A fair few stocks are starting to edge up again - maybe the start of a recovery or maybe they'll be squashed flat when the dead cat bounces on them.

Post any charts here.

Qualifiers are - recent uptrend (at least one significant higher high and one significant higher low) current price above a rising 50 day MA.

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Green Shoots
Maybes
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ps if you cant remember how to post a chart, cut and paste the following, replacing the epic.

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it's very interesting to go back to the graphs in the header.......do look. There are some utterly different perspectives. Particularly SL. (previous failure), CLLN, MTO, BT.A and BTG.

mmm...

Armageddon next week then eh splat?

30th October since the last post! Our green shoots have got a bit lost under the snow.

Maybe a bit OT, or maybe a bit relevant. Anyway it's a quiet weekend for messages other than the gurus trying to reactive another guru's loudspeakers on the PC thread.

It is a long time since anyone tried to sell us anything by phone - other than those tiresome recordings that we have won a holiday in the Carribean. But two calls in two days.

At around 5.00 pm on Friday we had a call from the owner of a hotel in Switzerland where we stayed in March 2008. We'd had a great time but had not been back since. He was phoning to see how we were and to say that he hoped he might see us again this year.

Yes, we get quite a few emails from hotels we have stayed at over the last few years - but a phone call? Never before and it certainly tempts us to go back.

And on Saturday my wife got a call from Selfidges where she occasionally buys a particular brand of skin product. The call was to tell her that some new products were coming in shortly and to offer her a free one hour makeover. Gosh. I cannot remember how long it was since I had a call from a shop to tell me they were getting some stock of something I buy albeit infrequently.

Is 2010 heralding an age of enterprise and salesmanship that went out of fashion in the years before our credit crunched?

How nice if it was.

TP

TP. You did pay your hotel bill?

Cup and handle formed on CZA above.

Good to see this thread back in use. Westminster Group WSG worth a look imo, just starting to break out from a low base. Since the last broker forecast in October they have released three very positive RNS statements inluding todays.

I think the recent rise in IPR is because of takeover talk.

Yes - its been muted since November. I was long @280 and out this morniong @343 although I do have a few in an ISA - now just watching.

SVT going well :-)

I find BAY's performance somewhat amazing, personally. Although it does seem to be meeting the thread's criteria.

Or is it just getting towards the top of its range? Sheesh! It's surely not going to pop up and out of it.....???

I guess lifted by the news that there will be no strikes over easter?

According to a number of investment companies (also Shares Mag) we should all be changing our investing strategy now.
Should be moving OUT of early cyclicals: Autos + Parts, Consumer goods, Retail, Leisure goods, Life Insurance, Media, Travel.
Should be moving IN to: Aerospace & defense, Real Estate, Industrial Transport, Software & computer services, Chemicals, Construction services, & Oil equipment services.

Sir John Major: 'green shoots' of economic recovery are on the way as 'darkest moment' passed

The former prime minister said it would be unwise for a serving minister to tempt fate by announcing the end of the downturn, but that various signs, including the recent fall in unemployment and a rising stock exchange, suggested that the worst was over.

He defended George Osborne, the Chancellor, who he admitted was unpopular with voters, saying this was not surprising given the tough measures which the Government had been forced to take after the last, Labour government left the no money to spare.

During Sir John's premiership, Lord Lamont, who was then the chancellor of the exchequer, was ridiculed when he foresaw the "green shoots of recover" at a time when most of the country was still hurting from the recession which followed Britain's withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 20 years ago today.

Sir John told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: "Since I'm no longer in politics, I can say something that perhaps as a politician I wouldn't.

"Norman Lamont was taken to pieces by commentators for suggesting there were green shoots, but in retrospect, we can see that Norman was right. Recovery begins from the darkest moment.