SPEND A DAY WITH ME AND LIVE MARKETS MONDAY DEC 1ST NEAR HEATHROW

Read the book but want to see me do it all with live markets? If you want details on how to spend a day with me and live markets (beginners and improvers welcome) email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "December seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. Early bird discount on offer!
NEW: Technical Analysis Seminar: Dec 7th. Come and learn basic TA with top analyst and trader Susan and myself. You must have been to a seminar of mine first or prove you are already a reasonable trader. Learn basics of charts, momentum and volumes. The whole presentation is available after the event for you to download. Email me with "TA seminar interested" in the subject line.

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The book is a total update since the last one which I wrote in 2011 - a lot has happened in the market since then and I cover all the changes such as the new ISAs and duty free AIM shares.
There are tons of ideas, trader stories, psychology, biggest trading mistakes and 20 trading strategies to make money. Also loads of stuff I have learned over the last three years.
New insights into trading tax free, tons of examples, a whole load of new traders' tales and some of the trades that have helped to make me well over £2 million tax free.
If you bought NT 3, I think you'll find it is worth getting the update. My new views on AIM shares now they are tax free, loads of analysis of trades I made more recently. And loads of new stuff on psychology and why you might be losing, including a new look at confirmation bias and the effect this has on your choices.

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I look forwards to seeing some of you on Monday for the seminar!

Thanks to those of you who returned the questionaires... very interesting and we have a lot to discuss. It's an interesting time in the market so hopefully some useful trades will come up live on Monday - I can hardly wait! Coffees, teas and snacks await.

There is still a little space so you could still spend Monday with me if you like! For those that can't do note there is a new date, December 1st, more details below.

A lovely time in Spain! Hard to be back after basking in 28 degrees sun out there. Never mind, eh, back to routine.

The Spanish we talked to said things were better this year than last for the economy. So there is hope. Loads and loads of boys at the villas this time.

At one point there must have been 30 of them in the jacuzzi waiting for the lifeguard to turn his back so they could go headfirst down the water slides without being told off.

Christopher loves being in the middle of it all and as an only child it's great to see him having fun in a huge group of other kids.

The kids just have a great time, it's brilliant. We just chilled out in the sun reading books.

Interesting that round the pool books led kindle readers by 80-20. Hurrah!

We had some lovely walks up the beach and a great final night where we celebrated my birthday at our favourite Japanese restaurant there.

A lovely Japanese couple run it, they work and are open every single day of the year and work so hard, they deserve their success. If you are ever near Malaga, the restaurant is Meca in Elviria. Try the ribs, fried veg, duck, and the sushi.

Frankly I hate this time of the year especially the clocks going back. Come on, time to join European time. We need light at the end of the day not the beginning so kids get some daylight after school.

And it would be brilliant for me as the market would open at 9am and not 8am!

If we didn't have a child I would be living in Spain from October to March! Got to stick it out to Xmas when we are off to Dubai.

Christopher is spending the last few days of the long two week half term playing football with Fulham.

He loves it, gets to play all day long.

Last night he pushed me into a late night game and I really wish he hadn't as we lost 5-2 to a very good Derby side.

We had someone in the row behind p***** out of his head. Basically if Christopher didn't know all the swear words already, he knows them now.

His wife was very embarrassed. "I'm never coming to a football game with you again," she said.

I'm not quite sure he knew what the final score was as he was out for the count by then which was just as well as I had a headache from all the screaming he was doing.

I'm really sure the players wanted to know they ought to mark others, and various other incredible insights...

Really, he didn't have to swear like that in front of a child. The man in all honesty was a complete and utter w***** .

C and me went to see the kids movie "The Book of Life". I really hate nearly all Disney movies (the ones made over the last few years). Except Toy Story of course.

Why do they always have to feature a stick thin female and a stereotyped handsome man who end up kissing. Christopher was so embarrassed he hid beneath his baseball cap.

Then there are the usual tedious smart alec cracks, awful music and stupid platitudes.

The teenage shows on the Disney Channel are really bad, teaching kids to take the piss out of their parents the whole time. Down with dumb Disney!

It's Christopher's birthday soon and so it's the time of the year he has a party and we take some of his friends to a Fulham game.

This means keeping loads of nine-year-olds under control. You may think that's easy. It isn't! They are very lively to say the least.

So if you see on the news fighting on the football terraces is back, that will be us!

For those of you coming to the seminar on Monday a reminder we start at 10am, I have plenty of caffeine waiting for you and lots of great snacks in the first break at 11am!

A good lunch too. Hope you enjoy the day and never worry about stopping me and asking me the most basic of questions.

I have a nice shortlist of shares for us to examine and we will be doing plenty of level 2, working out the best time to buy or sell something.

And you get to have a good nose through my accounts! Any trades made will be live from my Isa and spreadbetting accounts!

I hope you all enjoy it, I'll be sending you notes on email the day after including anything that came up for those who might leave before the end.
If you missed this one you can now book the new date December 1st mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "December seminar interested"

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.'

NEW: Technical Analysis Seminar: Dec 7th. Come and learn basic TA with top analyst and trader Susan and myself. You must have been to a seminar of mine first or prove you are already a reasonable trader. Learn basics of charts, momentum and volumes. The whole presentation is available after the event for you to download. Email me with "TA seminar interested" in the subject line.

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DECEMBER 1 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 December 1

Price is £650 plus vat. However there is a decent early bookers discount available for those booking nice and early.
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 "Dec 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.

You can sign up at this link which includes a decent market commentary:

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That prat Russell Brand is everywhere promoting his new book. I guess he is great for newspapers and broadcasters as there is nothing like someone controversial to light up the ratings.

But you can't take someone seriously who preaches like he does but gets driven around by a chauffeur and lives a luxury lifestyle.

It's very easy indeed to spout his type of "revolutionary politics" but of course while crowd pleasing to the very young none of it stands up to close scrutiny.

Shouldn't he be giving away his millions to worthy causes?

Anyway I shan't rant about him as only giving him yet more publicity that he craves.

The advertising M and S is doing to promote its menswear range is risible.

They're booked a hunky male model to wear its pullovers.

Any normal man (nearly all of us) know this man would not be seen dead in an M and S jumper.

Let's face it it's embarrassing to be seen in M and S clothes department. You may as well announce you've gone to seed and what you really want is a nice comfy elasticated waist.

And you know that jumper the model is wearing within one wear will end up with a stain on it. Well, mine do anyway.

The Xmas catalogues are coming through thick and fast and go straight into recycling.

Full of plastic stuff made by slave labour that no-one needs.

The new series of Homeland has been surprisingly good so far. Well done to the writers from rescuing it from the rather unbelievable last series.

And this time we don't have to put up with Brody's awful kids!

The Apprentice remains entertaining. Good on Lindsay who quit.

She realised that actually she wasn't a complete attention seeking egotistical prat - in fact she would rather continue teaching kids to swim.

Going on the show made her realise perhaps she is a nicer person than the contestants and what she is doing might be more enjoyable than "going into business" with Lord Sir Al.

Frankly, I think most things would probably more enjoyable.

She did miss a trick though. Surely a wonderful way out would have been if she pointed at herself and said: "I'm Fired".

James is easily the most entertaining. He'd have been fired if the producers hadn't told His Majesty to keep him for someone to have a laugh at.

Telling Sir Lord "I am like you" was a red rag to a bull. But the funniest moment was when he was doing some kind of shoulder roll and our Lord shouted "What ya doing?" Priceless.

And a bit of Apprentice gossip: Apparently contestant Solomon has made a "sex tape" with an ex - he's a "party boy". It's probably on youtube but I think I'll give it a miss...
And James has a conviction for...attacking two men and biting an ear. Lord Sir A better have a bodyguard ready for the inevitable firing.

I use this company to spreadbet sports with

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.'

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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 use three stockbrokers and never really wanted to recommend any of them as they all have their failings and are much of a muchness.

Not any more! I've been using Ig's new stockbroking account which has just been launched and put some of this year's ISA allowance into it.

Wow. Really very impressed. Not only can you get better quotes (I think) than some of the others but on some of the shares you can even put your order for shares directly on the order book. The only downside is they won't allow stops.

Plus much easier to follow your holdings and how they are doing and I'm very much considering transferring a million from my ISA into it.

And even more sensational? Currently paying no commission at all on the trades!

FREE trades for a whole month after you place your first trade. That is sensational, I never have seen that before.

So I suggest go for it - here is the link:

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It is easier said than done but the best time to buy shares is nearly always when there is panic in the air, markets are tumbling and traders gloomy.

I find it reasonably easy not to be scared because when I go bargain hunting I go in with the view that I am out of any bargains fast should they start to drop further. However if they start to go up again I can stick with them for a bit.

So I have traded quite a bit despite being away in Spain. But my trusty laptop is there between cocktails by the pool! Just got to make sure it doesn't get wet...

I can't cover everything I did but I'll have a go with one or two. First just to quickly say closed out a few more of the FTSE shorts banking another few thousand and got a wall street upbet opened at 15946 - up a couple of grand on that now, and using a trailing stop on it now. It's pointless mailing me about indicies betting, this is not my forte and I have no wisdom to impart except best place if you do do it is

http://www.spreadco.com/nakedtrader/ ...with a spread of just 0.8

So I bargain hunted two: I got some more Iomart (IOM) getting some at 171.97 and topped up on Sprue Aegis (SPRP) at 249.

With both you could argue "Boo, Robbie you useless hypocrite you say try not to average down". And that would be fair comment but in my defence neither share in my opinion are high risk and had come down via panicked selling of everything, hence I considered them both a bargain. So there. And I could end up with egg on my face. (Make it fried, please)

But I think Iomart will get bid for again around the 300 mark so plenty of upside and Sprue looks cheap.

I love doing seminars, new stuff always comes up I would never have found at home so (thanks Janice!) I bought some Energy Assets, (EAG) 1,000 at 395.25 live at the seminar as they looked an excellent idea. I also topped up with some more around the 400 mark.

Yesterday it announced a deal with N Power. Its smart meters look set to become a standard and long-term these shares look magnificent. Only problem is the spread sometimes but managed to get round that at the seminar getting them at the sell price.

Room still left at my seminar this Monday if you'd like me to show you live how to do this kind of stuff!!

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A reminder next seminar is Dec 1st mail me with "December interested". Technical Analysis seminar Dec 7th with top trader Susan and myself, mail me with "TA interested" in the subject line.
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Another that came at the seminar, thanks to whoever it was, I forgot to take a note... was Flowgroup (FLOW).

It's a "jam tomorrow" share, ie loss making but with a good story and lots of cash. So hard to value, but if its flow boilers take off, it could end up a big company indeed. However only a small amount to start with taking the risk into account.

A bit on the high risk side but I bought Flow live at the seminar. It's very volatile so hard to get the right price.

One where I have built up a nice position in with good profits is OPG and topped up there at 84. That seemed a sell off too far. Once it can conquer the 105 area I am hopeful of a move up to 120 for this one.

I bought Regenersis (RGS) after it announced £15 million in new contracts, it's been looking well oversold recently.

The contract for RGS strengthens its position and it looks an interesting play to hit 250 and then 300 again.

Audioboom (BOOM) fell back to its placing price of 12.5 - this looks a fantastic area to buy back the ones I sold off last time for a nice profit so I have bought some back!!

More details on why I like BOOM in the archive when I last bought it. I would have thought they could gradually climb back up from the current 12-13 to about the 17p area.

As I talked about at the seminar I was looking at ways of making money from travel stocks hit by the ebola scare.

So I bought some BA or rather International Consolidated Airlines (check out the groovy name) at 349 on a spreadbet at the seminar. A Spread as I can't imagine hanging onto it for ever though I still have it. I also bought IG's Travel sector and that bet is currently up £300.

I've also picked up some Pets At Home (PETS) - this one has been a right dog since it was floated on the market, but it looks like it is turning around with some big support coming in.

Its statement this week was pretty good and it is beginning to look undervalued. No reason why it shouldn't crack on over 200 and up to the 230 area in time. The share price just needs a bit of heavy petting.

The high risk APR trade ended in a loss. It really shouldn't have - I forgot to put on a trailing stop which would have got me out at a nice profit. A silly oversight on my part I ended up taking a £250 loss instead, lesson learned. Someone somewhere knew there was going to be a warning with sellers crowding the order book for a few days before the announcement. Hmmm....

Well. After being short of Carpetshite for a long, long, time I decided to bank the profits, which for me personally was about £25,000 worth.

My reason is despite the fact I think it's probably worth 200p or less, I've made more than 400 points out of it on the downside, and so given the downside is a lot less now and might take some time, it seemed sensible to bank the short at last.

It feels a bit weird to be out - I was surprised to be able to get out of the shorts quite easily as I had a massive stack to exit but it was easy.

So for the website that's a profit banked of £4,585 from betting on the shares to go down. Nice one!

I might be tempted to go back in with a short again if say they headed up towards 400.

I sold half of Pres to take a profit of £238 and kept the other half as the share price wasn't moving much.

I also took half profits in the Rightmove short to bank a profit of £744 keeping the other short open now using a trailing stop on it.

I've finally exited the Chime spreadbet to bank a profit of £3,120. Though I have kept hold of a few still in the isa.

New Brit has been bid for at 715p - held on to a small bit of that in the isa which I'd forgotten about and I think I will just take the cash at 715p giving the website a profit of £4,454.

So some very nice profits indeed banked in this update for a total profit of £12,891.

GVC continues to be a lovely share. Super profits but the dividends are simply amazing. I get a nice juicy payout on Monday.

GB Group where I have made a fortune (£12,000 profit for the site so far) gave out a very decent statement indeed, it rose on the news and I'm now hoping for a bid to take it out in the 200 area.

Fantastic news from tuckaway Powerflute. It rose strongly on the back of an reverse takeover - shares have flown higher and now profits up and over £2,500, patience really can pay with the good ones.

Scisys is starting a nice rise after it got a decent contract extension this month. Nice under the radar share which should pay out nicely in time.

Seeing Machines seems to be sticking around the 6p-7p area for now, seems worth more to me given all the agreements it has signed such as an agreement with Electro-Motive Diesel regarding monitoring fatigue in train drivers. It does remain a jam tomorrow share but it could pay out big time longer term and patience will be needed. But I have that!!

Nothing can seem to stop Renew, and that has bust nicely through 300p since my last update. what an amazing share that's turned out to be, nicely doubled and more. Most of the longer-termers are holding up ok in the market markdown like Entertainment One, Telecom Plus, Porvair, Jelf, Porvair, and AL Noor.
Well, the market kind of survived October. Let's see if November brings some fireworks!!

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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
on every other Wednesday afternoon.