Lyx Uk Qual Div Discussion Threads

[stewjames] 09/1/2004 13:13

Are you joking maestro? You're betting on margin with borrowed money? Why take the risk? It might take a bit longer to get rich with your own dosh but you won't get wiped out either.

[karma sooty] 08/1/2004 21:23

Maestro is spreadbetting BLANCMANGE it's all he does.

[maestro.] 08/1/2004 21:23

rip..use ya credit cards like me...i owe 18k on them but no worries

[le ripper] 08/1/2004 21:21

maester, lend us a 20 spot mate i'm a bit skint.

[paul miov] 08/1/2004 19:36

maestro.,

Sorry mate but I don't think you are betting with real money, please can you cut and paste a copy of your spreadbetting account statement.

I am willing to sincerely appologise if wrong

regards

Paul

[stewjames] 08/1/2004 19:11

Well done on Moni and Bookham, maestro. Where did Lloyds come from?

[belabed] 08/1/2004 17:49

maestro not knocking but by selling then buying back your missing out on the spread.If you have confidence in the co better to sit on your hands I would have thought.

[maestro.] 08/1/2004 16:32

well i make that 2k profit in 3 days...not bad

[maestro.] 08/1/2004 16:31

sold marconi again at 679p for 370 quid profit
sold bookham at 155.5 for 560 quid profit
sold lloydstsb for 120 quid profit
belabed...always best to solidify a profit...watched it ebb away too often before...learning fast

[belabed] 08/1/2004 10:01

So why did you sell?

[maestro.] 08/1/2004 08:39

bought back in at 642p[635p non sb]...far too risky to be out ,could blow anytime!

[maestro.] 08/1/2004 08:26

closed marconi for 180 quid profit....spike up to 642p..hope to get back in again 630ish

[stewjames] 07/1/2004 22:37

BHM continues to astound me. Quite clearly one of the most ridiculously overvalued shares on the market - can't even manage a gross profit, turns over less than £100M/year despite a big helping hand from revenues contractually handed over as part of various acquisitions (and which helping hand disappears later this year), no assets of worth beyond a (bloody big) cash pile, isn't growing particularly quickly...and yet it's capped at £300M. The valuation only gets more ridiculous when you account for the proposed NUFO acquisition. £2 would be insane. But then £1.50 is insane anyway so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it made it there. US investors are mad when it comes to this sector.

[maestro.] 07/1/2004 20:12

400 quid up on bookham today and another 130 quid on marconi...decided to let both ride...can see bookham emulating those great days of 1999 albeit on a smaller scale....target 200p short term

[greenspud] 07/1/2004 16:58

all natural cures and sciences are suppressed, and the man made CURES are fully hidden, so le ripper is correct when he says the big bad drug companies will make money and carry on to do so, whether the shares goes up and down though it will, which directions lol i dont know that answer ripper soz lol.

[le ripper] 07/1/2004 11:36

Theres a lot more diseases around than colon cancer maester ! i'm not sure that out of astra's drug portfolio it even contains one for colon cancer anyway. besides, i'd rather chance it and go for the drugs than have a hosepipe stuck up my rimmer and turned on.
Take it from someone that knows, this business is going forwards, so a few hippies would rather eat herbs to cure their cancer, let em get on with it,lol.

[maestro.] 07/1/2004 11:28

rip...very risky backing Astra..people are turning away from drugs and seeking natural alternatives...a mate of mine was on TV last night on the Salon having colonic irrigation...why wait and get colon cancer when u can prevent it bythis easy method

[le ripper] 07/1/2004 10:48

balto, i'm not into hardcore spreadbetting as I don't really fancy giving my money to spread betting firms, as meastro inevitably will if he keeps up. Besides, i've no reason to want the "jam tommorow", i've already got what maestro desperately wants- a detatched house in the country with lots of land.

For what its worth I do own lots of astrazeneca shares, and i've got a spreadbet on them too, £4 a point to march, started at 26.50, presently down but the tide will turn and send it to £27-£30 well before march. Also £50 a point long on sibir energy to June, and thats 1 point in profit.

lol

[maestro.] 07/1/2004 10:44

stew..basically i pick stocks that are bombed out but are likely to recover...hence Thus,marconi,bookham...to fall from 830p,1200p,5000p respectively means a 10% recovery and i'm minted....the other ones are likely takeover targets...hit it twice before with somerfield and TBI...so why not again with TBI,kINGFISHER,MATALAN

[stewjames] 07/1/2004 10:26

balto,



Runs from April 2002 until April 2003 during which the FTSE dropped from above 5200 to below 3700. Needless to say, spectacular gains weren't made but I managed to make something like 35% in that period. My outperformance of the market actually improved throughout the 2003 bull run.

Notice every decision is accompanied with fairly detailed reasoning. I'm not going to be spreadbetting because most (probably all) of the companies I buy wouldn't be offered and, being ISA protected, I don't need to worry about tax anyway. Maestro appears to be gambling on companies of very mixed quality with no fundamental or technical analysis behind his decisions (if not, then tell us a bit more about why you're choosing them, maestro!). Whilst it's possible he has a talent for intuitive daytrading, it's such a rare gift it seems unlikely. I guess this thread will say one way or the other!

[balto] 07/1/2004 10:09

To all the people taking the mick out of Maestro:

Guys, at least you have to admire the courage of the guy;

looking forward for the:

-Le Ripper's spread betting thread-

-Robby George's s spread betting thread-

-Stew James's spread betting thread-

-mhsmith's s spread betting thread-

-belabed, agincourt and the rest. Best of luck to you too, guys ....