FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Where should I put my plunger?
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International Finance Awards 2016: Best Finance Blogger: Robbie Burns
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BEGINNER/IMPROVER SEMINAR: SPEND A DAY WITH ME AND LIVE MARKETS
NEW DATE MONDAY APRIL 3RD Near Heathrow
*****MARCH 3RD EVENT IS SOLD OUT*** (Still space
for follow up March 6th)
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). If a beginner there is guaranteed no jargon!
See trades from my own accounts, research, level 2, and finding great shares from scratch and tons more. Three course lunch, snacks, drinks ,lots of chocolate, banter and fun with me live all day.
**Best Financial Educational Provider, International Finance Awards.**
Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with " April seminar interested" in the subject line and I'll send you details. There is a large early bookers discount!
Follow up March 6th - A follow up day for those who have already been to a seminar. A day of live trading, level 2, research, ironing out problems and lots more. Mail me with "follow up interested".
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Stockopedia is indeed like a stock market encyclopedia and a great place to scan for new shares to buy, check out fundamentals, discuss on a sensible bulletin board. Each share gets a ranking, you can use "guru" screens to find shares, there is even a stock screen loosely based on my criteria! You can try it for free too.
For your £50 discount off UK sub or £100 off USA
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The March seminar has sold out - sorry to those of you I had to turn down and very flattered especially as I don't advertise them and most of you coming get referred by people who have attended previously.
However, I will do one sooner than normal and I'll do an extra one in April and I've booked April 3rd. That is now bookable.
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com if interested with "April seminar interested". Decent early bookers discount on offer.
There is still a little space for the follow up seminar March 6th - if you have been to a seminar before and fancy another day with me let me know, a smaller group and a bit cheaper! Mail me with "follow up seminar interested".
I look forwards to seeing those of you booked in for the March one next Friday. Having read your questionnaire answers you are an interesting group with an amazing array of occupations. We are going to have fun!
Don't eat before you come! I have fresh waffles being made for you in the first break, a massive lunch and tons of snacks. You don't need to bring anything with you apart from yourselves and I hope you enjoy the day and learn all the tricks I have learned from my many years of trading full-time.
Also look forwards to seeing some of you who have been before at the follow up event on the 6th. Hope to help clear up any problems encountered and don't forget to do the homework I mentioned! Also hope we uncover lots of nice trades.
I know I am totally useless at anything but trading. That's why I haven't had a job for decades: I am definitely not a team player. In fact I am more likely to be a team disrupter.
So I think it is time I started to try and learn stuff. Starting with DIY. Three things are on my mind which I would usually just pay someone to sort.
So, blocked sink, flat bike tyre and new loo seat needs fitting.
Ordered a puncture kit and going to youtube how to mend a puncture
The new loo seat arrived but I can't get the screws off the old one so ordered an electronic screwdriver. I just tried unblocking the sink using some acid, a plunger and some kind of plastic stick thing.
It is still jammed. I'll leave it for today and try and youtube a different fix tomorrow though get a feeling it is going to be my first epic fail.
Not feeling too confident about the loo seat. I am more confident about fixing the flat tyre especially as it's the easier front one. I'll let you now how many fails/passes next time.
And I promise to be careful about where I put my plunger.
Started my first chats with my new silver line friend Beryl. She lost her husband recently and has been having some down days about it.
We are getting along very well and so now we will definitely talk once a week. We both reckon best for her to keep busy during down times.
Anyway for me I feel it is very rewarding work for a great charity. if you think you could give up just half an hour a week to chat to a lonely elder contact the silver line. They will train you and help match you.
Only proviso is once you decide to befriend someone you can't just ditch them. That would be horrible.
Myself and Christopher are seeing an awful lot of Tottenham Hotspur...
Our smaller team Fulham got a beating in the FA cup last weekend and this weekend we've been given two seats at a box at Spurs Vs Stoke. Even been asked what we want off the menu.
Once you have had a bite of a Fulham FC pie frankly anything else will be just fine....
Anyway at least this time we have Harry Kane on our side and not against us which is preferable...
Myself and the Mrs have five days to ourselves this week as he's off on a geography school trip all week. We've been making the most of having some unusual free time especially in the evenings.
So we've been to the cinema twice, theatre once, a fab meal and one or two other things you really wouldn't want to read about. He's back tomorrow night!
Cinemawise "Jackie" was awful. Depressing with no drama. It got good reviews but it's a kind of "luvvies" film. I want entertainment with my movies and there wasn't any in Jackie.
Better is "20th Century Women" which is entertaining!
We're all getting into bowling which I'm secretly pleased about as I don't have an talent for games but discovered I can bowl!
Our little family went and of course I won which was the main reason for going. I always wanted to be good at a sport and I have at last found one. It is a sport isn't it?
Anyway I seem to be able to knock over all the skittles with my big balls.
The prices though! £35 for the three of us for two games. Then there are various arcade games designed to take as much off you for the chance of not winning a cuddly toy or a five pound note. Luckily the food is foul so easily avoided.
If you couldn't get into the sold out seminar in March new date is April 3rd, email for details - there is a large early bird discount.
I love it the most getting mails from people who have spent a day with me some time ago and are doing well. This was very pleasing from Jason:
"I took part on one of your courses this summer and I wanted to send you a belated thank you. The next day I got myself Level 2 and sold all of my positions, most of them had losses, I then started to buy shares, some which we found on the course and others using the techniques you shared, the simplicity of your selection process surprised me but I also found it easy to apply. Within a couple of weeks I felt so much more at ease trading, I wasn't worried about my decisions anymore because I felt in control of each trade, I knew when to sell and when to hold on and I'm no longer anxious when I open my account because it's always in the plus.
When I signed up to your course my goal was to make 20% p.a., I've achieved that in less than six months. Your course was pretty much going to be my last attempt at trading, So once again thank you, it's by far the best money I've ever spent on trading education and probably on education full stop."
Thanks Jason but it is down to you, you applied the discipline needed and had the cuts to cut your losers.
Seminar news: new date is April 3rd. Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Apr seminar interested" in the subject line. Follow up is March 6th for those who have been before, mail for details!
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.'
With the oil price up some smaller energy companies are going bust and some of you have
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promoting for 16 years!
They now have a decent one year fixed rate energy deal which is cheaper
than any other major supplier.
And it is easy to switch, you can
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Have look through the phone, broadband and mobile services too - if you take the
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When I left my full-time job to trade it really helped having another income: this I got from part-time selling energy and phone services to people and getting a cut of their use of their home services forever! I still get enough from it now to pay all my bills. I am a great believer in multiple incomes and this is a great one in my opinion as anyone could do it.
If you'd like a second part-time income click here
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This will explain what you can expect to earn and how it all works. If you sign up there you'll be under my wing. Any questions just mail me and if you sign up please let me know.
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.
(A reminder if you don't know what you are doing you can
lose a lot of money spreadbetting - make sure you understand the risks - see spreadbetting chapter in my book Naked Trader 4 which explains how to do it and the risks)
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 £174 inc vat via me instead of £208.43
Just mail me for full details if you'd like it with "silver" in the subject line.
Naked Trader Seminar Latest News
NEAR HEATHROW
MAY DATE IS SOLD OUT
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 new date Naked Trader seminar on Apr 3rd
Price is £690 plus vat. However there is decent early bird discount on offer. Mail me 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 "Apr 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?
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:
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.
You can sign up at this link which includes a decent market commentary:
http://www.spreadco.com/nakedtrader
(A reminder if you don't know what you are doing you can
lose a lot of money spreadbetting - make sure you understand the risks - see spreadbetting chapter in my book Naked Trader 4 which explains how to do it and the risks)
Naked Rambling
Don't mess with me stare is brilliant.
Indeed it shows why she is fit to run the country. Imagine you are a worker in a business and Mrs May walks in.
You'd make sure pretty fast you looked like you were working hard.
Mr Corbyn walks in?
Nah, carry on with the internet shopping....
There are way too many "Lords" knocking about claiming £300 a day for dropping by for a few minutes. More than 800 of them! How much does all this cost for negligible upside?
Dump the whole lot of them and set up a "wise men/women's" panel of 50 to have a final look at everything. I did tell you this a few weeks ago. It has now been revealed the Government is losing a fortune after the stamp duty rises on the top houses. As much as £500 million!
Tax take from homes over £1.5m fell to £750 from well over a billion.
It's a mad tax, the buyers lose, the government loses. And worse it's bad for jobs and the economy with all those people who work in the house move industry etc out of work.
I really hope the Govt just says "We made a terrible mistake."
They can just blame it on George Osborne.
Stamp duty on property should be drastically cut - watch the revenues coming in again and lots of new work for everyone.
Perhaps the only caveat? Keep the top rates for foreign buyers.
Everything is getting smaller... (well not everything in the Burns household of course..)
Chocolate bars, cake slices, beer, sweets.. it is called shrinkflation.
Instead of putting up prices, makers are shrinking everything. I suppose it's not so bad for me, I'll end up eating less crap!
Talking fake news, fake weather has been in the papers forever.
"Snow blizzards to hit!" (That means some snow in a far north
Scottish isle, not where you live).
"Hotter than Saudi Arabia!" (No it just isn't, it is still bloody
freezing, it is warmer here for one day at 2pm far south than at 3am
in the morning on one day there).
And forecasts continue to be a pile of poop.
Wildly successful and wealthy people apparently before breakfast
make a "Monster to do list with goals, tasks and deadlines."
I was thinking about my to do list for tomorrow, I can't do it
before breakfast as I'll be too tired to bother.
After breakfast, look at computer to check none of my shares are likely to tank for any reason.
If not, check TV episodes that need to be watched. Watch one. Go to corner
shop to pick up bread and twixes.
Erm, that's about all I can think of to put on the list for the mo.
Hurrah! Billions is back on Sky Atlantic!! Just a great series. Corrupt hedge fund vs corrupt (ish) government. Who wins, who cares it is just brilliant entertainment. Even better there really are no good guys!
"Easy", a new comedy on Netflix is worth a try - different take on something every episode.
Girls is back on Sky Atlantic and still pretty funny. All a bit in your face to say the least but that's part of the appeal!
The hilarious Catastrophe is back next week on Ch 4 and must not be missed especially if you are Irish - or American.
Dragons Den hasn't lost its appeal yet, always find it fascinating even though Peter Jones' big head seems to get bigger per show.
Only thing is perhaps a new dragon with a big reputation should be added to give him some competition. Richard Branson?
The FA and gambling "authorities" should get a sense of humour check over Sutton's reserve goalie eating a pie during the game. So a few people had a few bets at 8-1 and made a few quid.
The bookie offering the bet paid out " a five figure sum" - so around ten grand.
So what: the bookie did it to get publicity and it got loads! Some Sutton fans got their night paid for, the bookies got what they wanted, it made for entertainment.
Leave it alone! As for sacking him definitely not. Everyone should have a laugh about it and leave it at that.
Great to see a non league team doing well against Arsenal. Well played!
Living to 90 will be the new norm by 2030. Life expectancy in the uk is 82. Does that mean if you are an investor at 82 it might be wise to turn day trader?
For those interested in sports betting try
http://www.spreadex.com/nakedtrader/sports
Good quick execution of bets and a great range of markets. Recommended!
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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.
ADVFN level 2 offer
This compares to £ 567.60 direct from advfn so this deal saves you £147.60! 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.
ADVFN Bronze Offer
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.
Advfn Silver Exclusive Offer
The deal is via me you can save nearly £35 for your first year by paying just £174 inc vat via me instead of £208.43
Just mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com if you'd like this deal with "silver" in the subject line.
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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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New offer: £50 or £100 off Stockopaedia and free trial
I rarely do offers - Forex companies in particular offer me eyewatering sums. I turn all this down as I would never put out an offer for a company where I think my reader will 95% likely lose, or be taken for a ride.
Having had lots of mails from people using Stockopaedia and using it myself I am 100% confident.
Stockopedia is indeed like a stock market encyclopaedia and a great place to scan for new shares to buy, check out fundamentals, discuss on a sensible bulletin board. Each share gets a ranking, you can use "guru" screens to find shares, there is even a stock screen loosely based on my criteria! There are strategies based on ideas from top investors.
There is lots more really fantastic material and I believe access should help investors and I now use it myself.
For your £50 discount off UK sub or £100 off USA
sub and free 14 day trail you need this link:
www.stockopedia.com/nakedtrader/
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March Seminar Sold Out New April Date
March seminar is now sold out - but just booked a new date: April
3rd and there is a decent early bird discount mail me for details at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "April seminar interested" in the subject line.
A couple of seats left for the follow up on March 6th, mail for details.
Well markets they remain absolutely perfect for me if not for day traders who need volatility.
For stock pickers it is a dream market at the moment. Get the right one and watch it rise. Though don't get the wrong one... The portfolio has really leapt higher in the last two weeks.
I bought some Ramsdens (RFX). No, not fish and chips that's Harry Ramsdens you plank!
An interesting one I think, it's a pawnbroker with 127 shops across the country. But it does other stuff too. Like foreign exchange and buys and sells metals.
Bit of a wheeler dealer of a company basically. If it plays its hand right could do well on the markets.
What's interesting is it's going to use money raised to buy up rivals to expand. Head cheese is one of the company's biggest shareholders which is a good sign.
Anyway it looks very fairly priced so I'm going to tuck these away in the isa for some time and see what happens.
I kind of wonder at some point in the future they could end up a bid target for a bigger group.
I also picked up some Xafinity (XAF) another interesting one though a bloody awful name.
Floated on the main market rather than AIM which is always a good sign it should end up in the small cap index soon - should see a few fund managers buy in.
It raised £46m by floating and has sensibly used a lot of this to cut its debt to £33m.
It is really really exciting : a pensions actuarial, consulting and administration business (are you asleep yet?)
Even if you are it seems pretty safe considering it boasts "highly predictable and recurring revenues".
I am pretty sure not a single private investor has bought this apart from me as it hardly makes for exciting bulletin board discussions.
"This actuary business is gonna blow, fill ya boots!!"
It is actually the picture of Jonathan Bernstein its head of pensions that really sells me this company XAF.
That is not the face of someone who is going to run off with the money or make stuff up or appear on Crimewatch.
Moving to one with a bit of risk, I bought some K3 Business (KBT).
I've started with a small amount to dip my toe in. This one was trading 100p higher back end of last year till a warning statement.
Key date is the next report around March 20th. It could get a lot higher after that or a lot lower. It has decent recurring revenues so it may be one that could recover nicely.
I think my plan is to bale if the share starts to sink near the next statement but maybe buy a few more if it continues to rise. Anyway as the old cliche goes it isn't one for widows and orphans.
Talking widows and orphans NCC got hit with a horrible warning. Goodness knows what is going on there. However the shares slumped so badly they really did begin to look like a bargain so on balance I snapped some up.
I don't feel like I want to hold them for very long in case there is even more something horrible going on.
But likely that even if there is we won't know about it for a bit so I think of it as a short-term idea. However there are rumours out of a bigger company launching a quick bid we shall see.
I don't really like buying anything to do with housing as I find them hard to value but Redrow (RDW) looks the best of the bunch. I'm not going to pretend to you I know how to value it but the market likes it so I am taking my cue from that. Also they don't seem to get much bad publicity like say Bovis does.
Finally - and I only admitted that I had bought some for the sipp to my email list last time - I bought some Purplebricks (PURP)
Now please don't send me hate mail. I am totally aware this goes against what I write about in the books. So I call myself a hypocrite and whatever bad words you want to call me. I am aware it trades on a massive rating which I would not normally allow.
But I do allow a very small part of the ISA to be in jam tomorrow stocks. So I added some into the ISA as well as my higher risk pension.
I am sure you all know the story - it sells houses cheaper than normal agents.
It has ads on the telly. It just might become the next big thing. If it looks like it won't I will try and exit.
What really sold it to me was a flat above a standard estate agency in my road was for sale... not by that agency but by Purp! So yes this is a punt!
The company has just raised £50m to expand into the USA. The market loves this. So my guess is come back in a year it could be double or treble the price .. or half! But could it be the next Fevertree?
Goodness me, another bid has just come in, second of the year so far. as you know I have been waiting for a bid for 32 Red for months and at last it has come.
The price at 196p and a 4p dividend is totally acceptable! Once taken that will bank nearly £10,000 profit for the website and more personally. A nice end to the story. I am hopeful of at least another 5 bids for some of my stocks this year.
I sold a quarter of the Vanl as it reached target but it looks strong at the mo so held onto the rest , this bags a profit of £715 for the website.
Annoyingly I was just about to take profits of around £1,000 on the spreadbet short-term range trade on Just Eat .. and then they announced a change of management the market didn't like. So only a profit of £140. Should have moved faster to bank the bigger profit. Never mind.
Elsewhere it is been a fantastic fortnight with many stocks leaping higher for me.
Top spot probably to Next Fifteen which has kicked on over 400p - plenty of buying appears to be coming in so I wonder about another 100p upside there...
Runner up top mover to Sopheon which came up at the seminar recently has boomed yet higher and sits over 100p more than when I first bought. Again, looks like more to come there.
So happy with the state of play for now, will be interesting to see whether the market can carry on at these higher levels.
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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.