Read the latest interims.......just make sure that you are sitting down.

as always Peter, many thanks for your input ..... am happy to leave my short in place, not least because sp has tracked firmly south again, despite a very strong general market

I woulsnt take any notice of MLs buy note.

From what ive heard the original analyst who told investors to buy at up to 8 just days prior to the last profits warning when it collapsed to 196p was taken off the job and another analyst put in his place.

I wouldnt mind but ML actualy came out with a general note on small caps and warned investors off of buying.

Im staying short.

morning GF ..... i remain short and very happily so too ..... sp has already moved quite substantially against the general market trend, and if US employment whack the Dow, then why would SOLA not fall further - except perhaps for the influence of some bear closing before w/e

Indeed, indeed cyners.

Closed out earlier on. Solar sector may be due a bounce next week.

Still very bearish on sola for the long term.

i did too GF .... only a modest 16p profit this time, but welcome nevertheless ...... was very surprised indeed to see strength in US last night but find it hard to trust or believe that it can hold ..... in fact Dow is now very close to the chart-critical level of 12800 and would be amazed if it blazed straight through that

Yep just watching at the moment cynic.

Is the graph changing direction now?

Yes, it's stopped going down and is a storming buy, fill yer boots :)

My goodness, with that sort of positive recommendation, I am away to raid the kiddies piggy bank.











Ah - just a small problem, they are in a different country at the mo. Ah well.... :)

Went back short after news on interest rate cut. markets not taken positively to it.

Long term support at 280pish but I think this maybe broken over next few days.

Always a gamble but its been very profitable so far.

missed out as travelling but never mind

Cynic - Missed out on some profit, you told me to short this and I didn't... Credit where its due you were right..

can't win 'em all .... was tempted this morning, but as couldn't watch, refrained

sola took one hell of a kicking in the us last night.

should open at about 280p.

http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=SOL

I've got sucked in at 330p hinking the graph has changed course.

Hyleo its a difficult one to call this one it appears from the charts.

Can only say that its fundies are imho some of the worst around and if things in the markets get worse rather than better I can only see this one in further trouble, mind having said that it has paid to go in and out.

best of luck mate.

Presumably all you shorters are going to bail out around the 250p mark & reverse your positions, or are you expecting a slide in to oblivion?

I'm not sure why anyone would want to risk going long on SOLA at the moment, but each to their own. I mentioned a few days ago that I thought I had identified a trendline that may be the one to watch (the green dashed line). I'm afraid the data on the screenshot is a few days out of date, but having bounced off the line earlier this week the SP is now sliding down the line and is currently providing some support. Although I doubt a sheer drop is likely I expect the SP to decline eventually to the 200p level where it should find support once more. Any rallys contained by the mid trendline and certainly the top of the channel. AIMHO DYOR etc etc :)

I am certainly not suggesting going long at the moment, but it would be interesting to see where the turnaround point is.
If you drew the same set of trend lines back in aug '07, it would have been the same scenario as now. No obvious sign of a reversal. Yet it happened.
Of course I am trying to bottom pick, which is dangerous, but I am going to be kicking myself if the sp goes back to the 480 level without identifying the start of the up trend.