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Rookie, did you get sold on the high in the end though???

looked at 8:01 and shares 103 to buy BUT my barclays acc would not let me get quote to deal....... then said, not able to show page!!!!! Logged me out!!!

Is this why all the charts of the shares i am watching have a straight or diagonally dropping line on them..... announcement from BJ and trading had ceased????

thank you,
What was the Ex Div date?
I have a little under 4000 shares in BB.
Next Ex-Div date?
over the years i hate how BB gets battered,
160 then 250,
170 then 230,
rise 10p, drop 10p......
back to £3 would be great.....

109.7 to buy now...... 8am was 112 and Barc would not let me even see a quote..... then 113, same,
sellers taking the rise,
cannot blame anyone for it,
but for every seller, there's a buyer, so some people are possibly going to be waiting,

Thanks Gents,
i'm pleased people are doing ok out of this,
if it was not for ISA end and then new ISA allowance start, coinciding with me having squirrelled away a few quid in past 2-3 years i'd not have looked...... but a wedding to fund, which i can do, but so so much nicer if a chunk, if not all is free..... from dabbling in a tax free ISA...... and if i'm lucky by next June, a free bar lol.
So far, Rings paid off - £1275, and last £500 of last years Maldives holibob that was on an interest free c/cd.......
so i've got 2k profit loitering with my funds........
AND i'm working, so pretty pleased with past months dabbling tbh, to pay for stuff here and there.
Some "here and there" money is fine for me.
As the missus said, there's probably been hundreds of money opportunities in the last 2-3 years that have gone by, but who cares.... it's doing a bit now that matters, and i'll take small gains quite happily every day.....
Good Luck All,
Hope the ride bears well for you.

Same, sold earlier in the day..... classic though..... if i had my own board, would just put, i've SOLD, jump in cos now it'll go up.....
Good Luck All,

Mr A, in the tax haven of an ISA? or just plain stockbroking?
i was in at 82p, but traded in at 86 before Easter as waited for new Fiscal so i could add to my ISA.
dropped in and out over the past few weeks and am £3675 up.
Towards Wedding Fund.
Obvs have missed climbs and the chance to go back in at falls but hey ho, not down and waiting for a climb to be even.
So cannot grumble.
good luck everyone.

over 105 already..... drive towards 106??

Ex - Div date 21st May?? 6.5p per share held at C.O.B 20th ? Is that right? When is the Div paid out please?

I think it will be interesting seeing what HSBC churns out first.
5am on 28th, then BARC on the 29th.
I think if HSBC Q1 is bad, banks across the board will go down.
Dragged along by association if you like.
Interesting times.
Who would have known, 80p one week, 100p 2 weeks later. Then back to under 90p.....

100% see the way minds think about, you only lose if you sell.
But for me, in the past, i have been burnt, BADLY, and i looked at the same share recently, and it was less the 1/2p a share....
at the time, i was in, heavily at 17p. Shared crashed - mining result not what was hoped for - tried to sell at 20p.... to take the 3p per share... did not go through... market closed..... Monday - crash. SO, if i had sat, and waited, waited, waited, i'd have about £30 from £20k.... so i sold as it dropped, lost, but when it hit bottom, bought back in, then on a rally as it started to balance, sold and recovered some.
so i guess what i am saying, is, if you think, you are tied in to a share, you are not. If you bought in at £1, and BARC dropped to 95p, surely it's better to sell at the loss, watch it drop to 88p, then buy back in and get more shares than you had in the first place..... when they reach that £1 again, then you would be quids in not just thankful to be level.
personally, i feel for BARC as a stock as they have been battered over the years for other banks failings imo, and are worth more than 88 ish pence.
i hope on Qtr 1 their figures are dire and they plummet further. Then all my waiting about will have paid off.
if they rocket, then same token, i'll revert back to Balfours but also be pleased that the BARC holders make a decent £ out of the news or head towards their break even prices.
So good luck.
ps, HSBC Qtr 1, 5am Tue i understand. worth a watch of prices across the sector????

so HSBC are giving their 1st Qtr results at 05:00 BST on 28th, then Barc announce on 29th.
would it be fair to say, Banks could go same way based on HSBC results on opening in UK at 08:00 on 28th??
IF HSBC news is doom and gloom, would be likely others be dragged into a drop of Bank sell off frenzy at 08:00??
Is it worth getting up early next Tuesday to read up? then dive in or out with Barc or Lloyds etc???
Thoughts?

nice to see an afternoon late surge,
i saw price hit over 90p, went to sell, could not access my Barclays ISA, app update, kin phone.... said, PIN Entry in 4 days....wtf, NOOOOOOO i want to sell today. Speed March to bank up the road luckily, 5 mins, obvs to get milk.... get a card reader from staff in bank, which i notice closes at 2pm so very lucky today.......
i sell, happy dabbling, work more, get distracted.... more work,
look later to see that surge, glad for all that were still in, and some that have got out. nice to take a few quid.
good luck, defo heading towards beer o'clock.....
no tears from a profit..... whether it be £600 or £1100.....

thanks, yes, i did have a skim read....... prob is, currently, i'm still working, full time, not furloughed or off social distancing etc as am laptop office jock in a planning dept working from home........so, dabbling here and there is like a hobby. i was a Balfour Beatty follower.... over the years seen that drop and rocket from what i saw as unfair market trading..... but recall banks got savaged years ago, and Barclays did well after..... 50p to over 300p over time. So, i think Barc defo under valued at under £1..... i'm sure people bought at £1 and £1.01 etc when it was going up hoping that wave of a rise would put them on the way to £1.10 and above..... same as the next wave bout in at 98 and 97p, to then see it drop towards 86p...... so a waiting game then commences...... or indecision..... do i sell, hope it drops further, then buy back in, get more stock for the money, and when it rises, get back some or all of the original funds earlier (on a lower price than just sitting and feeling like you've done nothing)..... so here is the learning curve..... waiting patiently..... harder now, cos we are all home etc..... nail biting and trying to be busy......
so to me, i watch, sigh, smile, cross fingers, watch price pop up, (like first thing this morning, could have seen 40k mark on my funds...... then within 30 mins, it's at 39,200.... so i'm still 700 quid up, not huge but it's a gain.... so i don't complain)
If i had sold, to have that 40k..... and be 1500 quid up... i'm sure, at 86-87 i would have bought back in again.....
i think next week, Barc will do ok, COVID is happening, plunge happened to hit low 70's weeks ago, divi news has been taken on the chin, and so it's about balances and what going to go out vs what's coming in.
i think, i will be into Barc before C.O.B on 28th and IF i have time, read as much about it all as i can manage.....
i'd like to go out, do things, leave 40k sat there at 88p ish a share and someone knock my door to say, sell it's at 140p.... wedding paid for... and some left over..... then wait for a new drop, be it Barc or BB....
markets ....... no one ever actually knows.....
good luck all,
ps, please do keep up the posts for wins and gains etc, i do like to read about the success people do get.
thank you,
be safe, take care,

hello all,
so, just a note where i'm at.
bought at 82p ish, sold 86p ish.
then see it shoot to £1.... gutting, but, no one cries over a profit, so look at it as, not a loss and good luck to those that rode the rise. well done.
went back in at 95p, sold 97 to end the 9th April up, again, so a smiley Easter.
i don't trust my money in market hands over a break.... to open up Tuesday possibly see it down and further down....
so as i gradually up my stake from £34,000 to £39,100 last Friday, i'm now back in at about 86p.... just under 45,000 shares.
i like to read people's bits and pieces about Barclays and take on board and ignore as i see fit.
so a question, as i know many more people have much more stock than i do, so profits are more, or losses are more.
Is the stock worth keeping to 27th, 28th ish, sell and wait for results then buy back in on the drop OR keep the faith, that the Q1 results, COVID factors and Dividend factors and news generally will push this back to the £1 it was several weeks ago.
my reasons for dabbling my ISA.... i've a wedding to pay for next year and the more i can tuck away the better.....
cheers everyone, good luck.

Hello, was looking up BB ex-dividend date and got conflicting info. BB Site -28th May, Dividendmax - 23rd July????

Really....scrapped a div payment!!!!! Shareholders won't be pleased about that!!!! 8p plus per share lost!!!!! Wtf....... Like saying the firm is in disarray!!!!!

Hi, when is the ex div date this April? Previous years been 23rd our 24th April. Any ideas? Thank you

All recent trades are Sells, including my 1.5 million shares early this morning. I been in this share all year and its done nothing, so I released dead money, just under 4k and wake this afternoon to see its moved south again...so glad I got out when I did. Good luck everyone, I lost too much with RMP to risk losing more than already have in led