Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100236749/conservatives-and-labour-neck-and-neck-in-latest-opinion-poll/

Today's YouGov opinion poll for the Sun has the Tories level pegging with Labour, the first time that's happened in a YouGov poll since March 2012. The topline figures are CON 36, LAB 36, UKIP 12 and LD 10. That means Ed Miliband has frittered away a 14-pt lead in the past year, quite an achievement for an Opposition leader at this point in the political cycle.

This is the latest in a slew of bad polls for Miliband. Last week, Ipsos MORI revealed that half of Labour's supporters are unhappy with his leadership, while a YouGov poll in yesterday's Sun disclosed that a majority of Britons now support the cuts for the first time in three years.

Hard to imagine worse news for Miliband on the eve of Labour's annual party conference. By now, it must have dawned on even the most die-hard Labour loyalists that their leader is a dud. I still think he's odds on to lead the party into the 2015 general election, but those odds are narrowing by the

Venice is voting to separate from Rome. Who was (is) behind it?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/17/venice-votes-in-referendum-on-splitting-from-italy/

I think Europe should either hurry to invest in or help mainland Ukraine and match Russian's investment in Crimea OR face problems during election in 60 days (A pro-Russians may win the election)!!.

Ukrainians don't know English enough to follow the US media.

i don't think the eu should interfere in the politics at all

if ukraine chooses to join eu, then i guess it's fine to offer the country all sorts of incentives to help it get its economy on its feet .....

it's been bankrupt for many many years, primarily due to the hangover of russian communist hegemony in the region, meaning no one had any incentive to be efficient and work hard; there was no benefit or incentive (similar result if a gov't imposes too heavy a tax regime)

the election will no doubt be a very close run thing, not least because of the heavy russian-speaking preponderance in the east, though i dare say that does not necessarily mean that they will want to lose their ukrainian identity ..... crimea was slightly different in that it was an add-on in 1954, though i do not know why that came about

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Just been reading MoneyAM's CFD Centre trading info , how stupid i was looking for more info and it was on the screen in front of me.

jimmy b, thanks for posting Rocky's solution for getting rid of the annoying unwanted video, peace reigns once again. Thanks to Rocky also.
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The election should be pro western. In previous elections the vote was more pro Russian because of Crimea. Without it a huge number of pro Russian voters will be gone.

jimmy b many thanks - Rocky's solution has worked for me also. Great, peace and quiet also computer back to normal standard.

I also had problems typing here yesterday 3 monkies, several letters omitted and the cursor was very slow to react, so far today no problems, touch wood.
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Is this malaysian plane disappearance a cover-up ?......shuttle collision...and then debris to be found elsewhere ?...

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No. Now tell us about 9/11 , did George Bush plan it so that he could invade Afganistan and Iraq

RF,

Try mucked up hijack.


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Someone at moneyAM is going to get a bollicking tomorrow

Right alders my attempt at illustrating the 2*2 trading system the big boys use.

Firstly got to pick a stock......go for CEY...... our kid who doesnt know much about stocks is trying to learn. (hard work)and he rekons its a legal win in the courts (i have doubts)

Right for illustrative purposes say we have a £100,000 pound portfolio cash plus holdings.

The chart as end of close friday is this.............



Right the maths equation is this ..................T=PR/(E-X) where T is the size of the trade, P is the portfolio size (cash plus holdings), R is 2%, E is the entry price and X is the pre-determined stop-loss exit price.

SO if by definition we want to limit loses to 2% of our portfolio we know we want to limit loses to £2,000 quid.

The chart show us we have mid term support at 50p




So to limit our losses to £2,000 quid we know present price of stock is 52p therfore 2,000.00 divided by 52.00 = 3846 shares we buy. Our target price is 150p per share minimum. (here we talking about £1 point per share on a spreadbet if it were £10 point per share you divide 3846 by 10 etc etc.) Your target price and stop loss would obviously move in proportion to the size of your bet.

If for example you were betting £200 per point youd have a stop loss 10 points lower than present SP at 42p and your target SP would be 72p. Always remember to start off by finding your pre-determined stop loss. In my above example ive used
market conditions as presented on the chart. For example you wouldnt normaly let the SP go much under that support at 50p and youd just be losing your money.


So basicaly we have here the foundation of the system here as I have posted it.

Heres long term chart of CEY..........





What you have to remember if things go wrong in the market eg, looks like we have a big turn down ready to happen close and take profit quickly. Use ones own discretion.

Note I dont use 2% of my folio i use 0.75% which makes the SP movement more volatile but suits my EDGE.

As I pointed out friday I use also another SET UP for getting in on a stock for entry purposes.

What you also have to remember is that investors traders have different ways of going in for a stock rather than using support some people just have a money figure in mind as to how much they are going to lose.


Any question alders just ask. I think ive got a heavy week ahead with my aunt in hospital etc. etc.

Where are the 'working class' MPs on Labour's front bench?

The Labour backbencher John Mann told the newspaper that Ed Miliband needed to "speak the language of voters in Bassetlaw, not academics in Hampstead".

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/23/post-budget-poll-boost-tories-george-osborne

Update - Labour lead at 1
by YouGov in Politics
Sun March 23, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / Sunday Times results 21st March - Con 36%, Lab 37%, LD 9%, UKIP 11%;

Election expert John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, said last night that if the poll findings were repeated in a General Election tomorrow, it would be ‘too close to call’ as to whether Labour would be able to form a majority Government.

Nice chart!

Lazy british workers who wont get off their arses and find work...Eh Vince?



Thousands of job-seekers queued for THREE HOURS to land one of just 40 jobs at supermarket giants Aldi

A line of hopefuls snaked around the store in Bridgnorth, Shropshire

One teenager said he saw the queue and his 'heart sank'

Another said: 'It looked more like auditions for X-Factor, not a job for Aldi'

By Lucy Osborne

PUBLISHED: 15:33, 23 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:14, 23 March 2014


Thousands of job seekers queued for more than three hours in a desperate attempt to nab one of just 40 positions at supermarket giants Aldi.

The job hopefuls began queuing at 10am, despite the interviews not starting until 1pm, forcing staff to start 20 minutes early on Friday.

At least 1,500 candidates queued around the block for just 40 positions now available at Aldi stores across the Midlands.





Each candidate was given a mini-interview with management teams from branches of the supermarket before handing in their CV and contact details.

A teenager, who did not want to be named and joined the winding queue at noon at the Bridgnorth store in Shropshire said: ‘I knew it started at 1pm so I wanted to get here early, but I didn’t expect there to be that many people.





More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587293/Thousands-job-seekers-queued-THREE-HOURS-land-one-just-40-jobs-supermarket-giants-Aldi.html

no point at all in hays (or anyone else) getting excited about a single poll result ..... it gets interesting only if a similar trend against labour is repeated for several weeks