I am thinking of investing around 7000.00 in BATM Advance. Is this a good punt. I know they have increased by 83% in the last few weeks, however I am thinking long term. Unfortunately the telecom sector seems to be very mixed.
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washlander,

I would suggest you need to consult an advisory broker, who could determine your total financial position before advising whether BATM, or any other stock may be a good investment.

Nobody on here, to my knowledge, is authorised to give investment advice.

My only other comment would be to be careful putting all your eggs in one basket, as I found out to my cost at the end of last year!

Never put all your eggs in one basket. No such thing as a get quick rich share

Thanks for the advice. It was just that I think I have done my homework and long term this company appears to have a future. I just wanted confirmation that this company is as solid as it appears with a good future. I appreciate the advice. Thanks again

Warren Buffett would say that it's OK to put all your eggs in one basket provided you then watch that basket like a hawk.

Good advice. If only I could stay glued to this PC. Unfortunately I have to go out to work.

Perhaps if your dealing account has a "stop loss" or "limit" facility - it'll reduce the risk of losing too much if it drops, or managing to "catch" the profit if it goes up - without being glued to the PC.

I must admit I use the facilities a lot, but I try to limit amount I spend on any one share so spread the risk. In the evening I check if any of the deals have gone through, and if they have, I then set up others, usually over a 30 day period. It has been pretty succesful so far, and I've been extremely pleased with the results!

Yes I have just started to get my head around this and I can see how this can really be useful. Thanks

Help.

I have been using Sharescope more or less since Infotrade ceased to be.

Using it to down load end of the day prices and news, also for trying to organise PEPS, ISAs and Recently SIPPs.

Also perusing the graphs and details of the companies I am invested with. In general I find it very good.


Recently started flirting with Data Mining Feature filtering on various criteria to find shares which may be useful at some time in the future.

The information contained is again VGood.


My problem is that I am beginning to use more and more PEs,ROCE, ROC, PEG, etc. as a method of evaluating companies, but the program at the moment does not provide "norms" or "averages" for the values for the different Sectors.

Does anybody know of an Internet Site from where I could extract this type of information from. Or have other Ideas which are not to laborious!!! ie FT and keying it in.

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For information I have been informed that Barclays is preparing its internet software so that one will be able to place STOP LOSSES on holdings in the near future.

Saves me moving all my stock to Comdirect. (I prefer to have 2 brokers than 1)