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Hah, another example. I stuck x amount on 10 companies, Xmas 2019, as advised by Shares magazine.
Serious money, for me. Guess what happened shortly after?
From memory, I was about 60% down, so over time, I sold out. Tbf, if I'd have held, I'd have got my money back and more.
That learnt me a big lesson in holding.
It's why I continue to hold what looks like a lost cause here (I'm still 20% down.)
"sometimes it's just luck."
I'd say it's always luck.
In my 13 years of playing this game, I'd say 90% of my investments have immediately fallen by 5-10% or more, which makes it hard work to make a profit. I'm just massively unlucky.
I was working with a bloke who nearly always wins on short term trades.
Typical example. I was about to pull the trigger on RR at 70p, last October, I think it was. He put me off, so I decided against. Look where that is.
I'm not sure I've even made any profit at all in all that time.
I've quite often thought about not bothering anymore, as I'm obviously just not cut out for the game.
Yet a part of me wonders how I could possibly manage to not make anything when we had a good 10 year run????
I've opened a few tracker type funds and they're doing better.
I'd suggest even if you have some skill, you need to be lucky.
I see WHY have had a takeover bid at 13.5p. Damn, that seems low. It'll be interesting to see if there are any other bids. Board posters are doing their fruit.
Not HUM related, I know, but relevant just to see what the market thinks of gold mine prices.
I think people who are willing to play it know all that.
The idea that this can move up or down 7% plus at a stroke will always appeal though.
I work for a living, so don't get time to play it, but I'm sure there are many that do.
And that will continue.
Until Dan starts backing up the BS that he spouts.
I thought that Cat Deely had been a shoe-in for weeks?
A fellow Brummie. Good.
But, with me not knowing anything about any recent so called "celebs", I thought she was really old school and tbh, finished?
I don't even know what sort of market ITV aim at nowadays, but it certainly can't be mine, as a 60ish yo.
Us tight old fogeys don't spend via advertising inspiration, do we?????
I don't know, perhaps some do, but I can watch an advert multiple times, have a tune or whatever drummed into my head, but not know what the actual product is. It honestly happens to me all the time and I have to ask the missus. It's probably just inbuilt.
Hence Cat Deely? I'd have thought they'd go for someone more recent.
David.
I'm confident I'll make money here and plenty of it.
My Isa bundle is still in profit, but my SIPP wedge is 11.5% down.
If you can't handle the heat, it might be best if you just sell up mate, if you are even genuinely invested here.
But this is a proper roller coaster ride share. It's risky, but I've been knocking 60% down, even after averaging down and still taken profits.
My honest advice is either swallow what's happening or just bail and let us gamblers have a go without sniping at the totally wrong time :-)
The volatility, combined with what should be a solid base re actually producing a lot of gold, is just incredible, imo and if you're going to have a serious punt/gamble, call it what you will, this is THE place to do it, imo.
Addicknt, so what's this heresy you speak of?
I asked weeks ago why we just didn't come out and outright say that we should just announce that the company is up for sale and cut all the BS.
And pretty much everyone said, no for whatever reason.
Yet now you seem to be in agreement?
It seems to me we call everyone's bluff. Put the "For sale" sign up and they bid, simple as.
And if they don't, we do a raise, say "FU" to any potential bidders and go back to exploring/proving, where everyone knows the asking price is going to keep on increasing. Then everyone knows exactly where they stand.
The market is sick of the BS here and just want something sorted one way or the other, imo.
The only argument I can see here is that it'll kill the SP. Duhh, it's already on it's a*se, so what's new?
It won't happen, because it won't suit those creaming it on the board, but thoughts anyone?
Jed, I'm sure Farage has tried and failed to be an MP 6 times. On the face of it, he makes a lot of sense and I actually quite like him. I'd never vote for him though and obviously most others wouldn't either. I don't know about the Brexit party's manifesto, but it became the Reform party, whose politics scare me, because they're out and out Libertarian, where if you're wealthy great, but if you're poor, it's your own fault.
Cleverly, there is no real manifesto available to read now.
The scary thought is I firmly believe they are the future, when Con and Labour both prove they only keep on doing the same old stuff.
For now, I'm all in favour of them gaining a bigger voters share. They'll be helping give Labour one last chance to do something genuinely socialist and try to change the same old, same old. Then again, you have Starmer running the show, who is more tory than half the tories.
British politics really is junk. The question is does it swing massively left or right? I don't see it being left when you have our right wing media brainwashing the plebs.
Can you really not look that simple thing up for yourself?
If you look on the Bats share price link on this very site and read down a little bit, it's paying around 9.64% divi, which should be safe for a good while.
https://www.lse.co.uk/SharePrice.html?shareprice=BATS&share=British-American-Tobacco
Ooh look, it puts you on the page you were on when you replied.
Rich, I keep thinking the same, but the .It's it fall, the more it's irresistable. I'll definite be buying a chunk more when I think it's close to stopping the fall, which happening as I and no doubt many others predicted.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is anywhere near the bottom yet.
A top up around 5p would give me a load more shares at minimal cost.
It all depends if you can see light at the end of what could be a very long tunnel. Or not.
I previously thought Tom was deluded and borderline psychotic.
Now I know for sure.
People trying to silence him?
Tom, you take up most of the board with the same old s*it.
To suggest that investing in streaming via ITVX was wrong, is deluded.
To think that ITV could really compete with Netflix, with the billions they've spent is deluded.
To think that selling the studios after hawking ourselves out as up for sale is also deluded, imo, but debateable.
To think that McCall should be sacked is deluded. Regardless of what you think, the company still put out good results last time. Your personal obsessed opinion will not come into it. Likewise with Schofield, where I've read that there are some who actually want him back. Go figure.
You need to give it up Tom, because you're only giving yourself more mental issues.
Sell up and go and invest in some company that without using 20-20 hindsight is going to make you a fortune.
The SP is down, because the economy is in a downturn and no one's got a pot to p*ss in. Go and find me a company in the sector where the SP has increased in the last year. Clue, you won't.
That's a free clue, that I'm gifting you. Because you obviously haven't got one.
I'm nice like that.
I suspect the whole industry is rife with all sorts of dodgy behavior. Any arty farty type industry has always been the same.
It doesn't make it right, but your constantly going on about it, along with your seeming hatred of McCall is really tiresome.
I really wonder why you're invested here. Why don't you sell up and invest elsewhere? You obviously hate the company, after all.
"Obsessed" is right, imo.
33%? Since when?
I do take your point and "conflict of interest" is the wrong description, but it's difficult to see who might outvote them. Free float is less than 50% and the majority won't vote.
Either way, by far the biggest shareholder is going to vote to seriously increase it's share.
That's how it goes I suppose, but why waive rule 9?
Yet another behind the scenes deal done, imo.
They could have taken the whole company for peanuts, is my guess.
CIG SA 26.10%
AIMS Asset Management 5.60%
Alwaha Fund Ltd 5.02%
Ruffer LLP 4.50%
M&G Investments 3.43%
Schroder Investment Management 3.19%
"Oh really? That's interesting. Why can't CIG vote?"
I thought the same. Obviously you could look at this as a conflict of interest ie they're effectively voting for themselves.
But even MPs and Prime ministers can do that, so I'm guessing they can vote.
Free float is currently just over 50%, I believe.