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Well the the question you need to ask yourself is: Do I want to pay Capital Gains Tax? If you dont want to, and you have a long term investment horizon (5-10 years or more), then leave it where it is, markets are volatile by nature. If you have a short investment horizon (less than 5 years) then definitely move it to something safe, like a dollar denominated Gilt fund or something like where your risk is low and you are getting a real return of greater than 1% or so.

When I say "long term investment horizon" I mean that you are like 30 years old where you only plan on using that money in the next 20 years or so. "Short term investment horizon" I mean that you like 55 years old and you look to use that money in the next 5 or so years.

got them at 52.76, got them when I swapped my JDG shares for Steinhoff shares when Steinhoff was buying up JDG shares. I also took up the Steinhoff rights offer shares.

Iv got a sell limit order valid for a month on them at R60 currently. I want to sell them and use the bucks to buy some RAFISA

Now we know how low it can go

lol 32c now

Because a firms goal is to make a profit, and EPS represents a firms profit or loss. A business is only worth its net asset value less future depreciation, plus the sum of its future earnings discounted to the present, over a certain period.

Why buying expensive shares are not necessarily a good thing.

I have here 2 shares from the current leaders stack.

CPI    CAPITEC BANK HLDGS LTD    338    17695    22300    26.02%    R75,374.00    12.89%
NPN    NASPERS LTD -N-                   248    100650    122000    21.21%    R302,560.00    51.76%

Lets look at this a bit closer.
CPI - Capital layout = 338 x R176.95 = R59809.10
CPI - Profit = R223.00 - 176.95 = R46.05 x 338 = R15564.90
So for an exposure of +- 60 grand you made +- 15 grand

NPN - Capital layout = 248 x R1006.50 = R 249 612.00
NPN - Profit = R1220.00 - 1006.50 = R213.50 x 248 = R52948.00
So for an exposure of +- 250 grand you made +- 53 grand

The question - Is it worth buying the very expensive shares? If this user had stuck his 250 grand into the cheaper share he would have made a total of 5 times more money +- 77 grand instead of 15 + 53 = 68 grand

That is a 9 grand difference. Both shares are good shares.

Makes me wonder if you should have a high and low price. Under a certain price you have risk and over a certain price you have profit issues if I can put it that way.

Hindsight is child's play, foresight however is very difficult.

does anyone of sites where I can create a stock portfolio of my actual JSE portfolio in order to track it. (I dont like logging onto my actual share trading account, to monitor it, also the standard bank OST platform sucks in showing one graphs of ones portfolio etc). I know of the ft portfolio which I currently use, but it doesnt have most of the ETFs on the JSE which sucks. I know of the google finance portfolio which I recently been using which is better, but doesnt have some stock data, but im more worried of google shutting it down. I also know of the bloomberg watchlist, but you cant add a cash position, no graph, and is generally the worst i have found.

does anyone know of any others that are good that they use. I happy with google finance but as I said Im worried google will shut it down.

how much ad revenue do you typically generate from your site?

it just doesnt have data for some shares 

but hopefully that will be fixed