excellent advice.

WOuld mayflower be a good investment as it is dirt cheap and eventually will recover.

Also they will cut the divdend which will mean have a affect on share price

Any comments.

My risky investments.

British Energy
Cater Bernard
Telewest
Mayflower
Mytravel
Inter Alliance

You need to decide what type of trading you intend to do, because if it's the old fashioned type - where you buy a share (paying charges & stamp duty) and then sell at a later date - you need to have a different stratergy than if you are spreadbetting or using CFD's.

I don't know much about your choices - except Telewest. This is a share to short not go long! (i.e sell rather than buy!) Telewest will only survive if it joins up with NTL (another co in trouble). If this happens I would expect them to delist in the UK to become NASDAQ quoted, and any UK shareholder will lose all thier money. If Telewest does not merge with NTL it will go under and all their competitors will just help themselves for next to nothing. (Does anyone remember IONICA - they went bust and their competition took over thier customers & assets for either free, of next to nothing.)

cheers little woman very helpful.

Spreadbetting can you make good money or is it only little gainsa

There is no better way of learning about shares when you have your own money invested.

However my advice would be to keep your cash in the bank for now. Lot of volatility in the market at the moment. A lot of investors going for 'safer' shares.

When LSE stabilizes then go for it.

All IMO.

have a look at alltracel pharmaceuticals. web site www.alltracel.com. announcing final year results next week which should be excellent judging by their interim and quarterly announcements. their broker state that shares should rise to original list price of 68p in the medium term. also lots of new deals which looking very interesting. currently trading at around 30p. only my humble opinion but possibly worth a punt. stocks go up and down like wh***s knickers, who knows?

Why now ? Why not wait a couple of months so as to give yourself time to
gather more information?Meanwhile,you could have an imaginary portfolio.
rgds aj

Excellent advice AJ, but his performance may make him steer clear of market, and where would we make our gains if not from novices? IMH (but very greedy)O if you have 5000 to play with, perhaps you could just sign me a cheque payable to CASH!. Good hunting.

I'd put half on ZI Medical (ZIM) results due 5th April & half on CMS Webview (CWV) results due soon (April/May) (IMHO & DYOR)

Ok so am I being silly investing so much.

What are the fundamentals of trading and how do I become a day trader what do i look out for.

should i try spreadbetting

Do paper trading and think of it as "real Money".This way you will know whether your strategies are going right or not.
Aslo identify yourself as what type of trader u want to be.Day,week,mixture.Aslo the risk/money management has to be right.
Before u place a trade u should have worked out your max loss that u are willing to take etc.
Day trading "full time" -DONT GIVE up your JOB as its difficult.
s/betting recent article in sunday times said that approx. 90 odd % lost!!!!

rgds
zarif

thesaurus,

Watch, read, listen, ask questions, paper trade.
Check with Croc for any seminars in your area.

When you get it right paper trading, you'll find that
you have to learn it all again as you will then be fighting
your own psychological profile when you trade with real money.
This will be a totally different experience, believe me.

Melnibone.

what effects a share price.

Thesaurus:
In a nut shell: "if you dont learn the importance of Support and resistance than u dont know the markets at all"
markets are driven by sentiment etc etc.
Fear and greed are the biggest factors that play on emotions.
Cut your losses quick -the best way to survive.
Paper trading will help -BUT remember as soon as You put REAL money the RULES of the game change (as melnibone said)!!!.
IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN THAN YOU PLAN TO FAIL!!!

i hope this helps.
Get some knowledge -attend a few courses eg: crocs and attend any traders meetings in your area.

rgds
zarif

what are crocs?

Sorry Crocs the nick Name of David who does the traders thread and you can also go to his site at:
www.snappytrader.com
you will find a lot of info there including free educational material on tech analysis etc etc. The place is atraders goldmine.try it

rgds
zarif

will give that a go for sure.

thesaurus. You've a chance of ending up a millionaire, without risking your money, by buying premium bonds (you have to wait only a month before they go in the draw). That's your best bet.

If you want to take a chance on the market why not pay to go on one of Croc's day courses - you can ask all the questions you want, and get not only the answers, but also actually see him trading. It was the best 175 I ever spent.

As for buying shares you know little about, you've probably got, at best, a less than 50/50 chance of making any amount of money (after you've paid stamp duty and commission). Frankly to get experience of the market the advice to open a spreadbetting account is good - you can trade a dozen times a day or more; but for heaven's sake keep the bet low - 1 a point - until you're making a regular profit. But be warned - it looks easy but you will almost certainly lose steadily to begin with; to consistently win can take a VERY long time. Years!

One other point. You will probably get free day charts with spreadbetters (check before opening an account) but if you want historical info (like the week, or monthly charts) or Level 2 (the orders being lined up in any share), or up-to-date news on UK shares, or ex-dividend info etc, you will probably have to pay. I pay just under 80 a month to Moneyam for the facilities I use. And in my opinion you would need something like that.

Hope it helps. As Gausie says - if you NEED to make money short-term DON'T play the markets.

We were all wrong.See Fundamentalist wins at Cheltenham
rgds aj

I am tempted by british energy what do you guys think