The Official Stocks and Shares Thread

You have a lot of investment power.

I am just getting into the real thing now, after something of a trial run with some mock investment. I just needed to be sure that I wasn't deluding myself into believing myself capable of investing sensibly, as I've gambled rather madly in the past.

Looking for something mid to long-term, though, probably in new energies.

Good move by MTA today, for all the MTA holders on this board, but on no news?! I suspect some has been leaked.

Thanks.

I have put all my money in INCH at the moment, taking it out 10/11th March then going to go for a more diversified portfolio.

I've took some out Cortez, just to reduce my risk.

It should be TD around next Friday.

Ive got around £500 with them now which Im leaving in for the results.

Still looking good for you mate.

Nice 5% increase so far today.

Good Luck, I will be following this.

INCH is here to save you, bargain price at just 27p. I brought at 25p a few days ago, and am already rolling in the money .
Results coming out 10th March expect at LEAST 29p/30p.

Prikstera/Cortez,

Apparently there has been over £500k worth of buys go through after hours today on DES.

So we should definitely see some movement tomorrow, and hopefully for the rest of the week. Maybe rig crew buying, knowing something we don't?

Yeah I saw that on iii, lots of excitement there as you can expect lol.

Was actually closed to £1m in total with one big 500k trade.

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareTrades.asp?shareprice=DES&share=desire_pet

People saying it's already in the price etc though because it was only reported after 4:30 but the actual trade was before.

I don't know though, not really sure how the ins and outs of the market work but it looks like tomorrow will be interesting anyway.

Even if it is in the price, the wave of buys is suspicious. Maybe somebody knows something we don't, and good things are on the horizon.

Still in with Inch?

They took a large fall today, although it is slowly on the up.

Des - I don't understand this at all!!

Would be great if any of you could give me a hand with this -

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24124471#post24124471

Also, I'm well late with this but I made good money on the Cadburys takeover.

Hey mate, I sold out on a 4K profit, so I made 2k less than if I had sold yesterday, but a profit is a profit, its all good.

How do take overs work?

If you say bought shares at £5 a share and they get taken over for £10 a share, are you shares essentially worth £10 each but in the take over company instead?

It depends. The buying company will make an offer to the shareholders of the selling company. The offer can be in cash, loan notes (basically a IOU issued by the buying company) or shares in the buying company. You can have combined offers (e.g. 1 share in the buying company and 200p for each share of the target) and shareholders can be offered alternatives. Sometimes regulations will force the buyer to offer cash or a cash alternative.

In your example, you'd only own shares in the buying company if you'd accepted £10 of shares in the buyer instead of your old £5 shares. If the offer was in cash, then you'd just have £10 cash and no shares.

Nice one, thanks