National Express Share Price (NEX)

Taken from their half year results announced last Thurs: they 'Expect to recommence dividend at year end, subject to continued trading performance'.

Nice to hear from you, and thank you for your kind words. I would never dream of giving anyone advice on what to buy or sell, but hopefully I can offer people a general view of the market and advise on what their options may be, especially with rights issues. Happy investing.

It has been a while since it seems to be a good season at work. Thank you for the advice. I felt much more confident. I will not be able to be a trader with a full time job and so little experience. I guess plan for long term is good for us. It takes me a little bit more time to be used to the rising and the falling. nice to have you on the forum.

Expect this to fly on the next upturn in the FTSE. Obviously doing well on the back of cancelled flights. FTSE down another 200 points since my last post but NEX sp only off 4p. The city seem to like this and Stagecoach, both doing well.

Posting at 5.22am - you are an early riser!!! The FTSE is off 500 points in the last three weeks, Greece finally looks like being sorted and the election is today, the market correction may have already taken place. The time to have sold was maybe three weeks ago, if you sell now you may end up buying back into a rising market and being worse off than before. Even with a hung parliament and the FTSE standing still for another week or two you will still incur two sets of dealing charges to sell and buy back in later. If you have faith in the shares that you hold then why sell only to back back in again? You may be lucky, but if your timing is off then you will lose out. You need to decide whether you are a holder or a trader. Are you prepared to hold a share long term and live with the rises and the falls, or are you going to continually trade on every rise and fall? The latter takes a lot more time and research, you will need to look at the sp on a daily basis at the very least. Do you have access to live prices? Can you interpret charts? You say that if you get out now you will have made no money in the last six months. Six months ago the FTSE was at 5300, it is now at 5350. The time to have got out was when the FTSE was around 5800 earlier this month. Easy to call with hindsight but very hard for the likes of you and me to judge. When the FTSE was riding high at 5800 we all wanted to stay on for the ride even higher, we hoped!! As ever DYOR, and if you think there are further falls ahead then your call to sell may well be the right one. Personally I will be sitting tight and hoping that the market will start to rise. My biggest problems at the moment are the fall in BP's value due to the oil spill, and the fact that BT appears to be going nowhere. Think the time may have come to sell half of my BT holding and invest in an Emerging Markets Unit Trust.

Hi bonz, I am doing fine. And you? I have to say I saw high and low and this time, I feel I can not sit still for the recent drop in market. I am thinking to sell and stay out the picture for this period. However, in this way, I am making no money at all for all the past six months. Very troubled now.