RE: Can not make this up8 Sep 2021 10:57
My humble advice is to try to not be too disheartened yet. There was a massive sell off from yesterday on many shares. My personal feeling is that the nonfarm US jobs report on Friday coming in so low was a shock to the markets. Then the US had Monday off and digested. Then yesterday the UK talked about tax increases to support the NHS considering the shock to the system from Covid and to support catching up on treating other health issues which have been put on hold. So around 3pm uk time yesterday I think some majors pulled out capital from the markets to buy a potential dip later. Then everything decline, FTSE stocks, S&P500, global materials, crypto, with Crypto seeing the biggest negative impact. The ECB meets this week an next week there is the US CPI data. This combines to drive a load of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the markets.
To put into context where I'm coming from, when I look at POLY right now, it is the only stock green today in my portfolio. I'm still negative -0.53% on the stock overall as I bought more yesterday. I have 17.3% of my portfolio invested in the stock, and I expect to make a net loss after tomorrow's dividend day.
But last September, the POLY share price was around 2000p when they paid a dividend of around 40c compared to todays SP of 1443p with a dividend tomorrow of 45c. If you look at the last four ex-dividend day rounds, the following week or in the following weeks the share price recovered significantly. Clearly the past doesn't reflect future actions, and there is a lot of fear in the markets, but there are others invested in the same shares as you, many holding through this time of fear. I'm just day trader at home, and I'm out of capital now, fully invested, hoping, praying, gambling on a rebound at some point, which may be today, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week or next year, but I personally have belief it will recover and we are close to a bottom dip now based on previous chart lows post the appearance of covid. Gold and silver today looks relatively stable so far which I also see as positive news. Just my personal thoughts for what it's worth.
I'm not an accredited trader so this is definitely not financial advice.
Good luck all