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Pogo I just made 15% by buying RCAT (drones) pre-market and selling it just now. You just need to look. You expend so much time and energy on a donkey it is unbelievable. And if we believe the amount of money you have invested here you are a 1st rate example of investor failure

I don't know what change in global markets Pogo is waiting for - DAX is at all time highs. SPX is flirting with 6000 and a breakout even FTSE is nearing its all time high yet ITV is stagnant.

You make me laugh Pogo if there was a Darwin Award for the stupidest investor you'd be nominated across all continents

Pogo with his rose tinted specs thinks that there is a buyer accumulating here. The market because this is a market after all has to have buyers and sellers. I argue that there is a seller and a persistent one that does not bother during the day but during the auction period is selling around 78p.

And I ask you this. If these bid rumours were to be true or such a great deal was in the offing, why would this persistent seller be selling. Are they stupid and Pogo is the clever one here?

I think the roles are reversed. I am fully expectant of a small pop once the seller is out as the monkeys will scream soon and buy in their droves, so I can sell some of my 62p stake and then re-commence shorting. As far as the other numpty Jed. I am preparing a response for you sunshine too. I just do not have the time to deal with you at the moment

If you don't want to waste time Jed then stop reading half of my posts and then selectively picking what suits your $hitposting. You started it

Look through my posts Jed and don't be quick trying to bring me down. I closed it and I announced it. Another mug that thinks he can get me

There is clearly a seller. Once the seller is out I expect a pop by about 5-7p and then I can resume shorting once my signals say so. Patience now

Blah blah - we are back to hopium w4nks?

It will go somewhere when McCall decides to get a pay day and leave. The cronies will follow new admin will kitchen sink it, it will dive to 60s and then it will rise.

Yes we know 5eights you are a millionaire just surfing here because you are bored. Hundreds every week for me means thousands every month. Regular and steady income just from ITV. Keep on waiting for your average to hit while conversing with the forum clown

My short just seconds ago hit its take profit target. Keep it up amateurs. You are making me hundreds every week

Hi All,

I have a sizeable holding here from the days of 30-40p and above 70p have been selling small chunks. I have not been following Lloyds news closely but I suspect the news or rather the narrative driving up price may be:

1. Promises of reduced regulations around ring fencing of funds in banks (good as a shareholder trouble for retail deposits in future)

2. Brexit finally getting watered down making brexiteer old codgers frothing at the mouth and apoplectic which may reduce the pension burden of this country lol

3. Car loans not a big problem as originally thought thus provisions for it not as big.

Can someone confirm or add or is there a more specific reason?

Slowand SteADY you are truly living up to your handle Mr Slow. It's not Tom that has 500K shares it's Pogo the forum clown

Nah I doubt it - They will all come out when we are 1p up at end of day and celebrate. I think we will see them less and less in May. Being the dinosaurs they are they still believe in the old adage sell in May and go away. Little do they know and little have they actually back tested it

My short from Friday is looking rather promising today

Slow and steady you are living it up to your handle. 7% is just keeping up with real inflation. You are destroying your income but then again you may not care and all you need is just maintenance. I am much younger and need growth my SPACs will ensure that. One Is already up 30% but not letting it go until 4000%

Redneck I have been really open and transparent with my ITV trades as well as my holdings. Which is a lot more than one can say about you.

Go on then tell us what you have and how you are not one of the imbecilic followers. Are you shy or simply embarrassed that you bought into ITV tried to average down run out of money and now the only thing that you are doing is keeping your fingers crossed that one day something may happen.

Just another voyer waiting for something to happen. I laugh at your kind

Alboum

The reason is simple. I have shares in BP as far as UK stocks are concerned and then some divi payers like GCP (wouldn't recommend them), IUKD (which once FTSE hits 9K I will be selling), VOD and then the rest are in US. I have holdings in 3 pre-vote SPACs that members of the Trump admin are involved in (it's the age for grifters), Gold (from the 2000 days), and an assortment of of Ponzi's like Archer Aviation some biotech stuff and a lot invested in Brazil thru (IBZL) as a long term hold, hoping for a Millei like renaissance once Lula disappears. Up until yday I was in MSFT, AMZN, MU, NVDA, BABA and others but I sold everything and waiting to re-buy lower hopefully once S&P hits its 10-day MA and using my discretion.

I also have some holdings in US natural gas and some long term short positions via ETFs in US.

This is how you invest by diversifying into things at opportune moments. Not by putting all your eggs in ITV like the chief numbskull here Pogo.

To answer your question why I post here. It's because it's funny seeing a lot of people collectively making the same mistakes. I am not here to learn any news that give me an edge for investing. You will not find this in forums of this type.

I have membership for 30 euros a month to an ex- hedge fund manager's substack who's analysis I respect and follow and that is where I get a lot of my knowledge and picks from but he will not give you entry and exit points. He will give you research and the technical stuff is up to you. You have to do the work.

How do you all feel watching ITV and speculating for months whether ITV might be bought or not when all you had to do was buy the big stocks in the US when S&P went down to 5000 and sell them this week during OPEX week and the S&P closing nearly 1000 points up.

Instead you are paralysed with fear thinking that stocks behave in the same way an old school stock performs like ITV with a board of directors not focused on shareholder returns and held accountable and under threat of the sack if they so much as miss one of their targets.

This is why USA is so great. Because shareholders have power. Instead you all tug your forelock to a Dame like the subservient court.

1p off honestly you sound like an accountant worrying about the pennies - maybe you are

I really do try to read delulu's posts but I am sorry this no-paragraph verbal diarrhoea means no reading from me. If you cannot summarise what you want to see in one or 2 paras then it means your intellect is below average