if you have to wait for 3 years or more on the possible chance of seeing a decent return, then take your money elsewhere

Lex----I bought mine nearly 4 years ago so I don't really want to hold for another 2 or 3 years, but I do feel there is much more upside to come. I have never traded them so I have held them through thick & thin. I do have shares I have held for longer, but they provide a decent income, I may give PET up to 1 more year.
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i wiould hope that means you bought at 20/30p and certainly no more than 60p ..... just going to sleep on a share is not sensible investing and if you have a decent profit, imo you should consider selling up or at least top-slicing not less than 50%

cynic--------I paid 43p for them and yes I may well have got attached to them (not wise I know) and any return from them is only going to be sp appreciation, I have thought about selling part/all several times but haven't. I recall buying HTV @ 22p many years ago & selling @ 51p only to see them taken over @ 6.46 some 2 years later, and that is not an isolated case. So UP TO a year it is then, for better or worse.
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your logic is somewhat strange ..... no one has any idea at all what the future will bring ... it's all very well remembering the ones you sold too early; what about the ones you sold too late, or at least damn well should have sold? .... in theory, you have already thrown away 25% (40p) of your profit on PET

LIFE ITS LIKE THAT.

Buy 2007 & sell in 2010 is called long term investing.Many have no idea size of oil fields in Iraq.Plenty to go around. High upside for PET.Yes there are risks.Yes there are challenges.Yes you can trade in & out if you like.Watch & learn.

i have! ..... watch and learn from EME and VOG and Big Al! .....

i repeat; there is absolutely no need at all to be buying this stock at this time ...... though things MAY go right for PET at some time in the future, the unknowns are more than siginificant .... further, even if decent oil is found, it is still a long process from there to getting it out of the ground and to a refinery.

Iraq not waiting for HCL,gearing up to issue contracts using existing laws and imo PET will get something.Dig a spade in the sand you strke oil in iraq.Re-rating with proven oil reserves in ground well before production.Time will tell.

yeah yeah yeah ..... perhaps PET will first dig up the statue of Ozymandias ..... "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! ....... boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away" ..... and even when that happens, assuming it does, there will still be plenty of time to jump on board and make an honest shilling or shekel ..... meanwhile, for the next 2/3/4 years there are better investments elsewhere.

Go on name the better investments with mid price.We can then compare notes with PET @ 113p mid.

up to what price, though i fail to see what diff that makes? ..... any particular sector? ..... must it/they start with a particular letter or limit of syllables?

You choose.Simply name the better investments you are talking about providing EPICs & todays mid price.

Rattle off your best half dozen.

OK ... will do but first give me some time to catch up with real work at the office ..... may even add brief logic as to why the choice ..... will post on the FTSE thread, as prob better than here

OK fair enough if you need time.As long termers I like DGO & TLW...

DGO i don't know, but i also rate TLW, though i plumped for PMO instead

Oil & gas good sector to be invested in.DGO,PMO & TLW imo safe long term plays.

cynic I really enjoy reading your posts and have learnt a great deal from them but please note DGO has gone up 5% while you continue this discussion on PET,I thought we are here to make some money now not in 3/4 years.

as i said, i have no idea who DGO are .... and yes i agree re PET - just read! ..... by the way, AL. have not done so badly this either!!

Good morning cynic, re my post 557 I wasn't suggesting that I would hang on to PET because I had sold HTV too early, HTV was just 1 of a few examples I could have chosen, the reason I am hanging on to PET is that I believe there is considerable upside to come. I have 'lost' 40p as you say, twice actually but I can live with that, we are all here to make money but 'what is it they say' don't play the market if you cannot afford to lose the money invested.. Good luck all.
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