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Oh, it's ok.

2.2% wiped off in 10 minutes, all back to normal.

Phew.....

Day is a bounce up, tomorrow a bounce down.

sit, watch, and wait for Dec 2025.

Of course, I wish I took my own advice.!

It's now 16 / 100.....

https://edition.cnn.com/markets/premarkets

Looks like I was bang on again.!

Now all I need to do is work out when it's going to tank :-)

BeeJay.

Is the £3k towards a free cruise, or is that freeplay, i.e. they give you the fake chips when you get on the next cruise.?

or is the £3k towards your next cruise cabin costs.?

Also, on Royal you cannot "combine" certificates, i.e. if I had two Certificates for two Junior Suites I couldn't combine them for a better room for example, I would need to book two JS's on two cruises.

It finished at $12.66, so a 20c drop overnight.....approx. 14p ish.

We closed at $12.86 and it's now $12.73, so 13c drop, which is now 10p further drop in the morning.

Holo.

I honestly cannot speak for any of the Carnival brands, as I do not cruise any of them.

I only cruise with Royal Caribbean.

You play on Royal, and every $5 spent on a slot machine earns you one point, it works out approx. $25 per spin on roulette earns you one point. Other table games the points vary.

You start to get "free cruises" when you get to 1,500 points, and the cruises get better, and the cabins get better the more points you earn. example, 25,000 points, which is the top certificate on a cruise, you get a free Grand Suite, on realistically any cruise across the world for two people, and you only pay the taxes and port fees.

Additionally, there is a status program.

2,500 points = prime. You get a free inside 7 night cabin once a year, plus unlimited free drinks in the casino.

25,000 points = signature. You get a free balcony cabin once a year, free drink in casino, plus one free wifi.

100,000 Points = Masters. You get a free Grand Suite once a year, free drinks, two free Wifi's, priority access, access to speciality coastal kitchen for free, etc. etc. plus $100 OBC on every cruise you go on...

The statuses are On TOP of the certificates.

You can either "send money" to Royal, and then draw that down whilst on the ship.

or You can charge to your room whilst on the ship and gamble, and if you lose it gets charged to your credit card purely as a cruise spend (not cash). Or you can take cash.

Assuming you get a certificate, each level comes with "freeplay", so 2,000 points = $150 on your next cruise, 25,000 comes with $2,000 freeplay.

That will do for the brain dump tonight.!

but...... I haven't paid for a cruise in 13 years, I cruise 10 to 14 times a year, and usually stay in Junior Suite or Grand Suites all the time.

I have had approx. $300,000 of "free cruises", and overall, I am now, over all the cruises, $12,000 down.

Roadie.

If you are looking for a "quick buck" then carnival is a good share to day trade, if you get your timings right.

However..... honestly...... Carnival are one of those shares, IMHO that by Dec 2025 you will look back at the prices now and laugh.

Obviously if the world is as screwed up as is it now, things might not be as good, but realistically, bar a war, things will be a lot better.

Do not bet your house, do not go overboard, but honestly you could maybe wait, it might well drop more, on the other hand we might be at the bottom, nobody truly knows the truth, but the reality is.

CCL is by far the largest cruise corporation in the world.

It makes a large amount of money.

Yes, it has huge debt, but that will be paid down in two year back to 2019 levels, then we will be back at investment grade and/or before then.

Any travel company is being hammered, TUI, IAG, CCL are the biggest hammered companies in travel.

Stupmy.

Let me try to work it out on ADVFN.

Completely understand.

and apologies to all.

Stupmy.

Good.

The challenge is when is enough..... enough.........!!!

You can live nicely on £30k a year.

Live better on £40k a year

and live without care on £100k a year.

Bonkers.

It probably didn't help.!

But Peel Hunt aren't exactly a leading analyst group.

Stupmy

Oh Cool.!

Well good on you, hopefully living the dream.!

Bhants.

I can't find it.!.

but I believe it was $725m.

Thanks for the offer of the rub.!...........currently, I'm just glad that I had my "I need to spread moment" back when we were at £13.50. If you remember, I had 75,000 shares back then, and luckily sold 45,000 of them to then spread out.

I then bought back 10,000 @ £11, so I can't honestly grumble as much as the people who have just held all the way up and then back down again.

Luckily, all my funds are either even, or slightly up, so at least I held the monies the same, unlike my CCL holding, IAG holding, Jet2 holding, TUI holding.! All travel is tanked.........everything else is ok ish.

My Glencore is 17% up.!.........and that's from when I sold CCL and bought funds etc. plus some others including Glencore.

Stupmy,

Where are you in the UK.?

I'm South, close to Watford / Uxbridge / Wembley.

Https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Stupmy.

Did you go to a training class re Charts etc.?

I can sort of read them, I can sort of work them out, but I did actually look into doing a class on it, but there are 100's out there, so F2F, some remote and with huge ranges of pricing as well.

Well.

It's now 18 / 100...

So obviously everyone is moving their money out, as there hasn't been the opposite end of Extreme Greed at 82 / 100....so this is unprecidented levels of dumping of stock.

Unless the Fed says something good, the sentiment is going to drag down every travel stock further, as all travel is seen as "nice to haves", so with the US on the brink of recession per the "experts" money for everyone is going to be tight.

If the money is tight in the US, it's going to be tight everywhere in the world, so all travel has / is tanking.

Again, logic would suggest to sell and wait for the bottom ish and buy back in.

Stupmy

This is all about US Sentiment, US Yields, US Fed decisions, US jobs data etc. etc.

Major concerns now that the US will turn into a recession because of the squeezes on money.