Member Info for MattyBoy1965

Probably still in bed given the time difference!?

and absolutely over the moon!!

A big thank you to GH & CB (as well as all of the excellent posters on here who helped me to 'keep the faith' during the more trying times during the last 6 years of being invested)

Totally de-risked now (IMHO) and looking forward to the end result of this journey whenever that may be.

showing 11.30 to sell!!

Utter S h i t e!!

My brother's ex-wife's lawyer's nickname was ''Pickfords'' due to the number of men she had 'helped' move out of their own homes! :-(

Just received the nod that the funds I was awaiting on within my Aviva Pension fund were available, so have jumped straight in with another £10k's worth at 11.3p!

As Gymboy said, may have gone lower, but as I was hoping to get in around 11.5p, so very happy and grateful for the sp drop today!

With the prior purchases last month also within my pension I now have just under 200k shares, on top of the 2m already held in my HL ISA, so very happy and now ready to just sit back and watch it all unfold over the coming months/years ahead.

GLALTHs.

Same here Merc (except I ain't top slicing any!)

Here for the whole journey (wherever that eventually takes us?!)

Dodgemeister

That's one hell of a drop!!! (And I was worried that my modest £150k Aviva pension pot had lost £16k!!)

I think that GGP has proven to be a 'saviour' for many and truly believe that this year is going to be our year, and GH will definitely be getting a card from me also!

Good Luck!

MB

panama

Been here 6 years in July, and have never sold a single share (even after Newmont walked) although I did top up after the massive drop that followed (to average down, with borrowed money which was admittedly a further risk) in the hope of recouping my, at the time, substantial overall losses across my entire portfolio (as all my other stock 'picks' are complete 'dogs'!!).

The 'gamble' has so far paid off and the initial objective of recouping every loss ever made to date across my portfolio achieved in full.

I personally will however be staying the course for either the full T/O (hopefully for a life changing amount) or proceeding to mine with an annual dividend.

The dividend option would be my preference as not only would my investment then be providing me with an annual income (tax free, being held in an ISA) sufficient enough to hopefully live off of comfortably for whatever days I may have left, but with the cash value of the investment being held within an AIM share (and having been held now for well over two years) also being available to pass on to my family totally free of any IHT!

Now sitting on a very healthy £200k profit (on top of my overall £22k initial investment) with absolutely no intention of selling 'a bean' and although that's an awful lot of money for me (far more than I've seen in my life) I truly believe the potential upside going forward to be so much more.

As already said this share will hopefully provide a modest but comfortable retirement going forward and opportunities like this don't come along often, if it at all, and rarely more than once in a lifetime IMHO.

I've always viewed this as a '**** or bust' play which even should it (unlikely as it is IMO) drop substantially, would probably see me no worse off than when I started.

However, should the SP hit the dizzy heights sometimes mentioned on here it could be life-changing for not only myself and my family, but my 15 year old nephew and his future family also.

The risk/reward is therefore one I'm willing to take.

In the end only you can decide what is best to do for your own circumstances, and good luck!

MB

Skelter

For me personally I saw an advert back in 2014 for company (forget the name) peddling trading in CFDs.

I downloaded their ''Investment Guide'' which listed a host of stocks that they claimed had great potential.

Having recently been left some money by my dear late grandfather I invested a bit into nearly every company they listed (having no idea whatsoever as to what I was doing).

Needless to say, with the exception of GGP, the others turned out to be total 'Dogs' and I lost loads.

GGP has fully covered all of my losses to date though across my entire portfolio, and still left me currently £150k odd in profit on top.

So in short, it was pure luck!

GL

''Haha! 50p dividends and 5.50 a share''

I'd personally be ecstatic with a 5p annual dividend and 55p per share!

£100k per annum tax free (as holding in an ISA) and an stake worth £1.1m I would think is more than enough for anyone to retire on!?

Buy as you say, it's nice to dream!

Jerryspaniel

He actually did his best to try to change my mind (believe it or not) but then he doesn't know what we LTHs already know?!
;-)

Typical! Just finished a 'Zoom' meeting with my father's Financial Adviser having asked him to liquidate some of his investments (as well as some of my own modest pension pot) and chuck it all into GGP, and what happens - the bloody price goes up!? LOL.

lebugue-addick

My 'better half' was cabin crew for 24 years, before leaving 5 years ago and now having taken early retirement at 55 last April.

''Brutish Airways'' have been looking for ways to get rid of all of the better paid 'old contract' staff for YEARS.

They've whittled away a few (through the use of dirty tricks and more than a few 'stitch-ups') over that time, but Covid 19 is 'the gift that keeps on giving' as far as they are concerned, being the IDEAL excuse they need to implement that which they have been attempting to do for well over a decade! :-(

not_Sure

Personally I've already 'held the wake' and moved on with my life!

(Thankfully GGP has wiped out all and any losses I have suffered to date across my entire portfolio! ;-) )

Works for me Spy! LOL! ;-)

TruthfulOpinions

6p!?!

RALMFAO!!

(I wouldn't hold you're breath mate!)

BollyR

Exactly!

Sell enough shares just to repay the £84k odd purchase cost and be left with just over 5 million shares on a ''Free Ride'' (if my calcs are correct?)

Nice!!

Excellent and very informative presentation, really enjoyed it so thank you!

(Now best you get back to concentrating on that PHD young man! )

;-)

66p would see both myself (and my brother) fully retired!!

We can but dream! :-)

Your (big) loss Remeriz! (oh and filtered!)