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Hi Thanks for your reply. I'm getting the figures from the website morningstar http://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/stockreport/default.aspx?tab=10&vw=fs&SecurityToken=0P00007OGS]3]0]E0WWE$$ALL&Id=0P00007OGS&ClientFund=0&CurrencyId=GBP The figures you quoted seem more understandable.

Confusion regarding ebitda I was looking at the income statement of Inmarsat as I'm thinking of buying a few shares in this company. One thing that confuses me about the income statement is the 2011 ebitda figure of 158.16 with the the operating profit being 300.17. Compare this to the ebitda...

Are any of you fine people out there having problems using the TD Waterthouse site after they updated? I've had a few problems. I phoned them up a while ago, and they said my browser was too new and advised me to use an older version - so I did. Even now on the site there are annoying things...

Hello Now then. I'm thinking of buying and holding, possibly for life, a varied range of securities. Obviously this been the case I want my name to appear on the registar so that I get my twice yearly cheque as well as other perks sent directly to me. In addition I like the security knowing...

Hello Now then. I'm thinking of buying and holding, possibly for life, a varied range of securities. Obviously this been the case I want my name to appear on the registar so that I get my twice yearly cheque as well as other perks sent directly to me. In addition I like the security knowing...

UK stamp duty only applies if you live in the UK, and buy shares that are listed on the UK stock market. If you live in the UK and buy shares that are listed in other countries then you don't pay the UK rate. Stamp duty only applies to shares as well - if you open up a CFD account or...

Put on your speakers and listen to this... :p Well, made me laugh...but then again I have no shares in Northern Rock!:p

Thanks to contributing to the thread. I tend to view the stock market as a giant maths game rather than anything very serious. I have tried to treat the stock market seriously, but alas due to the folly of it I gave up on that approach years ago. To me the stock market is as random as a string...

The myths about setting a stop/loss Now then, time to cause an argument I think. Common conjecture is that we must set a stop loss in order to make money on the stock market - for example if one goes long on the FTSE and it drops 200 points then if we had set a stop loss at say 20 points then...

RIWF I don't think its the desire to gamble as such, its more a inner drive to undo all your good trading work. I read a book regarding self sabotage not too long ago and it does seem to be a key reason why many people fail to achieve things. To mask the problem by betting pennies is not...

"I am keen to dissolve whats standing in the way of me making money and keeping hold of it!" lol Indeed I said in another thread a few days ago that's its not how much you make but how much you can hold on to. You should read the book "The Midas Method by Stuart Goldsmith. That tells you all...

Top post SMCCREEDY "boring but profitable" is indeed a phrase to remember. When I started trading I treated it as gambling really out of naivety. As loses mounted I'd risk more and more hoping that I'd guess the direction correctly and recoup my losses - it never happened and have been...

Discipline is definitely the key. Using various trading systems i've double even trebled my bank within just a few months, but then I get the gambling bug and do daft things, and lose what i've made within days. I guess making money is not so much how much you make but how much you can hold on...

I agree with Damien CFD's do offer the ease of shorting markets and that's about it. CMC did offer another advantage of no commission but as from the 7th of May they're charging £8 a go so all in all the differences between CFD's and convention share trading are becoming less and less obvious...

Setting stop/loss positions are notoriously dodgy. Its the same with price alerts. I have 13 companies (bad luck huh) and I use to place price alerts on each one to warn me when they'd breached certain levels. First thing in a morning and last thing at night they'd sometimes fire off - due I...