Special offer massive discount first 15 to book

(September 28th seminar is sold out)
If you want more than the book and see me do it live, come and spend a day with me and live markets (beginners and improvers welcome)Three course lunch, snacks, drinks and lots of chocolate included!

There's a limited special offer for the first 15 to book and pay of a massive very early discount of £240 off the price inc vat. That's the cheapest it has ever been offered. First come, first served.

Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Oct seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. Add "special offer" if you want to be considered for the large discount.

I'm sorry but the September 28th seminar was sold out some time ago - apologies for disappointment but you can now book October 12th instead.

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Follow up/Technical seminars OCT 9th/10th
The follow up (9th) is a day of live trading with me, with plenty of research, level 2, timing and real trades. The Technical (10th) will teach you new things to hone your entries and exits such as MACD, chart reading, trend lines, moving averages, RSI and divergences. That includes plenty of time with top technical trader Susan and you get access to more than 300 slides for perusal at home afterwards.
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "follow ups interested " and will send you details there will be a discount for booking both. You must have already attended a seminar to come to either.

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Well a hectic summer - I'm glad we made the most of it. It goes by so quickly. I can hardly believe it's over and the school term has started again... and be seeing some of you on Sept 28th for the seminar.

The september seminar has been sold out for a while (I am very flattered) and sorry I had to disappoint some of you, but there is a new date, October 12th, email me if you are interested in that one.
It's weird to be one day lying by a pool the next to be back in the cut and thrust of school term, football matches at all.
One thing I would say to any pilots is never say the words "I have more bad news for you.." then pause for a while!
On the way back from Spain we were bumped around by rain clouds waiting for a landing slot at Gatwick.
The captain came on. "Bad news about the turbulence due to the rain clouds," he said as we were tossed about like a ride at Legoland.
That's when he added:
"And I have some further bad news.."
Further bad news!
One of the wheels is missing? The wing fell off? A crash landing. Can someone remind me of the brace position? Is there time for a quick sip of tea and bit of toast before I die?
After a few seconds he added: "The further bad news is we'll have to wait another 15 minutes to land..."
A sigh of relief all round and one more sick bag request from the back..
I guess I should start with a bit about our hols but not too much - I suspect it's a bit like someone showing you their holiday snaps and pretending to be interested...
"ooh look, that's where we dived off this amazing plungepool/waterfall in the Amazon jungle..."
Well good for you. Let's face it my hols are always on the lazy side.
Who wants to dive/surf/plunge/climb/leap when you can lie on a sunbed with a good paperback? Preferably in a five star resort...
That's one good thing about summer being over. No more sighing at the "50 Things You Must Do " in the papers. 50... Amazing mountaintop walks!
50 Cycling tours in Swampland.. 50 wild river trails.. 50
Basically 50 things I am never ever going to do. And let's face it you too, am I right? Oh well, never mind time for a cuppa.
Two major stops this year, after the hectic road trip to the States last year it was time for Europe.
A nice visit to Portugal first off, the Portuguese are really lovely and genuinely friendly. We went to a hotel which had the added benefit of a superb daily range of activities for our more than lively ten year old.
He had a ball playing tennis, golf, football, visiting zoos and going on trips.
We in the meantime tried to laze around by the pool but the place we stayed at had this awful micro-climate of its own meaning it was very windy and the water freezing.
Also it managed to provide what was frankly the worst "meal" I had ever eaten.
A "tapas" menu in an expensive "concept" restaurant with a picture of the Portuguese version of Gordon Ramsay very large in the corner.
Courses consisted of what looked like three slugs with hot water poured over them, a bit of sardine that looked out of an Aldi can and to top it all two thick bits of break, inside some weird meat, two frankfurters and some tomatoe sauce chucked over it. A real frankenburger.
Couldn't eat any of it, lucky for us Christopher was allowed a kids meal - chicken nuggets never tasted so good.
One good thing about getting older is you don't put up with stuff. I just left money for the drinks and refused to pay for the rest. A mini row with the manager ensued but I asked him if he's eat it. He didn't say yes but said other customers were fine.
I said not true, they are all fed up but they're English and too scared to tell you. But they will bitch about it behind your back. While I was talking to him a French couple have a gallic shrug and walk out. See, they're not putting up with it either.
The last part of our holds were in good old reliable Spain we go every year. It's brilliant like a holiday home we don't have to look after.
I'm not telling you where it is. Lovely though my readers are, frankly I want to relax and not be chased around the grounds.. "Robbie my shares are tanking what should I do?"
I'll be running round the corner going "It's up to you! If you're easily scared buy premium bonds and not shares..."
It's a place where our son can run wild, he is very soon in a gang of other boys and he always manages to become head of the gang. They all run wild and we pretend he and them are nothing to do with us. That kid? No idea, his parents really should do something...
As he's ten to stop him nagging for sugary stuff all day long I gave him 10 euros a day to spend on stuff. On condition not one nag about some other child had more ice-cream/coke/awful addictive sugar laden thing than him.
It worked really well. Kind of. For a bit. Got him 2 ice creams a day.
But then he sussed out on day 3 he could buy multi packs of ice-cream/lollies, sugar things at the supermarket and stack them in the fridge.
To which being a responsible parent I should be critical but secretly it's "well done son!"
And I think it's time to stop talking about my holidays even if you bothered reading any of it. We'll be back to Spain next year! But not Portugal.
Next up is Cornwall at half-term. If I am being frank I don't really fancy it but I caved in. You never know. Maybe it won't rain the whole time.

If you would like to come to the next seminar..it is Monday October 12th
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Oct seminar interested". First 15 to book get a massive special discount of £240 off, the cheapest I have ever done it.

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.'

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FOLLOW UP AND TECHNICAL SEMINARS OCT 9TH AND 10TH
The follow up is a day of live trading with me, with plenty of research, level 2, timing and real trades. The Technical will teach you new things to hone your entries and exits such as MACD, chart reading, trend lines, moving averages, RSI and divergences. That includes plenty of time with top technical trader Susan and you get access to more than 300 slides for perusal at home afterwards.
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "follow ups interested " and will send you details there will be a discount for booking both. You must have already attended a seminar to come to either.

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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.
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OCTOBER 12TH 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 October 12th

Price is £650 plus vat. However there is a special massive discount offer of £240 off inc vat for first ten to book. 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 "jUNE seminar interested" in the subject line and I will send you full details of the event including comments from those who have come to previous seminars and you can then decide whether you would like to come. See you there!
One seminar attendee Clare wanted to write a testimonial about her experiences at the seminar which follows now!
"I've just come back buzzing from one of Robbie's seminars. What a day! He's just brilliant, and manages to pack an awful lot into one day, and with his enthusiastic and humorous delivery the day just flies by. There are no gimmicks, no sell, no "˜get-rich-quick' promises, just his own solid, sound approach which he has learnt over the years and which works.
He shows you how to minimise the risks and maximise the profits and points out the banana skins on the way. Where the seminar really comes into its own is when he teaches using live level 2. Hearing him talk through his thought processes and reasoning is invaluable, and really brings home everything from the book. He has endless patience answering peoples' questions, and really seems to care that everybody understands.
On top of that, you meet some really nice like minded people and swap e mail addresses, you're plied with
chocolates and coffee all day, have a great lunch and spend the evening getting tiddled with Robbie in the
bar afterwards!
Don't worry about the cost, it's easily worth it, and you'll soon make it back with your new-found investment skills, and in what you're no longer losing. If you're thinking of going along to his next seminar, whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, don't hesitate ""just go!
Thanks Clare, did you want the tenner in cash, or will a cheque do?

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Its spreads are surprisingly tight and interestingly an automated stop loss is applied to each trade - so beginners know what their max loss is from the outset. A super site for beginners.
I use IG Index for betting on the very small companies, the only spreadbet firm I can find that does the smaller ones making it possible to trade AIM cos tax free.

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If you like to trade the FTSE, Dow, or currencies then Spreado has an outstanding tight 0.8 spread - that is incredibly tight. The platform is very good and robust and have used it to great satisfaction and profits.

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

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Maybe Labour isn't as bonkers as you think if it elects Corbyn.
Because there is little doubt that after a honeymoon period it will become
apparent they will never win an election again with him in charge.
And so, in 2018 it means he can be overthrown, and David Milliband can be installed. He is really Labour's only hope.
The good thing at least about Corbyn is he believes what he says unlike the others who will say anything at all to get a clap.
He really does believe in his load of old claptrap that if implemented would turn us into another Greece. But good for him.
I'm as bored as everyone else with people like Andy Burnham. Though it will be lovely to see the back of holier than thou Harriett Harperson.
Charles Kennedy's partner has part blamed his death on the culture of drinking at the House of Commons.
It is time alcohol was banned there, the bars taken out. These people are supposed to be running the country not getting pissed on cheap booze paid for by us.
Congrats to the Queen. An amazing woman you must agree even if you think the Royal Family as a whole has had its time.
I saw her in action close up when my sister got the OBE recently and I was invited to the palace to go with her.
This late 80s woman has no problem with being on her feet for hours, as well as being sharp as a tack and knows exactly what she's doing. A real example to us all.
Why do new rules/laws have to be made so complex? A charge for plastic bags has to be made from next month. Ah, but not it you buy certain things like uncooked meat or seeds or blades or ..... what happens if you mix these up?
FFS just make the charge for everything!
Tens of thousands of children risk short-sightedness if they "spend too long reading".
That's good news for my child then - he's got no chance of being short-sighted..
There's been a dearth of good TV recently which is fine as I don't watch it over the summer.
However just started "Narcos" on Netflix which is about the life of top drugs gangster Pablo Escobar.
It is very well made indeed and looks to be shaping up to fill the Breaking Bad void... maybe! I recommend, only seen the first two but I think we'll be viewing the other 8 pretty fast. Very interesting also to see how cocaine rose up in the 70s and 80s.
S Come Dancing is back. I don't see the point of the opening show as not much happens. The line-up doesn't look as interesting as last year's.
Why anyone wants to watch the karaoke show X-Factor is beyond me. The whole thing seems so manufactured and tedious. And a lot of the contestants have been semi-pro for years.
This year's celeb BB is a bit "Meh". Just kind of fast fowarding through it.
What is amusing though is the Brits are just themselves, so a bit on the boring side.
The Americans though see this differently. They see it that they are being paid to provide entertainment and that they should create drama, tension and the rest which they do very well.
The Brits frankly look a bit silly falling for all the pretend shouting and drama. I can't understand why they don't realise the American women are playing a role. And very well too.
At this point Poseur James is the hot favourite but at better odds Bobby Davro looks like a top 3 bet on the spreads. Scoop could be a lively outsider.

Good place for spreadbets and fixed odds for sport is here...

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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Just mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com if you'd like this deal with "silver" in the subject line.

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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Well don't say I never warned you before I left for my long summer break.
I did say don't trade in August. Things are always terrible in August. There is always a major crazy slump and things get volatile in thin markets. Markets get pushed around and they are designed to ensure you get stung whatever you do.
Unless you sold at the very top and you're happy with decent growth companies the best plan is to forget about it all, switch off the screen and start again from, well...quite soon!
Although as always actually the very best period to buy comes in early December, but more about that as we head towards that time.
Thing is I have seen this so many times over the years. Best plan now seems to be sell some stuff in mid July, wait for an August slump then buy it all back cheaper.
However now I am (lucky smug me) a fat cat I feel no need to chase anything or even bother much trying to sell at the top and buy back at the bottom. But well done if you did!
So what do you think I did in August? Well, let me see. Walked on the beach, drank cocktails on sunbeds, dipped in the pool. Read books... look at the computer? Hardly at all. And even then only at.. whoops, forgot the wife may read this...
Yes, that's right, I did not much at all regarding markets. One or two spreadbet stops got hit.
In fact, if I hadn't looked at all from mid July to beginning of September and then just looked at my accounts I would have assumed nothing much had happened as the amount of money around the accounts were about the same or even a touch higher. I made a few trades in July and a few in September but not much in August.
A nice FTSE short and a FTSE ETF short (see my book chapter 18 When Markets Go Down) provided some nice profits though I closed out of most of them now. I did however open a new short at 6270 ish yesterday on the basis markets had rebounded quite strongly. This kind of thing isn't my expertise - I have set stops now into profit on that trade so I shouldn't lose on it even if I don't win.
Markets will probably remain volatile, if you are a beginner might be worth waiting for them to settle.
For the more experienced, unfortunately the best time to buy is nearly always when you feel scared/fed up/it's a horrible day. Or if you feel like you want to sell stuff/everything.
When your hand is hovering over the sell button in typical sods law style, the buy button is more likely to be the one to push.
I probably won't bore you with the trades made a long time ago. So here is a small selection of more recent trades.
I bought Powerflute (POWR). I first bought these early last year and I've personally made more than £20,000 on them - more than £10,000 for the website.
They're doubled once and I think they can double again. A fantastic share and a fantastic company. Even better no-one else but me and institutions are interested in them which means there is no crazy volatility in them. Please don't buy them - they won't move for ages, you'll get bored and sell them. Just leave them for me.
The reason no-one else is interested is because if you say "Packaging" it is considered boring. Punters want to chuck money at (or rather lose money ) oil, energy, pharma and heavily volatile shares.
Boring shares that continue making stuff and bringing home increased profits? Pah! We want excitement! We want fights on bulletin boards! Actually we just want a fight as all the pubs have shut.....
POWR recently bought up Corenso which has led to some net debt. But it also has lead to massively increasing profits. This one in my view should carry on gently rising - a penny a week here or there and should already be over a quid. I'm going to forget about it again for a year and come back and see how it is doing.
I bought some of the Peer to peer lending new issue - P2P Global C (P2P2) (A whole lotta Ps) at the issue price of 1000p.
I kind of thought it would be nice to get some exposure to the growing P2P loans market and this seemed a good way of doing it. They have raised some decent money and I expect to ride with it for some time and see how it goes.
If it goes below 920p though I am going to. er.. P off. But a bit like POWR I hope to stick with it for a year and come back to see how it's doing - and unless it breaches the 920 I should still be there. Patience is the way to make big money.
I also bought Kainos (KNOS) again. This one looked like a decent new issue when I bought it and it looks better and better.

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Kainos is working with Apple and last month announced a new mobile enabled heathcare platform to enhance patient care (and its profits). This is for use in all I things including the Apple watch.
I think a longer-term hold of this share is going to pay bigtime. It also is about to join the FTSE indicies which should see funds buy in.
I've bought some Photo-ME (PHTM) - this share is awash with cash and I expect some of it will be returned to shareholders soon probably with a large dividend payout.
I like the way the company doesn't just do photo-booths but has other business including a very interesting new Laundry business aimed at students. Next year ID cards in Japan become compulsory and as PHTM is big in Japan (must be a song in this surely?) expect to see a lot of revenue coming in from this.
All in all a good strong company that still grows and looks a nice one for an ISA portfolio.
Quartix (QTX) produced an excellent interim statement so I bought some. The vehicle tracking market is only going to grow. It's paid its first dividend and the future looks bright.
I like companies with recurring revenues and this is another where a long-term hold could really pay off.
Domino's Pizza proved a very decent spreadbet but I got a nice crust out of it, made some good dough and exited for a profit of £1,560. You can tell I once worked on The Sun thinking up headlines can't you?
(My favourite that I came up with was about a keen skier who died and wanted his ashes scattered across the Alps.. thus "Rest In Piste")
But the Mer spreadbet was stopped for a loss of £260.
I've sold Lookers at 180.9 for a profit of £710. Had a nice run with it, but the brakes might soon be applied to the share price. Although the price is now higher than when I sold so perhaps a premature sale. In fact, now I wish I hadn't sold.
I took a loss on the ETO shares I bought most recently as they kept falling but held onto the others -fairly easy to do as my major stake was bought in the 60s !
They've been hit by share selling from its major holder a while back but I suspect a bid coming here within a year or so. An update yesterday shows long-term is on track with the library valued at a billion dollars. Downside is the strong pound hurts. I wonder whether a bid could come even sooner while the share price is under the cosh. I'm considering buying the ones I sold back on the current weakness.
RGS kept going down so sold for a loss of £553 . Not sure what's up or not there.
The Easyjet spreadbet worked a treat and really took off but profits of have now landed of £1,280.
I 've taken profits on half the Carpetright short leaving the rest. It nicely reached well below target price of 550, indeed down to 520 today. I hold the other half of the short as perhaps it could head down to a fiver. If it busts below a fiver look out below for a really nice profit. Tricky one though as it is so illiquid it can move 30-40 points in a few secs.
Alliance bust right through my target and sold at 60.05 for a profit of £1,655. But.. a decent report yesterday and I am wondering about buying it back as there is potential for a very nice long-term winner. It's a tad weak at the mo and eyeing up buying back and holding for a couple of years.
Bids are coming in very nicely this year, after the recent bid for AGA which yielded me thousands in profit, Jelf is now a target with a possible offer from Marsh.
No certainty on this but I'll know for sure within the next week. I already doubled on these and the recent top up is paying off. I've decided to take a chance and keep holding but if the bid is off I think I will buy more as a bid here looks likely at some point over the next year.
Recent buy Redcentric has motored up well making nice profits. It has had a good week.
Poundland got its approval to buy up the 99p stores so that's been doing well. Goes ex dividend next week.
Carclo came up with a decent statement over the summer and looks like it wants to push over 150 onto 180.
I think Dignity probably gets my vote for my fave share of the year so far up from 1700 to near 2400 giving me in reality profits of over £30,000 as I built up a substantial stake. I now just keep a trailing stop on it 250 points away from the action. It's continued to rise or hold steady in down markets.
Pets At Home has made me purr this year up from 171 to near 300.. back to 285 at the mo personally up more than £20,000 as those of you who came to the seminar saw on the spreadbets!
Renew has done well now over 300. Energy Assets up a quid and a half and produced a good update recently. OPG is a longer-term winner, potential double coming up there. That one seems back on the rise.
Long-termer Vectura has had a good run this year and now doubled and a half on my first buy. This week it is having a good run. With patience, I think personally I'm going to make more than £100,000 on it. The shares are sitting on close to a high now pushing up towards 200p.
Optimal Pay has had a good summer as it hits 300. Lots more to come here with patience I think. Character Group reported in line this week and hopefully it will have a good Xmas.
The lovely GB Group just keeps on going and been in since 20p. To see it with another nought on the end is sensational. I still think it will end up being bid for - but in the meantime sits at highs. Quantum Pharma continues to do well and has had a nice run up from 114p.
Telecom Plus has recovered nicely - Lovely long-termer Porvair carries on going up - that reported well over the summer.. Been in it since 60p and now 320p
Generally I suspect markets will remain volatile for some time. Best plan is to pick up shares during a panic down day and keep the really strong companies unless they really come a cropper.
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