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Thanks for the heads up on CN. I was looking around for news which explains the rises.
I bought TW a few days ago, thinking they should be heading back up toward 200. I still hold a load from the credit crunch era and have generally been reducing my stake.
Not sure why a bitcoin conversation is going on here but there is a need for some balance. Crypto currency and the stuff that surrounds them is probably the next big shift in the way things are done. A bit like when my wife used to look at me with puzzlement back in the nineties when I talked about the web.
Unlike FIat currency no one can can create a trillion new Bitcoin. Once the dust settles we will see how things pan out. With this in mind I have invested in ten different cryptos, treating them as any part of my portfolio.
I wish I had one of those crystal balls that you have. Being able to predict so accurately must have made you incredibly rich.
However if these are just stupid guesses, please head over to the kannabo board where wild and baseless ramping is much more normal.
Been with these guys since the last crash. Was really concerned when there was talk of an offer at 117. I have sold and bought back into my ISA over the years with an expectation of a much higher price. 200 looks more like it.
Been with these guys since the last crash. Was really concerned when there was talk of an offer at 117. I have sold and bought back into my ISA over the years with an expectation of a much higher price. 200 looks more like it.
Richie, not sure why you are not finding the short position button on this site. From my android I select the "more vod info" button and it brings up the extra buttons.
Can't remember what it looks like from other platforms. If you Google short tracker you can sign up to a website where you can do a company watchlist. I have used this in the past.
Mainly I don't bother and just buy and hold through thick and thin, occasionally top slicing if something gets out of hand and begins to be scary if it wobbles. With hindsight this has not been the most profitable strategy, but it has left me with better peace of mind.
As a Landlord who has not received any rent from my tenants for nearly a year, I think I have some insight into the issues facing Lloyds as a Landlord. There are already numerous REITs doing a similar thing to Lloyds and at the moment their valuations are under pressure. Lloyds will need to be able to compete with those who have more experience. This will be a huge challenge in an already challenging market.
My experience of landlords who are linked to large or government agencies is that they have vastly higher overheads than the smaller privately rented sector. The tenant often gets a better deal and has higher expectations. Where I would go and fix something myself, a large association will contract someone who costs a fortune and does a belt and braces job. It is great for the tenant, but expensive. A recent example. My friend rents a council owned flat. They have just replaced his outer door for a special high security one. The old door was as sound as a bell and crime so rare in his area that he doesn't bother locking it. He has no idea why they were doing the work.
When I compare my investment decisions of property versus shares, shares win by a mile. My only consolation being that I have more diversity.
Personally, I think Lloyds will only succeed if their rents are at the top end of the market. If they try to compete at the shabby end, they will struggle, unless the government is prepared to throw a lot more money into the system. I doubt this. As a private landlord I welcome them into the market though, as it will push up the value of properties and rents.
Picking up on some very key points. If an investor truly believes that a share is going to keep losing money, then the wisest course of action is to sell it even if this produces a loss is good advice. I have rarely done this as I am always hopeful that things will turn around. Sometimes I am right and sometimes wrong. As I look back on my mistakes there is nothing which stands out that would make me know better which I should have done. Investing is a bit of a lottery, but one where we try to push the chances in our own favour by looking at company fundamentals and making the best judgement we can based on what we see.
Much depends on what a person is trying to achieve in their investing. For me a ten percent growth year on year is acceptable, but it will not make me rich quickly. It will not transform 10k into a million as some seem to hope for. Those kinds of returns require a lot of risk that I don't want to take and which will inevitably leave some investors in a hole.
For anyone who is happy with a steady return my advice is a repeat of that which can be found everywhere. Have a very diverse portfolio and look at company balance sheets. Read stuff on the company website and make the best judgement you can as to what is hype and what is real. Catch the wave of current thinking as best you can, but as a dispassionate observer looking in from outside. Personally I often top slice when things have done extraordinarily well. With hindsight this was often a strategy which was not optimal, but at least I felt more secure. In some cases I wish that I had done it more.
For those who are carrying a loss here and you feel stuck, it may be worth bottom slicing. Take some money out and put it somewhere else and watch to see how it compares with the money left in here.
To a large extent Vod is a mature share, it probably won't do anything wild one way or the other, so there is no imperative to do anything radical.
The other advice I would give is to read message boards like this one. What you see here is a lot of frustration as well as a degree of hope. It sums up what a new investor into Vod will probably experience themselves. It then becomes a judgement call. My judgement was that this share has some potential, generally pays a good dividend but may slip around periodically. I would invest but not massively so.
The other observation I would make is that when the FTSE rises, most share will rise and we are currently about a thousand points below par with the FTSE 100. This gives some reason for optimism. The posters who seem to be able to make money in a choppy market may or may not be telling the truth. The reality is that even amongst professional investors, the ability to beat the general move of the index as a whole is fifty fifty. The losers are equal in number to the winners, but probably far less vocal.
Sorry to anyone who got caught up in the hype. I have never known so much crap shared on a board as there was here and on mcx.
Some people should be ashamed of themselves trying to sound as if they knew stuff when they are just as much in the dark as the rest of us. The last few weeks seem to have attracted a bunch of people who are hyping way beyond the normal, pushing up values to ridiculous heights and presumably taking their profit just in time.
These shares are at the far end of risky.
I am in negative territory here on two out of three of my accounts. I have held Lloyds for more than ten years. In that time I have profited from selling when the price was above 100 having bought after the 2008 crash. I am pretty optimistic for the future. PPP is more or less behind us, Brexit is more settled than it was and there are many billions of pounds extra in the money supply that were not there previously.
Sadly for many, the distribution of wealth has altered in favour of those who already have significant wealth already and this money is likely to be invested disproportionately in the stock market.
I think it will take an unforseen shock to negate all these positives. That is always the major risk us long term holders face, it has always been the case.
I got my fingers burnt a few years ago investing in fuel cells. Company went bust. I would love to invest in this but wonder if it competes with incinerator technology. This is straightforward and also harvests the energy.
I was once part of a startup on doing bioremediation of soil, we failed not because of the science but because companies preferred the easy option.
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Bit of ramping going on here.
one mole of carbon has a mass of 12g, it combines with one mole of O2, which has a mass of 32g. 12g becomes 44g. Not all the mass of the original plastic is carbon though. Simple polyethene approximates to CH2, 12/14 of the mass is therefore carbon.
It could be argued that sticking plastic which can't be recycled, into landfill where it takes an age to breakdown, will reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Quite a lot of confusion on this site regarding the science behind emissions.
I am considering investing in PHE. However one of my worst investments ever was Ceramic Fuel Cells. As much of the recent push here has been linked to fuel cell generation I am reticent to go down that route again.
Given that plastics are predominantly carbon based in terms of mass, the majority of what comes out of this process must be carbon monoxide which will be oxidised to carbon dioxide. What advantages do you think there are over simple incineration?
I worked for a startup company once which aimed to use bioremediation of soil rather than landfill of contaminated areas. We went bust because it was just easier for developers to ship off the problem elsewhere rather than faffing about trying to deal with it fundamentally.
Generally things come down to bottom line. I haven't been able to find clearly crunched numbers showing how the PHE technology stacks up against incineration.
Just got in here, looks like a nice company and some good posters.
That makes a lot more sense. I gave my science in society class the task of coming up with a good high tec science share to invest in. This was their favourite. I promised to put in a k of my own and share the profits. Hope it goes well for their sakes