anyone got any ideas about the block trades that went through today?

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SWW, don't get greedy! it has truely been a great week but i do feel that i am happy rising within the bubble of the sector but it is critical to stick with the quality names.

with commodities at 23 year highs this looks sent to continue on a trend BUT trading disciplines are more important than ever. so many of us saw zeros knocked off the 2000 boom and with this resource bubble i will slowly be scrapping cash off the top at various levels.

saying all that i am in SEY to 100p!

Agree such an excellent stock, that's why we've held for a while now. And yes thanks to the Fusion board for their dealings re Mauritania. Conrgatulations must also go to the Sterling board for their foresight to see the value in Mauritania and the direction they took in persuing the Fusion takeover.

We're all in a happy mood this week! :-)))

proptrade.

Sorry you are right of course.

Yours is a good strategy too, and I won't get greedy, well no more than I am now!

I have done enough of this and seen enough to know that I should never count my chickens............

.....................till they are cooked.

There back to food in one :-))

great link SWW, you are a natural!

i have to say it i do love it when SEY goes up...i just wish i had bought a few MAN earlier today and i would be extactic

Just topped up again.Mmmmm chicken for tea, yeah why not.

i am looking forward to a roast chicken tonight as well....lovely.

i am looking forward to a roast chicken tonight as well....lovely.

Proptrade, when I said you have a history of repeating yourself, I did not mean in consecutive comments!

lol

Afternoon all. Thanks SWW for the reply to simple(istic) enquiry. Nice day again for SEY - all for reasons already given. Good thread, quality contributions.

lol, lol....

Afternoon all,

What is a sensible sell price for these?

ps - please don't all say 100p!

Cheers

NP

Since we got round to talking food again, I thought I'd trawl the net to find a recipe to cook for tonights tea, I came accross this, I'm so easily distracted!

By Business Weekly, 08 October 2004, viewed 13 times


Herts based Sterling Energy doubled its turnover to 5.34m and increased pre tax profit by 78 per cent to 1.98m in the six months ended June 30.



Herts based Sterling Energy doubled its turnover to 5.34m and increased pre tax profit by 78 per cent to 1.98m in the six months ended June 30.

The firm attributed the healthy figures to its acquisition of Osprey as the fields gas production made it onto the company books for the first time this February. It also made clear its commitment to maximising production while oil and gas prices are high and looking at further acquisitions once prices fall.

Chairman Richard OToole, said: The first half has been a period of significant consolidation for the company following the acquisitions of Fusion and the Osprey assets. Sterling has just entered its most active drilling period to date, which will see the company participate in over 20 wells in Africa and the Gulf of Mexico over the next year.

Although smaller than the African upside potential, the Gulf of Mexico drilling programme is expected to add incremental production and cashflow at lower risk. We continue to believe that balancing this risk and reward is key to the future success of Sterling.

Oil and gas prices have been high for some time and it is tempting to believe that we will stay in this new price environment at least for the next few years. Our view is more cautious so we are focusing on extracting maximum value from our existing assets through organic growth (drilling) rather than looking at new production acquisitions, which may become cheaper in the not too distant future.

Of course there are always exceptions and we are constantly on the lookout for value adding deals.

So you could say - Organic growth from organic decay to organic compounds if you were slightly bored Fri pm (and moderately sad!) ;0)

great news....

interesting summation namreh3, obviously the friday malaise has really set in!

serious price target....35p with just moderate success from the 20 wells...the rest could take things much higher

Thanks Prop, despair setting in due to inclement weather forecast for next 2 days precluding moderately illegal speed jaunts on 2 wheels. Roll on summer!

namreh3

Sell price?

Now there's a thing.

The drilling program will extend into 2005, this phase as I understand it is an exporatory mission rather than fully quantifying reserves.

That being the case, when do you need the money back?

I anticipate a minimum of 25p by December and if things go well, at the end of the campaign, possibly 50p plus.

When any fields found are declared commercial, which may folow shortly thereafter, there will be a big leap in the price.

We all do it, i.e. sell probably too quickly, but it is a good idea to lock in profits at some point.

proptrade indicated recently a creaming of profits at certain stages, that is a good strategy as it will lock in profits.

I would do the same at certain stages, but in my book, the first would be at 25p, the next at 50p, and then 1 should any of those figures become a reality.

In any event I am planing to have at the end 10k shares left which are paid for by profit. Those would stay in should SEY suddenly become another Cairn.

That's my contribution, anyone else?

Thanks SWW Did Dana declare a field commercial earlier this year - I think so (without rechecking) but share price did not reflect same. if the fields in which SEY have same result should we expect the share price to lag the newsflow as in DNX. If so, why do you think this would be?

After 'locking-in' profits do you advocate buying back in if price retreats slightly. Does this really depend on your o/s holding of share - to pound/cost average. What typically are the strategies for selling in tranches up to your residual free profit shares 25% at sell point 1, 35% at 2 etc? What are the criteria typically used to make these sort of judgement calls?

Looking briefly at some numbers again, Evo had pre-tax profits for 2004E as 3m. We've already done 1.98m for the first 6 months so I would think we would easily beat Evo's full year number.

For 2005E they have pre-tax of 14.3m, would think a good chance of also beating that number. They also estimate EPS of 0.31 for 2004 and 1.23 for 2005. An exciting and profitable year ahead.

namreh3

1st point, no idea.

Buying back in, that is for you to decide, if it were me,and I trusted the Company then I would buy back in, and in fact do with others.

I target WLW which is a yo yo share, I have pre determined buy in prices and sell prices.

It works for me, but you must do the homework over a period of time to know where to do that.

If a share is in the ascendencey, then I probably sold too early. As with my trade yesterday, I do not look back if I have taken profit, but if HNR had fallen a bit more today, I may just have bought back in forthe same amount of shares, therefore locking in profit, in this case in anoother share.

In respect of residual profit shares, I may be tempted to sell, but quite frankly unless they look like losing a load, why sell?

My old age is coming, so I am looking long term with most of my holdings.

I hear what you say SWW. I use DTC and RDN as my yo-yo shares. Thanks for time taken to reply- appreciated. :)