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Hope so steve, £15 is the break even price for me not including dividends, would be good to get back in profit here

Hi Dan, was just having a bit of fun it's gone very quiet here lately, yes great day today, the markets were on a high today with the prospect of interest rate cut in the US by September, let's hope we can finish on a high tomorrow and continue climbing

best of luck Amigo

Gutter, go for it,copy and paste that you tube link and see if it magically turns blue, if it works see if you can work some magic on this share price for us

Gutter, please tell me that was just a joke, or I will be sending the men in white jackets to collect you

Gutter, you can't change the format or colour here, it's an lse chat board not Microsoft word, why would you want to ?

David, if only it was that simple, most financial advisors will tell you to be prepared to be invested in a share for around 5 years, what they can't tell you is which 5 years, you can get a good 5 years or a bad 5 years, also i have heard time in the market is better than trying to time the market, again it depends if your in the right share at the right time, some shares can take you down with them if they are going through a bad time, as finley was saying sometimes drip feeding is the easiest solution buying on the lows, and sometime if a share is not working it may be time to get out, a lot is down to having a bit of luck on your side

Personally, i don't have any interest in in-depth company analysis , but thankfully there are others who are interested in that stuff, so thanks to Fleccy/LTI and others who are there to help us when we need answers to our questions

for myself i just want to see the share price rising, let's hope we will see some progress in the coming months

Not only that, when you can get 5% interest on savings risking money on the stock market is not so appealing , when inflation is firmly under control and interest rates start dropping we may see the share prices rising

Oldbrian, maybe you should sell them off and rebuy them, my wife usually gets a win every other month

Anything over £2.50 and will reduce my holding here a bit more, have been invested here for quite a few years, but don't have the same confidence in it that i used to have the sp just keeps reducing, but you never know things could change

Yes I'ts a right sh*t show with all my shares lately, I've been holding cash back for a while now and waiting to see how low things will go with Aviva and mng which are the two shares i would like to add more too, i have a feeling they will drop a bit lower, but obviously it's only guessing anything can happen

GLA

Not quite yet gutter, and i think it's me that needs the therapy

Hi gwm121, yes using blue chip dividend shares for topping up your pension and getting appreciation sounds like a great idea on paper, but in reality they don’t always meet those expectations, I had the same plan myself as I’m drawing my state pension and about to fully retire

Getting an 8% dividend is very nice but if the share price drops by 8% what have you made ? lgen was one of my most reliable dividend shares but even that one has been disappointing lately, it was over £3 a share a few years ago now trading around £2.27

My dividend shares are lgen/aviva/mng/vod/lloy\psn,

So I’ve opted for a 50/50 split dividend shares and funds, which seem to be meeting my needs at the moment, but I always hope they will do better, one good thing with HL is there’s no charge for buying and selling funds, I have quite a lot of lgen tracker funds the reason for that is the ongoing charges are very low and they have also been performing very well over the last 5 years, so you may want to take a look on the HL website where you can compare the 5 year accumulated growth for yourself

My funds are

Fundsmith/rathbone global opportunities/fidelity index world/lgen future world//lgen global100/lgen global technology/lgen us index/hl select uk growth shares/and lgen international index (my favourite)

Maybe Vodafone will outperform them all over the next 5 years, I will be quite happy if it does

This is just my personal opinion and not advice

Best of luck whatever you choose to do

Gar, I can't speak for others, but most of my shares have been disappointing lately, over the last year or so i have been increasing my funds so that i'm now 50% in international funds and it's the best thing i have done, they are outperforming my UK shares, i still have 50% in UK dividend shares just in case their is a reversal to so called under valued UK shares, time will tell what the next 5 years bring, i expect their are a lot of more experienced investors here than myself who are much better at picking the right shares at the right time, but i have a habit of picking the wrong shares at the wrong time myself

Zac. I won't argue with that, I increased my portfolio to 50% tracker funds, and it's the best thing I've done, better than going into loss with shares where the drop in share price is more than the dividend, but each to his own strategy

71 for me next week please roofer, a good time for the buybacks at the moment, maybe a good week for the share prices next week, that's 2 positive comments from myself !!

GLA and enjoy the weekend

Hi Dan, well it's a nice thought but i think you know the only thing that influences me is seeing the share price rising, i realise the changes won't happen overnight, but let's hope it will start going in the right direction, everything's a bit unsettled at the moment

best of luck

Gar, let's hope so, i do think £1 is achievable here but lets hope we don't have to wait too long, personally though i wouldn't over indulge in a share that's yet to prove it change direction, but that's only my opinion i don't expect anyone to agree with me, dividends are good but not when it's at the expense of capital erosion, twice i had the chance to sell this for 140 but held on hoping for more, never thought this would drop back to the 60s, i should have invested in a good crystal ball, let's hope the new CEO can improve the share price it won't happen overnight

Garonne, I'm not sure what you are hoping to get from this share? I fear your expectations may be too high, this has been under performing for years in a very competitive market, hopefully it's currently under valued and i can get close to 90p my offloading price preferably before next years dividend cut, will it get there i just don't know, most of my shares are under performing right now, just hoping things will improve when interest rates start reducing, but best of luck i hope you get rewarded for your investment here

Gutter, take some advice from my wife, and stick to the building society and premium bonds, this share will put you in an early grave, we are all getting worried about you, you as you seem very confused