Covid woes
October 20, 2022
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Follow up dec 12th
For those who've been to a hotel or online seminar previously.
Lots of live trading, level 2, spreadbetting and more - email me at robbiethetrader with "follow up interested" in the subject line.
Please see below in markets and vote as to whether this should be at the hotel or online!
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Just when I thought I'd got away with never getting covid, guess what happened.
Yes, that's right, I got it and I can confirm it is horrible.
Days of coughing, sniffling, headaches and aches and pains. Don't get it!
I suspect we got it from a visit into town - well who knows where we got it, the mrs reckons she hugged someone who had a cough.
Didn't have the energy to go out for a few days but luckily our kind neighbours bought us a stack of soups and paracetamol.
I hate lying around in bed but with covid there is nothing much else you can do but ride it out.
The only upside is at least I think I can go out and about for three months without getting it again.
I can hardly believe just a short time ago I was with some of you enjoying the sun in Palma at the retreat and now getting over covid in the rain.
Ah well, as they say in Ireland. There has to be rough as well as smooth eh.
Both of us are coming out of it though the cough tends to hang about.
We know quite a few who've picked it up. Indeed one of the older ladies I talk to on behalf of Help The Aged tells me several of her group has it, but the good news is none have ended up in hospital.
I nearly had to cancel the online follow up seminar but we just about recovered enough to do it. One of the joys of online I don't think I could have done it live.
Great to see you all online, considering the difficult markets great to see you were all doing ok.
Some lovely people and lovely trade ideas reflected below somewhere.
The follow up seminar in December is usually very popular but can't decide whether to do it live or stay on zoom. I need you to tell me!
See the bit where I ask you for a quick vote further down so I can decide.
Covid is attacking again. Back to bed!
Good to see some of you online at the recent online event and thanks for the lovely feedback like this from Chris:
What a great day! Thanks so much for the effort and time you both put in.
I've been a teacher for the last 30 years and I'm not sure I could have kept a group of pupils so captivated for so long.
Humour and in-depth subject knowledge go a long way!
Too many best bits to mention, but I was impressed that you had read all the questionnaires and had something to say about each one.
Also, I loved seeing your thought process in deciding which shares to trade and level 2 was also an eye opener.
Thanks Chris, we so enjoyed it.
if you fancy spending a day with me and live markets and a bit of fun too, mail me at robbiethetrader with "September 23rd interested."
Thanks a lot for recent online seminar feedback!
.. Such as this from Phil:
The seminar was delivered with huge integrity (there was Zero hidden agenda/ulterior motives, it was simple and open with some great laughs thrown in)
As much as I found myself trying to complicate the process and make it more sophisticated in my own tiny brain.
You brought it back to, Keep Things Simple. Do Your Own Research. Trade without emotion and above all, trade the market you find"¦ not what you or some pundit thinks it should be.
You also took the time to answer "every" question anyone posed. And it was every question.
Loads of shares ideas to boot, but more importantly the process to find your own.
Brilliant!
Thanks Andrew - we have got rather experienced at running them on zoom now!
Claire mailed me with some feedback on the seminar which she attended.
Thanks for a fantastic seminar, I learned a lot and got every question I could think of answered. I think the most beneficial thing to me was just seeing with my own eyes how you go through the process of picking shares to buy and witnessing your thought process as you go through and also being able to ask questions as they arise. The system you and Elizabeth have for answering all the questions is fabulous & means you depart the maximum amount of information that is humanly possible in one day! The next day I just wished I was doing the course again instead of going back to work as it seemed dull in comparison."
Thanks Claire! It was a lovely group with a great sense of humour.
Jas, thanks for your mail as you've been to two zoom seminars.
Just wanted to say thank you for a couple of wonderful seminars.
Your seminars were brilliant. Delivered methodically and with just a simple honest approach to dealing with the markets. You've helped me immensely in sorting my trading plan out and finding a good and profitable way to trade. After many months trying to figure out level 2, you sorted that out in one afternoon.
Since the seminar, I have placed 5 trades, 2 have closed out with profits and 3 are still running with profits. All trades placed using fundamental research and not Youtube videos
from David:
Well it doesn't happen often, but I am absolutely speechless! I don't think I have ever spent a more worthwhile day nor spent money more wisely and gladly.
I for one was practically at the point of orgasm all day in my enjoyment and appreciation of what you were presenting! Even though I have read NT time and again, to see you going through the process of stock assessment over and over was incalculably useful and I managed to take six A4 pages of notes during the day. I was fascinated to learn about (and see) Level 2 in action and learn more about Spread "ËœBetting'.
I thought the presentation balance was perfection, and Elizabeth was a complete star with her very well-judged handling of the questions....
.....This is a rather long-winded way of saying thank you so much to both of you - today was one of the top five most enjoyable days of my life, and I greatly look forward to joining you again!"
Naked Rambling
A trip to Costco. If you've never been you get giant tubs of whatever you want.
Massive tubs of everything mainly for those in catering or with corner shops.
Xmas stuff everywhere too, giant Father Xmases and decorations.
It was very busy but they handle the chaos pretty well.
When I used to own a cafe and buy the food for it in the early 2000s only Tescos had the two cheapest things I needed.
Baked beans and muffins.
Tescos sold value baked beans for 9p a can. I also desperately needed plain bread muffins.
That's because people couldn't get enough of our egg, bacon and sausage muffins. Not surprised they were delicious from my secret recipe.
At the peak, I had one trolley with 100 cans of beans and one trolley with every single muffin Tescos had.
It's all I eat," I told the cashier. "I'm just crazy for beans and muffins. Ever had a beaked bean muffin? Amazing!"
Getting 100 cans of beans for a tenner I guess will never happen again.
Btw if you need to save here's a tip: Kelloggs Cornflakes are £2.75.
Tescos own brand is 90p. I reckon they are the same, the ingredients are. I bet Tescos own brand is made by Kelloggs.
There you go: £2 saved just like that. Part of the cost of living crisis sorted there.
The Walk In (****) ITV
Steven Graham is just such a great actor, he lights up whatever he's in.
Based on the tragic true story of the hard right wing attacking MPs, it's very well done with not so much violence, a more thoughtful approach.
You've got to feel sorry for Robbie "The grass" who sadly for him is used by all sides.
I hate You (**) Ch4
A new comedy that sadly doesn't come up to the standards of the much better Am I Being Unreasonable?
Two women are best friends who hate each other. One or two good lines but doesn't quite work or interest me in seeing another episode.
Probably not meant for my age group though.
Four in a Bed (****) Ch 4
My guilty pleasure. The mrs' G Pleasure is Married at First Sight.
Nope, four in a bed is the one. Especially when in the first episode the B and B owners get bad feedback.
Then say "this won't affect how I score the others.". You know it will, and a pubic hair will be planted in the shower.
Indeed, finding a pube in the shower is the crowning glory for any contestant.
Oh dear, pube in the shower, afraid I had to deduct £25. Per pube."
And don't you love it they still use cash.
Industry (****) BBC 1
The show that makes you feel glad you never became a banker.
Based at an investment bank a whole load of backstabbing, cocaine, sex and more.
Highly entertaining as we follow a load of stressed out bankers and their high energy lives.
There's loads of insider trading, forged documents - lots of fun and the moral of the story is I guess they are all f***cked up, best thing is to blame their parents.
Star Trek (****) Netflix.
By pure mistake I started watching original Star Trek. Look, I had covid, I wanted comfort.
Every plot is the same: Aliens decide us humans aren't really a warlike race and not shitty at all after we pass some kind of test.
The aliens are obviously wrong, (just watch parliament) meanwhile Kirk shags his way around the universe in between beating up aliens.
And yet... I can't stop. Help me. I won't watch the next, I know it's the same as the last but...
I'm getting on, I haven't got much time left.
Do I really want "He wasted all his later years watching 60s Star Trek" on my gravestone?
Ok, I've stopped. Except just the next one where Spock gets loved up after getting drugged by a plant, groovy. I wonder what logical sex is like. Any ideas? (Beam me up...)
If you've not seen the excellent movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing it's on Film 4 tonight at 11.40pm, worth recording!
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MARKETS
Well, they remain volatile but this week there are some positive signs and a few shares even went up!
But they are very hard indeed for now - it's a question of whether there is another wave down to come.
It has been a very horrible and difficult time for all - but get through the hard times and remember there are often good times too.
I'm starting to struggle to find shorts and some potential longs look good so just looking at cold hard figures maybe, just maybe we are not that far off from some money coming back in.
We must remember markets look forwards. The moment there are hints of lower inflation, an end to the war and much higher rates, a bounceback could be huge, and fast.
Right onto some buys and sells, some of the buys coming from some nice ideas put forward by those at the follow up online seminar last week.
I bought some Victorian Plumbing (VIC).
I was rather surprised to be buying it especially as I bought it only 45 minutes after making my first acquaintance with it.
I was trawling though company statements as they came out last week and clicked on this company's report as a random.
Noticing the shares had tumbled from something like 300p to 35p I initially thought "Not for me".
But then I read through the statement and came to the conclusion the shares had been oversold.
No idea how they were floated at such a crazy overprice but after the massive selloff it looked amazingly cheap given the surprisingly bullish outlook.
Very cheap ratios and the massive cash pile easily tempted me in and I bought quite a few and on a spreadbet too.
The directors bought substantial amounts of shares after the announcement.
I also wonder whether with house prices tumbling people have given up selling and are doing up their bathrooms instead?
So, sitting with it and may leave it in the isas for a while to see if it can recover further.
I wonder if they do any discounts as the sink looks like it's blocked this morning...
A great group for the online follow up with some brilliant ideas.
Well done to Lee whose idea of buying Qinetic got the most votes and he won the £100.
That's a defence group which I've held for some time and it looked not a bad time to top up.
Another that popped up at the online seminar was Big Technologies (BIG) (oooh so big...) and I nipped a few.
It's probably on the risky side because it is highly rated but if forecast growth is right, perhaps it is worth paying a premium.
As I'm not completely sure, a tightish stop is in place.
It supplies the remote personal monitoring industry with its leading item Buddi - which is used to protect vulnerable adults and children.
It seems to have a giant cash pile which helps reduce the rating a bit.
And it's in a sector that seems to be growing fast. It says profits should be ahead of expectations.
It trades in a 250-300 range so it seems worth a go buying near the bottom of that and seeing what gives.
I guess what it does with its cash and how it wins contracts in other countries like New Zealand plays out.
I noticed Begbies had some down a bit with the rest and I got some at a nice price on DMA.
Begbies makes money (sadly I suppose) from handling insolvencies and of course business is brisk.
It looked like it went a little too high when it hit 150p recently where I took some profits but does look a bargain under 130p.
Is the value hidden in ITV shares about to come out?
I think it's possible and I bought a few though it's risky if the main market continues to drift.
The value is in the studios - and there are some rumours doing the rounds that ITV could get bids for its studios - I reckon if true the valuations could be very high and could push the share price up substantially.
Even if untrue, the unloved shares look amazing value. Bid rumours have done the rounds for years and it's never happened but you do wonder at current prices?
Of course ITV does remain at the mercy of volatile markets so it's a hard one to figure out.
I took a little profit off the table on the Aston martin short, profits are so big here (well over £50,000).
For site purposes I've closed the last trade for a profit of £7,740.
The bid in GB fell through, normally I sell half after the bid's been around for a bit but I didn't on this occasion which cost me pretty much all of the rather large profit I had been sitting on. I should stick by my own strategies.
The short in Card has worked well, but I've now closed it for a profit of £1,100.
Argentex had a great lift after a very bullish ahead of statement.
Sureserve, a long-term hold had a reassuring statement - a very packed order book. It has decent net cash and plenty of bank leeway, two segments are up for sale, be interesting to see what it does with the cash.
Looks very decent value in the 70s area and pretty defensive too.
K3c looks strong, it paid out a decent dividend without much downward movement on the share price, one that should be a lot higher when the market turns.
I bagged a few K3C this time as a spreadbet with a March 2023 expiry.
NWF appears to be on an upwards curve, discussed this one last time.
Generally I am staying in a lot of cash and plenty of shorts including Dax and FTSE shorts in the Isa and spreadbets.
I do think there are a lot of bargains about and a bit of bravery could pay off.
I'll be looking at some of those at the beginners/improvers online seminar Tuesday November 1st - mail me at robbiethetrader with "November interested" for details. Also be doing more than usual on DMA as there seems a lot of interest, will do some live examples,
Main thing is to ensure whatever you buy doesn't have a ton of debt - for now low debt or net cash rules.
According to a Hargreaves survey, investor confidence has gone up 14 points since it hit a low in September.
This shows at depressed prices, the market is beginning to look more attractive to investors.
As I said last time, a buy or two of cheap shares as long as they are quality could pay off in time handsomely.
I suppose it's a question of your appetite for risk and whether it really is money you can afford to lose.
And there is sod's law. The moment you go "That is IT! I quit bloody markets!".. you know exactly what will happen, a massive bull market will start.
It's a hard time psychologically to trade or invest.
Elizabeth offered some taster coaching sessions over the lunchbreak at the follow up seminar focusing on the psychology/mindset aspect of trading.
All those who had a taster session have gone ahead and booked a package of three sessions with her.
If you are interested in discovering how coaching could help you become a more successful trader why not book a free 15 minute chat with her? You can ask for your mind clearing freebie at elizabethburns2
**FOLLOW UP SEMINAR HOTEL OR ZOOM? Poss Dec 12th Please vote!**
The next follow up seminar in December is usually the most popular of the year and I know a lot of you want to attend but I'm confused as to whether to go for it and have this one live at the hotel, or stick to zoom!
It would be nice to mix again, chat, have lunch and a drink and all that but after just having had covid part of me is thinking "I'll probably pick something up mixing with loads of people all day."
I'm also thinking "is my speaker equipment still working" - "will the computer I use for live seminars still work" and travelling for a seminar, how bizarre...
So I am totally undecided so can I ask those of you thinking of doing the Xmas follow up (probably December 12th if it's the hotel) whether you'd prefer to come to the hotel (in Windsor) or stick to zoom at home?
I'll count up the votes and regardless of my virus fears I'll do it at the hotel if there is a 60% majority for it.
Just stick "hotel" or "zoom" or "either" in the subject line to robbiethetrader
Will let you know the result next week and sort out a confirmed date and whether it's online or at the hotel.
NT RETREATS: Summer 2023 dates tbc - healthy mind, body.. oh and share dealing....
If you're interested in a few days in the sun in Spain with myself (share dealing), Elizabeth (mind) and Kalpesh (body) drop me an email and we'll put you on the interested list. Quite a few interested and we'll offer places on a first come first served basis. We know quite a few of you who came to the September one want to come again in 2023, we'll try and fit you in for the same dates if we can.
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It's that time of the year when you can add 20k into an isa.
It is an amazing tax perk and we are very lucky to have it, I am especially grateful and remember the feeling a while back when I made the first tax free million in one!
I use Barclays, IG and Interactive Investor for mine.
Interactive Investor have a referral thing for the moment so if you want £125 of fees taken off let me know - available for anyone who invests 10k plus.
On the referral I apparently would get £200 into my account so a win win for both of us?
If you want to go for the referral and the money off email me at robbiethetrader and will send you details of how we can do it.
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BEGINNERS/IMPROVERS November 1
If you want more than the book and see me do it live, come and spend a day with me and live markets online! See trades from my own accounts, research, level 2, and finding great shares from scratch. Plus how to use spreadbetting for further profits. Also psychology, websites to use, when to buy and when not with live examples, building portfolios and tons more, no experience necessary and no question too stupid! And chat to me direct. Also chatroom all day. For more details, costs etc email at robbiethetrader with "November seminar interested"
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