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My only solution was to use a laptop with two monitors attached and no chance of clicking twice on the same box and making a deal by mistake. The volatile issues is just something that happens with share dealing on HL (and I expect elsewhere). One gets used to Crypto which is instant (unless the market is crashing) and forget that sharedealing is still a lot more manual (so it would seem) than blockchain. Good luck :)
As I said last week, I sold my holding in 88E after 4.5 years, having averaged down from 3.79p to 0.97p. This time last year, it was worth 22% of my overall investments (my wife's ISA was down 90% at one point) and I'd just written off the huge losses down to bad investment strategy and trying to make a quick buck (much like the previous poster (TheBear40). With the craziness of last Monday, I saw my holding rise to over 150% of my investment and sold just all of my holding. I've dipped in and out since then, made some mistake buys (the HL app is awful that when you can't get a live quote, the re-quote button is in the same place as the Place Deal button, so you can very easily buy or sell when only wishing to quote. I bought in at 4.03 on Wednesday evening and didn't sell before the bell, then almost sold at 4.5 this morning, but waited and then saw as it plummeted down to 3.15 and had that pit in my stomach, I then looked to average down to minimise the damage, should it rise later in the day and accidently bought instead of just quoting at 3.5, still, this averaged down to 3.75, I sold at 3.91, making some more profit. All in all, I've got back everything that I'd accepted as lost and made a healthy profit on top (almost 60% of my original investments). OK, so if I had held and sold it all this morning at 4.5p, I would have made 350%, but looking at what I'd accepted as my investment amount (22% of what I'd put in) almost a year ago to what I made back in the last two weeks, it equates to 720%, so I'm as happy as one should be and I've learned a lot along the way (including to never rely on a mobile app for large trades on a volatile market!).
I would say that nothing in life has caused me to feel such opposite emotions, a wreck at some points and a god at others. It pushed me to certain vices which could have severely shortened my lifespan, thank goodness for eastern medicine and a loving/supportive wife and family.
I always suspected that the time when I sell before the results are published would be the time when they stike oil, so all the best and GLTA for next week's results and who knows, I might (prob will) buy back in if there's still movement/no news/building news by the time the markets open in the UK on Monday.
It's been a wild ride.
No doubt there will be an RNS with good news this weekend as I sold my holding (I have been buying since 2016) on Monday, at one point, last April, I was 48K down on my investment, I've spent too many years in a dark place due to my lack of trading ability/putting all eggs in one basket/failures from 88e to find oil. I had a profit, for the first time in years, so decided it was time for me to leave this merry group. I may dip back in, depending on how things go, and will probably lurk here, keeping up to date on the news, but I've learnt my lesson. AIM is much like a lottery, you can 'win' big, but most of the time, you won't. DYOR and GLA.
Dave resigned because it's bloody cold in Alaska at this time of the year and he's more used to it being hot at this time of the year (in Perth, Oz). His beard couldn't keep up with the cold weather and has let him down. Since having a shave, he's realised that he can't cope with the Biden administration. RIP BEARD(en). 88e is still around, still has cash available, still has a lot of leases and land to drill on. If there is oil there, it is still required, regardless of 'green initiatives', the military, which the USA so loves, doesn't run on electric, there's no such thing as an electric F-16 yet, and I doubt the US would use one unless it was more effective than the petroleum based jet. Oil is still king for the time being.
Wars will continue, people are travelling more and more. Do we have electric planes and tanks yet? Electric will be the future, but it will be my children's or their children's reality. Oil is still needed for the next 50 years or so.
I've held shares in this company for some years, I'm very down on my investment, with the whole 'it will get big'. Some rare good (from what I see) news and the SP drops a lot. My own fault as I've always held, instead of selling for short term gains. When I look at it that way, I realise I could have paid off a large part of my mortgage if I'd not been greedy and held. No doubt there will be another spike and I'll end up holding again instead of selling. At least it gives me some good experience to not pass on to my son. I hope it comes good at some point for all of the other LTH out there, although I might just be being delusional. I never normally post, nor to ramp or de-ramp, just putting out how I feel about this whole debacle. AIM is just a middle class betting shop really (disclaimer: this is a joke). GLTA. I really do hope you (and me) make back more than your investment. Peace.
Just went back and read this:
http://www.lse.co.uk/share-regulatory-news.asp?shareprice=88E&ArticleCode=bgwt35bb&ArticleHeadline=Project_Icewine_Operations_Update
Do we reckon there will be another shut in for a few weeks to build pressure?
...just heading out to IW2 and blowing a big hole in the ground. Perhaps Dave's beard hairs have fallen in, blocking the oil below. Been here for a long time, still holding, although the last few weeks have been very tough. This is normally where I go all 'emu' and stick my head in the ground, trying to not think about 88e...At least we know that this company are actually doing something and will hopefully continue, unlike someone like CTAG...GLTA!
...does the 'market' understand and interpret the ANN? Are all of these traders shale experts? From what I've seen in the last few years, very few actually understand the industry well enough to interpret the ANN. I don't understand what actually makes people think that things are not good and end up panic selling, causing a chain reaction of panic selling...who starts it, are they an industry expert?