Will only cover stocks bought in the present month the last thread was getting too big and weighted down by one argument on one company. seperate threads are set up for each company from the old thread.

Buys this Month.

Telecolm Plus Results due Friday and has made an excelent start as a new buy. Now through the important 350p resistance barrier.

Sci Entertainment Another company which has an update coming and is up on the buy price. Latest trading update mentioned sales well above budget.

Bema Gold A little gem of a gold miner and has surged on the back of the increasing POG, star of the Month.

Thistle Mining A speculative punt and one which leapt 41% in one day on back of new drilling results. I lopped the top of this one when increase from buy was circa 34%. Rest left in as a gamble on POG.

Caldwell Investments Nothing Spectacular here but still up on buy price. If its good enough for Jim Slater and Evil Knievil, its good enough for me.

CardPoint Latest buy and just ahead of buy price. Been tipped by the Red Hot Penny Shares and also Citywire.

Stocks On The Watch List

Wolfeson Micro, Radstone Technology, Proteome Sciences, Fulcrum Pharma, Severfield Rowen, Deltex medical, M L Labs, NAP - Porvair.

Any comments on the portfolio welcome.

cheers GF.

Sold service power, deffered contacts but will take another look in the new year. Small profit made.

cheers GF.

Nice to see Telecolm Plus rebound today and not so pleasing to see Bema Gold take a tonking, but having said that Bema was following POG when it dropped.

Fingers crossed it will be back up agai Wed afternoon.

cheers Gf.

An excelent set of results from Centurion this morning showing fantastic growth in the last year and going forward when the majority of companies in this field have been hit by industry worries and slow down. The future looks very bright.

Looking around the other shares I hold I think selling Service Power was the correct thing to do at the time yesterday, I will be keeping them on the radar though as some of the statement was very pleasing indeed.

The Gold shares are down reflecting the sector trend in the US where miners have been down for two straight days now.

T T Electronics is up again and seems to have been a good buy so far fingers crossed.

cheers GF.

GF

I hope you don't mind me asking but what do you think is causing
Bioprogress' share price to fall? Trades show way more buys than sells.

Thanks in advance
Sooze

SooZe it been happening for the last 10 days on a lot of stocks. Seems MMs are trying to manage the market so we dont get overheating.

cheers gf.

The other day you said mm's would want their bonuses by raising prices gf.

Bit of a contridiction I think, or perhaps you post whatever suits you at the time me thinks.


Good results (up 229%) by Britannia don't you think?

Thought you mighjt have it as a short in your list.

Btw I keep giving you these tips that upset you gf, you know buy Cape @ 23p sell at 63p, buy Britannia @ 9p....up 174% & 300% respectively.

Well here's another for you Spectrum on Ofex a great recovery stock. Currently circa 20p....well worth checking out.

Contrary to what a lot of people think Sooze, Market makers make their money through TURNOVER wether it be Buys or Sells or a combination of both. The inexperienced punter comes into the market place feeling that the normal Economic laws of Supply and Demand dominate, at times nothing could be further from the truth. But beware of a tank up in prices usually in the 10 days before the year end, bonuses are at the back of some City employees minds and we usually get an xmas hike drawing in buyers.

cheers goldfinger.

ps, I have no time for the illiquid market of ofex, I do hear there though anything goes to suit the one market maker. Best left alone unless you only want to punt 150 quid a time. Not worth getting out of bed for in my opinion.

That's strange I bought 140,000 Britannia on Ofex @ 10.1p in several deals, all cost a lot more than 150, guess these people who call themselves experts must be deluding themselves.


A good time to be in Ofex at the moment before the crowd as it should have 5 market makers in 2004, including Winterfloods making markets in all stocks.


Happy to add some balance to your comments.

Director Buying going on at TT Electronics.

TT bosses celebrate buy with buys

By Graeme Davies, Companies Correspondent
Email to a friend

Two top directors have shown their faith in Citywire tip TT Electronics following its acquisition of an American electronic sensor company on Friday.

Executive chairman John Newman spent 124,200 on Friday to add 100,000 shares to his holding at 124.2p per share. However this is barely a drop in the ocean compared with his total holding of 16.2 million shares or 10.5% of the 193 million company (TTG).


Joining Newman was Neil Rodgers, the chief executive-elect who joined the board in September. Rodgers, who was previously a divisional chief executive, spent a more modest 12,200 for his first 10,000 shares at 122p each. Rodgers will replace chief executive Sheridan Comonte in April.


Shares in TT have risen 1.5p to 126.5p today in response to the confidence shown by the top brass. Earlier this year it dipped as low as 80p but has since bounced to 139p. Citywire tipped it more than a year ago at 116p and reiterated the advice at 96p in January.


A prime reason for Citywire's confidence was the healthy dividend yield, which stands at 8% and although it is not covered by earnings Newman told Citywire on Friday the board intends to honour it.


Concern was raised that the 30 million TT spent on US electronic sensor company Optek Technology would eat into the funds available for dividend payments. Newman said: It is not changing our thinking on our dividend payment.'


Hopefully for TT investors trading will start to improve to complement the extra revenue brought in by Optek and on Friday Newman told Citywire: 'I'm now saying there is an upturn in orders and I think it is sustainable.' Last year Optek made sales of 40.4 million in the year to the end of January 2003 and a profit of 2.4 million.

cheers goldfinger.

See Bema thread refering to new gold and diamond s find.

Well what an awfull day. Posting well down on this board and also other boards in general. A sea of red on my watch list screen. Never mind the Big Market Push Starts Tomorrow and goes on until the new year. There will be low volumes but higher prices. I have great faith. Sees you in the morning.

cheers GF.

Gf,

Some of the AIM stocks that have had such a good run all seem to be treading water or turning downwards.

Maybe the good times are over for AIM this year at least?

I only feel confident about gold stocks at the moment, and even they are retracing, although after such a run I guess that was inevitable.



Thirdeye,

When these new MM's are dealing in the Ofex, are we going to see online trading via the main online brokers in your opinion?

Once their is real competition and online trading, Ofex will gain critical mass, and at last have proper liquidity in my opinion.

Aimtrader, watch Centurion Electronics fly in the morning. I think starting in the morning we will be on for an aim xmas rush.

I hope that the new ofex is a success as I mostly invest in small shares, but I do hope they allow shorting and spread betting and other investment tools as Aim does now. Lets face it I dont give a damd which market I trade on as long as I get a fair deal after all its the company you are taking a stake in not the market.

cheers GF.

Aimtrader


Approx 4 mm's including Winterflood's should be ready by spring, they have also got Simon Brickles who did so much for AIM on board, in my opinion Ofex will start to acheive the growth that AIM has & stocks will definately become more liquid.....They expect at least 5 mm's by 2004 end.

As for online, I think you will, may not happen straight away, but I think a lot are going to sit up & take notice of Ofex, the (Ofex)share price has doubled from it's low of 15p.

ThirdEye,

well it does appear they are having a push on Ofex, as it seemed to be dying on it's feet, and IMHO the lack of liquidity and online trading killed it's potential.

To be honest, online trading is what will really bring it to life, and should be considered as soon as possible.

Simon Brickles is an excelleent catch, and will increase people's perception of Ofex as a serious market.

Well at last some serious debate from thirdeye and much appreciated it is aswell.

I hope Ofex is a big hit , it can only add competition to Aim and surely thats going to be good for both market places and the CONSUMER us.

cheers GF.

Andy

I think it will all happen, the critics have made valid points, Ofex will become as AIM is now if not better if (Likely) the new European legislation takes place.....in fact I think that is Why Simon Brickles has moved, as he is convinced it will.

(See Ofex itself & or Ofex announcements for explanation of the European L)

I will say this, the Ofex site is appaling. Thirdeye anyway you can influence mr Jenkins to upgrade it?. Its just not investor freindly and doesnt send out a good message for the new Ofex beginning.

http://www.ofex.co.uk/

cheers GF.

GF, ThirdEye,

I agree , their website is very poor, and desperately needs improvement.

With regard to the Europeans, yes this could well be the reason why everyone is getting into position, the AIM will be finished if they have their way, and it will either be LSE or Ofex.

Personally I cannot see why they want to do this, all the UK markets seem to be in order, and IMHO there's no compelling reason to regulate AIM any further than it already is.

Andy

Indications are that they will have transparent bargains buys & sells just like AIM with Level 2 etc, so I would have thought an upgrade would be on the cards.