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Hi Herb, in response to your comment here about shorting 'twas I who was advocating this, but not in the truest sense.
Unlike these chaps busy day-trading here in actual tranches of shares, I use a spreadbetting account to complement my investment portfolio for day-trading, but also use it to "sell" certain stocks that I believe are toppy in price. These are often stocks I hold long-term so I am effectively using spreadbetting to hedge my portfolio.
Just had a squint and indeed you could short Man United on the platform I use (which is IG) - sell at 1855 and buy at 1864.
Hope that clarifies.
this was only 1 % of the shares, not enough to make such a massive swing down to the other 99% in IMOH.
I guess there will be a short duration drop but trading to resume in the £13-14 range.
Until solid news from NMC this will continue to roller-coast - so sit back and enjoy the ride.
....and just to be clear, I have shares I bought at £17.67 and still expect a profit on those before Easter.
1 pip down for me.
IG currently calling FTSE .55% up tomorrow so hope to see a lift, but some time to go before 8am yet.
Will start a second position if it gets momentum past 20 pips.
Such fun...
Some interesting comments guys & girls - still for me you have to think this is fishy. Yet again some Middle East loans being backed off by shares which then get shipped via acclerated bookbuilds - can't determine who where how or why, but it stinks IMOH. Can't say this is regular practice for a FTSE100 listing.
Still, just makes it more fun to ride up & down eh ?
another 1% of the shares to be dumped via bookbuild - and again to repay loans. In truth not sure what to make of this - key will be the price that they agree in the bookbuild process, and who the buyer(s) is/are.
I don't short in the true sense, only via spreadbetting platform "Sell" button - and often only on shares I actually own for the long term just to capitalise on significant price swings along the journey - so on Avon for example I am invested since 2017 but thought (and still think) the dizzy heights currently achieved in the market will ease in the short term. So I play it both ways, using SB platform to try and generate "spending money" I am now open long in OCDO at 1297.2 - hope to make a few quid over the next day or two but we'll see eh ?
" If you want safe buy premium bonds"
I have the max allowable of these and did 3% last calendar year - but they're nowhere near the fun of chasing stocks !
The only "rush" is opening the app on 3rd of the month to get the news - then it's dead as a dead thing.
The high highs, but low lows, make the shares world somewhat addictive especially if you have an inner gambler leading you on....
Guys - apologies for butting in on your conversation uninvited but am interested to know why you appear to be buying / selling shares via an online platform rather than spreadbetting this one ?
Am about to include this one in my spreadbetting daily money chase and have found your chats very informative. Hope to replicate some of your successes - and to offset my rather mis-timed short on AVON from £22.50 !
Got to smile at Greggs and the Vegan Roll being at the heart of the discussion in PM's questions yesterday - just a pity that it has negative connotations for some of the Greggs team, i.e. those on universla credit.
But hey, in marketing terms any product placement that raises brand awareness is a good thing.....
Quote from Jezza (full article on BBC / via Google) :
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn asked Mr Johnson if it was "just and fair" that workers earning just over £12,500 year were not allowed to keep their bonuses.
"If the prime minister can answer that question... I'll buy him a vegan roll from Greggs myself," he added.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/01/20/fevertree-sales-lose-fizz-christmas-period/
Extracts below re: analyst comments - anyone have any links to latest (free!) broker notes / research on this one ?
James Edwardes Jones, an analyst at RBC, said: "The UK business is normalising faster than expected and we do not have confidence that the US can accelerate fast enough to offset this."
Analysts at Jefferies said: "The debate on whether 'big soda' may look to add Fever-Tree to strengthen the portfolio offering within the premium mixers sub-category may start to resurface."
They added: "Any potential acquisition needs to be considered within the context of expanding sales of [Fever-Tree] internationally. The debate around a take-out may start to resurface but visibility on US growth outlook needs to improve first."
Agree - it has been a very high price to pay for probably topped-out growth in UK for a while - but at early 2017 prices it seems worth a punt so have bought a small position at £15.64. WIll be interested to read commentary later today / this week once analysts & journos have chewed it over.
This was hinted at in the update 8th Jan, and I'm sure I had seen something in the press speculating about it too.
Not sure how this necessarily adds profitability, but the ability to get more stuff off the shelves can only be a good thing and help mitigate those tricky "cost headwinds" reported in the outlook.
March 3rd is the next comms date, unless there's any special SP affecting news in the meantime. I remain hopeful for a bit more from this one yet, but it is starting to look highly priced and vulnerable to a big pull back if anything less than stellar is reported.
Not enough sparkle in the RNS to ignite lots of new buyers at the open, but hopefully this update shows a clearer direction for the company and we start to get a steady growth - up to £1 would do me nicely.
Check out Paul Scott's commentary on Stockopedia later today - he is a great analyst who loves this stock.