I think continually moving coins in and out of the wallet must be my problem then, but at this price they can stay put in the wallet, each time i add coins to the wallet, does it restart the 5 day maturing time for all coins again, or just for the newly added coins?
Regards Dan
Just the newly added coins...
Go to the 'Send' tab in the wallet. You should see the coin control feature? If you click on 'Inputs', you will be able to see the number of confirmations (and date received) of every 'input' of coins in your wallet. Obviously, you want to choose the inputs with lowest number of confirmations and fewest number of coins. Coin control is a great feature, but like most things in crypto, it needs to be more user-friendly.