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Does anyone have any long term investments ? for the dividends that is.....
I myself hold a few in NatGrid and the div payments are welcome cheques as its a good final div this year....... i'm now wondering whether i'd be better finding other good payers rather than putting my money into DES and hoping they'll turn good. (On that note there was a small pick up today.... yawn :o ).
 
Ideally you can get both. The fastest growth is in the smallest companies but they dont usually pay dividends due to limited cashflow which also makes them risky. You can get high dividend and reasonable growth where a company is turning round, high volatility in their earnings may mean the share price drops but they can continue to pay out a dividend anyway as the worst fears are not realised.

In 2008 and after many companies were valued for their cash balance only, like standard life has 3bn cash and is very liquid and able to pay a dividend, at one point their total market cap was also 3bn making them very good value.
Their dividend has only increased since then, the company itself has had flat growth but at the right price any share can represent some growth as it rebounds. This is quite low risk compared to aim.

Fresnillo went from 99p to 1200 yet they are the worlds largest silver mine. Their earnings potential varied greatly. In a big company these gains are unusual to be seen only once in a lifetime usually, at 99p they were a good dividend stock

Hank paulson said one hundred year storms seem to be appearing every six years now hence this could all happen again I figure

You should do both, allocate some monies in seperate accounts to each idea and see how you go


RRL is at the trend I posted up a few weeks ago. It bounced off this a couple times today lightly.
Volume was light today compared to the average I think ? Soros says volume and volatility spike at turning points
Trends only represent probability based on previous price history but this is my target to increase the holding a lot so I will do so tommorow
Without any news its all speculation unfortunately
 
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Big gains on KEA this morning, can't seem to find a reason however!

Not really big gains, not when my average is 24p! :P Wish I averaged down a little when it hit 14.5 yesterday :(

AWE Limited advises that at 0600 hours today (05/08) the Tuatara-1 well was at a measured depth of 773 metres after running and cementing 13-3/8” casing and landing the BOP’s in preparation for drilling ahead in 12-1/4” hole. Progress for the week was 613 metres.
Tuatara-1 is located in PEP 38524, in the western Tasman Bay in the southern part of the offshore Taranaki Basin.
The well will target the Moki Sandstones within the Tuatara prospect, which is defined by the Malvern 2D seismic survey. It will be drilled in approximately 50 metres of water to a proposed total depth of 2,025 metres.
 
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Lots got into RRL expecting huge gains, lots have left down large amounts of cash, i'm pleased most of them have left over the past few days, hopefully onwards and upwards from this point, its not like the last RNS was bad!

Edit: i must admit i was expecting the SP to be around 9p after the RNS (up from 6.1p), but ah well!
 
Where/How do you do all your buying and selling?

I use halifax share dealing account. Probably not the best, but I don't do a lot of trades anyway, and so far seems ok to me, they also answer the phone straight away unlike their mortgage or credit card departments..... I wonder why !!
 
Forgot all about this thread...

On Wednesday I reversed my position on LLOY and am now short @ 73p, hoping for a retrace to mid to low 60s before going long again.
 
I remember thinking the same about MTA :p

Lots of activity on MTA over the last couple of days, guess people are getting hopeful again on the promise of news following the A12/13 workover/acidisation.

Personally I'm not holding my breath, but being locked in there's not a lot I can do. :(
 
Ok.

I got a little spooked but the US jobless data and sold up my XTA and RIO. Took a profit of 6.3k in XTA, 900 quid in Rio.

Also just sold DES, no idea why I just got bord holding it and took a profit of 2k.

I am still holding yell and FOGL both at around 30% loss.
 
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