Centrica Share Discussion Threads

[whatsup32] 24/7/2018 19:08

With CNA I think long term it’s a safe bet I’m tempted to jump back in. Hopefully they can unload the nuclear stake and with the latest price increase and oil price on the up, the future should be bright.

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 18:59

Hope you have a great time there. It's always good to help people. It was a good day for the miners, CNA seems a strange one, it seems if the Ft is up well they go down.

[whatsup32] 24/7/2018 18:41

My neighbor was an old couple and they replaced the fence when I was on holiday about 14 years ago. Unfortunately the ‘professionals’ didn’t do it straight and my neighbor ended up loosing about a 200mm at one end. He lost his wife then had dementia after that poor chap and was moved to a home.

The new owner of 5 years , is a really nice lady , she works for the NHS and does all sorts of good will . Since I was doing the garden anyway I volunteered to do her fence free of charge. Good should go around.

Hope we all have a better day tomorrow.

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 18:07

I know, hard going in this heat. I've decorated a stairs and hallway

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 17:54

I think you will be ok with Vodafone, if I was putting any money long term whatsup I would put my money on them

[whatsup32] 24/7/2018 17:44

Don’t have a clue as to what’s happening today and what may happen tomorrow. I’m all in Vodafone right now and feel s..t about it as there is Trading Announcement tomorrow I’m expecting bad news.should have taken a small loss and ran but didn’t.

CNA,SSE and other utilities were all down today and again haven’t a clue as to why.

I’m a source for knowledge:) .Those two CSE’s weren’t wasted,

[losses] 24/7/2018 17:40

Added more today... hoping 150 will hold

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 17:32

I've done 8 hrs whatsup, that's enough lol, probably did as much as two. Just get stuck in, you have to if your own. What do you make of CNA at the moment, it looks like we are heading back to the 140s ? I thought when we were at 164p it would hit the 170s and up ?

[whatsup32] 24/7/2018 17:28

Not even 5 pm and you’re back from work JP.

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 17:04

GLEN. GlencoreSHP. ShireEXPN. ExperianIAG. International Consolidation Airlines ( old BA )RRS. RandgoldFERG. Furguson. ( old Wolseley )TUIWPPHope this helps anybody. :)

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 16:51

Sorry mjb2, there are a list of company's in the Ft where you do not pay stamp duty because the HQ is outside the UK. They are handy to have in your portfolio because they only have to go up a little ( just covering the buy and sell ) to make a profit. I will put the list on

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 16:46

What is it with this company, Ft does well and we seem to always go down ?

[skinny] 24/7/2018 16:40

On a utility bashing day.

[american idiot] 24/7/2018 16:26

Uh Ohhhh....

The worlds worst investor (me of course) has just dipped a toe in at 150.5p.

I see the shareprice is bumping along at the bottom of the rising channel.

A few P bounce would be nice.

[mjb2] 24/7/2018 07:49

jpjohn1- OK, just looked it up. Learn something all the time! Thanks.
Thanks garycook.

[garycook] 24/7/2018 07:48

mjb2,Registered in Switzerland.

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 07:45

Morning mjb2, I will explain later, off to work now

[jpjohn1] 24/7/2018 07:44

At the moment it looks like a positive start to the Ft, I have it at about + 29

[mjb2] 24/7/2018 07:43

jpjohn1- No stamp duty on glen. How come? Cheers.

[whatsup32] 23/7/2018 22:01

There is only three companies in my list of duty free’s that I like so my choice is limited .

The best thing I could do is sit on cash as I’m unsecure of the market as a whole. But I won’t as I don’t have the patience to sit on the sideline

[jpjohn1] 23/7/2018 20:48

Yes whatsup, it's hard to know which company to go for. Excluding none stamp duty shares I would probably go for Vodafone looking for a long term hold

[whatsup32] 23/7/2018 19:53

It’s easy to take a small profit but bloody difficult to take even the smallest loss.

I’m fortunate I got into CNA at a late stage and managed to make a few quid What was it you used to say Groundhog Day?.

My last purchase in Vodafone averaged about 178.3 including costs and the Trading update is this Wednesday. Nervous holding them as they are at 8 year lows, I get the feeling someone knows something I don’t know.

If I sell these I’m going to look at TUI,Ferguson and Glencore. Last time I made a small loss on Glencore but more then made up for it with the other purchase. I may look at Premier Oil again and treat it as Insurance.

I am nervous of the whole market .

[jpjohn1] 23/7/2018 19:40

Yes whatsup, we should not feel guilty. I started back working again about 3 years ago. I had 3 years not working just sat at home buying and selling and I made a lot of money. The most I did in one day adding up all the purchases was 628k, and made £1,400 pound profit, just buying and selling Glencore ( you know there's not stamp duty on these). Not had much luck lately. I sold 48k shares here 145p on to see it go up to about 164p. Not complaining because I still have 50k still here. The Lloyds shares I bought with some of the money gone down for me about 3.5p

[whatsup32] 23/7/2018 19:13

your job is certainly not easy, specially in this heat and at our age. I lost 2kg in the past two weeks doing the garden (Honest). And I learnt how to mix cement take down cement fence posts and then move them a few centermeters , remove decking , lay stone and seal it ,cut stone. I absolutely loved it

My wife is about 15 years younger then me . Does that mean I have to work until I’m 80 so that we both retire at he same time ?:)