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Morning all. Brilliant analogy T. All going to be tangoed soon !. Utter madness. Already know a people who went to football matches and now at least 1 has covid even though recently vaccinated. The business he works for all have to self isolate, but have managed to find someone to keep it open just about. There are going to be serious repercussions. All the sacrifices we have made just trashed all for a few football games. People in other sports and especially in the performing arts have had their industries crushed by having to observe stricter rules. It sends out all the wrong messages. We have had end of lock down delayed, but football is treated with reckless abandon across Europe. I don't know how they are handling it in South American cup ties probably pathologically suicidal abandon. Insanity rules with millions of little Cummings running around being told the rules no longer apply to them

You lucky lot! The sun hasn't found its way east yet. Yes V. LSE moves in mysterious ways. I trialed level 2 platform once and they started feeding me 'live data' from 3 months previously. God knows how it works at all, but certainly wouldn't want to pay for it.

Morning Brigade. T the market may not like Mondays but it appears the Americans are liking a close look at our many cheap companies to buy while its quiet over the summer.

Nez. Thats a lovely story. Yes it was me talking poo again! Unfortunately the seaweed piles up in the corner of the harbour and leaves a very unpleasant smell right outside the entrance to the Turner gallery. The opening of the Turner has massively helped he turnaround of the town, now the second most visited gallery in UK allegedly. I saw photos of the heaving masses gown from London looking more like Brighton beach everyday, so this latest incident with Southern Water couldn't come at a worse time. Lovely sandy beaches for miles all temporarily (I hope) closed .

Thanks for all the comments on Vpn.
I've not bought anything today but amazingly have 4 in the risers table. Only 3-5% but mildly encouraging after getting poke in the eye from miners sell off. Apparently the Chinese are selling off reserves to get prices down. Should be interesting, best of luck with that!
Good news on Covid that the vaccine is 90% effective on the latest variant.

. Been meaning to ask if any of you use a VPN to protect internet browsing? I tried several out last year. Obviously the advertisers and tech mags say they are essential. Sounds like a good idea but I'm not totally convinced.

How about this, my partners son (half Aussie) has been trying to get to Australia for 2 years. Finally got a flight in July booked. They just emailed today to say they have moved the connecting flight forward a day. So providing the flight from Heathrow which leaves the day after and can travel back through time there shouldn't be a problem. Air Singapore what drugs are you on? Poor lad is boing bananas. Having to rearrange cargo as well as farewell doos etc.
I saw that about Brewdog T. Without more information its hard to judge. Maybe they are just trying to get the price of their upcoming IPO down on their IPA. We've got so many fantastic micro pubs and micro breweries now in Kent, Brewdog is history. We can buy virtually any draught craft beer for between £2.50-£3.00 a pint for takeaway. Better keep quiet about that or the Scots will be marauding down here for the weekend!

OMG T. I thought you said you weren't into football, now it turns out you went to the same school as a famous footballer penalty missed:). No I still haven't bought OCDO. I'm sitting tight for now.
Nez don't jump in the sea just yet Southern water have illegally dumped tons of cubic metres poo off the coast of Thanet again. Allegedly because they were struck by lightning. Is that an excuse for a lightbulb moment?
Iweb still hanging on to one of my stock having told me countless times they have finished the transfer...........Good job they arnt doing football transfers. Strangely enough an advert to invest in that very share just flashed up on my screen. How weird is that. I was on the phone to IWEB about it minutes ago

Obviously when I say first dip, I didn't mean ever. I just meant this year. Normally Im a regular in May but nothing normal about the sea temp right now.

Hi T. yes I posted something earlier but obviously it must've been too boring so evaporated in the ether. Mostly trying to explain to myself why my PF was sinking again. Have picked up a couple of stock at or below placing, PTRO and ETQ, proving yet again what a waste of time Primary bid is for the small investor. Did I mention I took my first dip in the sea yesterday? Boy it was bit bit chilly for such a hot day but very refreshing

Yes Nikkei is open today. two and half hours in the morning, hour for lunch two and a half hours in the afternoon, closing at 15.30. There's me banging on about how hard working they are. Expect they get ten times as much work done as a British broker in that time

Yes saga is very much then that is getting away although I did double my investment in less than six months before cashing in. I just find it very odd that not a single institution has bought into this turnaround, in fact Stenata the Dublin investment company continues to offload to under 3% now.

Morning T. Japan seems to be up today. Ever nearer regaining the magic 30,000 ground.
Disastrous cricket against NZ. Magical performance by England footballers. I don't know when I last saw the England team that committed. Possibly one of the best performances I've ever seen.
Idont know if any of you have ever visited th Minack theatre in Cornwall. Its a must do before you die visit. Very sorry but not surprised to see this from the culture secretary. Yet more embarrassing attempts by the government to claim credit, when actually all they have done is hinder their survival: Culture secretary Oliver Dowden was forced to delete a tweet after appearing to falsely claim that a renowned theatre visited by US first lady Jill Biden and other partners of G7 leaders on Saturday received coronavirus support from the government. They have very much been left to fend for themselves.

whoops.very late on parade. Cricket, phone call from IWEB, first ever new carpet fitted, first band practice for 18 months, nearly everyone forgot, no dog walk again, euro football. Just a quick look at markets Japan still doggy paddling although Ballie Gifford making headway at last. Well done to all this profiting this week.

morning all. Loving this hot spell, hope it lingers for a while at least, especially since my sun hat arrived in post this morning.
Markets seem quite resilient in the face of continuing uncertain news (Japan doggy paddling a bit harder). About 3 steps forward and 3.5 back at the moment.
Terrible slap on the face for Macron. Not that I condone that sort of thing with far worse atrocities being perpetrated on public figures, but I do understand the anger. Lucky young man, he would have been shot dead in many countries. Probably still get a right duffing up at the gendarmerie.
I think shares are generally protected in nominee accounts and separate from cash, although I have had cash exceeding the limit for short periods of time. I know a few small time developers get a bit twitchy when they sell a property and eager to reinvest quickly, probably another mechanism for the continued roll up in house prices. You just don't want to be in cash for any length of time.

Morning all. Markets still trading water. never going to loose that tag now!

treading water

I keep looking at Fres and thinking why is it not following silver up? Am developing the same problem I have with OCDO which does look like its heading up, but is it going to carry on up? Had a bit of profit taking in SWG which has made a big dent in my PF. Thats the trouble with overweight positions. Great when it goes up, not so good when someone sells a few hundred shares. Most of my new positions are good, Japan still trading water.

Morning all. Just watch about half a dozen webinars this morning 3 of which from companies I'm in. Always very encouraging, why else would they present. Some of it can be useful. At least its online and I don't have to travel up to London Jim Mellon founder of Anic is predicting the total cessation of commercial dairy within ten years, and 50% of meat consumed will be grown from stem cells. Its a strong possibility Imo.
Sorry to bang on the IWEb saga. I got a call from my Lloyds manager today. She has worked at Lloyds for 15 years and none of her office have heard of IWEB before. She tried to get on their web site and it didn't work. She is suitably appalled and will bring it up at next meeting. Thats it. Is there anything else I can do for you today? I suppose she realises she hasn't actually done anything for me . Just extraordinary.

Hi M. I find it actually quite scary that these organisation can all be so bad. Finally got through to customer services IWEB. They couldn't do anything about contacting their own transfer team. Rang Lloyds bank, who I also complained to with no answer, they couldn't do anything either but will get a manager to call me back one day. Have now opened a case with ombudsman. I will try and get more compensation , but really I just would like them to acknowledge that the service offered needs to vastly improve all round. They tried to tell me they were not responsible for each other so I reminded them I could only get one lot of £85,000 compensation from Lloyds,Halifax, bank of Scotland. iWeb organisation, which they don't like to publicise either.
So far Jarvis have been a breath of fresh air to deal with. That is an online service too, but someone always answers the phone if needed , usually immediately but always within a couple of minutes.
Barclays are dreadful too. They all use the same trading platform, where as Jarvis has its own tailor made platform, much clearer and easy to understand.