Gekko,
Just for the record, I feel I should quantify my post above, when it comes to my pension/SIPP I trade relatively short term literally to make 1-2% on each trade, anything else is a bonus. That way I figure if I can do 1-2% per week then the end of the year looks much more rosey, find me a fund manager than can achieve 50% growth a year for free 😉