anything under 7 cheap cheap cheap. good div. just paid. chart looks sick

Cynic I understand what you are sayingyou are one of the more interesting posters that I enjoy readingCannes is beautiful by nightit is romanticcolourfulwith a real good feel factor.that whole coastline is a picture postcard from Port Grimaud to Mentonnotice I just avoided St.Tropez.Provence is like judging a fine wine with a cognacboth equally fantastic but of different valuesBormes-les-Mimosas is truly picturesque mountain village that blew us awaycascading bougainvillea and a beauty only seen by the very lucky.
Your comment on Nice I can understandespecially now the new Trams are in operation up that long main Ave. Jean MedecinThere was once a lovely M&S that was always busybusmans holiday for usI just think it is too mucha proper working Citynevertheless we always go a few times every year and I end up with red rings round the fingersgreat underground parking top end of Promenade des Anglais and turn left at MacDonalds [Gausie] middle lane and straight under.
What is your take on Gausies and Haystastack no shops on the Boulevard De La Croisette. Comment.have they ever been there or what? Dolce&Gabbana
Louis VuittonDiorChanelGucci.Christian Lacroix.to name but a fewthe wife has told me there is a Zarabig deal and I know there are plenty of shoe shoes in the Rue d'Antibesbut WTF!

i spent half a day in Cannes a couple of summers back when we could not get the villa we wanted in Maussane (we found an alternative in a village whose name i forget near Mougins .... half a day in Cannes was quite long enough, and i felt the place was more like Blackpool or Bournemouth than a supposed centre of chic ...... but really you cannot lump the rest of the coast to the east with Cannes, other than that hideous place Monaco, which i think is the epitome of grossness, making Cannes look positively tasteful and charming.

Sold mine.

dil

keeping mine for the time being.

Gausie.have you been to Cannes?.I doubt itany comments on your La Croisette embarrassing statement?.
M&S took more money on 20% day in just the morning than they normally do in a week in some storeswise decision Gausieif you do opposite to Dil rule of thumbyou will make money!

no one ever went broke taking a profit .... personally, i would not be at all surprised to see FTSE falling away once "dear heat" has made his announcement .... 2.5% cut in VAT will make FA difference to spending .... only support is likely to come from CITI being massively bailed out

The reason I sold tabby is I won't be able to watch them much this week ... busy busy .

GausieI thought the aim was to buy lower than you sell.
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Gausie - 19 Nov 2008 16:35 - 144 of 248
Reduced @ 200p for a small loss.
Gausie - 24 Nov 2008 11:10 - 246 of 248
dil

keeping mine for the time being.
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Still you are a good tax payer..

Gausie..here is a plan.buy six figures worth stick them in your favourite hiding placeforget about them.take a look in five yearsand buy the wife an Aston.either Villa or Martin

Gausie - 22 Nov 2008 09:09 - 236 of 248
Tabby - there's no fashion shops on la croisette, or 'Cannes front' as you so eloquently put it. Only hotels, street cafes, restaraunts and apartment entrances. At the far eastern end there's also a few chandlers and supplies shops.

Still waiting? By the way you spelling of restaurants is incorrect.dont bother me I do it all the timebut you tend to pick me up!

Do the maths tabby ... he got to be well in profit at current level ... bookie my butt you can't count.

Hes a good tax payer like you Dil.but you both tend to use that word, smallits always a small profit or small lose.I am exactly the same with my day tradescan never make muchbrake level over a long period.my long term investments are a hugely different story.

Still waiting Gausie.

Tabby

I'm not here to educate you - though heavens knows you need it. In spades. If you want to come on a course then let me know and I'll try to fit you in next time I run one. ;-)

The aim is to get out with either small losses or large profits. That's what proper traders do. Your strategy for both MDX and MKS (being, so far as I'm aware, your only declared positions), seems to demonstrate you're aiming to do things the other way around. You hold on for grim death, happy to risk a 100% loss for maybe a 10% gain in many years time.

I'm not knocking buy and hold as a strategy. If done properly it works well - but only when you hold the ones that are going up and dump the likes of MDX and similar crap. You, I'm afraid, don't have a clue how to buy and hold sensibly.

You well know that you should have let your MDX go well before 35p. And deep inside, on MDX, you know you've done your dough. Maybe in many years you might get some of your money back - but the wiser players such as Dil and Al are laughing at you and are possibly even thinking of buying in to MDX around the 5p - 10p levels. On the risk/reward calculation they run the same risk as you of losing the lot - but simple maths shows that they have a far far better chance of doubling or trebling their money than you have of even retrieving yours.

You make a lot of noise, Tabby, and you're and excellent example to any novice players who might be looking in of how not to do it. You sir are the Mr Bean of the investing world.

G

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on Mr Bean.

Gausie.have you been to Cannes?.I doubt itany comments on your La Croisette embarrassing statement?.still no answer!

Gausie it is a barefaced liehow can anyone reading your comments on here believe anything you write!
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Gausiebouncy has to supplement his incomeand he done his bollocks on Banksgive that bit of advice the swerve Im afraidDil is Mr. Safeshrewd enoughI get on with him but another swerve
You come out with almost as silly a statement as La Croisette with telling me I should have sold at 35pof course hindsight is easy but I in fact hedged several of my holdings with a position on the ftse 5500 down to 4550.and posted well before the eventI much more than coveredand I am sure you know my break even figure has been greatly reduced on mdx
Traders are like politicians.fu*king liarsand fu*king cheats.and that is why there are so many on the doleand going up by the day!
I have no bad feeling towards you its all a wind up I just think some of the things you write dont stack up!

I just think some of the things you write dont stack up!

You don't think - you just post.

You suggested I was foolish to exit MKS at 234. You had great confidence in your 240 position (less staff discounts)

I bought back at various prices averaging just under 204 - you suggested I was foolish to reduce @200.

I now have a bigger position than the one I closed at 234, although I'm now in at 204, in profit, and have already banked a reasonable profit. It was all posted here as it unfolded. And yet even now you suggest it's nonsense.

Time at last for you to think. Who's the fool, Beanie?

GausieI believe you started trading in 1997..I started just before.I have played around for many years and got hit pretty hard in May 2000 on the NASDAQmy grammar may not be perfectafter all a kind hearted bookie aint gonna speak properbut I am shit hot on percentages I could make a book on any event you could name and that includes share pricesI recouped with interest in a very short space of time and do very well from my office indoorsI work only to help a friend out outside my investmentsI no need!let us just leave it as a Mexican standoff.my wife works only because she loves M&Sinstead of calling me names.answer the Cannes questionand gain that respect back.even if it means eating humble pie?

The shops on La Croisette is also my mistake. The end of la Croisette that has the shops, I had aways assumed was part of the promenade that runs around the port, but it is isn't. The bulk of La Croisette is as Gausie says just Hotels and apartment blocks with I seem to remember, a small art gallery (which was showing Gilles Villeneuve memorabilia the last time I was there). I have certainly stayed in Cannes plenty of times. The last time was at the Martinez for a few days then at Hotel Du Cap on Cap d'Antibes (or actually at Eden Roc at the bottom of the garden) which is far nicer than anything in Cannes.

I am sure Gausie has been trading way before 1997. I have been trading since around 1974, although I don't at present.

Haystack you are a man.god bless you for being honest!

Where's Cannes ?

At the end of your handes.