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Any of you lot got any shares?

No matter how good of a invester you are, any shares you have at the moment you have probably lost money. I have anyways :(

I could have sold my HBOS shares for £8.50 a few months ago but now they are about £5.50 :(

Could be a really good time to invest at the moment...Anybody got any good tips?

Bah, stocks suck balls. Can't be bothered with them.

Oh, and why was Lord H banned? :O)

Every 559 old shares got you a nice new share. Old Marconi shareholders only got 0.5% of the equity.

Or†ega wrote:
> ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>
> what happened to the old shares? did you lose your money if you were
> invested in them?

I think the old certificates are toilet paper now, i didnt lose any money, i dont play the stock market...yet.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

what happened to the old shares? did you lose your money if you were invested in them?

Or†ega wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Yeah its hit my portfolio pretty bad. But Marconi are a bargain just
> now, 3p per share!
>
> *cries*
>
> *shouts verbal abuse in no particular direction*
>
> *bangs on the table*
>
> MARCONI SHARES ARE NOW 60p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Could have made a killing...
>
> they went down to half a pence not too along ago. if you had invested
> £10,000 at that price you would be a millionairre now.
>
> *cries some more*

Heh, wipe away your tears, those arent the same shares. Marconi floated new shares about 2 weeks ago at a starting price of 54p.

cookie monster wrote:
> Yeah its hit my portfolio pretty bad. But Marconi are a bargain just
> now, 3p per share!

*cries*

*shouts verbal abuse in no particular direction*

*bangs on the table*

MARCONI SHARES ARE NOW 60p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could have made a killing...

they went down to half a pence not too along ago. if you had invested £10,000 at that price you would be a millionairre now.

*cries some more*

I watch working lunch as well, shame its off because of the games though. :(

Working lunch? I got that in an email from my uncle who does some financial stuff... for a moment I thought he actually did something at the office... obviously he just watches tv at home instead.

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it
> would now
> be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original
> $1,000.00. With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
>
> If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser beer one year ago,
> drank all
> the beer, then turned in the bottles for the 5 cent
> deposit, you would have $214.00.
>
> Based on the above, my current investment strategy is to drink heavily
> and
> recycle.
>
> Sonic

Ah, another man which watches working lunch :)

sorry for quoting the whole post...

I thought i bought torotrak stocks on my virtual trader portfolio, but it didnt go through. Anyway i was thinking, would it be possible to make our own league on virtual trader?