JUNE 8TH NEAR HEATHROW!
Early bird discount still available - just!

If you want details on how to spend a day with me and live markets (beginners and improvers welcome) email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "June seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. An early bird discount is available but not for much longer! Three course lunch, snacks, drinks and lots of chocolate included!

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FOLLOW UP SEMINAR Mon June 29th

This is a follow up for those who have already been to a seminar with a day of live trading, level 2, research direct from the market and my accounts and anything you need refreshed from the previous seminar. I usually get at least two decent trades from these I would never have found at home!

Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Follow up interested" for details.

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Thanks for the continued feedback on the last seminar.. glad some of you are doing well and will see one or two of you again at the follow up in June... all the best with your trades and don't forget, stay disciplined, only trade when you really need to, and remember supply and demand!!

It can't be half-term again can it? Wasn't that last week? We're off to Spain for a week during half-term to get some sun. And to splash about.

And I guess with my sports crazy youngster I'll be playing football, tennis, table tennis, swimming, no need for any gym for me. It won't all be fun, these poor ten-year-olds have to do a lot of mugging up for exams. Frankly I think it's all too much pressure for boys. I say let them run free. Who cares about latin?

Why not teach them stuff about life that might be useful. Money, cooking, coding, office politics, bitching, moaning, backstabbing.. (I'll come onto the election in a minute!).

For those of you asking, glad to say my training with the charity is now done, they've decided on balance I am probably not a nutter and so when back from Spain will begin to talk to old lonely folk desperate for someone to talk to.

Let you know how that goes. Hope to add more volunteering work as time goes on.

I can't believe the amount of mail I had re the supermarket delivery guy having a big dump in my loo. You heart-hearted lot were 70-30 in favour of landing him in the **** by ratting on him in the feedback survey. You rotten lot!

I've had a terrible delivery stress week. I ordered a lot of little stuff online.

There is nothing worse than expecting deliveries. If you pop to the local shop you'll see the van driving away with your package. But worse is my bath problem.

I usually have a nice bath at some point in the day. Bottle of purple Radox bubbles, a couple of mags (Stop what you are thinking right now) and a cuppa.

But it always happens. Just as you get in, the doorbell's gonna go. I got away with it first day. Next day I was ready to get in, had a good look up the road, nothing coming. Got into the bath and started a good read.

But I couldn't relax and wasn't enjoying it. I was waiting for the doorbell. It was no fun at all.Then I thought, stop it, just chill, this is ridiculous and then BUZZ!!!

A scramble out of the bath, water and bubbles everywhere. Just get to the door in time. The delivery guy gives me that "I know what you've been doing" look. Curse the whole thing!

Next day I decided no bath till the delivery has been. You can guess can't you. The bloody delivery never turned up at all. I'm done with online shopping and going back to the shops.

I had no intention of staying up to watch the election unfold. See the exit poll, go to bed, see what happened in the morning, I thought.

However with the exit poll so fascinating it didn't work out that way. I did go to bed at 11pm but then woke at 2am, thought I'd do half an hour and go back to sleep but I was hooked!

I did drift off for a bit at half four. I dreamt I was just about to start a seminar and I noticed Vince Clegg was in the audience.

"Hey Vince," I said. "During the seminar, make sure you keep hold of your seat!"

How I laughed and that woke me up, with amazingly.. Cable losing his seat.

The clever public got rid of all the prats. Cable as business secretary was a joke. Business! What business has he ever known about? He couldn't run a branch of Starbucks. He'd forget to order any coffee.

Ed Balls lost!! Fantastic!!! The guy who thought he could win over the working man by saying receipts for even a small odd job should be compulsory (shows he never lived in the real world).

Oh, and the man who managed to bounce two cheques on his roofer. .

I have to say though I feel sorry for Balls if his wife ends up as Labour leader.

She'll be phoning him up: "Sorry, love I'll be late home from the office.. just leave my dinner in the oven..."

I bet we soon get set to see him all over the TV.

He'll be on Celebrity Bake off, Splash, S Come Dancing.. and oh... please... celebrity Big Brother, pay him anything he asks! Oh hang on he got an £88,000 pay off...

Meanwhile the laughs keep on coming: Ed Milliband has gone to Ibiza. He's gonna live it large!

Though actually it is the right place to go given he got the election went totally "Pete Tong".

Still I guess he has one consolation: He won't have to pay the mansion tax!

I think the fault is at his door, no-one really bought the student politics stuff he was spouting. He's never had a real job, doesn't understand the real world and I think was brainwashed by his Marxist dad. It isn't and should never be "rich Vs poor".

Nigel Farage meanwhile showed how great he is at keeping promises by resigning as he promised and then unresigning.

I knew it would happen. I can't imagine him really enjoying a summer holiday. Can't see him relaxing on a beach. He's an attention seeker who needs the attention of others all the time. Nothing wrong with that but it's the way he is.

Lord Sir Alan Sugar decided to fire Labour.

Strange how he waited for them to be total losers before he did it. Do you think he'd have done it if they'd won?

But I guess anyone would have sacked the project manager, Ed Milliband.

Did you notice the arrogance of some? In particular the awful Liberal Paddy Ashdown and sweary ex Labour spin alkie Alistair Campbell.

Ashdown was so arrogant dismissing anyone else's opinion like he knows everything and no-one else knows anything. He promised to eat his hat if the exit poll was right and Campell promised to eat his kilt. Of course neither kept their promise.

Ashdown appears to have learned nothing with age especially humility. Awful man. As for Campbell; he can **** right off! (As he'd say himself). Though I do wish him well with his demons, depression and his battle against alcohol. I do have am idea where the kilt and hat could be stuffed if they don't eat them.

I felt sorry for Ken Livingstone. Once the Labour lot realised they'd lost they legged it out of the studios leaving Ken to face the media on his own as he admitted himself.

When the going gets tough.... those you thought were tough.. got going...

I can see Labour making the terrible mistake of going for Chaka Khan.. I mean Chuka Amuna for next leader. Do they know nothing?

Us baldies never get a sniff of being PM! People are totally baldist. Though did you know baldies are amazing in bed..? Give one a try!

Also Chaka.. Chaka... Chaka... Amuna he just so obviously fancies himself.. the smooth voice, the expensive suits, the bling. It ain't gonna work. Anyway hopefully no more elections for 5 years. Hurrah!

Thanks again for the lovely emails on the last seminar, some of you appear to be using level 2 like pros already and glad you now see how important it is...

If you would like to come to the next seminar..it is on June 8th. There is currently a very decent early bird discount on offer though not for a lot longer!
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "June seminar interested".

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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NEW: FOLLOW UP SEMINAR Mon June 29th
This is a follow up with a day of live trading, level 2, research direct from the market and my accounts and anything you need refreshed from the previous seminar.

Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Follow up interested" for details.

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JUNE 8TH 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 June 8th

Price is £650 plus vat. However there is a decent early bookers discount available for those booking nice and early.
That includes three course lunch, coffees, snacks etc.
The seminar is mainly aimed at beginners and dabblers though improvers are welcome too.
Topics covered using live market feeds all day include: Market psychology, level 2 - a simple guide to how to use it for better timing; how to value companies; finding companies that are about to rise. I will also cover techniques for handling events such as the recent meltdown and volatility.
Spreadbetting: How to use it to gain an edge and go short. Market makers - how they work and how to beat them; how to stop losing money and make it instead and plenty more.
How to plan trade entries and exits - how to research companies and understand reports, plus all those niggly questions you always wanted to ask. How to set stop losses and targets. Charts and how to use them.
Also covered: Market maker tricks: How to spot tree shakes and use them in your favour, How to tell when NOT to buy a share. I use live ADVFN all day with lots of level 2 and looks at all kind of live market data.
The idea behind the seminar is SIMPLICITY. I don't use jargon or fancy words - everything is in PLAIN ENGLISH! No question is too stupid and the event is held in a friendly relaxed and supportive environment.
The idea is you will come away from the event I hope a wise and better investor with lots of new ideas. I try and translate complex topics into easy bite size pieces. I also aim for it to be entertaining as well as instructive.
If you are interested please e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "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?

Spreadbetting firm Capital Spreads offers a great book on how to spreadbet for readers via this link http://www.capitalspreads.com/ntrader
Its spreads are surprisingly tight and interestingly an automated stop loss is applied to each trade - so beginners know what their max loss is from the outset. A super site for beginners.
I use IG Index for betting on the very small companies, the only spreadbet firm I can find that does the smaller ones making it possible to trade AIM cos tax free.

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

http://www.ig.com/nakedtrader

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

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

http://www.spreadco.com/nakedtrader

You've got to be careful buying too much of a penny share.. A 76-year-old's son accidentally bought half a tiny oil company.

Her son, buying in her name, thought he was buying 10% of the company for £250,000 but actually it was half of it meaning under the rules she will have to buy the whole company which could cost £1.5 m.

And she runs a B and B. Well, shortly she might be running a small oil company based in Belize. That could be an interesting career move.

Last night NIck Clegg apparently got on the dance floor at a Lib Dem party. I think we can all imagine what a LD party must be like.

To be fair, he seems a decent bloke- anyhow the song that got him up on his feet? "Staying Alive".

I think it's time the BBC licence fee was phased out - it's way too hard to collect and with paid for TV and the internet it looks terribly out of date. We all know the beeb is well overstaffed and overspends on anything.

It's time the budget was trimmed, some sponsorship taken. It should stop competing on celebrities and overpaying for everything.

I can't believe it's yet another standard Big Brother that's just started.

I can see the fun of the celebrity one but surely this one is so far past its sell-by date... Do we really want to see a bunch of half-wits sitting in a house any more?

At last we made it to series two of Game of Thrones. Looks like we'll carry on for a bit longer though I really prefer series with more sex and violence in them.

Three in a Bed continues to be the guilty pleasure. There's something about watching the British being two faced and snidey that is just irresistable.

What I don't get is when you know your competitors are going to skim the top of the TV, mantlepieces and beds for dust, why don't they dust them???

It's fantastic watching Barcelona play in the champions league which they should win easily. The skills of Messi are stunning. Which makes having to watch Fulham play again so depressing! Should be a good final on June 6th against Juventus.

The guy who does the voice for Mr Burns on the Simpsons is leaving. I've put in an application to take over.

I feel I have every chance of getting his job.

Two reasons: I am already Mr Burns. But mainly, it won't be long before I look exactly like Mr Burns !

The Eurovision song contest is on the way. Want to make money from it? Just back the first four favourites on the spreads! Amazingly the top 4 faves are usually in the top 6 and one of them usually wins. I've made £500 plus a year from this!

Good place for spreadbets for sport/horses/song contest 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.'

I have 3 great offers from ADVFN.

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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!

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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.

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

next update June 4

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EMAILS: I do beg you not to send me emails asking me for advice on a particular share. It isn't legal for me to give you individual advice and all I do is send you a mail saying that, which wastes a lot of my time and yours too. This includes asking me what to do with a share, what I might "think" about a share, or deconstructing any of the buys I mention here. I would be grateful, see FAQ for more on this. Of course more than happy to answer general questions not related to specific shares.

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COPYING TRADES: I can't stop you from copying a trade I made but remember the price may already be a lot higher than I paid indeed I hope it is as buying at good prices is what I do for a living. You may be buying at the top and could easily lose money. Also I can make terrible mistakes and have done in the past. I could also sell before you or before the share tanks. I may still be holding in a year when you sold at a loss. Always do your own research, don't jump in blindly. Market makers are very clever at knowing how to make you pay top dollar and then push you out at a loss. This site is about sensible investment and learning how to trade sensibly and is not a tipping site. Beware. Never push buy on anything till you've done proper research and got yourself a sensible price.
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I had a plan if Labour/SNP took power.

I'd intended on selling most stuff, banking profits, packing in the website.

Because I think everything would have gone downhill fast. I thought I'd give up on shares and the site for a few years - maybe keeping a ghost site going and coming back in 3-4 years time.

As it turned out, it never happened, thanks to "shy" tories.

Instead I've invested more and will keep the site going!

So from planning my epitaph, I'm back reenergised.

The Tory majority means uncertainty is out of the way and it's great news for us share dealers.

Indeed the portfolio has simply rocketed over the last few days and my spreadbet accounts alone have soared over £45,000.

Who said sell in May? Anyone buying in May should have made a right few quid so far.

So anyway guess the first share I bought Friday morning?

Well. It had to be London estate agent Foxtons (FXTN).

Foxtons is a ruthless agency. If you want to sell your place in London they'll get you the best price. If you want to buy somewhere in London go to another agent!

The London market for homes had died this year because of the feared property tax from Labour.

Now the moribund market should take off, so Foxtons's next statement should be positive.

I put in a bid for shares at the full asking price! And lobbed in some spreadbets too. I don't see why Foxtons shouldn't head back up over three quid.

Who's next? Of course - AGA! People might be spending again on bigger ticket items now and also with the freedom to use up pension money I wonder how many pensioners in the country fancy buying an Aga...

My desire to buy Aga has been cooking away slowly over the last few weeks after it lost half its value recently and I have been building a little stake in it.

As those of you who get my sipp email know got some for the sipp recently and I've now bought some for the isa.

Its last results show nice signs of an upturn (it also owns Fired Earth where posh mums buy overpriced tiles, I should know, we have some!) Revenues, profits and cash balances are rising well.

Its AGM statement was interesting and intriguing containing the phrase "we are exploring a number of strategic options". If revenues and profits continue to rise the shares are going to like mighty cheap at any price around 100p. So I'm after a potential rise back to the 120-30 area.

I remembered someone has just done a profits warning partly citing the uncertain election outcome as a reason for the warnings.. What was that company?

Them I remembered it was SCS Group - it sells sofas and floors. It blamed the election for making people pause before buying overpriced sofas.. I mean "big ticket items".

I had a good look to check I wasn't buying something horrible that was about to go bust. But it pays a good dividend, has some cash and says things should get back to normal.

If all that is true no reason why it shouldn't head back up and over 2 quid again. However obviously buying a company after a warning is risky so I didn't buy too many

** Seminar new dates: Standard seminar June 8th

Follow up with me if you've been to one of mine before June 29th

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Jelf (JLF) has been a fab trade and in amazing profits on it and I have bought some more! It's just released another great statement. Profits are soaring after its recent acquisition and looks like at some point soon it should break up over 2 quid.

It was a "shoe in" to buy some Shoe Zone (SHOE) and I bought a few back after losing on them previously, basing my buy on a £10m profit. However I'm not sure I want to hold onto them for too long and think I'll be out if they get back up to the 200-220 area again as I do want to definitely remain well-heeled.

I bought some more Merlin (Merl) today after the excellent statement - this company which owns theme parks hasn't been a roller-coaster ride at all, the shares just gradually keep going up. One suspects an eventual takeover there in the future. I bought on a speadbet as I was by today out of cash in the ISA.

To fund quite a lot of buying I had to take the hatchet to a few positions - it is always hard because actually there isn't much wrong with any of them longer-term, it's just these have either been stuck at the same price for ages, or have been at the top of a range for a bit or have proved disappointing.

My idea to buy the Indian market flopped like a soggy poppadom and I took a loss of £413 on the New India Trust. Serves me right for trying to be clever and getting into a market I don't understand.

Tung certainly proved a high risk one - it went brilliantly to start with, well over 200 where I could have banked a super profit, but after that it just slid every day and a trailing stop I had on it took me out with a much reduced profit of £380. Just as well though as it still continues to go down, hit by shorters. No point fighting the market.

My spreadbet in British Airways or Consolidated airlines or whatever it's called now got taken out by the trailing stop, but that banked an unexpected spreadbetting profit of £2,360.

I'm happy with that given I was up more than 200 points on it. Bit lucky though, I bought it on the Ebola crisis as a short-term bet but it just kept on taking off!

Sprue put out a warning on profits, rather than revenue, it was mainly to do with currency problems. I think it's a decent company and it should rise again in time, but for right now I sold up because there's a lid on the price for now, taking an overall profit of £2,197. I expect to be back in this one in the not too distant future.

Tristel is one I like - but it is just stuck around 80p and can't break through. It's stuck in a 70-80 range so for now I've sold it at just under 80 for a profit of £515. Chances are it'll repeat the range so could be a nice re-buy at 70p, or indeed higher if it can break 82p.

Another non mover for what seems for ever is See it's been 5-6p for over a year so I sold some- the ones in my isa where I needed the money but kept the ones in my Sipp. I banked an overall profit of £402 for the site. It could still easily become a massive company but I'll wait for an announcement or an obvious move up in the price before buying some more for the isa part.

So all that farting about leaves a profit for the website of £5,441.

As I said up above some of the shares I have are rocketing. Carclo announced a licensing agreement for CIT, the market liked that and the share price is heading higher yet again now breaking 150 and a double looks possible.

Telford Homes has soared on the Tory victory with a nice 25% gain and more to come hopefully. Also helped by the election heathcare has soared, especially Spire Heathcare. Recent buy Lookers reported yesterday, sales and profits on the up and it looks cheap under 200.

Quantum Pharma shares are doing well and they report soon. Energy Assets have started to move at last and they are now moving up rapidly! Been worth being patient with that one.

Recent buys John Laing and Impellam have been riding high.

Dignity reported there were lots more deaths this year so the shares have gone up nicely. They still won't give me a shareholder's discount on my coffin or my ashes though.

Xeros Tech continues up, up nearly 5x on it for my sipp and near treble for the isa.

Iomart has gone up nicely nearly at the 230p level. The beauty of it is that Iomart shares aren't worth much less than they are now, so one can hold happily. What we are waiting for is another bid to come in, would 350 do it?

It's one of those shares to put away, forget about and then one morning when you least expect it a bid announcement appears and you've gained 40% overnight. I'm waiting patiently....

The lovely GB Group rose nicely this week and looks like a bid target. And a word for the lovely long-termer Porvair. Been in it since 60p and now 320p. Who says long-term investment is a waste of time?
The tories victory was great news for utilities (no price freeze) Telecom Plus (gas and electricity provider) shares are on the rise.

Entertainment One has had a great week, and trying to conquer the 320 area, a beautiful long-term winner, it report shortly. In a nice profit after the Optimal Payments rights issue. I think these ones will go up nicely from here and should be an amazing hold.

All in all it has been a fabulous month!

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Trade tables follow! Trades are current open and recently closed trades. Closed trades feature the closing price and the amount I won or lost. All others are open. Trades get updated a little later than the narrative. Trading costs are ignored, however I also do not add in dividend payments and with the kinds of companies I buy, dividends tend to equal or outweigh costs. Spread rollovers ignored for web purposes. Tables as accurate as poss however a mistake or two can creep in and very occasionally if I forgot I sold or bought something it will be added at a later time. Trades first reported in the diary under Markets every other Thursday afternoon.