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Some of you may regard this as boring. There is after all, ALMOST, nothing written below that I have not written before. But I promised my top 5 shorts as part of my 10 tips of the year and Quindell (QPP) is my top short. Quite simply these shares are worthless. And so selling at 42p or whatever you can get is a sure fire 100% win. This is a “niller” at so many levels. Where do we start?
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Simon
Tom
Your advice might be correct but please tell me where a private investor can short ? The CFD and SB companies have put up the shutters.
Simon
Tom Winnifrith
Filthy
You really a a prize QPP owning a’hole. The shares in old money are sub 3p so whether it is my 7p sell call, or a 40p sell call I was right. Just as I was on CUP, IOF, RRL, SER, VIY, BLNX, GPX, GKP etc my big short calls were all right and aholes like you were wrong all the way.
On the long tack Steve & I easily outperform with winning tips on the N50.
so my track record is actually v good & consistent. Your record of being an a’hole is also consistent.
Enjoy poverty you peasant
T
UpandUnder
Hey filthy, great to see you are still hanging on every word Tom has to stay!
winsome147
I echo Simon’s question. What is the point in telling readers to short QPP when there are no shares available to short?
Chris Jones
Tom,
What is worse?
A bunch of directors keep a fake company going for years with dubious ways and the share price ticks down slowly over time eg.10% fall a year it suddenly goes bust
or
A company of 800 million is exposed and share price loses over 90% eg. Death by a thousand cuts as many PIs average down and hundreds lose tens of thousands each?
Simon
Tom
why must you be so abusive? It does no one any good. If you really recommended selling at 7p just admit that you got the timing wrong but that the analysis at the time was correct. The main thing that was wrong was that you underestimated how long the house of cards could be held up.
Simon
Tom Winnifrith
Simon
As you know I am normally charm incarnate. But Filthy is an A1 pest who has posted QPP moron type nonsense here as well as attacks on me for almost a year. Describing the man as an a’hole is in fact an unwarranted insult.
I apologise to the worldwide a’hole community for comparing them to filthy lucre. That was unwarranted.
T
Tom Winnifrith
Simon & Winsome
http://www.shareprophets.com/views/9812/having-problems-shorting-quindell-go-to-etx
The answer to your question
happy shorting
Tom