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£1.60 again. Which means I am almost rich.....again. Which means I (almost) need to order more Dom Perignon. And some young ladies from Latvia.
Or maybe I (almost) need some counselling.
You can put that on my headstone. He "almost" had a great life. When IAG "almost" hit £7.00. He "almost" won the lottery, and "almost" married the women he loved.
"Almost". Should be next in the dictionary to "if", "but", and "maybe".
Anyway. apologies for rant. I am almost sorry.
Yes - a little early for me, but I was eager to share my back-of-a-cigarette-pack calculations with the world. Anyway, just in case that scenario should materialise, I have popped a bottle of Dom Perignon in the fridge for celebratory purposes. Or commiseration should the second scenario materialise. In all likelihood, it will be neither of those, we'll probably still be stuck around 160. Time(as with pretty much everything) will tell.
Price here when markets closed on Dec30 2022 was 123.8. By Jan31 it was 168.8 (having been even higher a few days previously). So that's 45 pence, or 36.3%, in just one month. Were that to happen again (from current price), that would translate to 215.8.
Pure conjecture (obvs) but wouldn't that be a nice start to the year? And it just shows what CAN happen. Then again, perhaps there will be another pandemic, and the price will slump to 26p. Ha ha ha...
Such is investing in shares, I guess.
"This will rocket at some point".
Quite possibly, but I have been waiting over 3 years now, so am becoming somewhat impatient. At some point the earth will no doubt explode into a trillion, trillion pieces, and cease to exist. Which will happen first?
Fordm - no, fortunately my largesse only extended to myself and the young lady behind the bar.
skindle - "as clueless as the British government". I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there. When it comes to being clueless/incompetent, this administration is in a league of its own.
Enjoying the healthy rise today, but it still only gets us back to where we were prior to the update on Oct 12. The drop after that was quite bizarre, so it's nice that that has now been rectified, but I still see a lot of upside here. Share price hit over £5 as recently as July, and (barring unforeseen circumstances) I can see that being easily passed fairly soon, and don't think £6 is unrealistic at some point next year.
I'm a long term IAG holder (I know, I know!), but thankfully sold some of those to come in here, which was definitely one of my better decisions. Thinking of selling more of those to top up here, but we'll see.
Hope that's not the kiss of death.
Blimey - EZJ is up and down like a ****s knickers this morning. Potentially rich pickings for savvy day traders. Unfortunately, I have mislaid my crystal ball (again). Plus which, I am skint (again) - having blown my last few meagre pennies on a rather snazzy Cotswold-style new sports jacket/blazer (pure new wool, obvs). Hence I now look a million dollars, but in reality am worth some $990,000 less than that. Still - one must try to maintain certain standards, and appearance is important. Or as someone once said to me - "perception is reality".
As far as IAG goes, I can't believe that we are struggling to not slip back into the 140's. FFS.
Morning fordm. Completely forgot about Thanksgiving Day. I put my sunny disposition today down to a stressful day yesterday, even though I didn't have much to do - but a series of seemingly straightforward tasks turned into a series of nightmares, due to a combination of technology, incompetence, bureaucracy, apathy, greed, and plain stupidity. Seems to me that that's how it is all the time now - what looks (and should be) relatively simple, turns out to be fraught with unnecessary and avoidable problems. Or maybe I'm just going nuts. Either way, I find the modern world increasingly baffling and stressful.
Apologies for straying off topic/ranting. Is it too early for a drink?
As a long-suffering holder here, it's hard not to start each day wondering what fresh calamity might befall us, and further decimate the share price. Perhaps some more ill-judged remarks from the CEO? Maybe an Ebola outbreak traced to Terminal 5, or a rabid baboon escaping from the hold of a 747 mid Atlantic, and running amok in the first class cabin. Perhaps another financial crash? (The next one can't be too far away).
Whatever it is, the litany of headwinds here seems to be never-ending, and even when there appears to be some "good news" - such as record profits - it still manages to put a dent in the share price.
Anyway, I like to spread joy whenever I get the chance. Have a nice day.
Skindle - your post kind of sums things up here - ie. it can take weeks to "claw back" what it takes a few hours to lose ( or a few hours to lose a month's gains). Seems to have been that way for a long time now. If you can time it right, I guess you can make a few quid day trading,(probably over a few days of excruciatingly slow gains), but then you could also lose a packet in an hour or two. If only I was psychic. On that very point, I see that having lost 8 pence yesterday, we are up about 0.5 pence today. Nuff said.
As for 'Clown of the year', I don't disagree with any of your choices. Unfortunately, I can quite easily think of about 2 dozen names that could easily be added to that list (and probably many more) - mostly from our political/ruling classes. No wonder the country is in a mess. And it's only November - if the poll closes on Dec 31, that still leaves 6 weeks for more ****wits to step up, and put their names in the hat. No doubt they will.