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Not a good day for him then !!
@porsche. If anyone is wondering, he is a shorter and openly admits it. Anything he is shorting is called either, “shyte, or dogshyte” and gets his verbal diarrhoea.
Amusing, if sad.
So true, S8. Which is why, I never stop buying, no matter how bad it seems. Forget the scaremongers on here, a recovery is always around the next corner.
Lot of very true statements here S8 well said....
R a c i s t ex pat if you're wondering
porsche the shouty ****** expat opines.
enjoy your pina colada grandad and leave the concern's of this great country to those that want to live here
Interesting people keep bringing up BT. It’s under 1.50, down from a fiver in Jan 2016, with a large period of no dividend…riddled with debt, an insane pension burden blown out last Oct in the tory budget fiasco and having their profits regulated away from them by successive governemnets. If that crxp is your yardstick for investing you need help, it’s capital destructive junk just like Vod even by dog index of the world ftse 100 standards. My god there are some 🤡🤡 on here. Stop buying U.K. listed shares if you want to do any good.
Bear markets can feel like the end of the World but remember, every crash has been followed by bigger rallies.
If it’s just a market crash, things will bounce back. If it truly is the end of everything, money will be worthless.
Market crashes have taught me to keep buying.
If you're "investing" for the next month, then a market drop is bad news.
If you're investing for the next decade, then a market drop is great news.
Market drops are an opportunity for long-term investors, not a risk.
If you're scared of losing then you have already lost.
When it comes to investing, paralysis through fear is a big threat to wealth creation.
Creating and sustaining wealth requires looking past negative headlines and rising above negative confirmation bias.
When the best time comes to buy in a market drop, you won’t want to buy.
The best time to buy generally comes when nobody else wants to buy.
Other people’s fear to buy tends to make investments cheap (because they oversell).
Sellers will push prices lower and lower until it’s no longer justified to continue selling.
Buyers will then outweigh sellers which brings prices higher.
Soon, prices exceed the decline’s underlying values and the sellers return. This is the market cycle.
Bear markets are a normal part of the stock market.
Since World War II, there have been 9 drops of 20%-40%, and 3 drops over 40%.
Many reference that Japan's market crash hasn't recovered for decades, and that the U.S. will be no different.
However, the U.S. P/E ratio is ~20 & Japan's was ~60 (3x worse).
The USD is also the World reserve currency, which plays a big part in the recovery of the economy!
You can’t control the markets, but you can control how you react to volatility & swings.
The key is to zoom out from any particular period and focus on the long-term trend.
It can be an easy decision to take your money out of the market due to fears, but this creates a bigger challenge, finding the "best" time to re-invest your money and come back in.
Most times, what was supposed to be a temporary move out of the market, becomes a permanent one.
Think your main goal is wrong , you wish to grow your pension pot as much as possible, surely the main goal should be to preserve capital and spending power . By focusing on this you will achieve your objectives.
Typo it's 24%
"I’m going for a 1.5% drop today and we’ll do worse than BT."
Apparently Drahi has just raised his stake in BT to 25%.
Starts up then drops, up a bit before US opens then plummets
Robleo
Investing isn't an exact science as the path to price discovery is a rocky road riddled with significant noise where meaningful majority shareholders are absent. Even when they are active and committed to the long-term strategy of the company, price discovery and true value is debatable. Just look at the large gulf between the asset valuation multiple in the US vs the rest of the world. American "apples" are valued and appreciated more than non American apples. Its truly contradiction in term as an investor should seek to maximise ROI and to actively seek to profitably close the value gap where one exist.
There are multiple teams who have analysed past stock performances and their findings were that a significant appreciation in a security some years, i.e. if viewed over a 20 year period, is the main contribution to the aggregate performance. In a nutshell, as tempting as it may be to compare prices on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, it's best to have a longer term perspective as there is almost no possibility to time the right infliction points as to when the major moves are about to take place.
Going back to your question about how to achieve a 10% gain - there is no one formula!
Look at things with a longer time horizon. How can you judge which marathon runner will win the race after 10min of running, or even 30min? Especially if they are not ranked off the gate.
I’m going for a 1.5% drop today and we’ll do worse than BT.
MrLong, it's not that simple even, of course they are not all losing money, i have portfolio of 6 funds 1 investment trust and 8 shares
My aim is to grow my pension pot as much as possible, but right now the ones that are making profit just seem to be making up for the ones that are going into loss and just balancing out, and with inflation over 10% you need to be making at least 10% profit just to break even
maybe you guys are doing a lot better, i don't know
If you feel that every share you pick looses, then your doing something right! Your long strategy is incorrect, take a short position via a cfd and you’ll win. All gains are tax free also. Sorted.
Trader, we will have to stop giving in to these temptations
probably be better of with a 4.75 % savings account or even just putting money in a piggy bank lol
just seems to be a no win situation with shares this year, my largest holding is with Lloyds bank and even though they had better than expected results the share price still drops
just out of curiosity is anyone making profits from shares this year? or is it just me picking all the wrong ones
@robleo same here, i was out but tempted to come back in, much higher than you paid :(
This share never fails to disappoint even my last top up @86p is under water now, will it continue it's downward trend or is there a chance this could recover, always difficult to know when to cut your losses and get out
The 3 Vod UK merger will be influenced by the choice of network equipment re China. Retail only merger might be the answer on a VOD/ O2 network, along the lines of an MVNO/ MVNE ?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/meta-fined-record-1-3-billion-and-ordered-to-stop-sending-european-user-data-to-us/ar-AA1bvNYr?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=784409ae9b3e4f83b28b5a92fb58c21d&ei=57
And if you want to continue the fun after close here see the US pick up the baton in this downhill relay
Good luck guys in the run up to ex div.
Fingers crossed E& wants another 5% at these low prices and MDV has kitchen sinked the outlook
86p average here so I hope so too.
Don’t think it will be sinking for long ,when you look all the after hours Buys .