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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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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

Yes Juzzle we do the same in Brum, seems to be little interest in just about anything in Shropshire sadly though.

There seems no end to Ferrexpo's woes at present..

AO World (AO.). Climbing from its October low, the share price yesterday closed at 285p. That's the levelit floated at in February. I think it might drop back and have opened a downbet. If it closes at 285p again within days, and then closes below 279p, I might view thatb as a double-top and increase my downbet. If instead it pulls clear above 285p (and especially if it tests 285p as a floor) my bet will get closed in phases.

I still have downbets on Premier Foods (PFD), Saga (SAGA) and Igas (IGAS)

Parkmead Group (PMG). This is one where Spreadex offer better terms than IG. It's a tricky stock to short - it can jump up 30p at times.

QPP must also surely be for the knacker's yard though the main "fun" has now gone