Any punters living in Birmingham Area interested in a Pie, Pint and jaw, one evening in a pub in Birmingham area.
Personally interested in small time investing(gambling), developing an appetite for CFDs. Also developing an interest in Charting or TA.

I use Sharescope, Moneyam, Barclays, Comdirect and IC

Last of 23 in a Newmarket maiden.

Did it actually leave the stables......?

Actually, Got the wrong horse. I think the nag was Microfocus. Made more on it going short.

Going short... could be increasingly more popular going forward -):

.... but won't long be better by September.....?

Not all the while the market continues to trend down I don't think, but we will just have to see how things pan out. Certainly not much good short term news around.

Stan ...............
Hi

What is the email thinghy?

Amar

Amar,

Click on the button that says My Profile at the top of this screen, you will then be able to enter an E mail which no one else can see, but when peopel click on your name on here they will be able to send you a private message through MoneyAM.

Ian

THANKS Ian.......

Regards
Amar

.... perhaps we could get British Gas to sponsor our next meeting...?

DRUNKEN British Gas staff ran amok after a 250,000 Birmingham junket on the same day the energy giant announced a record 35 per cent price jump.
Boozy middle managers and sales staff enjoyed free drinks and slap up four course meals at the bash, organised to discuss how to justify the gas and electricity price hikes....

......But after the expensive event festivities were reported to have descended into mayhem when drunken brawls broke out at nearby hotels laid on for British Gas staff.

http://www.birminghammail.net/2008/08/01/fury-as-british-gas-staff-run-riot-97319-21449563/

That is something we would have to look through. -):

Hey up! Big brother is watching.....!

So, Fred. By what means did you short Microfocus. And was the size better than that obtainable by trading the underlying???.

British Gas? I've just shut the boiler down.............

just a thought ...... presumably the 'cost savings' they (British Gas) made on closing down their Solihull office/call centre a few years ago helped pay for the (mis)management junket....

5501, You can go short or long on CMS share bets at 268.55= 270.20.

But there was a sell note on it recently. I think in the IC. Which at the moment means BA.

Tell you about my trades later.

Thanks Stan. Got you second E-mail.

For a man who isn't working and achieving even less I am surprised how busy and confused I am about time and place. (My wife has added the rest of life too.)

Right how is this!

Next meeting:

Time 3 30pm onward. (15.00-15.30) Date Thursday 7/8/2008

Venue:

THE JAMES BRINDLEY, BIRMINGHAM - PUB DETAILS

Address: 12 Bridge Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2JR [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0121 644 5971
Birmingham New Street (0.4 miles), Five Ways (0.4 miles), Birmingham Snow Hill (0.7 miles)


This pub is just behind the in the Gas Street Basin, just behind the Hyatt Hotel, which is on Broad Street, opposite the Convention Centre.


(Look for one or more individuals with another group dressed in white coats observing them.)

Perfect -):

Noted.

Nice to see some interesting Micros in this years list http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=282167

.... but could they have thought of a 'better' name than Black Dog Freddy !

PS: An 11 billion high speed rail link between Birmingham and London could use new platforms built deep underneath New Street Station.

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/newsaggregator/tm_headline=163-11bn-rail-link-could-go-underneath-new-street%26method=full%26objectid=21473177%26siteid=65233-name_page.html

... but ....
returning to financial market matters:

Staffordshire trainee accountant gambles away 44m of council money on stockmarket (and this was from a time when markets were 'stable'):

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/newsaggregator/tm_headline=staffordshire-trainee-accountant-gambles-away-163-44m-of-council-money-on-stockmarket%26method=full%26objectid=21473158%26siteid=65233-name_page.html

"CIPFA has acknowledged that the low risk transactions authorised by Mr Pate were carried out at a time when the market was stable and that there was no risk to the councils capital sums."

..Didn't here about that on the National News did we, I suppose because of the above, big news though I would have thought.