Excellent Results - a nice surprise on the dividend - have added a few more, It looks as though recent aquisitions are taking effect!

dikytree.

and what about previous year.......err, most people buy shares and then have a life......they dont watch a screen all day.......virtualy everyone barring last few weeks then or 2 or so months has made a big loss on this one

as i said, this is a dog of a share, thankfully i dont have it

Most people makes losses then, don't they? ;-))

I look for the news most mornings and sold my holding in the SIPP at just over 134p for a very handsome profit (no it didn't show on the trades). I'll not divulge what I did next, but suffice to say there was more money to be made Friday. ;-)))))

You don't need to watch all day, but you do need to keep an eye on things otherwise you'll get screwed. Buy and hold is NOT the way to go. ;-)))

i dont know about averages between long term holds but when company goes up then the trend stays for long time usually.....look for good management which is hard thing in any walk of life.

friday was a good day for most i think as even i made a bit on my holdings.
buy and hold was fine until gordon got into power in 1997, oops tony. from 1984 to 1999 it was long bull run more or less apart from 1987

Buy and hold has never been the way to maximise profits, marni, since markets first began.

I think you might find the bull run did very well in the 2-3 years after Blair, BTW. ;-)))

yes i pointed that out up to 1999 i said......but that was cos it takes a coule of years to stuff up the economy for it to come through......now been in a bear market for last decade.........things wont improve till conservatives get into power but it will be 2 years after so markets wont improve lots till 2012 at least

Just dipped my toe hoping that this is the bottom...

Queen1

Be careful - there may be a rights issue. This was from the last announcement:

The board has also decided to examine the possibility of an equity issue alongside changes to its proposed revised debt facilities.

Thanks - but nothing ventured, nothing gained. I have a tight stop-loss.

ooh er

no need to brag

Broken downwards.

Bad day for FDL on huge volume. ;-0

ttt

In and out this week so far. ;-) Interesting moves after huge volume Thursday last week. Couldn't figure it out given Friday's late rise so jumped in early yesterday. It did little, but today was fun. Stop hit at 50p on the pullback.

Raising cash (too big to post the whole thing):

Firm placing and Open Offer details:

81m at 20p.

Also Annual Report


Dividend suspended.

sounds as though sp will dive even further if thats possible

It's always possible marni. ;-))

Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

JD rumoured to bid for Kitbag, other private equities interested too, great for Findel, alot of upside potential

broker target of 90p!