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Have a good one all!

Sometimes you come across as a right wack job Rodders!

Having said that I do struggle with all this divi re-invest theory stuff completely ignoring that in recent times inflation has more than wiped out any gains and the apparent assumption that ‘recovery’ of the SP is as sure to happen as the sun rising in the morning. None of the benefits being stated as reason for x factor gains future gains are close to new news and I really don’t get why people don’t think they’ve already been taken into account by the market.

As said earlier, emotions are to be ignored when investing, especially the desire to convince yourself you might just have not made the best of decisions with your money and as a consequence you might just have lost some of it.

There’s no question that the compounding effect of any type of re-investment, dividend or interest on savings, can be a great way to generate significant growth over time.

However for it to be an effective shareholding strategy SP needs to hold or grow.

It’s not rocket science to work out that re-investing in a falling share can be like running as fast as you can to stay where you are. Those longer term holders promoting the principle for BT assume the SP will recovers back to beyond the price they paid. Great if it does but still questionable as to whether they will get a better return for their overall asset value over time than they could have got elsewhere.

Wow! I imagine £10 was a lot back in the 1950’s.

Have a good’un Ebenezer.

I’m clearly an outlier on this site as I tend to have fantasies about women rather than dividend liberation.

I know in this day and age that’s probably a highly politically incorrect statement to make so I will caveat it by saying it’s meant as a humorous comment (and to give me a get out if my wife finds out).

Surprised you made the connection. A ‘pile’ suggests something with some structure to it.

‘Medium right wing’. Yeah, right.

Not if that’s the sort of message he sends to the market.

That’s a completely flawed strategy. He is far more intelligent and coherent when his thinking has been suppressed and he’s out of his head.

Yeah, what’s the sense in listening to these experts who have studied long and hard and spent a lifetime working in their chosen area when we prefer a comment on a chat site, even if it has no real factual substance to it and is effectively the ignorant, emotional and prejudiced ramblings of the poster.

‘I shall be selling at 2.50 per share’. That’s confidence for you.

Having said that, if they were to move towards that sooner rather than later the old ‘fear of missing out’ would likely kick in, based on the prospect of continuing upward projection.

Lots and lots of ifs in there!

Yeah, sorry Larry. You’re right now is the time for tolerance and good will to all men. I shouldn’t be pointing out his gross hypocrisy and I’m sure your reference to ‘£5 by xmas’ isn’t intended to highlight the accuracy of his previous forecasts.

…’I don’t care whether there’s a bid or not’?.

You’ve been ranting and rambling about there has to be a bid for the last 6 months (between expressing your paranoia about the Cwu).

So were you ok with ‘twerp’?

My opinion, for what it’s worth, was that it was rather harsh and somewhat unnecessary.

Great to see it almost back to 1984 levels :)

Apparently Shane MacGowan, Alistair Darling and Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth the 2nd also thought that £4 is la la land until it isn't too.

(cue shock and outrage).

‘ Today’s value is just that . It’s no more a real value than when it was a tenner a share’??!!

It’s present value at any moment in time is it’s real value. If you don’t believe it try asking someone who bought today or call up your broker.

Yes, it’s value will be different over time, just like anything else that can be bought, be it a house, car or bananas. If anything the value of those things over time are far more predictable.

Yes, should it one day be valued at £4 we can say that’s what it’s worth. However suggesting right now that rather than talking about it being worth £1.22 we should be talking about it being worth £4 is living in la la land..

The value of a share is what people are prepared to pay for it, regardless of which of the multitude of possible different ways you choose to calculate ‘what it’s worth’.

Right now you can get around £1.20 for every BT share you might want to sell…so that’s it’s value.

Making assumptions about what you will be able to get for it in the future is somewhere between forecasting what the weather will be on this day next year and picking next year’s grand national winner.

Seems like a distraction with limited relative upside to me.

Dumb investors?