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Bully, please send me the details of the top 3, im sure i could convince one of them they need me as a wife:-)

Kayak,:-)

Crikey Kayak, going contrarian to those trades could be a great strategy!!
:-)

Interesting that it seems to be better to be a part-time trader than a full-time trader! But not as good as being a sales/marketing person...

Ruth - I'm afraid you're down to two candidates because I'm not in the wife market ;-) Anyway, I'm sure I won't be finishing in the top three! I just have to finish ahead of my girlfriend otherwise I'll never hear the last of it :-|

Kyoto:-)

Strike 2 Ruthy, I'm spoken for. With Dil storming up from 198 to No. 7 there might be a Welsh prospect soon ;-)

I'm too young.

To dye?:)

Why would you want to change his colour?

No - tomorrow. :-)

Top 4 UK Areas

1 Blaenau Gwent
2 Ceredigion
3 Scottish Borders
4 Caerphilly

Dil; Oh no:-)

Oh yeah , class shining through :-)

yes ...all unemployed homemakers :-)

sh**pshagger wasn't an option otherwise that would be top I guess :-)

I would like to put in a marriage proposal to the
homemaker/super trader from the Russion Federation...
that ticks all my boxes


only 23 out of 600 in profit
that will teach people
the merits of shorting

you will notice that the top 5 increase
every time the market moves down
Wonder why that is :-)

I think the game came at an unfortunate time though. The FTSE250 has lost as much as 10% in the last three weeks and the 100 isn't doing well either so this is no market to pick a few long positions and hope for a decent performance, which is I suspect what people were doing. I still think the winner will be a long or short person who punts everything on one stock and gets lucky with a 50%+ return. In fact, I think I can name the share the current leader has his 100K short on ;-)

Still, I'm fascinated by some of the stats being generated. Hopefully it's proving a learning experience for some people who are relatively new to shares assuming some of them are. It's certainly forcing me to confront some issues about my trading style - and it's once again reminded me of the perils of trading while ill as I had complete brain-fade this morning! :-|

It wouldn't let me put 100% into one trade , only 50%.

Dil,

Is that your first trade you are talking about or susequent ones since then.

Ian

edited - wrong thread