Member Info for Marcus_

I'm currently in the red on every holding I have and for the first time in about 12 months my capital is less than what I invested. I've tried different strategies

long term holding in Lloyds,
buying bluechip: Centrica, BP, BT
buying recovery stocks: Petrofac/Saga,
Green investing: SMDS

I'm not complaining as they were my own choices, but my investments in boring trackers and funds as of today are more profitable than my own judgements. Hopefully given another few years some of these should come good, but when you are down across the board you do start to question the common understanding that long term stocks provide better returns.

Well just 7 days to wait until we get some hard facts about the performance of the company rather than just speculation.

I'm in both bt and pfc.
Both stinking up my portfolio at the moment.

But such is the stock market. Never bet what you are not prepared to lose.

Alternatively buy a tracker.

Well this is quite a drop but I was warned about the volatility prior to purchasing.
I think the news about the trade deal does not help, but a very quick look at the markets.....

£ is up
commodities down
international markets down
FTSE down

basically no indicators showing as up today.

Could have sold for a 7% profit yesterday, but with such a volatile stock you can never guess the next direct.
Just set your target prices and hold on tight.

For me so long as centrica have stopped the rot then that would be an improvement.

With reinvestment of dividends I've managed to reduce my average somewhat. Still no where near 100p but low enough to see the recovery of some losses with a stabler and more sustained sp.

Most of my stock picks in 2019 have made me poorer. But such is the way of the stock market.

Picking a winner can be difficult unless you can day trade. But I don't have the sums to do that effectively.

I'll sit on this an hope to get some nice dividends up to 500p

To be fair it's relevant as it was rerated today, so whilst we agree or disagree with the analysis, other shareholders may have acted on it hence the drop in price.

If that is the cause of the drop then slightly happier as these ratings are hardly ever right

This smells of some in the know making a move ahead of an announcement. More gutted than I would otherwise have been as I added some more at 51p, I rarely average down as I think you should try not to chase losses. But on this occasion I think I have been suckered in.

More fool me.

Thanks Taking my time.

I'm fairly experienced in holding through the rough times. (SAGA, Centrica and Lloyds to name a few).
I decided to take the plunge with a small holding at 396p.

Being a company I'm not familiar with I can only go off the graphs and figures and overall they look fairly positive. If I can pull in a decent return over 5 years then I will be happy. Decent to me would be anything around 5-10% per annum (capital or dividend).

I've stuck to well known names so far but that has not exactly proved to be any safer than unknowns.
It is a bit like gambling but better then putting it all on black.

I spent a bit of time last week looking for a new share to invest in and this one caught my attention.
I've had a look at the financials and nothing in there looks too scary.

Any red flags I should be looking for? The yield seems wildly over the top from what I can see there has been a missed dividend payment but could not find an RNS stating this.

Yes there will be a an on going proxy war. But Iran has been doing that for 40 years.

Open warfare has very different consequences than a cold war. Those hoping to make a fast buck on oil and oil related stocks were way wide of the mark.

Let's not forget less than 2 days ago people where quoting oil to reach $150.

Interestingly Iran says its action is complete. If they have managed not to kill any US personnel, then whilst the verbal / twitter slanging match may continue, that maybe the end of any military action.

Not sure we can blame the SFO for everything. Sure it has took a chunk out the sp but that has been priced in for a few years now.

So long as the business keeps running well, turning healthy profits and reducing debt the SP will recover a little. I'd say its underpriced at the moment but it's not all down to the SFO

20% in two weeks? I think we would all be in with big buys.

Sadly it's a long long way back for me on this share, so I'll just trade this were I can buying around 50 and selling at 53.

I hate trying to recover heavy losses, I'm not a good day trader.

Probably a couple of shorts closing. No profit holding and paying a fee with the low level of fluctuations

384p

For the first time in months something pfc that brings a smile to faces.

Have a great weekend and let's hope for a better 2020.

Yep I was surprised by that too warthog. I guess I should have written it as one complete word without the dashes.

I can understand the censorship to a degree, if a poster was to call a director of a company they had invested in a **** then lse may just be covering their asses in case those individuals claim defamation against lse.

Freedom of speech only goes as far as the lawyers permit.

Scoredagainsteps you could make money with that kind of daily forecasting.

Top call.

Firstly, I don't think you can look at this as killing one individual there are wider politics at play and the consequences may not all be good for PFC.

If this was to break out into a wider conflict yes the oil price would shoot up, but if it spills across boarders some of those countries may actually host PFC assets and contracts.

Also unless you are solely holding assets then benefit from a war, then any gains made on oil will be lost elsewhere as markets hate uncertainty. Wars cause the destruction of assets so hardly something that will make investors ****-a-hoop.

My energy assets are up today, but only marginally and nothing to initiate a sell or profit taking. However, overall my portfolio is down, so regardless of the morals of individual organizations benefiting from conflict, overall markets will not like this.