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.... and the breaking news is?????????

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back at 110 sell at 120, so 20-5 gives 15 profit
should be 10-5 fives 5 profit

Metom, my biggest failing in day trading or general trading is not selling conceding a small loss to buy back much lower and then bank an overall loss when a sp recovers. So if I buy at 100, sell at 95, by back at 70 and sell at 100 I will actually have made 30-5 which is 25. That requires the market to behave in my favour of course. So there is the second route, buy at 100 sell at 95 buy back at 110 sell at 120, so 20-5 gives 15 profit. The third way is buy at 100, buy at 95, buy at 70 giving an average down price of 90. Sell at 110 and you have 20 profit. I tend to do the third way rather than the first way but that is my failing.

Harley, not my sought of bike. I like knackered old courier bikes, it was their living and so they were mostly very well maintained until the baby came along and the missus said no more bike. I have a friend down in Orange county who will sort me out a bike if I do the road trip. It is very tempting but I need to see some better returns on my shares here. Has to be self-funded with my play money!

A bike, of course. I was a biker for years before converting to the four wheeled monster. Bike it from LA to Vegas. I think a little plan is coming together. I've done monument valley before, but taking a bike ride up there, oh yes, my next holiday plans are shaping up nicely.

Thanks for the inspiration.

https://www.iairgroup.com/en/our-brands/level

Should this new part of IAG be given a bit more exposure in the coming month? Many have commented here that the low cost operation is of no real consequence to IAG, but I just came across this whilst trying to answer my own questions. Must admit I had no idea about this. Now, anybody up for buying up the Norwegian lh fleet and slots - not withstanding IAG had been eyeing up Norwegian in the past as a takeover target. Will I be flying to LA non-stop for £250 again soon [then $25 return to Vegas of course]. Or maybe drive to Vegas this time, some say it is a long but very scenic drive?????? Anyone done the drive?

Interesting question, where are IAGs hubs and where are the aeroplanes currently parked up whilst out of use irrespective of flag?

Registered in Spain - headquarters in UK

"International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A., usually shortened to IAG, is an Anglo-Spanish multinational airline holding company with its registered office in Madrid, Spain, and its global headquarters in London, England."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Airlines_Group

Impossible to say except a 'general' trend upwards is to be expected. The situation is moving out of the hands of mostly scientific led policy back to good old fashioned politics led policy. Wars put on hold can resume, vanity battles can begin again and ideological imposition pursued once more [climate change nonsense and now amplified with apparent additional justification].

Back to 'normal' so back to casino markets around the world.

Dominic Green. R4. This morning. He may claim that the headline accusations are nothing to do with Brexit, but along with the pro EU lobby, the text and rhetoric has got very nasty. A number of channels believed the character of Boris as a bubbling buffoon to be used as they saw fit. Instead, as is the case when people take the reigns, he has not been as pliable as first thought.

I have noted many times that there is a very significant problem with the pro EU lobby working to continue aligning the UK with the EU as if Brexit never happened. This explosion of political assassination against Boris is largely fuelled by that group. Clearly Boris is a major block to Britain being dragged back in to the EU. We've been hearing declarations about opening up of travel, not opening up of travel bouncing from one end of the spectrum to the other. I have had first hand confirmation that there is a war in Downing St between the lockdown lobby and the open up lobby, the lock down lobby predominantly the pro EU mob and following instructions directly from Brussels to delay the UK opening up to stop any advantage being gained by the UK. A feature of the entire trade negotiation. And as we all know, from the Brexit debate before during and especially after the vote, opposing the commission is met with significant backlash.

We must break free, we must stand up to this bullying. If share holders of the likes of IAG want to see the airlines such as BA not just return to a working airline, but not be crushed by competitor airlines on the continent, then the UK government must stand firm and remove from the civil service and the government all those continue to be a mill stone around our necks. Be under NO illusions, holding back BA and bankrupting the airline to preserve EU carriers is 100% a viable option for the commission. Remember IAG is not headquartered in the EU, but is in the UK. That kind of heresy grinds with the EU. As lockdown ends, and with the intense ramping up of spinning against Bojo, I sense an end game approaching. If the UK holds firm and is not lead back towards EU dictate [officially or otherwise] then stocks like IAG are safe. If the EU lobby prevail and the UK is dragged back to aligning with the commission's collective directives then stocks like IAG are screwed.

But I am neither of mice or men. I am a god!

Well my master plan to take over the market and rule the universe from a wicker chair looks likely to come about based on Clarence2 post link. EU islands open first (Easy Jet to shoot up) then latter long haul including US (IAG to shoot up).

So the plan is coming together nicely, muuwhuuhu huuhu huuuuuhhuhh....

As an insight into the war raging in Downing St, Cummings and his leaks aside.....

Couple of days ago Boris was adamant that lockdown, not the vaccine, was the reason behind the big drops in cases.
This morning, some scientists stating clear as day that the vaccine is responsible and in fact I am sure I heard one interviewee actually declare the pandemic over with the extent of vaccination.

But is Boris spouting what he is because that is the lobby he believes, or is it what he has to say to appease a lobby group. With the revelation that Cummings is behind the sleaze leaks [oh labour, you are looking such fools trying to flag this one] one wonders just how intense the battle inside number 10 is. It is certainly resulting in a whole mixed bag of messages and the country, not least the IAG sp, could ned up suffering much more for it. We have left the EU and the politics must now end and leadership takes us forward as an independent nation. Those in the civil service, government, uniformed services, politicians, business leaders and quangos either accept that or resign.

marab, I have always expected the islands to open first for tourists as they can be isolated by the various governments to some extent and thereby be a low risk. Whether the UK will allow people to, say, Ibiza knowing there would also be Germans, Danes and so there too is the big question for me. I am half expecting that there will be a literal allocation of whole islands or sections/resorts to individual nations. Not as far fetched as first sounds since there are existing demarcation lines. So Malta and Cyprus would be UK holiday islands, Malaga, Ibiza German, Cos for the Danes, Rhodes for the Swedish. I expect the mainland to be mostly off limits until the end of the summer except where the airport/town/resort can be effectively cordoned off as a holiday maker bubble. If country zoning is not introduced in some form then opening up to holidays could be a problem unless other nations like Germany continue to be grounded and the Brits have free run of the islands. You can imagine how that will be go down in the EU which is why I have a very strong suspicion there is a deep rooted lobby in Downing St working to keep UK aligned to whatever the EU timetable is. But my gamble is there will be some EU destinations allowed in May, they will be islands, there will be wall to wall objection across the BBC and mass media and during one of the interviews somebody will reveal that the holidays should not be going ahead for British Citizens whilst the rest of Europe is still in lockdown.

I suspect that the uncertainty of what is to be announced and when is being used to some extent by iis algorithms on a sector basis too. In order to make money though the algorithms will have to generate a perception of sp growth back to the 220+ again. SO against the daily flip flop on travel breakout, variants and messy introduction of passport schemes, I suppose the territory is fertile to take a few pis to the cleaners and top up those pension funds. Won't hit my strategy though. I expect Europe travel corridors first - Easy Jet sp jump - then cash-in all Easy and all in to IAG for the long haul opening up news, especially to the US. I expect the iis to put up very big buys to escalate the sp and begin the big sell before they have even shifted all there sell. I do not expect the forthcoming sp spikes to last long or establish new plateaus. Indeed they may even be intraday and not stretch over two, let alone a week or so. Alerts will be the key here and being happy to take good mark-ups and not try and be greedy looking for the maximum inflection points. This will only really kick off over the first week in May so will continue to move as much in to Easy as possible. If it goes the other way round and international lh travel is released first, I'll still get some IAG and latter some Easy Jet profits but just not as big. I think I am on a win win either way.

This may have had some bearing on the reversal;

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/947386/wizz-air-remains-favoured-as-jpmorgan-slashes-airline-company-forecasts-947386.html

sundezena, that's not just a glass half full, that's an early start ;)

As accurate as ever sunsurfer........

Only new thing in this is the quote ""We need to get Europe up and running as a first priority before opening up to the outside." Proves to me our policy is pegged to the bloody EU despite us supposed ti being an independent nation. We should NOT be held back waiting for Europe, again! If the US routes are valid, open them and ti hell with the EU.
And we will still have the ridiculous return lag restrictions. Down to the the transport committee to kick some sense into the waring factions in Downing Street.