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There are existing threads specific to betting short or long on indices.
On this one I plan to stick to individual UK stocks, and will post other examples of favourite fallers.
My downbets are sometimes just an hour or so, sometimes days, weeks, months. So bear in mind(!) that some of the charts shown may become irrelevant within days.
I mainly use IG Index, but also Spreadex

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juzzle - hope you were already short of CPP per your flag in mid feb .... if so, you must be feeling very cheery indeed

Yes thanks ;o)

will you continue to run it? ...... looks to be rather illiquid, so any squeeze could be quite painful

Not for the moment. I banked a substantial four-figure gain and don't want to push my luck by being greedy for more. I do think its prospects over the coming year or so are bad, so I certainly wouldn't be a buyer into any recovery.

Well done MT!

Further to posts 26 and 30, CPP Group (CPP) have this morning issued another profit warning:


"...We anticipate that trading will continue to be difficult in the UK which will undergo a period of significant adjustment as a result of the impact of the FSA investigation, and we continue to work to address, where possible, the concerns of Business Partners during this period of uncertainty. Renewal rates are expected to be adversely impacted by changes to renewal packs and publicity surrounding the Group. The call-to-confirm channel has now been closed in the UK and as a result there are currently no sales of Card Protection or Identity Protection in the UK through CPP channels. These factors combined will, as previously announced, adversely impact revenue and profit growth in 2012 and beyond until replaced by revenue from alternative channels..."

Face book is looking more and more like a good short

If you watched the programe the other night on Facebook it was interesting ,their valuation looks crazy ,it will be the founders and people in at the beginning who make the killing , DotCom bubble springs to mind.

A long time since I visited this thread!

My current downbets include:

DX Group (DX.)
ChinaTek (CTEK)
Saga (SAGA)

Juzzle this is a good thread ,i wish others would post here ,GF where are you it's a shorting thread !..

bit late but
QPP
ASC
Dow

Increased my downbet on Applied Graphene materials (AGM). I am a fan of graphene - and this company may well end up as one of the winners in this new field. But lots of companies all over the world are scrambling to grab a piece of the action, and I don't think we will know until next year if AGM has a profitable part to play.

NOTE: IG Index don't accept downbets online on this stock (they might by phone), but Spreadex do.

I'd forgotten about this thread Juzzle - does this mean that you are expecting a general sell off?

minute volumes

skinny -- I too had forgotten this thread!

I do most of my trading in the cooler darker days of the year, Nov-Dec-Jan-Feb, when I can justify being indoors instead of outdoors. So am currently revving up my market involvement, which includes upbets and downbets. I don't have a specific view of whether markets as a whole are heading up or down - but some of my downbets have been moving more briskly this past week or so.

I hope your glass fills quickly! :-)

Juzzle your down the road from me, ever had any socials down there, the nearest one to me is Freds Pie & Pint in Brum.

cynic (post 44) - during AGM's sharp decline over the past couple of months, the daily volume has averaged around 8000 (some days less than 1000, only 4 days higher than 20,000), so 15,000 in the first 2.5hrs today is pretty big volume for this stock.

Stan - I occasionally get together around a pub table with 2 or 3 other local investors or traders. Nothing bigger than that. I grew up in Bham and know it well, but left there 45 years ago.

which is exactly why part of my argument against trying to trade them
btw, easily done through CFDs at IG