Member Info for SadAct

A hobby is essential (and no way is trading a hobby, it's too intense and driven by trading hours). I make little mechanical wooden automata although I haven't made one for 6 months now although I am still doodling designs for them.

CORKSCREW FUTURES ARE UP!
We very rarely drink midweek but I broke a ****screw opening the red wine yesterday evening. I say it was faulty, some would say it was getting too much use.

By the way, whatever happened to the idea "sell in May and go away"?

I really want to back off this trading malarky, I am feeling long term tired with it. Trouble is in these times advantage must be taken....or at least tried for.
The studio is for my partner, she is very into art both painting and crafts and apparently one dedicated room in the house isn't enough! Use of the word gstudio is grandiose as it is a 4m x 2.5m room above a garage but will have a complete wall of glass from floor to ceiling....when I finish it. Ha.

Good morning brigands.... Thursday already again and we will be doing our usual morning shopping trip so expect me to go dark from 10ish for a couple of hours. This does not give anyone permission to stop making profits however!
Good Luck.

m: I know what you mean about animals...my old cat once fell asleep while I was talking to him.

V: On the subject of S&S ISAs, seems like you want to put the shares with expectation of highest capital gain in there. Normally, I would say highest capital gain and dividend but high dividends are not such an issue at the moment but note that within this tax year, 2020/21, several companies may return to paying a dividend. Makes you wonder where they will get the money from but I have seen some mention of it.
For me, or rather us, that has meant the shares that I deal most frequently in. Good luck. Perhaps I am mentioning this too late, but some S&S ISA providers charge a fee for being with them, IG do not. I don't get a kick back from IG for keep mentioning them, quite the reverse, as L and I are both irritated with them at the moment.
But as Churchill (I think) said: Democracy is the worst possible system of government...except for all the rest.

My profits today came from DART (2 trades), LLOY, IAG, CCL and PLUS (good old PLUS)
Missed selling OCDO and MRW, MRW beginning to annoy me now, think I will make big effort to sell it tomorrow.
I have got a nice profit developing on JDW but think it will go further. Still holding GRG, CINE and TUI for greater highs, I hope. I still have a tranche of CCL bought a bit high at 1180 the other day.

m: I assume that was 2179p. I too was trying to sell OCDO, even had a quote at 2187 and I dithered. Doh.
Hope you all had a good day.

Sold CCL at 1179 and DART at 912 (second DART deal today)

m: I have some skin in the CCL game so am watching them also. As T said earlier, with all the current troubles in the states how come the market is so buoyant? I note that CCL in the states has now passed its one month high, actually 3 month high.

L: How do I handle all those shares at once? Well I don't do a very good job of it. A few are long term holds which I tend to ignore (probably a mistake). Some I seem to hold because I always have (probably another mistake). That leaves quite a few which I set alerts to let me know when they are hitting my "possible sell zone", this sort of works except when several at once are trying to get my attention. I prioritise on ones that are in most profit. I rarely set an alert to catch shares I hold going down (possibly "time to sell", I don't like or do stop losses). I do set alerts to catch shares that are reducing to alert me to "possibly time to buy".
What a mess.

L: thanks for your posting. To be honest, I have just woken up. For some reason I am exhausted and went to sleep about a hour or two ago. I will have to reread all the postings when I am fully awake.

R: I note that my limit sale on PLUS triggered at 11.31am for 1310p making me the pricely sum of £70 profit. Don't laugh all, I make this on PLUS nearly everyday...............

L: This time next year rodders, I'll be very slightly richer.

PLUS is an Isreali outfit hence the no stamp duty. They pay a good dividend, big proportion of earnings. (I seem to remember that there is a 4 or 5 month gap between ex divi and when it's paid which is unusual). They suffered a while back from CFD control regulations, like other companies.

R: Well you made a small profit on PLUS that's the important thing but I guess your first foray into them didn't impress you too much. I have a limit sell on them at 1310.

R: PLUS getting into my sell zone, but the ones I bought yesterday would only make me £47 profit. I have taken less but will hold on a bit.

Sold IAG for 8.2% profit. Sold LLOY for a mere 2.2% profit

T line wasn't keen but bought OCDO at 2138

R: PLUS is having a bit of a surge

Here is a list of my current holdings (some duplicates due to holdings in more than one account)
NCYT
BT
WJG
NG
RENE
TCM
OPM
AFX
GRG
HEMO
MRW
PLUS
HUR
IAL
CINE
TUI
JDW
NCYT
CCL
DART
RENE
SNG
PLUS
GRG
CCL
AV.