UK Stockmarket 2009 and beyond

Hatone

tonygee wrote: »

I usually buy in to panic but you can get enticed in when theres a screen full of blue!
I looked over my recent buying patterns and found I bought a bit(against my trend)in early MAY
no doubt bouyed by market euphoria,as it happened this was the peak of the rally,fortunately I bought 'laggers' that made money.
The time to buy is when it seems the end of the world is nigh(early March)

You mean 'pump 'n dump'? Buy unloved stocks, then sell 'em off when people start to love 'em.

sabretoothtigger

pump n dump suggests it was never worth buying, I think Tony would be a swing trader maybe

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tonygee_3

EMED certainly spiked today on news but seems to have retraced.Unfortunately us PIs are last to get news and its usually factored into price by time we do.
People just playing games at moment,longer term us little PIs can beat the big boys:beer:

tradetime

Yes Bloomberg was at it's most bearish in late Feb through to early March, bear after bear was paraded across the screen, it honestly is a great contrarian indicator

tonygee_3

Exactly Sabre,pump&dump I would say is buying CR*P in the hope it will bounce quickly
CTT springs to mind,I have rarely done this,trouble is you can get left with worthless shares
Better to buy decent companies in panic and sell in sucker rallies
Now is not the time to hold 'long term'...too early..massive problems to come
In the future I will gladly HOLD decent companies(untill the next BUST)

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but.... its nice to have a play with a little stock at times. As long as there isn`t much money involved of course

anyway I am seeing 12p around the corner then maybe the sky when it gets involved with rto.

even holding a decent stock to the end of the curve is very difficult as we need to weigh up capital loss v divi loss

tradetime

"Pump and dump" is buying a cheap usually penny stock, preferably with low liquidity, and trawling discussion boards, chat rooms etc and "pumping" it as "the next big thing" how it is poised to breakout, the idea being to draw enough volume in so you can "dump" it. It can be quite elaborate with a number of scammers working together through different media, languages and even countries nowadays.

sabretoothtigger

Excellent economic calender -
http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/economic-calendar/

tradetime

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Excellent economic calender -
http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/economic-calendar/

Couple more here:
http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/ecalendar/index.html

and earnings (for US stocks) since it's almost that time again.
http://www.earnings.com/highlight.asp?client=cb

Reuters does one that covers UK
http://uk.reuters.com/business/markets/events

tradetime

kittie wrote: »

I am bullish. Not bad for summer considering what we have been through. 2 dividends dropped into the account so have bought a penny stock (for once) EMED a copper mining co linked to RTO. Nice to see ukx over 4300 today

How do you go about finding, and selecting a stock like that Kittie? I'm pretty useless when it comes to finding good individual stocks, hence I don't really bother much with them, but if you can do it well it is by far the most rewarding way to invest.