bosley
- 20 Feb 2004 09:34
hewittalan6
- 01 Aug 2006 17:28
- 18345 of 27111
Okey dokey, pinnacle.
It aint happened as you expected, but there are 2 plus points.
1) I made money on the Great SEO RNS Handicap
2) Since it hasn't happened you are now free to make a public statement as to what you expected and we can all go to bed happy with our Horlicks.
What a pleasant end to the day that would be.
Alan
112
bhunt1910
- 01 Aug 2006 17:28
- 18346 of 27111
Just got in and catching up.
I had exactly the same thoughts as uou Alan re a meeting and an announcement whilst the american markets were still open - which might also explain why the announcement has been pulled on the web site?
As for 14/1 bar -mines a gin & Tonic
hewittalan6
- 01 Aug 2006 17:30
- 18347 of 27111
We don't do gin & Tonic up here!!!! Its bitter or mild. take it or leave it.
With pinnacles post today and your water yesterday baza, I've spent all afternoon coming over all unnecessary.
Mines bitter, BTW.
Alan
114
bhunt1910
- 01 Aug 2006 18:04
- 18348 of 27111
ok - then it will have to be bitter - but from memory there arent any decent bitters up North !!!!!
115
pinnacle
- 01 Aug 2006 18:14
- 18349 of 27111
I got a stiff hint today that an announcement will be made.
The paper loss I am sitting on would make some top themselves - so I am as keen as everyone for this damn company to be successful.
If I can get out of this, and make some money for all the stress it is causing me - I will never invest in blue sky again - I am too old for this crap - life is difficult anyway and this company are just giving me more to concern me.
It's my fault and whatever happens I will have to deal with it.
I still believe that if they can somehow pull off this Asda deal then things will move - then I will escape to calmer waters and count myself as very lucky.
aldwickk
- 01 Aug 2006 18:15
- 18350 of 27111
Blunt, Is that from bitter memory ? now you have started me off.
hewittalan6
- 01 Aug 2006 18:35
- 18351 of 27111
All the decent bitters are up here.
Bloody watneys red barrel brigade, you lot.
try a nice drop of Theakstons. So thick you could float rocks on it and its technically a soup.
118
oblomov
- 01 Aug 2006 18:46
- 18352 of 27111
Watneys Red Barrel? Thought I was the only one here old enough to remember that poison.
There are some great Northern beers (and some very frothy ones), but If you take a look at Camra's 2006 best beer awards you'll see Southern beers beat Northern beers into second place in most categories (6 out of 8):-
http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=207674
119
hewittalan6
- 01 Aug 2006 18:56
- 18353 of 27111
Due to the fact that CAMRA is made up of sandal wearing, beard obsessed old hippies, which are indigenous to warmer Southern climes.
If we found one up here, we'd eat him.
bhunt1910
- 01 Aug 2006 19:07
- 18354 of 27111
alan -u forgot - 120
driver
- 01 Aug 2006 21:13
- 18356 of 27111
rmhyams
- 02 Aug 2006 00:22
- 18357 of 27111
For Oilywag
I like your style. All insults from me are hereby rescinded. Keep up the good work.
Regards
Tonyrelaxes
- 02 Aug 2006 00:40
- 18358 of 27111
125 !
or is it 1 ?
edit - oops 2 ? (sorry rmh)
oblomov
- 02 Aug 2006 08:15
- 18359 of 27111
Blue today so far - bounce back time?
Wheres that RNS?
3
123 posts yesterday - we may have lost a sum between us equal to the annual debt of the whole of Africa, but we know how to post!
tweenie
- 02 Aug 2006 08:17
- 18360 of 27111
if only I could sell shares in hot air.................................
hewittalan6
- 02 Aug 2006 08:33
- 18361 of 27111
Just had pause for thought time.
i have read LW's comments on todays traders thread, and I realise that I could say much the same thing, though not over the same timescale.
Kinda fits with my "full and Frank discussion" of the other day with mr Aldwickk.
These blue sky tiddlers are great for somewhere to stick your top-slices or divis from real stocks, but the simple idea of reinvestment works every time, on average.
A sobering thought, and a reminder not to get too heavily invested in this kind of stock. keep it simple, keep it small, and hope you will have more hits than misses, but above all make sure that these are only a very small part of your portfolio.
Enough doom and gloom though. i'm still a believer, but it shows why some sleep on a night and others sweat it out.
Alan
oblomov
- 02 Aug 2006 09:00
- 18362 of 27111
Easily said, though Alan.
I expect most of us began our investment in SEO in a small way, as you describe, and built up stock as the SP climbed and each RNS sucked us in with a picture of great things to come. If the information in the RNS's had been genuine the situation should be completely different by now. Pleased to say SEO are a very small part of my portfolio, but even so, no-one likes to lose so much on one stock.
Perhaps the lesson is that you cant rely on RNS's from small caps - the managers in small caps get carried away in a situation new to them.
Does anyone know if action has ever been taken against companies issuing a trail of misleading information? Not that I'm saying (yet) that SEO has - this could all still turn around and our expectations could still be realised.
greekman
- 02 Aug 2006 09:17
- 18363 of 27111
Morning all,
I agree with both (ALAN and OB's) comments.
I like many have SEO as a small portion of my investments, but yes due to vague info I also admit to being sucked in a bit deeper than intended.
As to action taken re companies giving out misleading info....I can recall several instances every year (unfortunately no names spring to mind) but there was that large Insurance group about 12/18 months ago, and I am sure someone will come back with info re several examples.