Sold my shares in #FCR today for a nice 40% return (all made today after some good news).




I've put the money into #STAR, which has now became my biggest holding.
Still holding #CTAG which made a nice recovery over 14p again.
I'm down 11% on #PXOG but this should come good with the build up to the drill due in November.
#BAGR has gone quiet over there, I'm currently down 15% there, but I'll be waiting for the second quarter update (just like at #STAR) before I expect any movement north.

Solid sell, they are down about 25% now.

CloudTag seem to be going from strength to strength, I think you may be in a nice profit with them too?

Yeah I'm thinking of buying back into #FCR. Completely over sold and nothing has changed, they are still worth over 0.30p.

#CTAG is crazy. They've still not sold anything yet the price keeps rising. I'm going to exit at 20p, I've not got much left in there tbh as I've been taking profit. It's made me around 5k profit this month!

#PXOG has been making a nice rise! This will be my pic for October and I'm going to top-up here on any dips.

#STAR hasn't been doing much. I'm still around 25% down but I'm not too worried about that.

I'm not in #IOG but the news today wasn't the best. They started off the day 40% down! They're making a slice rise back up now.

Yeah I had friends who had £10k+ in IOG, many of it was already at a profit at the lower levels, but they kept it in thinking it was going to hit £1. So ugly, I thought I made a mistake at selling so early, guess not.

What you going to spend the £5k on?

It's a bit of a gamble leaving all the money in for the drill results. It's usually a 50% chance of their bring oil. In IOG case there was oil but of shit quality. The company seem confident that they can get better results so this may rose again.

The 5k has been speed across my other shares. I'll be re-investing everything until at least April.

Yeah they were telling me it was going to hit £1, hopefully they recover in the coming months, I'm almost tempted to buy in again but feel there's too much risk and I don't know enough.


My combined investments of Fundsmith and 7IM AAP (adventurous) have yielded me 6% ROI. Super chuffed with that as my goal was to beat inflation hope it carries on. I'm investing around 10-15% of my entire holdings into both each month.

A loy of people jumped on IOG after the drop. It has over sold so I can see a rise. No idea how much tho.

6% is good for half the year. Hopefully they can increase that before the next tax year!!

I'm sure most people know about the pound and gold but I'll post about iy anyway as they took quite a hit this week.




Gold Is back under $1250/Oz but looking like it's slightly recovering. I've not looked in to the reason behind this, but it's probably down to the USD.




The pound completely crashed this week, which they are blaming on an "algorithm". At one point the Pound and Euro were nearly equal! But thid quickly corrected itself. Thr pound is still trader at £1/€1.11 which is thr lowest it's been in years. Good news for people like Mr who get paid in Euros tho

Not much to report on my shares. I've bought some shares in #TLOU as they should have a strong Q4 and I've bought back into #FCR but not as much this time.

I banged in my gold order today (a little late I know) but I told myself to buy it else I'll keep saying I will and never will. Plan to buy silver tomorrow so my gold to silver ratio is 2:1. My goal is to have my investments as:

- Funds 60%
- Gold 20%
- Silver 10%
- Cash 10%

Each month I invest into my funds and gold/silver in that amount. Hopefully 30 years from now I'll have a nice retirement pot, if I'm not dead lol.

I quite chuffed the £ is going down, I get most of my earnings in USD and convert it back at a higher rate, hopefully it goes to £1 - $1 haha.

I was wondering if you were finally going to buy some gold now that it's dipped silver is a good shout as it's been rising more than gold recently. Haha I'm hoping to retire at 40...so I have 22 years to turn my money into something serious. 15%/year will give me a million

Are you done with buying shares in companies?

Nah I almost did buy EasyJet though after they dropped but I need to keep a firm holding on my investments. I almost made the mistake with IOG but lucked out and sold before they nose-dived. I need to keep reminding myself this money is not for spending on holidays, it's for my retirement home lol. I work for myself so I won't be getting a pension you see.

Bought my gold from Bullion Vault, heard many good things about them and didn't want to buy it from an ETF.

I wouldn't have bought EasyJet personally as the drop is down to falling profits. Unless they have big plans in thr future.

Has the gold order been completed?

Still waiting on license news with #PXOG which is now 2 weeks late! Luckily the share hasn't dropped much and has good support at 2p, which I paid.

Yeah the gold order is done in seconds, as long as someone is selling you can buy. Headed my investments nicely, just wondering if I should put 1-5% of my portiflio in Bitcoin, will talk to a friend about it.


Finally, came across this website, not even sure what to think of it: www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/

Hopefully gold works out for you. Is it a long term investment, or will you sell if if it returns to $1350/oz? I was following Bitcoin after you mentioned it at the start of this thread but I've not looked at it in a while as I've no way to know if it will go up or down. I'm sure there probably is a way, I didn't look too much in to it.

I have no idea what to make of that website either. It does say "we have no way to guarantee You returns on your money". Would be interesting to know if anyone uses it.

Been a quiet October. #PXOG have been the saviour making it a slightly profitable month. #STAR haven't been doing too well after the placing and #TLOU had a big seller past week, but now he's gone hopefully things pick up. Onwards and upwards. End of year will hopefully shine

Not even looking at mine any more, it's a bit like checking your HEM mid-game lol, no good. As for gold/silver and everything I hold, I don't plan to sell anything for the next 10 years or so at least (barring a major disaster in my life).

My greed does have me checking up on IOG from time to time to get in, but I think they are on route for another dive after Skipper pretty much all but fell through.

Samsung profits for Q3 down 96% year-over-year:



Read the full article on Hargreaves Lansdown

Taking a look at Samsungs chart for this month, its clearly had an impact:



But Samsung is a HUGE company and when we look at the bigger picture from their 1 year chart, I'm sure they'll do just fine.

What the hell, how is that -96% they sell like everything lol - there share price is still at an almost all time high though.

I'm avoiding individual stocks until the next market crash (be it in 2 months or 2 years), saving cash aside for that already. My next goal is to buy bitcoin (2-5% of portfolio), on a upswing at the moment so gonna hold off and see if I can get it at $650~.

Yeah its pretty crazy. It cost them millions recalling all of the phones to fix them, and cost them even more when that didn't work either! It may have hurt them in the short term as a few people I know were put of buying the the Samsung S7 (which has no reports I know of of catching fire) just encase! But I'm sure once the new one comes out those profit will come flying back in.

Been looking at the bigger companies this week and noticed a few risers;

Microsoft
Looks like Microsoft have been having a good month:



Microsoft jumped more than 5% in one day after an increase in profits, due to their cloud company, and also the launch of their new laptop, the Surface pro. This brings Microsoft to the highest they've ever been. There is a good article on fortune.com which goes through their recent rise, and how it compares to other companies, and the Microsoft from 15 years ago.


Netflix
I thought I'd give them a mention also as they had a nice rise this month due to them adding 3 million new subscribers in the last quarter. Netflix shares had been falling since recent heights due to the number of subscribers slowing down


Netflix shares have went up a mere 8000% since they started trading in 2002. Even if you had invested in Netflix in 2012 at 9.5p, you would have returned over 12x your investment.

Bitcoin
I follow a chart technical analyst on twitter who is really good at reading charts and predicting price movements. He thinks Bitcoin will reach $900 by the end of the year.


But my chart reading is minimal so I'll just watch this one from the sidelines

I'll give weekly updates on the markets if anything big happens. Someone else may read this thread one day and find it useful

Microsoft is the biggest holding shares in Fundsmith, around 5.6% of their portfolio so that's good news for me. I think the Facebook and Amazon reports are coming out soon (or they just did) going to guess both smashed it.

http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/news/2475083/woodford-mulls-us-dollar-hedge-for-first-time-since-lehmans-fall

Could someone explain why he needs to hedge against the dollar, if 75% of his fund is in UK equities, and the rest I presume is in companies whos earnings are in $'s?. Because £1 earned in UK equals £1, but if the $ gets stronger vs the £ then surely thats a good thing, when you convert those $'s into £'s.