(binned per thread starter's request) The big... IF

Today I doubled my bet on Ceres Power. It seems the analyst community have been examining the Alternative Power and Ceramic Fuel Cell market. Here are the findings so far:

I did not buy the market report, I didn't even enquire about the price thereof. It was enough to see who is in the headline.
http://gulffeed.com/111630/fuel-cell-market-2011-2023/

The combined heat and power (electric) market is expected to grow by more than 15% CAGR over the next 6 years.
http://www.satprnews.com/2017/08/18/micro-combined-heat-power-market-report-analysis-share-trends-estimations-forecast-to-2023/

The global market for Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells is expected to reach $935m by 2022. Guess who makes these....
http://www.satprnews.com/2017/08/22/2022-global-planar-solid-oxide-fuel-cell-market-split-by-product-types-with-sales-revenue-price-market-share-analysis-during-the-forecast-year/

Residential Energy Storage systems, which is not quite where Ceres Power operate except to say that if the storage was some kind of agri-gas or bottled Propane that would fit.
http://www.satprnews.com/2017/08/21/residential-energy-storage-systems-market-panasonic-corporation-ceres-power-holdings-plc-mercedes-benz-ag-nissan-co-ltd-orison-corporation/

Will have a look at this, could be interesting

Ceres Power successfully completes a year-long trial of its combined domestic heat and power unit. Yaay!

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/CWR/13373365.html

I hope there no "Resident Arseholes" in here !!

Here we go! Major players are collaborating to produce high-output propulsion systems which are electrically powered.

There are existing electrically powered motors for big things like ships and trains, this is the first I am aware of for airborne vehicles.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-se-rolls-royce-hldg-siemens/siemens-airbus-rolls-royce-team-up-on-hybrid-electric-propulsion-idUSKBN1DS18H

Today's announcement .... Revenues for the first half expected to increase by 80%

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/CWR/13466923.html

For followers of SpaceX, this news (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/08/spacex-zuma-launch-falcon-9.html) about the first launch of Falcon Heavy.

SpaceX is now looking towards its next challenge, launching the Falcon Heavy, its largest rocket to date. Musk announced on social media last week that the Falcon Heavy would be launched at the end of the month (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-at-the-end-of-january-elon-musk-says.html), after several delays.

For the test flight, the rocket will not carry a customer's payload. Instead, Musk will launch an original Tesla Roadster playing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" into "a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."

Barclays appears to be railroading its clients into the Smart Investor account .... in which one cannot deal in international shares (apparently) !!
Somebody needs a reality check.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/news/barclays-stockbrokers-row-switch/

This year I am easing back into trading with a spread betting account at IG Markets. There are two reasons for this; the first is to quench my withdrawal symptoms after I closed all my FX accounts a while back, the second is to avoid having to pay custody fees on my stock account with them.

So far IG are very happy with me for making them lots on my spread betting activities, and I haven't lost any money .... yet.

Last night's Super-Blue-Moon, unfortunately I am on the wrong part of the globe to also capture the lunar eclipse.....

If your head doesn't explode when reading economic theory, try this explanation of inflation ... and a hint of what every non-academic person already knows, home grown industry is best!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-26/key-inflation-indicator-watch-part-2

I might even read part-3 !

England unveil their team-kit for 2018 Russia World Cup

IG Markets

Spread on EU and UJ pairs right now 1.5 pips at a time market liquidity is supposed to be highest.

edit: Now that I have peanuts in a real trading account, and margin backed against some stocks, I am having difficulty deciding how to gauge percentage profit and loss.
So I think I will refer it to the peanuts in the spread-betting account because then the wins look better.....

....and now the spread is back to 0.6 pip, which is more (the) normal.
So maybe it is some other market such as Comex causing the noise.

From a technical view, long the FTSE-100 makes sense. An entry below 7000 would be good .... missed another chance today.

As a shareholder I occasionally read the missives coming from my investments. In fact I generally read all the missives but not always in the same week that they are published. However today a significant movement in price caused me to explore.....

Here we have (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/RDL/13616733.html) what I consider to be an opportunistic attack on a company. In reality quite a reasonable tactic, the predator is looking to make 20~30% by precipitating a wind-up.

There are a couple of mirthful points. "Ranger is below its high-water mark". Well .... by definition the high water level is never going to be below the current share value!
"The UK listing of a predominantly North American credit portfolio is an historical anomaly and has little capital markets rationale going forward". Oh really? So UK investors should not be encouraged to invest in US credit markets? I thought that is how America is surviving it awful debt balance.

Here the response (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/RDL/13616825.html) from the board of directors. Basically it says 'piss off you money grabbing bastards', using polite words of course. Undoubtedly this is not the end of the matter, but I hope the target, and my investment, survive to continue their business. If not, well I am still ahead.....

So.... today's task was to cut the lawn, but first put on a quick long on UJ
I made my TP, but.....

Today is one of the worst days of my life!

All my portfolio tracking tools are now gone. Yahoo improved their system to the point of idiocy and loss of function (see here (https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=9818644#post9818644)).

So I moved to Google. Barely was the paint dry on my portfolios (took me half a day to migrate) than a warning message appeared .... a new improved system is in development!
_______ oh No!

So I carried on, now some months passed the original swap-over date. Today they finally delivered on their promise. I have nothing!

Guess I will have to write my own App ... but that takes loads of time. S'pose I should have started last year.....

Further to my desire to see some banksters go to jail after the 2008 financial crash, and also my believing that nobody had been sent to jail, we have this.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/inquiry-lloyds-handling-hbos-fraud-slips-2019-source-140631026--sector.html

In particular, "The review by Linda Dobbs is one of the last high-profile probes into the conduct of Britain's biggest banks after the 2008 financial crisis, and is eagerly awaited by victims of a fraud which has seen six people jailed for a combined 47 years", so some people have been sent to jail.

Operational issues with Iridium (https://iridiumbrowser.de/) browser running under Linux Mint (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint) (18.1). I have now experienced 2 crashes about a week apart, the unfunny kind of crash.

TBH I don't know how a typical user might recover from such a crash, although armed with a modern smartphone it is possible to do what I did with my 3 computers. Actually I only needed one other computer to browse the catastrophe-fix information (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Troubleshooting#grub_rescue.3E-1) and recover the corrupted GRUB boot loader configuration file. I thought that the boot loader was/is in a section of the file system to which special access rights are required, so I am obviously mistaken.

What was I doing to crash my system? Running the IG Markets (https://www.ig.com/) trading platform on Linux using Iridium......

So I'm having a session with Firefox for a while to see if I can crash it again.


edit: Firefox just crashed (15:45) whilst running the IG Markets trading platform ! I'm thinking the plug-in.... Going back to W7, after I have recovered the GRUB configuration ....AGAIN !