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Also holding and will simply add more if it dips a meaningful amount.

It's becoming hard to find good dividend payers, and VOD is amongst the very highest, whilst being a critical service these days that people won't go without whatever happens with COVID/Brexit.

I was quite clear.
I'm saying you're spreading dangerous misinformation.
I'm not going to reply any more, as you're clearly a total fruitcake, this is a waste of my time.

Axe-Capital: Not sure why you're trying to paraphrase complicated things you don't understand. It's like 2+2 = 22.
Axe-Capital:

HarChris, it's not that difficult to understand.....if I happen to check in here, and see someone spreading information that could lead to people dying, then I feel it's warranted to correct it. That doesn't make me a vaccine tsar.
I think you might want to adjust your strategy for getting someone to help you out though...mocking them, then asking for advice, or to promote a stock, isn't particularly smart.

110times - morons like you are dangerous and lead people to avoiding vaccines that might very well save their lives. It's pathetic.

To quote Professor Jeffrey Almond of Oxford University: "Injecting RNA into a person doesn't do anything to the DNA of a human cell".

Stop spreading dangerous misinformation.

The vaccine doesn't alter your DNA.
There's so much nonsense posted by gullible pea-brains falling for silly scare-stories written by people with a PhD in talking sh*t and probably barely even a GCSE between them.
The absolute irony is they usually tell everyone else to open their eyes, or wake up, when in fact they're amongst the most deluded people on the planet.

er...wild assertions :)
(not mild assertions!)

JoeyDiamond - You find a scientific topic and you'll find a few loons who make mild assertions based on nothing (or that get quickly debunked). They've got history.

The HuffingtonPost tried to spell this out in response by one of the misleading things being circulated by Yeadon and others:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/false-positives-coronavirus_uk_5f686da4c5b6de79b677e909?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8

People like Yeadon or Wolfgang's assertions get reliably debunked but people don't read that.

So is Wolfgang FYI: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/january/enter-the-conspiracy-theorists

Mike Yeadon is a crackpot conspiracy theorist who talks nonsense.

JoeyDiamond - Unfortunately there's a large section of society who don't listen to experts, and instead listen to the Daily Mail, some crackpot Twitter scientist who badly interprets/manipulates data, or their mate Sharron who's got a PhD in hot-air.

The mRNA vaccines themselves are essentially intrinsically safe, as they basically get the body to make parts of the virus, and don't combine to make the whole thing. So the body just finds these parts, learns to recognise them (and kill them), without there ever being a full fledged virus multiplying/attacking/weakening the body.

I'd take one of these mRNA vaccines in a heartbeat if I could get one. Hell, I'd even pay £100 right now to get one, even though I think there's a good chance I had mild COVID earlier in the year (had a weird flu in summer which is unusual).

That’s because the Nikkei is at pretty much all time highs.
The FTSE however you can still buy giant companies at half their price from last year even AFTER yesterday’s rise.
The vaccine news isn’t about solving problems this winter but by next year you could have NHS staff being vaccinated and ramping up vaccination in virus hotspots. Not everyone will take it but it will help further lessen the spread and could turn the tide in conjunction with other measures well ahead of widespread vaccination.

If you read the financial report they spent a significant amount extra due to COVID:

Estimated 2020/21 COVID-19 direct net (costs)/lower business rates (£m)
Extra payroll (47)
Extra cost of colleague bonus (35) - We are paying a 6% ‘thank you’ guaranteed annual bonus for all frontline colleagues, up threefold on last year
Colleague and customer protection (25)
Food banks and other donations (9)
Other costs (inc. extra seasonal waste/markdown, extra distribution costs) (39)
Total COVID-19 direct costs (155)
Lower business rates 93
Total net cost - 62

If you get rid of all these exceptional COVID costs (which were £62m in the first half) then numbers look pretty good.

Good quote (from Graham).
I'm generally of the same view as you.
Personally I don't bother with much more than basic trend channels
Answer to the final question is probably nothing more complicated than it hitting the bottom of the channel and getting some buying. Who knows ;)

(this probably also answers your question Ctw - I'm most definitely not a chartist and would be offended to be called one ;) )

You could argue it's just acting within the recent channel adam:
https://www.tradingview.com/x/RwoEgNm0/

(rightly or wrongly a lot of trading seems to be done on charts rather than fundamentals/news now - so sometimes you won't find an answer in facts because the trading isn't being done based on facts/information)

You had to go and jinx it now didn't you drice ;)

He's probably referring to this:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL8N2HM085

If anything HUM's basically just followed gold if you look at the chart of HUM and gold since early August:
HUM: https://www.tradingview.com/x/f0ma3dGT/
GOLD: https://www.tradingview.com/x/fucIH1Hj/

(obviously making an allowance for the coup week)

Don't worry. Whatever happens....there isn't a head and shoulders pattern on the HUM chart :p

Also this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessment-and-procurement-of-coronavirus-covid-19-tests/coronavirus-covid-19-serology-and-viral-detection-testing-uk-procurement-overview
Status Number of tests
In early stages of validation 41
Currently being validated or evaluated 15
Validation concluded or paused 32
Total number of technologies in the pipeline 88

88 under review......

Don't know if this helps:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessment-and-procurement-of-coronavirus-covid-19-tests/lateral-flow-devices-results