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So who's going to step up and take mikeys place, starting off the commentary every morning ?
It should keep rising now ?
Good day today in the end. Lets just pray it keeps going up, & never goes below £1. That would be a double bonus for me!!
Wonder if Mikey sold out as it went down around 13:00 - is so that would explain the subsequent rise. That happens when I sell out of anything. It's like the market pivots around what I do.
I am not so bothered about dividends ....especially interim dividends ...which for the PI smaller holder can be pretty much a waste of time.....given the fact you may be holding just to receive it....
No share is a dead cert and even big boys like Shell, Glaxo, Prudential etc have their cycles and swings as a result of "events" ....
It really is no easy game ..... given all the external events that companies have to operate through
In fact ..unless you are going to watching things a bit..it may be better and less hassle to choose a sector fund or such like ..and pay for someone else to watch over it for you..... especially as these days the markets are so ALGO driven and media reactionary
FTSE 250 - many are UK economy facing so depend on the economy there
FTSE 100 - many have worldwide revenues - so depend on overall world economy etc ..
I only ever took at VOD on drops/downtrends....and tend to trade....
2022 looks a bumpy ride ...2023 may be a better , more even year to work through
If its a dead one bouncing be sure to give some advance notice so i can pay my respects and be off
Looks as if there's a lot of manipulation going on, the mid-morning spike a trick to lure people in? Wouldn't be the first time.
Shorts have reduced in recent weeks and brokers still peddling targets around 165/170.
Next div date 3 months or so away. Will it rise leading up to that? Might as well ask the cat.
All the best mikey
He will be back when it is under £1? Of only, that would make my day. Good bye Mikey, don't rush back.
Market up 80 and this down, that is pretty worrying. I think this and bt are back to covid lows soon, who the fxck buys telecoms anymore anyway. Debt ridden credit junkie companies in a stagflation rising rate environment listed on a hated exchange is a pretty terminal combo, all this dividend crxp is. This now has a value 13 billion less than its debt, obvi nobody thinks it’s assets are worth shxt.
Thats it everybody - so long farewell I am out of this pile of junk - ill get back in when its back below £1 .
Ftse 100 is still up nicely - vodafone as usual has dropped right back down into the red
Any ideas what the spike was? it was across the board.
Well that blip upwards didnt last long - the red is beckoning as usual
My advice is where possible stick to something you know.
A very simple example of this would be if you shop at Tesco and suddenly see them providing something everyone else is missing you can see they will boom.
Ps not suggesting Tesco ,but sometimes you can really see a company is going to win.
You could see it about 15 year ago with Argos at Christmas time it was so busy,now they have dropped the ball totally
Looks like another usual day for this share - up , down , up then down all the way .
Hello CSDI, hope your keeping well, always good to get advice from you mate, to be fair I'm not doing too badly at all, but we all like to do better, and always good to get other people's ideas
Best of luck to you, and thanks to all who have replied
Good luck all
If you don't know what to buy then get an ETF or a tracker. Good time to do it now and saves the hassle of guessing what to buy. As for me I added some more VOD to my portfolio @ 117 but also have a decent % in ISF and VMID.
Hi Robleo et al
My thoughts for what they are worth.
1. Stick with the big FTSE100 shares - they tend to hold value in distressed times better than small caps - but tend to be mature companies without the growth you would expect from a small co or start-up.
2. When looking at divis, make sure the yield is affordable and well covered by cash & profits.
3. I have a divi re-investment set up for my shares in an ISA - so no tax to pay on the divis at all.
4. I have recently bought LLOY & PSN for their divis.
5. I have taken a very small punt on POLY - which could turn out to be worth zero or 5-10 bagger.
You know how bad I am with this investing lark, so best advice is normally to the opposite of what I do.
GLA
Cheers - CSDI (Crap Share Dealing Ideas)
Hi mole, you've obviously been good at picking the right ones by the sounds of it, so well done there, what I have found difficult is not only picking the right stocks, but picking the right stocks at the right times, like with smt, they made record profits the year before I invested with them, but I watched the sp go from £12 up to excess of £15, then with American tech stocks going out of favour fast, I sold up when it dropped down to £13.50 and it's now down to around the £9 mark, for me I'm finding it easier dealing with the dividend stocks which tend to work within a range , such as lgen, aviva, mng, vod, lloyds as I said I had big hopes for Lloyds, but it just keeps getting knocked back down, just going to take a little longer than I thought, and vod we all know has had it's problems but hopefully will get better, been taking your advice though and putting shares on a watch list and trying to avoid buying at the top, and as Fleccy says reinvesting on the dips, hopefully I may make some money one day with the advice from you guys
cheers
'Growth' has become a byword for small loss making companies with sketchy business plans.
I only hold a stock for it's potential to grow investor funds. About half I own actually pay out a dividend. You can have growth shares that are profitable and pay dividends. For me I look for growth and a div is a sideline.
I wouldn't want to be in a company that has stagnant or falling revenue just because it pays a dividend.
Growth stocks don't have to be small. Microsoft has grown it's revenue 125% over the past 5 years and it pays a dividend.
fleccy, some very good advice there from yourself and Dan I think
Cheers guys
"I'm no expert so what are others thoughts ?"
None of us are experts on here, especially me, but I do have an opinion. I only ever invest in dividend paying shares, because I still have a good chance of receiving income even if a War breaks out. The dividends can be used as income, or you could top up your holding at lower prices while the downturn continues. By re-investing your dividends, you're actually growing your shareholding, which could be seen as growth, and when the the share price eventually recovers you reap the reward. Daniel said the share price drops by the value of the payout, which it does on ex dividend day, but more often than not the price recovers at some point afterward.
Hi Dan, RE: My advise is to buy a share that you think you will make money on, well I have tried that one mate, but I'm still waiting for the money:-) so obviously I'm not very good at picking the right growth shares, so the alternative for me is to pick dividend shares for income without having to sell shares, too difficult I think to move my pension, but think it would be a good idea to move my stocks & shares isa, when the time is right to sell up my shares from the current one, really thought this was going to be the year where I got good growth from my Lloyds shares, but just like with Vodafone, there just seems to be one thing after another knocking it back all the time, but one day they will come good, just hope it don't take too long or I will be too old to enjoy it ;-)
Cheers ps. did you notice I didn't use your hated lol
robleo. My advise is to buy a share that you think you will make money on, either in cap gain, or divi, or both. The divi comes straight out of the sp on ex divi day, so unless you want an income without having to sell some shares, there is no advantage of a high divi share. But my best advice to you is to have a broker that doesn't charge to hold shares, & one with low commission .
So which are the best to buy guys ? Personally I am preferring Dividends , hl charges me 0.45% up to a max of £45 for holding my shares, so if my shares have a yield of around 5 to 7 %, then the charges are covered plus I get some income from them, and if the share price rises that's a bonus if it drops I still get income while waiting for recovery, if on the other hand I choose a growth share and it shrinks instead of growing, not only have I lost money on the capital but my charges are not covered and I get no income, you could be lucky picking the right growth share though and possibly make more
I'm no expert so what are others thoughts ?