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Gold will be all that left soon, fiat is trash after tomorrow I suspect, if only this were trading it might save my portfolio!

Literally the stock is trading 'Ex(cluding) Dividend'.

It's well established that mass immigration raises GDP whilst lowering per capita GDP.

With western birth rates below population maintenance levels it's odd that we have a housing crisis. Let's hope the investment is well placed.

Just catching up with this...

212 don't lend out shares in an ISA, you can spend either 95% or 100% depending on your order type (Value vs No. of shares). If you order a certain amount of shares they don't allow more than 95% of your account value to be spent so that once the currency conversion has been done and fees paid, you don't go over 100% and they're out of pocket. IIRC if you specify a value you can spend 100%, but then you'll end up with fractional shares, potentially being a perk depending on your view.

There's tables about on the internet laying out the best option for various holdings on various sites. For some a fixed monthly fee of £10 might be a large chunk of their pot for others a % based fee might be massive if they hold a lot! If you trade a lot no commission might be preferable - if you require dedicated telephone support AKA HL, boy do you pay for it.

I've got an ISA with Trading 212 for what it's worth and they have some of, if not the lowest FX fees and charge zero holding, trading or management fees, beyond Fx (0.15%) and Stamp Duty. Barring some obscure exchange fees such as the below:

NYSE Stocks
Transaction Fee (Securities and Exchange Commission) is $0.000008 of the value of the sell order.
FINRA Fee is charged on all covered stock and ETF sales at $0.000145 x quantity sold.

Other than when Robinhood caused a massive meltdown and suspended trading and some hedge funds were splatted by Wall Street Bets (their intermediary had processing issues due to volume and the site crashed a bit), I've never had an issue with them in years!

Vs HL, and ii (had ISAs with both) I'm sticking with 212.

Share price is reduced by the dividend amount when it goes ex dividend, as technically that money has left the business and been paid to shareholders (is promised to be paid soon). As for if they go up or down in addition to that, if you knew the answer you'd be wildly rich, it's beholden to all of the usual caveats and fluctuations. Yes it might go up slightly before going ex as a few traders try and "capture" the dividend, but it might also be in the middle of a really long term re-rate down so.. You pays your money you takes your chance.

The stated desire to make the UK smoke free soon and other countries having already effectively made it illegal (for new potential smokers) would suggest to me this continues down and down unless/until they can replace their main products with an alternative. I'd like to invest again but I can't seem to pull the trigger.

It's looking to me like a lot of people aren't going risk holding over the weekend across the board, in case another shoe (bank) or 2 drops. Might be a day to turn off the screen early get to the pub...

"The root of this inflation stemmed from the war and global tensions as we could no longer get stuff. Wood, oil, beans, wheat chemicals etc".

I'd move my calendar a few years back and suggest this started when they closed the world down and printed trillions.
Going back further, they seemingly never learnt any lessons nor punished anyone from 2008.

As for LGEN holding has done me well in the past, I've rarely traded and haven't had dry powder to take advantage of real big drops. Maybe this time I can grab a large handful at a significant discount, while watching the main holding drop rapidly, mettle testing times I guess. Long term If they go under, we'd have way bigger issues to worry about IMO.

"Brexit cost 100 Billion" I'll raise you half a trillion £'s on the covid overreaction.

This country is 'governed' by cowards, chancers and fools.

Income units I found to be easier on the tax return, ymmv.

If he announces "war" what will that do to the share price do we think?

Anyone know what if any tax benefits/implications there might be through all this?

For example I seem to hold thousands of bits of paper with the word Evraz on them right now, can they be written off to offset cap gains?

I just noticed a roughly 26% increase in the account balance but the same share price?!

Very strange.

Taxation is theft.

The notion that without tax we wouldn't have anything is ridiculous. If I was allowed to keep all of the proceeds of my efforts and wanted my bins emptied I could pay someone to empty them, someone who for their own reasons decided that was a good business idea and something they would be good at/would provide a needed service/would provide them an income.

Bitcoin is a currency and LGEN is a business.

Next time the world has a hiccup and LGEN drops to sup £1.80 I'm not bringing a thimble.

Same only 209 > 253. And out of BATS at £34.

Trouble is I can't find anything else I like and I seem to have missed the rocket ship day across the pond... Time in the market and all that :(

Ick - China talk of opening up has been shut down, their leader doesn't like to lose and egg on face is unacceptable.

It's going to be a long winter, but not as long as it is in China.

It is certainly amazing how fast the market calmed and things are no longer anywhere near as bad as they seemed under Truss....