OT:Decisions, decisions ..

[Jethro_uk]

What to do with 227 Royal Mail shares ?

Instinct is to sell £750 worth, and keep the rest ...

[Michael Chare]

Presumably you would end up with a small holding. I would suggest either selling all or keeping all.

[Jon Connell]

That rather depends upon whether:

a) you need £750 and this is the only way to get it, or b) you think they have reached your target price.

In the case of 'b', if you think that a fiver is what Royal Mail is worth per share and they're unlikely to go up much more, sell the lot.

If you plan to keep them, you should set up a stop loss on the shares you have so that they are automatically sold if the price tanks on, say, industrial action.

Jon

[Brian Gaff]

This is though how large corporations get control of our companies. Nobody here seems to think about keeping them as an investment any more. Brian

[news]

I don't think many people "keep" shares as an investment any-more. Most of the money made by big companies (and hence lost by the small investor) seems to come from the act of trading rather than keeping. I was amazed to discover that the average duration of any shareholding is less than 30 seconds.

[Huge]

[harryagain]

Now there's being a parasite..........

[bert]

In message , Brian Gaff writes

The secret of a good investment strategy is to sell too soon. I learnt that lesson the hard way with LTSB shares From £5 to 50p in one easy move thanks to the lying devious toad Brown.