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Thanks for those links too, certainly moves around a bit,hopefully ready to bounce a bit soon.
Night all

Well it looks like I’m positioned for the next short squeeze on coffee then! Fascinating links and seeing how all the basic stuff we take for granted is so heavily traded around!

Cheers, not my usual activity this one as no yield but if coffee bounces,so will I lol!!!

I’m not sure what TER is, unless you mean the on-going charges? I think on the one I bought the broker said they were quite high at half a percent but they were bought converted to dollars....we need a bad harvest to get the price up lol!!!

Threw me too,coffee of all things!

Correction I think it’s an exchange traded fund,ETF.....shows how much I know!

No worries bud,just learn as I go along and from my mistakes as we all do. I bought into an EFT recently to take advantage of the cheap coffee price, most of it over my head except the bit about if they ever go up I’ll sell and make a profit lol. I didn’t realise but coffee as a commodity is the second most traded after oil...would have thought gold was more traded than coffee as we hear so much about the price moved!

Scrip or drip dividends verses cash payments a good way to build up a holding over a long period, I used to do that in the sipp but the danger is you might end up with loads of tiny holdings of shares for something you sold after it went ex so is only a good idea if it’s a really longterm hold......it’s so often a moment in time in my experience as if something changes you might want to sell and then two months later your p/f is littered with with them and the dealing costs are prohibitive. Example I sold my national grid keepers when they went over a tenner and bought back in the sevens recently,fine if you do buy back. I prefer cash payments and changed all mine back as more freedom to operate imo.

Most welcome mate,always happy to chat about divs and trusts/funds as unlike my spec p/f I don’t tend to lose money on them!! Have a good day bud

Crikey,everyone’s gone to bed with me banging on about divs lol!! Night all..

They’re certainly more reliable as diversified and regular. Things like hfel,ncyf,ipe I’m buying currently as in sp range. There’s another one called cyn which has got all manner of things in it,unlisted Securities and stuff I’ve never heard of and pref shares too which must give it the chunky yield!!
Or really reliable track record individual ones like Keller I like.....ones I don’t like are revolution bars which not only cancelled the div today but also completed the halving of my original buy in....I sold in disgust first thing!

They all sound very familiar! Yes they have and the usual pundits out there saying possible div cuts,unsustainable etc etc on anything over 5%....I remember when shell was 15 quid and they were all banging on about that then and AstraZeneca 25 quid same story.....should have bought more and kept them all lol

It’ll help him get to sleep lol

He can’t go to bed now he’s asked me a ? on divs!!

No hard and fast strategy as they sometimes increase/decrease on results. Take McColl’s which are up today on the broker note and got a cracking shot in the recovery arm from Morrisons looking to fills the shelves after the cheap sains stores looking dodgy now...dropped the next one to less than a penny from 6 I think last time....not one for the yield now,whereas reach,Telford homes,wpp to name a few this week announced and raised theirs.
The trusts and quarterly ones like bp,tobaccos etc a bit more predictable, ncyf for instance about four and a half p over four quarters so kind of in the middle of the quarter or as I do it,whenever I’m in funds and they look cheap!
Specifically chasing the divs can be a precarious business as some ex divs effect the price massively esp specials so an escape to chase the next one not so easy so quarterly payers better unless it’s buy/hold.
I could go on about divs for hours mate,does that answer the question?

With the p/f or the missus?!!!

These things always move around mate,this is why I’m obsessed with divs as they cushion the blows imo and dyor lol

Some of the mains have done well but telecoms and defensive in general lacklustre and in the case of vod and centrica pretty awful! Big trade on RCH earlier(used to be trinity mirror)....massive confirmed divvy,Troj tell Lego!!!

I concur, the market seems to have overshot on the one step back manoeuvre to take two forwards. Sitting tight and as ever time will tell. GLA

Evening buds. Bit of a mixed week on mine,slightly up overall as ever a cracking result pulled back on the likes of vod but can’t complain or I’ll really get going!