Frank, as ADVFN's resident loser (2002-2006 inclusive) you are in no position to talk about other people or their investments.
Looking back through the old posts "others" readers will see that you have consistently called shares wrong. When you go long they slump, when you go short they attract takeovers ! LOL.
And if you take five minutes to check back on the Pennant thread, I did warn you about possible problems as it was a market in which I had considerable experience. You opted to add more Pennant shares having talked the mm's into to selling shares to you for 24p (PMSL !)
Within days they had fallen to 12p.
Two or three years ago when the mortgage arrears got the better of you, the inevitable happened and you were forced to sell up your house and move into rented accommodation. You then remarkably started threads on ADVFN about the slump in house prices being just around the corner. It is interesting that Frank Big Shot Spencer has been unable to de-ramp the UK housing market.
Taking a modest detached in the Brighton area with a market value of say six hundred thousand pounds three years ago, this decision of yours has cost you around a hundred and fifty thousand in lovely tax free gains ;-)
Of course we all know that it has cost you more than that, with you “family” opting to move in with somebody else where it wasn't cold and damp, and where the “owner” didn't split his "quality" time between his PC/ADVFN and the fridge.
You are the only bloke that I know who went Christmas shopping (for all your friends and family) and completed it all in the local pound shop!
Not only that, you came back with change out of the tenner that you went with !