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.

Greek,

They are melting at the moment.

bbusy,good point,outside of an ISA i try to trade up to the max nyself and let the rest run.By the wayif you notify th TMan, your losses are carried forward.

Windy here in yorkshire, very windy.

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Seaquake.....Tsunami...in Japan....no need for words...pictures say it all....

I suppose I first started about six or seven years ago. I followed the investments of RAB capital, which at the time was very very successful. To be fair I watched one 80 pence share climb to the giddy heights of 9 which I was desperate to sell but on advice held. The population rioted and the company shares plummeted, I got out, the company had a name change and has since had a rise but without me. Rab, is resorting to buying back their own shares after a crash worthy of Icarus.Oxs has a bad attack of underhand attempts to aquire the business. The list goes on. I decided that Banks were very cheap, and after all logic says that high street names that were trading at 8-9 and now could be snapped up at 1 ish was a good buy ?? Result Lloyds now 60p. So my friend I now play the waiting game. Topping up on shares I still have confidence in when they look cheap. I dont invest anymore than I can afford to lose although winning would be very nice!! And as you say if all these people out there are making such grand gains there must be an equal amount of loosers, here is one wheres the rest?? The biggest winner on my side is TD Waterhouse !!! With all my pointless buying and selling they sit back putting my pennies into their well filled purse. Dont even ask about my venture into the Canadian Mining sector !!! Regards a not so Busybee.

BB,

When you are in "good" profit, why not put a trailing stop loss. (5-10%) and accept it. Sometimes you dam the stop loss and other times you will be very content with your profit.

At least you have a profit and you can reinvest in the same share at a small cost

I wish I had stuck to the above many times and resisted lowering the B . Stop loss.

Also, spread you money around a larger bundle of shares.

anybody watching this speculation about HTT??

Some spectacular pictures from Japan - here.

Poor souls, we should count our blessings.

#Cooling systems inside several reactors at the plants stopped working after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply.
0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says
Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant.

And our government says nuclear power is safe , these plants in Japan were fairly new yet the safety cooling system lost power and the back up diesel generators also didn't work. These were designed to be safe in a earth quake zone .

It makes you wonder how often they ran fail safe emergency drills.

The earthquake appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).

Beebusy

I read somewhere that most investors (or traders) navigate through certain stages:

Initially lose money, then lose less money, then break even and eventually make profits.

I suppose depending on the individual, time between each stage is variable and some will never get past just losing money or make the next step.

Obviously the trick is to chose the right stocks to invest in, in the first place, but many having succeeded there, fail to bank profits. Probably more importantly, fail to take losses (no one gets it right all the time).

Does that mean I have planted my beans in the wrong place.

Bit early to plant beans , if you mean runners

Seems like as per usual I have it back to front, First I made a little, then lost a ;ittle, then lost a lot more!!!Mmmmm!! Coffee beans, good commodity to be in !!

Palm oil take a look at my PAL thread

Thought for today

If only it had happened to Japan during the 2nd World War

Aldwick,

I do take your point, but I seriously don't think it's the type of comment that is for this time and situation.

Sorry that is your thought for the day. Mine is, thank god that my family has never had to face such horrors.