Anyone notice the exratordinary volumes yesterday? (10/5/2004)

48 million!!!

Many more buys than sells.

That and the price held out only losing a fraction of a penny.

No Easter Eggs in sight in my local store.

May be one reason but............

Any ideas people?

Yeah oakapples - you have convicned me, I'm in tomorrow!

Something will turn up!

Well done OakApples! It all helps make the tills ring!
Have a good Christmas!
Well done on Sibir!

SWW - its' worth keeping an eye on things, low volumes can bring
curious price moves and some opportunities sometimes. :>)

My be 38 !!

stockbunny I agree and I will.

This week is critical and every day news can make things go weary.

Woolworths downgraded

MoneyAM

Woolworths Group has been downgraded by JP Morgan and removed from its Analyst Focus List.

The broker has changed its stance to 'neutral' from 'overweight'.

Last week's TNS data worried JP Morgan, with Woolworth's showing a 20% year-on-year fall in sales, accelerating the negative trend of recent months.

JP Morgan highlighted the biggest gainer in the survey was Tesco, with a 14% year-on-year gain, implying almost 1bn of extra non-food sales for the full year. JP Morgan fears this is eating into Woolworth's core products more than expected.

JP Morgan said it thinks the stock certainly looks cheap and the broker sees risks to the upside if sales and margin targets can be met over Christmas, though it still feels downside risks are strong.

Maybe I'll leave it till it drop under 40p.

good idea i got in at 43 a month or so ago OOPS (noticed theres been alot of buys)

There always is, stock goes the opposite way.

never could work that out!

Well now it is said you should never take much notice of charts.

Me I take a bit from this one and say, the downward trend will continue sub 40p.

Looks very like 36 to 38p to me although there a slight upturn in relative strength which may prevet that. Depends on where support kicks in at these levels.

Now watch me be wrong!

Needless to say I am not buying tomorrow unless I see those prices.

Note though, WLW is still a strong buy imho, the trading statemnt will show all.

I am now off to Footfall to see what they say...............

Someone did the work for me............. here it is.

Starts

The number of people out shopping in the U.K. last week was 8.1 percent more than in the previous seven days, FootFall said. SPSL estimated the week-on-week increase at 6.5 percent.

According to FootFall director David Smyth, the year-on-year decline in traffic wasn't surprising because the same week last year was the last full business week before Christmas.

``This year, there are still five full days of trading left to go before Christmas, plus the schools in most parts of the country have just broken up,'' Smyth said.

`No Need to Panic'

This helps to gloss the item to a little more quality.

Hey, my mates on ADVFN are doing a great job, all this is from poster Aceuk - Nice one and well researched Ace


UK retailers hold their nerve in "late" Christmas
Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:20 PM GMT

By Trevor Datson, European Retail Correspondent

LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - This may not prove the best ever Christmas on the British high street, but reports of the demise of UK retail may yet prove a little premature.

As the most important week of the retail calendar reaches its peak, British media reports have painted a picture of an industry in crisis, with cut-throat price wars sabotaging what should be the most profitable time of the year.

"Sales: it's all-out war" screamed a recent front page headline in the Daily Mail newspaper, which followed up with a chilling message for the big high-street chains.

"With shoppers spending 400 million pounds ($779 million) less this year on presents, some high street chains slashed prices by up to half in a frenzied attempt to get goods moving," the paper said.

Well, theres some stuff to help me make up my mind. Do you know when I first bought 53k of them, I did it with no research and sat on them for 3 months before I made a few grand in a few days, so I suppose timing is not of the essence in the case of Woolworths shares.

Mind you also, if you buy just before an announcement like the January 14th Trading Statement, you could be on the same winner.

Lets see what happens tomorrow.

Good night, sleep tight.

High buys, small sells.

Thats the pattern of recent trading repeated today.

Okay, I'm in.

I look to sell after the 14th January 2005 or not as the case may be.

I still suspect they had a bad August but never mind!

One thing is certain with a 1.50p divi and any price range you cant really go too wrong.

Whatever everything comes to he(she) who waits.

Hello bunny!

we can talk about a mutual stock again!

;-)

It is down to me remember - true to my word with SBE profits (I should have stayed in !!) I purchased the Maroon 5 CD in Woolies

Perhaps I should not have spoken - yet again it goes red and with buys many many times more than sells (as usual),

oakapples I just had to do it.

I am in with 2 lots for just under 41p so I am happy.

In truth I do not se under 40p, (says me hopefully).

We cab have a bit of fun with this till the 14th january and maybe after.

The 10/10 format will make a difference plus I need to get some new mugs so I will pop in there today.

With all this going for it, all should be fine.

Good for you SWW - I am going to stay in if only to read your posts - Have a great Christmas

good look SWW i reckon it could go well but then again who am i to say

Thats it, bought 6 mugs and look, the share price goes up!

Gawd Bless Us.

Merry Christmas Ev'ry One!

Well done SWW - bet you didn`t get 3 for 2 thats why the SP is up. I too have just been out and return to find I have no red but only blue in my stocks - think I will go out again !!
Merry Christmas