Recent content by El Tigre

Glad a sold this one when i did. 3 dead in mine riot, serious stuff. AQP looking awfull with platinum prices, poor bal sheet? and now this. What is it with African Platinum miners? PLA had such a similar incident a year or so ago.

Pew Pew, Jog on Platinum. big volume, break above 14 cents will be the test right? :eek:

Thanks Cynical, helps a lot.

Re: Leaving 1 share behind - eligable for SPP. Thanks SK and pixel. Good poitns. I mainly had smaller companies in mind (not paying dividends etc) otherwise it would be messy. Currently 2/5 Speculation/low cap stocks I'm holding have had a SPP this Financial year, both appealed. I know...

Re: Leaving 1 share behind - eligable for SPP. Yeah for anything offered at a ratio (rights issue etc) it is useless.

So Share Purchase Plan's - Company capital rasining offering shares to all shareholders at a discounted price to a maximum normally of $15,000. As the discounted rate is normally pretty good, When your trading shares should you allways "leave one behind" in your portfolio? - thus gaining...

Assuming no rent - I currently live off $300 a week no problem. But how much do i need? I think i could live off $150 a week (probably $250 at 60+) Haveing recently finished Uni I was living off $200 week, including $100 rent. Was pretty difficult and can be rather depressing, but one...

I'm in the same boat. Decent whack of cash but still quite a few years off a house. - I general move between 50-90% invested (FPO shares only so far) - rest in the bank - The problem is at 6.5%, turns into 4.5% after tax (30c bracket), more like 1.5% with inflation. hardly seems worth it...

WikiLeaks Announces Release 7x the Size of the Iraq War Logs You also throw around some bogus rape charges? Side note: This got me intrigued --- WikiLeaks has announced an important release on its Twitter account, claiming it'll be seven times bigger than the Iraq war logs, which are...

Agree, closed at 55c on Friday, cheaper than the issue price... What are other holders doing? Waiting to see where it's at on thursday? I don't hold a huge amount so I think i'll accept it anyway (at least don't have to pay brokerage). Side question - whats the effect on the...

cost of labour. We need a Mexico.

dodgy, dodgy, dodgy, in my (limited) opinion. MNC's 40%+ jump today was aparently due to an investment newsletter (peda ~ asf MNC thread, confirmed by annoucement). need someone with some stock market juice to explain it better/why. volumes are interesting though.

hello fellow traders! I Started paying attention to the stock market in highschool. saw shares crash in 2008, combined with bad savings interst rates i went all in. Made a very nice return over 2009, but since then I've realised how little I know ~ and my 'buy-hold-hope' stratergy may not be...