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darkidoe

bowlhead99 wrote: »

You can't keep us on tenterhooks like that Thrug: your public demand to know the name of this well- researched income stock so that we can take a shortcut to the same investment appraisal as you without actually bothering to do the same detailed tracking and review, and then blame you when it goes wrong

It could be a very small portfolio you know!

george4064

Thrugelmir wrote: »

There's a considerable amount of poor corporate performance at the moment. Noticeable if you follow individual shares closely.

I'm currently 90% in listed funds at the moment. With the 10% in a single share that I've held and followed for a number of years. Primarily for it's income. It's market cap is very small. Therefore off the radar for fund managers generally.

I have just reviewed my figures, and it is correct. In 2016 I have added £2k to my portfolio, and in total it has only risen by £2.2k!

January (-4.31%) and February (-3.31%) were bad months, as was June (-4.32%) however the rebound in July (5.39%) more than made up for June's drop.



Looking at that graph does tempt me to sell everything and buy either VWRL or VLS 100%. Thing is, I quite enjoy managing my own portfolio

Thrugelmir

bowlhead99 wrote: »

You can't keep us on tenterhooks like that Thrug: your public demand to know the name of this well- researched income stock so that we can take a shortcut to the same investment appraisal as you without actually bothering to do the same detailed tracking and review, and then blame you when it goes wrong

My punt. My risk.

:rotfl:

Thrugelmir

darkidoe wrote: »

It could be a very small portfolio you know!

I will say that this holding is held in my SIPP. :snow_laug

Thrugelmir

george4064 wrote: »

Looking at that graph does tempt me to sell everything and buy either VWRL or VLS 100%. Thing is, I quite enjoy managing my own portfolio

Bought my first shares in 1978 when I worked in the back office behind the share traders at Friends Provident Life Office. Learnt so much from them. Now I'm seriously looking towards my retirement years. Hence my exiting from individual shares. As ones portfolio grows in value. Holding £2k - £5k in a single share simply doesn't impact the overall portfolio enough. Even it does rise 10% to 15% in a relatively short period.

bigadaj

darkidoe wrote: »

It could be a very small portfolio you know!

That's not being very charitable, you'll be accusing him of having a small endowment next!

richtips86

I'm currently sat on roughly a £78 pound "profit" on a 2009 Blue Peter 50p Olympic Athletic coin that I paid £4 for last year. Just waiting for the Mail to run an article a la Kew Gardens 50p, for it to explode so that the mugs get involved!

Mind you coin collecting should only be a hobby with any profit that you can turn a happy coincidence!

cns06

As a 50p collector from circulation, before all this hysteria about the Kews and what not it does irk me to see them vanish from circulation.

Broken_Biscuits

Broken_Biscuits wrote: »

OK, so I have a mostly sensible drip fed investment plan. But also have a "play pot" too.

In my play pot, When oil prices plummeted to 25 dollars, I doubled my holding in my Russia fund. Yesterday I added a further 40% again. Both looking at current CAPE and oil prices, Russia looks a good long term bet.

We shall see.

Oil price has more than doubled and I'm on for approximately 60% gains in this short time.

If you lose, it's easy to say don't try to market time. But when it comes off as well as hoped it's hard not to think I wish I went in with more.

richtips86

cns06 wrote: »

As a 50p collector from circulation, before all this hysteria about the Kews and what not it does irk me to see them vanish from circulation.

Yeah I must admit my interest is hammered pennies and half crowns and obscure decimal varieties - dot to dot 1992 10p. However having the knowledge of current decimals has worked well for me!

Get yourself an uncirculated 1999 £2 technology coin. You'll struggle as none were released in sets so only choice items available were set aside from change. I managed to pick one up two years ago for £38.