Next seminar with me and live markets is Friday January 18th at Heathrow, if you are interested in getting the new year off to a great start with a day with me mail me with "January seminar interested". There is a tasty early bookers discount on offer! More details somewhere below or press the "Seminars" button.

There is a follow up on March 22nd for those who have been to a seminar already - we do level 2, live trading, research, finding new companies and timing tricks all day! Mail me with "follow up interested" in the subject line.

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I recommend two brilliant trading diaries for your desk! Of course the first is Naked Trader Diary 2013.

What's in it? All the hot dates for 2013, like ex dividend dates, likely company reporting dates, sporting events, and even an arrow for each day telling you whether that day has been strong or not in the past. There is also my thought of the week for each week of the year, and some looks at companies reporting on particular weeks.

If you'd like to order The Naked Trader Diary 2013 for next day delivery you can just click this link here:

http://books.global-investor.com/books/868876.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

As a complement to my diary, consider the excellent Stock Market Almanac 2013.

This is a tremendous stock market reference diary - really essential for anyone serious about their trading. There is some brilliant research and loads of market facts like ric codes, a timetable of the trading day, tons of lists to help you with your research.

In fact it should answer any question you have about the market. There are all the key dates and tons of analysis too for all the different parts of the year. Each page of the diary is accompanied by a short article including seasonality analysis for days and months; momentum investing analysis for shares, sectors and market indices and many more.

click on this link to buy:
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Okay welcome to my last update this year, will be back for a brand new year on Jan 9th.

I hope you enjoyed this year's updates. And may I wish all readers a very happy and jolly holiday season.

Be grateful we live in a lovely country and we are all relatively prosperous. Forget about markets, shares and money and enjoy the company of whoever you are with (however annoying!)

It has been a bit hectic this week! Last night we were at Fulham FC who hosted a special evening for Junior season ticket holders - we got to meet some of the players and Santa himself!

Christopher took in a Fulham teddy bear and got it signed by Hugo Rodegala, Malin Petric and Mohammed Diarra. And we got a good pic of him with Petric.

The players were really excellent and patient with all the children, that was lovely to see at a real family club.

We got a blow up football from Santa which we had a good play with afterwards.

Fulham FC will be entertaining him all week with its football courses. What more could he want, playing football all day! Magic.

It's been a mad week of getting Xmas cards done, shopping and all the rest of it.

We also caught the new James Bond movie "Skyfall" which was really excellent, way better than the last one.

The Mrs, who went quite reluctantly (after pressure from me such as "Okay I'll go on my own then" or "You have to see it on the big screen" etc) even enjoyed it after a quick nap during the usual opening car chase.

So worth a view, entertaining most of the way through though as usual it would have been better perhaps with 20 mins cut out.

It is so strange being in the dark and cold after 3 Xmases in the heat of South Africa!

However I guess it is time to have an Xmas in the UK !

We have a few things lined up...

We are taking Grandad to his first ever Premier League game against Southampton on Boxing Day and then a load of friends and their kids to the game against Swansea on the 29th...

I am already preparing the big xmas quiz for Xmas Day evening!

None of us are the types to sit around watching crap on TV, especially Xmas crap which is just the usual crap with tinsel on it.

So I am researching loads and loads of questions. There will be plenty of questions about what happened this year, general knowledge, and music.

Though the music is a bit of a problem. Trouble is Grandad only really remembers music from 1967 so I can't exactly put a Nicki Minage intro on and expect him to be able to guess it.

Maybe he has his own music round with just 1967 poptastic hits questions.

Christopher is going to come up with the football questions... bet they will be hard.

Relatives are usually quite unruly so I am using a yellow and red card system. A yellow is a warning and a red means you are sent off for the next question.

Hopefully I shall be able to keep some sort of control... anyone messing with the quizmaster is going to be in a lot of trouble....

In the New Year we are off to visit some friends in the country and overall we just hope to do lots of fun things and have a peaceful and jolly time.

We had a really lovely year with lots of nice highlights, probably the biggest highlight was our three week roadtrip to the States in October/November.. (if you want to read about it click the archive)

Summer was excellent. We used all the lovely evening light and there wasn't a better feeling than playing football in the park on a balmy summer evening. And we had a brilliant time in a chateau in France.

I also remember enjoying a day out at Wimbledon and the races, that amazing month of the Olympics, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations right outside our place on the river, and starting the year with sunny times in South Africa.

The worst bit of the year was being the MC at a party and just starting my spiel when the band decided to throw a smoke bomb on the stage setting off the fire alarms, Michael McIntyre never has to deal with that kind of thing does he? I expected to get heckled, but I never expected to do battle with smoke alarms..

And I got a bit annoyed with the plumber who had a massive dump in my toilet. There is still a funny smell in there...

I also remember some excellent seminars too. I enjoyed meeting many of you over this year and I am sure I'll see some of you again at follow ups.

Anyway I hope you all have a lovely holiday period, forget about shares and the markets and remember what is important: enjoying good cheer with close ones.

Try not to have too many fights, if someone annoys you count to ten or had elsewhere for a bit or perhaps even try and see their point of view and then make up!

I've had one or two presents arrive from companies I do business with..

Two from spreadbet companies. A Fortum and Masons hamper from one (wow!) and a pair of gloves from another. Well, the gloves ended up coming very much in handy on a cold day!

And the marmalade from the hamper came in even handier when there was none left in the house!

Christopher wrote his wish list for Santa which was erm.... 30 different styles of football boots and, erm a table tennis table.

I did point out I didn't think Santa would be able to get anything at sportsdirect and indeed there was no way he could get a table tennis set down the chimney..

So maybe he'll be disappointed.. in fact... we now need to urgently think of a some stocking fillers.. help !

Thanks for all the feedback still coming in re the last seminar, I think in particular many of you who were nursing losses are going to think about cutting them quickly in the future!

Also many of you seem to get how important it is to get your timing right and using level 2 and the other trick I showed you should help you to make more unemotional decisions on a trade.

One delegate said: "Just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for the seminar on Friday. One of the things I was particularly struck by was seeing your accounts and and there being hardly any red in there. It's clear that you really practice what you preach on cutting losers and this is a great lesson.

And another: "thanks for a great and very informative day on Friday. You are clearly a huge success and I think one of your greatest strengths is the ability to remain calm and not take things too seriously...."

Anyway great to meet you all and all the best with your future trades! Maybe see some of you for the follow up on March 22nd.

If you missed this one glad to announce a new date and that is Friday January 18th at Heathrow.

If you are interested email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "January Seminar interested" in the subject line - there is an early bookers discount on offer!
Beginners and improvers welcome! Come and spend the day with me, the markets and some lovely people - and of course, lunch!

If you mail me I will then send you details and a full agenda of what is covered. Also more details below somewhere.

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!

A follow up with me will be on March 22nd... You must have been on a previous basic one of mine to qualify.

The last one was great fun so I can't wait - I know some of you who came to the last one want to come again! It is all day level 2, research, finding new stuff, timing and live trading. Who knows what will happen!

If you are interested mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "follow up interested" in the subject line.

* The all new edition of my book Naked Trader 3 is out now !!!

Lots of new strategies including my top 20, lots more mistakes to avoid, loads of new trader tales, cartoons and a bit of fun too.

I hope you all enjoy it - and can tell I put a lot of effort into it and I really hope if it just stops one person from making the mistakes I did it will be worthwhile.

Indeed I hope the book is worth it even if you read about other people's stories, it is amazing how so many make exactly the same mistakes.

Anyhow if you buy it I hope you enjoy it! Click here:
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** My book about spreadbetting , you can order it here:

http://books.global-investor.com/books/401334.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

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I've been using them for a few weeks to check that I'm happy with the service. As you know I don't take ads or allow referrals on the site unless it's a company I've used and I feel confident about.
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Many of you enjoy the cheap advfn toplists bronze deal through me as do many of you with the cheap level 2. However many of you say you want a half-way house to include real-time share prices always on.
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).
The deal is via me you can save £30 for your first year by paying just £145 inc vat via me instead of £173.71
Just mail me for full details if you'd like it with "silver" in the subject line.

**** BOOKING OPEN FOR FRIDAY JANUARY 18TH *****
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 Jan 18th

Price is £590 plus vat. There is currently a decent early bookers discount off that price - mail 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 "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! You might even get to see the amazing crocodile boots . . . .
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?

I've started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply)
To get the offer, click here:
http://www.tradefair.com/promo/spreads/nakedtrader100/

One great thing about the holiday season is we get a rest from those repulsive politicians.

Haven't they just been vile all year through without exception?

PMQ's have been sickening throughout. To see grown men act like ten-year-olds is pathetic.

It's so easy to see they're not interested in the country but only interested in their little club and point scoring.

And it doesn't look like it is going to change anytime soon. Though the worst has to be Ed Balls. Ugh!

I have to say I miss Gordon Brown for the excellent entertainment value he gave.

Nick Clegg doesn't seem to provide anything - no entertainment and nothing much else either. Totally and utterly usless and the most useless of the lot and given the fact the rest are useless this shows how useless he is.

His latest wheeze: means test pensioners and stop tham having bus passes. How do you means test all pensioners without it costing more to do than save money on bus passes? And how many "rich" pensioners are there anyway? Not many !

And those that are surely just worked hard and paid their national insurance all their lives so they deserve to have it. It really is the politics of envy and idiocy.

Pushy mums are now trying to teach their babies to read.. almost from birth!

One said it would be worth it once they get into Oxford.

For goodness sake, let babies be babies, let kids enjoy their childhood!

At last someone came up with a good idea: get rid of the tax disc!

It is totally unnecessary anymore as it's on computer if you paid the tax.

But surely it is just time to end the tax totally and just add it to petrol. The tax is very costly to administer and let's face it the money raised isn't spent on the roads is it?

Looking forwards to the Homeland finale, will Brody and sail off happily into the sunset on the run together. No there must be another twist.

Maybe Saul and Carrie are really the item. Best twist I can think of....

Girls ended up an entertaining series.

The real question is: How to ensure that the Downton Abbey Xmas special "forgets" to make it onto the recorded list on sky Plus. After all it is two hours of life I can't get back.

Though I guess I am intrigued: How much more botox did Bates get in prison and did he also add any more hair while he was in there?

I can't see much TV I really want to watch, nearly all of it looks like crap to me - the TV will stay off and the games will commence!

With Xmas and new year parties around watch out - doctors say if you are a middle aged bloke be careful about trying to dance gangham style..

Heart attacks could ensue. Advice is to "let the ladies dance around you! (!)

Via this link Open a Sporting Index account and there's £100 cash offer - please check terms and conditions which apply.

http://www.sportingindex.com/?tpid=6755
Do remember if you do bet you ought to treat sports spreadbetting as entertainment - and expect to lose! Also with spreadbetting work out what your max loss could be and make sure you can afford it! In other words if you say backed the favourite at 15 for a fiver and they come nowhere your max loss is £75.

Anne writes :
Agree about facebook - the youngsters who leapt onboard when it started,
posting dire photos of them doing things they shouldn't are now grown up and
getting on in their careers and errrrrr wondering if that photo of them
mooning in the disco in Majorca was a good idea!

Nice to think I am not the only unsociable grump to not want to follow the
minutiae of my friends and colleagues mostly boring lives!

I am in the states just now and feel the Starbucks asking name thing is just
more marketing bollocks to get them noticed. If they just speeded up the
service I might go there but americans seem to need all this 'service
bollocks' to make them think they are getting their moneys worth.

Thanks Anne,
well of course I agree, it's nearly all bollocks!

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!
Stephen writes:
I read your book and did the course - and I wasn't sure if I'd recoup the cost, it's been 2 years and I've made £38k + saved a loss transferring a Jupiter ISA heavily invested in BP. I can't tell you how important this is or how grateful I am. That's just me, who knows how much people have made with your help and saved by not making mistakes. I wanted to get into shares as they recovered after the crunch, but I assumed I had to put a large amount in one company I thought would make a big jump.
But what happens when you make £1m on the website, will you still do courses? I don't know how you do your ISA and SIPP investments, write the website, books, courses and answer e-mails. But please don't give it up. Couldn't you do the courses and have a standing website which gets updated with your trades say once a month so people can see what you do..

Stephen thanks so much for such a nice mail and much appreciated! Dunno about the future, I feel like I'm getting jaded. It's possible I might just reduce it all at some point to twice a month after going weekly - that would probably help. The other problem is other people's angst is getting to me and the email workload becoming overwhelming. I think after ten years it might be time for me to quit. Anyway good luck with your trades and hope you make a lot more.

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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. Level 2 gives you access to all the market maker positions and the order book and I would not trade without it!

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A reminder it's my last update this year, back on January 9th...

Do remember though if you'd like to spend a day with me and live markets I have a seminar on Jan 18th, mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com for details, there is currently a decent early bookers discount!

Okay a review of the year on the way...

First though a wrap of my final trades for this year..

The last bit of December is usually really good.

The Naked Trader Diary 2013 reveals some of the strongest days of the year are coming up and surprisingly some of the short trading half days are very good.

So really if history does its thing the next couple of weeks should be good!

Naked Trader Diary 2013 still available for next day delivery here:

http://books.global-investor.com/books/868876.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

So how have I played the Santa rally this year?

I have bought the FTSE 100 and the FTSE250 indexes and a basket of banks (banking sector) all on spreadbets. Short term only though! The FTSE 250 bet has surprised me by already going brilliantly and I am already up over a grand on a £6 a point bet.

For the banking sector bet I used www.igindex.co.uk/nakedtrader

Clicked on "indicies" in the menu and you will see sectors in the drop down menu, I chose the banking sector (banks) as that is likely to go well over Xmas, indeed the bet is up £500 at the moment.

I don't intend to hold onto any of these bets for too long and I suspect I will be out with (I hope) profits banked once the Santa rally is done. Well, here is hoping, the stats are very much in favour.

Come January though and one must be careful not to hold these bets for too long as good profits can turn into losses pretty quickly. I may use a trailing stop.

Turning to shares I made some decent money trading Low and Bonar (LWB) earlier this year..

I'm going to try and repeat the trade (ish) and bought some at 51.2 for what I hope will be rise up to 60-70 for 10-25% profit.

This was an easy buy - there is tons of support for Low and Bonar at 50p, so low risk - and the chances of a bounce to over 60p I think are excellent. We shall see!

I hope to take profits quite quickly maybe after a few days or a couple of weeks but if the shares continue up I might stay with it for more..

I bought some more Cash Converters (CCVU) which I think could double in 2013. I mentioned the reasons I like this one when I bought it a couple of weeks back.

But mainly it is a company that is growing rapidly in a business which is also increasing fast. Margins are good and you'll soon see one of their shops in a high street near you.

I bought some more this time at 69 to add to the ones bought at 55. The shares follow what happens in the Australian market where the main listing is so they tend to open up or down early doors depending on what happened over there.

I also nabbed a few Supergroup (SGP) on a spreadbet at 553. Looks to have been too much of a fall there and I'm in for a potential rise up to the 650 area.

And I topped up with yet more Greencore (GNC) this time with spreadbet at 93. I think if it breaks up over a quid, 120 is on the way. Indeed today that looks like it is happening and I might even buy some over over a quid if a quid holds.

Already nearly doubled on Greencore I bought a few weeks ago so very very happy with this trade!

Right I guess a review of the year is in order!

Sometimes I wish I was a spreadsheet kind of guy and could tell you some exciting percentages I did for the year.

But I'm not so I can't - all I know is the money has flowed in this year and it's been a really good one.

If I'm guessing I think I made about £300,000 this year - as those of you who came to seminars this year saw, my accounts are bursting with nice profits banked. And those of you who came obviously saw I make a lot of money spreadbetting which I don't cover on the website.

My downfall however would be greed. I still only put in my ISA allowance every year and that is that. I continue to bank profits made from spreadbets too. I could easily with leverage buy millions of quids worth of shares but I am definitely not going to!

So let's look at some of the best and worst trades I made this year for the website.

I managed to keep losses down to the low £100s but some banked profits were well into the £1,000's and that is the way to make money.

Cliche though it may be, if you really can cut your losses and run your profits you will make money,

Best banked trades of the year were in Sporting Bet - £10,350 profit was banked there - I was after a bid and got it - well, an attempted bid anyway, nice trade! In real life profits were over £20,000 on it as my stakes were high.

Lots of banked profits over a grand.. Corin was a nice one, three trades in that banked profits of £3,777.

Over £2,000 banked in CML and in APR Energy.

A nice quickfire near £2,000 banked in Burberry in just a month, good recovery play.

Best short was Mecom with £2,000 banked again in amonth.

The biggest stinker of the year was not surprisingly one of the oil stocks I usually try and avoid so serves me right with a loss of £1,700 on Bayfield. I should have known better than to play in high risk small oil stocks, they are for mugs on the whole as winners are few and losers plenty. Apart from that losses were kept small and there weren't many of them.

Overall the three biggest paper winners in the portfolio are currently..

1. Telecom Plus Profit £130,000

2. Dialight £65.000

3. Coastal Energy £8,000

Just before I go and tuck into some mince pies, a look at some of the stuff in the current portfolio:

Anite has gone up far quicker than I thought it would but no complaints!
Trifast has leapt nicely - I hope it will have another go at defeating the 50p mark.

Aga has turned from a slow burner to a raging fire. and has headed up over 70p. It has been in a nice uptrend since it confirmed it has sorted out long-term funding a deal on its pension deficit which sees it not having to make any new payments for a couple of years. Looks like it should get to near 80p with the potential of 90p where it hit earlier this year.

I'm hoping for a bid soon on Alternative Networks (they already turned one bidder down) and in the meantime there has been great capital growth and a massive dividend as they have loads of cash.

The lovely Porvair has been motoring up very nicely and in good profits there now. St Ives tries to hold above 100 though can't seem to break through 106 at the mo. Try and be patient here!

Telecom Plus can't break the 900 area, still a good performance considering it went ex dividend for a big amount and on Monday I got a nice cheque for more than £6,000. I think this one will just continue to grow and grow and one day will be in the ftse 100. Website profits of well over £100,000 and personal profits of nearly £300,000. And today I exercised an option to buy 4,000 shares at 162p. Nice.

Vectura is on the rise again a good drugs pipeline here and it has tons of cash - could be a future very big star and hoping to hold on longer term.

Carclo has been rising strongly but profit taking dragged it back. I think this one could rise very strongly next year. Its CIT technology looks a winner and the shares could easily have a massive run up from here given time and patience. Nice profits on this one. An announcement should come shortly on a milestone payment from Atmel.

Avon has leapt nicely higher as it heads up towards the 400 area.
Chime keeps on going up - a good 30 points higher quite quickly still in this from 50p so a nice times four and a great profit on the ones bought more recently in the 140s and the spreadbet.

Costain has at last moved higher and seems in the middle of a deserved rerating.

Dialight struggles at around a tenner at the mo after an institution sold a few but directors are confident and have been buying another one I just continue to hold long term and not worry about the ups and downs. I remember so well buying these at 150 ish at a seminar in 2009 ! I never thought I'd still have them three years later at a tenner.

Coastal is on the way back up after a takeover approach ended - and in a forward looking statement last week it showed what an amazing company it is and it should easily go over the very low ball offer soon. This week it gave forward looking statements for 2013. This one really is a cracker and massive profits for me here as I have nearly trebled my money in it.

Direct Line has proved a surprise nice winning trade and has sped over 200. I was thinking of taking profits at over 200 but it seems so strong staying with it for the mo. I laugh as I only bought because all the magazine tipsters said don't buy!

. LOQ announced an acquisition which sees the shares soaring again. Massive profits in this one where I have trebled my money but I feel more to come! It has cracked 300 for sure, can it get to 400?

Sepura continues to go for it and 100 surely must be cracked sooner or later. Nichols continues to slowly rise day by day and profits are now rolling in nicely... I'm hopeful of a bid at around the tenner mark.

That's it from me, a brilliant year - however profits are there to be taken, January and February can be poor months so I expect to be cashing in some profits quite soon.

A reminder you can spend a day with me and live markets on January 18th.. Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "January seminar interested" in the subject line. There is a decent early bird discount!
I've been getting e-mails regarding my use of direct market access and who I use. I've tried a few and for me the easiest system for me is here:
http://www.igmarkets.com/nakedtrader

Direct market access means you can place orders directly onto the order book bypassing brokers and market-makers with a chance to buy at the "sell" price. I would suggest you ensure you know what you're doing first but IG does provide much education with its "tradesense" educational tool which comes with it.
I also use its spreadbetting service too along with other firms like Tradefair because it now provides trailing stops which to me is a pretty sensible way of trading. Also with this link there is an excellent education programme and it offers the biggest range of smaller shares.

http://www.igindex.com/nakedtrader
As usual before opening accounts please read all the warnings on the sites. You can lose a lot of money if you're not careful so pay close attention to them and make sure you always understand what you are doing and what your potential losses are.

I've also started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply).
To get the offer, click here:
http://www.tradefair.com/promo/spreads/nakedtrader100/

If you want to get the contents of The Naked Trader website into your mailbox instead of waiting for the update to come through, plus exclusively news on the progress of my SIPP from the old Sunday Times column inc new higher risk Aim buys made for that, e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with SIPP in the subject line for details of how to get it.

Want to quit the rat race? Try and start a new source of income so one day you can tell the boss to stuff it? You could do what I did to escape my grotty office job and become an independent distributor for the Utilities Discount Warehouse.
You get to sell great broadband, phone packages and energy to friends, relatives, contacts and anyone else you find and you get cash for each sale but more importantly you get a cut of their spend EVERY MONTH for as long as they are a customer!
It's called residual income and is a far better way to enjoy a ripe old age than relying on a pension. Because even after you stop selling the money STILL comes in!
I still get paid EVERY MONTH for sales I made back in 1999! Every time a customer uses broadband or the phone or switches on a light you get paid.
It's a great business and backed by a stock market company (Telecom Plus), a dedicated team of advisors.. and me to help you on your way!
Not only do you get paid out every month for each customer you can take on distributors. encourage them like I do and get paid on their sales as well.
One day, say you could made redundant, needed a year off or wanted to retire early can you imagine what joy it is to have the regular income coming in. It's wonderful.
You have to work at it, but if you do genuine repeat wealth could be yours. I did it. You can too. For full details, why not email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com.
An overview is also available at http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/fabdeal you can sign up directly there but do tell me! (Click become a distributor and follow links)
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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 Wednesday afternoons under "Markets" section..