Your Top share for 2011

IronWolf

peterg1965 wrote: »

Anyone pushing AIM shares is a gambler. Whilst predicting share movements is not easy, the certainty is that 'Penny shares' should only be bought with money you are prepared to loose completely. Ask people who invested in DES and stuck with them. So much hype and many are, in effect, a worthless companies with no assets.

I personally have some ground rules for share trading, I will not divulge them all, but I only generally invest in FTSE100 companies and never sell at a loss, even if it means that I hold the share for a long time! (I only started trading in 2009 so thankfully missed the crash) I was amazed at the pre xmas rally, December was a good time for trading shorts. I currently have money in BARC, I bought and sold a number of shares in december, but now hold a decent amount bought at 273p - I am hoping that the price will continue to rally leading up to the results in Feb. I expect the results to be good. I also hold £3500 in RBS bought at 40.49p, again I am hoping that RBS will announce profits and the share price should ease upwards by a small amount to make me a few £100s in profit. RBS will remain in the doldrums for a few more years yet though and the EURO sovereign debt crisis will continue to dog the banks.

I also have long term hold of TSCO, MKS and BP in my SIPP.

I think your strategy is the same as mine, but I would never say dont sell at a loss.

Sometimes things happen after you have bought a company which can devalue it by a lot, or you could have simply missed something in your research and only find out about it later.

uk_steve

i cant complain with my aim share AMC,



i think this is going to be a good year or two if and when they get the 4th Licence aproved in due course and then its licence to print money when they go into production and maybe being the biggest mining company in its game in the next 3 to 5 years, http://www.amurminerals.com/


another company worth watching is STEL its a diamond company which had a run of bad luck in 2010 with its equipment and other issues but is now in a pretty strong place to turn this all round in 2011

http://www.stellar-diamonds.com/s/Home.asp


so yeah these are my top 2 to watch out in 2011 AMC and STEL thats my honest view what i have on my rader hence being invested

ChrisEvanson

A lot of sweeping generalisations on here. Saying you won't make much on FTSE100, hmmm what about those that bought Barc at 50p? Over £3 now? The index has risen from 3500 to 6000 but that includes the dross.

However as for never selling at a loss, that is naive. You should set a stop loss point and get out, either reinvesting elsewhere or buying back in when it starts to head back up. If you read The Naked Trader, one of the main tips is to accept a loss sometimes.

I agree AIM has lots of potential for gain but you need to do a little more research most of the time

thriftychap_2

I bought barclays at 270, i can see it going to 350. If i had the money i would still buy in now, dividens this year too, these will only increase in the future.

I seem to be addicted to checking my small portfolio, up to just under £1500 now. A huge increase of £60 in a week. If only i has started with £143,800 instead of £1438!!!! would be a nice 6k!!!

Hen_Step

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"However as for never selling at a loss, that is naive. You should set a stop loss point and get out, either reinvesting elsewhere or buying back in when it starts to head back up. If you read The Naked Trader, one of the main tips is to accept a loss sometimes."

I have been stuck in 2 shares for 4 years and last year decided enough was enough. Sold out at £260 loss between them.
A lesson learnt.

"I agree AIM has lots of potential for gain but you need to do a little more research most of the time"[/QUOTE]

Totally agree. I bought a few last year on the say so of someone on a share forum, without doing any research, and got stuck in them as the price dropped. Eventually got my money back.
Best to do some research and watch how the price moves over a period of time.

Best tip I got was, research the BOD and their backgrounds and whether thay are buying the shares.

(Not sure how to reply to a previous post)

peterg1965

Following on from my 'naive' comments about the AIM market, I came across this unattributed subjective statement on the matter of investing (gambling) in the more speculative end of the stock market. Whilst I will acknowledge that some AIM companies represent less of an investment risk than others, there is a reason why many of these companies are quoted on AIM, which is less regulated, than the mainstream markets. No doubt this will spark more debate, and insults from certain quarters, it does use some colourful language, but it does summarise my views nicely....

Just look at the share register, you won't find anything but spankshops holding stock in these small caps.

Private investors throw millions and millions away each year gambling on this crap and there is an absolutely massive industry that caters precisely for these people and serves to extract as much money as possible.

The only reason most small firms list is that you can raise millions from a bunch of mugs in a matter of days where a bank or any reputable backer would take one look the business model and chuck them out.

Muppets on bulletin boards love to refer to institutional investors being involved as it makes the firm look reputable as if someone who knows what is going on has taken a stake, the simple fact is that most holdings that look like institutions will be the hedge positions of bookmakers at best, large muppet retail clients who have invested their life savings and spank shops who will be flogging their holding to mugs via trade shows and telephone calls in the night.

People need to ask themselves just why exactly if your business is so good would you ever want to sell a large % of it to thousands of muppets who are going to consume time and money to appease unless you are in a pump and dump or your business is too st to access any of the common sense money markets.

If the average punter knew just a fraction of how this end of the market worked they would steer well clear and be horrified, as it the information and clues are all out in the public domain but people don't want to see it, they just want someone they have never met or spoken to, a complete random stranger to write on a BB that this stock is going to the moon and has deals to announce and that's good enough for them. Why? Because they are lazy and ****** stupid and deserve everything the get which is poverty.

Oh, and of course there will be people who then post that they've made a fortune or they know a guy who made a fortune and you know what, this just keeps the merrygoround going. In the Klondike goldrush a tiny number of diggers made a fortune, most lost everything and even died. The only people who make serious money out of a goldrush are those selling the shovels.

It's a filthy market perpetrated by theives, idiots, conmen, criminals, tax evaders and every kind of hideous scum you can imagine. Drug dealing and prostitution are more ethical businesses with higher principals and more care and thought for their clients.

And it only exists because people are greedy and want to believe they can get rich without working. ****** the lot of them.

neilsedaka

XEL - Xcite Energy. Now derisked. Dual listed, ISAble, no stamp duty, excellent track record and board of directors. The exponential growth has already happened, but lots of relatively safe potential still to come over the next few months/couple of years. At least double/triple today's price is very likely. DYOR (Do Your Own Research) and you will be impressed.

CashStrappedTeen89

CAZA is looking very good also, ive just sold my XEL shares invested them in XEL 89p sold at 363 so nice profit, put the lot in CAZA on there 35% COS well due to spud today or tommorow.
I agree above XEL is a safe bet possible to double, triple or mroe your money in a year or 2

sabretoothtigger

AIM just means its not listed on the main market yet. Its less regulated and in any case it is more risky. Since its normal for companies to progress from aim to ftse to ftse100 even Im not sure what the complaint is. Other stock markets have similar venture type small listings.

You could argue these companies should stay private while still small but that would restrict their growth and slow progress which is a negative for them and britain in general.

They list here, uk gains stamp duty from their shares and they gain credibility and easier capital raising from some light regulation in one of the worlds reserve currency and finance centres.
I believe each aim has to have some sort representative so maybe rather then disregard the company, check who is their nomad and if you trust them to present facts promptly


I dont think aim investing is essential. But you should probably follow them anyway before they join the main market.
Ignoring AIM would just be lazy and it would exclude alot of growth and investment ideas even if wanting to avoid direct contact


Western Coal on the AIM is 2.2bn which is a similar size to FTSE 100 stock African Barrick Gold

CAZA is looking very good also

I hold them via the Junior Oils fund.
I dont know much about them though, mostly got the fund because it had premier and encore. If UK has a lower exchange rate for many years, it will help oil export profitability ?

cloud_dog

peterg1965 wrote: »

Following on from my 'naive' comments about the AIM market, I came across this unattributed subjective statement on the matter of investing (gambling) in the more speculative end of the stock market. Whilst I will acknowledge that some AIM companies represent less of an investment risk than others, there is a reason why many of these companies are quoted on AIM, which is less regulated, than the mainstream markets. No doubt this will spark more debate, and insults from certain quarters, it does use some colourful language, but it does summarise my views nicely....

Just look at the share register, you won't find anything but spankshops holding stock in these small caps.

Private investors throw millions and millions away each year gambling on this crap and there is an absolutely massive industry that caters precisely for these people and serves to extract as much money as possible.

The only reason most small firms list is that you can raise millions from a bunch of mugs in a matter of days where a bank or any reputable backer would take one look the business model and chuck them out.

Muppets on bulletin boards love to refer to institutional investors being involved as it makes the firm look reputable as if someone who knows what is going on has taken a stake, the simple fact is that most holdings that look like institutions will be the hedge positions of bookmakers at best, large muppet retail clients who have invested their life savings and spank shops who will be flogging their holding to mugs via trade shows and telephone calls in the night.

People need to ask themselves just why exactly if your business is so good would you ever want to sell a large % of it to thousands of muppets who are going to consume time and money to appease unless you are in a pump and dump or your business is too st to access any of the common sense money markets.

If the average punter knew just a fraction of how this end of the market worked they would steer well clear and be horrified, as it the information and clues are all out in the public domain but people don't want to see it, they just want someone they have never met or spoken to, a complete random stranger to write on a BB that this stock is going to the moon and has deals to announce and that's good enough for them. Why? Because they are lazy and ****** stupid and deserve everything the get which is poverty.

Oh, and of course there will be people who then post that they've made a fortune or they know a guy who made a fortune and you know what, this just keeps the merrygoround going. In the Klondike goldrush a tiny number of diggers made a fortune, most lost everything and even died. The only people who make serious money out of a goldrush are those selling the shovels.

It's a filthy market perpetrated by theives, idiots, conmen, criminals, tax evaders and every kind of hideous scum you can imagine. Drug dealing and prostitution are more ethical businesses with higher principals and more care and thought for their clients.

And it only exists because people are greedy and want to believe they can get rich without working. ****** the lot of them.

Well I'm sure in some world that is a balanced, well thought out argued position.

Unfortunately in the real world its just a rant with lost of generalisations which don't address the higher risk, higher reward available on AIM.

Any investment is a 'gamble'. What you need to do is undertake activity which will mitigate the risk. Risk is never removed. There are lots of examples FTSE100 and global companines comming a cropper due to malpractise or incompetence. Christ we've just gone [are going] through an entire finacial meltdown caused by huge companies.