What is the best level to set a stop loss for shares? I've been setting 67% of the purchase cost for shares I'm fairly certain will recover, and 80% for others. With the market being so volatile this...
If you'd bought each of the FTSE 100 shares fifty years ago and kept them, BAT would have done well, most of the rest wouldn' t now be in the top 100. If you'd sold each as it left the top 100 and...
Do you know of a cheap programming language, for a computer running Windows XP, which has graphics and can handle mouse and keyboard? Liberty BASIC is almost suitable, but I can't see how to handle...
I have always assumed the spin of the graviton to be 2, but Peter Rowlands, in his book Zero to Infinity, makes an excellent case for the graviton to have spin 1. What is the argument for spin 2?
Is there a way of obtaining cash for unused postage stamps? I have most stamps since the Coronation and dealers have offered me 20% of their face value, but I'd like more. I've started using them for...
Mrs. Beeton says female turkeys are more tender than male turkeys. Is there anyway of telling the gender of a turkey as normally sold i.e. plucked and minus head, feet, giblets, etc. Okay, okay, I...
Each cell contains 2 metres of DNA. If I put 2 kilometres of two-ply wool in a suitcase it would be hopelessly knotted. Why doesn't DNA get knotted? It obviously doesn't, because tangled DNA would not...
Mrs Beeton says you can make a sponge cake with plain flour without bicarbonate of soda. You start by beating three eggs with some sugar over warm water until the mixture is creamy. I beat it for 45...
Does anyone know of a Sat Nav device that works from AA cells and also tells you where you are WHEN YOU ARE NOT NEAR A ROAD? i.e. If I'm in the middle of moorland I need a grid reference or latitude...
At traffic lights, bicycle lanes are extended to the centre of the road, so that bicycles can line up in front of cars. Is this to reduce the number of cyclists, or is there another reason?
"Insignificant type with ambition, note, and energy (4-2)." I've had ?i?i?e since October! Please help - I just want to finish the crossword: I'm not hoping for a prize using your wits.