Nice to Michu
08 May 2017
chance this is waking up if I gets back towards 100 i'll top up in the hope of a new range established..But Inflation will effect UK consumers pocket going forward and holiday spend may well suffer in the medium term.. so would take some profits if this moved up 20 per cent.. chance would be a fine thing perhaps,...
Pinlord17
28 Mar 2017
Greece bookings up 40% reported in the TTG overall bookings up 6% year on year and booking to Greece up by40%, Could this be a tournaround ?
Hugh Betcher
09 Feb 2017
Re: Oh well Keep talking your book, Michu.
Mister Ed
09 Feb 2017
Re: Oh well Another frustrating update from TCG, less so the actual results but more the tone. Continued progress but the air of imminent doom still surrounds them and Peter Frankhauser manages to talk down the SP with his cautious outlook. I seem to remember that Harriet Green was jettisoned for not understanding the business when the SP was 50% or more higher. Expect to see directors top up in the coming weeks. Ultimately a sale to Fosun is on the cards ... albeit some way off yet.
Nice to Michu
09 Feb 2017
Oh well reasonable results but cautious outlook and scraping a bit to stay in line with expectations.. sell off understandable although 8 per cent down as I type is a bit harsh, I feel..Back well into 100's feels a long ways off at this moment in time....Hold or weak sell for me on this now..
Nice to Michu
08 Feb 2017
Results tomorrow The market seems to think that TCG results will be at least decent tomorrow.. Hopefully they're right! ( but that's far from sure alas) Of course if they're good instead of decent I expect this to bounce strongly tomorrow
Nice to Michu
05 Feb 2017
Results update this Thursday.. here's hoping for good numbers and good forward indication
Hugh Betcher
17 Jan 2017
Re: Remaining Bullish here . I think I read that almost every employee who held shares in RBS (the majority of about 150,000 total employees) took up the rights issue in 2008 at £20 a share (adjusting for the subsequent 1 for 10 consolidation). The shares are a bit over £2 today and at one stage dropped to £1, so down 90% if they held on and down 95% if they sold near the bottom.How good a call by employee 'insiders' was that?
Speedo Boy
17 Jan 2017
Re: Remaining Bullish here . Agree with you again and I only miss US's posts as I find it helps to hear what things are like "at the coal face". I worked for Sainsbury's many moons ago and even as a shelf stacker you have a "feel" for how the company's doing, although obviously I would never make an investment decision based solely on their recommendations for the very reasons you give.
Hugh Betcher
16 Jan 2017
Re: Remaining Bullish here . I did say "TCG has been a dreadful investment for most of its shareholders" not all of its shareholders. That's a simple fact. If you go back say 3 years or 4 and imagine someone buying day one, another person the next and so on, then the vast majority of those people would be sitting on a loss if they had held. So the average holder has lost money.I see to recall Uphill Struggle said he worked for TCG (or am I mixing him up with someone else). Employees are almost always the least able to see the direction of a share because they lack objectivity and their real knowledge of the company is usually confined to one very small part of a group of this size. certainly he has been proved to be wrong by events/price.
Speedo Boy
16 Jan 2017
Re: Remaining Bullish here . Good post HB, I for one am looking forward to the resumption of the dividend payment (Feb I believe?) and the disappearance of a certain Knight from this board!. I do miss the contribution of UphillStruggle (I think) though who provided a good insight into the company. Like you I'm in here for the long term, but if people have made money trading it then good luck to them. I suspect that we will see some more volatility over the next couple of years as the EU situation and the death throes of IS sort themselves out, so the day traders may well return. Overall though I'm happy with the company and the moves to exploit the Chinese market etc.I disagree that this has been a dreadful investment, it all depends on your time frame, I was "lucky" enough to get some at 13p (although my average is just back to breakeven). Hopefully the dividends will do the hard work from now on and the company will be able to maintain and increase them going forward.
Hugh Betcher
13 Jan 2017
Re: Remaining Bullish here . I'm still here but shares are long term investments, best judged over sensible time horizons and don't warrant comments every day on relatively minor changes in value and nor does anyone here benefit from being exposed to such vacuous drivel, invariably "contributed" by individuals whose knowledge of the company or the shares or equities in general would not fill one page of paper. Empty vessels etcIt's pretty obvious that TCG has been a dreadful investment for most of its shareholders (and a cracker for any who have shorted). Given continued newsflow about trouble in various parts of the world, currency and a not very impressive management team, I don't see that changing but could be wrong.Admitting one could be wrong is not something we ever see from the "this share is headed for [inset improbable and random number of your choice here] this week" brigade who will just keep repeating their stupid mantra regardless of things like facts.
onedb1
07 Dec 2016
Re: Remaining Bullish here . HI Nice Don't stir the fighting duo please ! Lets keep it quiet and I will post my chart as I wake up Am quite happy to believe that 100p will be next level coming up . But for now am off to bed
Norman Barrington
06 Dec 2016
Re: Remaining Bullish here . I have noticed BBs tend to go quiet when shares are doing OK. No one is looking for consolation, or feeling the need to talk the share up!
Nice to Michu
06 Dec 2016
Re: Remaining Bullish here . Bring back Hugh and Sir Singh I say ! ( I'm guessing Sir Singh got bored and sold out a while back in early 70's and Hugh has gone on a course..... in depomposing .. not a word I know, but it should be 
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