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Afternoon Scrip/Bak

no trading this afternoon for me - too shattered from the cricket and golf this am

Good day for England in the cricket (good profit for me) and Howell turned over Woods in the golf (tiny profit for me)

Hi Steve, Nice trading and I'm surprised you haven't got your afternoons mixed up with your mornings and evenings yet...LOL

Done my only trade on the footy earlier and netted a modest profit but will keep an eye out for whats available later

Bak

my body clock is well and truly knackered lol - well done on the footie - more wall tiling for me for the next few hours :-(

"Hi Scrip, It was great meeting you again on Fri."

It was great meeting you John and Steve again and Edward. Great to get together we should do it all more often. I'll see if I can get another visit in before the year is out.

Been out the last couple of days so not much trading.

Good to see everyone profitting but unusually not much to trade this evening. Not even any Spanish football.

fundy are you watching the test do you think england are worth laying at 1.3?

Morning Woodie

Yep - been up since the start. To be honest wouldnt even contemplate laying England. They look set for a big lead and Pakistan would need to bat 5 sessions on a deteriorating pitch to save the game and on the evidence they have displayed so far i would be very surprised if they have the discipline to do so. To be honest, cant see much trading left in the game apart from lumping on England and then collecting in a few days time.

Also,

dont think the price will go below 1.33 before Pakistan bat again - would expect the draw to remain the same till then and pakistans price to grow and grow

sorry fundy morning england having a few lucky escapes

Freddie out - awful shot

missed it went to feed the horses ,live in essex frost is hard this morning lets hope this is not a sign for the winter

Theyre saying its gonna be a cold winter in all the f/cast

Where are you in Essex - used to live on the Herts/Essex border

Flintoff tried to hit Akhtars loosener out of the park and holed out to deep midwicket

near chelmsford catch up with you later gone out now where do you used to live?

Used to be in Broxbourne, have relatives in Brentwood and chelmsford though - off to walk the dog in the lunch break

I see Persimmon made a bid for your old Co. Steve.

Hi john

As i think i mentioned friday, its been coming for a while. Whilst the price is relatively high, from what i understand Persimmon are really only buying the landbank and will strip out nearly all the overhead costs (and theres a lot to be stripped out!!!). Landbank is mixed but does have a couple of gems and has always been a good geographical fit for Persimmon

Its done wonders for PSN's share price today. I had them on my watchlist as a possible trade but missed the boat now I think.

Remember to keep an eye on REX. If it breaks and holds 530 it should fly.

Up till 2.45am this morning (I know - tautology!) glued to the tennis (Pierce v Mauresmo). What a fantastic opportunity to trade with virtually every point creating large movements in the prices. Though I'm not up to to the standard of skill of you guys out there (I just know I'm not) I managed to green up quite nicely on relatively modest stakes (still feeling my way).
I know of no other market with such wild fluctuations in such short time spans. Even opportunities to break serve meant a big change.
I'll be there again, I think!

Schiff

welcome and well done - sounds like you finished your trading just before i was getting up for the cricket!!!

Yes the tennis can create huge swings and almost always has very good liquidity - only bit of advice would be to steer clear of backing favs