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« Reply #7170 on: August 17, 2018, 04:18:40 pm »
Quote from: Orca on August 16, 2018, 07:45:26 pm
Why does your nose "run" in English but in Afrikaans it "walks" (loop)?
Must have something to do with urgency
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« Reply #7171 on: August 19, 2018, 06:25:52 pm »
Bin doing some interesting analysis in Excel on my Investor Challenge trades. Turns out that if I had used only R100 000 starting from 03 January I would've lost it all by the end of May. So I entered all the shares again using the R100 000 and just 2 simple moving averages which meant trading the shares on different dates but withing the January to May period and managed to turn the 102% loss into a 16.6% gain. So I thought, surely I can do better than that, so I added the ZAR/USD exchange rate which excluded 11 shares and turned the 16.6% into 89.1%. Tried different combinations of indicators, including the popular ones, and still ended up with a loss.

Edit: turned the 16.% into 58.3%
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« Reply #7172 on: August 20, 2018, 09:05:41 pm »
If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them.
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« Reply #7173 on: August 21, 2018, 07:56:40 am »
Sold Tesla, bought more Netflix
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« Reply #7174 on: August 22, 2018, 02:25:58 pm »
Here's a curiosity which I have difficulty fathoming and I have just picked 2 fairly recent share listings

AYO came to market a little while back and has had a high of R 45.00 and is now trading at R 26.00
SYGNIA - also came to market not too long ago (I hold some of their shares) has had a high of R 14.73 over the last 12 months and is now languishing at R 9.50 - I bought at R 11.88 (all in) so have suffered a paper loss of 20%.

The question I am raising is that these companies come to market with somewhat high hopes/inflated ego's as to what the real worth of their businesses are really worth - surely advisors have some common sense to advise these companies that their expectations are too vaunted
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« Reply #7175 on: August 22, 2018, 04:17:08 pm »
Most companies with less than 70% exposure to the USD fell by 20%. Those above 70% grew positively. I don't recall that percentage. Read that on some news email today or was it Just One Lap?
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« Reply #7176 on: August 23, 2018, 07:02:39 pm »
In lockdown mode here due to high heat and humidity. But not too bad as the peeps in the apartments across the road are entertaining us in their underwear once again.  :TU:
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« Reply #7177 on: August 27, 2018, 11:49:39 am »
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« Reply #7178 on: August 27, 2018, 02:56:50 pm »
Rules have changed slightly. Wonder what tax rate they use for the people who trade Sanlams system and how they are going to manage the tax aspects
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« Reply #7179 on: August 30, 2018, 03:27:05 pm »
MTN being punished for investing in high risk regions
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« Reply #7180 on: August 30, 2018, 04:05:58 pm »
That high risk country was probably where all the growth came from, it's just backfired lately. Did I miss something re the rand though today?
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« Reply #7181 on: August 30, 2018, 04:40:22 pm »
EM currency selloff.
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« Reply #7182 on: August 31, 2018, 09:05:42 am »
Haha. The US is currently in the longest bull market in history.
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« Reply #7183 on: September 02, 2018, 08:13:23 am »
That will end when/if my man Trump is impeached or his 1st/2nd term ends.
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« Reply #7184 on: September 04, 2018, 09:54:10 am »
Back at R15/$ :(
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