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Is this how you spend your spare time? Your mum must be so proud. I am normally in favour of keeping things civil on this board, but I feel an exception is due here.

F**k off, you utter t*at.

"What a muppet show". Yeslam, that is an outrageous slur on The Muppets. Please retract immediately.

Not happy about these Wizz-related chest pains. Had a nice steady rise last July/August, before a really horrible consistent downward slide through the autumn, then a nice upward turn before and after Xmas, followed by the terrifying vertiginous drop of the last few weeks. The 12 month chart here looks like a roller-coaster designed by a masochistic 7 year old, and the last

10 days like a downhill course designed by a suicidal skier. Nearly bailed out yesterday, as it seemed like a bottomless pit, but fortunately only ditched about 7%.

Anyway, the sensible part of my brain (my friends would query whether that even exists) tells me to put these in a metaphorical drawer,and not go near it until Nov 12th ( F27 H1 results), which will hopefully be a breakout point. Will I listen? Hell no.

Any chance his family/cronies make money on the extreme market fluctuations brought about by his actions/ comments? Of course not. Trump is not without certain attributes, and like the proverbial broken clock, is right twice a day. He is also an epic snake oil salesman, a charlatan, and a sociopathic, narcissistic, sexist, thin-skinned, childish bully, who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. In years to come, people will look back and wonder how the hell it got to this. The man's a cretin (no offence to regular, decent cretins) Just my, opinion, obvs.

U.S. markets have shot up towards the end of trading. Hopefully a positive start here tomorrow.

Back up to £9. F**k me, I'm rich!

Pokerchips - that would be great, but Netanyahu is determined to get regime change. If Trump thinks this is costing him too much politically, perhaps he'll cut him loose.

Pogo - "This war was necessary". Absolute boll**ks. You think the world is safer today than it was 2 weeks ago?

Pokerchips - totally agree - like you said, for the Iranian regime it's just about survival - it's an existential battle. For Netanyahu and Trump it's about egos

My worry (or one of them), like others have commented on, is the lack of an off-ramp, or exit strategy. Lord knows how long this could carry on for.

Johnbri4 - try the chicken bake.

A global superpower builds up its' weaponry and manpower on the borders of a weaker nation, while denying any intention to utilise those assets, but then launches a massive assault, hoping to achieve their military objectives in a matter of days. They then realise that they have bitten off more than they can chew, but hubris prevents them from admitting their mistake, so they plod on relentlessly, seemingly prepared to engage in a never-ending conflict in order to save face, while denying that they are actually at war, just engaged in some kind of morally superior special mission. Sound familiar? It ought to. A review of Russia/Ukraine, or a gaze into the future of USA/Iran?

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy that the mad mullahs in Tehran have been wiped out - I'd quite happily dig them up and kill them again. But did the world really need another conflict? Is there not enough war/suffering/grief/poverty etc. in the world already? Especially from someone who got elected partly under the banner of "no wars". And starting a conflict anywhere is bad enough - starting one in the Middle East is like taking your cigarette break in a meth lab. What could go wrong?

Already there is talk of this taking 4-6 weeks, which is longer than initially suggested. Pandora's Box anyone? The possible consequences of opening this particular box have clearly not been given adequate scrutiny.

Here's hoping I'm wrong, and it all blows over quickly (yea, right!), but the potential negative consequences here are really quite scary.

Have a nice night!

I hope Trump isn't expecting his Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon.

From what I can tell, the price here fell from about £44 in Feb 2020 to about £20 at the start of April 2020, but then went on a major bull run up to a high of about £55 a year later, before slipping back to about £14 in October 2022, and then shooting back up. Either way I find it astonishing that the price was way higher then, when there were almost no planes in the air. That said, I wasn't invested here then, so will have to check to see if there was an R.I. in there somewhere.

D9Ber1 - "Hopefully common sense prevails". An admirable sentiment, but unfortunately there is a global shortage of common sense (has been for years), and the drought is particularly severe in the Middle East.

Unfortunately I spent my last "dry powder" buying Friday mornings' dip at just over £12, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but has turned out to be an epic blunder. When the price drops this morning, I think I can only afford to buy about another 6 shares. Starting to wish I had never heard of Wizz.

Firstly the Indigo news last Friday, then Iran on Saturday, and now this today. The bad news is relentless. If we ever get back to £14 (and I'm not sure we will), I'm out.

Quite happy to see the loathsome Iranian leaders wiped out, but it's a (bloody) mess now, and I can't see where it goes from here. As usual, there seems to be a lack of planning for what happens going forward, or a viable alternative. To use the modern vernacular - where's the off ramp? Trump seems to think this is Venezuela 2.0; it's not. Hope I'm proved wrong, but can't see a quick resolution one way or the other here. Meanwhile, Putin must be wetting himself laughing, as the world's attention is diverted (again).

Anyway, I see the price is up a little right now: dead cat bounce, or oversold?

Well done to anybody who managed to get a buy in at 1050/1060 first thing (not me unfortunately).

Fordm - what a naughty boy you are - stirring it up again! That point you made about being anti-semitic just because you criticise Israel is particularly apposite. Is it not possible to differentiate between the policies of a government (whatever that means) and the general populace? Do I hate Russians just because I loathe Putin?

Bearing in mind the old adage "bad news comes in threes", following the Indigo news on Friday, and the Iran attack today, I confidently predict that tomorrow will bring headlines of either "China launches attack on Taiwan", or possibly "Alien ship lands on White House Lawn".

Captain- I admire your positive attitude, especially at 5:30 am, and after the shi*ty day we have just had.

Back to bed for me.

Looking back at when there was a similar scenario in 2017, the price took about 3 weeks to return to its previous level, and then after that went on a strong bull run for several months. Here's hoping history repeats itself.

£18 for Xmas , please Santa.