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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: July 23, 2014, 09:36:07 pm »
Thanks MP. Yes we are but cannot adjust to the foods here. Seems that they do not sell much spices but use fresh herbs instead. All we can find is curry, salt and pepper. I am a tea drinker and all the tea here are flavored with fruits. No plain tea. All the coffees are strong and mostly perculted stuff served in thimbal size cups as in kiddies play stuff.
This is also strange to me. The cheapest meats are Chicken drumsticks at R35 pk. Locals don't like the dark chicken  meat and export it. Same as USA does. SA exports the wings as we don't like them and import the drumsticks as we love them and they don't.
Pork is also cheap but beef is far too expensive as it is imported from Spain. Not much cows here due to the small farms.Portugal is small.
The most amazing is that the banks have no bullet proof windows. The tellers mearly take and give money over an open counter.
No burgler bars on any buildings or houses.
You can leave your shopping at the entrance of a shopping mall and it will still be there when you exit. No security needed to watch it.
Strange that I have not seen a black person here since we arrived. Perhaps they don't like Portugal.


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Shares / Re: Huge trades on closing
« on: July 22, 2014, 09:04:10 pm »
Yes. At close of day, there is an auction where all buys and sells at more or less the same price are matched together and executed. This is why you will see a massive amount of trades at close. This also happens at open where new trades are matched and executed. Sometimes you will see a rather big movement at open or close in a stock.
This does not mean that your bid at a low will be executed.

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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: July 22, 2014, 01:15:53 pm »
I have only started testing the 250 apps on PlayStore never mind the hordes without apps. Netflix is the most Popular but sadly, it is not yet available here. There are ways to change your IP Address to a US one and pick it up anywhere.
So far I use LiveNow TV app as I can preset the programmes I want to watch. Much like DSTV. Camposat TV is great as well as it automatically shows what program is on and the next 3 for every channel.
We can choose between 10, 20, 50 and 100Mbps. I have the 20 and there is no buffering. Some people in rural areas here watch internet TV at 2Mbps but complain of some buffering.
BTW, most are SD at 720 but some are HD at 1080P.

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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: July 21, 2014, 10:37:38 pm »
Actually, there are so many channels for free on the net. I have over 400 and can get more from porn to kiddie programs. Not that I do kiddie channels.
Had I had cheap internet in SA, I would not have bought a DSTV package. I would have gone for internet tv.
Here I pay R250 pm for uncapped unlimited internet. Watch TV and all 3 of us can surf the net at the same time.
No buffering of the video. Super speeds here.
You guys are being ripped off with internet cost.
We paid R290 odd for DSTV for the small bouquet plus R300 for my tablet internet plus another R250 for my wife's internet in SA. That is R840 pm that we paid in SA and we have a plus of more channels.





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Shares / Re: PNC
« on: July 17, 2014, 09:15:41 pm »
36ONE is has been a top performing UT fund manager for years so they should know what they doing. Imara has PNC as a hold from this week due to price action.

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: July 16, 2014, 10:19:32 pm »
Hyping up MTA and OMN. The next beauts in my portfolio.  Please comply.

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Shares / Re: Deposit on property or ETF's?
« on: July 11, 2014, 04:19:39 pm »
Read this then make up your mind. http://investorchallenge.co.za/blog/

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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: July 09, 2014, 09:16:54 pm »
Ha ha. No, I would be getting cold and would know it. Good weather here at around 24° with a slight breeze.
Got tired of waiting for the water guy so went walkabouts around the apartment block and lo and behold, I found a big box that had pipes and valves in with numbers on. Our valve was closed so I opened it and we had water. Now I'm waiting for the flying squad to come arrest me.

About prices here. Where do I start? VAT is 23% except on some foods like meat, milk, bread etc. Fish is about R20 cheaper per kilo than in SA and frozen crayfish tails are R10 each. There is a such a large variety of fresh fish in all the supermarkets and minimarkets. Mostly strange to me. Live crabs, octopus and crustations I have never seen before. There are fish mongers on every street corner selling cod, bream, sea trout, sea bass, makeral etc from mobile trolleys at low prices. Portuguese sardines are R20 per kilo and are 12" long.
Pork and chicken is about R20 per kilo cheaper but most beef is imported from Spain and is around R100 per kilo. Rabbit is popular here and goes for around R90 per kilo.
Household items are sooo expensive due to VAT. A normal frying pan is R200 so are plain pressed aluminium oven pans. The cheapest kettle we could find was R230. A big box of washing powder cost us R220.
Internet is cheap at R250 uncapped and unlimited. We have no English channels here so will have to use internet TV with an android tv stick and watch free to air TV.



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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: July 08, 2014, 10:09:52 pm »
A disastrous start. The apartment we were going to buy is too small so we signed a 1 year lease in a new apartment block just outside the old city center. A beautifuly furnished and totally equipped with all the mod cons.
Feels more like a hotel with marble steps, brand new stove, washing machine, extraction fans in the kitchen and toilet for farts and all. This for €375 pm.
Problem is that the owner does not live here and he took a week to come sign the contract so we had no electricity for a week and had to drink warm wine and stare out the window. No TV, water, or gas. Even our cell phones were dead.

Sucks to have to wash with wet wipes for a week. I then found a water tap in the next block of flats that was not disabled. The outside taps here have the handles removed.
Took the 15 ltr bucket and went to fill up. All went well until I heard a commotion and some big mammas came out with broom sticks shouting something about Policia and I had to drop the bucket and run.
It is not my bucket but cannot retrieve it and don't think it is there anymore. I am now a criminal for stealing water.
Where do we pee now?
Apart from that episode, most people here are very helpful and friendly. Somehow, they can see that we are English and will approach us just to experiment their knowledge of English. Perhaps it is my blue eyes as my head is shaved.

Will give prices of food and other stuff soon.


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Off topic / Live chat
« on: July 08, 2014, 09:11:46 pm »
RMBMID does 10% less than STXIND so will wait for correction.

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: July 07, 2014, 10:29:40 pm »
My CML is gone. STXIND is too high. Now what?

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: June 30, 2014, 10:15:41 pm »
In the sun at your 22.00 hrs. This sucks.

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: June 30, 2014, 10:14:06 pm »
Ja. My posts are after hours as you guys are sleeping down there in SA and we are on the beach.

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Shares / Re: CML
« on: June 30, 2014, 10:10:10 pm »
A bit of a bounce but we will see if it carries on up or just follows the trendline and bottom BB.

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: June 27, 2014, 10:36:49 pm »
Watch EOH carry on with the momentum for some time irrespective of its high PE.

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