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[praipus] 04/10/2012 06:55

Hi freecapital yes there was something about DIVA here. An email from FRM resolved it and as it was off topic so I moved it to the DIVA thread. Apologies for any confusion.

[freecapital] 03/10/2012 21:20

Thanks. I thought I saw you post about DIVA somewhere, was it here? Anyway I will answer now on the DIVA thread.

[praipus] 02/10/2012 16:15

Re-reading Free Capital again and think the idea of explaining technical methods like merger arbitrage, option arbitrage, closed end fund arbitrage and capital structure arbitrage etc is brilliant.

Many thanks
P.

[stegrego] 19/9/2012 08:19

I expect it would be easy to find enough people to fill a whole encyclopaedia Brittanica format for losers.

[zangdook] 19/9/2012 08:16

Next book should be on losers. I might even volunteer (though there would be stiff competition for a place).

[davidosh] 18/9/2012 22:31

I think there are still a good number of well known and colourful investors and their strategies still to cover within equities for a follow up book and ideally a few female investors in the next one.

[freecapital] 18/9/2012 18:48

Yes I've looked at the Trading Blox forums from time to time over the years. But other authors will have to write the options, futures and ETFs books. I just don't know that world well enough. But I'd buy the book!

[praipus] 17/9/2012 17:50

Ok thanks, I've updated the link if still incorrect please advise.

Half way through Free Capital now. Didn't know it included John Lee until I got to his chapter. Fascinating glimpses into their worlds, I'm surprised how many are my age or older so there is still some hope of catching them up:-)

"trustafarian" lol

Also commonality of theme's I too programmed Sinclair ZX80's to graph mining stock prices until the cassette data storage snapped! Stagged the privatisations, had a couple of winners in the Tec boom what happened next is where the paths diverge.

Do you think there would be enough subjects to write Free Capital's second, third and fourth editions covering people who made their way Options Trading, Futures Trading and ETF trading?

The ADVFN OPTS (writing traded options for income) thread has a group of contributors who seem to have been there for some time and talk reasonable numbers from what I can tell. Also I use TradingBlox.com software to generate Futures entries and exits. The forum at the TB website is very good some of the contributors there are based in the UK at least some of the time. If to be believed a few are running very large leveraged futures portfolios on their own account.

Thanks again, back to reading Peter Gyllenhammars' chapter:-)

[freecapital] 17/9/2012 16:35

Hi glad you like the book.

Hazell Carr Edwards FURB has separate beneficial ownership hence declared separately, albeit the ideas are often mine. You are probably better off tracking them separately.

Some of the holdings are out of date (note Hazell Carr Edwards website lists present and past over 3% holdings).

The only current over 3% [or 1%] ones per RNS are

DTE, FCAP, HYD, [KBT].

[praipus] 13/9/2012 13:54

Hi just taken delivery of your book browsed one chapter on Owen and love it:-) Great book, great idea, well laid out inspiring thank you.

Also noticed your holdings RNS overlap some of the arbitrageurs I track on the ADVFN WAM thread below, at least I assume they are yours?



I also track Peter Gyllenhammars holdings (chapter 10) in post 4 link below

[zangdook] 09/7/2011 09:17

2G thanks for the offer, but I wanted a copy then and there, to read on the plane. I could have downloaded an e-book from Amazon for less than half what I paid but no.

[freecapital] 08/7/2011 20:51

I guess a writer of investment books can't complain about arbitrage!

[charlie] 08/7/2011 20:48

secondhand on Amazon - but dearer than the new price??

[2gekko] 08/7/2011 20:04

zangdook,

you could have mine for a fiver as I have already read it

[zangdook] 07/7/2011 06:50

Thaks for replying - I found two copies in the end, on a shelf at the Commercial Press shop downstairs at 132 Nathan Rd. They wanted HK$240, about £20, which is a bit steep compared to Amazon etc, but what can you do? I bought it anyway.

[freecapital] 05/7/2011 13:20

Thanks for the intelligence zangdook. I will ask Harriman. Also Nigel in the book, as he's based in Hong Kong.

[zangdook] 05/7/2011 11:53

I've just been going round a few bookshops in Hong Kong. No-one seems to have the book, or have heard of it - does anyone happen to know a shop here which does stock it?

More or less every bookshop has a big shelf of investment books near the front, mostly American, so I suspect there might be demand for it. I don't really know how publishing works, but if such a thing can be done it might be worth the publisher's while trying to get a few copies on shelves here.

I saw a few copies of Anthony Bolton's book. Perhaps he's been knocking on some doors since he moved here, trying to flog a few.

[charlie] 27/6/2011 11:59

According to Amazon the book is much more popular in Germany than France. I would expect limited overseas interest generally but I'm puzzled as to why Germany is so much higher....figures here

[charlie] 27/6/2011 11:52

Thanks very much, I have been trying to find the reason for the sales surge.

[strollingmolby] 27/6/2011 11:17

Just noticed that Free Capital was plugged in an email from Selftrade, that was sent last Friday. You can imagine ST has thousands of clients so will have helped sales push on again!

Email links to this PDF newsletter (review on P.11):

[davidosh] 26/6/2011 11:13

Just to let you know the Sainsbury Entertainment website has it back available to order but due to demand has moved the price up it appears.

[charlie] 26/6/2011 10:29

Thanks qvg.

Has anyone seen the book reviewed somewhere this weekend? The sales rank on Amazon was down to 8,000 on Friday, but it's back up to around 1,000 ( and #1 in investment books) today.

[qvg] 26/6/2011 07:46

freecapital / guy
thanks for the book, very much enjoyed it and (I hope) learnt something

[stegrego] 07/6/2011 23:03

Invisage, you are a first class idiot and why anyone even gives you the time of day is beyond me.
You continually harang high profile investors on these boards like some kind of demented sponge, sucking the life out of everyone.

How about you do us all a favour and pack it up?