Have you a Share with an interesting Trend or TA?
Looking around the various threads and especially Max up your Sip ISA and PEPs thread on Traders Room, I think it may be of interest to see what others have on their watch list or in their portfolios. Ie. Pondering over buying or selling.

Intimating reasons for buying or holding. I was thinking of addressing the thread to longer term trading ie anything over 3mins up to 5years.

If there is interest it may be reasonable to cut and paste some to the postings to a thread under the epic name for further follow up or discussion.

I will kick off with one of my failures, which I should have cut my losses on. But to a certain degree is still a free ride as I sold at the peak to buy again later. (If there is such a thing, and if there is why is it sometimes so bloody painful.)

Amstrad.







Bought originally because of :-

1) Promising rolling yield about 4.8%
2) Dividend cover of about 3
3) Increasing turnover 3years
4) Increasing eps over last 3years
5) I thought the results were good but played down by Sugar as is his way.
6) Interesting Nick knacks with suggestion for boxes of increasing turnover
7) SP Trend line form June /03 until Sept /05 good. Trend line at 103% per annum
8) There has been announcements of further deals for his boxes


But since then had a retracement to about 150 with a kick back up to 193 in February 05 followed by drop to 131 at 10/6/05. Since then there seems to me to be price break out on goodish volume on the 10th /6/05,

I think the trend is reversing but appreciate opinions. I still have reasonable tranche of these and intend holding until annual report 23/9/05

Against it is question whether it shows signs of further retracement, although the SP to-day was up.

Comments welcome on this share and others.

Apparently there will be some new to-morrow or within a few days.

http://www.bioprogress.com/html/news/news.html

B2B,


Like you I have a large holdings in RTD 25%, SEO 20%, and surprisingly BRW 14.6%, BPRG 6.8%, CSN 6.3% and VLK 5.8%, DNX,AZM and a few smaller holdings.

Got out of TPT sometime ago

The charts of the first RTD and SEO to me are less than impressive at the moment, but I think and hope will improve over next 2-6 weeks. I think my holdings of these are based on past record and I hope Fundamentals, we will see. ( I wish I had sold like some cleverer (Bs) a little while ago and then had courage to rebuy on their retracement, but I hope that I have time to live and learn.)

If you are interested in trends have a look at BRW and CSN, DNX, VLK the rate of growths are good and Fundamentals seem OK. But wouldnt buy CSN for a week or two, it seems to be retracing to previous support line. Not sure.

BPRG , AZM, I think have broken out and are in uptrend again.

If you havent got a software package for portfolio management, try a trial period of Sharescope Gold.

Down loads end of the day data, and I think its Fundamentals, Data mining and Charting features are extremely good. I only wish I had started using the Data mining feature 10years ago.

The datamining facility allows you to scan the market for fast growth in SPs over different time scales, pick the capitalization, yields, EPs PEGS etc. ectc.

You can automatically chart your choice superimposed other shares if you wish. The charting tools allow you to measure rate of change of the trends.

It has numerous indicators etc.

Sharescope is very powerful, reasonably priced and enables regular and easy monitoring of holdings.

If you are interested in Trend following and having a look at indicators try
Technical Analysis for Dummies by Barbara Rockefeller. One of the best books I have read on TA. I have read it 3-4 times and found it contains a lot of down to earth information.
Another book is Martin Prings Introduction to TA. ( + CD and book).

Give me a bell if you want more info, but I am off to France for 3weeks after Friday.

BUT DYOH.

By the way a trend was good up to yesterday and no guarantee to the future, as I know only to well. 8-(

Hi Fred

Forgot to mention SHI. Not going to make you a millionaire over night but very good steady growth over the long term. Sorry unable to add charts still learning.

Cheers

B2B

Had a quick look at SHI, trend over last 3mths is about 87% annually. VG. year trend about 62% VG. PEGs are dropping, Forecasted profits for this year are good, but growth suggested to be slowing. One problem I see, is or can't see what is going to happen in the building trade. I think it is going to slow, (every body will now jump on me.) If you hold it, run a 5% trailing stop loss and if it triggers it sell and take your profits. Interims 14/9/2005.
Could be wrong, my kids inform me I am often.

PS. If you want to paste a chart in MoneyAM, Go to charts, hit custom charts, enter epic, Mess about for a few moments until you have what you want. Hit "do you want to paste" copy code and paste code to post.


Have a good evening. It is a nice chart.

This looks like it is on a winning streak.

Fundamentals seem OK a number of recent deals appear to improved its future earnings. NMS 2OOO shares. SPread about .5% PEG about .75.

DYOH



Here is another interesting company which I have bought to-day. Solid looking Fundamentals, should do well but DYOH.