RE: Big contract needed7 Sep 2024 21:22
WBAFC, I did not have as much invested in Novacyt as you have stated but I did have a fair old chunk (for me) and was several tens of thousands down.
I think like you I sat watching what happened in horror as the disaster unfolded over the past couple of years but I also had a stupid mindset of I haven’t lost until I sell.
When I did sell, at 118p, it was like a weight being lifted and in the past couple of weeks I have started to make good progress in repairing he damage by putting my money back into other opportunities (check out some of the recent helium players if that helps).
Loss aversion is a well known state of mind (read Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman) and it’s only when you think it through properly that you realise how dumb it is to leave money in a dog when it could be earning elsewhere.
You have been around this share long enough to realise that it is run by a shambolic BOD and Covid has gone.
Anyway, good luck and I hope you can dig yourself out, but imo it will not be by staying invested in this.