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Off topic / Under attack!
« on: July 24, 2013, 07:31:23 am »
It sucks being popular. Everyone gets jealous and nasty...

In case the rest of you were wondering what went on yesterday afternoon and evening, my server was under a DDOS attack. That's distributed denial of service in non-techie speak.

What it looks like is that someone was jealous that my main site was taking business away from theirs. Attack came from inside South Africa too, nice guys. Kept me up for a few hours. It doesn't look like this site was the target, just unfortunate collateral damage. The target it seems was my main site, a local (uhuhm should I let the cat out of the bag...) dating site  ::)

Anyway, it appeared to stop just after midnight, so I'm really hoping things will be more normal today.

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Shares / Re: How does the satrix indi do so well?
« on: July 23, 2013, 01:31:07 pm »
Quote from: yozzi on July 23, 2013, 11:52:53 am
Am I reading this correctly that the STXIND has gone up nearly 147%  in the last 5 yrs? I've got a property sale going through right now and with the proceeds this looks like the place to be for the long term?

Anyone been invested in the STXIND over the last 5 yrs?

Nope it's done 147% excluding dividends!

I only started with it this year unfortunately.

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Shares / Re: Today's Outlook
« on: July 23, 2013, 01:11:44 pm »
EPS: Earnings Per Share

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Shares / Re: Devastating market crash. When ?
« on: July 21, 2013, 11:34:45 am »
Quote from: Orca on July 20, 2013, 05:52:42 pm
My brokers calculation showed it as Fully valued 5 weeks ago.

The same broker that said CML was fully valued at R45 :D

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Shares / Re: SAtrixindi
« on: July 18, 2013, 03:45:32 pm »
Do you have a south african bank account? It'll already be fica'd so you could simply add share trading to that.

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Shares / Re: Exchange Traded Funds
« on: July 18, 2013, 03:43:42 pm »
This is the way I see it. And note, I'm still an amateur investor, so I have a dozen or so years to figure out my strategy.

If I go for growth stocks, and have to sell shares to survive I'm in danger of two things. 1) the taxman will nail me, and 2) If there's a crash I would end up selling my capital at a low value.

I plan to live on dividends. 1) The taxman won't tax them any more than the withholding tax, and 2) If there's a crash dividend amounts shouldn't drop (or do they?), and I won't need to sell any capital.

If I get growth great, but I won't need to rely on it. Horses for courses no?

Happy to take advice from people who know more than me, ie all but our friend Julius  :D

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Shares / Re: Student Thesis Questionnaire - Come one, come all! :D
« on: July 18, 2013, 03:35:42 pm »
Done. If it takes you more than 20 seconds you should go to a special school ;)

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Shares / Re: Exchange Traded Funds
« on: July 17, 2013, 07:18:17 pm »
I thought funds which don't want to qualify as retirement funds are allowed to go 100% equity. I know FOORD equity who I'm with is practically all equity.

Welcome GoldenBalls. I'm in the same boat as you, I put a chunk of money into a unit trust, and now I plan on moving it to an ETF also due to the fees. At the moment it'll also be the indi like you, but as I get closer to early retirement I may switch to the divi.

I'm with ABSA stockbrokers, and as they charge 0.4% or R120 minimum, plus waive the R800 yearly fee is you trade 5 times a year, they only make the best financial sense if you can invest R150k a year.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: Changes to the number of shares held in Gijima Group Limited (GIJ)
« on: July 16, 2013, 11:14:47 am »
Looks like this has taken effect, the leaderboard is all crazy. I'll make the adjustment soon.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: investor challenge
« on: July 15, 2013, 07:31:26 pm »
I'm trying to figure out what happened today myself. I see Shi got some FGL at 18c, while it's trading at the R1.40 mark. My ABSA account does report a daily minimum of 18c a share, no idea why that would have happened. Weird share graph in any case...


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The Investor Challenge / Changes to the number of shares held in Gijima Group Limited (GIJ)
« on: July 15, 2013, 12:09:05 pm »
From my ABSA stockbrokers login screen
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Please Note: There has been a 1 for 20 share consolidation in GIJ. Clients updated holdings will reflect from 22 July

Appears I'll have to divide all Gijima holdings by 20 over the weekend. I wonder if this will cause the price to drop again like it did with CRD.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: Added Satrix INDI to the leaderboard
« on: July 15, 2013, 12:05:14 pm »
No but I backdated the purchases to the night of the opening day. All later purchases were done the night after the first days trading following a deposit, just to make sure there was no timing involved in the purchases.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: Added Satrix INDI to the leaderboard
« on: July 14, 2013, 10:06:53 pm »
Quote from: Orca on July 14, 2013, 07:36:13 pm
So what you are saying is that Patrick's STXIND as shown on the competition is without divi reinvested?

The current position (15th place) is with the dividend payment. If was 22nd before that if I remember correctly. Not bad at all.

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The Investor Challenge / Re: Added Satrix INDI to the leaderboard
« on: July 14, 2013, 10:37:21 am »
Had to go hunting for it. ABSA doesn't give me dividend notifications until the month after it was paid, but I saw some extra cash in my account.

Take a look here: http://www.satrix.co.za/products/satrix%20indi.aspx
on the left you'll see Document downloads, and under that you'll see dividend distribution announcements.

Looks like Satrix pays a dividend 4 x a year. I've added the satrix 40 to the LDT page too.

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Shares / STX40
« on: July 13, 2013, 09:52:24 am »
STX40 15.06153 cents - LDT: 2013-06-28

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