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Sunday fly to Amsterdam.

Monday get on the small Jewel of the Seas.

Go up the side of Norway, around the Artic circle, across to Iceland. 3 x ports in Iceland, up to Greenland, 1 x Port, across to the port St Johns, Newfoundland, down to 2 x Nova Scotia ports, down the side of New England, get off at Cape Liberty on 14th Sept, fly home, land 15th.

Need to get the wife to the casino "Prime" status, so she gets a free inside cabin for next year that we usually use to bring someone else with us on one of the cruises.

Aanugs

"Small"

Did you just swear at me LOL

Overnight, it closed at $16.31. So hopefully ANOTHER 6c, 4p ish rise in the morning.

We closed at $16.24, and the US closed at $16.25.

Additionally the "Greed/Fear Factor" has reset back to Neutral at 50/100.

Carnival Shorts are closing, and additionally the August lull where usually shares drop is nearly at an end, and September, which is usually a better month is nearly upon us.

Results are due 28th September with an EPS of $0.78....Although, note, if you google when is the Q3 results, you actually get 27th Sept, 28th Sept AND the 29th Sept.!

So suggest we all look closer to the time.!

A $0.78 EPS would be the biggest jump for CCL from Negative to Positive, if they do achieve that, with a forward booking positivity as well, this will sky rocket.......

Just hope this hits 1100 before then.!.

Bhants.

It's alright, I laugh at myself most of the time as well.

Whilst walking around the house, using an Oxford dictionary to find even more swear words, the boss pointed out that sometimes I actually make the right decisions, when I sold the 35k shares at £13.44 and bought IAG to then make another 9%..........maybe I only focus on the negatives rather than the positives.!

Am hoping that this is a spike purely on the back of the US positive day sentiment, and that CCL are just riding along.

Obviously love all you guys, but am hoping this drops to below my sell mark of 1100 as this is the one stock I do regret dumping on my frustration. At the end of the day, do I believe that in two years this will be a lot higher than now.....100% I do believe that, so what is the issue.!

C**P...B*LL**KS...F**K...S**T....F**K...B*LL*CKS

No.

I'm still F***ING Out.!

BeeJay.

Yep.

I'm reading the same thing, but I am in serious FOMO mode currently, especially as I don't need the money yet, so maybe 1100 is a good level anyway.

In two years will this be higher.......I hope so.!....... So my logic of sitting out is playing with my mind.!

Sun.

I love seeing your posts, It always makes me smile.

Bhants.

Yes, Inflation has cooled, and yes, the BOE may not increase the rates, BUT, the theory is that this will last longer, and that means that everyone will run out of money, and nobody will travel....... that is why all the travel stocks are being held back as they believe this is all short lived........

Of course, I'm already booked until November next year, and most of the population are still in the "well I deserve a vacation" camp, whether inflation is high, or Interest rates are high.......That's why God invented credit cards.!

Overnight it settled and stayed at $15.66

So, like for like, potentially a 2p increase.

However, everywhere currently is bright green, so this may be the day that I regret.!

Aangus.

Would you give me 6%.! ;-)

$!5.63 our close >>> Currently $15.66.

It spiked up to $15.75, but immediately sank again.

All Travel stocks are being killed.

WTF.

I went for an old man's afternoon nap, and it dropped like a stone........

All travel, again, has dropped.......and the US main markets are now all red.........

Unbelievable.

So, today I get an email...........offering me 6% through my various providers, savings accounts within the SIPPs/ISAs etc.

6%...........for one year. Can only put the £85k limit max per bank provider though.

I'm getting the funny feeling that I literally sold everything at exactly at the bottom of every share.

CCL - 1100, it hasn't gone close since Friday

IAG - 160, it hasn't gone close since Friday

TUI

Jet2

etc. etc. etc.

Final close at $15.67 overnight.

5c up......... approx. 3 1/2 p

We closed at $15.62, and we eventually closed US time at $15.70.......at one point it hit $15.77, so this are moving in the right (or wrong for me currently) direction.

BeeJay.

Good Point.!

I thunk maybe I will just sit out, and just before carnival results buy a few hundred thousand shares and double my money.

Thanks again Young.

Will never say I'm sucking eggs, as sometimes in amongst new info comes some light.

Never seen this one before, but I had already discounted them in my other lists.

Let me give an example...

Royal London Short Duration Global Index-Linked Fund.......

This has a 3.4% Dividend, and has managed to return just over 1.5% per year over a 5 year period.

In the last 5 years, I have returned over 200% within shares, although I do appreciate that I play heavily on the risk side.

I'm not suggesting that number is achievable, within huge risk, but I would expect at a minimum 10% from a managed fund over a 5 year period.

All these funds have lost within the last year.........what were they doing, sleeping.........

That's what I'm struggling with, with the funds..........

YoungRetiree, thanks.

Luckily don't have a lot in my dealing account......sorry, let me rephrase that..... it is a lot, but just not alot in comparison to SIPP and ISA's.

Luckily the wife has never worked so I try to put any cash into her dealing account, which again in comparison to her SIPP and ISA is still a lot lower.

I've just spent 4 hours putting all my picks onto a gigantic spreadsheet.

Then researched the Ex-Divi dates for the ones paying dividends.

Then pulled out the 5 year returns for the funds as well.

Then sat back and looked again.

Some of these funds on first look, look awesome, but then when you delve, they are actually crap, considering you are paying a much larger fee for them, having a 6.5% avg 5 year return value is not exactly blowing my mind when the fee's are between 1% and 2% for the privilege of having them.

Looks like I have more work to do.!

Also, I thought, hold on......with the fees to buy and the stamp duty, this is going to cost a small fortune.!

So far worked out 200 buys.......across the target funds/shares x the amount of accounts = 206 currently...... @ £7 a trade, so £1,442 just to buy this lot, let alone the stamp duty.......

I have now realised, this isn't as easy as first thought.!