Member Info for Robina

I suspect most holders are just hoping to reduce they're losses.
No doubt VOD will soon further destroy sh value by launching into yet another costly venture like an infrastructure on Mars.
If we get back to around £1 might be tempted into a swing trade. Problem is with my luck, next day would come the Martian announcement.

I'm going for 263, which means it will then drop to 243.
check back here to see if I'm right.

This has been on a downtrend albeit with ups and downs since end 2017 mainly due to ridiculous debt and competition.
The dividend has been slashed.
Shorts t 4.5%
Surprised it's been as much as 1.30 recently.
Tempting to try and trade the ups and down but otherwise a bad share to buy IMO.
I suspect it's only the swing trading/algos that keeps it afloat as it were.

Yes but the recent sp is falling not rising despite the recent contracts.
Maybe we need to see what the US venture brings.
Long term this ought to be OK. As usual for me though I invested at the wrong time on the news. I need another me in a parallel universe to do the opposite. That one would make a fortune.

What I think Nealh has spotted is an indication that the recent rises in the supermajors is a kind of hoax i.e. the market trying to lure people back in. This is contra-fundamentals but it seems to work every time.

My reply just vanished - I asked if you were reading the chart upside down?

Are you reading the chart upside down perhaps?

Well it has but fear now it's heading back to 800!

They may be on a roll business prospects wise but it's not exactly reflected in the share price.

Rustvaar was right with the 5% drop.
It might rise a bit towards pay date - then drop again.

I think Vod is the ultimate losers share. The only way to gain would be to buy at random and sell at random.
If you try to think the thing then there's some piece of AI groupthink MMs use that will dupe you.

I mistyped the divs a day or so back. It's 20.8+20.8+48+48.
Anyway, I too have looked at the idea of timing the buys/sells either side of div dates. The problem is that other factors influence the sp and stock markets in general so I couldn't see a clear pattern. I tend to think the sp's in general rise up until payment dates so reinvestors pay more than they should for new shares.
I've found every attempt to play the market is punished even to the extent of a change of direction minutes after I've bought or sold leading me to expect the market is driven by my decisions alone, like a sort of quantum effect.

Speculation (been going on for years but to no avail) and sp driven by day trading. Am I wrong??

First may i join Bazzaman in his sympathies with Solley's awful accident and wish him well too.

I sold yesterday triggering a rise but am sort of relieved it dropped back a bit. Looking at the chart pattern might be tempted in again at sub-100. Impossible to say where this will end up. Like most shares of course. Alwa¥s hoped for a takeover but would be like waiting for the second coming.

Well at the end of a week where the sp is declining rapidly I have to decide whether to sell and buy back lower or just cut my losses. I only bought recently which is probably the main cause of the decline. The story looks good and the PE isn't that high really.

got bored with this and sold earlier - hence the sp rise. Works every time but never it seems to my advantage.

I guess regardless of the sp, we get 28+28+48+48p pa dividend. As long as it's not cut and the sp doesn't decline by that amount or more then that's ok.
However, can I join the CSDI club in being wrong about anything I invest in.

MF lives up its name. They are quite good at summarising facts such as profit and loss etc. but the buy/sell recommendations are to be ignored.
I maintain that 110 is a resistance level.
Jury is out on growth hence sp direction.
ITV doesn't seem to feature in any of the best performing UK funds as far as I can tell.
So dunno whether to hold or cut my losses. Of course me selling will trigger a sudden recovery.

A simple question: Why buy VOD who's sp is -35% over 5 years - compared with ATT, say, which is +>500%?

Like a lot of stocks it's struggling for direction now. Will buy more if it drops to 860.