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

If you are using ADVFN I can see why you have such a distorted view of MKS. The MKS threads on the dark side are a lot of nonsense.

Future performance is also reflected in the SP - and old Rosie's been pretty candid about that. They're doing anything and everything to keep the show going, and if they fare better than their High Street rivals now - great. But their profit margin will likely still be down relative to their last figures, and the outlook will still be poor.

The markets might be rallying now, but come January - February at the latest - credit card and bank statements will have to be nursed through a very bad dose of flu, and then some.

Tabby - yep, you've googled me, you've certainly quoted from the long defunct profile i wrote for ADVFN when we were getting that BB started, probably also found stuff about the companies I've started, maybe also found the adverts that Etrade ran with my picture on them - maybe also discovered some of the areas in which I provide consulting and/or training - but none of it's any secret. Hell - if you search carefully enough you'll find piccies of me as an 8 year old schoolboy - it's all there.

But you'd have to be a little bit sad to go looking for it.

HaystackI dont know how to make this any clearermy wife is a manager at M&Sshe knows managers at BHSNextJLand Debenhamsmy view is not distortedit is with knowledgeI see weekly figures your view is distorted my friend!

tabby .... apart from the fact that, though you are not abusive, you really do take up an awful lot of column inches with general joshing, i would have thought that M&S weekly figures are not for general dissemination, even to ones spouse

Cynicvery trueand thats why I dont give them out!
Gausiethats far more info than I gotI didnt go looking eitherit came too me.I havent got a problem with youyou seem to want to insult meno problemI have no intention of doing a case history on youjust made me laugh when you said about your family having an apartment on La Croisettehaystack said it must be true.good mate.I dont think you were telling the truth!

tabasco - 25 Nov 2008 13:03 - 342 of 344
HaystackI dont know how to make this any clearermy wife is a manager at M&Sshe knows managers at BHSNextJLand Debenhamsmy view is not distortedit is with knowledgeI see weekly figures your view is distorted my friend!

:-)

(Just in case it gets edited, must ask M&S what they think about an ex-bookie having access to their sales figs)

shed some more at 224.5 - thats all of today's 208s gone. Still holding a moderate long position from just below 207.

CynicI am just a general josher.Gausie.thats very goodI particularly like the long bitI reckon you have got the hang of this trading malarkygoing for a walkpay a few cheques in.see you later aggravators.

Closed the lot at prices between 217.75 and 219. That selloff was harsh with price supported by fake buy orders of 100k shares - all pulled by computer just before they got hit. I think this will continue to sell off - but not convinced enough to turn short just yet. This is building an ugly candlestick for today.

Wouldn't be surprised if someone's hired an operator to dump a large holding.

looking to reopen a small long @211.5 in the auction, or a bigger short @224.5

edit: neither filled. Closed the day flat MKS.

Gausieyou have given me the lot theregreat running commentaryscandal intrigue.makes hallmark TV look boringwhich of course it isntI rather pay you the tenner than join the traders thread!I think you are right with the candlestick.but I think it was Prof. Plum in the library.

Well I'm flat now so probably wont be trading MKS for a while - which means I wont be posting on this thread, other than to ocasionally take the mickey out of any 'long term' MDX holder who hangs on to the idea that his shares are worth 30p when the market says they're worth 10p.

Over and out.

G

Dessert tonight M&S Sticky toffee pudding with creamy custard ohhhhhhh.stop it!
GausieI am going to miss you big timesometimes you can be a little funny.with the emphasis on sometimes and littlemainly you just talk..you have a big fan club.and people seem to look up to you.are they all dwarfs on here?
Cynicam I taking too many column inchessorry.I would have thought Gausie is worth six inchesmaybe not?
Off for a glass.

Shoppers fail to flock to high street despite flurry of discounts and promotions

ChocoI have never disagreed that there is a severe slump in high street salesthe Telegraph article that you have posted never once mentioned M&S in comparison to its other rivalslook carefully how it is worded.Marks & Spencer is expected to hold a second "one day spectacular" next month when it knocks 20 per cent off most of its prices. another 20% day is going to happen because it was so very successful and well ahead of its main rivals. please look at my posts 328... 334... 342.

interestingly, even Mulberry is having a mega clearout from their showroom at heavily discounted prices .... or at least for those with the right contacts!

CynicI will not be going round the Mulberry Bush if they had a 75% day it would still be expensiveI cant see many families diving in?

doh! .... showroom sale, not a family day out!!

What about this news item yesterday

STOCKS NEWS UK-M&S dips on report of another one-day sale
Shares in Marks & Spencer fall 4.9 percent to 207.5 pence following a report in the
Daily Telegraph newspaper that the clothing, food and homewares group is considering holding another one-day sale on Dec. 4 to follow on from its '20-percent off' sale last Thursday.

'The more of these things you do there's obviously an expectation from consumers and you're not going to get the full margin,' says KBC analyst John Stevenson.

Marks & Spencer declines to comment.