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B, we must have made all the switches during exactly the same updates yesterday, as our percentage rises for the last 24 hours are identical 1t 32.56%

Oh, and did you spot the move to Ian Millward this morning?

Nope. I know I'm usually busy and unpredictable on a Monday, which often loses me money, so I bought up my divis in Roy Keane before going to bed last night and am hoping for the best.

B

Not a bad idea. I would argue that you bought them a little early as Monday's daytrading was quite profitable.

I'm thinking about putting money into Keane in the last hours if he is still rising and if the current day-trading starts getting a bit sticky on Wednesday. The logic being: why spent 2% on someone who is rising but will attract no dividend when you can spend it on someone rising not as quickly, but who will get some dividend.

Tuesday, 4th October - 5pm

A tricky situation: Chanderpaul has tanked. I need to get into a day-trader and then a cricket share for 5:15am tomorrow. Or I go straight for a cricket share now.

The former is not looking attractive as the leaders are all football shares, and overpriced ones at that. If I go for one of them then I will need to sell at a later time for Kallis who is the cheapest of the cricket shares. This costs me an additional 2%, but is attractive if the day-trading is right on the footballers.

If I go for a cricket share now. Then I go for Akhtar who is slightly more expensive than Kallis, but he is moving up in the right direction where as Kallis is static or going down.

I think I'm going to go for Akhtar and do it now...

Thursday, 6th October - just after midnight

I was wrong with Akhtar. I should have gone for Kallis. Correcting my error cost me 4.8% of the stack

Of course what I *really* should've done was buy Lee, as he was on the winning side

Then the daytrading through Tuesday evening and overnight was rubbish.

Life improved a bit on Thursday with Jankovic being the #1 share for the whole day, and to top it off I got a bit of divi on her - just over 8p per share, which ain't bad on a buy in price of £1.16

That said, it looks like Roy Keane was a good buy. An opening price of £5.88 and closing price of £7.02 and a dividend of £4.99 gives a yield of 104.3%. So well done Master B

I, somewhat stupidly, forgot to make a note of my Monday midnight valuation to compare it to the one now. I'll take a look at the 4am prices as a proxy tomorrow morning, and make a comparison to the Roy Keane for divi option.

Friday, 7th October - 11pm

The comparison of my day-trade to B's Keane divi strategy shows that he beat me 104% to 90% over the two days.

Since then life has been quiet day-trading through Peurta and then another unknown tennis star, Ljubicic. And I expect the account that is capping tomorrow morning to make it to £19m.

As I said: it's been quiet

And I still blame you for the reason I spent a good half-hour this afternoon downtrading to £1,999,938.

B

Saturday, 8th October - 12 noon

I make that posting of yours time-stamped at soon after 3am. That's an odd time of day for you to be around

Well I hope you restarted your account as soon as you'd posted that. It would have cost you 1% commission to do that. You don't get capped on £2m if you're holding shares, you are allowed £2m + 1% in value. Therefore there was you with £2 in your hand, an hour to go before capping and a 2% margin for error. Let the little bugger run I say

Because I don't downtrade, of course.

B

4 hours later.

Well that's another win bonus pissed up the wall

I didn't bother.

B

Sunday, 9th October - 10pm

I did a dumb thing today

Around 2pm this afternoon Takuma Sato ceased to be the top moving share. I checked it for two updates and it seemed certain that he was flagging.

I sold and I bought the new top mover, Hanchutova.

I didn't bother checking back until just now, and I've discovered that she was a short term top share. Sato has moved back as the clear top mover.

So I sell our strangely named tennis player, and buy back the crap jap driver. All for a cost of a little over 8% of my total stack. Bollocks

Monday, 10th October - 7:30pm

I'm getting a bit bored of this to be honest.

So to liven things up, I decided today to muck about with a few daft ideas.

For example 2 of my accounts have been invested in Dean Macey all day long

One of them has just been switched to Gavin Henson for dividend purposes.

The other will go elsewhere with divis, which will be decided upon at a later time.

So to recap:

Alpha (1st week) - out of Macey, into Henson at 7pm Monday for dividend
Beta (2nd Week) - day-trading and will do so until at least Tuesday morning.
Gamma (capping run) - day-trading for the full period
Delta (downtrading week) - currently in Macey. Will switch out before midnight.

Thursday, 13th October - after midnight, and waiting for the market to reopen.

Some solid day-tade action these last two days

Three shares: Peacock, Betson and Murphy. All with strong growth and a clear cut switch over point. Murphy at the end even came with a bit of dividend - 12.5p per share for 6½ hours. Nice

The net result is that the Beta and Gamma accounts have knocked 7 shades of shit out of the other two which were invested for dividend. A total growth of 149.1% in those two high performers.

The Alpha account held Gavin Henson. It performed OK, with the share price rising from £2.96 to £3.66 plus a divi of £1.87 for yield of 86.8%

Delta didn't do as well. For a laugh (and also because I don't care much what the account does, being as it is the downtrading account this week) I went for Rio Ferdinand. His share price was a rather rich £5.21 at the beginning of the two days, and paid a goodish £3.89 in dividend. However, his price has spent that last two days going steadily downwards, to sit at a depressed £4.98 right now. Overall the return was a meagre 70.2% - half what the daytrading accounts managed.

Friday, 14th October - 5pm

Everything had been going so well right up until the time that I decided Ken Doherty was fading back around midnight last night.

Cue a mad fit of over-trading...

I went for McGuire at midnight, who then went and tanked in the early hours

I switched to Iestyn Harris first thing, he then went flat late morning.

I got bounced into Amir Khan after lunch, he tanked within an hour or two.

I'm now, as of about half an hour ago, holding Jamie Peacock.

I don't want to think of how much I've wasted on commission charges today. Any chance that I had of getting to £20m in my capping account is well and truly stymied now

The market has been bloody crazy over the last 24 hours. I've bounced through too many shares as well, trying to get up to 16-17m before tomorrow morning. F**king annoying, it is.

B

Saturday, 15th October - 12noon

It's frustrating when that happens isn't it

The market did settle down in the evening and Peacock started to put on some serious percentages overnight. The account that I set off with a 'flying start' (def: knock a few percent off from £2m and get back into the market so that you get the 4am to what ever time you get up on a Saturday morning trade) almost got capped. It was within 1% of going splat, so that indicates some of the strength of Peacock's share price.

The capping account, Gamma, did make it to £20m. In fact it made it £21m and I think was only £50k or so short of making it to £22m! So that's nice

And now we've got the Rugby League win bonus to look forward to. As I type, Harris, Peacock and McGuire are all on the up and up. So that begs the question: has no-one ever heard of Lesley Vainikolo? He's a quid cheaper than the other three.

Sunday, 16th October - just after midnight.

Well that was nice and easy

You sit in Stepanek shares all day, apart from 10 minutes across the 6pm win bonus deadline, when you buy Vainikolo (or if you're like me and have multiple accounts, you do a little hedging in a couple of accounts.) Expect to see my capping and 2nd week account go gliding up the table

As for tomorrow's win bonus: well after Sorenstam's blinder of a round today, it looks like Wie has pissed this one up the wall.

If you're like me, you're stupid, and buy Leeds Rhinos shares at 6pm.

B