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Hi. Yes it has been 4 years of bad times. Brexit, Trump, Corona etc etc etc. Can´t wait for a calm period but maybe they don´t exist anymore.
It is a great buying opportunity but I am all invested so no spare cash. Only what dividens are coming in. And I had told myself at the end of last year to keep enough cash because I knew something was going to happen but I didn´t see the bloody Corona virus coming.
Am I the only moron who didn´t take the Corona virus threat seriously and is now sitting on huge losses :( Not only ITV but all shares. I won´t sell so not lost it yet but still hurts to looks at the value of the portfolio, or I actually have not even dared to look. I know it will be horrific. Oh well, I will just live off the dividends for the next 10 years. I hope the stock market has recovered then. Still so annoying to have missed it, again might I say.
VOD spiked to 1988,20!!! I wish I had sold . Hahaha. Would have been the greatest investment ever. Or was it another stock?
And then they all get in their cars and drive home, possibly filling them up at a BP garage. So bloody ridiculous. I am ashamed to be Swedish and have this Greta kid taunt the world. Go and protest in the countries such as China, India, USA etc where the real pollution is coming from.
In the fall of last year we went to a place outside Cuenca in Spain where they have stone formations from 200.000 years ago. The guide explained that if you look at the whole lifespan of the earth as "One year", the last 200.000 years is equivalent to the time it takes to snap your fingers. The earth is 4,5 billion years old. The earth will sort the humans out in its own way. I don´t think we have to worry about fossil fuels really as nature will have its own way in the end anyway. However, I do think we need to think about the environment and I hate to see rubbish throw in the seas and in the nature.
Despite the fact that many wishes/ believes that electric vehicles will be a reality within a few years I personally don´t think so. At the moment there are too many negatives: The high cost of an electric vehicle, access to charging points, length of time it takes to charge. Look at the undeveloped countries, can you really imagine them having access to charging stations? Maybe in the future but not anytime soon and in Europe we are not even ready for all of us to switch to electric vehicles. I can´t see it changing dramatically within the next 15 years until the batteries last longer and charge more quickly. And the airline industry is growing a lot and I don´t see them switching to electric anytime soon. I think we will still have a strong demand for oil for the next 15 to 20 years at least.
In the meantime I enjoy the dividend. Sold out at 5.85 in 2018 and am back in again.
I also bought back in again.
I agree, not nice to profit from killings and war but like you say it is the way it is. I have been in both RDSB and BP for many years and more than doubled my holdings of BP in December at 4.68 p. It pays a good dividend spread nicely over the year and I think it can only go up from here. I didn´t count on the latest events but hopefully the share price goes up a lot as I think BP is undervalued.
For the last couple of weeks I have been buying ITV and selling the same day or max 2 days later. It has been going up and down, up and down..... Normally I don´t get it right but for once I have. I have held it for years but with so much uncertainty I expect a big drop in the stockmarket at some stage so I want to have cash available for when it eventually happens.
The Guardian has not been so keen.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/07/its-mission-impossible-why-britbox-will-never-rival-netflix
Just checked in here but glad I sold all BT. shares a long time ago, unfortunately with a loss but could have been a lot worse. The share price has been going only one way since early 2016 and that is DOWN.
I just read that as well and hopefully it will have a nice effect on ITV share price today. :)
That would be wonderful with 1.80 for Christmas and I hope you are right. :) I have my doubts but happy to be proven wrong.
NigeCo Thanks for explaining. You learn new things everyday. I just looked it up on Google :)
Yes that was a big one at a price of 135.80 £. I saw that a few minutes after there was a trade for 450k £ and the price was 140.01. How does that work and what does that mean?
I am also wondering why the drop now. Maybe because of the ongoing conversations in Parliament which are leading nowhere.
Yesterday afternoon I sold at 1180,50 and happy I did. For once I got it right which is not very often.
I sold all my shares in PFC the evening before they went ex-Div. Felt a bit sick when the shares rallied up to the same level lunch time the ex-div day but then they dropped again. Just bought back in again at 4.52. Even though I missed the dividend I am still better off with close to 3k. Who knows they might drop again. I have been buying and in and out for the last year.
I think it will take quite a tumble tomorrow. Oh well, just hang in there. PFC goes up and down and up and down...