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I meant your advice about staying cool, not any investment advice robleo. I'm glad your Aviva holding did well and hopefully with Powell's dovish comments on interest rates today, lots of shares will soon get a nice lift, especially companies with lots of debt!

BTW Avocet, are you saying Vod is a lemon?

Tipped to double by JP Morgan and Barclays, Avocet but brokers can be wrong of course.

Thanks for the kind advice robleo. It is frustrating holding here I must confess but I know as sure as eggs is eggs, if I sell, it'll shoot up! I've been caught that way so often. I'm glad your international investments are performing well for you to compensate for your Vod holding. I bought some PRU recently, which has been very volatile but I've got high hopes for it to be a decent recovery play. Fingers crossed that you get your 90p here soon and If it does manage that, I'll be joining you in selling a decent percentage of my holding. In any case, good luck with your investments robleo.

Fair play to you Avocet for backing VOD. When do you see it recovering? I assume you believe it will otherwise you wouldn't keep adding.

You're right there Avocet. Why didn't you do that? Vod is certainly one very poor investment. Maybe next time it gets to 70p, I'll bail. If there is a next time!

It's got absolutely no legs. Every time it tries to rise it just gets sold into. We need some good news to get this heading north. Come on Margherita!

Anyway, back to today's action. Vod back to 70p but seems to be stuck there. Please Mr. Market, don't drop this back to the 60s as I'm getting sick looking at the number 6 unless it's preceded by a 7, 8 or 9!

But there's also the very unscientific law of chance, aptly named Sod's law, which dictates that if you sell a company its shares will go up and the company you buy into's shares will go down! I've been punished by it lots of times, including when I bought in here!

Ok then. Let's put it this way. If you keep losing money on investments you'll end up with less money and potentially significantly less!

Don't rest your case yet, Avocet. If investors only invested in perfect companies there wouldn't be a market. You've got to take chances sometimes and it's alright to be invested in a company that might not be performing as long as said performance improves. Selling and crystallising losses, if done repeatedly, is a sure fire way to bankruptcy. Maybe you should look for a bulletin board that doesn't permit any dissenting views.

You're very critical Avocet. Folks can say what they want about the company they're invested in. If they're p****d off at its performance, there's nothing wrong with saying so. BOD's and CEO's can be legitimately criticised when a company is not performing. You need to stop telling people to sell. It's not your business nor are you the board censor.

Lol! You're priceless haggis!

Cheek out!

Looks like the market is unimpressed with Harland's recent news releases. Getting deals over the line with money in the bank and sorting out future finance is the only way to permanently move the SP significantly north. It's all been very disappointing so far.

But hang on. Hollow -hearted haggis told us all that AFC's MC would never drop below £500 million! Au contraire, I reckon it'll never reach £500 million again!

Maybe we could start our own rumour.

Didn't somebody say recently that Elon Musk was trying to buy VOD to compliment his Starlink business!!

Nor any revenue from ABB! Why can't Bond not tell us what has happened with the ABB contract? I think we all know but how he gets away with pretending it never happened, is outrageous.

Let's hope when it comes, it'll have been worth the wait!

A few years Avocet! Lol. We could all be dead.