/binary/system company who say I'll make lots...."

I know they want me to say "Great idea!! Give your money to someone you don't know!! Yes!! Buy that amazing system... After all who wants to bother to actually put any real work into stock market investment!!"

They don't want my reply which is.. it is all bollocks, you'll lose your money, don't say I didn't tell you. Bet you they carry on with it anyway.

The lure of quick "easy" money is always going to be too strong to resist for many - and those at the other end, they don't care about you - they just want to find the next mug punter and relieve them of as much as possible.

And I'm afraid I do laugh when I read gamblers justifying their trades with technical jargon such as "the 150 day moving gambling average is above the elliott wave line." It's all meaningless drivel.

The more jargon someone uses the less capable they are and just want you to take them seriously or they just want some attention. (They're not getting any at home I reckon).

Anyway you can read more on this in my upcoming psychology book - should be out in 3 or 4 months.

Best thing for sensible folk is to avoid all this stuff. Of course it is hard when you see a commodity stock that went up 50% in two days and you think "I could have made a fortune." But also consider you would have probably given it back as you'd try and repeat the trick.

Overall the markets almost certainly carry on being volatile for a while. There's brexit, china, possible more QE and all kinds of nonsense to ensure that. And what's some bloke (Draggi or something) saying as I write this?

Well frankly I don't understand much of what he's on about but I hear lots of negative words. My understanding of it is "We are in the s***. So we're going to throw loads of money at it and hope for the best.

Indeed the more he talked the more I felt like getting a short on. So I did. I've got in some FTSE shorts at just over 6200 and some at around 6180. See how it goes..

edit.. good stops now in at breakeven! (If the ftse cracks will gradually move stops down into profit stops)

Anyway you can stay out of the way of volatility with some shares. And you can make some on the downside with some shorts.

But if you do say short the FTSE be careful not to stay in the shorts if the market moves against you. For example a lot shorted the market near the bottom at 6600 and 6700 and still in those shorts. That means that they didn't make much on the way back up. Best to have stops on the shorts, come out when the market moves up, you can then try and get back in higher.

Also what people don't tell you is there is quite a cost to keeping shorts on the ftse open for a lengthy time including paying out dividends every Thursday.

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Next Seminar May 9th mail me for details at robbiethetrader@aol.com for details.
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So, sticking with my boring old fart type trading now... (oil gamblers may now leave for Twitter)...

Let's kick off with a buy or two of mine in hopefully non volatile stocks.

I've bought a few Interquest (ITQ) - a nice set of results this week - profits going up nicely and debt is coming down, plus a decent dividend hike.

Also looks to be a reasonably safe one to hold in volatile times - I think it is worth nearer 100p than 80p.

It's a tech recruitment business with an interesting niche in the next area of high growth tech businesses.

With some patience, could be a nice 1-2 year hold for an ISA and sleep at night. No idea why this isn't higher - it should be. At any rate I can't see how it could go down much from here.

I've bought some Quartix (QTX). I've already bought a chunk a while back and doubled on them, sold a few but I've bought back in.

A lovely set of results from this company that's in a massive growth area of the market. Profits are booming and there is now net cash.

Management looks to be excellent here, driving the company forward. It's no longer cheap but it looks like the market is prepared to pay a premium for this one and so am I. So despite the price going up, there could be more to come in time. Depends on the premium the market is willing to pay.

Impellam (IPEL) is one I have had tucked away in the isa for some time and I have just added some more thanks to its sparking results and it looks really cheap and I'm looking for 1000p on this from the current 800p or so.

Impellam this time round can boast much improved margins - 850p has proved a barrier but that means if it can get through 850, 1000p could come quite quickly. Plenty of support for it at 750p where it looks very undervalued.

An oft overlooked share is Powerflute. (POWR). Maybe because it has nothing to do with power or flutes. More like packaging.

A real surge in profits after a recent acquisition and a doubled dividend makes this look worth a lot more, for sure over 100p which is what I am targetting - a good performance to see profits go from 8.6m to 37.7m Euros.

I think there is at least 20% upside to come so I'm in for some Power. and Flutes.

With the markets having a very strong few days it seemed sensible to bank quite a few profits made from buying low recently. Mainly though, banked some profits by selling some shares rather than total positions.

I sold a few Softcat banking a profit of £1,101, keeping the rest.
Xar pretty much reached the target I was looking for and banked a profit of £400
I'm considering buying back on market weakness.

I thought ETO statement was in line with what was expected but the market still frets about the debt - but with the library worth a million dollars it doesn't worry me personally, and obviously I could be wrong. However, after an excellent rise I cashed in on some of my recent shares and it's not worth fighting the market sometimes. However kept the ones bought a lot lower. For the site banked a profit of £1,071 but looking to buy shares back again on weakness as I think at some point it will get taken out and there will be giant profits to be made.

I've also banked profits in Pets At Home, nice company but looks near the top of its range for now, profit of £765 banked. They don't look worth an awful lot more for now and I'd hope for a retreat on the shares for a buyback later this year. Ncc kept drifting down so took part profit for £290, again keeping some of the shares.

A look at recent buys: Market Tech has slipped a touch but as a longer-term buy no problems yet.

St Ives produced a decent set of results and firmly remains on the long-term list. Looks a future cracker.

Picked up the nice dividend in Tritax. Empiric has an offer for new shares and I'll be applying for some new ones at the cheaper price.

Iomart is bubbling along nicely.

Looking at some results: Decent results from Total Produce this week and happy to stay in there for more growth.

Cracking results from Empresaria, they really ought to be higher and tempted to get some more.

Worldpay's results weren't that well received but I thought they were fine on a longer-term view which is surely why you'd be in them. Paul Mcarthy and Stone looks to have a great future after its results too.

Photo-Me has at last been re-rated, took a while but well deserved after its statement, Japan going well.

Right I need some tea so I am off.... all in all it remains a tricky time if you're in the bigger more volatile stuff. Take it easy, remember sometimes the best trade is no trade. If you're at the screen every second of the day you need to re-consider what you are doing.

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Trade tables follow! Trades are current open and recently closed trades. Closed trades feature the closing price and the amount I won or lost. All others are open. Trades get updated a little later than the narrative. Trading costs are ignored, however I also do not add in dividend payments and with the kinds of companies I buy, dividends tend to equal or outweigh costs. Spread rollovers ignored for web purposes. Tables as accurate as poss however a mistake or two can creep in and very occasionally if I forgot I sold or bought something it will be added at a later time. Trades first reported in the diary under Markets every other Thursday afternoon.