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We hold shares like ITV and wanting them to go up, well I think we all believe ITV will go up to £1+ in time but when.
So we are sitting on cash in our trading account thinking I am not making money while the cash is sitting there doing nothing, but should we top up now and pay 78p ish knowing that it will come down to maybe 72p-75p as soon as the market drops. If I buy now I could lose money ,if I don't the money is doing nothing, What a game. !!!!
Yes Jed it is a game! :)
I've always believed in the good old 'time in the market' over 'timing the market'.
I've sat in cash watching something go up that i wanted to buy and it's an awful feeling...
Stick to value and accept your position might be underwater for a bit until that value is fully reflected. ITV is great for this as we can keep taking the dividends in and compounding until that day arrives (yes assuming divs are not cut naturally).
Another one who has sold out here. Everything gone now and in Shell and BP collecting dividends this week. Need this to go back below 70p before I will buy back in.
Dame is here for another 12 months so it will not go much above 80 and once buyback fund is almost depleted the shorts will just move back unless ITV can fund further buy backs. With no buybacks this could very easily go back to 56p again.
Maybe but they've barely scratched the surface of the current buyback pot! Another £202 million still available...
https://ibb.co/KVGkzqr
Dividend hopping can work, but you need to beat your costs (including 0.5% stamp duty) plus whatever the ex div day drop is - hopefully less than the value of the dividend obviously, but you can end up trapped waiting for breakeven while other investments you want to get back into move against you... Good luck!
As you can easily predict, as the ITV share price increases, there will be less and less troll named WimbledonTom on this forum. However, this does not mean that we will rest from his idiotic and sometimes arrogant comments. There is more and more of the same troll's accounts in his multi-account stable. Fortunately an intelligent reader does not need to use AI to understand who is who.
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BigEgo
Many people on this forum treat investing in the stock exchange as an ordinary game. Then, when comparing the state of their portfolio, they are surprised by the incurred losses, profits below the average index change or extraordinary growth of companies they once owned. They look for culprits around them without any doubts about their own professionalism. However, the ability to press the "buy" or "sell" button does not prove that you understand the rules of this game, but only that you are able to participate in it. It's something like an experiment from a few years ago with a monkey who, as an investor, exceeded the profits of professionals in a few selected months. However, when she began to suffer losses, she was quickly forgotten.
Lack of understanding of the principles of investing in the growth market of selected shares, the behavior of large institutional investors and their strategies, and the use of various financial instruments for this purpose - this is the mistake of many people present here. The fact that they do not listen to others can be considered rational. But this knowledge can be supplemented quite easily, which, as you can see, is not the case. Well, some people prefer to learn by watching their wallets. Although "learning" is not synonymous with "drawing conclusions". Even when it hurts.
The PyongYang Pontificator is back with more indecipherable posts!
Pogo you lost money last year. It was the only the surprise buybacks that have kicked your poor choice of "incestments" back into profit. You continue to back a CEO and Board who have a terrible history with ITV.
You are a lost cause. A wide number of posters here are now talking about jumping ship and you are still clinging on for £1. It most likely will not happen this year meaning you are missing opprotunities elsewhere. Fear of missing out means you will continue to suffer losses here whilst you believe in a CEO that the City analaysts hate with a passion.
Even the word "idiot" is not able to fully describe the situation and this person.
And for now, ITV is £0.785, which with the annual divi gives us a new annual maximum of £0.835. And I'm not happy about it at all, considering the next week's investment. We'll see how the week ends.
Pogo, do you realise that you are coming across as the troll on here and that everything you say actually describes you as much as anyone you are targeting?
Please, try to grow up. It's great to hear everyone's comments on ITV and influences on ITV but can you stop the childish snipes? You will just be filtered and anything positive or beneficial you might offer will be flushed away with your other comments.
I like "squeezing lemons" but I am always happy to be on the good site of the market if it means for my portfolio's investment buying uphill in the growth market of the shares I own with increasing volume and not through arranged transactions.
And this is regardless of whether the closing turns out to be lower or higher than today's maximum price of 79.10. With a bit of malice, I greet all those waiting for the correction, who have already managed to empty their portfolio of ITV shares, at least partially.
Hi Pogo, you keep going on about posters selling their ITV holding and waiting for it to drop , but many/most of us haven't sold out and sitting on more cash to buy more when the SP drops.but if it doesn't fall we will be making money just like you.
A lot of people have been sitting on losses for years while this muppet has been running the show so any sniff of a profit and they're out, and who blames them. Hopefully it'll keep rising but once bitten stays in the mind.......I'm staying in cash for now.
Share buy backs. Dividend reinvestment and improving results will keep this at decent levels.
We are competing and maintaining an upbeat focus:
https://www.ii.co.uk/analysis-commentary/ii-view-upbeat-itv-rewarding-income-seekers-ii531667
And now some of my speculations. It's 12 o'clock and we have over 5.5 million shares volume with up to + 0.5% price increase. If my intuition is correct, all this fun game from the last two weeks will generate a strong 2-3 session increase of 12-20% in the next few days. This is just speculation. Let's wait and see how wrong I am.
Winstanley
Another article confirming the facts and intended to build the basis for strong shares price growth.