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That is a good line blue, but unfortunately, for me it just conjured up an image of Nicola Sturgeon breastfeeding Mark Drakeford. I have now thrown up on my sofa.

LOL
fordm - I too have exposed myself too much in the past, but try not to do it so often these days. The judge warned me about it. However, sometimes the urge is just too strong.
BB I wish you hadn't posted that link - I have only just recovered from the Suga episode.

Much as I would like to see it happen, I can't see this at £2.50 anytime soon. Before Covid the market cap was about 12 - 13 billion. It's now roughly 8 billion. I appreciate that the company has made large savings to it's cost base, but it also has a pile of debt, and no prospect of a dividend. A £2.50 share price would value the company roughly where it was pre pandemic, and I don't think that is realistic, at least not in the near future.
If I am proved wrong, then as a shareholder I will be absolutely delighted, and quite happy to eat a large portion of humble pie (with double cream). In the next few months I would personally be over the moon with £1.90 plus.

NorthScot - good call to dump stock yesterday and jump back in this morning. I managed a quick daytrade earlier from 154 to 158 - only a small amount, but it still beats working for a living.

Got my gumshield and headguard on already.

LA - know what you're saying. It's like Lloyds - they regularly jump up early doors , only to retreat through the day. As a holder I am often tempted to sell, and then buy back, but the dealing costs (mostly the 0.5% purchase tax) make it not worthwhile.
The house always wins.

A 2% drop might tempt me into a sneaky day trade. What can I say? - I'm a gambler.

USA airline companies may have dropped by 3 or 4% in a couple of hours, but over the course of the day were only down by 1% or so, which is hardly a disaster.

I posted about this a few days ago - got out of the AIM market a while ago due to the extreme volatility (not to mention the blatant corruption). Now FTSE100 or DOW/ NASDAQ long-time shares (such as IAG/LLOY/AAL, regularly move up or down by 4 or 5% in just a couple of hours. Bonkers.
That said - if you can get the timing right, or you are psychic, you can make a pile of money. In a few months I might be moaning about how flat and boring the markets are, while we all try and chisel out a 0.7% rise in a month. Be careful what you wish for, right?

Guess we'll find out who was right/lucky tomorrow morning.

I do mine with Lloyds (actually run by Halifax) which is £8 per trade, but I find it really easy to use, so stick with it.
As for the overly frequent trading, it's not so much the dealer fees, but the taxes that kill. Of course, until recently there was no tax on IAG purchases, which is why it was my main day-trade. Now there's that pesky 0.2% Spanish tax, which is better than 0.5%, but still mounts up.

LA - I know, and did consider dumping at the close, but am just thinking (hoping) that that pattern must be broken at some point. Anyway too late now , so will be sleeping with (almost) everything crossed. As long as it doesn't retrace massively, I can cope with a small drop.

Yep - easy to forget that we were higher than this just 2 short months ago. That was, of course, pre Omicron, but given that that has ultimately proved to be a good thing (in terms of less severe illness), then despite the dent in Xmas revenues caused by it, we can hopefully soon return to that level, or maybe higher. Of course, if we had just paid better attention to the data coming out of S. Africa, and not reacted in such an hysterical manner, than a lot of anguish could have been avoided.

Well that was nice. Had hoped for a small rise today - 2 or 3 pence maybe - but certainly didn't anticipate 11 pence. Let's just hope we can hang on to it over the next couple of days, and that Mr Putin doesn't f**k it all up for us.

Nice.

Wonder whether we will see a repeat of the last 2 days in the USA - large drop, followed by recovery. As usual, my crystal ball appears to be malfunctioning - wish I had kept the bloody receipt..

Here I am!
I was actually just doing some research, and it turns out that I am me (although some days I wish I wasn't).
By process of elimination, that means that you (fordm) are almost certainly yourself, and that blue is statistically more likely to be himself than someone else.
Glad to be of help.

Spar - I recall from a couple of weeks ago your very large holding here. Congratulations on your obviously steel balls - have you opened the Dom Perignon yet?

LloydsActuary - regards your last comment - there was an excellent programme on BBC2 last night -"The Decade the Rich Won". If you missed it, I would recommend getting it on catch-up. Part Two next Tuesday. Very enlightening, and something (in my opinion) everyone should try and see.

LloydsActuary - didn't realise your predicted big one-day rise would come quite this quickly! Thankfully, I had not bailed out prematurely this time.
Emerald - turns out you aren't nuts after all!