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I am all in on this share. My average is just over 97. I bought a few in the 80s but no dry powder left. I am hoping like the rest that it will hit the 150 mark at some point this year. If not I shall hold until it recovers. GLA.

Thanks FF for update. I appreciate your information posted. I shall keep tuning in

Share price banging on the door of 85p. FF may give more info but seems to be held back at this point as each time it gets there, sells bring it back.

UT was shown at 4.8 million sell.

From looking at the trades tab on this board, at 1707, after the UT was earlier shown, a large 12,046,102 shares were either bought or sold for £10 million. Could this be a short closing, buying shares or is it borrowed shares sold. Declared shorts are 0.79% of roughly 5.1 billion shares on market. Any one else seen this trade and could offer more information. I don't have any more access.

JD Sports was weaker after a downgrade to 'neutral' from 'buy' at Citi. Information came from news on Sharecast.

I too find it frustrating with the share price. A double whammy this week with two sell offs due to the trade update on Tuesday and the broker downgrade on Thursday. On this board alone there are holders like me who are saying "wtf" when you read the fundamentals. JD state they made only 1.5% less than last financial year. Positive spin, they made 98.5% of last year's money. Grew by acquiring Hibbet and Courier and have a global presence. My average is 97.58 so am hoping that 2025 will show share price improvement. I previously bought into JD in 01/24 and sold in 08/24. Bought at 112 and sold at 134. Sold too early as I watched it go to 160. This year hoping that share price recovers to similar value. Just need the interest rates to reduce, giving more disposable income to people who will start buying, giving positive sentiment to the market.

Have been reading FF updates. I bought initially in January average at 112.50. Sold at 134 in August but sold too early. Made a small profit as I watched as the price kept rising as it reached 160ish. Kept an eye on the price and have got another opportunity here. Bought again at an average of 97.5. Going to hold and intend to sell if the price reaches 140. Learned from past experience on my error of selling too early. Hopefully by end of 2025, price should increase to give us all a profit.

I bought on an average of 112.26 ad was too quick to sell at 133.97. I sold early morning and should have waited until the end of the trading day. Lesson learned. I like a lot of investors who sold mid 130s watched on as the share hit 149 and admit to having lost out on a big gain. Now I am all out and will just watch from the side and keep reading the posts here as they are very informative. I will buy back in if the shares drop below 133 as I will end up with more shares than I sold. If not I have a Plan B, buying dividend paying shares for income. Keep the information coming in relation to JD and their peers.

Bought into JD back at the start of the year, my average is 112.27. Previously held dividend paying shares that gave me a good amount of passive income. Have held JD since but my long term goal is to move back to income paying shares to fund my retirement. The previous trading update, FY24 at the end of March had the JD share price rise to 134 but it dropped back to 113 over time after the update. The FY24 results in May had the JD share price again go up to 134 but during June the price again drifted back to 112 at the beginning of July. Could it happen a third time between the trading up date this week and H125 results in October?

I am tempted to sell my holding this week if the the share price approaches the same level as before and then watch between now and October and re buy if the price again drifts back. That is the decision a lot of us have to make. When you think that the share price was over 160 at the beginning of January and it fell after the January trading update to a value of 119. I have got to admit that the two previous falls in share price after updates was frustrating to watch. It was not helped by negative broker forecasts by Deutch Bank and the recent market crash that effected world markets.

FF2,

Your posts are appreciated on this board. We are all hoping that the share price will recover to what it was at the beginning of the year. Keep posting with any update, information that you see on the level 2.

FF2 - I read your posts on here, which are informative, especially in relation to the short positions. I think we are all hoping that they will move on and allow the share price to recover and head upwards. Keep posting when you get the chance to keep us all updated with your level 2 access.

FF2 - I read your posts on here, which are informative, especially in relation to the short positions. I think we are all hoping that they will move on and allow the share price to recover and head upwards. Keep posting when you get the chance to keep us all updated with your level 2 access.

Apologies, school boy error on my part. I did not look at the number of shares in issue in relation to Hibbet. Inc. Now having looked at the market cap and share price, I am now able to see that there are far fewer shares outstanding in this company compared to JD. Point taken, we will move on. Ignore the paragraph regarding this. The point I was making is that US listed shares appear to be more expensive than UK listed stocks but I failed to do further research into the Market Cap.

Apologies, the after hours trade was for £7 million, over 5.4 million shares in one trade. Doesn't say if it was a buy or sell.

Been quite a frustrating month with the good news at the end of March followed by the update yesterday regarding the proposed acquisition of Hibbett to see the share price back below the 120 level again. I am aware of the open shorts taken out against JD. I noticed the after hours trading of a very large trade amounting to £5 million. This was not the UT as this was also shown a few trades below this one. Could this be a short position being closed.

I bought into JD in January and I am planning to hold until the end of the year. I am hoping that the share price will climb to 200 and I will sell my holding and move on. I did swither about selling some of my shares when it reached 135 and then buying again in the dip but I did not so hoping that the short positions are closed soon to allow this share price to climb.

Maybe the trading statement in May will influence the price so that the short positions will finally close.

Hopefully FF could enlighten us with his level 2 access to let us know if any of the open short positions under 0.5% have closed.

Hopefully the longer term of sporting events this year coupled with an improved economy will help.

When you look at the fundamentals of JD compared to Hibbett, the JD share price of £1.19 compared to $86.25 seems strange.

Are US listed shares way over priced or are the UK listed shares under valued.

Falcon-Flyer - I have read your posts and appreciate your information you are providing. A lot of people on this board will have bought into JD after the Trading update in January after the price dropped. I too did the same. As a lot of people will be aware, the price fell after the CEO was perhaps a bit bullish on the annual trading profit. If each person does their research, there is a lot of information available. I am aware that JD sells ADIDAS and NIKE brands and as both recently posted results that confirm short term headwinds against them due to the global economic downturn and this in turn has caused the JD price to fall.

I have purchased JD shares after selling holdings in Dividend paying stocks. It is my intention to sell my holdings when the share price hopefully recovers to what it was prior to the Trading Update and will go back to purchasing Dividend stocks to pay me passive income.

I am also aware that there is a disclosed short position by GLG Partners for 0.53% of the stock. As there is 5,183,135,745 shares in issue, 0.53% equates to over 27.47 million shares that require to be bought back. I don't have access to any more information but today would have been an ideal day for aa selling algorithm to drip feed sells to drive the share price down so that the short position could be closed. I have had a look at after hour trades on this site and there are large numbers so it may be that there is a lot of arranged purchasing going on to close the short position.

My average is sitting at 111.49. I am now retired and have a SIPP and and ISA that I have investments within and I receive dividend payments for the shares I own. I know that the dividend that JD pays is only 0.73%. I bought into this company as its revenue has increased year on year, making 10.125 billion pound last financial year, 440.9 million before tax.

This financial year, the company have previously stated in the January trading update that they are estimating to make between £915 and £935 million before outgoings.

We all have financial goals in investing. My goal with this share is to hold until the price recovers. By selling my dividend paying shares to buy into JD, I have waived a guaranteed dividend pay out but the growth potential of this share will make up for it.

If you can, buy more shares when the price slumps on a day like today. I topped up with another bundle at 108.88, just missing the low point.

FF, keep posting the information as I don't have access to Level 2 information and your posts are welcome, when you are telling us about the large buys and sells. I have been buying and selling shares since 2010. Now retired but the fundamentals about JD tend to show that the price should recover over time. Once the interest rates reduce over time, and more disposable income becomes available, I am sure athleisure clothing will be purchased through JD for the younger person who requires labels etc.

Thanks Zac and to others who posted. My mistake. I calculated it against my original investment - what my original costs were. I now understand that I am getting 5.1% and not the higher. I calculated in error against what my original costs were and not the current values. I appreciate the advice from all posters on this board with more experience than me.

I bought BP and RDSB at the same time and held them for the same length of time. I only sold my RDSB as the shares in RDSB had made more of a gain compared to my BP recently. I started off with roughly a 50/50 split in BP and RDSB but I am now all in on BP. By selling my RDSB at a gain it brought down my average for BP. Now I am going to hold BP for the next year but I am thinking about moving away from individual shares to Funds but I am holding off meantime as I am waiting to see what happend with BP when the world has recovered from COVID and I want to see if the green transition pays.

Notgotaclue - I have BP shares as well. I was lucky that I bought my first amount at the beginning of August last year and then some more in October. I also had RDSB but recently sold them and bought more BP so my average is 207.76 BP. I also bought more BP shares over the last year at an average of 288.15. I am going to sell a small proportion of shares now on a quarterly basis and keep the dividend to add to my monthly pension. I bought the shares and I plan to hold on to them for another year at least and then review. I have re-invested the dividend for the last year but I am now going to enjoy spending it. The yield for me is 7.7% so I am not selling meantime.