What shares to buy & Why?

I get accused of ramping, tell me what your looking for, short termers ? medium termers ? long termers ? :)

Any and all will come with a big fat DYOR on it :)

Am looking for Short to Medium Term

Buy high sell low, hang on.............doh!

LOL Keaydian :)

Short to Medium term.......hmmmmm ok.

You'll see AST is waking up at the moment, drilling starts Sept, first newsflow from later October. They have production already, so lower risk, the plays are in Europe so lower risk. 6 to 8 drills commence in 2006, and higher risk/reward ones in 2007. A buy up to 20p I would say before first news in October.........risk with possible reward.

LEAD, presently offering a very nice entry price given they are putting in 40% growth. A buy now with an 18 month to 24 month view should be handsomely rewarded, in the short, mid and longer term.

There are 2 for now, but its all just my opinion, so do not buy or sell based on what I think, always do your own research !!!!!!!!!!!! I hold both.


DYOR..........if you like them then ask for more, if not I'll keep quiet :)

Thanks PapalPower

Buy SCS(split income) and hold until liquidation(30/11/07)

sp is 106p - net asset value about 117p + you will receive 4 dividends and a final share of the revenue reserve.

Easy money.

Right, think I've got it now, buy low and watch it go lower????? :O(


Where's my drawing board.

Thanks Guy

Keaydian, never mind watching it! I have an even better strategy - buy now, go away (preferably for as long as possible) and come back to discover with a shock that it has plummeted in your absence! (I managed this in just two weeks, having bought a unit trust right at the top of the tech boom, before going to South Africa for 11 days. When I got back, my investment was down 26%!)

You live and learn.

Come on guys let me know whats shares you hold & are worth buying

Angel, please refer to the threads to which I make regular contributions (including but not limited to NOP, BLR, VOG, SOLA, VLK, RDG, RIFT, HNR, AAU - in most of them I have at some point summed up why they might be worth investing in. I recommend that you don't rely on me to tell you when or what to buy as you'll then be wanting me to tell you when to sell, and I have been known to be wrong on both counts!

I also suggest that if you're determined to invest right away, then you should start with smaller amounts (1,000 is ample for many stocks at this stage), in about six or seven companies and play a wait-and-see game, as you then won't lose your shirt in case things go pear-shaped. Save the big bucks for when you have acquired a few battle-scars and can truly say you know what you're doing (as I pointed out earlier, for a slow learner like myself this only took about five years!).

Please by all means feed back any questions about individual stocks on the threads, as that will help to settle issues of when might be the right time to invest and why.

By the way, everyone seems to love GOO at the moment. I'm not in but you may consider it worthy of your attention. However, please, please, please do not invest your entire worldly wealth in this or any other stock as things can go wrong even with the "surest" of "sure things" (and there are no certainties in the oil game!). If you don't believe it's necessary to be cautious, a quick glance at the two-year charts for NOP, VOG and especially SEO might help you to understand, as in all those cases there will be people who bought at the top of the mighty peaks and sold at the bottom of the troughs or who are still holding on and self-medicating with Valium.

Investing is a world in which anything can and will go wrong and it is foolish to think otherwise.

Look at me - preaching again!

All IMO, no guarantees and PDYOR.

ERX.. dont miss out

PS - I should point out that most of the stocks I invest are quite rightly categorised as "high-risk". This happens to be the way I like it, but for the amount of money you may be thinking of investing, you'd be well advised to limit these to a small proportion of your overall investments. It's a sobering thought, but May's little market correction this year meant that many of the stocks I'm into dropped by around 30% - although I'm glad to say I took steps to limit my exposure.

You may as well pay on one of those 0907 numbers for todays racing tips and stick it all on those. The returns are likely to better than the tips for stocks you get on these boards a lot of the time.
Back to the racing post.

Just to illustrate, on one stock already mentioned on here, look at the professionals recommendations for SEO. They have tipped it as a buy, all the way down from 30p, and last week they tipped it as a sell, since when it has climbed.
No short cuts. DYOR. What is selling in the shops? Which shops? Which gadget is everyone talking about? What crazy piece of legislation is the government bringing forward next?
From that ask yourself; Who will benefit most from this? Then research like crazy.
Alan

Thanks soul traders,

I have 100000 which i want to invest in stocks & i already have 4 BTL properties also most of my money is in high interest saving accounts.
So i dont mind high risk shares

Al, strangely enough that just about sums up Peter Lynch's approach on "One up on Wall Street". Good advice, good book!

Having said that the pros get it wrong, I took the approach of giving a lot of my money to the pros on a discretionary basis, and kept a bit back for myself for the fun of self investing, in higher risk stuff that they would not touch. But even so, I have a fair bit of that in Bluechip and midcaps.
With an extra 100k I would do the same again. About 85k to redmayne Bentley or Brewin Dolphin on a discretionary basis and another 15k or so to play with.
Its worked for me.
Alan

Angel, you will mind high risk shares if you lose the lot. Although I take the point that you are clearly spreading your assets and have made some sensible investments. So why spoil it by getting carried away on the stock market?

When I was young(er) and dumb(er) I bought that Unit Trust I mentioned. Right at the top of the technology stock boom in 2000. I invested 7,000 as an ISA, convinced I was going to make my fortune as the market at the time seemed to have no chance of falling. Six months later I sold for a 54% loss. Had I hung on for another couple of years I'd have lost 85%. Obviously that wasn't really big money, but the mood I was in meant it could esaily have been a lot more.

If you're determined to play right away, then I'd say take ten grand, invest it no more than 1,000 at a time and watch it for a year or two. That way you can learn and have the fun factor of being in the market without putting serious amounts of your capital at risk.

Remember it is far more difficult to recover losses than it is to make them in the first place.

Maybe you've got so much money that 100K is a drop in the bucket, in which case good luck to you, but most people don't and with careful management the kind of sum you have could turn into a considerable fortune.

Good advice, Al.