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So here it is, an honest post.
Last March when lockdown struck I closed my small house/office removal business down, partly due to general uncertainty about the Covid situation, partly due to two of my four daughters:
* Indie (18) who has Addison's Disease (auto immune condition) and is susceptible to an Addisonian Crisis (can be very serious) if she gets Covid.
* Evie (16) who has been in a battle for her life against Anorexia for the last 15 months and so underweight Covid would be disastrous.
So during this 'interesting' time off work I decided to look into shares, and opened an HL and T212 account.
Subsequently over the following months I lost, well about 3k initially (about 50% of my investments) but then really started to do research, proper research, spending probably hundreds of hours reading. Anyway after investing about 7k in stocks on mainly T212 I ended up with a portfolio amounting to about 14k which I was very happy with! I am also very sure those investments would continue to grow and grow..... However, I found (and researched) Synairgen and was/am fairly blown away with the potential of it all. I have lurked on this forum for a few months without posting much.
I have had a couple of grand in SNG for a few months, but today took the (massive decision for our family tbh) to sell all my other shares and go 'all in' (God I hate that expression) on Synairgen.
Now for a lot of you the amount of cash I am talking about is not much, I know that. But for my family with our very specific needs this could be huge, almost life changing.
I am about 80% certain this gamble will pay off, and if it does it will alleviate many many money worries relating to our families situation.
Tbh I have no real idea why I am sharing this much on this forum, but hey ho I have done it now.
Good luck to you all. I have read all your posts with great interest and owe a lot of you a debt of gratitude for your DD.
Again, good luck all
Andy
After a difficult weekend with daughter no.2's anorexia causing major issues and daughter no.3's autism being extremely disruptive AND stressing about extremely limited income (self employed income dessimated by covid restrictions)......... I come on this forum just now and read this excellent news! Really something we as a family need.
Thank you Synairgen!
Oh and also thank you pmjh
In the Guardian just now
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/28/scientists-work-on-nasal-spray-that-could-stop-covid-virus-replicating?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1601308221
Hi Scrat
Sounds like you have a good solid plan there, hope it works out for you.
I discovered share trading about 3 months ago, opened a HL & T212 account and promptly lost about 1k of my hard earned cash thinking I could be a trader....ouch!
Recently (2 weeks ago) found SMT plus a couple of others, popped 2.5k into SMT and currently not made or lost anything which is progress for me lol!!
Feel your anxiety, but don't worry. I have a fair chunk of £ in this, some at 70p and a couple grand at 93p!! But am not worried. As long as you don't need to sell up anytime soon just hang in there and eventually you'll make money.
IMO cinema and especially CINE is not going to drop off the planet, will be back, maybe not as strong as pre covid, but it'll be back.
Don't worry - be happy.