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Toff, I have signed your petition.

Not hopeful, but the issues you raise do need to be more widely publicised.

I should just stay away from anything Sirius related. They are still the stock where I lost the most. Of the 15 stocks I currently hold fortunately I'm in profit on 10 of those. As for the 5 losers I am down approximately 2k, 4k, 5k, 5k and 33k! Yes, you guessed it - 33k down with AAL!

Trying to sit on my hands and not top up. Don't know how long I can hold out!

Now bouncing back. Didn't top up myself, but well done if you managed to catch it at over 15 percent down.

Not much to worry about. Just buy a few more if you've got some spare cash.

Haven't traded this stock at all. 10 purchases since July 2019 and one was at 273.9p! But overall trying to buy on the dips. Currently £32k up when dividends are included. It's my largest stock and have no intentions of selling at this undervalued price. Gave up trying to time the market a few years back. Better to just identify good stocks like LGEN and let time do the work. A great income stock so it's hard to see me ever selling it now. Maybe if it got to over £5 but maybe not.

"from now on I'm going to take the cash and have an extra holiday or two, or some such treat"

Well done, it's all too easy to lose track of the reasons why we invest.

Some at Glg Partners Lp are going to be looking for new jobs soon.

It is undervalued and that position cannot be sustained. In the meantime enjoy the dividends and be glad that you're on board when then sentiment changes for the good. Just don't sell too many too soon, when you're 20 percent up say, it's got way more legs than that.

"none of mine seem to making much progress apart from paying some money back in dividends"

That's exactly where I'm at: the gain on my portfolio at the moment is zero percent to two decimal places! However, the income from the dividends has been reasonable at a fraction under 6 percent. Don't believe the UK market can remain this stagnant for another year. The bull run is coming.

More a fault of the system. If it defaulted to 'Strong Buy' rather than 'No Opinion' then people would be forced to take more notice of it. And, yes, strong buy is my opinion for this long undervalued stock.

JPM are set to lose big time by shorting Phoenix.

'just stick to guessing'

Doesn't seem to matter what level of research you've done, what level of expert you are, truth is we're all just guessing!

Well, I said it would be tough to maintain the gloom and doom. Hope you topped up!

"my portfolio/pension pot is looking a bit sad at the moment with the shares and funds in decline"

Mine is down also, by about 3.2 percent this financial year. Not great, but could be worse. The drops have gone way too far in my opinion. This general gloom and doom can only be maintained for so long before people wake up and realise there's money to be made.

"It doesn’t take much to click on the opinion slot"

Most people ignore the 'Opinion' box when posting, including me although I occasionally remember it's there. It's a fault with the system rather than the users. If it was defaulted to 'Strong Buy' on all forums (let's be positive, we're all here to make money) then people would take a lot more notice of it, especially if that was not their opinion!

Correction: 2.5% made over the last five years

I've held this stock for about 5 years and unfortunately some of my earlier purchases were at the 266, 273, 265, 251 and 255 marks. Not great in today's terms! However, over these five years even given today's bargain price I am still up overall we dividends are included, but only just - 2.5% up.

So, yeah, not the greatest of investments so far but the dividends have provided a hedge against the falling SP. I really do believe that a company as solid as LGEN can only go so low and that we're already hovering around that mark. So I've no doubt that the next 5 years will be pay back time for the measly 5% I've made over the last five.

"how low does the sp need to fall before a third party senses a bargain?"

It's already well into bargain territory.

"Barclays always pay last. Been that way for years."

That was one of the reasons why I moved away from them. Surprised they have any customers left!

"Yours seems a good one if they pay before lunch."

Hargreaves Lansdown paid my dividend before 11:30am, although they are not the cheapest!