MancunianStacker

fixed that for you mate😄

Looks like we have a winner, congrats @SneakerFreaker

Group(s)  National Liberation Front of South Vietnam  Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam  Central Office for South Vietnam  Liberation Army of South Vietnam  Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces  

It needs to formulate a new support I think as so many people have been burnt over the last few years. 
$3000 gold next year I recon looking at its strength and macro. 

I was going to leave them all for the long term & see how the fair. I am pretty new to it all & still getting the grasp of when I should take money or sell & rebuy.
Currently the better 2 I mentioned are up since I last posted.
Hoping to invest more into other sectors in the New Year.

I'd not come across Premier African Minerals before. It is a microcap company (about £60M) and its assets are in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. That alone would make me run for cover. Some African jurisdictions are fine. I would say Botswana, Namibia and Morocco are investable. I would avoid South Africa, at least for the present. West African countries like Mali and Burkina Faso used to be considered OK until the recent coup/uprising in Niger. The Democratic Republic of Congo is an important mining jurisdiction but carries a fair amount of risk. Centamin (CEY.L) in Egypt is a company I have owned in the past: it used to pay a nice dividend.

If you are looking at dividend stocks on London, it is worth checking out Rio Tinto (RIO.L), BHP (BHP.L), Glencore (GLEN.L), Aviva (AV.L), Woodside Energy (WDS.L), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L), British American Tobacco (BATS.L), Imperial Brands (IMB.L), Legal and General (LGEN.L), National Grid (NG.L), SSE (SSE.L), Land Securities (LAND.L), British Land (BLND.L), Lloyds Banking (LLOY.L), Barclays (BARC.L) or almost any of the major housebuilders.
If you see a corporate bond with a very high yield, it is probably high for a reason, i.e. the market is pricing in a significant level of risk.

Thanks @Bumble - I will definitely invest into a few of them if there is a decent draw down or crash, especially the first 3 of them! 
I personally am avoiding bank stocks like the plague, especially Barcklays as it has so much exposure to USA - it tanked in March!
Well dome with legal and general. 10-15% is usually my sell level on swing trading, but longer term L&G should be OK?
Difficult to say about banking liked stocks, dont know the company details personally. 

Gawd! Africa is largely one of the worst mining jurisdictions unless you really know whats going on at ground level.
I have 3 stocks like this between 60-98%, one of them has a grand in it.  

Personally I would cash in that S&P ASAP - I doubled up my 3x leverage S&P short yesterday. 
We can come back to this post in 6 months and see if I am right or not.  
I may be wrong - as I swing trade, & have had that short for a long time. 


 

Im pretty new to stocks & shares to diversify myself but my best paying dividend is Legal & General at around 8% which in 6 months I am up 11% & S&P VUAG up 13.44%. Just don't invest in African mines 😆

Personally I did own some Vodafone stock recently. But sold for a small profit

the fundamentals don’t look great. But I can’t see them going bust any time soon. 
I’ll be interested in them at 65p per share. Only with a small percentage of a larger portfolio 
and as the yield is 11% can’t really go wrong 

Will do. I am going to set up an account for my wife tomorrow as she is working now & she can set a level to add to her account. 

Nice to see Clencore in there. With a crash and recession coming, that should be hit hard!
But its a producer of most metals and stuff, including Uranium, copper & Gold. 
Whats not to like about that going forward into the next couple of decades!! 

if you want regular dividend that pays over 7% look at STAB, RSAB, both bonds and when eventually interest do start to come down, the price will also rise giving you both capital gain and dividends. A more risky bond paying almost 12% is IPF3. 
Can get all the info you need from here
https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/corporate-bonds-gilts/bond-prices/gbp-bonds

I am going to set up a 212 account for my kids I think and pick off some stocks like this as the UK is not as bad as the USA - its due a major correction & flat line IMO. They have a bank account with a pile of money my wife has let sit for over 8 years now!! She also has 20k in cash that she has held for a few years. You cant tell them  
 
Shall we all amass a list of the best dividend plays based on the yield and consistency over the years??
I use my ISA account for trading, so a new account would be good. 
My ISA is also full of stupid mistakes at-70% or so.  

I dont look at the FTSE, how healthy is it compared to the S&P in the shadow of a monumental crash, we are all expecting? I heard it was undervalued? I guess my point is that as much as I get the 'time in the market' stuff, I dont want to make sizeable 'investments' right on at the cusp of a 25-50% retrace in value, especially in banking stocks and such likes.  

Dividend is always great, just depends whether they consistent or do they stop it from time to time - to allow for growth.
Albeit seems like decent buy from long term view and all the analysts are rating it to buy at current price..
 

Hi 👋 
Sorry if there is a Topic on this already but Vodafone dropped 3% today and pays around 11% although this is likely to go down next year. Stock price is at 1997’s price!
https://www.fool.co.uk/2023/12/03/id-buy-vodafone-and-hsbc-shares-in-2024-for-their-spectacular-dividend-forecasts/
https://www.dividenddata.co.uk/dividendyield.py?market=ftse100&sort=yield&order=1
 
Just FYI I bought some stock at 90p thinking that was cheap, so might get some more at month end. Seems like a value stock today.
Any thoughts?

Hi 👋 
Sorry if there is a Topic on this already but Vodafone dropped 3% today and pays around 11% although this is likely to go down next year. Stock price is at 1997’s price!
https://www.fool.co.uk/2023/12/03/id-buy-vodafone-and-hsbc-shares-in-2024-for-their-spectacular-dividend-forecasts/
https://www.dividenddata.co.uk/dividendyield.py?market=ftse100&sort=yield&order=1
 
Just FYI I bought some stock at 90p thinking that was cheap, so might get some more at month end. Seems like a value stock today.
Any thoughts?

To be fair, the post is a bit disingenuous 😇
Clickbait, if you will.
Like many, I started off with silver and gold soon turned my head. I sold the best of my silver at, perhaps, a small profit and ploughed the money straight into gold, which has performed well, thank God.
But had I kept the silver, that would also have performed well, and I would have had some nice pieces to look at.
What is left is the silver I paid too much for and couldn't possibly recoup at this stage. Patience is required. 🥱
Apologies to the silver stacking fraternity, I am one of you, and I am still the biggest loser!
🥳
I have a QB Completer @ £135 an ounce.
The badge is mine.

He has 77.6 Troy ounces of silver at an average of £33.4 an ounce.
Are you a bigger loser than Roy?
🙇‍♂️

Nice pickup!!! I’m sorry I started you on this quest 😂 I’ve cost you a fortune pal 😂 

Nice pickup!!! I’m sorry I started you on this quest 😂 I’ve cost you a fortune pal 😂 

Had my coins back from NGC. I sent in 29 coins,  28 of which obtained the top grade. Spot the lonely PF69!
I'm extremely happy and relieved, I was expecting a few PF70 but not 28 of them 🤣
 

2015 Gold Proof Fifth Portrait £1 Shield   As with the silver proof pound coins, several gold £1 shields can often be extremely hard to track down as they were never issued as individual coins. This 2015 Fifth was only offered within the 8-coin gold proof Circulating Coinage set, mintage just 245.   I'd never seen this particular coin offered on its Tod before, so I was a tad delighted to pick it up from the @CoinsOfTheRealmAuctions auction for spot+ postage.   Shame about the mortuary slab.  
 
 


 

I do have to say that I admire/share your preference for puff pastry mince pies. I do not like the heavy short pastry versions.