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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: January 16, 2014, 05:14:40 pm »
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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: January 16, 2014, 03:24:58 pm »
Have a look at the shoutbox in Android. Faaar too long.
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New money slowing down but it does not mean that the profits will be less. If the markets go their way equally as well as the same period last year, then the profits will be more. Doubt that the markets will do well though.
Oops. Forgot about the all the xmas bonuses and the Golden Handshake that will be included in the next results.
Oops. Forgot about the all the xmas bonuses and the Golden Handshake that will be included in the next results.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: January 15, 2014, 07:18:20 pm »
Oh dear. Just heard that a grade 1 scholar got shot by coloured gangsters in Ellsies River CT. First day of school and all the little kids are frightened now of this big peoples world away from their parents. I feel for them and have tears in my eyes.
I am prepared to pay 10 000 Nkandlas for my passport now.
I am prepared to pay 10 000 Nkandlas for my passport now.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: January 15, 2014, 06:59:17 pm »
What has been keeping us here in SA is my daughter that lives with us and has a boyfriend. She has a good job as a Payroll Clerk but cannot afford to rent here in Cape Town as rentals are very high. Nothing under R4800.00 for a one bedroom flat. (no furniture)
She surprised us by saying that she will be resigning at month end and joining her 2 sisters in the UK and leaving her BF behind here.
Strange as they are in love and tight. Don't wanna ask for details. Never interfere. He doesn't have an EU passport.
They have just left to go out together now. Hence the pause.
Anyway. Four years ago, I paid R3 800.00 for her passport. Now I have to get mine. How much will it cost me now. 40% more will be R5 340. Eish. And it will keep going up with the ZAR value. Sorry. I should say Nkandla value. Perhaps we should rename the Rand to Nkandlas. So it will cost me Nkandlas 5 340.
She surprised us by saying that she will be resigning at month end and joining her 2 sisters in the UK and leaving her BF behind here.
Strange as they are in love and tight. Don't wanna ask for details. Never interfere. He doesn't have an EU passport.
They have just left to go out together now. Hence the pause.
Anyway. Four years ago, I paid R3 800.00 for her passport. Now I have to get mine. How much will it cost me now. 40% more will be R5 340. Eish. And it will keep going up with the ZAR value. Sorry. I should say Nkandla value. Perhaps we should rename the Rand to Nkandlas. So it will cost me Nkandlas 5 340.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: January 15, 2014, 06:17:11 pm »I find Battlefield 4 works for me, as the maps are huge. U actually fly planes and choppers, but I run, do not use vehicles.
So you run? Must be quite fit by now. Good jaDEB.
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Shares / Re: Today's Outlook
« on: January 15, 2014, 06:11:24 pm »
US up nearly 1% led by bank stocks.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: January 14, 2014, 06:54:46 pm »
Now that I'm retired, I have to look after my health and not just sit around getting fat and entertaining coronary infarction's. Not yet 60 and most people say I look 45 at most. 
Started jogging 1km uphill and back down. In the evenings when I go to the kitchen for a refill of my wine glass, I do 20 squats as the table there has a good height to hold onto.
Last night I did 140 squats which equates to 7 glasses of wine. Now I read that 1 glass of dry white has nearly 2 000 calories. Can this be true? Don't think so but surely 20 squats will negate each glass of wine's calories don't you think?
Woke up this morning and could hardly walk due to the pain in my calves, thighs and buttocks. So in a Catch 22 situation now. Can't stop the exercises and enjoy my tipple.
Started jogging 1km uphill and back down. In the evenings when I go to the kitchen for a refill of my wine glass, I do 20 squats as the table there has a good height to hold onto.
Last night I did 140 squats which equates to 7 glasses of wine. Now I read that 1 glass of dry white has nearly 2 000 calories. Can this be true? Don't think so but surely 20 squats will negate each glass of wine's calories don't you think?
Woke up this morning and could hardly walk due to the pain in my calves, thighs and buttocks. So in a Catch 22 situation now. Can't stop the exercises and enjoy my tipple.
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The Investor Challenge / Re: How to identify frequently traded shares
« on: January 10, 2014, 11:01:13 am »Hi all...share trading is very foreign to me so I am trying to wrap my head around this...and with all the to and fro about trying to make the playing field more level here its even more confusing. I get that the difference in real time with the JSE can enable guys to cheat - thus why my colleagues and I who are playing don't look there - otherwise what's the point right. But what I don't understand is the issue of frequently traded shares?
Please explain it in easy English for me
Shares that are not traded frequently enough cannot be bought or sold at the given price as the spread is too high and the volumes too low.
Spread is the difference between the next offer and next bid price. A stock with a price of 10c will have a seller offering to sell at 15c. This is 50% higher and the volume is also normally low.
In reality you could never buy at the quoted price. You would have to buy at 15c or place an offer at 10c and wait for weeks to get your large volume bought up.
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Shares / Re: Metair. Titan or Titanic?
« on: January 09, 2014, 06:17:55 pm »Was it me or Coronation or perhaps Investec that caused this sudden surge?
Reminds me about one guy on the other forum saying I was promoting CML to the extent that it rose from R12 to where it is now. :laugh:
That was HDB's accusation some years ago. There is a word for that and I can't think of it now. Something like "hyping".
Now I must start "hyping" MTA up for my benefit.
Jokes aside. Been trying to buy her for my competition portfolio but she has made a "lampole" formation so I must wait for some other move. Just my luck and she will make another one.