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« on: March 23, 2017, 09:40:56 pm »
I don't gamble with my and my family's money as many people do but as long as I beat the indexes I'm happy.
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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 22, 2017, 10:38:07 pm »
I am now paying R1 400.00 less per month on my rent thanks to the exchange rate. 
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« on: March 20, 2017, 08:19:28 pm »http://www.biznews.com/undictated/2017/03/20/media-coverage-herbst/ Shocking.Shocking but relevant. Cry SA. My ex beloved country.
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« on: March 17, 2017, 12:53:49 pm »
SCL is a penny stock trading at 22c with only a few trades per session so it will not be included.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: March 12, 2017, 06:04:18 pm »
There is new technology to treat cancer called "Edge Radiosurgery" that is non invasive and just as effective as surgery.
It maps the tumour precisely and then proceeds to blast it with some form of radiation. The tumour then dies and gets rejected by the body. The patient merely lies on a table for 10 minutes while the machine rotates around them. Star war stuff.
Portugal was the first country to use this machine about 3 years ago and the hospital my wife has to go to has one. Heads up to Portugal.
It maps the tumour precisely and then proceeds to blast it with some form of radiation. The tumour then dies and gets rejected by the body. The patient merely lies on a table for 10 minutes while the machine rotates around them. Star war stuff.
Portugal was the first country to use this machine about 3 years ago and the hospital my wife has to go to has one. Heads up to Portugal.
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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: March 10, 2017, 10:29:12 pm »
Being in the north of Portugal where not many people of our age can speak English we have no emotional support and we are left to our own grief. No friends here and not even our next door neighbours can interact with us.
This is why this forum is so helpful to me when you share your thoughts and give me a heads up. Thank you so much. It really does help.
As I was saying, we went to Porto Oncology Hospital and had to use 3 different trains and a bus to get there.
This is a gov hospital but very larney and busy. This hospital is dedicated to cancer only and has the most sophisticated equipment available to date. This was strange for me as I know how outdated SA gov hospital equipment is and the lack thereof. Been there.
After all that effort for my wife to get there, she was turned back as she did not have a state health security card. WTF I thought. We have private medical insurance but as it is a gov hospital she needed that card.
So off we went back home and got the card when we arrived with no problem. She can now get almost free medical care with old age care, home care, medication and stuff like prosthetics and wheelchairs. A consultation with a doc will only cost her €2.
When we got back to the flat we got a message from the private hospital that her scan results were done so I went over the road to pick it up.
It seems she has stage 1 and it is localized. Her tumour is 13 mm long and stage 2 is 20 mm so her tumour is treatable to almost 100%. Stage 2 is also treatable to 95% and stage 3 is 50%. Stage 4 is a coffin.
So off to 3 trains and a bus on Monday and hopefully she can make it.
This is why this forum is so helpful to me when you share your thoughts and give me a heads up. Thank you so much. It really does help.
As I was saying, we went to Porto Oncology Hospital and had to use 3 different trains and a bus to get there.
This is a gov hospital but very larney and busy. This hospital is dedicated to cancer only and has the most sophisticated equipment available to date. This was strange for me as I know how outdated SA gov hospital equipment is and the lack thereof. Been there.
After all that effort for my wife to get there, she was turned back as she did not have a state health security card. WTF I thought. We have private medical insurance but as it is a gov hospital she needed that card.
So off we went back home and got the card when we arrived with no problem. She can now get almost free medical care with old age care, home care, medication and stuff like prosthetics and wheelchairs. A consultation with a doc will only cost her €2.
When we got back to the flat we got a message from the private hospital that her scan results were done so I went over the road to pick it up.
It seems she has stage 1 and it is localized. Her tumour is 13 mm long and stage 2 is 20 mm so her tumour is treatable to almost 100%. Stage 2 is also treatable to 95% and stage 3 is 50%. Stage 4 is a coffin.
So off to 3 trains and a bus on Monday and hopefully she can make it.
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« on: March 09, 2017, 07:38:10 pm »
Thanks for all the good wishes for my wife's illness. She survived her neurological disease and is almost back to normal...much to the surprise of her neurologist. Then came the punchline. A throat lesion on her soft pallet was found when I told the doc that her speech was not normal.
Due to the size of it, it must have been years old (1.2 cm x 0.8 cm x 3 mm). Early detection of throat cancer is key to survival as we well knew and were devastated. Wait too long and it spreads to other areas and organs. Once outside the throat you are a goner in 3 months.
Then the biopsy report came back as the dreaded "C" word. This devastated our lives and our kids as we are a very close knit family. Spent the night just holding my wife to try and ease our darkness of doom and gloom. I cannot imagine how my wife was feeling as she is not yet 58 years old.
Kids skyping so have to close now.
Due to the size of it, it must have been years old (1.2 cm x 0.8 cm x 3 mm). Early detection of throat cancer is key to survival as we well knew and were devastated. Wait too long and it spreads to other areas and organs. Once outside the throat you are a goner in 3 months.
Then the biopsy report came back as the dreaded "C" word. This devastated our lives and our kids as we are a very close knit family. Spent the night just holding my wife to try and ease our darkness of doom and gloom. I cannot imagine how my wife was feeling as she is not yet 58 years old.
Kids skyping so have to close now.
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« on: March 08, 2017, 11:06:18 pm »
Hold thumbs for my wife. She has been diagnosed with throat cancer and we off to Porto oncology hospital early in the morning. My life is on hold.
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« on: March 07, 2017, 12:27:47 pm »
Yip gcr. I got it the wrong way round. http://today.moneyweb.co.za/article?id=678970&acid=544awEI2280eZeuwhd4cWQ%3D%3D&adid=9t5mO2H4WZgzlOOOYw3skQ%3D%3D&date=2017-03-07#.WL6KrzuLSyI
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« on: March 07, 2017, 11:14:51 am »
They sold their IT section and had to delist that part. The 22c share price it is at now is fair value and you will get about 85c per share that you have. If their IT sector was unprofitable it will perhaps be good for the co but I cannot make a call on that as I know nothing about the co.
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« on: March 07, 2017, 10:47:12 am »
PCT went ex divi last week. The huge divi will make up for the drop in share price. (85%)
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Shares / Re: What happened to all the 20, 25 & 30%+ stocks?
« on: February 27, 2017, 02:20:09 pm »
That strong bull run after the 2008 crash lasted for about 5 years but it is over. The ALSI has been flat for 2 years. Luckily my dividends are 60% of my living costs. 
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« on: February 26, 2017, 09:41:58 pm »
Torrential rain and landslides in Chile so hope P and wife are ok.
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Shares / Re: The Rand
« on: February 24, 2017, 02:01:18 pm »
You are quite right Jack. A trade surplus is good for the ZAR. Great for Industrials, Resources, employment figures etc.
It cannot last though as exports will decline as the ZAR strengthens. At some stage foreigners will see SA goods as too expensive and the Trade surplus will ease off and continue as a trade balance before it goes into a deficit.
I am by no means an economist and I loath the subject but inflation also comes to play as it affects interest rates that affects the trade balance that ......
Talking about "economist", Chris Hart has eaten his hat twice now. Last year he stated the ZAR will reach R20 by year end (2016). Well, I suppose we were all caught out with the revival of commodities.
It cannot last though as exports will decline as the ZAR strengthens. At some stage foreigners will see SA goods as too expensive and the Trade surplus will ease off and continue as a trade balance before it goes into a deficit.
I am by no means an economist and I loath the subject but inflation also comes to play as it affects interest rates that affects the trade balance that ......
Talking about "economist", Chris Hart has eaten his hat twice now. Last year he stated the ZAR will reach R20 by year end (2016). Well, I suppose we were all caught out with the revival of commodities.
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« on: February 24, 2017, 11:10:04 am »@Orca what do you think of my reasoning above? Am I completely missing the point or am I on the right track?
I can't find your post on this thread.