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Have been trying to find some sort of rationale behind the carefree bullish trajectory of the Dow over the previous 2 days because based on the impending collapse of economies not to mention health of the world it makes no sense at all. THe one reasonable conclusion I have come to is that we are much closer to beating this disease than they are letting on. Malaria medicine being one such drug that could;d help. Obviously the intervening weeks are going to be horrible but it is the only explanation I can think of. It can't simply be that the US unemployment figures aren't as bad as expected because they are, It can't be further stimulus because if the workforce are incapacitated it won't help that much anyway. Be very interesting end to the week to see which the financial wing blows tomorrow. So in backing my conclusion have taken back some of my Kape holding because they will be huge in a few years anyway and judged to be immune to virus economics like so many other claims I know and some in SMT because their nav is unusually below the sp without even taking todays Dow rise into account. Very much on the alert again already! Good luck with Ocado and MCRO tomorrow guys.

I didn't think there was a time limit on carrying losses forward. Worth checking with accountant. Trouble is they keep changing the tax rules. The other one that is confusing is which aim shares are except from IHT. The kind of thing you don't find out until you die and then you can't come back and complain. Just haunt the tax office

Dow charging up 700 points. The futures has been wrong on at least the last 3 occasions. Can only assume this is down to zero interest rates.

Market makers are widening the spreads and moving prices on very low volumes. Depsoeration to get trades.Highly suspicious IMO

morning T. Yes probably right 12.30. I think my clock's gone way back! Very calm at the moment even Dow futures holding around .5% drop. Some Trusts trading above Nav again and spreads seem pretty wide in general which they have been for a few weeks. Even if the markets move up again I will try and suppress the buying urge hopefully till next week at least I think

USA employment figures due 8.30 a.m. or 13.30 our time I guess.

Yes V they have for a while. Trouble is thats pretty much the last of the ammo before the Monopoly money hits the streets! Well the dow is charging away as though this is just a blip. At the moment it is manageable but as serious as the financial crisis of 2008, or it could be. Nobody has any idea what the financial or human cost will be. Putin is just beginning to take it more seriously but had thus been treating like Trump, an annoying inconvenience that the world is overreacting to. When the next set of economic figures hit the conscious I would think a dose of reality will strike again. The markets get oversold and they get overbought. The nature of this kind of volatility as I have mentioned before can be the precursor to crash. I suppose this time it has not come out of the blue like before, and the markets have come off a fair bit. Basically in the last two weeks I have managed trade my way back to where I was 12 months ago, having collected a couple of purlers along the way. I doubt if we have quite hit the bottom yet. Not sure how long my patience will hold before buying back in, but whatever I do it will be gradual

No they made a mistake. Its the crownavirus he's got. I'll get my coat

Decided to clear the decks. Made some decent profits and a couple of losses. Need to clear my head as I find its getting too confusing for me at the moment and taking too much time because you really need to on the ball most if not all of it. GL all

T I thinkit was the windows being finished and the guys saying it was their last job. Quite a mixed feeling for who gets support. The ones an the cards are very happy, joyous in fact with their deal of 80% of salary for not working. For the self employed which I was/am, the future is a lot less certain. Thats why there is huge temptation for them to work. Asia rally continues . Aus up 5%. Dow futures having been down is slightly up. Possibly a slightly steadier day . FLW.

This is so weird I keep thinking its Friday! Another extraordinary day. Into my portfolio comes Gamma Com, AFX and IGR. Hoping to get the trusts back for a fourth go at some stage. CNC top performer today possibly partly due to IQE announcing good trading, although not quite the same product similar, field I guess. Will Trump heed what the rest of the world are trying to do with India being the latest to lock down.

Impetuous. Decided to cash in the trusts again, they must be catching up with their navs which presumably fell with the dow last night. So they must have caught up with todays Dow rise if it happens. Have I overthought this? lol

Don't blame you T. I'm glad they managed to clamp down on Tim Martin and that horrible sport direct guy. I'd like them both out of business frankly . We used to have lots of different independent sports shops in most towns. WE have huge number of micro pubs and micro brewers here in Kent, being the birth place of micro pubs which started in a little butchers shop in Hern about ten years ago. Great beers, great variety of beers at very fair prices often better the Weatherspoons, and the beer is definitely better. Basically your average Kent town has about 3 micro pubs and 10 charity shops now. All the big stores closing. I think the high street will and is reinventing itself for the better in many places.

Hi T. Diary of lockdown day 1. Been up on the roof! Just what the NHS need old people mucking about on rooves! Had the scaffolding up since beginning of January. Firstly they couldn't measure the windows till we had that up. Then they tried to fit them before admitting they measured them wrong. Finally turned up yesterday and finished the job 2 hours before lock down. Did a great job in the end but had to have a check over and replace a few tiles before they take scaffolding down, which will probably be up for sunbathing trough the summer now. Trusts flying ,techs flying. I also thought I'd wait till USA opens before deciding next move. Its so unpredictable. Yesterday I expected the Dow to go up, which is why I nipped back in all guns blazing, when it dropped I thought that'll teach you (me). This morning I thought there would be another 10% drop and now this. A lot say we are really near the bottom, others think another 15% off to come. Like you say ftse down more than anywhere which doesn't make sense. Might just ride it out now.

Fake news? lol . Its going to get interesting. Maybe they see lock down as a positive 'to get Corona done for'. Last night was the first time I've heard Boris speak without deviation, hesitation, repetition or er, er er the er word. Bw and good luck everybody

Kape been the outstanding performer for me today. Now 131 to buy. Only moved up 4p today but in a market like this it feels more like 40p! Bought 3 of the trusts back all now trading at a decent discount to todays nav. Even CNC made a small recovery which is good sign. Still looks precarious with the early mention of a Dow rise on limitless cash injection misfiring again. We keep trying!

Yep good signal pounced!

They have on very small trades. Nearly sold on Friday but with all the bother I was having I decided to hold and collect dividend . Think it went ex Friday. I suppose the main issue is how slowed down they get, cancelled orders etc. Otherwise will benefit fro AI as it picks up. Kape I am looking to add to. Having picked up for a quid. They went to 2 very quickly before virus dropping back. Director bought 50000. last week. Secured new finance. Great results, great future. My most confident pick out there at the moment. Trading around £1.25 currently.

Thanks O. It must be me .I just got to the sign up button on IG and it said 'sorry we are experiencing technical difficulties at the moment but don't worry your investments are safe and we hope to get this fixed shortly.'

S its is seriously difficult not to trade. In no way I'm saying sitting on your hands is better. Obviously you can make you trades a lot quicker than me. It would have cost me dearly if I had not managed to trade on Friday afternoon. My main problem is with IWEB. First the site broke down and then it was nothing short of persistence that got me out. (Would have been 10 k worse off this morning) Hence I am trying to open. at least one other account. All systems seemed to be under stress at the moment.