Venture Life Share Discussion Threads

[redartbmud] 19/12/2016 11:13

My equilibrium has been disturbed.
The bond proxies are in the ascendancy, despite all of the blathering by the tintins over the last few weeks.
Took a cheeky tickle on Clln. bought at £2.317273 and sold today at £2.372244.
Enough to buy a turkey and 3 sprouts each from M&S.

Hey ho.

linhur
This is tantamount to war.
How abut the loser buys dinner. I am so confident in winning that you can bring the wife as well!

red

[redartbmud] 19/12/2016 08:18

The BP move is very interesting.
It looks like the firefighting and then stabilization, following Macondo, is now over and they have taken a big step forward.
They will have extra dividends to pay going forward.

Interesting.

red

[redartbmud] 19/12/2016 08:01

In the spirit of inclusion, I think that we could make an exception for tlatsatt and allow him to add a couple of shares from his wish list to get up to the 5.
We would all be on a level playing field then.

red

linhur you little rascal, sneaking in on the QT.
There will be words said!

red

[stockdoo] 19/12/2016 05:04

Pretty awesome stock analysis video!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_u5f73_I8U

[lauders] 19/12/2016 00:44

Seems like folk are giving their opinions now but we still have a few trading days to go this year. Must have missed something! Anyway, FWIW here are my entries and one of them is due news this week so I reserve the right to switch if it is bad LOL!

BVXP - Already popular here!
NANO - Perhaps, just perhaps it will come good at last?
FFWD - The one due news!
FENR - Recovered well latter part of 2016. Picks & shovels to miners + medical side.
HOC - My largest holding. Come off a bit & hopefully PM's will recover in 2017!

I usually do badly or come out average in such challenges so beware!

[linhur] 18/12/2016 23:07

Apad

Agree with Red. Going to be a poor 2017.Therefore going for shares which will not lose too much.

RSW
BREE
GHH
FSJ
RWS Currency play on niche area

linhur

[discodave4] 18/12/2016 22:24

Only hold 8 at the m10) moment so can I pick a couple from my watch list? - will change if not.AHT - (hold) Trumpstar.ENQ - (hold) Kraken production soon.RBG - (hold) Less than IPO, growth funded by cash no debt.G4M - (watch) European market potential.IGG - (watch) Short/medium play £6 (sorry APAD).DD

[rjmahan] 18/12/2016 19:28

Cheers Apad,
Mine would now be:
SIHL (Doubling down after last year)
TAU
PIL
DCI
RMA

Tempted by IGG just can't make myself pull the trigger...

[felix99] 18/12/2016 18:07

My 5 would be

IGG
HUR
PRV
VEC
DGB

[attrader] 18/12/2016 17:59

I would go for

DMGT
IGG
BVXP
IHG
EL(Estee Lauder) ..

[thelongandtheshortandthetall] 18/12/2016 15:23

Hi Apad

I really only have two stocks in my pf. Google 85 percent sus 14 percent ... 1 percent over gkp and crnd both held as selling is pointless now.
So can I please include 3 shares I would buy if funds were available?

Foreign stocks also have currency to be considered or we leave it in the local currencies. Happy to pick london stocks if its too much bother.

Cheers

[apad] 18/12/2016 14:29

I guess so as long as the code goes into Stockmarketeye so updating is automatic.

PTSG
QTX
IGG
BVXP
TSTL

As a matter of interest these are what I would chose today. They are companies I have bought or increased recently, so how they are doing in a year's time is a good measure of recent decisions.

apad

[attrader] 18/12/2016 14:20

Can we choose foreign shares as well ?

[apad] 18/12/2016 11:21

OK red.

Let's see how much interest there is.

5 shares from one's portfolio on the 1 Jan. is the front runner. Any improvements?

apad

[apad] 18/12/2016 11:15

This'll do for end of 2016

18-Dec
DiscoDave4 (AHT/BVS/WKP) 1.70%
modform (ABC/PAYS/HLMA) 5.20%
apad (ABC/FEVR/TRCS) 33.30%
rjmahan (SIHL/WCW/SMIN) 13.90%
fozzie (CRAW/XPP/SPRP) -32.20%
FELIX99 (BREE/MSLH/PHTM) 0.5%
Piedro (TSTL/OPG/OCN) 11.60%

[redartbmud] 18/12/2016 11:10

APAD

I agree with your proposal.
5 shares with potential allows for a multitude of sins.
It certainly gives more flexibility.
The line in the sand of 1 January is random and artificial for shareholdings. It is necessary as a reference point for price, but you may have a share with bags of potential that just happens to be in a sector that is out of favour at that point in time. Conversely one might just be flying for artificial reasons.
I think one has to be honest with everyone, and pick from your holdings on that day, otherwise it is just another newspaper game.

red

[apad] 18/12/2016 11:03

pps
Maybe exclude O&G explorers?

[apad] 18/12/2016 10:55

Dunno, red.

Top 3 current holdings is probably too few. Maybe top 5 or top 10.

Maybe 'top' is wrong.

How about 5 shares in my portfolio with potential in 2017. Would allow smaller companies or oversold larger companies and more flexibility.

Any better ideas folks?

apad

ps
Choosing shares one doesn't own is too open ended.

[petersinthemarket] 17/12/2016 15:48

A. does that mean the party is over already for vanl?

[redartbmud] 17/12/2016 13:31

I think we can forget markets now. Party time on Monday.

APAD

Are you re-starting your party game on putting the pin in the donkey's tail whilst blindfolded. If so, when and what are the criteria?

red

[apad] 17/12/2016 12:00

Yup. The VANL timing was perfect. So often these opportunities require a quick decision. My long-term caution about capital plant wasn't relevant to the decision at the time.

Should've taken more advantage of PTSG weakness at 75p. Paul Scott and followers were clearly barking up the wrong tree.

$60+ oil easy, early in the new year - the benefits to the major players in price fixing can't be ignored and their failure to destroy shale is now obvious. Capital spend by oil majors late in the year perhaps.

Top three shares
FEVR
BOO
ABC
updating in Jan should be enough excitement for a while.

apad