BATM Advanced Communications BVC

This morning was the year end results for BATM Communications. I checked onto the LSE site at 9.00am French time and saw that there was an item of news for BVC. I clicked on it and found a report from Reuters that BATM results were not good and they were not going to pay a dividend!! So I quickly got onto TD Waterhouse and sold my shares. I made a loss of £24 but that was a relief as the sp fell below my sell price and the likelihood of it improving soon is not great.

I was then able to put that money into Orogen Gold (ORE) where I bought some shares at 0.96p. I have been following these for quite a while as MVC but they changed their name today so I thought that might be an omen!!

Bad week in the markets!!!

This has been a bad week for the markets, well at least for the shares I hold!  There has been a little movement and there are signs that some companies may improve soon but in the main, lots of my shares are doing badly.

I might have news of ALR and VOG on Monday and BVC on the 8^th of March. I am waiting for news of TSTR  at any time and on March 7^th there is a meeting of VAL. Anything is possible but it is very tedious just waiting. The other  week I felt like a trader, buying and selling in a week but now, nothing is happening to enable me to sell and move to another share!!! 

The international situation is difficult, with turbulence in North Africs and it didn't help this morning with the London Stock Exchange down for several hours and no trading!

Ah well, perhaps next week will be better.

End of the week round up

Well the week started well with Thor mining going up and me selling. Then I bought Valirx and Pinnacle Telecom expecting a bit of movement and nothing happened. Either it has been a very quiet week or the problems with the new software at the London Stock Exchange have had an effect on trading.
Monday are the results for PINN and lost of people on the bb are getting excited. I have a feeling that even with good news the price will; go down and I will be stuck in PINN for some time to come! If I can sell and make a profit, then I want to top up on TSTR, PTCM orBVC and also buy some Medavinci MVC a mining company with interests in some old gold mines.Ah well, we will see.

Alternative Energy Ltd

I got quite excited this morning to discover that someone had bought 700000 shares in ALR!! This lifted the price a little to $0.06/0.07  so that can't be bad.
I have introduce a planning calendar to my blog to list key events when results are due and it seems to work by clicking on Google calendar button.
 I thought I would let you know what shares I hold so here goes:-

1. Alternative Energy Ltd                                    ALR
2. Angel Biotechnology Holdings PLC                ABH
3. BATM Advanced Communications LTD        BVC
4. Greencore Group PLC                                  GNC
5. International Mining and Infrastructure PLC    IMIC
6. Porta Communications PLC                           PTCM
7. Tristar Resources                                           TSTR
8. Victoria Oil and Gas                                       VOG

So these are the shares I hold, so watch with interest!!

Weekly Round Up

After I posted yesterday about Alternative Energy Ltd, one of the posters I see on the PTCM board posted that ALR were expected to make a bigger loss than last year!! I asked where he had heard that but haven't received a reply yet! If he is right, then I will hold the shares until they make a profit because I feel it is a company worth persevering with. If he is wrong, then my investment will be safe!
Everyone is still waiting for news of the licence on Victoria Oil and Gas VOG. Some investors are getting fed up and are selling out but the hard core are holding. I put my monthly sell order in with HSBC France for 10p, so I hope that it all happens this month, I'm not holding my breath though!!
I topped up in Porta Comms this week and now hold over 700k shares. I have a topslice sell order for 0.33p and another at 0.6p
Tristar Resources TSTR is holding up well and remains over 1p despite news of dilution to fund the mining. I am holding and have a sell order in for 2.39p. The price of antimony keeps going up and if I have any spare funds then I will top up here.
Finally, I am expecting news of BVC on Monday and hope that my sell order of 42p is achieved. All in all there is a lot happening and I hope I sell some shares next week.

BATM Advanced Communications BVC

This is one of the shares I bought last year, I researched this company and decided to invest because they were profitable and paid a dividend. I bought in at 23.45p and since then it has been between 21 and 23p. The results are due next week and today the sp has started to move upwards. It is an Israeli company which produces hi-tech telephone systems and its sp dropped considerably last year because it lost a contract with a large mobile phone company. I believe that with good results next week the sp could return towards its levels of 40p/50p that it was at last year.Today it finished at 26p  so a good start!
Most of the rest of my shares have been fairly dormant today, although Greencore seems to be making a comeback. I was hoping to buy more at a lower sp but I fear I may have missed the opportunity. Also a share that I sold some time ago, Low and Bonar, is on the move and finished at 57p today. I believe that this may go to £1 this year.We will see!!