for more information about stanelco click on the links.

driver's research page link
http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=7681#lastread
website link
http://www.stanelco.co.uk/index.htm

hewittalan6, '' a little amateur investment thread '' How very dare you.

Twisted it again, haven't you.
"Perfectly good, if a little amateur" was what i actually typed. You also missed the bit about many being extremely well informed. If the cap fits...........
never let the facts get in the way of a good argument. I see you have no problem with the little detail of you copying posts and claiming it as your own work.

Alan,
No problem, I was not hinting that you were connected in any way with WM, and I did think your post was worth, as you say "throwing in". I was just giving a bit more info on the German sell and the Australian possible buys.
The news only came out yesterday, so it's not old and with the possible future connection SEO/Walmart it may well be relevent.

hewittalan6,

I posted lock in some profits at around 28p and then said sell at 16p , if not on this thread then on the AOL bb.

Thanks, Greek.
I was told about the German sale on Saturday evening, by that "made-up" friend of mine who works at a senior level at Asda, but I had no idea about the Aussie stuff.
WM & SEO as bedfellows? I wish I were as certain as you are, greek, but I still get a nagging feeling that all is not well with the Green credentials and Asdas Green audit, As I posted a few weeks ago.
Despite this I still see the upside as much greater than the downside, so i am sticking with it.
Alan

Cheers Alan,
I am about as certain as anyone can be in this game. How certain is that, is anyones guess. Like you I see more upside than downside, but as previously said I am not counting my chickens till I can either buy one greensealed, or from a takeaway wrapped in Starpol.

LOL......

Geekman,

You are beginning to sound like hewittalan6, '' more upside than downside '' thats because the price is below 5p bid, LOL

This extracted from Evil's e-mail received this morning.

"I am asked why shares in Stanelco (SEO) of which I am long have fallen sharply. I do not know. I feel a bit of a twit for going long having shorted the shares very successfully. No doubt comrade Legg is already digging out his green biro to remind me of page 112 of the Good Book* and how those who sin by diverging from the true path will receive punishment in this life. I fear that my latest liaison with a blue-sky stock with no asset backing is indeed just such an unoriginal (on my part) sin. I really haven't a clue what is going on."

I assume that the "Good Book" is Evil's own bible on investment strategy of which we all have as bedtime reading.

I doubt that even Evil would tempt fate by going short on this stock now, having fallen so much in the last three months, given the possibility of a sharp rise on the back of any contract news.

The oily one

With a stock like this, the real danger, for mortal investers, is selling out now and buying back in when the charts / news etc. tell us to.
The result is to lose two sets of commission / dealing fees, one lot of stamp duty and two lots of Bid/Offer spread.
i can't justify that when my feeling is that when it does move, it will move quickly.
Which way? Dunno. Neither does anyone else.
Alan

Alan,

I agree its to late to sell now.

Boys you should read the FT great value at 1!!The Wallmart out of Germany and South Korea for that matter has been reported for days now and is the subject of the leader today.

To be honest, pad, i rarely read any newspaper, unless I can see it through the salt and vinegar.
Had I not been looking for a house, i would not have seen the Share tip in Saturdays paper, and Had I not been chatting to my imaginary friend, I would still be blissfully ignorant of WM selling up in Germany.
Alan

Alan,fair comment everyone to thier own.Really don't know what to do about this one got out @10.25p and unfortunatley can't see any good reason to get back in yet, if at all.Might as well go and back an outsider at the races.Good luck to those brave ones who still hold.

I wouldn't get back in myself at the mo, MP, but i would watch it like a hawk!!!
Thanks for the good luck message.
alan

Hi guys, not much time these days to chat - but still read this and the chaco thread avidly.

I got back into SEO today - not sure why - something in me water !!

Will have to wait and see if I am mad or a clairvoyant.

Regards to all the regulars - love the dialogue Alan - keep it up mate - brings a breath of fresh air.

Basa

Baza,
Where ya been?????
Love it when you get something in your water. At one stage this was a better indicator than any candle pattern or golden cross!!
Glad you're keeping well.
Alan

ALAN ..... a very polite Q ...... let's assume you are right that SEO will come good eventually ..... surely, even when it does, it will happen in stages and thus will not rocket from the current 5p to say 25p (or even 15p) overnight, or even if it does, it should mean there is even better news to come ....... With that in mind, I ask the same as i did yesterday ...... At least for the time being, would your money not better employed elsewhere, with a watching brief on SEO so you can jump back in as soon s something truly seems to be happening?

Still think not, cynic.
Novice i aint, but my timing has a habit of being atrocious. i take comfort in the fact that research shows that on average, timing out and back in again is a sure fire losing strategy. Can't remember where I read it but a weighted study of professional fund managers and investers showed it to be the case that timing the market led to increased costs that outweighed the increased returns.
Even with a fairly tight spread, as SEO has at the moment of about 1% means a large drop in value.
100k sold, bought in to another stock, sold from that and then bought back into an unchanged SEO would present a bill of about 4%+. My issue is that the start of an SP change could be any day now, so to sell, reinvest, sell and reinvest agian would effectively knock my holding down by 4%, if i got back in before the news that i hope will come. if it were after then I may lose 8 or 9% of my holding. To make the gamble worthwhile requires a stock that I can be certain will make 10%+ in a matter of a few days, and I am afraid if that stock existed, then we would all be in it already and the price hike would have gone!!
This is what I mean when I say that one needs to know strategies, aims and personal circumstances before judging whether someone is right or wrong to buy /sell /hold.
In April I posted a report on my 12 months and how it had been on the NOWT thread. You would see from that that I had a bad 12 months due to trying to time it (and going too heavy on the minnows) and that I declared then my intention to go back to my tried and trusted formula. In a nutshell, the bulk of my investing is handled by professionals. The remaining part of my portfolio is largely in blue chips and my "gambling money" comes form top slicing the blue chips and non-reinvested dividends, so it is almost free money.
That is a polite answer to the question.
Alan

Yes Alan, thats what i have been telling you but its to late now, you should have sold at 16p.