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PIs on this board can have no material effect on the sp of mid-large cap stocks whatsoever.

..pain.
During July there was a very slight uptrend but the market in general has turned sharply lower in the past couple of weeks, probably due to the trade wars and no deal Brexit.
Long term plan for LLoy is a return on equity approaching14-15% (versus 8.9% in 2017). This should provide good value over the next 2-3 years.
Unless you are day trading just forget about it and see it as a kind of bond that pays nearly 5% dividend. Reinvestment at lower levels is good over the med-long term.
Short term 90%+ people lose on the stock market. This is how it works.

Some say this is MM 'codes'.

Oblate not oblique. Oblateness is 1/298th.
Just missed my 46 by 0.1p. Drat.

Really? Why would they do that?

Get that, just wondered. Like looking out for the postman's van? But we don't have any control over the ships or anything else for that matter.

What's all this pre-occupation with ship watching?

Andyagogo - what is the early warning sign you refer to?

This drop is consistent with the wider market.
PFC doesn't have many competitors. For me, as with Shell and BP etc I'll just keep taking the divvy.

A lot stocks are turning quite sharply down probably due to the negative sentiment contagion. Remember what Warren Buffet says....

How do people arrive at targets like £1.50p? That's more than ENQ was around 5 years ago when its market cap was around £1billion and the POO was double today's price.

Buys now > sells. The robots are buying (and selling of course). The numbers are too small to make any appreciable margin I'd have thought. If the market really thought VOD was doomed wouldn't the robots be re-programmed NOT to buy ?. Just speculating here. Who knows.

Twice as many buys than sells yet the sp has dropped 3%.
Spread is tight so the stats might be wrong though I guess.
Looking to top up soon.

Lots of stocks have been downtrending since May, lending credence to the old adage. E.g. RDSB has gone from $29 to £25 which is quite a drop. Maybe just the summer recess or the markets are expecting something bad. Dunno.

I'll be back.

The div is all we cling on to - assuming it doesn't get cut.
I did like the observation yesterday that the sp is the City sending a message to the BOD, rather than a reflection of poor valuation per se. Hope that is at least partly true. A fairly impartial (IMO) analysis by HL says that VOD has value albeit things are challenging.
The $6M question is whether and when to top up massively but personally I'm heavily overweight VOD.

Yep. Indeed the BOD seems a credible bunch. It's just that the exploration environment is a tad difficult and we don't know how it'll pan out yet. At least ECHO sell a bit of oil which helps towards keeping them 'solvent'. 11p is a good entry point. I got a few just above that but then bought more as it was rising quite quickly. Of course it then abruptly stopped so it was all my fault.

Boyzee - I sense you are right - and I might not get my 46p top-up sp as sentiment remains high here.
I've been trying to compare HUR with ENQ. Our current sp is very roughly half what ENQ was when the POO was twice what it is now. Now ENQ sp is lower than HUR even though it actually produces. Beyond that I give up, only to observe that in their early life sentiment drives the sp of small oil stocks. I could list them...

Thought I'd echo the sentiments of Franko and sell today 'for fear of a drift downwards. A small profit (for me) is better than it turning into a loss.

..except that the sp IS declining...