San Leon Energy Share Discussion Threads

[triple seven] 23/3/2017 11:05

No problem Eadwig, it's a crazy world out there at this moment,as we all saw yesterday in London.Puts things into perspective really.Have a good day. Gla

[eadwig] 23/3/2017 10:50

And there is another reason for not posting the exact price that you got for an order. It can be too easily traced and converted into amounts as chart trader has just done, or at least i only just saw the post.

In the case highlighted I'd have said I sold @54p or possibly @54.xp, which is close enough for the purposes of live trades with a rounded percentage profit or loss.

If you think sites like these aren't being spidered for for worthwhile targets transacting online to pass on alerts to people or organisations gathering data on potential victims, then you need to think again about what you are revealing and your overall security.

[eadwig] 23/3/2017 10:28

chart trader,

I do post >50% of my trades live. I.e. The price I've bought at before any sale is made. I often also post limit buy and sell orders when I have placed them, not knowing whether or not they'll execute at some future point. Once I've posted a live buy, I always try to ensure I post the sale, win lose or draw. It can be a bit embarrassing, but who doesn't make mistakes from time to time.

I do it partly for my own quick check-up records, but also because if you never do it then you boast about making a good trade, I think people are entitled to ask, "why didn't you even mention that you had bought some?".

A lot of the boards I post trades on I'm often the only one reading them - or posting to them anyway.

Owning them keeps you from kidding yourself, or anyone else, that you're doing better than you are. It also gives your posts integrity - so you're more likely to get help when asking for it with research etc. Or that's the theory. Doesn't really work with SLE - too much bad feeling about. I don't know if you noticed that.

But - I don't post them on ADVFN (apart from the slightly delayed stuff about WTI Long, which is still open and underwater), not least because the threads seem to be over-large and full of a lot of off-topic rubbish. And on-topic rubbish, come to that.

[eadwig] 23/3/2017 10:14

triple seven, "I didn't say it was going to happen,just posted the link. But as you say you never now what's in store do we?"

I see. Info purposes only, which is fair enough. Sorry if I inferred it was your opinion. Plus, after I posted saying there wasn't one person agreeing with the article, I realised that is pretty much the definition of a contrarian view! Which was the whole point of it.

I didn't agree either, but, like I said, with oil especially, you never know, not least because a massive part of the global reserves are in potentially unstable areas. That's probably why they're unstable, but that's another argument.

When I try and predict oil prices, or the direction of them anyway, I always try to remember to add the caveat about some political upheaval (inc. war) that might come out of nowhere, in which case all previous price prediction logic is out the window. Just in case anyone gets the idea I actually know what I'm talking about.