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Hi Moneypenny - excuse my ignorance, but, I have to ask the question - what is the purpose of listing those shares which were up/down on a daily basis per the previous day. Would it be in place to assist investors who don't trade over a platform?
Also as an aside you list AVI as a new low of 9237 - would this be over a trailing 12 month period?

Patrick - over a few days when you have idle fingers - could you rank the best ETF (top 10 would be great) over a 13, 25 and 37 months. It may be easier to create 3 tables for the 3 periods - it should show the constantly satisfactory performers versus the one hit wonders. It could give us investors some sort of direction the achievers are going but can also use these ETF in our personal portfolios

If you have idle time

Patrick - as an age old competitor on your site, I don't think it prudent to kill the SA competition, you may however want to reconsider some of the parameters of the game i.e.:-

1) Give each participant R 1.2 million on first business day of January annually
2) Any person joining later in the year would also get R 1.2 million on entering the competition - to level the playing field
3) Only allow buying/selling once a month - i.e. kill off trading - this was never intended to be a trading competition
4) Ranking to be based on highest value of portfolio to lowest inclusive of shares purchased and the cash component unutilized

Consider

Looking at my portfolio it now shows a cost of 1 Imperial share at R 97.20 against a current trading price of R 63.18. On the other hand Motus is now showing a unit cost of R 143.39 against a trading price of R 94.14 so in essence shareholders suffered a loss in unbundling.
Seems that it was not a widely accepted unbundling move - I will have to speak to my ex banker colleagues to find out why they got it so wrong

Hi Patrick - the split was effected on Thursday (yesterday). You are right for each Imperial share (IPL) you got 1 Motus (MTH) share. There was a sens announcement 17/9/2018 regarding the unbundling of Motus - according to the same sens last day to trade to be eligible fot participate in the unbundling 21st November 2018

Hope that helps

Thanks for the background info - very interesting CV
Though interested in 2005/2006 in trading I walked away from it as the impact on my tax didn't suit me

Oversix - I have recorded ALSI and T40 highs (not daily just when they have achieved highs) the current ALSI was sitting 52310.70 and the T40 47115.55 and these were the new highs on 29/07/2014 - so if related to todays values we have experienced a significant pull back already, so we would need a significant event to destruct our bourse - what is that event likely to be, I have no idea but the politicians have been pretty good at destroying wealth in this country. I think the event may only come next year when Cyril the squirrel gets in but with a reduced a majority and we see some prosecutions of a number of politicians and get some money back for the taxpayers - jail would be a good alternative as a disincentive for other politicians   

In most EU countries you will get temporary residence for 5 years and if you renew it you will get permanent residency.
We have been here just over 4 years and if we relocate to the UK then we would not be able to renew our Portugal residency.
Also, residency expires after 2 years of absence if you have not become a citizen.

Hi Orca - surely the move to the UK is going to be a problem for your family from a medical point of view i.e. moving countries would preclude you from availing yourselves of any free medical assistance and you would undoubtedly have to sit out a waiting period before getting benefits from the UK national health.
I imaging if this is the case you have trying times ahead of your family
Hoping that the move is fairly painless