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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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BAD TO WORSE AT WH SMITH
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WH Smith warns of risk to dividend
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TOP JOBS TO GO IN WH SMITH CRISIS
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Hi Juzzle - read this thread with great interest as I've just placed my first spread bet - short of cash flow so altho it's not ideal to spread bet on a stock going UP, I thought it was better than not being involved in the rise at all so after a RHPS tip that I looked at, have bet on SKS (Shanks) going up.
Would be very interested in reading your contributions on this thread! and intend to look at WH Smiths
Regards
Anna

WOOF!



Tipped in the press after results but what do they know?



Where's the eps growth going to come from now?



Trading statement tomorrow.

Thanks Anna,Hilary. Got back late - will look at tomorrow. Capture of Saddam has lifted Asian markets 2% overnight already, and 1% elsewhere, so a lot of people with shorts and who are using automated stoplosses are going to find themselves stopped out. And others will be closing downbets in panic first thing. So even stocks that are destined to fall further may show an upkick on Monday when those 'buys' kick in. Tuesday is an expiry day for quarterly bets - when stocks that have been moving consistently one way may reverse as positions close. So the two days together may cause some confusing patterns. Followed by a few stocks going XD on Wednesday. An interesting start to the week!

Went short SMIN earlier this week (not just because Robbie Burns did!). Closed the PIN downbet when founders sold the company to a bigger US player (Russell). Falling price had already turned a little ahead of announcement.

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 ?......