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.

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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Barclay stockbrokers and IG markets , they call them covered options

I used to deal in Traded Options years ago through Redmayne Bentley over the phone, but just wondered if it were possible to deal in them online. Many thanks aldwickk.
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odl probably still do it

I use Stocktrade since their [hone charge is the same as their online charge and I have made most of my money on small cap and AIM shares which are difficult to trade oinline. I also get CREST mambership which means that the shares are in my name. I get excellent service so I don't mean paying 14-50 minimum. I don't day trade so the service levels are more inportant to me.

Why are women so incapable? The wife started moaning that the vacuum cleaner that I (yes Me) had to buy months ago wasn't 'sucking' properly. I had invited her to get the instruction booklet out of the filing cabinet. Did she? No, of course not! Instead she went and borrowed another one and wanted me to see how much better that one was and threatened to go and spend over 300 on another one. It took me exactly 4 minutes and 10 seconds to get the instruction booklet out of the filing cabinet, find the bit where it said that if suction power decreased to wash the filter, remove the clogged filter and hand it to her to wash. Bingo! A properly working vacuum cleaner. You would think that a woman should be able to learn how the tools of her trade work wouldn't you? It's bad enough when she can't sort out the simplest thing in the computer. It's no wonder that the lads at Sky wondered if a woman could possibly understand the offside rule well enough to ref. a match!!

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Good a sexist comment of the type no longer heard around the office!!I must point it out to my wife who is doing a 5000 mile service on her range rover before popping off to run her little business.lol

Wife was holding a mouthful of tacks as she fixed the shed roof but she commented something that sounded like "luddy astard"

It would have been a lot simpler for her just to get the instruction booklet out of the filing cabinet and sort the problem out rather than going to the trouble of borrowing another machine. It is not as if it was difficult. Now, of course, she is in a bad mood as she knows that soon everyone will know about it! Apparently it is supposed to be all my fault since I didn't jump when she whistled "months ago" instead of suggesting that she looked at the instruction booklet.

What is it with women and vacuum cleaners? My wife seems to want a new one every six months. Last time she got one she then decided to vacuum the garage which was full of lots of heavy duty dirt. I told her a broom might be better but that was too much trouble. Of course didn't take long for the new vacuum to break as I had suspected. I was then expected to call up the manufacturer and complain and request a replacement while lying through me teeth. World war three when I refused and told her to do as she was the one that had broken it when I told her to use a broom.

As I suspected, the trail leads back to put the ball firmly in your court. If you had made the right investments to enable you to live the money is no object life style, you would invite the purveyors of the best machines to attend your stately pile and demonstrate to the domestic goddess thence allowing her to select whichever her heart desires. myself I would head to Argos post haste before you find your dinner in the dog!!
Would somebody out there come out with a guesstmate what is happening to Ortac otc??

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