- Welcome to the unofficial dark side of the Bar -

GD's Night Club

- Refreshment for Naughty Goodsouls -

We serve filthy booze in the midnight hour It's a bit Gorgeous  

Come inside, be wild and free, drink yourself silly!

-Feel the spirit of the lost one inside your head?-

Through the locked door behold the secret cavern that holds the stored booze - anyone seen the damn key?

- The Booze Bar Wine & Beer list -

The Beer selection:- (hic)We are always fully stocked with the finest boozePoochies BoddingtonsHoltsMarston Pedigree - Better Brewed in WoodBank's dark mildStormC Guinness Visit Realbeer.comThe Wine selection:-Lilac wine (from the Cafe lilac tree)Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte 2000DP VIN '96 Mighty Micro specialityMumm Napa Blanc de Noirs Vintage 1996 Sterling Vinyards Three Palms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (purple velvet!!) Ridge Vineyard's Cabernet, from their ramshackle winery high in the hills above Palo Alto.Niebaum-Coppola's Diamond Zinfandel, goes well with the bread and cheese

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The Bunny food menu- we love Bun buns    | | GD's Club Photo Gallery   Ye Ol'Fish and Chips - cod, haddock and plaice available Mushy peas for those so inclined Ditto baked beans Followed by: Ye Ol'Apple pie and cream For those anti-fish either baked beans or mushy peas on toast can be whipped up for you ;>) Lastly NO requests for chip butties, let's try and be a bit healthy! (Service not included - so serve yourself!!)

Such innocence Soc's xxx

Eldest daughter's hair clogging up the mouse again. Do I shut down the computer to deal with it or risk accidental deleting something important by fiddling with the mouse with the computer on?

TIM
Questions and dilemas

Socs is very jovial today, and good morning to all. Just finished a bit of bricklaying before it started raining.

Jeff - no professional IT advice?!

Yes Jeff, have you no technical advice? Complicated stuff.. cleaning up a mouse.. ;o)

Jovial, that's me.

Mouse, switch off just to be sure if you are worried, but I've never had a problem. Long term answer, get yourself an optical mouse, no problems then.

I feel peckish, I think I'll scoff a tin of baked beans.

If I need a new mouse I get one from work, no need for cleaning.

Nice and tidy in here, not surprising as no one has been in after Socs, and I'm sure he is not a messy person, even though he likes sherry trifle baths, especially if someone else is at the other end of the bath :-)) Just have a cup of tea and a few minutes, see if anyone else is about.

just you me and the guiness eh opto

chocolat - Good to see you made it back safely. Great to meet up with you. :-)

Just popped in for a quick chill, before 20 odd people descend on us for dinner...
Well hello, Greystone - welcome to the mad caff... :)

can i come for dinner choccie

Great result to the share game, it was quite fun and I learned a lot. I'm grateful to my supportive team and am pleased that we agreed on a strategy that, given a couple of weeks more, might have put us up there with the leaders.

It's that time again... brekkie!!! Came in to put some music on, and realised I'm still online :) Jeffie - did you get lost?

Gawd, got to clear this lot up some time soon...

Morning all. Clitheroe was great. Haven't had time to read all the posts but just in for a quick coffee.

Fundy - did you get the house?

Opto - the one message "preached" at Clitheroe was USE STOP LOSSES AND ONLY EVER MOVE THEM UP, NOT DOWN! Guess what I am going to do this morning...

The North Westers gave us great hospitality, so thanks to all of them. Good to put faces to names.

Hope the kids had a great party choccie and that you are back home safely, amber.

Stockbunny, champagne in your orange juice this morning, you did us proud as captain of the Ladies Team or should I say ladies plus one male now that we have met maggiebunton. :-))

Good Morning jj. Thanks for info on stops, must pass this on to Bunny

jj, you still there? Back to stops, what guides were given as to where to set them please.

Opto - they were keeping the stops VERY tight. The only percentage mentioned was by Sputnik who said you should never have it greater than 1%/2% max of your total portfolio, but when I thought about it later, that could be a big drop depending on portfolio size! He also stressed using trailing stop losses but only going upwards, never moving down (which I do). I agree with you that I have found so many times it has triggered when I don't want it to and that is why I have become so casual. Then again, I am sitting on some pretty big losses, naively confident that they will come back up (or more likely be sold at end of tax year!). I have also had some go through stop losses on profit warnings and didn't know you can pay a bit extra and have "guaranteed" stop losses so they will compensate if it drops further. All of the speakers reiterated the same message, get out if it is dropping.

I have known for some time my own portfolio is too unwieldy and I think the experts are assuming fewer stocks over a short/medium term so it is easier in that scenario to get out quickly and reinvest. Course was very professional, I would recommend.

I should also have mentioned the focus totally was on using charts and recognising patterns and points of resistance/support, so you would set your stop at the turning point. This I do!

jj Thanks again. I have the same tendancy as you, to hold too many stocks, and I don't think we are alone here!
Two camps I believe I investing: Spread your investment in a lot of stocks or invest in just a few and monitor them more closely. I am tending to favour the second scenario, but it can take a while to consolidate to this position particularly when waiting for some to recover(LOL) but that is the way I intend to move in the future, decission taken only last week!
Now for a large pot of tea.