What’s your big gamble? (Volume 2)

[indestructible focus]

Just noticed ftse 100 is only 10% on march lows now!!! Not much better for the French or Spanish indices either.
All that monetary and fiscal stimulus doesnt buy much, saying that dont think eu have pulled their finger out yet and sorted theirs.

[S7GVC]

Meeten-5dulx said:

S7GVC said:

I Love Cake said:

Anyone else excited for the coming GGP news?

Looking forward to tonight, and GGP's RNS tomorrow morning (hopefully some Scallywag news!)

It's also reassuring that there hasn't been the typical "pre-news" spike today - hopefully this suggest that the traders haven't bothered as much this time, and there shouldn't be a profit-taking sell-off on tomorrow. Today's actually looking like a great opportunity for a top-up. My problem is that I've a lovely round number of shares, and my OCD is preventing me from upsetting that!lol

What is you double up, will that not temper the OCD?

Can't afford that :-)

I bought another nice round number though lol

[ferrisbueller]

petemurphy said:

Skyedriver said:

Feck.

Yep

Amazing how quiet it gets in here on such days.

Possibly my worst ever day at the mo

There's not a lot to say. It's another period of suffering. Lots of potential buying opportunities, but not easy to pick. AML's good news allowed them to buck the trend somewhat and it would appear there would have been a decent trading opportunity this morning but not one I would have called correctly.

[illmonkey]

Can someone fix SNG pls? thx

[DRFC1879]

VLS has now dropped below 5p. I wish I had a chunk of cash to throw into it right now but given the fact that I'm having a catastrophic day that's not going to happen!

[Zstar]

The only thing saving me is Tencent which went over 600HKD today on the back of the rejection of the proposed US WeChat block.

Hanging onto GGP for some good news soon.

I’m very tempted to get out of my index trackers except QQQ, and VUKE just because I’m already in the red and it can’t get much worse!

[ferrisbueller]

Has the deadline for inclusion in the TILS split now gone? Is that the reason for the 10% drop?

[petemurphy]

ferrisbueller said:

Has the deadline for inclusion in the TILS split now gone? Is that the reason for the 10% drop?

There’s some confusion over when the deadline is but yes

Still waiting for the rise that never happened

[ferrisbueller]

petemurphy said:

ferrisbueller said:

Has the deadline for inclusion in the TILS split now gone? Is that the reason for the 10% drop?

There’s some confusion over when the deadline is but yes

Still waiting for the rise that never happened

Was it the 165 to 195?

[indestructible focus]

How is the dog that is TUI up, on the hopes german gov bail them out again...

[Adam B]

DRFC1879 said:

VLS has now dropped below 5p. I wish I had a chunk of cash to throw into it right now but given the fact that I'm having a catastrophic day that's not going to happen!

alternative aviation fuels? its the future but looks like a slow burn given their plant wont get built until 2025

are they well funded?

what was crazy spike mid June down to?

[DRFC1879]

June spike was due to this: https://bioenergyinternational.com/technology-supp...

It's a long-term hold and the spike shows how well it can react to good news. I thought I'd caught the falling knife at 7.5 though.

[vulture1]

Bailed on Porsche (they owe me a few £100 in losses and fired it into GGP. that added another 30% to the GGP number so I'm just hoping the news tonight has been lost in the plight of everything else today and thats why ggp so far hasnt had its usual rise.

[anonymous-user]

S7GVC said:

My problem is that I've a lovely round number of shares, and my OCD is preventing me from upsetting that!lol

I suffer badly with that. Stuff the investment making economic sense, the key decision driver is will I get a nice round number of shares ending with '0 or '00 or '000 etc?

My daughters buy fractional shares and I couldn't cope with owning 3.1522678 Amazon shares and so on.

[anonymous-user]

Fat Thor said:

The cauliflower crust sounded awful in my mind, but seeing that it is actually a crust not compressed cauliflower actually looks really good.

I had a girlfriend who had a dose of that once; antibiotics soon cleared it up.

[anonymous-user]

vulture1 said:

In theory early July was the time to jump if you have any new investments. I'm mainly in dodgy African/australian/welsh mining companies. Online cloths sales. And good strong long term companies eg games workshop legal and general, Procter and gamble, American express.
Also some yank riskier stuff Netflix peloton etc. Nothing that is on the highstreet or travel related. I'll happily sit at the side building up cash to put in either on another big us stimulus package or a cure vaccine.

That's kind of what I have done since July. Moved out of almost everything consumer based and gone in to potential growth areas (EV, Lithium, veggie food nonsense, non fossil fuel power companies and so on). Hope these will grow despite CV. That said they still all took a battering today but I think will do better in the longer term. I have to remind myself that I was in this to double my money in 2 years. 6 months in and only 10% up :-(

[petemurphy]

shocking day

[g4ry13]

petemurphy said:

shocking day

I concur. Doesn't even make much sense why FTSE has been such a monumental disaster.

I'm at the point of deciding whether to take my lumps and lock in a big loss or roll the dice for another day.

[anonymous-user]

petemurphy said:

Possibly my worst ever day at the mo

I've been out all day and leave the FTSE in your hands for one day and when I get back you've trashed it!

[Adam B]

S7GVC said:

I Love Cake said:

Anyone else excited for the coming GGP news?

Looking forward to tonight, and GGP's RNS tomorrow morning (hopefully some Scallywag news!)

what time is this expected UK time?

where can we view?