Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Lovefilm.com

They sent me the DVD i chose the next day. it was Rocky 6 so not all that new, it had a small scratch on it and it stopped playing 3 times twice in one frame at a time for 30 seconds and stopped completely for 1 minute. But it did not spoil the viewing.

Next one is 2012 the film that is, not when they will post it..... lol

I see the HP crooks want their troughs back with improved menus.

Aldwickk, they always are very efficient at sending on films, I'll give them that. My DVD player just refuses to play the discs any further sometimes, you can't fast forward through the bad spots, it just completely stops.

while chatting to a friend of mine some years ago and hoping to glean some advice as a novice investor, i posed the question,how do you pick the companies that your company invests in.He replied,well you can search for every scrap of information, do all the sums and when you have all of this to hand you make an informed decision.Alternativly you can stick a pin in the shares section probably with much the same results. But whatever you do leave the AIM market well alone,you have more chance of making money from a short armed bookey with a kipper tie.How wise. How I wish I had listened.

Hi Beebusy,

It all depends on your investing strategy.
Years ago, I invested mainly in FTSE 100 companies. Such companies tend to be steady risers over the years, and of course there are the dividends.
Such investing is fairy low risk as long as you spread your money between several different companies and in differing sectors, ideal of course for those who either are adverse to higher risk or/and may want their money in the short or long term.

About 10 years ago, I started to get bored with watching the creep, creep of these companies, mainly upward with the occasional drag downward.

I wanted the excitement of the 'blue sky or bust' type companies that list on the AIM.

I had a simple strategy, to only invest what I could afford to loose and that I would spread my dealings over about 7 to 10 companies.

So say I was invested for example in 4 companies at 1000 each, 2 go to the wall, 1 becomes static but the 4th as sometimes happens in AIM companies becomes a quadruple bagger I would be up 2000.

In the earlies years of investing in this way, I did loose money, mainly due to lack of research, but over the last 4 years my research has become very in depth. I sometimes follow a company for many months, sometimes missing big risers in the share price but more likely not being caught by big drops.

Over the last 4 years my AIM investments are about 30% up, and that is mainly over the last 2 years. I also due to 3 of the companies in my portfolio being near monumental periods in their history expect to double my profit over the next 12 months. All 3 are generally thought to be in a 'must win, can't loose' position, although that is not how I look at them. I never fall in love with a company as I did in the past. I always think firstly, what can go wrong, and no matter how positive things look I never allow my excitement to take over and stretch me too far.
I am confident that my investing education is constantly improving and that my profits will increase at a faster rate than they have in the past. Of course with any investing things can go very wrong.

So for the steady, low risk, widows and orphans type investors, I fully agree that the AIM is a very bad idea, but if you want the thrill of sometimes picking a 'multi bagger' and can stand a big loss now and then, I would say you can't beat the AIM over the plodding, usually steady FTSE every time.

Bee,

AIM stock are dangerous and you would be better and safer trend following the FTSE 350.

More information available. More reliable analysis. Better able to tolerate a mistake or two.

Probably less "insider dealing" and spreads generally smaller.

Plot the chart of the 350 plus yield over a 2-3 year period and compare that to largest and smallest AIM shares.

Also the smaller companies are easier to ramp. If you follow these threads it will be apparent to you.

I am and have been led astray by "good ideas" with huge potential and have some shares certificates going brown in my bottom draw.

Get Jim Slater's books on investing. A bit repetitive but sound advise.

Just thinking back.

There may be a reasonable way to invest in AIM stock by checking holds of Adventure capital funds.

I have bought shares in a very small Plus market company called Shepa [SHE] just for a small punt , trouble is i can't buy online only by phone and at best , and worst of all the commission is 36 by phone and only 6.95 if i could buy them online.

http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=15648#lastread

Another hole in the ground!

Sell them shovels. There is more profit in them.

Ask him about his investment in SEO.

Or TAN for that matter

For Sale:

One very highly desirable 'Do-er Upper'

Hi Aldwickk,

Who is your broker. Even for plus, 36 seems a huge commission to pay.

My broker 'Jarvis Investment Management' charge the same for phone deals as they do for on line, or at least they used to. As I have not bought by phone for about 2 years and have never bought any Plus traded shares so cant be sure it they treat that market any differently re commission.
Jarvis do though, charge 17 per cheque/transfer if you want to withdraw any cash from your account, a very big amount, but as I 'very rarely' take cash out, overall their costs are fair. They deal at 9.50p per trade. I have been with them for at least 6 years and never had a problem.

It might be worth shopping around, although you may obviously already have done so.

OK, enough frivolity, on a serious note......Anyone distracted by the 'buxom' wench in the burger advert that appears in the bottom right corner of this site. I know which I would go for, the girl....... Stuff the burger (no rude comments please).
Also notice how a following advert is for spread betting and mentions 'Tight spreads'.
I will say no more.

Regards Greek.

About a week before Tunisia kicked off, we had looked at booking a 2 week holiday in the country for end March.
Having weighed up the pros/cons we decided that the weather was a bit too cool in March so decided to go back to Egypt where we have been many times.
When we saw the situation develop in Tunisia we though how lucky we were to have booked for Egypt, then.....well you know whats happening.
I wonder what Irans like!

We have always found the Egyptian people to be on the whole very moderate, not like many other Muslim countries. Of course fanatics get everywhere, and although we might have to cancel our holiday and re-book somewhere else it is obviously more important for both the Arab world and the world in general that the situation is stabilized quickly otherwise the danger is the extremists will take over.

If the Muslim Brotherhood get into power or increase their influence, it will be difficult to see what the western countries could do.

greekman

They [ Barclay's ] told me it was because it was a Plus market share , also said they were looking to change how they could deal in them more cheaply.

Is it possible to deal in 'Traded Options' online.
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Thanks FRED1, I thought that would be a good wheez, so I followed RAB capital even bought their shares.Hmmmm!! check out their graph for the last 2 years.Yep no doubt about it I have the kiss of death,now where did i put the details about premium bonds?? By the way I am buying ortac at the moment just to give you prior warning!!

George

Yes , but you will have to open a new account.

Bee,

Have a look at Goldfinger's chart threads, worth looking at, but treat suggestions with scepticism and check that the PEs and growth rates etc. support the charts and place stop losses at time of buying. (Not to close in this market, until showing a profit.)

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Not the best chart I have seen, but it does seem to show a period of consolidations with support at 11p. And if you believe in resistance lines may show signs of possible uptrend from this level.

Prelims results out 16/3/2011.

Your hope is that the results are better than appears expected and the keep their dividend yield to help the price. (I have varying estimations.) Like all projections, are more guesswork than reality,

I would think their problem has been period of entering the market.

My understanding of Fundamentals is fairly basic and poorly organised when judging this type of company probably guesswork.

I wouldnt have bought, but may follow it with view to.

T

Thanks aldwickk, who would that be with.
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