A rising tide lifts nearly all boats

aroominyork

FTSE100 was up 2.14% today with 99 rising and just one falling - the London Stock Exchange Group. Spoilsports. 

masonic

Along the same lines, all of my investments across several accounts were up today, except CSH2, which fell 0.017%.

aroominyork

Snap. But where - and more importantly why? - do you get three decimal places pricing?

masonic

Google Finance. When the share price is 117,760p, then why not? It's a 20p drop, so 2 significant figures seems ok.

aroominyork

Lies, damned lies, statistics and share prices. In reality it appreciated today. On Friday it closed on an uptick and today it closed on a downtick.

As an aside, I recently discovered the beauty of limit pricing. I sold some CSH2 today so I set the price it was likely to reach at some stage today without having to log on and off while the spread veered away from c.0.02% to sometimes 0.10% or more. (The sale was to buy T212's cash ISA which I am grateful to you for mentioning last week - today is the last day for the bonus.)

kempiejon

Ah gold is heavy.

John464

Share prices are the markets best guess of future earnings, but how can you estimate them now?
As one CEO put it - how can we make earnings projections when we are one tweet away from a 46% tariff?

kempiejon

I got a little giddy with the big drops and made a few selections for further investigation and did some buying and selling as portfolio management. Some of those shares earmarked for investigation have recovered a lot of the loss. I have a few picks for this week, This, what looks like, personal whim affecting markets continues and how I position my portfolio for uncertainty I'm not sure. I'll just keep buying; my bit of gold and fixed interest being a bit of balast.