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any idea when this goes ex-divi?
after nearly a 4 year wait, this has at last broken my break even level of 200, in the black again.....now the question is, when do i sell? my gut feeling is that this should easily break through the old resistance of 300 with all the current positive news in the aethyrs.
just realised that we'd broke the magical 200p barrier on monday!!! An excellent portent of things to come!...
erm... the dividend..?
well, come to think of it, its only a year and a half since it touched 5.00!
Looks as tho your resistance levels of 164 & 168 have been well & truly smashed & that my break-even of 200 will soon be old history as well. Well done to all that have held through all the years of gut-churning & headaches on this share.
let's hope we can consolidate at this level & continue our steady move upwards.
yes, I was watching when it was around 56 & sold a bit, but waiting for it to climb to at least the 60p mark....but it never happened...lol
this is getting really irritating & boringly predictable, every time it looks as tho it will cross the 50p line it falls back & then rises & then falls back..on & on & on... aaahhhhh someone let me out of here!!!
..the old girl's showing a small spark of life..
...we know you can do it & break thru the 164 level....
& the rest.....
According to Shares magazine this week, they have given Man a 'buy' rating, with a tp of 200.
& I have to wait till 200 just to break even..! its been a long & depressing ride, seeing this sink from 300 (when I was considering selling but never did, thinking it would go higher) to the lows of the 60's. At least now there's a positive feel & possible rays of light at the end of the tunnel....
hopefully break through this ceiling soon & resume our upward trend.
why such a curiously exact figure for the sp? was this as a result of long hard study of the share graphs, or is it your own sp average? personally I'm aiming for at least 200, a nice round optimistic number..lol
just noticed we've hit a 1 year high in the sp today...long may this continue!
a very positive article written in MW, with a strong BUY recommendation.
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