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Yes an unusual occurrence ramping maybe lol

Never heard of that one... are you fìnding these lurking in the back of the cave? ....well done with your profit

HI Gs agree, the right decision coming out of Naz short "too" risky!
Phoenix solid and good Dividend payer ....
Ps welcome back to normality ( meant with the best intent ) lol

Shell ....Still massively undervalued, we should get to at least £22 sometime this year

https://ibb.co/C5t7dgg

Hi Gs yes that a big risk you have taken on that short ...... Yes perhaps wait and see what the Fed does in the FOMC meeting about interest rates on Wednesday. If the fed pushes them up that could knock back the Nasdaq as Tech stocks don't like higher interest rates as most of the smaller start ups ones are debt ridden... RE the FTSE and conversely to the Naz certain financials do like int rate hikes particularly Banks and stocks like AV LGEN MNG ..
I couldn't get my limit Fill on MNG at 204 0r 5 so ive bought into LGEN ....(Yet again)... sustainable divi with growth potential .. GL all

Blimey GS that so, so risk on!
I guess you are talking about an ETF which one is it and what price did you get in at ? I know wisdom tree go up to 3 times.

And you have sold everything else up.. A dramatic move but fair play to you ...

I sold Imperial brands at a small profit this morning. I took a short on Netflix this afternoon and made some money.
Ive got a limit buy in for MNG at 2.04 p

A down day on Friday with some shock drops and as per usual for no real reason.
I bought back into RR at 1.19 and topped up on Imperial Brands IMB with its 8.3% divi paid quarterly
Took a short on the Dax but didn't hang around too long but made a bit. Matt just in case you didn't hear It might be worth you checking out news on the Russia banning crypto Some news broke on Friday .. Lets hope Monday will be more positive for us all

That looks pretty diversified to me Matt but what about currencies.....You could open an account with wise and put real cash into the wise account . I hold Euros. US dollars and AUD dollars . In a wise account you transfer you GBP (real money) into any currency when its at what you think is a peak and wise fixes it at that high level... Always handy having a hedge against the pound ..........
On another subject I was glad i closed out Greggs it dropped another 76 points today .. Also i opened and closed a GBP / CHF short for 40 points profit so got something back... My oil shares are at record highs so i am having an itchy finger

GS ... No not £20K in money I meant to say 20k of shares!

Hi Gs good to see you back on the board... I suppose tech stocks will come back at some point but not for a while i don't think. Good strategy have a percentage exposure to any one sector.... We all know its hard to make consistent gains in the market but we keep at.
I closed out my Greggs today at 7 % loss and that was too much of a loss to be honest but its done now..
looking for the next trade.
I see an activist shorter is having a bash at dark trace Matt, hope you are not affected. I see your Kr1 is doing well.
Gs i saw that two of the S4 directors stumped up for £20 k worth of shares between them last week ...bodes well fro S4

Hello Matt and thanks for your pleasant comments.
Kr1 . I still don't know a great deal about the Crypto world but ive heard that Kr1 are into Polkadot.
IG now has 20 crypto coins to trade on its platform .
I wish you good fortune with it and the market will do what it always does,its own thing. I will watch it with interest.

One thing we do know is as market participants we are all involved in a game of high risk, probabilities and unknown outcomes. Only yesterday i bought reasonably heavily into Greggs....... yesterday and today its dropped quite a lot 6.24% and i don't know why, no matter, onwards i go as my history tells me i make profit over the longer term!

Good luck with your early retirement I tried to retire in my fifty's but an acrimonious and expensive divorce forced me back to work. I then work very hard and managed to buy a house outright and semi retire at 60, at that age I pulled an annuity from Aviva, then I just did the work that i choose to do. Now i can just concentrate on trading and other pleasurable pastimes.

Not seen GS i bet he is busy

Bought into Greggs this morning

Yes Matt we all have our own approaches and its what works best for us for us .
I guess i use to have a buy and hold view but the pandemic crash got me to re adjust my thinking . Plus i trade F/X commodities, indices which tend to have a faster turn (due to the large cash exposure ) On my shares i journal every trade with all the details its all on XL so i can see previous trades at a glance and look for repetition. Then i do a monthly report I do the same on F/X Spreads its all detailed .. Last year was my best year for consistency which enabled me to draw some lump sums. I am just hoping i can keep it up but being retired gives me more time to do it...... I see your KR1 is on the move is, it on the main market yet ?

Sold SMT first thing at 12.15 ..Gl all

GS I dont know how you can hold on too shares that are in a big loss .... On shares my maximum stop loss is 20% and i am often out a great deal sooner than that, at 8% i am getting trigger happy

I had 3 stops last year OTB 7.8%.. MNG.. 0.37%... 888. 4% and my ultimate bad ass share of the year was Deliveroo and it was 22% before i got out of it............ All my others closed in profit

I hope so to GS its all too much .. Amazon has now put in two decent days
Ive bought into SMT this morning at 11.76 and hoping for a decent rise......... 13.00 would be nice ... Gl all

I think the four of us still hold Lloyds Matt Do you concur GS?

No.... Lol.. its "1Armani" one of our cavers see post of 26th December

Hmm I didn't know that GS and yes ive just now looked at SMT which is a very techy IT and unusually down .
Maybe some bargains about!.
Sfor put in a decent push on Friday , so hopefully it will soon recover........... WPP i was looking at that before Christmas and i note that their consistent rise is partly due to their share buybacks. It look as a bit toppy to me at the moment though .
As Matt says its all a bit wait and see at the moment.
I took profit on my December RR buy on Friday made 7% after all costs so happy with that as first trade of the year.
Im just now looking for my next trade............ I see Armani has got off to a good start with Lloyds this year.
I think it was Matt who held it last year

Ah yes probably was and sorry GS i didn't know you were still in. I know its one of GS seniors shares .. Wishing you well with it . Ill keep watching it