SPEND A DAY WITH ME AND LIVE MARKETS ON NOVEMBER 3RD 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 "november seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. There is a decent 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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Naked Trader 4 has just been published Click here to order:

http://www.harriman-house.com/book/view/1040/trading/robbie-burns/the-naked-trader/1317
Or click the book on the right somewhere. Delivery of the book? It should be with you next day delivery. And if you buy the print copy you get the e-book free!
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.
I would say this but I think it's my best effort yet, especially pleased with the stuff I've written on why so many people end up losing. I've met a lot of people at seminars and talking to them really helped me to understand the problems encountered and so pass that on.

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I feel like I spent most of this year on holiday and yes I am off again though only a short trip to Spain.
We have a two week half-term coming up (yes I know two weeks!!) We get a week off when most other schools are still teaching - no idea why.
For the first week we're going to nip to Spain to catch a few last rays before settling in for the winter and at least I get to spend my birthday at my favourite Japanese restaurant in Spain.
When we get back Christopher is going to football camp for the second week of half term (the week when everyone else is off too).. so I can update that week so next update will be Oct 29th.
I'll see a small group of you just before we head off on easyjet to Spain for a follow up seminar on the 17th - that's the follow up seminar for those who have been before - I look forwards to that as usually one or two good trades come up! Still a touch of space for that one.
And of course after the next update on the 29th I'll see some of you for the standard seminar on Nov 3rd.
What is going on at Marks and Sparks? Well, my local one anyway. The food hall has become very grim over the last few weeks. Stuff seems to be missing, re-stocking is poor, massive queues at the checkout and a staff that seems disinterested.
I can't see anyone buying clothes there either and those ads with those models just aren't your normal M and S customers.
Something horribly wrong going on there if I'm spending less money there because what I want isn't there and so as detailed in my markets report I am going to bet on a bad trading statement soon.
I seem to have spent the last two weeks saying "no".
Can we advertise on your site? No. Will you come and talk at our investor show? No. Can we place an article on your site, we will pay you. No.
Can you do an interview on our finance podcast? No. Will you come and talk for just 15 minutes at our event? No. Will you do a deal with us and advertise our cfd/Forex products? Definitely no. Would you run a fund for us? Absolutely no. Would you come to our university/share club..... No.
Can we interview you, just pop into our studio for 30 minutes.. No. Would you like to be the Simon Cowell of trading on TV? Never ever!
It strikes me the more you say no to people the more in demand you get! Human nature I guess. I could easily have been everywhere if I'd wanted. Probably would have made an absolute fortune out of it.
But frankly I left my job to be out of the rat race. So I am staying out. But the more I say "no" the more people want me. Humans eh! The only place you'll get me is at my seminars. Six days a year work is more than enough for me!
I did say "Yes" to one company. And that's CNN. Mainly because no-one watches it in the UK though it is popular overseas but it means I am not going to get tons of emails suddenly drowning me. And I did use to work there.
Also they are a serious channel so it was an interesting piece they were doing on the future of shares and how it will work years hence, so that did interest me.
So they filmed me in my office - TV always takes ages. The interview is a small part of it - there is a lot of pretend nodding, pretend working and pretend walking. If you ever catch it remember, it's pretend!
Saw a great thriller at the movies "Gone Girl" - really superb with plenty of twists and turns.. definitely would recommend it. There's quite a bit of gore though you can cover your face for those bits.
Thanks for all your kind comments on my piece on the traders TV show. John wrote in:
" I just loved your comments on the trading prog on bbc2. I have always thought the 4 and 6 screen herberts were poseurs,and like you say,more than one screen at a time, is indeed for a posers ego.
I like you, make my money on one lap top. I can using windows 7 have at the top of my screen all the systems I need for my trading,and can flick from my accounts to my charts or any other pages I need,all with live prices and level2 with one click and can see instantly what is going on."
Exactly John! I would really have loved to have some of them at one of my seminars - particularly the women who was never going to be a winner.
Indeed thanks to all of you who came to the last seminar, you were so lovely. I really enjoyed it and some nice future trades came up. All sorts of people from all walks of life, all with fascinating tales to tell.

I was really pleased to see a lot of you beginning to understand how to make the money and let the money come to you. Hopefully going through all my accounts helped, as did the research and the level 2 timing tricks.

I believe a lot of you understood how important that was by the end of the day. And thanks for all your lovely feedback!

One of you wrote to me: "Without doubt one of the best training course of any kind I've ever been on. 12 hours of solid actionable content and advice."

I hope you all take on board what we did and use the notes and the trading sheet I sent you all and I wish you all the best of skill and see one or two of you for the follow up Friday after next.

My next seminar on Monday November 3. mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com for details with "November 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.'

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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So I'm pleased to announce I've managed to seal a new deal with Advfn for its "Silver" service - that's always on real-time share prices for a good saving (Bronze toplists etc are included in this).
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NEW DATE: NOVEMBER 3 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 November 3

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 "Nov 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.

To sign up and get an excellent weekly education programme use this link:

http://www.ig.com/nakedtrader

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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Phew, the party conferences are over.
God help us if Lab and Lib coalition takes over. Overtaxing and overspending will drive the country into the ground.
I mean, surely all you have to do is look at history which has shown this doesn't and will never work.
I don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said about Moribund's speech. Raising of the tax thresholds seems like a good idea from Cameron who put in the best speech if perhaps a bit contrived.
Clegg is an idiotic waste of space.
If he gets in forget about trying to make money on shares - they will deliberately target those making an income from shares which is so idiotic it almost takes the breath away.
And forget about much of a capital gains tax allowance either.
The fact that total duffer Vince Clegg has a job as business secretary is hilarious.
Put him in charge of any business, even a very small one and he would balls it up. He's never had to do any proper work. Or a clue about business people.
After the suicide of the lady who slagged off the McCanns's on the internet TV news execs should think more carefully regarding who they are doorstepping and what might happen to them afterwards.
Not sure revealing someone's face and exactly where they live when they haven't been charged with any offence is right.
Strictly remains entertaining though only to the extent of fast forwarding through it quite quickly.
You had to feel sorry for Gregg Wallace - dancing looks easy on tv but if you try it it really is difficult so well done to anyone with two left feet who gives it a go.
I've tried "The Leftovers" on Sky Atlantic. Premise is what happens after 2% of the world's population disappears. It's getting a bit soapy so I'm on the brink of forgetting about it.
Enjoying watching Fargo again with the mrs, some great acting, worth getting the DVD
24 hours in custody looks a surprising winning format. You have to feel sorry for the police who seem to have to do a lot of social work they're not trained to do.
The worst for them is to sort out husband and wife rows. Who's right and who is wrong?
The Kitchen is a surprise. It isn't about cookery at all but a gentle look at how people live.
It's all positive. People in the UK seem generous, positive and loving. Really nice to see.
I was a looking forwards to the show following cats around but it turned out not to be purrfect for me. It was just a tad boring with too much stuff about the technology.
Lord Sir Alan is back next week with The Apprentice. Amazing the show is still going.
But it is a great format. Of course the premise of the prog isn't why we watch.
We watch to see people with giant egos being taken down to size.
How stupid can you be to be a contestant? If you're chosen you should realise you are telly fodder and they're going to make you look like a bad word beginning with W. In fact you are probably a W just because you have been chosen.
Lord Sir obviously enjoys being on TV. The hilarious thing is he had a lucky break with Amstrad but had a lot of failures, remember the emailer! He's just been running a boring property company ever since. Not that it matters, we're just going to have fun watching pompous non self-aware people making tits of themselves....
Our terrible team Fulham at last won a game. Admittedly thought it was to one of the only two other teams worse than them.
I'm trying to keep quiet about the games so Christopher doesn't know they are on as frankly you get fed up when your team loses every single one!

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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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.

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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October is always awful - big downs and ups and very hard to play.
This time of the year I tend to keep trades to a minimum which usually works out.
New traders should be very careful this time of year. It's so easy to get on the wrong side of a few trades that can suddenly knock you out.
Prices can scoot down then back up as panicking people sell then buy back.
As usual it's best to buy as people are panicking and as the markets retreat.
I'd be a bit wary of buying new issues this month - there are a few on the way and I'd treat each with suspicion that they are all being floated at way too high prices.
Jimmy Choo's float is next week. Are the shares a choo-in?
As far as I could find profits are pretty flat, it has debt and it wants to float between 140 and 180 valuing it at £700m. Looks a way over the top valuation to me - the shoes sell only to the well-heeled (ok I'm all out of shoe puns now)
and luxury shoes are the first to go when the baliffs turn up.
Virgin Money - they didn't want any small investors getting a sniff of the shares at the float price. So I say: "sod them then!"
A better bet possibly might be BCA, British car auctions ie, webuyanycar.com. Problem is though the money's being raised to pay off debt. I suspect one I might shortlist and keep an eye on for the future. Depends on the float price but a good long-term business there.
The FTSE's been getting a hammering - and that has worked a treat for the FTSE shorts I took out at just under 6900. Profits there running around the £20,000 mark which helps counterbalance some of the long-termers that have gone down a bit.
I closed a quarter of them out this morning and tightened the stops on the rest in case the market bounces back strongly. If it doesn't then I'll still be in. Nice to know whatever happens I'll be bagging some big profits.
Right onto some of my trades.
I've shorted Rightmove (RMV) . This is about to face stiff new competition from estate agents themselves who will soon launch a rival service. Could be a right good move for them. Zoopla, recently listed too is stiff competition.
If the estate agents get it right Rightmove could get knocked. Looks like it worth trying a short in it and see how it goes. So I shorted at 2245 and 2238. (That means bet on the shares to go down for new traders.)
I'm making an absolute fortune on shorts on Carpetshite (CPR) over £25,000 personally and I couldn't resist shorting some more last week. Lord Harris is flogging off his shares and the next trading statement is almost certain to be dire. I've been short from 740 and down. I think my big final pay off and banking the profits is not far off. .
BTW the biggest SB firm isn't allowing shorts in Crapet - however this company does -
http://www.spreadex.com/nakedtrader - handy to have an account there as they will deal in the smaller shares no-one else will.

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A reminder next seminar is Nov 3rd, Mail me for details at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "November seminar interested" in the subject line. Technical Analysis seminar Dec 7th with top trader Susan and myself, mail me with "TA interested" in the subject line.
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Those of you who read stuff about my life further up know from dealings in my local store, there is something up with M and S.
I'm looking to go short as I can't see the next trading statement is going to be up to much. Well, at least judged by the terrible state my local branch is in.
Onto trades on shares to go up now! As I said above I treat October with a lot of care and only buy something when I really think it's good.
I'd bought quite a lot of Pressure Technologies (PRES) for my pension a while back as those of you who get the sipp email know and have made a decent amount on them and now bought some for the ISA too.
Fundamentals here look good and happy now to have these in the ISA too.
It seems to be in a great space at the moment and it is growing by acqusition, having just bought a New Zealand company and it has agreed a £15m financing deal. Really excellent potential here.
Tristel (TSTL) is an interesting one. I've picked some up at 69p. The shares are surprisingly volatile so you have to be careful and it's best to buy them on a dip.
It deals in a hot market: infection prevention, contamination control and hygiene products, The Company has made five profit upgrades this yer so results due Oct 13th should be good.

I sold the Royal Mail shares I got in the float for a profit of £147. I should have done it a long time ago but forgot I had them as it was such a tiny amount.
Blnx went for a profit of £1,130. They were a high risk play and with heavy selling coming in looked worth banking a profit on them. Ite fell below its previous range so that was an easy one to quit at 183.8 with a loss of £185. . I made a lot on it trading the range previously. But once the range breaks it needs time to see where a new range might establish itself.
Sold the last of the Restore for a profit of £1,665. And Hty has been fantastic, with many thousands made and sold most of the rest I have at 307.5 for a profit of £5,650. And Opay went at 516.6 for a profit of £332. It couldn't clear 520 and sellers kept coming in. However looks like time to buy back is nearly here.
Total profits (minus losses) banked for the site then £7,074.
Elsewhere GVC continues to be a lovely share. Super profits but the dividends are simply amazing. It goes ex dividend tomorrow so it should start lower but the huge percentage payouts make this share a terrific hold.

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.

Audioboom where I booked part profits last time raised £8 million in a placing at a reasonable price which is good news for the future and I'll stick with the other half of the holding and considering buying some more.

Iomart is hovering around levels where I would probably sell it and there seems a persistent seller, but I suspect they will head back up as fast as they came down once said seller is done so just about holding.

Scisys got a decent contract extension though the share seem stuck, hope for a rerating over 100 at some point. Nice under the radar share which should pay out nicely in time.
Seeing Machines seems to be sticking around the 6p 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!!
Regenerisis is making a bit of an effort to make a comeback. Yet another good statement from Gulf Marine Services . This under the radar share is really going to pay off sometime with patience!

Nothing can seem to stop Renew, 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, OPG, Porvair, GB and AL Noor.
The market will probably carry on being hard for October so best thing is to keep trades to a minimum and try not to play shares up and down as volatile markets are very hard to play and your capital could get hit.

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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
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