ASX:MDS Midas  had a good announcement yesterday! Significant Copper find in their 100% owned site at Mt ISA in North Queensland. Current price  0.002 up 100% yesterday! 
so check the price.

We first bought in 2007 and they crashed in the Global financial crisis.  SO  there is still hope. you can go to their webpage to read it in full. http://www.midasresources.com.au/investors/announcements





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 We've just had 8 weeks of choppy trading, so it's over to Marcus Padley to be entertained while we lick our wounds and wonder if we ever really knew anything at all. Marcus is so funny and so true.
Here's one of his earlier posts.

Take it as red, too much of the carmine means trouble ahead

Date

November 2, 2013

Marcus Padley

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You need to learn to sell. 'The horror!' Photo: Andrew De La Rue

We're in the middle of teaching SMSF newbies about ''timing''. This week we're going to address how to do it yourself.
When you talk about ''timing'', most investors, especially conservative, pension-phase and long-term investors looking for a return think ''timing'' means trading and trading has an image problem.
They think it means a ''short-term'' soul-sucking, life-wasting activity for manic obsessives with sunken eyes, pale complexions and McDonald's mayonnaise dripped down the front of their T-shirts.
And, truth be known, even the less conservative investors, people in the accumulation phase, in their 40s and 50s, people who are still working and have a higher risk profile don't want to trade either.

Not because they have some philosophical objection but because they are busy, have jobs, have kids and don't want to spend the evenings or weekends looking at a computer screen again.
In most cases they have also tried their hand at trading already and while they may have had the occasional success, it was a bit of an insult to their intelligence, their household budget, their school fees and their mortgage responsibility to pretend it was anything more than a rather irresponsible if not stupid gamble that put far more money at risk than the odds warranted, just because it was called ''investment'' instead of betting. Agree.
Trading, actually trading on charts with all the technical education and trading skills you will need, can't be done part-time and other than those with an intellectual interest few want to do it full-time. Which leaves the average SMSF investor in a bit of a quandary.
The GFC taught you that ''set and forget'' is dead and you accept that, but you don't really want to trade, don't have time to trade and are not prepared to learn how to trade.
So what do you do? The answer is this, ''Trading Lite''. This is the art of timing stocks for investors.
As an investor you basically want to keep doing what you're doing, buying stocks for the long term with the intention of holding them forever, but you want to avoid two things: (1) getting a stock completely wrong a la Babcock & Brown and ABC Learning, or (2) avoiding a GFC-style ''market'' event.
Sounds simple, but despite your best intentions you will absolutely not be able to avoid either of these events until you change the habit of a lifetime and learn to do something you are particularly useless at. To sell. The horror!
The sharemarket is not about buying and never selling and it is arrogance in the extreme to assume that you can make an assessment of a company on the current incomplete and ever-changing information and get that stock right forever after.
You are bound to get it wrong and denying that by never selling is unintelligent. Of course things change and if some old Warren Buffett misquotes and your pride and arrogance prevent you from changing any decision you deserve to get caught. So step one is to accept that you are not that smart, will get some things wrong and will occasionally sell.
The final step is to work out when you sell. My advice on this is the same, whether you are worrying about a particular stock or the whole market. Do it on a stock-by-stock basis.
On your SMSF equity spreadsheet you have a column that shows how far the stock is up or down since you bought it. Now add a column called ''HIGH''. Every day or week or whenever you open the spreadsheet, look up the highest price the stock has hit since the last time you looked. Type it in.
Unless it hits a new high you leave it. In the next column log how far the current price has fallen from that high. Put a conditional format on that cell that turns the cell red if the fall is more than 10 per cent.
If you open your spreadsheet and there aren't any red cells, go back to your life. If a cell turns red, ask why. One red cell for one week means you may have got a stock wrong, one red cell for a few weeks means you have got a stock wrong and lots of red cells for more than one week means you've got the market wrong.
Red cells that last more than a week mean you are ''constipated''. See how long you can ignore them.
Marcus Padley is a stockbroker and the author of sharemarket newsletter Marcus Today.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/take-it-as-red-too-much-of-the-carmine-means-trouble-ahead-20131101-2ws1k.html#ixzz2n61WkoU2

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Rectifier Technologies Ltd (RFT)

ASX:RFT rose today by 66% to 0.005  AT time of writing you could buy 100,000 for $500.00 plus fees!  

Rectifier Technologies Ltd (RFT) designs, manufactures and supplies electronic products known as industrial battery chargers, telecom rectifiers, DC power supplies and magnetic components such as high frequency transformers and chokes used in similar electrical power conversion equipment and instrumentation used in solar, rail and communications equipment in the commercial, industrial and defence sectors.

GDA Dropped, SMA rose, MNW  STILL UP and ADJ  no change.

 The ausssie sharemarket is rising but it's all still risky.

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GCN goconnect

ASX:CGN rose on Thursday  by 90% then fell on friday by 30% when traders took their profits and sold off. We're hoping the news article inthe Wall st Journal (see in post below.) will bring in more investors, and so raise the price.
ASX:MNW Mint wireless is now 40c  up from only 15.9 a few weeks ago and ASX:ADJ Adslot is gaining steadily. 



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Wall street Journal promotes GCN - Go connect

Wall street Journal article says it all. Promotes GCN Go Connect

Is Jackson Star Power Shining on GoConnect Shares?

Jermaine Jackson performs with The Jacksons in the U.S. last year.

Associated Press

Are Jackson 5 star power and China’s love of “The Voice” fueling a dramatic rally in shares of Australian digital media company GoConnect Ltd.GCN.AU +90.91%?
The company’s shares have soared 250% this week. They jumped 33% on Tuesday and another 38% on Wednesday before the Australian Securities Exchange asked the company for a possible explanation.
In a filing to the exchange on Thursday, GoConnect Executive Chairman Richard Li said he couldn’t say for sure why the shares were soaring, but pointed to Go JLJ Entertainment, in which GoConnect has a 40% stake. (I thought it was only stated as 20% in their announcement-Mega)
Go JLJ Entertainment, GoConnect revealed on Thursday, is launching an American Idol-style musical competition in China, starring Jermaine Jackson, brother of Michael Jackson and a former member of the Jackson 5.
GoConnect’s shares rose another 91% on Thursday to an all-time high.
JJ5, as the competition will be known, will be broadcast in more than 50 Chinese cities.
Mr. Li said Go JLJ Entertainment had been advised that “securing significant sponsorships should not be difficult, particularly with the popularity of the Jacksons in China,” and that JJ5′s success would likely mean a big boost for GoConnect’s revenue.
The debut of JJ5 follows the rise of the Chinese version of The Voice as China’s most popular show. “I plan to find five talented individuals to create the next big all-round musical band and I plan to find them in China, which has the largest pool of undiscovered musical talent in the world,” Mr. Jackson said in a statement.
The first stage of the show will involve auditions and the selection of 15 contestants that can sing and dance. In the second stage, Mr. Jackson will mentor the contestants in three five-person groups. In the final stage, the bands will face off, with the winner claiming the name ‘Five.’

 Rerefence:

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/10/17/is-jackson-star-power-shining-on-goconnect-shares/

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GCN has jumped over 90% today

GCN  Go Connect ltd, jumped by over 81% today 17.10.13  and repaid me my losses left from 2007 ! closed at 0.02

At the time of the global financial crisis, traders were saying to sell off all your losses and start again, but I didn't. I thought it wasn't going to cost anything to leave them sit there, and ever the optimist, I was right. Some will recover, and some won't.
Sometimes I forecasted  and sold too early in a panic and lost out. Like in SIR Sirrius. I  bgt some for a few cents and just after I sold it jumped to over 2.20 ! 

I bought an extra parcel yesterday of GCN (on my own advice) and it's looking very good.
At close today, there were roughly 102 buyers FOR GCN. Waiting for 60 mill shares and only 32 sellers willing to sell 12 million. When you look at the course of sales, most sales are 500.00-1000.00 range so they are all small sensible traders.
All of us little traders have had a very difficult 5 years, and at last there might be some growth.

Hopefully, those in the USA  will come to their senses before they damage the whole US economy, and send everyone broke.

It's all still risky.
 


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SMA , MNW and GCN all risers today

asx:SMA smarttrans is now up to .036.  It's risen from 0.012 in July!
asx:MNW Mint Wireless is up over 30%., double what is was about 6 weeks ago. approx 36c

but the best one is GCN go connect limited. It has risen to 0.011

up by about 37%. I first bought GCN GoConnect in Aug 2007, when I first started trading.
They dived like just about eveything else due to the Global financial crisis.
But one of their recent announcements talks about Jermajesty building luxury resorts n China. I wondered what has this got todo with them? Further down in the announcement they mention that they have a 20% share.
Now Jermajesty is owned by the Jackson family- and Michael jackson died with a heap of unreleased records.
Now that is why I bought another small parcel today!
You need to go to www.asx.com.au, type in GCN code and read the announcements yourself.
Maybe I made a mistake!

here's a nice pic of MNW Mint wireless. I lke to see this! Wish  I had the money to buy more!
 

   
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we like ASX:SMA Smarttrans

 SMA rose another 14% today and there is a long list of potential buyers, more buyers  than sellers. Price now 0.031  Buy, sell, take profit, buy again, sell, take profit.  I'm hoping to see a big hike before 6 months. go to asx.com.au , search for their anouncements plus search google fto see how many mags and companies are recommending them. Then decide. We only buy smallest parcel. It's always risky!
If they win the commincations for Brazil Olympics, that will push up the price. Here's hoping.



 
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ASX:TVN

ASX:TVN has announced a 1 for 2 share offer, details in the next week.
They have been rising. So we'll keep them in order to get more at a discount and without fees, then sell some.

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S0 Aussies are the world's richest people: says Credit Suisse

This will make you feel better!  by courtesy www.smh.com.au 

Aussies the world's richest people: Credit Suisse

Date

October 9, 2013 - 1:20PM

The lucky country: Australia's wealth is growing. Photo: Michele Mossop

Australians remain the richest people in the world, by one measure at least.

The median wealth of adult Australians stands at $US219,505 ($233,504) - the highest level in the world, according to the Credit Suisse 2013 Global Wealth Report, released on Wednesday.

Median wealth is the midpoint between richest and poorest, meaning that 50 per cent of the population has more than $233,504, and 50 per cent less than that.

By the measure of average wealth, Australians fall back to second with $US402,578 per person, ranking behind the Swiss who were the world’s richest on $US513,000.

Credit Suisse chief investment strategist, Australia, David McDonald said the nation’s household wealth per adult grew by 2.6 per cent in the past year. That was slower than the global average of 4.6 per cent, but Australia still had the best distribution of wealth among developed nations.

‘‘Although we are up there at a high level of wealth per adult we’ve also got a better spread than a lot of the other developed countries including, obviously, the Swiss, but also places like the US,’’ Mr McDonald said.

The number of Australian millionaires increased by 38,000 to 1.123 million people. About half of the rise in  Australian wealth is due to exchange rate appreciation.

The millionaire calculation includes the value of real estate owned outright.

Australians were shown to have a much higher level of wealth held in property and non-financial assets - 58.5 per cent compared to the world average of 45 per cent and just 38 per cent in the US.

The US remains the millionaire capital of the world, with 13.2 million people topping the seven-figure mark and nearly 46,000 people in the ultra-high net worth $US50 million-plus category.

Australia has 2,059 ultra-high net worth individuals, 2.1 per cent of the global total.

While the Land Down Under has maintained its place at the top in median terms for three years running now, Credit Suisse reported that North America has regained its title as the wealthiest region in the world.

Rising house prices and stock markets fuelled a 12 per cent rise in North American wealth to $US78.9 trillion from mid-2012 to mid-2013, putting the region ahead of the Asia Pacific and Europe for the first time since before the global financial crisis.

Credit Suisse global head of research for private banking, Giles Keating, said Japan’s economic slump had dragged down the Asia-Pacific region.

‘‘The fourth annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report shows an $US11 trillion rise in (global) wealth to $US241 trillion, with the US as the clear winner, overtaking Europe, while Asia Pacific fell back due to sharp depreciation of the yen,’’ Mr Keating said.

To view the entire article, click on: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/aussies-the-worlds-richest-people-credit-suisse-20131009-2v7qy.html

ASX:SMA Smartrans  is up again today to .023
Theyhad an announcement that a director purchased more shares..
Now that's what I call, encouraging!





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More chaos in the USA. when can these megalomaniacs stop playing chicken and get on with  the recovery from the GFC.
expect the markets to be lower until the chaos is solved.
Volatility is the name of the game.








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George Soros on the future, + risers asx:mnw, asx:adj, and asx:sma Do your homework, asess your risk

Here's a rather long winded newsletter form George sorros, but it is worth reading. here's hoping there is a solution. In the meantime MNW Mint wirless is rising so is adj adslot. Plus sma is rising well. go to www.asx.com.au and see how much! GeorgeSoros.com Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues, George made the following remarks today at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany. In his remarks, George analyzes the current state of the euro crisis and warns that a looming period of economic stagnation may destroy the union. Best, Michael Vachon ~~~~~~ The Future of Europe Remarks delivered by George Soros at the Global Economic Symposium October 1, 2013 :: Kiel, Germany I shall take a holistic approach to the future of Europe. I have developed a conceptual framework, which has guided me in my decisions throughout my adult life. The framework is much broader than the financial markets; it deals with the relationship between thinking and reality. What makes that relationship so complicated is that the thoughts and actions of participants are part of the reality they have to think about. Their thinking serves a dual function: on the one hand they try to understand the world in which they live – that is the cognitive function; on the other, they want to influence the events in which they participate – that is the manipulative function. The two functions interfere with each other – I call the interference reflexivity. The cornerstone of my conceptual framework is the human uncertainty principle, which is based on the twin pillars of fallibility and reflexivity. The human uncertainty principle has far reaching implications for scientific method. It applies only to social phenomena and thereby it separates the social sciences from the natural sciences. Economic theory has sought to imitate the natural sciences, particularly Newtonian physics. Consequently my conceptual framework is in direct conflict with mainstream economic theory. The differences are especially pronounced in dealing with financial problems in general and the euro crisis in particular. Mainstream economics has pursued timelessly and universally valid laws whose validity can be tested by reference to the facts. I contend that the facts produced by social processes do not constitute a reliable criterion for judging the validity of theories because of the human uncertainty principle. I do not deny the possibility of establishing universally and timelessly valid laws – the human uncertainty principle is one of them – but I consider such laws too vague and general to be of much use in producing specific predictions and explanations. In any case social phenomena are easier to explain than to predict. The past is uniquely determined while the human uncertainty principle renders the future inherently indeterminate. That is not how Newtonian physics works. Mainstream economics sought to apply the Newtonian approach to social phenomena by introducing the concept of equilibrium. This required elaborate mental gymnastics. It started with the theory of perfect competition, which assumed perfect knowledge and ended with rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis. By contrast I emphasize the role of misconceptions, misinterpretations and a sheer lack of understanding in shaping the course of events. I focus on the process of change rather than on the eventual outcome. The process involves reflexive feedback loops between the objective and subjective aspects of reality. Fallibility insures that the two aspects are never identical. That is where my framework differs from mainstream economics. Feedback can be negative or positive. Negative feedback narrows the divergence between the objective and subjective aspects of reality; positive feedback widens it. Carried to an extreme, negative feedback would lead to equilibrium; positive feedback would result in mayhem. In standard economics equilibrium is the inevitable outcome, in my framework equilibrium is one of two theoretical extremes. Reality ranges from near equilibrium to far from equilibrium conditions, but the distribution of cases does not follow a regular bell curve; it tends to cluster around the two extremes. The extremes act as “strange attractors” because people tend to use dichotomies to simplify matters. A situation can be considered stable or unstable. But people’s opinion can shift quite quickly. This leads to the “fat tails” observed in market volatility- that is inherent in my framework but not in standard economics. Using this conceptual framework I have developed a boom-bust theory of financial crises, which is the opposite of equilibrium. It consists of a trend that prevails in reality and a misinterpretation or misconception relating to that trend. The trend and the misconception mutually reinforce each other until they grow to such an extent that the misconception becomes increasingly apparent. Eventually an inflection point is reached where the trend is reversed and a positive feedback loop develops in the opposite direction. Boom bust processes or bubbles are only one manifestation of reflexivity and only occasionally do they grow to a size where they assume macroeconomic importance. There is also a reflexive interaction between the authorities and the markets. Behind the invisible hand of markets lurks the visible hand of politics. Both the markets and the authorities are fallible; that is what makes their interaction reflexive. While bubbles occur only intermittently the interplay between economics and politics is ongoing. We need to study the political economy where every event is unique instead of looking for timelessly valid laws. My conceptual framework consists of universally valid generalizations; therefore its usefulness in explaining or predicting the political economy is strictly limited. But as a hedge fund manager I have used it to develop specific theories about specific situations and my performance record testifies to their usefulness. I have followed the euro crisis closely ever since its inception. I have written numerous articles about it that has been collected in a book. I found my conceptual framework particularly helpful because the crisis is the result of a reflexive interaction between financial and political processes and combines historical, cultural, moral and above all legal aspects. That makes it so complicated that it boggles the mind. Misconceptions have played a central role. I shall focus on them instead of presenting a comprehensive analysis. The design of the common currency had many flaws. Some of them were known at the time the euro was introduced. Everybody, for example, knew that it was an incomplete currency; it had a central bank, but it didn't have a common treasury. Other defects were discovered only in the crisis. In retrospect the most important defect was that the euro exposed the government bonds of member countries to the risk of default. In a developed country with its own currency, the risk of default is absent because it can always print money. But by ceding that right to an independent central bank, the member-states put themselves in the position of third-world countries that borrow in a foreign currency. This fact was not recognized either by the markets or by the authorities prior to the crisis, testifying to the fallibility of both. When the euro was introduced, the authorities actually declared government bonds to be riskless. Commercial banks were not required to set aside any capital reserves against their holdings of government bonds and the European Central Bank (ECB) accepted all government bonds on equal terms at its discount window. This set up a perverse incentive for commercial banks to buy the debt of the weaker governments in order to earn what eventually became just a few basis points, because interest rate differentials converged to practically zero. This convergence in interest rates caused divergences in economic performance. The weaker countries enjoyed real estate, consumption and investment booms, while Germany, weighed down by the burdens of reunification, had to adopt fiscal austerity and structural reforms. This divergence was not envisioned by the Maastricht Treaty, which assumed that only the public sector produces disequilibrium. Then came the Crash of 2008. After the Lehman bankruptcy European finance ministers declared that no other systemically important financial institution would be allowed to fail but Chancellor Merkel insisted that the obligation should fall on each country individually, not on the European Union or the Eurozone collectively. That was the onset of the euro crisis but it took markets more than a year to react to it. Only when Greece revealed a much larger than expected fiscal deficit did markets realize that Greece may actually default on its debt – but then they raised risk premiums with a vengeance not only on Greek bonds but on the bonds of all the so-called periphery countries. By then those countries became saddled with much more debt than a third world country would have been able to accumulate. The outbreak of the crisis put the European financial authorities in a bind. They had to deal with the crisis in accordance with rules that were patently inappropriate to prevailing conditions; yet they couldn’t change the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties because public opinion especially in France and Germany was opposed to any further steps towards European integration. Consequently, the authorities had to resort to all kinds of legal subterfuges to prevent the euro from collapsing. This made the rules governing the euro much more complicated than they would have been if they had been designed de novo. At the same time some of the changes that arose in practice, notably the risk of default and the bail-in of bondholders were gradually given legal recognition. This has put heavily indebted countries at a large and recurrent disadvantage, which has not been properly acknowledged. In this context the double meaning of the German word “Schuld” has played a key role. It means both debt and guilt. This has made it natural or “Selbstverstandlich” for the German public to blame the heavily indebted countries for their misfortunes. But that is not justified by the facts, except in the case of Greece. The Greek government had blatantly violated the Treaties, but the other debtor countries had played by the rules. Indeed Spain used to be held up as a paragon of prudent fiscal management. Clearly the faults were systemic. The responsibility for the misfortunes of the heavily indebted countries rests mainly with those who decided the rules that govern the euro, Germany and France foremost among them. But this conclusion would be stubbornly resisted in those countries. The euro crisis is now over. This became official in the German elections where the rules governing the euro were not even discussed. Yet the system that emerged from the crisis is far from satisfactory. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a far-from equilibrium situation. The euro crisis has already transformed the European Union into something radically different from what was originally intended. The EU was meant to be a voluntary association of sovereign and equal states that surrendered part of their sovereignty for the common good. It has turned into a relationship between creditors and debtors that is by its nature compulsory and unequal. When a debtor country gets into difficulties the creditor countries gain the upper hand. The rules they have established merely perpetuate this state of affairs. That is liable to be politically unacceptable and it has the potential of destroying the European Union altogether. Only the creditors are in a position to prevent this outcome but they do not seem to show any inclination to do so. The defects of the currently prevailing situation fall into two categories: political and financial. On the political side Germany has emerged as the de facto hegemonic power. Germany cannot dictate to the others but the European authorities cannot make any proposals without obtaining Germany’s permission. Democracy flourishes in Germany but debtor countries stumble from one political crisis to the next. And the German Constitutional Court has emerged as the most powerful judicial authority in Europe. Since Germany, mindful of its recent history, did not want to play a hegemonic role, it is unwilling to accept the responsibilities and liabilities that go with that role. As a result Germany is reviled in some other countries while Germany feels unjustly accused of occupying a position that it actively sought to avoid. Contrast that with the United States, which acted as a benign hegemon at the end of World War II embarking on the Marshall Plan; subsequently it was acclaimed as the leader of the free world and enjoyed the lasting allegiance of Europe. Current German attitudes are also in sharp contrast with the attitude prevailing at the time of German reunification. At that time Germany became the engine of European integration in order to achieve that goal. On the economic front the austerity policy advocated by Germany proved to be counterproductive. Every euro of reduction in the fiscal deficit caused more than a euro of reduction in GDP – in other words the fiscal multiplier turned out to be more than one. The German public found that difficult to understand. The fiscal reforms introduced by the Schroeder government were successful; why should a policy that worked for Germany not work for Europe? The reason is that the Schroeder government operated in an inflationary environment and the current environment is deflationary. It took a long time for the European authorities to recognize this fact but eventually they did and they stopped imposing additional austerity measures. That relieved the downward pressure and allowed the Eurozone to hit bottom and the financial crisis to abate. The Eurozone is now in a mild rebound led by Germany but the heavily indebted countries are lagging behind. The divergence is largely due to their higher debt burden and the higher cost of money. Since these are recurrent, the divergence is bound to get wider with the passage of time. What needs to be done follows directly from this analysis of what has happened. Recognizing the mistakes and identifying the misconceptions that have created the current situation is the first step; correcting them is the second. Only Germany can initiate the process because, as the country with the highest credit standing, it is in the driver’s seat. If a debtor country tried to do it would merely aggravate its own position. Admitting and correcting mistakes is never easy. In this case there is no shame attached to it because the situation was so complicated that it boggled every mind. Doing it would earn Germany the long lasting gratitude of the rest of Europe. Failure to do is much worse. It has created a nightmare in which the victims of the current policies have to live in their waking lives. Now that the euro crisis has ended, Germany has emerged victorious. But it is a Pyrrhic victory that would be better to avoid. I’m glad that this conference, which is almost unique in recognizing the severity of the problems that continue to confront Europe is exploring the possibilities. Remember we are not financial advisors.. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants- we teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

Chart for SMA

Here's a chart for SMA 1.10.13

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ASX:SMA

SmartTrans Holdings Limited ASX:SMA was only 0.002 in June 13 and is now up, up to .016 go to www.asx.com.au and type code SMA for the latest prices. Looks pretty good to me! fingers crossed. go to this link to see prices https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1380175200000&chddm=84474&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=ASX:SMA&ntsp=0&ei=7pBDUujgDMSikgWfigE There are bargains everywhere with shares at much less than half their ytd price, but which sector and which company? MINT wireless MNW, and ADSlot ADJ look good too! Remember we are not financial advisors. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants.We teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Read them. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

When Adslot ADJ announced the merge with FAC yesterday ADJ jumped by 19% but FAC jumped by over 240%. Why? because the amount Adslot offered to pay for each FAC share (0.067) was more than they were trading at. But why did people buy more FAC than ADJ? There must be more to it. Remember we are not financial advisors.. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants- we teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

We like this! We bought a small parcel in July, then sold most, but now look! This does show promise, and is proudly Australian. ADJ up today 19% and FAC jumped up hugely in anticipation... The barrier of 5100 was broken a few weeks ago, and now with a change of Government there is optimism..thank Goodness! A S X A N N O U N C E M E N T 13th September 2013 ADSLOT TO ACQUIRE FACILITATE DIGITAL • Adslot to acquire Facilitate Digital via a Scheme Of Arrangement • The combined business will bring together supply at scale and demand at scale into a single media trading platform • By integrating the companies digital workflow and trading technologies, over A$800m of premium display agency ad spend from Facilitate Digital agencies will be available to trade directly with Adslot publishers • An expanded global footprint, including sales offices in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco, London, Hamburg, Shanghai and Auckland • Enlarged cash position and access to immediate compliance related cost synergies • Facilitate Digital shareholders to receive Adslot Shares and to hold 28 per cent of the enlarged Adslot Adslot Limited (ASX:ADJ, Adslot), a global provider of online display media trading technology, and Facilitate Digital Holdings Limited (ASX:FAC, Facilitate Digital), a global provider of digital workflow and trading technology for media agencies, today announced they have entered into an agreement under which Adslot will acquire Facilitate Digital via a recommended scheme of arrangement between Facilitate Digital and its shareholders (Scheme). Strategic Rationale The acquisition will combine Adslot's expertise in media trading technology for publishers with Facilitate Digital's leading platform for media buyers. Adslot Chairman Adrian Giles said: "Adslot's vision is to become the world's leading provider of premium display media trading technology. Our strategy is to create a dynamic marketplace in which buyers and sellers of premium display media can trade seamlessly and with greater efficiency. "Since the global launch of Adslot Publisher in October 2012, we have signed more than 650 online publishers to our platform, building a significant catalogue of supply in the process. "Facilitate Digital's Symphony technology is being deployed by a large and growing global community of media agency buyers across Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. More than A$800m per annum of display media transactions flow through Symphony. By linking this large and growing media spend to Adslot's rapidly growing catalogue of premium ad inventory, we can offer both publishers and agencies improved efficiency and scalability, and simultaneously reduce their costs. In turn, this integration of buyers and sellers will drive liquidity in our marketplace. "This arrangement makes Adslot one of the first companies in the world to bring both supply and demand for premium display inventory under one roof." Facilitate Digital's CEO Ben Dixon, said: "Facilitate Digital's agency workflow product Symphony has been adopted in multiple markets by some of the world's largest agency groups, including WPP and Interpublic, and we continue to grow the number of media agencies using the technology throughout Australasia, Asia, Europe and the United States. "It has been our intention to introduce real-time media trading to our agency customers in order to establish transactional revenues. The arrangement with Adslot allows us to pursue this more rapidly, whilst offering our agency customers the synergy of Facilitate Digital's demand side technology and experience, in combination with Adslot's supply side technology and experience. "On this basis, we can provide media agencies with a genuinely differentiated and compelling proposition, and do so under a commercial model that has the potential to significantly increase the size of our revenue opportunity." Adslot's acquisition of Facilitate Digital is expected to deliver significant benefits. Expected benefits to Adslot and Adslot Shareholders • A more rapid execution of its strategic vision • Access to advertising demand at scale (over A$800m per annum) • Ownership of a proven, incumbent buy side technology (Symphony) • Greater scale, including a combined sales organisation encompassing Australia, New Zealand, China, Germany, UK and US • Enlarged Group cash position and access to immediate compliance related cost synergies • Based on FY13, a 111% increase in Group revenue • Based on FY13, a A$1.18m positive contribution to Group EBITDA Expected benefits to Facilitate Digital and Facilitate Digital Shareholders • A more rapid execution of its strategic vision • Real time access to the premium display inventory of more than 650 publishers across the globe • Greater scale, including a combined sales organisation encompassing Australia, New Zealand, China, Germany, UK and US • Enlarged Group cash position and access to immediate compliance related cost synergies • Greater liquidity for shareholders through their holding of Adslot shares • A significant valuation premium Ben Dixon will undertake a staged transition to the role of Adslot Group Chief Operating Officer, including responsibility for the continued management of the Facilitate Digital business. Ian Lowe will assume responsibilities of Group CEO. Transaction Summary Under the Scheme, Facilitate Digital's shareholders will be offered 1.216 new Adslot shares for each Facilitate Digital share they hold. The enlarged Adslot will be approximately 28 per cent owned by current Facilitate Digital shareholders. Based on Adslot's 90-day volume weighted average price (VWAP) of A$0.055 on 11 September 2013, the Adslot offer values Facilitate Digital at A$15 million, or A$0.067 per share. This equates to 2.9 times Facilitate Digital's FY13 revenue and 12.8 times Facilitate Digital's FY13 EBITDA. Following implementation of the Scheme, Geoff Dixon (the largest shareholder of Facilitate Digital) and Ben Dixon (the current CEO of Facilitate Digital) will join the Adslot board. The Scheme is unanimously recommended by the boards of both companies. Facilitate Digital Board Recommendation and Intentions Facilitate Digital's directors unanimously recommend that Facilitate Digital shareholders vote in favour of the Scheme, in the absence of a superior proposal and subject to an independent expert concluding that the Scheme is in shareholders best interests. Subject to those two qualifications, each Facilitate Digital Director intends to vote in favour of the Scheme in respect of their own holdings in Facilitate Digital. Timetable and Conditions The Scheme is subject to minimal conditions comprising: • usual regulatory approvals from ASIC and the Court; • Facilitate Digital shareholder approval; • receipt of an independent expert's report confirming that the Scheme is in the best interests of Facilitate Digital shareholders; • no Material Adverse Change (as defined in the Scheme Implementation Deed) occurring to either Facilitate Digital or Adslot; and • no Prescribed Occurrence (as defined in the Scheme Implementation Deed) occurring in relation to either Adslot or Facilitate Digital The full conditions are included in the executed Scheme Implementation Deed, which accompanies this announcement. Facilitate Digital has agreed to give typical deal protections to Adslot including exclusivity undertakings and payment of a break fee of A$300,000 in certain circumstances where the Scheme does not proceed. Full details of these deal protections are included in the executed Scheme implementation Deed which accompanies this announcement. It is expected that: • an Explanatory Booklet will be despatched to Facilitate Digital shareholders by early November 2013 - this will contain full details in relation to the Scheme, an Independent Expert's Report, a notice convening the Scheme meeting and a proxy form, • the meeting of Facilitate Digital shareholders to vote on the Scheme will be held by early December 2013; and • the Scheme will become effective by mid December 2013 and fully implemented shortly thereafter. Advisers . Enquiries Adslot Remember to do your own homework. Trading is full of risk. We are not financial advisors. We could be wrong. AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

Straits Resources Ltd (ASX:SRQ)

Straits Resources Ltd (ASX:SRQ) have had some good announcements, and are on the rise, and cheap. worth buying a small parcel. risen today again. so far so good..check it out.. Remember we are not financial advisors.. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants- we teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

change, chaos and media gloom and doom.

Since my last post the market has been volatile, to say the least! If it's not greece, or spain, it's cyprus, then north Korea war mongering and terror in Boston US. Today there was talk about France having 94% debt, whereas it is recommended by the IMF to have only 60%! Is France the next to go under and need a bail out? The media focus on recent changes, like a drop in the gold price which went down to around 1300.00. They forget that it has been down to about -800.00 at various times, in the past few years. What we do know is that we can expect more uncertainty and a bumpy ride. Unanticipated risk is always there. ICG went to 17c until there was a storm in the boardroom and a director left and sold out. you can read about it in their announcements over the past 2 months. Anyway the rucus resulted in a loss of confidence and the price hovered around .033 -.039 ! I'm reluctant to crow about anything right now. Just remember, it's a risky business. Remember we are not financial advisors.. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants- we teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.

I haven't posted for some time, mainly because it's all been so volatile. BUT there's a new mining boom and the asx is close to 5000, (my own measure of hope) so I am in a positive upbeat mood. Here's a pic of a chart that says it all... and here's hoping both companies will pay my mortgage out this year!!

Remember we are not financial advisors.. Sampson management Services (SMS) educate and inform only...We are Assett Management Consultants- we teach you about risk and how to measure that risk according to the international standards on Quality, Environment, OHS, and Risk management in an integrated approach. Ref standards: AS/NZS/ISO 9001, AS/NZS/ISO 14001, AS/NZS/ISO 4804, AS/NZS/ISO 4360.