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Hi RazorsEdge, yes I noted the uptick in the pog, so a tick up as you say in the morning possibly. Two days with the large trades and late dip was just curiosity really - can never rely on looking at trades.
I think any broker but Barclays would be good. However, switching accounts means selling your share as Barclays apparently won't transfer your stocks to your new broker.
At the moment Mr T there is not much to comment on.
I suspect any real action in both gold and CEY ,will be after New Year, if indeed Basel 3 is adhered too.
Irritability in posters alway happens when there is no action in the markets, boredom.
actually any other broker is better than Barclays but when they decided they couldn't have company accounts or trade international shares they moved those accounts to share centre that was taken over by ii, interactive investors, which is the best I have had. My isa and sipped remain at Barclays who regularly send me a bottle of whisky or champagne to apologise for the service, but I explain I would prefer decent service as in paying dividends out like every other broker does.
Hello Alwaysone, the price took a wobble around 4pm for some reason this also isn’t that important, just strange.
The pog has perked up since 4:30, higher now than it’s been all day. We’ll get the benefit in the morning if it lasts until then. Don’t like unexplained wobbles though.
That's Friday and Monday that the price has been shaven at COB and both times £1m shares ( show as buys) after 4.30, but my total guess is probably sells. Not that it means too much to the price in most cases
Hi Mr Bond,
Your opinion and comments are as always greatly appreciated!
Mr Tibbles you answered "Mark" very reasonably.
Pity some of the newbies do not hold their tongue when criticising others.
Thanks Mr T. This is excellent . Just the kind of 3rd party research I was looking for
I will be switching to AJ Bell after the dividend (finally) comes in
Cheers and thanks again
I purchased my shares (ex dividend ) last week so kind of balances out to the share price to get the dividend...I think....
hi Candid
https://goodmoneyguide.com/stock-brokers/
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
? Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
Hi Mr Gnome,
Enjoyed your posts, the planet is buggered and the inept politicians, the greedy corporations and selfish inward thinking people have made it that way.
What some of the newer members that pop up on here from time to time hoping for some nugget of information to help them make a quick profit in a day or two don't understand is just how uncertain things were in the past for Sukari, yet by comparison this is plain sailing because at last it seems there are people running Sukari operations that know what they are doing and are thinking further ahead than the next quarterly presentation.
At present there's really not that much that can be discussed about Centamin until the next Q3 update , but I remain confident that when released it will be positive in many ways and make things clearer.
If only our UK government was as competent then we might have have some hope for the future!
Always good to hear from you on all manner of worldly subject issues and with news of what's going on in Oz.
'Where it stops only stupidity knows '. another pearl of wisdom ..I have never heard of that before ...I will store that and use it at one of those ' maximum effect ' times
Cheers !
Yes I can imagine that gnome.
Sotolo....you have found what much better than Barclays ?
CI
One of my sons has taken to bitcoin/s with a vengance. He does refer to its virtues, and in fact there are a few.
He makes the analogy with how one values modern art. Jeff Koon's Balloon Dog (Orange) sold for $58.4 million at a Christie's New York auction, beating out Gerhard Richter for the title... and how did the buyed ever work that out. Answer? The market worked it out for him, and as the buyer had $58.4 m (most of it coming through Pandora's magic potions, tax havens), and probably the inverse in common sense, we had a willing seller and a willing buyer, and hey presto, money changed hands. Not a lot to it.
Bit like valuing foreign currencies, Answer? let the markets do it...and I will leave it at that
But it doesn't matter what it is your selling. Go to the market, and they will tell you what it is worth. If you dont agree go to the next market, repeat, and on it goes ... where it stops only stupidity knows.
best
the Gnome.
CI, no things have not changed that much in essence. Except that the poms seem to have taken over most of Australian Ports (which aren't owned by the Chinese, LOL)and various Unions (where they sit in airconditioned offices, threaten people daily and push the convicts around a bit more than previously, all for a pretty penny...
cheers
Mr T. I can't see where your posts begin, travel to, or end so I can't comment on them
Gnome, I love your post about gold v bitcoin ...an excellent analogy ..and I used it on my son earlier today.
To me , an asset is something you can ' kick ' literally , whereas Bitcoin for example is an asset you can't even see , let alone kick .
I also told him that I was wearing several gold medals that I had won at the past two Olympics and that the reason he couldn't see them was that they were made of Bitcoin ..he wasn't impressed ..(he is a bitcoin bug)
My view of Bitcoin remains that as a virtual currency, driven purely by speculative supply and demand , it will end up at its underlying intrinsic value , which is zero He pointed out that the same could be said about fiat currencies (sterling money supply money supply is no longer backed by Gold held in the Bank of England Vaults ). It was my turn to look unimpressed and I walked out of the room
I suppose what I am saying is that I don't have a " *""ing clue " anymore. .. maybe I never did.
I am afraid it has been ever thus with Barclays Smart Investor, I used to complain every divi as often it would cost me a lot as the share would have risen before I got the divi to buy more, however in this climate doesn’t matter as Cey will probably be cheaper soon so have stopped complaining. They usually say that somewhat absurdly they take the dividend in dollars, then transfer it to sterling which somehow takes them a week, despite the dividend being offered in sterling by Cey if you choose. Of course this year getting the dividend initially in dollars and changing at Friday or today’s rate means you get more as sterling has fallen. Overall I have found ii so much better than Barclays which is no longer interested din the investor but selling product imho
My Sipp platform is Barclays too and likewise I haven't received my dividend yet either.
When I rang to complain , they told me that they would send me a secure document , when I asked them to earn their fee by following it up for me , that they don't do that , that it's the responsibility of the company
I told them that likewise I won't be paying their monthly fee if they don't follow it up .
They ignored me , they take it out automatically and without fail every month !!
I want to transfer my funds out of Barclays, but I don't know who to transfer it to
Any suggestions guys ?
Good for you gnome. I remember the beer and the cook your own steaks on outside BBQs in the rocks restaurants back in the 1980s
Do they have decent size beer glasses now ?
When I was there, they would drink beer out of a half litre glass , get drunk and offend the Brits and tell them how we couldn't take our beer !!
Back then they hated the Brits ..that wasn't just Sydney, it was Adelaide and Melbourne too, where I also encountered it . They loved the Irish though..
Strangely enough , which I couldn't understand, was that they loved the British Royal Family !
Given that this was back in the 1980s things may have moved on.
I also think it was because at that time , the UK residents there , were those who had migrated earlier from the UK on that £10 ticket . They did nothing but complain when they got there, and insulted all the locals, by calling them a bunch of convicts
Have times moved on since then ?
Can't even hold 95p which is key I think
Whilst we all like to think of ourselves, as sane, emminently rational and highly intelligent, the evidence does not seem to support this. I am still plowing through THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STUPIDTY - AS EXPLAINED BY SOME OF THE WORLDS SMARTEST PEOPLE, and I must say it is rather sobering.
As for peoples belief in democracy (admittedly of various flavours) as being the "way to go", the fact that it serves up a never ending set of numb skulls like Boris (and I wont mention the lovable lumps down under) does not seem to be that disturbing? And so back to my Psychology book !
Damn odd place, damn odd race
best the gnome, .... sorry must race back to the pub!
I have my dividend and I near the bus stop at the end of the world. Watch the bankers, and the brokers, and the pollies....
good luck, off to the pub to spend a few bob on a cold beer!
the Gnome
But bankers have always loved the idea of using other peoples' money to lend out to others or help themselves for a couple of weeks.