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Yeah! Somebodies posted, I look most days and lately often disappointed.

I do get you all may well be having a bad time, like Dowp.

For me it has actually not been that bad, perhaps because i own so many different and varied shares.

Maybe not the way to make lot's of money but is safer as proven recently.

I do try and do some day trading but have not done any much lately since my THG efforts, which i have ignored since I sold them all.

Was think of selling some of my GFRD early this week, so glad I never as since the results it has flown. It also has the benfit of a couple of healthy divs by end of year. This along with MKS, AV., YCA are the type of thing that has been saving my bacon while most shares I have are falling.

Meanwhile VOD has been making a bit of a recovery, some shares I like have fallen back, US ones INTC, VFC and TELL plus Phillips in europe. British ones have been up and down like yoyo's but probably better overall. Liking HTG, BLND, and DNLM (like Dowp) and topped up on them recently as kind of day trades, but longer term and holding already. Will sell with 10%/£100 gains.

Thats all from me, I actually would really like a rally and then buy a house and end or reduce all this. Even though I may not have found things as tough as some of you, much of time I don't really like the exposure to risk. Still that probably won't happen. And when i look at some of the shares I have lost thousands on, albeit stupidly, AGM and TWD recently, it makes me wonder what these people I am lending or giving my money to are really all about. That along with some of the better firms salaries and way of business. Still I join in for my own ends I suppose!

Don't now why I said VTY on last post as I was talking about VFC a US share I mentioned recently.

Have some VTY in my daughters portfolio from when GFRD split and sold their housebuilder off.

Just getting muddled like I seem to do sometimes.

Thought the OCDO up's would have a few of you posting joyously. Me I have none, though maybe a little rubs off on my MKS.

Good day for my PUMA shares after a steady decline over some while, have held a bunch and bought back some I sold, at lower prices on way down. Have a fair bit of confidence in them at least as far as their products go, which would hope will lead to SP increase.

Sold all my THG last week at 103 so just missed best price, might have got back in at 90 but not dropped that far as yet!

Bought some more VTY last week though only another £500 worth so now in for the princely sum of £1500 in all, would like some more but will drip them in over next few weeks as I hopefully sell some other stuff.

Anything else, not much, bought a few ENT at time of Primary Bid offer which I think was 1240, as so often got below on market at 1180, and also straight into my ISA. makes me wonder how PB will succeed even though it has a nice principle of looking to retail investors.

Have sold a few more here and there can't think what right now, and bought a few on regular investment schemes.

Overall portfolios not looking all that bad, though some stocks have suffered badly, others have done well and offset.

So am happy enough with my shares, now perhaps for the rest of my life.

Hope you are all good and enjoying summer, if we can call it that? Was good for while but now the usual washout. Any of you gone off for roasting on the med?

Best wishes nezlob.

Hello everyone, hope you are doing okay. We have had some nice weather, some good sport with my main interest the GP, being McLaren and Williams performing better. Cricket too, winning the last test, and Wimbledon showing flashes of good form for the Britishers, but in the end unfortunately fizzling out. Talking of fizzling out how are the shares doing for you all. I'd say I am middling at mo., dabbles in HTG and THG have paid off. Rest of stuff very up and down with some good, MKS and PHIA (Philips) for example and some bad VOD as an example. Some disasters too, rubbsih investments haunting me PMG and TWD. Still overall portfolio's a little down on peaks, but less than 5% which does not seem bad, still hoping for a good run. Have no reason why other than hope I suppose. Bought some US yesterday VFC, the VF Corporation a kind of fashion/apparel bet, they are at a low at moment. they are based in Denver where my sisters daughter lives, I always like a little connection, and they own good brands, example Vans, and Dickies. We'll see how they do, I plan on scaling up over the next little while. That's my plans, still a bit down in myself but hanging in there! GLA n

That was share dismalness as in stocks and shares, not shared dismalness as in what we all have, bit freudian maybe?

Come on you lot post some messages. I joined this board as you were such a fun but sensible lot. Brighten up and brighten up me.
I have had a bad time of late, my sister who lived in Houston had been ill with cancer, got much worse and I flew over. Sadly only to see her pass away, not regaining consciousness from heavy sedation. She was my last fuill sibling, both my brothers died fairly young. It is hard to accept you are the last one standing, the best and the worst deal. Stayed on for her funeral and then came back. A week or so later one of my cousins took his own life, he had his own demons and my sisters death can not have helped him. A very loved patient of my wifes has just died (cancer again) and my best neighbour has terminal, cancer in her brain. Both these despite knowing their fate manage(d) to keep very cheerful, it must be so hard. My sister never got any breaks, she was only diagnosed in September, I saw her in October she was hoping to get a few more years, but no. I saw O's loss of his brother it is all so sad. My condolences.
I came on here to cheer up and have just reduced myself to tears.
Anyway it is a kind of therapy and it is an antidote to share dismalness.
Lets post again like we did last summer, or at least as we used to, please.
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Happy New Year everyone. Hope things go better next year than they have for most of us this!

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Hello and good morning everyone. Not really anything to report, might sell some HTG later or tomorrow. They have been up and down and have been able to get in and out making some reasonable profit. Christmas is nearly here, not feeling hugely enthusiastic but should be fun I hope. Best Christmas wishes to you all and happy New Year, n

Top slicing is selling some of your shareholding, but not all of it, so you slicer them off the top!
It can work well sometimes if the price then reteats and you can buy back your sliced off shareholding cheaper.
If the price goes up you still have some left to sell etc..
So it reduces the risk of you regretting to sell at a good price and the risk of you selling everything at a price that is subsequently proven to be less than best.
I nearly always do it it. Whether it is for the best is hard to say, I just don't like over committing.
So for Kevin how I do things is top slice when I have made say 25-30% profit, then await next share movement, perhaps buying again on a drop of 15% or so or selling more as price goes up. Much of the time this works well, but like most things sharewise not always!

Hello everyone, it is a gloomy time of year and we have some fairly gloomy markets and investors. But as our much missed friend (joke) Boris would say down with the doomsters and gloomsters. Anyway with my gloom hat on today I sold all my AGM holding, at an 85% loss. It was a stupid investment that I compounded by reading RNS's etc which time and again showed the company to be poorly run, hardly doing any business and having little idea of how to run themselves. I got into it via Primary Bid, with little bit of graphene knowledge, like "graphene is the best thing since sliced bread it can do anything and was inevented by some good old Britishers from Manc uni". I hung on and hung on till today when I finally realised my silliness. So thats the gllom and doom. On a brighter note n these last few weeks I have been able to sell quite a few little buys I made while markets were pretty much at lows, AO. HTG, IDS (RMG), PMG, ANTO and some more. Most of those i had just topped up holdings and then sold top ups, some like AO I just dabbled in. I only dealt in £500-800 amounts and aimed at making £100 which I did and often more. Still have few dabbles to pay off yet THG and some, and might go for some more like VTY, who knows. I am hoping for a good recovery and then will sell most of my holdings and buy a house in the borders maybe and start a new life without gloom and doom. Maybe??

Well good morning everyone. Here is autumn already and it's been getting quite cold. Still no heating on as we are supporting our own energy strategy which is don't use any!
Long time since anyone posted, for me it has been inactive time trading wise. Like Treacle watching a lot of the Queen and feeling a bit sad. I don't want to sound a complete wimp, but it is hard to imagine she's gone.
Have been doing the odd buy here and there in the hope of a quick sell on recovery, but that hasn't worked, lot of them just sat there doing nothing much, still at least not crashing mostly. Lost a lot on long term holdings last week, but still portfolio has a good value in comparison to March/April 2020.
Going to Houston next week to visit my sister, last time I even flew was 2013, so am a little nervous, but looking forward to it.
Hope you are all well and life is not as bad as all that!
No easy trade deal with US, there's a surprise. Bankers will be traded over here to get their bonuses though. Could come a day when we say, missing that Johnson fella, if we go completely crazy that is.

And another thing.
I run 3 portfolios, one for me, one for my wife and one for daughter.
Daughters is just a startin life kind of thing which she still has stood by.
I try and keep wifes and mine balanced, but fail big time there is usually £40/50k diference despit actually putting more into wifes. But gap now down to £30k as she and her shares have been doing good.
She has shares in company called Ricardo RCDO an old favourite of mine, they have been moving up after a period of drifting down over some years. They are to me a clever outfit and get involved in all sorts of engineering mainly transport and enviro. Might be worth a dip in, they are still way off their potential value.
WARNING WARNING, just in case you haven't worked it out most of my investing idea's come out of educated guesswork and gut feeling, so don't rely on it!

T, meant to say I never did get OCDO so missed out on that good rise.

Wow, it's so hot.
Just sold some ENT, which I had a little dabble in a month back which was over and above my old holding. Made more than 25% so happy at that. Done nothing else this week that I can remember, had some divs in and reinvested but that is all.
Sister should have been here on visit from US but has dropped out as she is ill so am at a bit of a loose end. Might try some seaside trips next week even weekend, down to Bristol channel maybe I have never been beyond Bristol in that kind of Weston Super Mare coast area, though drove through north Devon on way back from Cornwall years ago. If any of you have some recommendations, I think NB you live over there somewhere let me know. It's day trip terittory just about so only looking for nice towns/resorts really.
Hope you are all okay and good wishes, n

Hi everyone, time flying by as T says. Did some shopping today, bought some AO. and some TWD a last desperate fling on them. I sold some PMG yesterday and bought a few HTG, nothing much else since I last posted god knows when?
Maybe I should be looking at OCDO too, but never read posts till now, and now I have no investing money left, unless I risk savings.
Lets see what tomorrow brings maybe I can sell something that flys, probably not though.
ATB n
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If only the price of years of Conservative neglect was £10 billion!
I was on the edge of voting to leave EU as they were another costly level of governance and corruption..
Turns out we don't need EU to do that when we are subjugated to a bunch self righteous 2nd generation immigrants, Russian loving Eton greedy boys, ex forces so they will know how to run the country, comprehensive educated girl power, and self made walk all over everybody entrepeneurs. Vote for them and they'll set you free, subject to our subjugation and accepting they didn't mean and are doing their best.

Oh well, it's not been great!
This afternoon I bought some more HOC, which I ironically am already in hock with, if that's the right term! Another 525 shares at 86p each!
And then in a in for a penny in for a pound decided to get back into HTG at 200p for 290 shares which I sold out of a while back at about 260 for nearly 1000 shares.
So not exactly the last of the big spenders.
I just feel I need to do something to give me a chance if things start to turn round, they will sometime!
That's it from me it's over to you shy bunch.
GLA .......... n

You're right N it has been quiet, having to look down posts to find Bragade.
T, you are usually so conscientious and regular, hope you are okay?
Sold the THG I bought last week yesterday, still sat on some SDY and ANTO I got in hope of quick returns.
Today would have been good for my long term holdings except for AMD knocking the stuffing out of things.
Have CPI and Xiaomi which have done well but not on the scale of my AMD holding so am actually losing in p/f despite generally good day.
Ah well can't win 'em all.
Best wishes and luck everyone

Weird sign of old(er) age that I can spell there when I mean their, I don't think I ever used to do that.
It was one of my pet hates.
How long before I am writing they're?