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i am only teasing of course ..... in fact, if dealing charges are a flat fee (rather than % of value!), then they are disproportionately high (in % terms) per share when dealing with joke-value stocks ... certainly spreads are a very different matter, and in top-stocks, that can be very low indeed - e.g. <2%

Agree that spreads are significant, of course they are, and are often a good indicator of coming movements. But there is no disproportion in the dealing costs. If I buy a grand of stock, it costs me 12.50 (or thereabouts). This is 1.25% of my stake, regardless of the stock concerned. It only becomes disproportionate when the amount invested changes. On 100 stuck in, its 12.5%, on 10 grand its 0.125%. The SP is irrelevant.

The results will be terrible as usual : the only hope is the possible promise of a big contract.

i'll stop the teasing - promise! ..... it's just that some people get absorbed with % .... admittedly with CFDs it is, or at least can be slightly different ..... e.g. i don't always stick by a -investment criteria and certainly if trading indices (dead scary at times!), the fee is about 10.00 x 2 per contract and the spread somewhere between 2 and 6 points depending on the time of day

The dust settles today, while people take profit combined with MM tree-shakes, until the next leg up to 2p with the big boys buying more millions of shares for the bidder.

TheMaster

Wait for the retrace, down. possibly .80p

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06 March 2008

Stanelco PLC ('the Company')

Notifiable Interest



A form TR-1 containing the following information has been received by the
Company.

TR-1 notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached:

Stanelco PLC

2. Reason for the notification

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

Barclays PLC

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):

Barclays Private Bank and Trust Ltd

Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd

Gerrard Investment Management Ltd

5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or
reached if different):

05 March 2008

6. Date on which issuer notified:

06 March 2008

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:

11% to 12%

















8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of Situation previous to Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares Triggering transaction
Notification required under DTR transitional provision 7
if possible
using ISIN CODE Number of Number of Number of Number of voting % of voting rights
Shares Voting Rights shares rights


Direct Indirect Direct Indirect


ISIN 351,681,726 351,681,726 366,707,756 0 366,707,756 0 12.18%

GB0005814198

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Resulting situation after the triggering transaction


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instrument Conversion Period/ rights that may be
Date acquired if the
instrument is
exercised/ converted




Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights


366,707,756 12.18%





9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Barclays Private Bank and Trust Ltd



Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd



Gerrard Investment Management Ltd

10. Name of the Proxy holder:

N/a

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

N/a

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

N/a

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N/a

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Geoff Smith

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7116 2913




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Will we get the opposite tomorrow ie 12% to 11%?

The MM's can't have many MILLIONS of shares left to flog on , given the volumes traded the last few days. It would'nt surprise me to see the sp fluctuate heavily as the sp is pushed to trigger stop losses etc. or am I being cynical/too simple.
I won't be selling at a loss and the vast majority of long term holders I believe (IMHO) have the same ethos re this share.....i.e. HOLYSHIT OR BUST.

:-)

The trades of 500k shares are about 4k -worth - hardly a big purchase, although "unfortunate" if you call it wrong.
Stock down abt 10% today......The spike is blunted!

Brokers getting ready to activate 'stops', but who goes first?????

alan, i can't believe you didn't cash in when you went blue !!! well done to anyone who has made some money out of this rise.

Bos,
I am a silly and sad man, but I think there must be something, somewhere making all this happen and after writing off this investment in its entirity, I am loathe to sell up, even at a profit, until I have milked whatever has caused the SP hike.
I must be certifiably insane.
Alan

Trades today 264m Plus Market 100m LSE

Traded in and out a few times today but only managed 310 profit. Back to the day job I think. Still in and holding out for 35 by Xmas :o)

alan .... i'll second that - lol! ....

with no RNS at all, it is smelling more and more like pure freak, where the sp has kept rising (until today!) as more and more sheep (not lemmings apparently!) jumped in (to take a bath?) purely because, "Surely there must be good reason" ..... history often shows that not to be so

Its good to have a breather before the next surge.

being a bit more serious, cynic, once the investment is written down on my portfoilio, I believe I am doing the right thing.
To sell now, and realise a loss de facto, rather than on paper, just one week before results, at the end(?) of incredible activity and massive price rises would seem to be the counsel of a fool.
To hold on, means that at worst I realise losses I have already accounted for, from both a monetary and psychological point of view or at best, that I am in before news breaks officially, or results show SEO to be a good investment. I see no downside here.
To sell up means at best to break even and at worse to beat myself up over missing out on something I was expecting. I see no upside to that.
It may seem twisted logic, but thats how it is.
What may smell a little is a lack of RNS tomorrow or Monday on company holdings. I still maintain that with the volumes thus far, we must have some declarations to come, and if they do not, then someone is hiding something. If they do come, we may be a little clearer on what is afoot.
Alan

hi alan .... thought you were actually running a profit, albeit a modest one ..... if there is an RNS, then i would not expect any more than the usual "reason unknown", which in all honesty may well be exactly that ...... could the initial surge and volume not be just a case of someone unwinding his long-held short? .... thereafter, perhaps as i mooted?

Back in the red at the mo.
The RNS to which I refer would be a notification of holdings, not a business one.
I can't see the short unwinding thing accounting for what amounts to (conservatively) a third of the issued stock changing hands in the last week or so. No doubt there are a few shorts closing, and these have artificially inflated the rise, just as they artificially inflate a fall, but it would have taken a massive short to spark it all. Not only a huge one, but a long term one otherwise the shorter would be hugely out of pocket. The SP has been fairly static for about 12 months, and if they were clever enough to have massively shorted over 1 year ago, perhaps we should listen to them when they close their position just prior to a set of results that everyone thinks will very poor.
Whichever way I dice or slice it, Either much buying has been going on, or much shorting has been closed. Take your pick, cos neither is exactly a sign of doom and gloom.

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