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

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.

I hope those attending tomorrow will bring some coinage to put in my hat. Preferably gold. I need something to feed my kids with.

Fred.... will these do...?.... (well, they're gold and you can eat 'em):

Milk Chocolate Coins 55mm Gold Sovereigns

http://www.chocolatebuttons.co.uk/erol.html#36878X38251

Luxury Milk Chocolate Gold Sovereign Coins. This 55mm gold foil coin has Queen Victoria (Jubilee head) on the front and the classic St. George and dragon design (dated 1892) on the reverse.

These coins are produced for Chocolate Buttons using the finest milk chocolate (min 28% cocoa), wrapped in quality foil and finished using the latest computerised 3D moulds that give an incredibly detailed and realistic look.

Hat and chips?

This seems to have been the 'event' this evening:

A major railway station was evacuated after reports of a fire in a train.
Smoke was seen coming from a train at about 1840 BST at Birmingham New Street station, British Transport Police said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7548207.stm

PS: Well, I did tell you earlier that whenever I'm near a railway station something seems to happen that delays trains!!

.... and now the bad news....:

A brewery chain employing 1,000 people in north-west England has gone into administration.

Cains Brewery, based in Liverpool, makes a range of 11 ales and lagers and runs more than 100 pubs nationwide.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7547909.stm

Cains has won a number of awards for its ales, most recently the World's Best Fruit Beer in the World Beer Awards 2007.

Its beer is also the official beer of the 2008 Liverpool European Capital of Culture.

Said New Street hitch hindered my travels. Got so near yet so far......

Another time!

Hindered mine as well, home at 10.15pm (1h.30mins longer then usual)...I blame Chris -):

Shame about Cains, the Brewery should survive though In some form I wager.

Battle of Britain loco (Tangemere?) at Waterloo
held up my train on the way home from the pub.

Luxury with 28% cocao?
Like calling a beer of less than 5% IPA.
mac.

Chris' Durian strikes again...........................

Stan>...I blame Chris -):

I agree. At least you got home (eventually) .....But if you'd stayed for another half you'd still have been home at same time.....

Hope Fred got home safely ..... ?

KING of the faggot Richard James, who pioneered boozy bus tours of the Black Country, is going back on the road to save the regions great real ale pubs.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2008/08/08/faggots-supremo-hits-real-ale-trail-97319-21493261/