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Key thing I'm thinking now... you can always get back in. To both a long and a short position or a share. The yield will still be there practically all the time. So important to trust instincts with selling as well as buying... go with my gut.

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Marstons will benefit from the better weather and world cup... think it can get to 110p or more quite quickly...

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Got to 91,000 pretty quickly on http://www.markhowitt.blogspot.com ... quite a lot of Russian and American views. 100,000 views in a few months...

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With spreads I think it is very important to trust my instincts... most of the time when I think something is 'pretty high' it goes down... and there is not much of a spread on the FTSE 100 shares I buy... need to act more quickly on instinct.

Instincts

With spreads I think it is very important to trust my instincts... most of the time when I think something is 'pretty high' it goes down... and there is not much of a spread on the FTSE 100 shares I buy... need to act more quickly on instinct.

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Gone long on @MarstonsPLC it's similar to @greeneking and cheap at these levels

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Goal Day

Day off regular work today so it's a lot of share investment time and other things... have quite a lot of short exposure with spreads which is working fine so far... happy to network and trade ideas.

Mark Howitt ‏ @MarkHowitt 3s3 seconds ago More Shorted @sainsburys it's overvalued atm... if the Asda deal gets through it may be delayed/conditions place on it too... in profit so far.

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Shorted @sainsburys it's overvalued atm... if the Asda deal gets through it may be delayed/conditions place on it too... in profit so far.

No Emotional Attachment To Shares

Blasting out a quick but IMPORTANT stream of mind for you on Sunday...

You should have no emotional attachment to shares. If you own shares you are a shareholder, not an employee.

Even looking back on my life with Centrica shares... I was part of their share scheme but when I left I 'lost' my bonus shares. Centrica doesn't REALLY care about me although British Gas was a good company overall to work for...

For companies you have not even worked for there should be no emotional attachment. HSBC does not care about Mark Howitt. BP does not care about Mark Howitt. Sure I own part of the business and make money out of both shares but they don't care about me AS A PERSON.

So you should not hold onto a share just because you have for years or have any kind of feeling of 'loyalty' to them. They don't have loyalty to you. Chris Bailey is getting onto to make a spreadsheet of all my shares and see if I am making the most efficient use of my capital. I'm not literally going to do that but if I feel a share is overvalued I will sell it. I can always buy it back again if it drops down to a lower level.

With spreadbetting I can make a small financial allocation and get exposure to any share in the world.

So yeah... No Emotional Attachment To Shares. All that matters is how much money you make.