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Logged in for the first time in ages to check my portfolio. Pleasantly surprised. Sitting at all time high and peeking at the stock market this morning, everything still relentlessly marching up. I'm so unbelievably tempted to sell half and pay off my mortgage. Have a 15k jump in one day in value, doesn't actually change my life as much as not having a mortgage payment would, regardless of how small it may be.

Anyway, I see GME and AMC is stirring again. Congrats to the newly minted thousandnaires out there. At commiserations at the larger majority that's bagholding again.
 
On the negative side.. My favourite hold of the last 12 months. (bgeo) has absolutely tanked.

Some sad news going on in Georgia around Russian influence. More important for the people out there. Seems like most of the population want closer EU ties. Makes share price moves seem much less important
 
regulus said:
Logged in for the first time in ages to check my portfolio. Pleasantly surprised. Sitting at all time high and peeking at the stock market this morning, everything still relentlessly marching up. I'm so unbelievably tempted to sell half and pay off my mortgage. Have a 15k jump in one day in value, doesn't actually change my life as much as not having a mortgage payment would, regardless of how small it may be.

Anyway, I see GME and AMC is stirring again. Congrats to the newly minted thousandnaires out there. At commiserations at the larger majority that's bagholding again.
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Funds or individual stocks?
 
413x said:
Funds or individual stocks?
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Just funds. I'm only in a Global 100 ETF

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I lie, I forgot that I also bought into Chipotle a few months ago. Only a few thousand bucks. They're doing a 50-1 split in June, and I feel it may have legs
 
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regulus said:
Just funds. I'm only in a Global 100 ETF

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I lie, I forgot that I also bought into Chipotle a few months ago. Only a few thousand bucks. There's doing a 50-1 split and I feel it may have legs
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More times goes on more I move to this too.
If IDS does get bought out I'll put that into an Etf as well.

Aviva I'm still keeping as that's been on a great run recently. And still paying out 7pc on its yearly dividend.
15pc on my original purchase price though.
 
413x said:
More times goes on more I move to this too.
If IDS does get bought out I'll put that into an Etf as well.

Aviva I'm still keeping as that's been on a great run recently. And still paying out 7pc on its yearly dividend.
15pc on my original purchase price though.
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I’m not psychologically cut out for individual shares. I can say this with confidence. I’ve been up 300% on a single share in the space of a week, and still hang out for more. It must be a short circuit in my brain chemistry where something I gain too easily will never be enough.

The ETF returns is now hugely up (it's just always up), I barely look at it, and it never fails to surprise me when I do look at it. With single shares I felt like I had a daily scorecard I needed to keep checking, in case there’s been some action on the stock, and I need to make a decision which way to go.
 
inferno said:
No idea how we can sell our postal service to a foreigner. :/
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Agreed, services like this should really be nationalised… it’s amazing how many public services/companies get privatised as they are non profitable only for a private company or person to buy it and make it work. It’s like the government is trying to strip away the countries assets. ;)

Like said, if I was a billionaire.. I would try to buy Royal Mail in a heartbeat.

413x said:
I remember your post about this. I bought in after the first offer was rejected.
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Great… don’t forget my brokers fee ;)
 
regulus said:
I’m not psychologically cut out for individual shares. I can say this with confidence. I’ve been up 300% on a single share in the space of a week, and still hang out for more. It must be a short circuit in my brain chemistry where something I gain too easily will never be enough.
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Set a stop limit as soon as you buy the shares at the values you think the companies worth.

I only mess about when buying individual shares and tbh don’t have the capability/capacity to work out values myself, so I look at book valuations, past market values etc and make up a figure to automatically sell the shares at if they go up. The selling when value has dropped is even harder for me, I just hold until I at least break even or can use the lost to offset a profit for tax reasons and I miss out one other possible investments that the money could be in.

Apparently limits should at at least 2:1 profit to lost, risk to reward and if that can’t be done then it’s worth buying into the company.
 
slinxy said:
Set a stop limit as soon as you buy the shares at the values you think the companies worth.

I only mess about when buying individual shares and tbh don’t have the capability/capacity to work out values myself, so I look at book valuations, past market values etc and make up a figure to automatically sell the shares at if they go up. The selling when value has dropped is even harder for me, I just hold until I at least break even or can use the lost to offset a profit for tax reasons and I miss out one other possible investments that the money could be in.

Apparently limits should at at least 2:1 profit to lost, risk to reward and if that can’t be done then it’s worth buying into the company.
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Yep, that's one way of doing it. And I have done it in the past, then watch as it flies 100%+ past the stop limit I've set. That's too annoying too.

And to be honest, I don't have the time or patience for the diligence. I prefer just to buy the index.
 
What is the deal with RM. The proposal is for £3.60 per share and a 2p dividend. The shares are currently trading at £3.20 is that 40p difference just the risk of the deal not going ahead?
 
CDPRojekts doing pretty good the last month +27%
Holding since sept 23 and finally green again...

tempted to sell half of it and wait for a dip
only really bought on a looong hold for someone eventually buying them out like MS or Sony.

Not many AAA game dev studios around anymore that gamers have faith in.
 
englishpremier said:
What is the deal with RM. The proposal is for £3.60 per share and a 2p dividend. The shares are currently trading at £3.20 is that 40p difference just the risk of the deal not going ahead?
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People will only buy if there’s head room for profit… it will take months before the sale go through, once the scrutiny is done and the politicians give the nod, the price may raise a bit more.
 
slinxy said:
there will be another jump in RM prices on Monday..

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UK to look at security implications of Křetínský Royal Mail bid — The Guardian

Jeremy Hunt indicates ministers not opposed to offer from Czech billionaire in principle
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Fingers crossed.
Would be happy (financially) for a buy out or some give on the ridiculous 6 days a week charter.

Some think the desire to sell is to put pressure on the regulator to cut IDS some slack. On the charter.


Finding it quite difficult to find value shares at the moment. Feels like USA in particular is bubbling around a bit of stagnation.

So I've switched from 50:50 individual:funds to 25:75

It is actually a lot less "hassle".
For example I got caught out by bgeos drop as I just missed the news basically about Georgia.

I may well just move to 100pc funds.. As really, when you round out the good and the bad + time.. I don't think individual shares are worth my time.

(I'll still keep my aviva shares but reinvest into etfs with the divs)
 
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Seems almost impossible to keep track of individual tickers updates unless they have a dedicated reddit sub that's active, and then a lot of movement is before/after the market anyway where you wouldn't get a chance to avoid any drop.
even if you are on one of the stock sites like T212 that mostly have outside hours for a lot of stocks, you aren't faster than the algorithms, sometimes stocks will drop 10-20% and you google the ticker/company and there's literally 0 news

I mainly just buy tickers I know I will hold for years and don't worry about it.

I started funnelling more into ETFs in recent months though, as I don't really like the valuations of most the companies that interest me.

most the stocks I have now are ones I've already been holding for 1-2years straight
 
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