Any punters living in Birmingham Area interested in a Pie, Pint and jaw, one evening in a pub in Birmingham area.
Personally interested in small time investing(gambling), developing an appetite for CFDs. Also developing an interest in Charting or TA.

I use Sharescope, Moneyam, Barclays, Comdirect and IC

Needs a socket.

True, roll on solar powered computers becoming financially viable (about 5 years ) according to this weeks Working Lunch who are featuring all things sensible power generation from America.

Stan, put the following note on Sharescope BB:-

Another attempt, to get a group of people of various backgrounds together who are interested in trading and investing.
At the moment for the next meeting there will be three of us.
Therefore any new faces will be welcome.
We are not quite novices but are still in the learning phases.


Topics, which we could possibly consider:-


1) How long will the Bull continue to run
2) Stop losses , based on range support lines, percentages or luck
3) which would be the best defensive stocks
4) are CFDs or share bets of value in changing trends
5) Any room for high yield stocks in a portfolio
6) Any room for gilts and bonds
7) Any stockbrokers grumbles?


Next meeting the 13th June at 4pm.

The Old Joint Stock (Pub)
(Temple Row opposite the Birmingham Cathedrals entrance.)

Looks good to me Fred, but will it move the locals? Only time will tell.

"1) How long will the Bull continue to run"....

by next week then perhaps that might be:
1) Has the bear market started?

Let's see if B'ham has more than 3 PI's next week...!

"2) Stop losses , based on range support lines, percentages or luck"

"To Stop or Not to Stop" article in this weeks Shares Mag coincidently (haven't read It yet myself) for interest.

Survive, by next week I may not have enough to buy a pint of beer or the bullets for suicide.

Stan, will read it, but I have cashed in a large portion of holdings for a while.

"Survive, by next week I may not have enough to buy a pint of beer or the bullets for suicide."

Stan, will read it, but I have cashed in a large portion of holdings for a while.

1. Same old excuse eh Fred -):

2. Very wise In my view.

Survivor, to recognise us, Steve is the one wearing a skirt and I will have a long hiking stick and carry a computer.

Who ever gets there first, tell the barman and he will probably direct you or us in the right direction!

OK.Thanks. Noted. (Is that a skirt or kilt?)

"(Is that a skirt or kilt?)"

Neither If I've got anything to do with It -):

....Could be wellies though having looked at the weather forecast!

Looks like I will have to wear the skirt again.

.....If you do you'll be sitting on your own -):

well, if it's 'skirts', then it'll have to be Hurst Street....

i might go to Waterstones and / or Maplins first. Therefore might have relevant plastic bag with me ....

We will be seated at the back on the right as you come in, it's where the socket is for Fred's computer. I will probably be in a blue shirt.

See you later.

Hope all got home safely.

For me it was an interesting evening, (But I am easy to please.)

It was interesting to hear what is on others screens and also how they arrived there.

It is a pity that the pub was a bit "noisy"

Might be reasonable to me earlier next time.


Good luck in tomorrow's market.

Yes, a most enjoyable evening and nice to get a fresh view.

Noisy and got Smokey (which of course won't be a problem next time) later on.

An earlier start should be quieter which I would be agreeable to.

Dow finished up 187pts I see tonight, will we follow tomorrow?

Hi.... nice to meet you both and discuss various (financial & non-financial) matters. The smokey smell on my clothes was commented on as soon as I stepped thru the front door ....

Look forward to meeting up again in the future. Happy with an earlier start as well.
Best Regards.....

Something which might be of interest to you Brumagem folk. Lifted from elsewhere.


FT, 30 March 2007

BIRMINGHAM STOCK EXCHANGE REBORN

The long-defunct Birmingham Stock Exchange is set to be reborn this summer as an online trading facility in the shares of West Midlands companies that are too small to list in London.


The new exchange, Investbx, "will be more like Ebay than the London Stock Exchange", according to its sponsor Advantage West Midlands, a regional development agency.

The aim of Investbx is to provide share capital in slugs of between 500,000 and 5m, a funding category in which the Treasury has identified an "equity gap".

Below 500,000, entrepreneurs typically raise money from friends, family or "business angels", a sparse population of wealthy individuals who provide advice as well as cash. Funding above 500,000 has become hard to come by in recent years as institutions have progressively raised their minimum investment thresholds.

Businesses likely to seek a listing would include small software or engineering companies seeking capital to develop promising new products. But the biggest challenge for Investbx will be attracting investors rather than cash-hungry companies.

The exchange, which will be run on contract by The Share Centre, a registered stockbroker, needs to persuade a class of local magnates who invested in small, locally quoted companies years ago to do so again.

Advantage West Midlands, which will provide 3m towards the running costs of the new exchange, described the venture as "high risk", adding that "if the risks were lower the private sector would be doing this".

Investbx will "appeal to people with local knowledge, who, for example, pass businesses they would like to invest in on the way to work", said Mick Laverty, deputy chief executive of AWM.

He said modern internet facilities such as video clips meant Investbx "could showcase entrepreneurs and their products in a way a traditional regional stock exchange could never have done".

The new exchange is the brainchild of an AWM finance group led by the technology entrepreneur and government adviser Norman Price. It will be run by an independent board whose members include David Thompson, chairman of Marston's, the pubs and brewing company, and Paul Bassi, a Midlands property multi-millionaire.

AWM hopes Investbx will generate revenue through listing fees paid by companies quoted on its website, and that it will eventually be able to sell the venture.

One possible function of mini-exchanges sponsored by development agencies such as Investbx would be to foster trading in the shares of small businesses benefiting from public sector equity investment.

The government has created a raft of investment funds that use taxpayers' money to buy stakes in worthy businesses, usually in partnership with private sector investors. For example, venture capital funds targeted at regional investment backed by the government are worth over 250m.

Critics doubt there is really a market failure in the provision of small-scale equity investment in the UK. Some managers of so-called "public equity" funds say privately that instead there is a shortage of investment-ready small businesses with strong growth prospects.



See also this item dated last week, in which ShareMark appears to involve itself in Brum-X (scroll to foot):
http://www.onrec.com/newsstories/16990.asp


jzl (ex brummie)