Charles Jillings, CEO of Utilico, energized by strong economic momentum across Latin America. Watch the video here.
What a drastic fall. The market can be merciless sometimes. What we can take away from this, though, is a lesson. When you are looking at your portfolio and calculating how much you have made or lost, remember that the next morning you might have to revise your figures. Quite a lot. I'm not sure that is helpful. Probably not.
Someone from the Stalwarts Club might know the answer to that question. There were quite a few of them . One of them even won a prize for his/ her investing insight from some web forum. Happy Rob I think and the accolade was Mormon of the Month. Unusual to see religion being associated with the share world but nothing surprises me too much now.
Is it only on this share you make wild predictions? Maybe someone knows where it’s going to go but it’s not you, nor me or anyone else posting comments.
I don't think they'll be shorted
An old, boring company making industrial textiles asks for some money. And they get it. Why?
‘the bro..ers now are selling the clients shares the ones they sold them high on the opening ..Now is up to you to hold ,or to sell either way your losing /...’
It’s reassuring to know that there are commentators such as yourself with a deep understanding of how the market and its animals work. So often, on sites such as these, we are bombarded with uninformed, ludicrous or just plain deranged comments. I suspect you must have at one time worked in the business. Maybe you could tell us.
You are the expert in falling share prices, Happy, why don't you tell us.
After nearly three years of the Brexit debate, does anyone think the people could handle an election campaign? Based around the Brexit fiasco, no doubt. Surely, fatigue would set in, eyes glazing over, people keeling over, and crying out, not again.
Simplex
‘This is because these terms refer to liquidity and not transactions.’
What on earth does that mean . I'm not being funny, you may have something to say to enlighten us. But that statement has no meaning at all on its own. I may be thick but isn’t liquidity quite closely tied to market activity in the share i.e transactions? I
Just stop looking at and analysing the buy and sell figures. They mean nothing. If you pay attention to them , they will convince you to buy or sell. This particular 'investment' has had many days of buys and many days of sells and many years of slow descent to the position it now rests, close to the seabed.
Buy them, buy more of them, sell them, sell half of them, or do nothing. One of those, but don’t keep changing your mind every five minutes. You will lose in the long run.
They have indeed nudged up. A few percentage points above what they are worth on paper but quite a safe dividend. Let’s look forward to many more sunny summers.
Only if you are willing to pay more than 1,5 pence for them.
No
I think I mentioned the pips analogy a while back when the now squeezed and dried husks were at a higher price than today. The oranges became Mandarins and then Clementine’s , and then Cherry oranges, and then pips . You can still squeeze a pip and what you’ve got left is a husk. A shell, a shell company. It’s a very sad story. I feel for participants in this adventure. More than feel, I know for I have been a character in other stories that have not ended well. There is a well established business in place whose function it is to encourage people to chase a ball rolling down a hill. A dog will do that all day long and love it. Dog? Isn’t that also a market term?
This debate continues ad infinitum. How can you buy anything unless someone sells it to you or vice versa? I go into a fruit shop wanting to buy an orange. There’s only one orange and the guy says ‘ I just can’t sell enough of these and that one I’ve got left is 20 quid’. Right, I’m not buying it. Or , I go into a fruit shop and all I can see is oranges and they’re on sale for a penny a piece. Ok , I’ll have 2000 of them. No one should pay any attention to the buy and sell figures. They don’t mean anything.
The bottom for any share is 0 as some well know. I watched the interview with the CEO. I think he’s a good man for the job but for any CEO to claim he/she knows nothing about how the market works is odd, especially coming from someone who has dealt in millions of shares over the past few years.
This is taking a battering. Some are saying there are a lot of short positions on the stock. Maybe and maybe they are increasing. If it looked good to short at 160p and still looks good to short at 100p or 80p, that's not so good for the LongJohns. The short people seem to be not buying back the shares they sold yet. Time will tell. I still hold them.
Tony, I don't understand. Why don't you wait for the 57p you predict? Why would you buy them at 65p.?
Hi Markparker
I suppose we all made mistakes and still do. I don’t use spread betting or CFD’s. As a hedging tactic, traded options are far better as you know the time limit and don’t receive margin calls or get stopped out. Well, you do at the end of the time period. The institutions use options but I can’t find a platform to deal in them.