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Afternoon all. No effort involved, but had to wait much of the day for the LLOY purchase to go into profit. Then swapped out for an hour into Pfizer for an hour, but wasn’t doing much, so gave up. In total, profit enough for a couple of pints and two scotch eggs in a central Bristol pub!

Morning all. A lot of chaos and uncertainty around COVID, travel, inflationary pressures, labour shortages, bottlenecks etc. I used half the proceeds from LLOY to put into a UK mid cap fund. Also Bought LLOY on the 3% drop.
T - braver man than me with regard to Robin Hood. Fingers crossed for you

Nice one S. I was 20% up on CARD a couple of months back, then 20% down, now only 12% down :)
Sold all my remaining non-ISA LLOY at the bell for a nice profit as I don’t want the divi. Saw that after yesterday’s good performance, Pfizer dropped well over 1% for no reason, so bought and sold on its recovery (its still down on the day) this afternoon for a profit which will pay for all my food and drink at the pub on Saturday watching the Lions. Very happy with these and the pf today.
Hope you’ve all had a good day.

and of course the spread

S - well done on your 88e trades. You may recall I was holding a record breaking (for Red Braces) quick loss of 70% on a very small holding £250 of 88e having bought on the spike in April. As an exercise in teaching myself a lesson (time consuming for the value punishment) by trading several times I’ve managed to get that down to 55%, but am currently out as the price has gone up this past week. I’d have got the loss down further, but the £3.50 dealing cost on £250 of shares. eats into small purchases. As I said, I wouldn’t normally bother with such a tiny amount, but I need reminding of my initial error buying on a spike.

Morning all. Cold and sunny here.
Thanks as ever for info T.
Just sold latest batch LGN for a nice profit. As regards divis. Got my fingers slightly burned dividend chasing (before COVID) when I invested for the first time in shares - HSBC, BP, BT. Their SPs plummeted! So, longer chasing dividends, though gratefully received if payable.
Have a good day all

Unlike the forecast, we’ve had a very pleasant day. Plenty of sunshine, warm but not too hot.
Just slight blue pf wise. Bought a tranche of LGEN on the drop. (Leak of interims due tomorrow?) Could have sold for small profit, but hoping/gambling:) on better news tomorrow.
Agree with you guys. Nothing of good for this country has come from any of these leveraged buy outs. Lumbering companies with debt that they then have to service, results in lower investment in the business. I suspect Asda supermarkets will look a bit more stark in a few years time.
Any “promises” from foreign takeovers are not worth the paper they are written on. We need to keep leading tech/engineering/financial work in this country, we can’t just be a low wage low skilled service based economy.

Morning all.
Thanks T. Been reading over the weekend about so many treatments that prevent death if people do unfortunately still catch COVID. In theory, in developed countries it should mean virtually no deaths if caught early. Many will need approval though
Had a good day yesterday selling a one day hold of Pfizer held over from Friday for a tidy profit. This morning sold, bought and sold two batches of LLOY for a small profit.
Have a good day everyone.

Good afternoon. Was a damp start to the day, but brightening up now.
As part of my p/f consolidation, this morning I sold SYNT and bought more SAR. Sold the batch of LGEN I bought last week. Both for small profits.
Lions were given a lesson by South Africa in that second half on Saturday. Most of the team had sub par performances, so I’m expecting at least 3 changes in the starting lineup for the decider.
All the best

Currently sitting on a £40 loss on LLOY bought last night as I’d hoped SP would go up today. Offset by a $65 (dollar) profit on an intraday buy and sell of LLOY.
Sold my 888 & CRH holdings for a loss, and added to my JDW & LGEN which are carrying bigger percentage losses, but hoping for more reliable of UK revivals. Also helps with my reduction in the number of different shares held. Now down to 15 which includes 2 funds.

T - I sort of get where you’re coming from. Everything - money, stocks and shares, crypto and physical assets etc are all based on trust/belief on worth now and in the future. So, is everything worth as much as we think it is - given QE and in the case of the yanks QE and helicopter money and very generous (historically) unemployment benefits? Markets have been very greedy in respect of good company results.

Morning all. It may be wet, windy and grey, and the pf well into the red today, but at least we have a genteel and friendly board here.
Hope the weather and markets improve for you all today.

Thanks o. And I’ve just made a donation to RNLI!

T - I had to fill in one of those forms when I wanted to trade US stocks with HL. Just a formality.
Missed my chance of selling LLOY ahead of US opening, as it had already dropped over 2%. Annoyed with myself, though I have freshly harvested new potatoes and french beans to eat later. Can’t put a price on home grown food . Well you can in this instance - it’s several hundred pounds :)

Morning all. Bright and breezy here. Pf ticking up nicely two days on trot.
Held out too long by a minute at the bell this morning for the LLOY to go up by more than 2%, but it didn’t and fell. After costs, made a net 1%. Their surprise purchase of Embark (I’ve never heard of them - I need to investigate) may take the market time to digest. I’m hoping it’s not a stodgy purchase, but I doubt the yanks will be impressed this afternoon. Tempted to sell more before they open. Will think about it at the allotment.

o - just a continuation of “illogical” market reaction to good news of late. Fingers crossed for you tomorrow. Uk’s offer to accept double vaccinated EU tourists might help get a reciprocal response from them to UK cruise goers

Afternoon all. Pfizer jumped 3.8% today, so took advantage and sold out for an overall 9% profit. Bought LLOY late today as it was dipping much of the day, and hopefully sell early tomorrow

Afternoon all. Sharp showers so far today. I’m staying in!
Barclays half year results have assisted my LLOY today. Hopefully further gains when it’s their their turn tomorrow. Topped up my GGP with a small amount this morning .
Have a good afternoon.

Evening all. I see Reckitt dropped by over 8% on disappointing sales today. Which brings me to share “insights/views” from the newspapers. Since February, I’ve been keeping a rough and ready eye on them as and when they appear in the papers. I have to say, that their judgement appears as poor/patchy as mine :)
Reckitt was one suggested of theirs and down over 10%.
I’d say it’s 50/50 whether you’d make or lose money following them. Of course, I do realise people need to do their own research.

Good afternoon. Game of two halves weather wise. Warm and sunny this morning, squally pm.
S - take it steady with the DIY at our age :)
o & T - thanks for the info.
n - good luck with the biopsy results.
V - glad you came out of isolation without too much of a serious outcome.

Busy day share wise. (Well click and come back later) - all small amounts before I went to and after I came back from the allotment. Selling, buying and selling LLOY for £70 profit. Buying and selling NXT for £20 profit. Accidentally selling PFD due to a sell order I had set last week kicking in that I forgot to cancel - for a £5 profit.
If I had to sit in front of a screen all day to achieve these small amounts I wouldn’t do it. So, very minor victories versus a half percent drop in the overall pf.
Hope you all have had a better day.