RE: Blimey5 Aug 2025 15:16
Jim800
" don’t want to sit at a screen all day scraping cents here and there."
I don't spend hours scraping cents (except in your mind), I mostly use limit orders, Friday was from 8pm to 9pm when working on something else (have a small farm to run and a building development on the house/land) and spent a maximum of 10 minutes to make the trades, end result was $190s profit. Yesterday a bit more effort perhaps the best part of an hour, $219s and £769s profit so not "scraping cents" to me, also trading for my partner now after she asked me to, she is very happy with what she has made which costs just a few seconds more each trade. I use mobile phone or Ipad while doing something else, I find I can do 2 things at once, you should try it, works better than hold and hope. Probably spend less time trading than you do posting and going though my old posts to misquote me.
"No loss till you sell"
What a joke try working for a fund manager explaining that to a client, try to get a loan against your holding or prepare accounts under IFRS.I guess you never worked in finance.
"No trading hindsight at all just pointing out you could have avoided your losses or increased your gains by acting differently"
So why do you keep quoting lows and highs after they happened saying you could do this or that, looks like fantasy trading to me or tell me the lows and highs before they happen and then I would take you seriously. I have given you the lows of $14.35, I cannot predict the high you may be surprised to know.
So let’s see the maths where I make more money holding from a low to a high (which you can predict with 100% accuracy after it happened) than having multiple trades which together add up to far more that the difference between the low and the high (even if you could predict the high as it happens). I take between a few cents up to 50 cents, and from a few pennies to 25p depending on what is happening on the days when I trade, I use the same cash, cut down the risk as I rarely hold overnight when the news comes out and get overnight interest on then cash.
I also have Lloyds, IAG, Energean, Aviva, and Phoenix but not HSBC and hold some long term, just because you hold shares in a company does not mean you cannot also trade them which I do from time to time when things are right, Friday bought after good results in IAG and ITRK when dropped due to Tump’s tariffs, will hold until prices settles. In fact you need to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to ......