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CashStrappedTeen89

Anyone invested in CAZA?.
Im a short/med/long holder, currently only have XEL - Medium and DPL - Long.
Im thinking upon RNS from XEL about the rig ect about selling to invest in CAZA with upcoming news on there drill.

sabretoothtigger

Monday January 10 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
3i Infrastructure, Creston, Cyril Sweett Group, Healthcare Locums 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Alpha Pyrenees Trust Ltd. 

Q4 
Michael Page International 

GMS 
ORA Capital Partners Ltd. 

FINALS 
Impax Asset Management Group 

EGMS 
CBaySystems Holdings Ltd. (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Cambria Automobiles, Petra Diamonds Ltd., Real Office Group 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Axis-Shield, Debenhams, Hydrogen Group, Michael Page International, Morrisons (Wm), Persimmon, XP Power Ltd. (DI) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Conygar Investment Company, Northamber, Octopus Eclipse VCT 1, Octopus Eclipse VCT 3, Octopus Eclipse VCT 4 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Industrial Production (FRA) (07:45) 
Manufacturing Output (FRA) (07:45) 
Sentix Investor Confidence (EU) (09:30) 

Tuesday January 11 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Dods Group , TR Property Inv Trust, TR Property Inv Trust Sigma Shares, Whitbread, Wincanton 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Africa Opportunity Fund Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Money Supply (JPN) 
Current Account (JPN) 
Trade Balance (JPN) 
Bank of France Business Sentiment (FRA) (07:30) 
NFIB Small Business Optimism (US) (12:30) 
Wholesale Inventories (US) (15:00) 
ABC Consumer Confidence (US) (22:00) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Retail Sales Monitor (00:01) 
RICS House Price Balance (00:01) 

GMS 
Asset Management Investment Co, Chrysalis, Davenham Group 

FINALS 
IDOX 

EGMS 
Foresight 4 VCT, Greenwich Loan Income Fund Ltd. 

AGMS 
Baronsmead VCT, Baronsmead VCT 2, Carr's Milling Industries, Debenhams, Topps Tiles 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Computacenter, Dunelm, Marks & Spencer, Signet Jewelers Ltd. 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
RSM Tenon Group, Sportingbet, Waterman Group 

Wednesday January 12 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
3i Group, Anglo Pacific Group, De La Rue, Hyder Consulting, Morgan Crucible Co, Ventus 2 VCT, Ventus VCT 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
F.T.S-Formula Telecom Solutions Ltd, IFG Group, Solid State, Tongaat-Hulett Ltd., Umeco, Workspace Group 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
British Land Co, F&C Commercial Property Trust Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bankruptcies (JPN) 
Machine Orders (JPN) 
Current Account (FRA) (07:45) 
Gross Domestic Product (GER) (08:00) 
Industrial Production (EU) (10:00) 
Import Price Index (US) (13:30) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Feb Beige Book (US) (19:00) 

GMS 
Mirada 

IMSS 
Brown (N.) Group 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
India Hospitality Corp. (DI) 

EGMS 
Mirada 

AGMS 
Diploma, Fenner, Nasstar 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Barratt Developments, Greggs, Restaurant Group, N. Brown, J. Sainsbury, Tesco, Topps Tiles 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Shop Price Index (00:01) 
Balance of Trade (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
AI Claims Solutions, Bellway 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Albion Income & Growth VCT, ATH Resources, CareTech Holding, Dewhurst, Edinburgh Worldwide Inv Trust, Gooch & Housego, Hargreave Hale AIM VCT 1, Lonmin, Paragon Group Of Companies, Redhall Group, Schroder UK Mid & Small Cap Fund 

Thursday January 13 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Cable & Wireless Communications, Mckay Securities 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
CGPI (JPN) 
Consumer Prices (FRA) (06:30) 
ECB Interest Rate (EU) (12:45) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Trade Balance (US) (13:30) 
Producer Price Index (US) (13:30) 

Q4 
Sandvine Corp. 

GMS 
Cardiff Property, Chapelthorpe 

FINALS 
Sandvine Corp. 

IMSS 
Booker Group, Dixons Retail , Halfords Group, Home Retail Group 

AGMS 
Cardiff Property, Namakwa Diamonds Ltd. (DI) 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Game Group, Premier Oil, SIG 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Halifax House Prices 
Industrial Production (09:30) 
Manufacturing Production (09:30) 
BoE Interest Rate Decision (12:00) 
NIESR GDP estimate 

Friday January 14 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Alliance Pharma, Babcock International Group, Caffyns, Cropper (James), Electrocomponents, Kewill, Marks & Spencer Group, MDM Engineering Group Ltd. (DI), Northern 3 VCT, Severn Trent, Shanks Group, Telford Homes, UK Mail Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Yamana Gold Inc. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (EU) (10:00) 
Trade Balance (EU) (10:00) 
Consumer Price Index (US) (13:30) 
Retail Sales (US) (13:30) 
Industrial Production (US) (14:15) 
Capacity Utilisation (US) (14:15) 
Business Inventories (US) (15:00) 


Q4 
JP Morgan Chase & Co 

GMS 
Adalta Real 

FINALS 
JP Morgan Chase & Co 

ANNUAL REPORT 
Northern AIM VCT, Southern Cross Healthcare Group 

IMSS 
Smiths News 

EGMS 
Ten Alps 

AGMS 
Smiths News 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bovis Homes Group, Hilton Food Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Producer Price Index (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Associated British Foods, Baronsmead VCT, Baronsmead VCT 2, Group NBT, Unicorn AIM VCT 

Cashola

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been covered before, I've no time to read through 50 pages of discussion

I've been given some Share Options at work. This is in recognition of some hard work

I've been offered a total of 3000 shares, which I can 'buy' at a preferential rate in May this year. Currently the rate I can buy is €2.36 per share, and the shares are currently worth around €5 each at the moment (of course I realise this could change by May).

My questions are: I have no idea how to buy / then sell the shares in May. Also they are shares in a French company (I am based in their UK office). So I don't know if this makes a difference? What should I expect to pay for arranging this sort of transaction and I assume I lose money when converting the amount back into £GBP?

Any help, much appreciated

yowza

Hi, I'm trying to decide on policy toward profit-taking. (My maths skills didn't advance much beyond primary school.)

I have an original investment of around £700 in a US stock that last week reached 28% sp growth. Unable to decide how to react I may have missed this peak. However, I've considered three profit-taking options:
a) Sell the lot. But this stock has possible potential to grow further over 12 months. If I bought back in - after a price dip - with my £700, I'd receive fewer shares than originally, but does fewer shares also mean less bang potential for the growth buck, or not?
b) Sell just 50% of my holding to take profits - as some advice recommends.
c) Sell only precisely the number of shares that delivers the profit sum I've so far made -- in this case maybe £200 worth.
I'm attracted by c). Does it make sense? I've never seen this option mentioned on financial pages.

ChrisEvanson

yowza wrote: »

Hi, I'm trying to decide on policy toward profit-taking. (My maths skills didn't advance much beyond primary school.)

I have an original investment of around £700 in a US stock that last week reached 28% sp growth. Unable to decide how to react I may have missed this peak. However, I've considered three profit-taking options:
a) Sell the lot. But this stock has possible potential to grow further over 12 months. If I bought back in - after a price dip - with my £700, I'd receive fewer shares than originally, but does fewer shares also mean less bang potential for the growth buck, or not?
b) Sell just 50% of my holding to take profits - as some advice recommends.
c) Sell only precisely the number of shares that delivers the profit sum I've so far made -- in this case maybe £200 worth.
I'm attracted by c). Does it make sense? I've never seen this option mentioned on financial pages.

a) I am a bit confused by this. If you sell if they ever drop back by say 10% then buy back in once they start to rise yes you could end up buying at a higher price than sold for but the alternative is to sit and watch them slide always thinking they will go back up..... not a good idea in most cases.

b) I'd not sell half of them on a 28% profit personally unless they start to dip back by around 10% but if they do then sell the lot and re-evaluate if and when they start going back up.

c) Yes if you could sell £200 worth and get the profit back but not sure why you are selling any if you expect further growth? You'd have £200 profit then shares worth £700 but if they go down you will lose some of that profit anyway and if they go up you lose what you'd make if you had kept them!

I'd monitor them, set a price say 5-10% below the current as your sell trigger, that way you are guaranteed 18-23% profit minimum. Move this sell trigger up as your share price rises (eg if sp is £3.00 now then set your trigger to sell (all of them) at say £2.80. If price rises then move that price up to follow as the price rises.

yowza

Thanks for your useful replies.
You said:

"a) I am a bit confused by this. If you sell if they ever drop back by say 10% then buy back in once they start to rise yes you could end up buying at a higher price than sold for but the alternative is to sit and watch them slide always thinking they will go back up..... not a good idea in most cases."

I wasn't concise enough here. I was suggesting that having first bought at £22 share then maybe sell at £28 share, I might reinvest my initial £700 at £26-£27 share. £700 will buy fewer shares at this price than I first bought. So the question was: is it the value of shares bought or the number of shares bought that matters? And I think the answer is 'value'. NB I originally bought these for the 6pc dividend but they've also become a growth stock. (MWE - a natural gas/oil US MLP)

Reason for considering profit-taking is that I've read advice on having a policy and sticking to it on any stock gaining 20-25 pc+ (though probably for more active traders). Another holding I have is an Indonesia ETF, which I noticed was declining in December from peaks of 22 pc growth and has now plummeted since 1st Jan to 2 pc growth (took my eye off the mounting inflation fears there).

saving-mad

i have had a look at a couple of share price websites and am completly confused as to how much my shares are worth i am sure someone can help
i have:
228 barclays shares
159 international power shares
83 santander shares

lastly what is the best way of selling them to get a lump sum house deposit?

sabretoothtigger

You have enough to put a deposit on a car. Google each name like this : http://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=LON:IPR

UK shares are priced in pennies. USA shares are priced in Dollars

ChrisEvanson

yowza wrote: »

Reason for considering profit-taking is that I've read advice on having a policy and sticking to it on any stock gaining 20-25 pc+ (though probably for more active traders). Another holding I have is an Indonesia ETF, which I noticed was declining in December from peaks of 22 pc growth and has now plummeted since 1st Jan to 2 pc growth (took my eye off the mounting inflation fears there).

I am a bit of a Robbie Burns fan and he seems to advocate setting a high point but also says to monitor them and basically just let them grow, setting a moving sell point say 5% lower than the rising price, to limit losses of any gains and avoid selling too early.

ChrisEvanson

Just to add you'd clearly need to monitor them often (daily) which is not difficult online, and if they peaked then bottomed out and you felt they weren't going anywhere fast then that's when I'd think about selling some or all. Personally that's when I'd be looking to get into a 'casualty' stock (eg I just bought into RBS earlier this week which is now moving up again).