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HSBA HuwJarse 25 Feb 2020

Brexit Wars 3 jackdawsson: Maybe the UK isn’t such a terrible place in this respect after all, relatively speaking. Agree Jack but you’re wasting your time saying things like that here. These people have convinced themselves they live in 1930s Germany and the UK is one of the worst places in the world.

HUR carliol 25 Feb 2020

Lancaster Oil Production ( EPS ) Hi Ash, Good spot. Let’s hope we get a good bounce in the share price today. Bought back in yesterday. Carliol

HUR ash6666 25 Feb 2020

Lancaster Oil Production ( EPS ) Petroatlantic off to Lancaster

FRR thefozzer 25 Feb 2020

Frontera Public Statement The fat lady is yet to sing so we’ll see…

HSBA J_Westlock 25 Feb 2020

Brexit Wars 3 jackdawsson: Maybe the UK isn’t such a terrible place in this respect after all, relatively speaking. You might want to take a look at Guy Fawkes/Fireworks night and see what that is really about.

DOTD piw 25 Feb 2020

Video: DOTD H1 19 results overview DOTD H1 results overview - video piworld.co.uk dotdigital Group (DOTD) H1 19 results CEO Milan Patel and CFO Paraag Amin, talk about the Groups’ half year results to 31st of December 2019. Milan Patel, CEO Introduction - 00:20 The opportunit

HSBA Eadwig 25 Feb 2020

Brexit Wars 3 So, we all knew it but its doubly-official now after 20 years of studies. Basically if you’re poorer your life expectancy is lower, as is your quality of life, especially if health services are cut. Hardly needed a study for that, did we? Life expectancy figures have reversed under austerity. No surprises there either. So what impact will Brexit have on life expectancy as it ravages the economy and restricts the entry of many carers, especially? Answers on a postcard to @HuwJarse, economics expert and leader of the ‘I’m alright Jack’ party.

LLOY Eadwig 25 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY PrefInvestor1: I did consider making the switch to make use of the real time stock quotes functionality @PrefInvestor1 It isn’t as real time as it once was, and they removed the portfolio function from Google finance. I’d come to rely on it fairly heavily for trading and I still haven’t fully recovered my working environment since the changes, because I lost about a decades-worth of bookmarks in one of the Windows upgrades around the same time. I used to use Yahoo finance for tracking my portfolio, especially when I had many more USA companies. I can’t remember what happened now, but changes to Yahoo meant that was abandoned. The only portfolio I ever had that allowed allocation of a sale of stock to specific previous buys. The likes of ii (and all others I have used) just end up giving you an incorrect holding average (not to mention misleading CGT data). I have no confidence that ‘cloud-based’ storage wont end up being charged for or access restricted in some way designed to get more data off you or just basically be hacked. I’m really not interested in using such things because it seems once you start, things tend to get dumped there automatically and you soon lose track of where you own data is stored. No thanks! Windows 7 was an excellent version of Windows, the best for many years, and I would have been happy to stick with that but you get no choice when buy a new laptop. Also because of security errors that MSFT do tend to actually put out updates for, but don’t guarantee, so you have to go with the updates. One of them was at chip level and went back maybe 2 decades. I think they should be obliged to patch such errors on ALL versions of operating systems by law. Fat chance of any politician actually understanding the issues enough to write such laws. It may actually come to pass one day if these rules being aimed at social media platforms come into being. That dumps the whole onus on the provider, it seems, to set our social morals and norms, something someone like Zuckerburg was determined never to end up policing. Seems like he wont have any choice (except he will, he’ll just leave eventually, especially when some country makes him criminally responsible for user’s content, as is currently on the table in the UK). Unbelievable really. Will Royal Mail ever be held responsible for the contents of letters or parcels that people send to each other? What about the millions of tons of junk mail they’ve profited from over the years and which contained invites to get involved in more than a few scams?

PHE loadsadough 25 Feb 2020

Powerhouse Energy - Align Research Hello Ripley94. I have replied to you on the other board. loadsadough

LLOY Eadwig 25 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY mememe: @ Eadwig, what open-source software do you use? I have Office 2000 mainly for excel never had any problems but as Pref1 says I’m putting myself at risk. sorry this wont be very helpful. I haven’t got any Office stuff currently installed. I use Windows only firewall and security now having paid for years to third party vendors I’ve found were worse than useless. I do use the free version of malwarebytes. I DO NOT use any of the ‘cloud-based’ storage. If I absolutely must use a spreadsheet that someone has sent me in xls format I download a package, but I can’t recall the name right now, The open source software that I find invaluable is VLC player, a media player. I also use a few file editors for mp3 splitting or conversions on sound files. A bit rough and ready but they do the trick. I write code sometimes which I type directly into notepad (that comes with windows) and if I absolutely must write a letter I type it in WordPad, which also comes with windows. Neither of these text editors have changed since, oooh, probably Windows 95. As I said, why keep re-inventing the wheel? Unfortunately Windows keeps losing functionality (unbelievable in an operating system so sprawling and inefficient). Once upon a time MSFT used to buy up any useful add-on apps and incorporate it into their next O/S version. Now they’re dropping things which can be vital if you need them, E.g. like searching for a specific line of text occurring in any file on your HD. I could write such a search program myself, but of course the Visual Basic Pro versions I’ve paid hundreds of pounds on in the past are no longer ‘supported’ when it comes to Windows 10. They may work if I could install them, but other languages that I’ve paid for in the past certainly wont. Basically, I use whatever comes ‘free’ with Windows or if Windows can’t cut it, I search for free apps that do. I’m rarely disappointed. The only software I have paid for in recent times is my VPN (Identity Cloaker) which pays for itself many times over.

CCT BruceZimbo 25 Feb 2020

Star wars merchandise ....CCT Thanks Bowman for the response and interesting takes on the situation. All a bit depressing really, particularly for a share that was doing so very well before unravelling really rather quickly! It is a shame about the Star Wars merch if you are right about that …the Mandellorain has brought a whole new driving factor in that regard and I was hoping they would still be at the helm of that merch! Good about Peppa, but SW will be a big mover this year IMO. I remain inested as a long log term holder and remain optimisitic that thins are not as bad as the seem!! Interesting comments on the China front too …something I had not put as much value in but you are right! Thanks again and best of luck Bruce

LLOY swamp_rat 25 Feb 2020

Commodities Crypto ETFs FX Indices. inc VIX Surely this puts us back to the pre 12 December GBP. Boris bounce is done now in my opinion. Any thoughts on this? The Independent – 24 Feb 20 No-deal Brexit threat returns as UK and EU harden up positions on future trade... Diplomats in Brussels agree mandate for talks due to start next week

LLOY J_Westlock 25 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY PrefInvestor1: So I sold a few holdings that I figure are likely to take the biggest hit today with a view to building a cash holding to spend at lower levels. Of course if it all bounces back tomorrow I will have done the wrong thing (again !). I find it hard to predict what will happen I have noticed in last week or so that a down day was usually followed by an up day so my guess is that some of the losses will be reduced tomorrow. I did notice that RSAB allowed my limit order to be executed which was a surprise. I think there’s lots of assumptions and guesses out there at the moment and until earnings reports start coming in then it’s difficult to know what to make of it. Some sectors I can’t understand why they are being equally hit as others… and therefore there are probably opportunities too. Can’t help feeling there’s a self fulfilling prophecy with the free excuses companies are being given to disguise poor performance / earnings and then be seen to storm back later. I’d have come out of it badly last few days. I didn’t even check today as was too late to do anything at w/e and tonight I’m not sure what will happen tomorrow. Yes, a late one tonight as have to be security at Centre as some funny people in area… otherwise I can usually monitor/be alerted remotely.

LLOY J_Westlock 25 Feb 2020

LLOYDS is going to FLY mememe: @J_Westlock, I copy the container onto two external drives but what if Veracrypt suddenly disappears. Strangely, I never thought about just copying the container… I always copied the files to another container. I plan to use AEScrypt on the other external drive and just periodically copy the contents from one to the other.

HSBA StevesShares 25 Feb 2020

Big world market fall back corona virus Hi, There was certainly Much Monday Market Madness after more virus scares. Buying HSBC at 550p and getting the 21c dividend (in April) seems like a good price to me, but who knows what will happen to the markets during the rest of the week/month?! As these shares go ex-dividend on Thursday, there will obviously be some downward adjustment to reflect that, but as we often take a substantial portion of the dividend in scrips, that could be quite good for us! It is difficult to know where to place one’s money at the moment, but one small way to better the current inflation rate would be to buy all the first and second class stamps you, your colleagues, family, friends, neighbours etc. are likely to use during the next few years. Although we haven’t bought any postage stamps since before the prices increased last year, we just wish we had bought even more back then! First class stamps will be rising by over 8.5% next month, and Second class by over 6.5%. Some postal services are increasing by a much lower percentage, but both standard letters and large letters are rising sharply. All the best with your investments. Regards, Steve