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Well, I was going to suggest a luncheon at some point, but geeeezzzz I don't think we can all be more spread across the UK Just lucky someone didn't say Aberdeen.!

By the way..

Bhants, Fordy, Ken, TOTC...

Where do you guys live approx.?

I'm Watford, Herts, way.

If I can get a 10% to 20% jump starting tomorrow, to next Friday, I will be dramatically lowering my position.

I am balls deep in IAG, as my old mind didn't add up my holding properly, and now I've realised I am exposed. This is what happens when you have monies across 7 x different accounts.! and why I can't effectively "day trade" with major volumes.

If I can get a 10% jump, i.e. 15p, that would be awesome, and enable me to balance down.

I need to move money into funds, rather than individual shares, as it's way way too dangerous with my volumes.

All I ask is that everyone Prays, keeps every part of their body crossed, in every way for tomorrow for IAG for me please.

LOL. Now a 5p gain.!

I could go on like this all day LOL

Another 10p drop in the last 2 minutes.!

Should have sold at 2.15pm.!

A 40p drop from then to now.!

Doesn't matter though.

March/April, this will be £20

Did you see MCG's results today........ National Express.

Sorry for whomever it was on here who is invested in them, but I'm glad I didn't put some of my money in them at the moment....

A 10% drop on opening, currently 8% down, but the results are bad. They made more money this time last year than now because they were getting covid handouts, which have now stopped.

Just praying for exceptional IAG results tomorrow.

And it closed at $17.70.!

That's 26c.......or approx. 16p ish

We closed at $17.44

It's now $17.67,

This is despite the Fed raising Interest rates by 1/4 %, which per the analysts earlier was already priced in anyway

Let's just hope that tomorrow is a big bounce day following the closing of the uncertainty that they didn't raise it by 1/2 % which was apparently the concern.!

Sun.

I think they all left to make their mud huts.!

TOTC. I had a good day today with IAG. Jet2 up a bit, RR up a lot, GSX up, all my small holding mostly up, and we know CCL.!

Bhants.

This time next year Rodney, you'll be a millionaire.

Fordy. Yep. Don't speak again please. You cursed it.!

I want to be a Billionaire.!

Then I won't have to sit here looking at stupid shares all day :-)

and I could get my Assistant to type into the chat room for me and Catfish everyone. :-)

Ken.

I had Lloyds in 2021, luckily I got out.

If memory serves I bought at mid twenties and sold at mid thirties.

Lloyds is one of those real funny stocks.

It's assets are worth a lot more than the SP, but still the SP tanks. How's it's below 45p is beyond belief.

Carnival and most travel stocks are frustrating but Lloyds is just baffling

Vodafone has had a good week, but depending on when you got it, it has been a rough ride downwards. The only benefit is the huge Dividend payment %.

I looked at Vodafone when I was looking to move some of my huge CCL holding out but decided against it.

I stupidly doubled my IAG holding with some of the CCL monies though.... seriously regretting that.! BUT, I guess I will see on Friday this week when results are announced.!

It's the funniest thing reading loads of c.r.a.p. on here about BR manipulations, green this and green that.

So the people keep going on about "green" forget that they are using phones, which are all connected via satellites, which got into space via fossil fuel.

They go to demonstrations and hold their phones up with their lights on, which they charged by using electricity, which has been powered by fossil fuel.

The world is apparently in melt down because we have never had it so hot. But the hottest day recorded was over 110 years ago....and that's what's recorded....

The rivers and canals have markings on them from way below the water line of today, when there was truly droughts and heat in the 16th century.

Fossil Fuels are bad, but the every day person who is saying that lives nicely the world that has brick houses, which came from furnesses, which was powered by fossil fuel.

Smoking is bad for you, eating red meat is bad for you, walking down the street is bad for you, looking at other people are bad for you, eating non organic food is bad for you.

In 300 years time, the cleaners of the world will say that there was slave labour, and demand compensation.

Everyone should go into the jungles and farm lands, build a mud hut, and eat off the land....

Good luck posting on here after you've saved the world.!

Just to be open and honest about how stupid people can be (i.e. me!)

So in January this year I had xxxx Rolls Royce shares. I sold out despite believing that RR would jump, but thinking that IAG would do better than RR.

So I sold down, still making a profit, but sold down...... alot.....

Today RR issued a trading update again, and again the shares have jumped 20+ %.

If I had just sat where I was, like a long term holder should do, I would have made another 50p-60p per share profit.

The reality is, that trying to pre-judge, pre-guess, "trade", or anything else doesn't work in the long run, unless you are purely messing with a few thousand and leaving little pots everywhere with the profits because then you can't really work out if you have actually lost out or not.

Bhants.

Honestly though, it is all irrelevant.

At the end of the day, an investment should be made for a minimum of five years.

You can try to play the game and "day trade", but eventually you will lose.

Any and all shares have peaks and troughs, but as a general statement, over the long term they rise.

So what happens day to day should be immaterial.

Look at the worlds most expensive company, Apple, as well as Microsoft. They have moves up, and moves down. Not to the same level as Carnival, but it still happens.

If you added Apple and Microsoft together, those two companies alone are worth more than the FTSE100 companies combined.

The tanks and jumps are all due to the big boys moving to align to either buy in, or sell pricing.

The movements of pricing for lets say a 2p gain, is due to the order book requests, eg. I buy 100 shares at £12, I then buy at £12.01, I then buy at £12.02 and so on.

The MM's put a spread against every share.

So they offer Bhants £11.99 a share, and charge Bot £12.02. They bank the £0.03 for the MM's, the traders charge the £4.95, or £9.95 etc. for the actual trade immaterial to volume, and bhants gets £11.99, and botbot gets one share at a price of £12.02.

Then, immediately after buying, the sell price is logged in the trading system, so within your account, you will see 1 share cost £12.02, price £11.99, loss £0.03 with a relevant % of loss shown.

I'm trying to keep this as simple as sort of can without blowing minds.

The Market Makers set the price, with the spread.

So the MM talks to their mates at Blackrock, who says, we're going to invest $1bn into carnival, but we're not paying anymore than £12 a share.

The MM's then push the price down so that Blackrock can buy in. Once they are in, magically, the SP goes up.

Then, you have the normal trading action as well.

I buy 100 shares the MM's offer that at £12.50.

A second later I buy another 200 shares, and they offer that at £12.51

and so on. This then pushes the price up as well.

Ok.!

1% up.!