Things are not all bad!

Currently, I am trading on the LSE, Euronext and CFDs and when I switched my computer on this morning, I found that one of my Euronext shares, Ageas, was doing very well! I bought them 2 days ago at €1.33 and this morning they were trading at €1.46. I put in a sell order for €1.47 and the sp promptly went down. However, this afternoon the sp hit €1.47 and in fact hit €1.485 but I sold mine at €1.47 for 6.27% profit so I now have a buy order in for Credit Agricole for €3.10 so we will have to see. If Ageas sp drops back to the €1.30s then I will buy back in. This is the 3rd time I have traded this share and in March it was trading at €1.80.

VOG is still languishing below 3p and is very tedious! I live in hopes that one day soon it will be above 4p and once it gets above 5p then my shares will be in profit! However, if it got above 4p then I would be doing well with my CFDs! However, for the moment, I will content myself with a little profit from Belgium!

Some good news today!!

I received 2 RNS today that brought a little cheer to an otherwise grim market picture. The first was half year results from Pinnacle Technology Group where sales and profit had increased significantly and the second from Red Rock Resources where they had the results of gold testing at the Mikei gold project in SW Kenya.This RNS seemed to indicate very good gold returns from the samples tested and perhaps in the future it will help push the sp up!
The PINN RNS was good but not spectacular and seemed to follow previous trends where the sp rises in anticipation of good results only for the sp to fall when the results are good but not spectacular!
My CFDs are slightly negative at the moment as VOG is doing badly with its sp. Once it stays over 3p then I will be feeling confident but for the moment I am just tracking the situation waiting for an upturn possibly driven by an RNS saying that gas is being supplied and customers are paying!

Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG)

Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG) updated their website with details of how they are progressing in Cameroon. My CFD trading on VOG is going slowly and I did make a small profit yesterday when the sp briefly flirted above 3p! I had previously taken out another 50k shares at 2.89p and sold them at 2.94p to get my first profit on the board. I was then able to buy them back later in the day for 2.9p. It will be interesting to see whether the sp moves above 3p today with the latest progress report and whether it can stay above 3p!

At last!!!!!!!!!!

At last, TSTR have issued an RNS!! This gives an operational update on its activities worldwide and generally was very positive. It will be interesting to see what the market makes of it all. For me the key things were lots of antimony, readily available; JV partner ready with $30M and permission to build local processor.
PINN also issued an RNS this morning on gaining the contract again for the BBC Big Weekend and highlighting its part in the Queen's Jubilee. That might go some way to explaining the surge in sp yesterday afternoon!

Change of direction!

On Friday I sold a load of TSTR shares and opened a CFD account with the proceeds. I had a CFD account some years ago and lost a lot of money through not understanding about trading. Since then I have learned a lot, often the hard way, and so this morning I opened a CFD trade on Victoria Oil and Gas at 2.9p with 100000 shares. It seems to me that unless I am very unlucky, the sp will rise upto and past the delivery and charging of gas in June/July. As the last placing was at 3p, I think that I have got in at a good time. So, I now have 200k shares and 100k shares on CFD. I still have TSTR shares and we should have some news in the next fortnight.
My plan is that if I can make a profit on my CFD account, I will take my original stake out and just trade on the profit! Time will tell, I will keep you updated!

Berkeley Mineral Resources PLC

Berkeley Mineral Resources PLC issued an interesting RNS today stating they have a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese company to enter a Joint Venture to process the lead and zinc tailings at Kabwe! On the face of it, it is really good news which goes some way to explain the rise in sp yesterday! However, the sp has fallen today when you could be forgiven for thinking that it would have continued to rise  on the RNS. Just goes to show how many investors are very sceptical about investing in BMR when so many of them have lost money in the past! I had out go out this morning before the market opened so I put in a sell order only to find that when I returned some hours later the sp had gone down!
Yesterday there was a massive decline in VOG shares and the sp closed at 2.7p! I tried to sell some of my TSTR shares to buy more VOG but my Kill and fill order got rejected! Today the sp has gone back up to 2.79p so I would have been in profit! That's the way it goes I suppose!

TriStar Resources

I recently sold a load of TSTR shares and bought more VOG shares. However, with the markets being a bit grim, I sold the VOG shares I bought with the TSTR money and bought TSTR shares!! I sold the TSTR at 0.88p and today bought them at 0.8175p. In the process I got 4000 extra TSTR shares and 400 extra VOG shares all for the same position as I started!
Also there are only 11 trading days left before there should be an RNS from TSTR so I am hoping that my investment will start to pay off. I now have 566k TSTR shares and 200k VOG shares.