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What an enjoyable seminar on Friday. Although it was sold out well early and busy it made the atmosphere great and I met some amazing people, we had a great laugh , found some interesting trades and ate some brilliant food and snacks including a new "doughnut stand".

Thank you all so much for coming and your great feedback.

I can't even begin to cover what we got through. We had the
Chocolate Orange Vs Frys Chocolate Cream Trisha Vs Sue battle!

Sadly for me I ate a whole chocolate orange and half a fry's
choc cream during the day. Also two doughnuts. And two cookies.
And...

Thanks a certain someone for the marmalade gift.

I was still there a long while after we finished chatting to many of you.

I was amazed to see nearly everyone still there as we were heading towards
8pm! Hope you enjoyed the "reward". It was great to meet some more
of you after and to sign some books. And do the selfies!

We had people there from so many walks of life! A stuntman,
a counsellor, army officer, nuclear scientist, scaffolder, builder,
doctor, you name it... I already know some good friends have been made on the day.
I should have asked the stuntman to crash through the ceiling to make an exciting entrance!

Obi, what can I say - thanks for your lovely mail. Not so sure about
row 3, like a bunch of Jeremy Paxmans!

It is fantastic to see people from 18-80 of all races, occupations
and the full spectrum mixing and enjoying each other's company. You
were all getting on so well it was hard to get the last session started!

I know some of you have already opened accounts and are hopefully on the road to at least some extra money. Remember everything you learned and have a good read of the notes I sent.

I wish you all the very best at the start of your trading life (some of you). And
sounds like I might see some of you again at a follow up event in March.

Three of you have already booked a follow up and look forwards
to seeing you again for more on March 23rd.

Otherwise if you couldn't manage to get into this sold out seminar, there is
a new date for March 9th with a decent early bird discount available so mail
me for details at robbiethetrader with "March seminar
interested" in the subject line. This one is already half full so don't wait
till the day before...

In a forthcoming book The Changing Mind neuroscientist
Daniel Levitin says happiness perks up at 54 and increases sharply
to peak happiness at 82 !

I would say the lovely Mary aged 80 at the seminar proved this. Happy, lively, jolly. Looking forwards to trading and lots of other challenges and
some travel. I had a lovely chat.

Sharp as a tack, full of life and stories - this is what I aspire to be at 80.

Such a pleasure to meet you Mary and hope you got a good night's sleep at the nearby Travelodge.

The older people I've spoken to for the Silver Line charity while sometimes lonely are often generally happy.

My mate Vera who I chat to every Tuesday who is 89 is having a whale of a time. Her and Edie got the bus to a great theatre show in Birmingham
this week. And they have found a coffee shop they both love and meet
once a week.

So if you are 40,50,60 etc and think "my life is over, what did I do"?
you WILL get happier!! Anyhow stop moaning and do something!

Talking age, I was so sad about the death of Nicolas Parsons.

I "worked" with him on a TV pilot show many years ago where he, and
presenter me go into a restaurant undercover with secret cameras on.

He wore a variety of hilarious disguises and we discussed his life over
dinner while he gave ratings for the food and service.

I think both of us getting pissed towards the end of the episodes didn't
help us to get the show commissioned. Indeed I think he had one glass
too many when I filmed him going into the ladies loo by mistake.

But I really enjoyed his company.

He was a true pro, put all his effort into it. A charming, talented lovely man.

If there is one thing I remember about what he liked to eat - and remember he
lived way into his 90s - was he always avoided butter.

Is there butter in there Robbie?" he asked. Maybe that
is the secret, avoid butter.

He was always a stickler for doing things right too. A vat invoice would have
to be exactly correct, for example.

When he was with me he put zest and effort into everything, wonderful. At least he lived longer than
just a minute".

Last night I had to put up with another trip to Millwall for my son.

Frankly it is a horrible ground/fans. "No-one likes us and we
don't care" is their refrain.

And who could like them? They even have to separate the away
fans with their own walkway in case we get attacked.

But .. last night there seemed to be hardly any fans in the ground
and the hostile atmosphere wasn't really there. Have they lost the heart to be nasty?

Thanks for all the nice feedback re the seminar.
Of course it's nice to get comments just after but even better after a while. For example this from Chris:

The seminar well exceeded my expectations. I learnt a ton about trading, keeping it simple and it has given me the confidence to cut some positions. I reinvested the proceeds in a spread account and new isa and the results from using your process are exemplary! "

Naked Rambling

Love or hate Boris J, he seems to be more like a chief executive than a PM and that could be a good thing.

Weigh up decisions from a business perspective. And, well he does make decisions, and at some point we will see what really gets done.

So, who is worried about the bat virus? All I can say is can they please
stop trying to eat live bats in China?

It's hard to know as the media loves fear, it makes us buy more papers and there's more online clicks.

The worse they can make it look the more money there is to be made.

My guess is it will peak quite soon.

But who'd want to be stuck on a cruise ship for 14 days in one cabin?

Apparently today there are calls for office romances to be banned.

How ridiculous is that? You can't ban people from falling for each other at work!

I had some relationships with women I met at work. While
they didn't work out longer-term they were lovely times - should
we have been stopped? That can't be right!

Goodness, who'd have thought Sajid Javid would be fired this
lunchtime? Seemed a capable man. I hope it wasn't
because he is bald. There is a lot of baldism about.

Onto some TV then:

Picard (****)
A nice surprise! I was expecting the newest incarnation of Star Trek to be a bit
politically correct and worthy. Well, it is a bit.. but not enough to ruin some decent
entertainment. Even if, in recent Trek style, it is a bit hokey and formulaic.

After the recent awful Star Trek series I wasn't expecting much either. However a
reasonable story, the pace is good, and the villains interesting. Even better,
the villains actually do have a point. I do have a complaint.
They used the word "f******". Twice. On Star Trek!

No!! You just can't swear on Star Trek. For f****'s sake stop it.

Curb Your Enthusiasm (*****)
Larry David returns in fine form. This time obviously he is going to have
a go at "wokeness". And how hard it is these days when forming a relationship to know exactly how far you're allowed to go.

Probably the highlight is the idea of wearing a "Make America Great" hat to put people off you that you don't want attention from.

If you're not into Curb it may not appeal. If you saw it before it is definitely on form!

Here's a hilarious footage of Larry on a US chat show. He's in their office sorting out office politics. Makes me glad I don't work in an office!

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Inside Number Nine (****)
How do they keep coming up with stories? Based on the old "Tales of the
Unexpected" this is always an entertaining half hour.

Although the football episode was full of holes it was still a lot of fun with many great lines, although you'd have to be 45 plus to get one or two of them. It always looks like they are having great fun with the characters too.

I suspect they are right and there are a lot of pompous refs out there..

The Pale Horse (***)
Not sure on this one. Can't say I am a giant fan of horror.

This Christie adaptation is nice and stylish though and I think
I'd carry on watching just for the lovely old cars in the background.

I caught sight of an old Austin A 40. Reminds me of my first
car, a Hillman Imp. They were crap and stopped whenever it rained or had to go up a hill.

A new series of Better Call Saul is nearly with us, hurrah!

If there is anything more annoying than getting scam messages
trying to get you to click on a link, it's the real amateur ones.

I mean, if you are going to scam then do it like a pro.

The worst recent one is "55 massages on hold".

My message is: learn how to spell! (Although if there
is a massage going...)

I feel sorry for Bernard Looney the head of BP. Can you imagine
going through school with a name like that.

Could have been worse and been called Alan. (A. Looney)

SEMINAR NEWS
MARCH 9 near Heathrow (Feb 7 date is sold out)
Email me for details at robbiethetrader with "March seminar interested". There
is a decent early bird discount on offer.
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.

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!
Some recent feedback:

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. This is a genuine coaching session in how to trade like him if you put in the graft. My advice therefore would be to sign up for this while he is still prepared to do it.'

When I signed up to your course my goal was to make 20% p.a., I've achieved that in less than six months. Your course was pretty much going to be my last attempt at trading, So once again thank you, it's by far the best money I've ever spent on trading education and probably on education full stop."
I felt we were in for a long day of numbers, PowerPoints and dry talk.
Instead, what we got was fascinating and enjoyable mix of punchy insights, merriment and wise-cracks, sharp wit, and to the point no nonsense advice. I sat down at 9:45am and didn't look at the time again until way after 8pm at which point I had to drag myself away."
I read your books and understood the words "" however I was missing that final nugget of knowledge "" actually seeing you valuate a company and make that buy/no buy decision live means I now get it."
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Virus fear - and greed - grips the market.

Nothing like a bit of fear to send people racing for the exits - or those who
figure fear just means buying the fear when others are selling it.

Bloody fear! Bloody greed! Bloody humans!

Right now traders seem not to know whether to discount it or believe is is a zombie apocolypse.

The problem seems to be that a lot of China is shut down and that will have a knock on effect for supplies as China makes so much stuff.

I suspect by the summer we will all be saying "Cono.. what?"

So for shares that are affected the probability is buying on the
fear might pay off.

Or else I guess you can wait and see what happens.

As you can imagine over the years I've been through all kinds of
fearful things and we all survive usually. The only thing that has ever been really scary is the near bank collapse in 2008. Compared to that, this virus does't compete at all!

The markets seem ok about it one day and scared sh1tless the next but any share that might have anything to do with China at all seems to be marked down.

For now, I'm going to carry on as normal and assume things will calm down sooner or later. But for a while at least expect a lot of
volatility as the latest virus news emerges.

As usual quite a few trades and potential trades to be showed up at the seminar. These events keep me going for ideas for a long time! I actually have to do some research work which now as a lazy fat cat I stopped
doing at home!

If you want to see the research etc live then there is the new March 9th seminar which is already half sold. Mail me at robbiethetrader if you are thinking
about it.

There was a decent number of possible trades, of course some will work out and some won't as is thus with trades. I can't cover them all here but here are one or two at least.
I think one or two should be private between me and the delegates!

I bought some Imimobile (IMO) live at the seminar. This is a clouds
communications and software company whose shares are on the rise.

There is decent growth here and it's recently taken on some debt (not too
big) after buying 3C Interactive for $43m.

Next trading statement is due early April - be interesting to see how the acquisition
has been bedding in.

This company seems well managed and in a good place, if it carries on rising
before the next statement I'll probably average up.

As I said at the seminar it is always hard buying a company on the way up as there
is "fear of missing out" when the price was lower.

I've bought some FDM. Another company definitely on the up, I think this one came
up at the last follow up seminar.

This is a very decent FTSE 250 company valued just over £1bln. It also pays
a nice dividend and has a cash pile of £37m and no debt. This I like!

If forecasts are right profits should continue to improve, and if it can keep
above the usual tricky whole number level, it could motor up another
100p easily enough.

It's an interesting business - it recruits and trains what it calls "mounties" -
ie business consultants and bases them at client sites.

Could be some further nice upside. But it can be volatile so a stop
is tricky.

Rank is an awful name for a share.

I just bought a share. It's rank..."

Taking that aside I always thought this was a fairly boring old
fashioned business taking money off idiots playing bingo.

But we had a look at it at the seminar and it really is decent!
It's just predicted a sharp rise in revenue after a very nice
statement. It reckons it is transforming itself and says operating
profit grew by 117%.

Why the excitement? Well it's the online that really is going well
rather than bingo halls. While bingo is flat, its buy of gaming
group Stride looks like it will pay off.

There is some debt but strong cash flow led to a not too
bad underlying net debt of £59m, With profits of £120m
ish expected this doesn't look a rank share at all.

I have bought some more Concurrent Technology (CNC). Already
up nicely on the first buy I was waiting for weakness to
buy some more.

We had a look at the seminar but level 2 showed us it was more
likely to go down and I suggested a much better price another time
would come up.

And it did this week and I bought some more on price weakness (probably profit takers).

I covered this one last time but it looks good with a new "cherry on the top" potential.

It has announced a move into AI - artificial intelligence with a new
product - an AI accelerator board. CNC hopes this new product
will be used in this early stage of AI.

Who knows yet but it makes me feel like hanging onto these shares long-term - it its AI products start to develop then surely there must be
potential here for share price leap in the future.

And in the meantime, it isn't priced in at all yet so a win win!

My shorts have gone so well, I'm actively looking for new ones and
Pets At Home (Pets) looks like a decent short. (betting that
the share price falls)

It's done pretty well to be fair - BUT it now rates very highly for what is essentially a retailer.

A pe of 20 for such a company is unusual and be surprised if the market doesn't de-rate Pets for a bit - I'd have thought a move back to the
270p area is nearer the mark and that is what I am after.

But, as with all shorts, if it keeps going up I'll take a small loss as
shares can carry on up regardless.

I have cashed out of XPP, the trades made recently and the very long-term position which I've held for a few years. It has just
sat there for nearly ever gradually going up.

It has been a marvellous trade from about a quid to over
30 quid. Anyhow, for the website it is a lovely bank of £57,362.
There may be more upside but the upside has been so good for
all trades sometimes it is time to cash in.

I've cashed out the last of the Helios for profit of £729. It seems
to hit a brick wall at 150 ish.

Interesting after the seminar the most comments were "If there is one thing I definitely learned is, sell a loser quickly".

Which is quite right. One example is a terrible pick I made to buy Fin.
A red flag announcement was made (to be fair it was out of the blue) and the share started to tank. Any stop loss would have got you out. Price you get depends on the broker or the sb firm. SB
firms usually right away. They didn't get me out rightway and the price slipped 10 points
but still better than staying in and a loss of £235 for me. That loss would be nearer £700 if I had stayed with it. It was high risk so
kind of serves me right. Although it is a bit annoying as I so nearly took a decent profit on it a day or two previously.

A profit of £72 on Zyt. This one soared up really well. However, it then started to come back
more and more and when it got close to my buy in price level 2 was really poor (and the
other supply and demand trick I use at seminars) so I quit. This is where L2 and the other thing really pay off when you aren't sure whether
to sell or not. Especially when you are still in a profit on something that looks like it is going to dip into a loss. Once it gets into a loss
psychologically it becomes harder to sell (crystallise a mistake).

The one short that hasn't gone well is Train - in fact it has gone right off the rails. When short it is pointless holding against a trend whatever you think so exited for a loss of £690 and £90 before it really came off the buffers. I may try and short again soon. I get the feeling eventually a short will pay off here.

ITV is struggling to go any higher for now so sold half for a website
profit of £1,530.

All of which makes a profit banked for the site this time of £58,660.

Elsewhere recent buy Draper Esprit has already hit target and was
mulling taking profits will probably move stop closer to price just
in case it runs up further.

Some very big rises for Avon Rubber (after all they do supply masks!),
Team 17 and Codemasters.

And Gan has been terrific - looks like it is going to get a listing
in the USA which could help push the share price up
even more.

Generally the portfolio continues well despite the virus but
perhaps a little profit taking here and there might be necessary
soon. Let's see how it all plays out. In fact if you use stops
tightening a bit on the shares making profit might be a wise
move for current conditions.

Goodness, Phillip Schofield is gay!

What a shock!

Who on earth would ever have guessed?

SEMINAR LATEST

Beginners/improvers March 9th (Feb sold out) come and
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Follow up seminar: March 23
For those who have done a seminar with me before, a follow up
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Mail me at robbiethetrader with "March interested" or
Follow up interested"

New: Spreadbetting Seminar March 2
For those of you who have thought about spreadbetting but have been scared to do it, or did it and screwed up. The seminar would be about how to run sb accounts alongside your isas etc as extra tax free investments, It would not be about day trading or forex. It would
cover how to treat SB as an isa, trade medium term ranges for extra income,
sensibly use margin, run the accounts, place trades, use for shorting
and occasionally using for index trades. Also presentation and questions from a
SB company.

If interested, just mail with "sb interested" in the subject line.

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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.