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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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Closed SMIN downbet (overnight chart said bottom, and bottom it did)

Sunday papers were full of news that Tesco, having trounced its supermarket rivals in terms of market share, was launching an attack on Boots. Sharply undercutting Boots prices on a range of popular products.

Boots had already been on my watchlist for shorting if it got anywhere near 720p. I assumed the price would open lower this morning, before I could go short on the damaging effect of this new price war. Fortunately the opening dip was briefly reversed by a spike the other way (as so often happens before 8:30am) taking it back up to 7, and I was able to get onboard after all. Not sure how much mileage there is in this. The company is due to issue a trading statement on Friday I think.

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Tribal had itself a little bounce - enough for me to trim my stake and stay watchful just in case it's for real. PDP doesn't seem to have learnt how to bounce, yet.

Forgot about this thread. Lately I am mostly shorting Alba (ABA):

And ALEA:

and now, I am mostly shorting

Colliers (COL)
O-Twelve Estates (OTE)
Silverjet (SIL)
Eco Animal Health (EAH)
Motivcom (MCM)


All spreadbettable at IG Index

But that was then. This week I am mainly shorting LSL Property Services (LSL) which is already down heavily but is surely destined to go lower still. Its fortunes are heavily dependent on house sales.

LSL still bouncing around that 100 mark. Still expecting more downside. Meanwhile I have increased my downbet on Equest Balkan (EBP) which continues on its downward flightpath

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(HMV)

Will HMV be rescued by some predator? If so its share price might jump skywards of course. But if no such fairy godmother emerges before the Xmas trading figures are published, a further dive is probably likelier.

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I cannot understand why OCDO is so high.....946 million plus.... based on a delivery service and a fleet of trucks...crazy valuation.....in that case...how do you value the John Lewis partnership ?....into tens of billions ?......

You got me RF, TSCO,SBRY,MKS have been like war zones all week and getting wellied, tis the silly season to be sure!

Hirco's agm was one of the scheduled items today. Turned out to include a stinker of a statement. Difficult to believe the price won't plunge a lot further yet. I remain short.

agm statement

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Yesterday's statement about CPP Group (CPP) being dumped by Barclaycard, included this - which suggests we can perhaps expect a profits warning when Results are published on March 2nd:

"...The FSA investigation into certain issues surrounding the sale of the Group's Card Protection and Identity Protection products in the UK, and the suspension of Identity Protection sales in the Group's UK voice channels, both of which were announced in March 2011, are continuing to have a material impact on the Group's ability to sell its full range of products in the UK. The duration and outcome of the FSA investigation continues to be uncertain..."

(The share price crashed 50% last March when the investigation began. The uncertainty, and risk of a very big fine, must surely have cost millions in lost business this year?)

What an awful chart.

Looks even worse after today :-O

I've been out all day and left a downbet in place. Got back home to find the 105p level it paused at gave way.