**If you missed the last seminar the next is coming up soonish on July 16th. More details below, it wiill be the last till a lot later this year.

For details, email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "July seminar interested" in the subject line. **

Phew!

No appearance just yet of the infamous ladies porn book 50 Shades on Mrs NT's bedside table.

Just as well.

If I have to tie her up, who the hell is cooking dinner?

The bad news?

The weather is **** this week.

The good news? The Met Office says it's going to rain all summer. Get set then for a dry warm August/September!

It's a busy time at the mo (well busy for me at any rate).

School sports days, prize giving, fete, barbeque, football matches, meals out, you name it, it appears to be happening. It's some kind of social storm before the peace of the summer holidays.

I can hardly believe it's the end of term next week and the start of the school holidays.. Christopher is going to be in year three next term and I can still remember changing his nappy!

With the weather looking dire we just booked a week in France for the end of the month and he has tons of events planned from football to activity days.

I have no trouble at all sleeping these days. The kid is so active, I have to be active along with that. For example take one day...

I played two games of football, one swimming session, one game of cricket, one cycle, and ended with an hour and a half of playing catch.

It's all so rewarding though. Hardly any TV watched and none of those dispiriting mind sapping computer games.

There's politics everywhere, isn't there. I'm not used to it since I last had a job in 2001.

There's even politics in under 8's football !

Yes, the parents of the centre Christopher plays for were waiting anxiously. Is their 7-year-old good enough to make the team?

There are two teams apparently. The A team and the B team. Mrs NT was texted Christopher's team but we had no idea which team that was.

Mrs NT was determined to find out and accosted the coach at the next game. Aha, he was in the A team!

Apparently the parents aren't told unless they ask, because it leads to diplomatic problems and you can see that from the manager's point of view.

"Why isn't little Johnny in the A team.. not good enough for you eh?"

"Erm, no, he's excellent... erm, you see we needed someone good in the B team..."

We are delighted. That doesn't mean that some dirty looks have been thrown our way. We know they are whispering that Christopher has only been there for three months so how come he was put in the A team?

Hah! Well, did your son score 7 goals in the last game then!

Anyhow I am happy sitting on the sidelines watching him bang in the goals.

And I can have a laugh watching Alpha Dads shouting "Get on the ball Cosmo!" (yeah I know they have weird names in this posh part of London).

As Christopher told me: "I like it you don't shout at me during a game..." Hey let Alpha banker Dads shout what they like. Us quiet ones are the real winners, hah!

I had a great day out at the Wimbledon tennis... some excellent centre court tickets (thanks Lionel!) and some brilliant tennis to watch.

The tennis is much faster than it looks on TV. How any of the players can get any returns back at the speed of the serves is just amazing.

I'd never been to Wimbledon before and was really surprised at the sheer scale of it. It's much bigger than you might imagine. Centre court itself is huge!! And even though we were near the back it's still a good view.

The crowd is in the main quiet and attentive until the amount of Pimms being consumed starts to loosen inhibitions after about 6pm.

Then someone shouts "Come on Jeremy!" And then someone else "Go Andy!"

A bloke in the row in front got up every half hour to get another can of Pimms. He must have put away the equivalent of 15 pints of it and he was looking pretty unsteady on his feet near the end....

The man sitting next to me had an I Thing. He spent a lot of time either playing chess, mailing, texting and whatever else people do with these things.

I mean, honestly, why come and watch tennis if all you're going to do is play with your phone! You could do that anytime. I guess it's an addiction.

I'm sure like me you've been to meals where someone spends most of the time looking under the table at their flickering screen. Why not just bring your home computer and lob it on the table!

As an aside there's a show called "The Pitch" where two ad companies pitch. The one that won confiscated all I things from their staff for 24 hours to work on it. They won.

There's a brilliant atmosphere through the place, and it's classless. No dress code, picnics and Pimms abound.

It's brilliantly run and organised. The way the ballboys/girls, security, line judges are organised is stupendous. Real clockwork.

I think whoever runs Wimbledon should run the country.

There's some decent food around too, anything from poached salmon to lasagne. Prices aren't too bad.

Many queue up overnight to get seats, some camp out. A lot who can't get seats to the main course camp out on the hill to watch the big screens, have their picnics. It really is all very pleasant.

So if you get the chance to go, go for it. But these days assume a very late finish, some games weren't over till 10pm with the Murray game not finishing till after 11 !

For those of you who missed it the new seminar date is July 16th, you can now book now.

There is a discount for early bookers but not for much longer!

For details, email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "July seminar interested" in the subject line.

I'll send you everything that I cover and all about the day itself. In a short time you could be (I hope) enjoying a day with me and live markets.

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!

* 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 read an excellent stock market thriller on holiday,

"The Fear Index" by Robert Harris.

A maths genius joins a hedge fund and together they create a monster trading robot giving it billions to play with.

The robot starts to short everything and starts to cause massive market crashes. Then takes on a mind of its own.

Plenty of excellent page turning stuff here, if you are a trader or investor a lot of it will ring true with the robots almost already in charge of some shares!

There's tons of drama and action and I couldn't put it down though it helps as it is a thriller about the markets!

If you're into the markets you'll love it.. here's an order link to the book:

http://books.global-investor.com/books/860358/Robert-Harris-/The-Fear-Index/

Enjoy the read!!

Want to know what my last monthly elec/gas/phone/broadband/mobile phone bill was for me and Mrs NT?
What so you reckon? £250? £300?
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How so? Well, Utility Discount Warehouse offers 10% off your energy bill every year as long as you have 1,500 Telecom Plus shares.
But how do you fancy getting that same whopping 10% discount off the whole of your energy spend for the whole of your first year? Ie your last month will probably be free! You don't need to own any shares, just sign up with UDW services and do it via myself, and you also get my weekly email which is the website stuff direct to your inbox PLUS exclusive higher risk trades made for my pension!
All you have to do is take four services - choose from homephone, broadband, electricity, gas, mobile phone and the amazing discount and my email is all yours. AND you can't lose as there is a "double the difference" promise. That is you are guaranteed to save money by swiitching or they will give you back double the difference.
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And if you think switching is a pain in the bum, think again. It's easy, a few clicks on a website. On top of all those savings there are loads of other ways to add even bigger savings too.
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I use all the services myself, and have done for many years. You get a UK call centre with calls answered quickly and a monthly bill.
An interesting email from a reader. The thrust of it was he was going to buy a share after doing a lot of research but then it went up 12% and he hadn't bought it yet. So he felt angry.
How does he stop/halt the feelings of anger?
Well, you have to take the emotion out of trading. Which isn't easy.
I suggested he should read this book.. by Jason Zweig
http://books.global-investor.com/books/256158.htm?ginPtrCode=10453
This is the one to read on psychology. Great read.
Fancy getting the naked trader updates direct into your inbox? And a bit before it gets updates on the net including news from my pension trades made from my SIPP?

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I get some commission and you get the service! On top of that you ought to make some amazing savings on your phone, broadband, or energy use or all! There's even an internet phone where you can make free calls from wi fi hotspots!

Prices are guaranteed lower than the top 6 suppliers but even better you can get huge discounts on your energy/phone bill if you shop at places like Marks and Spencers, Boots, Sainsburys and a whole load more. 5% of your spend comes directly off your billl. Many are saving a fortune from their energy bills.

So save a few quid, and get my stuff in your inbox! A win win? Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "mail service" in the subject line and I'll send you details.

Spreadbetting firm Tradefair Spreads has upped its offer exclusively to Naked Trader readers to a £100 credit. This offer is exclusive to me and not available anywhere else...
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.
What I like about it is it's easy to use, spreads are surprisingly tight on the smaller companies and interestingly an automated stop loss is applied to each trade - so beginners know what their max loss is from the outset.
Anyway they now offer a £100 credit as long as you deposit £100. You get the credit after you placed 5 trades (Terms and conditions apply)
If you'd like to apply for an account with Tradefair Spreads and get the freebie click this link:
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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 excelllent weekly education programme use this link:

www.igindex.com/nakedtrader

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.

They've just re-published "The Zulu Principle" by Jim Slater who's written a 2008 update at the beginning.
This is a brilliant classic book. Reading this is a real pleasure and it was a great idea to republish.
Jim believes like I do the best gains can come from smaller stocks and in an easy to read style takes you through how to evaluate smaller companies that are about to become bigger ones - he uses some excellent examples.
Really this is a must read for all more longer-term investors or anyone looking to grow their money... a number of you have also written to me about this book and praising it.
Here is the link to buy it:
http://books.global-investor.com/books/167207.htm?ginPtrCode=10453
Here's a very topical one: The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets by Peter Schiff.
The book is all about how to keep portfolios up in a down market. He focusses a lot on how to play commodities and win with some sensible advice especially on natural resources and precious metals. He is very much a realist and there is no rubbish here: some straight talking and some interesting strategies.
Everyone who invests should think seriously about keeping portfolios up in bad times so this book should be read.
Well worth picking up at this link:
http://books.global-investor.com/books/271958.htm?ginPtrCode=10453
To order my new book Naked Trader 2 for next day delivery click this link... or the cover of the book top right!
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Several people have asked me for a recommendation on a book which shows how to study accounts in a reasonably easy way. The one I like the most is http://books.global-investor.com/books/15717.htm?ginPtrCode=10453 by Robert Leach. Ten crunch questions to ask before buying any company.
It' s a decent easy-to-read book with several key chapters and it's highly recommended. It's one I keep and dip into from time to time. To order, click this link... http://books.global-investor.com/books/15717.htm?ginPtrCode=10453
The best book on charting and easiest read on the subject is http://books.global-investor.com/books/15618.htm?ginPtrCode=10453 by Alistair Blair. Click here -> http://books.global-investor.com/books/15618.htm?ginPtrCode=10453
Another good one is the second edition of http://books.global-investor.com/books/23792.htm?ginPtrCode=10453 by Peter Temple. Included in this one is how to use spreadbetting, CFD's warrants and trackers to reduce risk. And there are some decent trading strategies too.
This is an excellent book for new investors and also experienced ones. It explains all the things you may not be sure about in the markets and will explain the tools that are there. To order The Investors Toolbox by Peter Temple (new edition) click the following link for delivery in 24 hours... http://books.global-investor.com/books/23792.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

**** BOOKING FOR MONDAY JULY 16TH OPEN

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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 onJuly 16th

Price is £590 plus vat. There is a very decent early bookers discount available at the moment.

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 "June seminar interested" or "July 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/

Oh my goodness... bank traders were rigging a market!! I can hardly believe it can you?

Surely like me you always thought market prices are all made up by honest as the day is long sorts of people.

Fancy that they would call each other and rig it so they all make tons of money! Bollinger all round!

Even better the bosses can pretend not to know about it! Money for old rope. Let's fill the coffers, we only have a few million let's make more and more millions!

Those that should be spotting these things were of course asleep on the job (too much Bollinger).

I'm afraid unless they make banks do what they used to be supposed to do this will continue to and will always go on.

And don't you feel sorry for Bob? Poor old Bob - for screwing things up he only gets a £20 million pay off! How on earth is he going to manage?

Ed Balls and Gordon Brown must be crapping themselves.. is Bob going to land them in the ****?

It's pretty obvious the last Government knew a lot about this.

I find it unbelievable bus drivers are on strike because they want a bonus for the Olympics.

They are just doing their job, a bus can't get fuller than full and it makes little odds. Worse are the tube drivers, it doesn't mean they have to work any harder either.

And even if they did it is just doing their job. They should all be proud to be doing what they do for London.

The authorities should never have caved in and given anyone a bonus for working over the Olympics.

Are nurses going to get a bonus for the extra people around? Nope. Hey, do I get a bonus for trading during it? Look at all the people happy to volunteer to make sure the games go well. Transport staff should be ashamed of themselves.

Quite honestly bus strikes are great. I can get about on my bike without some great big bus with two people on it trying to run me over. In London at least you could easily halve the number of buses. There are way too many of them polluting the streets. They are rarely more than a quarter full and many go around empty.

Alan Partridge is back and going well. Loved the book episode. A great character and hope we don't tire of him too quickly..

Veep too is enjoyable. But Russell Brand? Surely he is sooo over!

Gordon Ramsay and the producers continue to use the prisoners to provide entertainment. This can't be right can it? These formats get worse and worse and more desperate. This format was pretty much devised already by, erm, Alan Partridge...

And why would you eat at a Ramsay restaurant when you know full well he has nothing to do with the cooking any more, he is too busy making TV shows because he can't make any money out of the restaurants. What a f

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joke!

I got paid out nicely by Sporting Index on my Spain to win bet! Bought at 52, it paid out at 100 giving me a nice 48 times my stake of a tenner, yielding a profit of £480.
The spreadbetting firm I use for sports betting is here:
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.

I have 3 great offers from ADVFN.

SAVE OVER £120 !
First great deal: If you want level 2, through me it is only £350 for your first year including VAT!
This compares to £473 direct from advfn inc vat so this deal saves you over a whopping £120! ADVFN level 2 also includes all the live trades made through Plus Markets which I find invaluable.
To accept this great deal just e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Level 2 offer" in the subject line and I will tell you how to get it. Level 2 gives you access to all the market maker positions and the order book and I would not trade without it!

More on level 2 in my book and I spend hours on it at my seminars. So if you get level 2 and want to learn how to use it properly live, book my seminar!

Deal two is ADVFN's bronze subscription - normally £74 pa - available from me for only £50! (inc vat) That's a saving of over £30! You access to the premium bulletin board which contains my discussion forum with direct access to chat to me and some very good traders. Plus you get ADVFN's premium top lists which I think are a must for finding great stock picks. That includes great lists like ex dividend dates, market maker buys plus chart breakouts and downs. All as explained in the book.
To take up the offer, e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with Bronze in the subject line and I will tell you how to claim the deal.

Bronze is included inside the level 2 deal.

Deal three is ADVFN's silver subscription - for those of you who want all the benefits of Bronze AND always on real-time prices.. no more using the back button and getting frozen out!

The deal is via me you can save nearly £30 for your first year by paying just £145 inc vat via me instead of £173.71
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Well surprisingly they seem to want to go up..

Which goes to show if you try and second guess what's going to happen and take a firm view the markets will always make a monkey out of you.

However the market is hoping for more stimulus and if it doesn't get it there is no ruling out it going down again. And is it possible the Euro thing has gone quiet?

Stuff I own is going so well actually it's been a quiet week for me and given I've been out a lot I've been very grateful the markets have been stable.

So all in all I've not done a lot. Sometimes it's like that, trades should never be forced just for the sake of it.

I've made nice sums from a brilliant company - Anite (AIE) over the last 2 years - the thing I did wrong was always sell too early on it. Never mind.

I bought some the day before results at 122.4 and those results did not disappoint yesterday. Excellent rise in profits, and also a superb outlook, one to tuck away for me now for some time, perhaps a year or two, it looks the perfect ISA share.

It's not one that's going to double in a few weeks, but it's one that could gently bring in the money.

Fenner (FENR) has been battered over the last few weeks. Made so much from this one over the years, my best was when I bought it around 77p. It went down to about 330 so I missed what might be the bottom, but still I bought at 346 targetting initially 400 but if the market rises over the summer it's got a reasonable chance of heading higher than that. However if the market tanks it will probably tank with it so one to be careful with.

Those of you who get the sipp mail know I've been buying up a US company for a while - 3d Systems Corp(Nasdaq code DDD) - nicely up by three grand or so at the moment. I'm mentioning it on the website here are as well as buying for my sipp as I've been picking up spreadbets in it at a firm that does a good price in it: www.igindex.co.uk/nakedtrader

Starting buying at around 30 and it now sits around 35. I think 3D printing has a big future so I'm hoping I'm buying a company that could be a future giant. However of course it could turn out to be something no-one wants and a stinker. In which case I would of course bow out. High risk and very volatile but worth a punt for me I think.

While the market is upbeat holding shorts is a bit dangerous. Afren turned when it hit the early 90s and I was out at 98.4 for a profit of £290. Senior went at 186 for a profit of £270.
PORTFOLIO HIGHLIGHTS

A good week with most things gently drifting higher. None of mine have really put anything out worth noting so not much to chat about this time.

The two gambling shares I bought recently, Sportingbet and Betfair both go fine.

Optos goes well and Mecom short is doing fine. NMC Health did put out an all is okay statement so sticking with that though no profit yet. However looks like it wants to climb again.

GB Group continues to climb steadily and has had a good week. My guess is a potential take out here at some point but no surprise if they are tradiing at 100 p by year end.

Lovely LOQ is back on the way up! Already a trebler for me but more to come? Plenty of LOQ bots were being used at Legoland when I was there a couple of weeks ago.

Dialight has come back a bit since unexpectedly getting a slot in the FTSE 250. Possibly as small cap funds would have sold out, still 250 funds should be buying in now. I have been patient all the way from 150p and it now tries to conquer its all time high around 1100. A those of you who have to my seminars have seen from my accounts my profits in real life are something like £90,000. For the website profits are more than £50,000 - and of course there have been dividends on top.
CML sits happily higher though isn't sure of 300. Vislink comes back up after going ex dividend.

IP Group reported today it has realised some profit as another of its portfolio gets a listing on the aim market. What an investment that's been! It has a more than 20% holding in Oxford Nanopore which has made the world's first hand held DNA sequencer, probably worth a fortune for the company. It just has a knack for investing in the right companies. More upside I think despite the recent rises.

Filtronic came up with quite a bullish statement which has pushed the price up. Jury is still out as to whether this one has more legs but for right now, thinks look pretty good. Already close to doubling on it and maybe it will surprise with more later this year.

Telecom Plus (TEP) is going for it and at an all time high. To be honest surprised it broke through 800 and now 850 so easily. I would suspect it'll be 1500p in 2-3 years.
It is everything you want from a long-term hold. A fantastic income and a gradually upward share price - together as long as the world doesn't blow up, it should deliver 15% or so per year. Possibly more. So I am happy to continue to hold more than a quarter of a million quids worth of shares without any worries about it or even bothering checking the share price. It helps that in this case I have them mainly in share certs! I also luckily have an option to buy another 4,000 shares at 164p...!

The brilliant Nicols stays steady around 7 quid.It is a lovely little long-term share. Hoping for an eventual bid there. Brought this one up at a few seminars.

BTG has really been flying this week, it has conquered the 400 mark at last. and is nearly there! Corin continues to gradually drift higher. Kentz and Costain improving nicely.
So, a quiet week, let's see what the next few days brings.
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.co.uk/?QPID=1079&QPPID=1
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.

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.

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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..