Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

That is very good advice young ladies everywhere.

I once sat on an alligator

Did it "see you later" Alan?

It couldn't see anything. I squashed it.....................
Got a piccy of it somewhere round here.

Q: What's the difference between your mother in law and a crocodile?
A: Crocodiles are kind. They tear at your flesh and hold you under the water to drown, then they push your body under an old log to rot.

My portfolio looks like the victim of a crocodile today, soooooooo much red!

Kim
My port looks like this.

I haven't traded a single thing and my portfolio is down 2.53 (smug git).

Driver, the dvdactive website has the words "unlimited hope" in the
header, that definitely relates to my portfolio!

Alan, have you left the m off the end of 2.53?

here's a good site to do something practical and it also makes for a really lovely gift :) i recently used it for my nephew but somehow i don't think a 6 year old is gonna appreciate it yet.

do your little bit.

A cautionary tale! Whilst out doing my bit for the household finances I phoned my wife to ask her to make a purchase of 500 RBS through my Nominee a/c. She dutifully did this at 20.46092 per share, "luvvly jubbly" thought I: unfortunately she was unaware that the computer has a tendency to autofill amounts. The share price will have to be 21.19 before I begin to regain the loss I made selling back the additional 4500 shares she bought!!!!!!!

kim, serves you right for asking a woman to do a man's job ;)

Now what was it he said, 5000 share's thats it.

You are both so right!!! :0)

If only I had waited before selling, sp now20.80+!!!! *$$k!

I was just musing, over the weekend, how my portfolio was sailing gracefully through the rough waters of the slump / downturn / correction / crash / slide (delete as applicable) when lo and behold I have taken a right pasting today.
Still, I have my summer jaunt(s) booked to sunny climes, where margin calls and stop losses are but a distant memory.
So I am strangely happy, despite my imminent destitution.
Alan

I have stuck some tape on my screen over one of the few blue shares I have left now......RBS. The last thing I want to hear is my wife saying "But I knew what I was doing, so how much profit have we made on RBS today, must be thousands"!!!!! :o(

Kim, it is possible to turn off Autofill. under "Settings", I think. Unless you have a Mac, in which case, dunno.

Why didn't you just place a telephone trade with your broker and leave out the middle woman?

ST
Yes, I have a Mac! Sometimes autofill turns off, today....no such luck. I trade online because of max commission 25. Sadly I was over my trading limit when I had to sell, having done earlier trades, so I had to sell over the phone; commission....?..........184! Sh1t!