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Colin
Buy Boohoo at up to 35p offer, target 55p to sell.
Sell Avanti @ up to 160 bid, target 20p to buy back.
Steve
BUY Mirada (MIRA) – 5p
SELL Xcite Energy (XEL) – 15p
Chris Standing
Buy NEW 0.095p
Sell AFPO 1.65p
Christopher Foster
Active Energy plc ( AEG ) moved up from 3p to 5.75p during 2015 , but if what they say is in their pipeline comes to fruition it could become a 15p share in 2016 .
Antondec
Buy tip Amur Minerals (AMC) 7.75p
Reckon a t/o will occur as resources increase and revised to tier 1
Sell tip Lonmin (LMI) 71.5p
Death by debt – another 0p in my opinion despite recent cash raise
Steven
Skil ports logistics (SPL) – 54p to rise
Tungsten (TUNG) 37p to fall
Qasem
They are now producing around 3300 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
“The Erskine field is generating cash return at current oil prices. Approximately 50% of production is gas, mitigating the effects of low oil prices.
Production net to Serica in August and September and october and november totalled 408,000 boe which generates approximate sales revenues of US$16.2 million at an average price of US$40 per boe.
The field is still expected to generate good cash flow throughout 2016, even if oil prices remain at current levels. Assuming steady ongoing production through 2016, we expect operating costs to be in the order of US$24 per boe or below”
Using a conservative (and somewhat rough) mathematical guide I’ve tried to work out the revenue and profit generated for 2016.
Going on the above figures (as long as there’s no complications) they’re expected to produce 1,241,000 of oil for the year from the Erskine field.
This would generate a revenue at $40 per barrel of (1,241,000 x $40) $49,640,000.
Working on their profit being $20 per barrel (as operating costs are to be in the order of US$20 per boe or below) this would work out to $24.8m (£16.53m) for the year.
Serica Energy’s market capitalisation is currently around £21m.
If we use 2016’s profit to generate fair value for the company on a P/E of 10 then this would put the company market cap at £165m or 66p per share.
DUCK AND DIVE
BUY: DDD Group 2p
SELL: Sports Direct 564.50p
eshaitan
To buy, fox marble at 13.875p. (FOX) One you have recommended quite a lot. All their quarries are now producing so I think the sales will really accelerate in 2016.
To sell, 88energy (88e) Bid price 0.395p, I think this will go to zero or thereabouts.
Shaun
If im going to win i need to go for it so…..buy has to be an oily Ithaca IAE 28p
Sell needs to be a zero to win so wandisco WAN 86p
I wonder if 2016 will year of the shorts (again)
Shaun
Jason
Buy IMM (Immupharma) @ 30p
Currently recruiting for an accelerated Phase 3 testing of their Lupuzor drug. SP had slipped to 19p from 65p 52wk highs on little news but finally moving again. Given collaboration partner (Simbec-Orion) agreed to reinvest a significant proportion of their fees in IMM at a fixed price of £1.50 per share which at the time was a 200% premium, now 400%(!) perhaps gives an indication of potential should trail be successful.
Caveat emptor and all the normal risk warnings for this slow burner.
Jason
Sell GKP at any price.. this will be the year that high debt, low oil price & regional risks come home to roast and GKP goes same way as AFR IMHO.
Smudgedan
Buy FAST at 2.6
Sell ECK at 49.5
Steve Sutton
BUY…. Publishing Technology (PTO) £1.30p
SELL….Blinkx (BLNX) 17.25p
addick
Buy BCN@ 77p. Year end…at least £5.00.
Sell MONI @ 3p. Year end…0.00p.
Niall
Redx at upto 90p
Craig
Buy Cyan Holdings plc – 0.165p.
Sell Peer TV at 1.875p. Total wipeout or consolidation then relentless dilution.
Mr E Munny
Buy NMD 118p
Sell PAA 6.5p
Naeem
Buy Armadale (acp) @ 3.25
Sell cyan @ 0.1600
turbograndad
Stay in cash, and break even.
Daniel Victor
Buy Titon Holdings TON.Sell Eco City Vehicles ECV.
alcira16247
Buy Aviva (AV). @ £5.19
Sell TalkTalk ( TALK) @ £2.17
Simple Moving Avarice
Buy TRAK 362
Sell MTV 0.015
Daniel Victor
Sorry – forgot the prices.Buy Titon Holdings [TON] at 99p [96p middle].Sell Eco City Vehicles [ECV] at 2.5p [2.63p middle].
Poohbear
Buy New World Oil & Gas at 0.0825
Sell GKP at 16.75
Francis
sell ——purplebricks group —- at 97 ——it typical story stock ,all talk, all losses
buy—— softcat — at 328—- the financial figures are like the steps of a stairs (going up)
Inve$tor
Sell GKP 16.75
Buy HNL 7.75
ADY
BUY MONI @ 3p
SELL IMTK @ 4.5p
MORPHINE
Always take some profits. Nothing like a profit even if small.
Buy JLP and BKY
Buy some physical gold or silver.
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Koa
My top tip for 2015/2016 and forever more is not to be foolish enough to pay Camkite or any other loon from the lse asylum 4500 GBP like some poor poster did for his unlicensed financial ‘advice’, worse than that Camkite apparently tried to talk the said poster into giving him his account number and log in details to his Hargreaves Lansdowne account.
For further information just read the OXS BB in the lse asylum.
http://www.camkite.co.uk/
Meanwhile Camkite is spending his financially ‘advised’ earned cash on a holiday in the Southern Hemisphere.
Phil
I thought I has done this already.
Buy OPTI Optibiotix @ 78p
Sell SPD Sports Direct @ 564p
csjcs
buy Jubilee platinum big year ahead now 3.45p
sell Lmi 86p
sell Us dollar QE coming back
Mammy Yoko
SELL – INTQ @ 59.25 target 0p
BUY – NIPT @ 18.18 target 35p
David Russell
I bought VOLUTION at around £1.40 in July I think?, but I also bought ETQ which VOLUTION took over. I believe at £1.90 I will buy a few more in Volution (Fan) but I think we will see £2.40 + by March based on ETQ’ results . I have a stop loss on Fan at £1.75. I already own a lot at £1.40 so I can afford the gamble.:)
csjcs
buy jlp 3.40p
sell lmi 86p
BobbyChariot
Long – WorldPay (WPG). Buy at 303.9p and target 600p. Slow and steady this one, the company Monitise should have been if it had got it’s act in order.
Short – Pantieson Resources (PANR). Sell at 145.6 and target 20p. Grossly overhyped and if the flow test isn’t spectacular then ouch.
Also like for 2016 in no particular order:
Sell gold to 900.
Buy Bitcoin to 1k+.
A2 Milk (ASX-A2M). Chinas new two kid policy will have good effect on imported Kiwi baby milk. Shares up a lot already.
JPY looks good against GBP and EUR.
Sell Imagination tech (IMG)
Bottom not yet reached in commodities and oil yet. Wait for some big ones to go bust first.
Load up on safe boring divvy stocks, defensive ones are good.
William Simpson
buy prox @ 1.30 sell zox@0.985
handybrownone
Fun – are you keeping score? These are my health stock picks – they are all punts and not “investments”
TW Note - have deleted post - this is a competition - guive us your buy and sell at offer & bid respectively. If you want to just ramp your portfolio go to theLSE asylumHutch
Buy SXX at 14.25 Ask
Sell XEL at 15.25 Bid
Elrico
Buy Fastforeward Innovations – Essentialy a fund for disruptive tech and it had heavy weight investors on board, including JM.
Sell Avanti comms – -70p, full of wind and less money
handybrownone
Didn’t read the rules – so sorry TW :) Just jumped in
Buy – Futura 28p
Sell – PeerTV 2.2p
Alan Dorling
Buy Armadale Capital ACP 3.25p offer
Sell Mulberry Group MUL 929p bid
Phil Baker
Buy Minoan at 7p buy price 29.12 at close
sell INTQ 60.25p sell price 29.12 at close
Chad_John
BUY – Inspired Energy (INSE), 13.5p
SELL – Jiasen (JSI), 5.25p
James
BUY – ITQ (Interquest) – Buy at 86p – Valuation looks due for a correction if trading update that should be due in early January confirms continued strong trading, with results following in March. From my lens, compared to peers, Interquest looks very under-valued.
SELL – MTV – 0.017p
David M
Buy Lonmin (LMI) @ 81p
Sell InternetQ (INTQ) @ 61p
testpack3
BUY SOU ( Sound Energy) 17.50p
SELL GKP ( Gulf Key Pet) 15.50p
chris
Buy NIPT@18.5. Sell MTV@0.0175
Pierre
This is a risky one but can be interesting as a cash shell buy GWIK at 0.19
sell AVN at 170.25
certainly now there are rumors they should sell communication to ISIS
and for the rest I have big hopes for JLP and XTR
eyeguy
Buy Prem 0.40p
Sell IntQ 61.5p
Toss up for top buy with Kefi and JLP-both good stocks I hold.
Terry H
Buy PHTM , cash rich and will benefit from Japan where ID’s are being brought in.
Sand
Buy JLP.L 3.35p
Sell MUL.L 938p
Lee Rhodes
Buy Hwc @ 14
Sell Talk @ 214
warun boofit
Buy Sacoil at 1p
Sell Afriag at 0.15
Drunken Sailor
Sell Watchstone (WTG) TCFKA Quindell 265 Bid. (Market Cap £121M for a bunch of loss making crap and the frauds even SGH were not stupid enough to buy)
Buy Petropavlosk (POG) 6.48 Offer
Steveg
Buy Venn Life Sciences @22
Sell Fever Tree @598
Amateur Optimist
Buy Nighthawk (HAWK) @ ~1.3p : because my dart board tells me so.
Sell Pantheon (PANR) @ -£1.45 : because gravity always wins.
Mav
Sell InternetQ above zero
Buy Rio Tinto 1975
John
Buy POG at 6.52p
Sell MJW at 300p
PHIL J
Buy LBB at 5.25p they’ll bounce back
Sell CYAN
paul
#FAST to buy @ 2.60p CF will move this forward in 2016. Forecast 6p by 2017
#PANR to sell @ 1.50p come too far to fast in depressed oil climate. Forecast 70p by 2017
AHK 786
Buy Oracle Coalfields Plc (ORCP) at 2.4
Sell Watchstone Group Plc (WTG) at 316.75
Andy
Buy Auhua. It’s taken a while to pluck up the courage to tip this given the obvious negative opinions on Chinese AIM stocks on shareprophets. . The funny thing is, I have agreed with all of them. Except this one. I think you have it wrong.
Andy
Buy Auhua. It’s taken a while to pluck up the courage to tip this given the obvious negative opinions on Chinese AIM stocks on shareprophets. . The funny thing is, I have agreed with all of them. Except this one. I think you have it wrong. Oh, nearly forgot. Bid offer is 1.6/2p
Scampi
Buy Independent Resources (IRG) @ 0.70 (0.675 mid) – current market cap £2m – 1 producing asset in Egypt and plans to acquire more in near term.
Sell Motive Television (MTV) @ 0.02 (0.0225 mid). Company run for benefit of lying, dishonest directors. Current market cap £280,000. Almost bust – subjected shareholders to repeated dilution. Have death spiral DEBT with Bergen which dwarves the market cap and will need to raise substantial amounts to keep lights on given rate of historic cash burn.
JustCurious
Buy Obtala Resources at 6.5p
Sell Avanti Communications at 170p
Andy
I forgot my sell. AFRI is my choice.
Lister
Buy SXX Sirius Minerals at 15.5p. This is massive but may take a year or two longer!
Sell PFP Pathfinder Minerals at 0.80p. This is worthless without reinstatement of its licence.
Bear
Buy MTFB Motif Bio at 44.0p. The sky’s the limit if this gets approval for its innovative antibiotic.
Sell REM at 0.73p. This may rise on short term hype but fall back on minimal fundamentals.
Bearfacts
Buy Premaitha (nipt) at 18.50 as Should double this year once sales/revenue start.
(We own shares)
Sell and short Purplebricks (purp). 95p and get some shorts on stock with funds from sale.
This stock is going to get revalued much lower during year as is way overpriced.
( emailed you re this stock as a short recently and have some more info emailing you in next day or so)
Purpletricks here we come!
All the best…..
modsa
Buy CAMB an aquisitive motor trader, sell INSP a Chmp boiler seller that entered the game too late! well ramped by DL!
filthy lucre
Buy SGH @ A$0.83
Sell LMI @ 83.5p
P.S. I don’t want the prize when I win.
Backwoodsman
Buy Pantheon Resources PANR 156p
Sell Genel Energy GENL 168.50p
Stulloch12
Buy AFC Energy 23.5p
Sell Sirius Petroleum 0.25p
Skivers
Sell: Avanti communications (AVN) 170p
Buy: Bahamas Petroleum (BPC) 2.25p
Nick2020
Buy Redt Energy (RED) @ 8p Massive potential and ready to go. Has some cash.
Sell Motive Television (MTV) @ 0.02
Ozi
Buy EMH (European metals holding ) @ 9.5 p
Sell WAND (wandisco) @ 86 p
Geoff
Buy MOS at 9p
Sell GKP at 15.25p
Hoggness
Buy Red @ 8p
Sell Intq @ 61.5
David2001
Buy PROX @1,35
Sell Avanti @ 160
Roger
Buy WLFE
Sell Sula
Craig M
Sell UKOG at 1.3p
Buy RGM at 0.6p
Shareprofits2
Strong BUY Prox 1.35
Shareprofits2
Strong BUY Prox @ 1.35
Shareprofits2
Strong BUY Prox @ 1.35.
Shareprofits2
Strong BUY Prox @1.35
Keith
Keith
Buy: Hayward Tyler (HAYT) 95p
Sell: Powerhouse Energy (PHE) 0.7p
Sidam
Buy DEMG @ 4.25
Steve Y
Buy AST at 1.04p (some impressive holders and the money is there to move to production now— the asset is substantial and not reflected in the share price despite the Henderson converting option re their debt (up to 30% promised as a max))
Sell GKP at 14.7p (the bonds now dominate the equity here— a possible wipeout or maybe a confetti issue to give the assets to the bondholders— either way its over for the shareholders)
BernieBoy
I know I am a muppet and past the 3rd date – but I just got back to work and saw the competition. Hopefully you can make a little exception?
Buy ZOL 23.5p
Sell MTV 0.02p
john
buy QFI Quadrise fuels sell LGO
Sonny j
Buy VRP 3.70p
Sell AXM 0.13p