First, take your time. There is no hurry. Educate yourself and make informed decisions.

ETFs are "baskets" of stocks. For example in terms of AI etfs, the BOTZ etf is 8.76% Nividia, 8.4% Intuitive Surgical, and the 83% rest of it is 48 other stocks.

In contrast, IRBO 134 stock holdings so Nividia only has a 1.2% weight.

Besides BOTZ and IRBO, other ETFs focused on AI or robotics include ROBO, ROBT and AIQ. These are a good place to start, but you need to do the work to educate yourself on what ETFs are and then what companies and what type of ETFs you want yo get. Nothing wrong with getting more than one that focuses on the same industry but are balanced differently like BOTZ and IRBO are.

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Spirit / Frontier / Allegiant is RyanAir, Southwest / Jet Blue is EasyJet (but with way fewer fees), American is IAG, Delta is Lufthansa, and United is Air France-KLM.

To your quote, it’s right in that consolidation feels different in Europe because the “flag” carriers maintain their branding (mainly because of country-level subsidies), but they cut just as many jobs percentage-wise as happened in the US, they just did it through attrition rather than layoffs.

That said, let’s use IAG for an example - they code-share all their flights, and you can book on any carrier from any website. The prices are identical between Iberia vs BA vs Air Lingus, and they share a common backend and ops staff, though they do uniform the customer-facing people according to the branding.

All that said, I don’t see any service difference between American and the EU-based carriers I’ve flown. In the last year, I’ve been on ITA (or Al Italia, if you prefer), SwissAir, BA, Iberia, Lufthansa, and Air Dolimiti, and in no case would I say that the service I received was any better than I was I get on American, and in many cases worse. Plus, as an American (citizen), I hate the EU carry-on baggage limits (size and weight both), and it drives me batty to pay for bags, which is something I never have to deal with stateside.

I’m not saying that the EU airlines are all like Spirit - not at all. But, with their proliferation of fees and limits, they are starting to resemble Spirit more than they do any of the American big 3. Sure, you can grab a $99 fare to wherever, but after you’ve added in the unavoidable fees, you’re not paying anywhere near $99, you’re doubling or tripling it. We’re not 22 anymore, we’re not going to go for a weekend with two European sized carry-ons and two backpacks.

>IAG

I was intrigued by what you said about European air travel belonging to a similar conglomerate umbrella corp as is in the US. I'm doing some reading about the IAG. Now correct me if I'm wrong but when I read:

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>The US saw consolidation in the airline market between 2000 and 2010, with carriers having lost $55 billion and cutting 160,000 jobs in the wake of the dot-com bubble, 9/11, and the global recession. However, consolidation in Europe has moved significantly slower and with a slightly different tone as airlines brought into the fold of larger entities have retained names and branding

I get the sense that individual carriers still compete with each other for whatever percentage of the profit margin they keep before passing on profits their IAG shareholders. What those margins look like equates to how much that affects the bottom line of individual carriers, and ultimately is what would drive competition.

To your point it does seem pretty sketch that there is a shareholder entity that wins no matter what whenever a customer choses one of their charter brands for a flight. At that point you end up with a feudal like system. No one deserves to be held up like that by the public as if they were the literal kings and queens of Europe.

I can agree that Europe is maybe starting to have a problem, but it is far worse in the US. Just because the structure is starting to look similar does not mean they produce equivalent experiences for the end customer. I have flown euro as well, maybe not as much as you, but in my own experiences as recent as 2019 I have always gotten better food, drinks and pricing on my tickets. I understand what you're saying about Spirit, god I hate them, but that was not at all the way I perceived the euro flights that I've taken.

While I appreciate the blog posts, I think that we’re perhaps talking past one another.

The operating model in the US is vastly different than in the EU, and as a result, even though you think that there’s more competition, in practice there isn’t.

The Big 3 mainline carriers in the US are roughly equivalent to the Big 3 in Europe, the major difference being that the European big 3 operate a tremendous number of sub-brands that make it appear more competitive, but share the same backend systems and ticket pricing algorithms. Hence, while it looks like that ticket on Vueling is cheaper, the money is still flowing to IAG.

Additionally, comparing only the ticket prices overlooks the major differences in service between the US and EU (which you’d know if you’ve ever flown in both countries). While none of the mainline US carriers impose anything other than a (relatively large) size restriction on carry-on baggage, EU mainline carriers have both (much smaller) size limits and also weight limits, and EU budget carriers are similar to Spirit, where they nickel and dime you to death on everything you need to fly.

Now, maybe it’s the perspective of age, or the fact that I’m married, but I’ve done the math quite a few times on this, and flying in Europe isn’t any cheaper than in the US once all the extra costs are accounted for, particularly for baggage. Flying a US mainline carrier (I live in DFW, so I fly American) for anything other than a day trip with only a backpack is going to be roughly cost-equivalent at distance with flying any mainline EU carrier.

It’s the difference between the raw ticket price, and the actual cost of getting from A to B with the stuff you need when you get to B.

Would more competition help drive down costs? Absolutely. The challenge there is space at our airports and the current shortage in the pilot training pipeline. Newer airlines that target specific niches are continually popping up, and they are challenging the market in interesting ways that go beyond pure price. JSX is a good example of this.

I have flown in Europe, many times.

They only have a handful of companies, operating under many names.

IAG is the company, their airlines include British Airways, Iberia, British Midland, Iberia Express, Vueling, Aer Lingus, Level, Air Nostrum, Sun Air, and Air Europa.

Lufthansa is the company, the airlines include Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, CityLine, Edelweiss Air, AeroLogic , and SunExpress.

Air France is the same as KLM, and they own stakes in a ton of little regional carriers.

Then you have RyanAir, the airline who's trying to make Spirit like a carrier that only operates business class jets, and EasyJet.

It's not really any different than the US, other than in the US, our airlines operate a SHITLOAD more flights.

Many white collar jobs are crap pay like admin assistants but I would like to see the mix of jobs. I am guessing most of them are in clerical support.

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag60.htm

I found the below from the BEA, which indicated to me it's, at least partially, rolled up under the 11%. I'm not certain on this.

Yes, we're an oil and gas powerhouse. Not sure of the shelf life on this and that's why I'm trying to dig deeper into what the statistics are of our consumer good manufacturing percentage vs. consumer good manufacturing consumption independent of energy as I know our exports heavily skew O&G.

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>The petroleum and coal products manufacturing subsector is part of the manufacturing sector.

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag324.htm#:~:text=The%20petroleum%20and%20coal%20products%20manufacturing%20subsector%20is%20part%20of,and%20coal%20into%20usable%20products.

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I am up 1.31 there. I left 17 shares in IAG...and forgot I did.

I'll check on it next july. 33 big ones... it might be up to 35 by then.

I found something peculiar there too.

my break even price was changing after purchase.

I thought I was in a simulation.

I went to tradestation and moo moo.

I left 17 shares in a little ticker called IAG. it is funny, as it was residual 30 something dollars...and it stayed green. The little gold ticker.

still green now.

Lost bad on IAG and SAND but BSM is one bright spot.

Still waiting on TUI, EZY, KLM and IAG to bounce back.

Iag is doing much better

Easy yet buying iag? Lmao

I'm keeping an eye on IAG (IAMGGOLD). They went up 40% in the past 10 days on a combi of selling some assets (they sold a entire mine in Suriname to the Chinese for 360 million) and being slightly squeezed. Their market cap is 700million so I believe there's a lot more to move up.

Jan 20 USD 1.OO ITM calls are looking interesting priced at 65 cents

Iag and tui have much better upside

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My easyJet and IAG stocks are punishing me. Bought Post pandemic thinking they were an absolute steal…

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All the choices are made based on personal interpretation of data, I do understand that there is something wrong with each and every one of these companies as well...

I have this all in excel, one column with the company, the current price, my purchase price, the amount of shares, the dividend paid, the average date of purchase on that position, the length of holding that share, my gain on that position, the market value of the company, the fraction that this position is holding in my portfolio (the % in the linked post) and then the % of market cap that position is holding over the total market cap of all companies I hold. I compare those two percentages, and see if one position is overrepresented or underrepresented in my portfolio. This is where I make a first decision to either buy or sell a certain position (but not definite). Then, there is the aim not to have more than 5% of my total portfolio into a single position (diversification), that is why large companies (tesla) have a smaller share compared to their market cap in my portfolio. Another factor I consider is sector and geographic location of the stock, I aim to be diversified over countries, based on their GDP, as well. For sector division I think I choose the target aim based on the division of sectors in the eurostoxx600, and excluded financial services, due to personal opinion about their general sector.

How do I pick which companies to choose, or add to my portfolio. Sometimes those are choices for a company that I like and "gamble" on a little bit (beyond meat, tesla), mostly, those are companies well represented in major indices (eurostockx, SP). Currently my exposure to single positions in the US is fairly limited, because I only recently obtained market access to trade US equities through a new broker, and recently, there was not a lot of extra money to drop into the market. I do have a SP500 ETF as well, but would slowly prefer to build that down, but I need 15-20 of those positions in single stock first, otherwise, I loose too much diversification.

I usually rebalance by contributing to positions that are underrepresented or new positions that balance out my geography/sector diversification better. It is not an exact science. I contribute essentially to my stock portfolio with what I have left at the end of the month. I am also building a significant bitcoin position (but that is a whooooole other discussion) at the same time.

So, basically, I set up my "ideal" portfolio targets, and see how much my current portfolio differs from that, and then I make a judgement call.

Like I would NEVER buy as much tesla as their market share would dictate. A growth technology stock in a company that barely made any profits on the main product they sell (they did on carbon credits, not their core business), is not really a safe bet. Although, there is a lot of potential, and they have a fairly decent value proposition. They do treat their employees as shit though...

You can see I also have exposure to a bunch of airline stock, airbus, british airways and lufthansa. Those have been... interesting... through covid. But I bought most before, and some during. Like IAG (british airways) did a capital increase, and to avoid share dilution, I invested some extra, with a long term outlook.

I let the dividends be paid out (taxable events for me) and use that cash to also rebalance every once in a while. I keep maximally 2500 EUR cash on my investment account. I prefer to purchase a couple of times for 2-3000 euro instead of buying single shares to bring my portfolio in perfect balance.

I can talk about this for another hour. Please, ask if you have any specific questions. I would love to help out. Either here or in direct message.

Good luck on your journey.

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All the Canadian banks: BNS (ScotiaBank), TD, CM (CIBC), RY (Royal Bank), BMO (Bank of Montreal) and NA (National Bank). Their oligopoly and regulation by the canadian government makes them virtually indestructible, backed by the government and most of them have paid uninterrupted dividends for like 150+ years with an average of 7-8% increases every year. If shit hit the fan in the US they'll be happy to scoop up good deals with their cash reserves.

For Telcos, BCE (Bell), T (Telus) and Quebecor (QRB) are my favorite (fuck rogers). Sprinkle a little bit of insurance companies (IAG, Industrial Alliance ; IFC, Intact insurance ; MFC, Manulife Insurance, SLF, Sunlife)

Energy : ENB (Enbridge), CNQ (Canadian Natural Ressources), TRP (TC pipelines), Emera (EMA) and FTS (Fortis).

We're a country of oligopolies, where a few companies dominates every sector, which makes them very stable and evergrowing.

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Any European Stocks worth looking into? Currently own CAF (Madrid), ENI (Milan) and IAG (London).

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I reckon IAG is a good play! British Airways come under this ticker and lots of reasons for this stock to go up

That is just marketing. Someone on their marketing team determined that people will view $2 per year per $1,000 invested as cheap or more readily understood as cheap relative to saying 0.2%.

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But there are only really two manufactures. Boeing and airbus.
They just received a big order today from

British Airways owner IAG to order 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets.

KEY POINTS British Airways owner IAG said on Thursday it has agreed to order 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets for delivery between 2023 and 2027. The order is worth $6.25 billion at list prices, though the company said it had negotiated a substantial discount, as is typical in the industry. The order from a top-tier customer is an important signal to the market at a time when Boeing faces an increasingly high-stakes battle to win certification of the largest MAX variant.

IAG, which owns Ireland's Aer Lingus and Spain's Iberia and Vueling in addition to British Airways, also has a further 100 purchase options as part of the deal

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/19/british-airways-owner-iag-to-order-50-boeing-737-max-jets.html

IAG

Put in my life savings into rolls Royce, iag, and PayPal and got shafted heavily. Would like to see a WSB pump on Rolls Royce for the fun of it so it fucks up JPM on their ludicrous stupid downgrade!!

Figured you could manage it yourself. Total workforce. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm

Hospitality

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag70.htm

Food service

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag722.htm

This comes to 27 million.

Ukraine is not at the USA border. Therefore not a US problem directly as they are not part of NATO. This is actually a problem to Europe. European union chart has a priority number one of peace and traditionally compromises will be found. Markets will be fine. This is some BS narrative to hide the fed hikes and the fbi shake down on banks/hedge funds or perhaps the last move of a failing politician.

I have bought spy calls and IAG (gold miner) puts Expiring in March.

Tired of war on something BS all the time. This is Wendy's.

EasyJet is up 20% since January 1 and IAG (British Airways) is up 15%!

Considering there share prices was $350 (ish) pre lockdown i fee there’s definitely room for growth as air travel starts to ramp up again.

With the being said I believe IAG are also a good shout for a bounce, for the same reason as RR

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IAG is the move next week mark my fucking words. ❤️

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IAG, CCL,EZJ picking back up

I don't think we will see as bad a dip. We aren't likely going back in to full lockdowns, sure a few restrictions may come back in but that'll be it.

Travel industry will take a bit of a beating but that means lots on sale for the long post covid recovery. (Tui, iag, RR etc)

I think we will see more luxury spending. Watches of Switzerland for example have had a very good year, people saved and if people can't travel people treat themselves to something a little luxurious. So that's an area I'd keep an eye on.

Cineworld and IAG.L

Plowed another thousand into IAG. Most of the airlines are household names in their countries and any serious issues will see them bailed out, at current values five years from now we could triple or quadruple Investments made today.

This is the way, this + ALK + UAL + RCL + MAR + HLT + IAG for me because I'm insane

IAG (British Airways) up 4%... Good signal for US airlines opening in a few hours 👍

Likely if anyone has significant exposure to airlines. IAG waaaay down on LSE.

CCL, IAG, EZJ all dropping, bit of an overreaction for a lockdown in Austria? Can't imagine the rest of europe following.

IAG bro

Hello I think this is a great idea.

I’m British and British companies I have stock in are as follows:

IAG (actually listed on Madrid exchange) Rolls Royce Wetherspoons BP

Would happily sit on any board.

Interesting, are there any other benchmarking statistics you know? There are some statistics for NAICS 339 at https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag339.htm but I couldn't find sales related info)

Buy IAG

MDT +24%

HIVE -4%

PTK +89%

RIO +9%

IAG +12%

SFMN -11% (I'll stick to stocks from now!!)

Current portfolio lineup. Looking to even it all out in the next few months.

AMD (7.05%) AIR (5.11%) AHT (7.53%) BA. (6.92%) BRK.B (2.42%) BA (2.31%) BP (6.71%) CMCSA (2.42%) DHR (8.44%) FGP (2.53%) GME (3.59%) OGZD (2.43%) IAG (2.47%) LGEN (2.4%) MSFT (8.56%) NVDA (6.91%) RR (6.9%) RDSA (6.37%) Ftse 250 (2.51%) S&P 500 (2.47%)

Look at Paulson & Co and see what he owns/buys here. Paulson is a long-time gold bug and has way more information that we do. Of the gold stocks he owns, I am in SSRM, PPTA (look at PPTA's deal to supply antimony to battery manufacturer Ambri, in which Bill Gates and Paulson are both investors), and IAG.

Paulson's game is M&A arbitrage and the gold sector is ripe for M&A as you suggest in your post. Cheers

PPTA, GOLD, SA, SSRM, IAG, NG, IAG. The small caps will likely be acquired due to industry consolidation or they will fade and dissolve.

But personally I am long GOLD, PPTA, THM, SSRM, IAG, and, in energy, XOM (and many other energy majors). But I am short CEI

Did they issued more shares or taken a lot of debt? Good airliners already recovered so there must a reason IAG did not.

My personal suggestion is IAG. It's an airline group, most notably containing British airways. It's trading at around 30% of it's pre-covid value, so there's still a lot of room for recovery if normalcy is ever restored.

The only bear case I can find is that business flights will never be the same again.

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Mate I promise IAG the airline x I’m 7k in

IAG on a run lately. Good to see travel recovering slowly. Still less than 30% of what it was precovid so looking forward to the future with this

Meh I feel like IAG management is so washed up that they will not be able to take this opportunity to become leaders

My BUY is on IAG, firstly they are BA is airline of choice for flying U.K. to US.

Second, during pandemic IAG brought up their only Spanish competitor which means IAG is the only & dominant airline out of Spain

They are opening up more routes now into South America for families travelling directly.

IAG has some massive upside potential.

I feel you OP, I’m currently invested in IAG and United Airlines, both have been doing ok.

Ultimately, it’s a case of higher risk means higher reward. It very well may be the case that you don’t regret your decision later on :)

Quite often the share price gradually moves towards the offering price as the deadline approaches . If you don't want to exercise the right to buy, it's not the worst idea to sell the rights asap. A good comparison is the IAG (owner of British Airways) rights issue timeline from last year - I waited and waited with indecision and the value of my rights fell about eight-fold by the time I'd decided to sell.

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With everything happening evergrande tomorrow. Should I be selling my stocks today? Am currently green on iag and rolls Royce

With everything happening evergrande tomorrow. Should I be selling my stocks today? Am currently green on iag and rolls Royce

New to investing and have been using Trading212 (I'm British) for about a year and a half. Really pleased with some of my picks. Others meh, but I'm in no hurry to sell.

ETF Pie (All equal % allocation. Is counted separately because Trading212.)

• EQQQ (QQQ)
• RBOD (Automation & Robotics)
• INRG (Global Clean Energy)
• SMGB (Semiconductors)
• VUKE (FTSE 100)
• VUSA (S&P 500)

Manual Investments (Percentages are iffy because T212 loves to count pie investments in total portfolio and I'm shit at maths.)

• AMD 14.32% (Price up 19.47%)
• BP 10.83%
• CSX 6.46%
• LHA <4%
• GAW 17.66% (Price up 18.93%)
• IAG 5.44%
• RR 4.58% (Price up 27.53%)

Airline stocks were just dip buys with a view to sell once the world gets back to normal.

I want to buy more GAW and despite being near ATH, I feel the price will go up until around the release of Warhammer The Old World which people are really looking forward to.

CSX was a value investing pick. I looked at EV/EBITDA, free cash flow, off-balance sheet items and all the rest of it. I bought too early I think because I got excited, but it's rapidly heading to my entry point.

Looking to get in to FL but it will have to drop around 10$ before I buy.

IAG is flying

What's happening to airline stocks? IAG just shot up

Don’t worry I feel #IAG.L too. 😂😂😂😂

I feel you bro. Same with #IAG.L, only dipping. Spit up! Lol.

Its not at 1/4 of its prepandemic. Youre reading it wrong due to the stock offering they had to do last summer.

I am 90% sure of covid playing it out as I called it. Obviously IAG could fail due to debt problems, competition, etc, but business flight is being so underrated its insane. Big business deals (and the real money makers) are still done in person for a reason. Thats something Zoom cant compete with. Zoom is good for meaningless meetings and catchups (which truth be told IS a big part of the market) but some things you cant just do without the human interaction.

That’s a very bullish view for the long term I’m sure people will be dying for a holiday come Next season but IAG is very business based and those first class tickets is probably a lot of it’s revenue (not facts just my insight) I’m sorta betting on it to recover to about double its price in the coming years as it’s discounted to 1/4 of its pre pandemic but not sure about as strong a recovery as you think

Travel restrictions will eventually be removed. I also have IAG in my portfolio (I've been trading it during this whole pandemic) and it's a news based stock right now. Vaccine? Goes up. Variants? Down. Vaccines are good vs variants? Back up. Delta? Back down.

People will eventually realize cases don't matter, only hospitalizations & deaths do. And vaccines help immensely against that. And even if you're not vaccinated, you'll get immunity from the virus itself.

Covid's time is up. I don't know if it will be 6 months, 12, 2 years, etc... But this thing is over and travel stocks will soar once again, probably stronger than ever.

Simple, if Motley Fucks say IAG is not a buy, I'll be buying IAG. Those idiots hate money, back above 185 -195 the second US opens to vaccinated international travel. In for 10,000

To be honest bad press don't matter if they are the cheapest. Isn't IAG heavily on debt? I rather expect Wizz Air to be the biggest problem from Ryanair, and the whole EU idea to tax aviation fuel to be very problematic for EU airlines. I may buy some of them, but I wonder isn't it easier to just buy Airbus and some Airports. Personally I also check BOC aviation, this aircraft leaser is trading on Hong Kong exchange, have done very well during pandemic and seems to be caught in Chinese stock sellout when actually being incorporated in Singapore.

Ryanair is a beast. But his bad press is entering in the people, and I dont want to invest in that. The airlines are going in a M&A transition once they become profit again, so is a good moment to buy in good contenders.

PD: Ryanair tried to buy Aer Lingus, and UE denied that. IAG tried years after and It was aproved by EU. Sometimes you just have to read between lines.

To be honest I wonder why buy IAG when there is Ryanair and Wizz Air.

I am fully invested in IAG. A leader in their airline market, and with Spanish and British governments not willing to let the company fall.

Also I am following Rio Tinto and BP. Industrials are very important in any portfolio.

If you are intested in Banks you sould go to any leader like HSBC, BNP Paribas or Santander, not shits like Banco Sabadell, because their future is to fall or be bought.

IAG 3 years then something different

Yes, I think it is European specific but the contract sizes seem to differ.

Having looked through a number of other LSE equities it seems the usual contract size is 1000 shares. I wasn’t aware it ever deviated from 100 and so blindly assumed it would be 100 shares.

For whatever reason IAG and a few others have various sizes between 1000 and 2914 according to the excel link I sent (and verified on IB). There may be others with unusual sizes.

I'm holding IAG and Tui, making some returns as we speak and yes they're a long way from where they were. There are potentially nice gains to be made but it's not a short term hold, maybe 5 years time the holiday market will be back to what it was. Another one I'm holding long is Rolls Royce, they service a lot of engines and that's a big part of their profit, no planes flying means less servicing as more start to fly more regular they'll need more servicing.

Usual comment of dont invest anything you're not willing to lose etc.

Thank you for the reply.

Just had a look into the trade reports and my last call option purchase on TX had a “multiplier” of 100.

For this IAG call, the multiplier is 1616. Possibly because LSE uses pence and not pounds / dollars and so they use a scaling factor of 100. Then the 1.616 might be conversion from GBP to USD? That’s my working theory…does this sound plausible?

£2.3k is way more than I wanted to buy as I’m new to options trading. Might stick with US ones going forward!

Yesterday I put in an order (out of hours) for a call option on IAG (LSE) via Interactive Brokers for Sep 17 2021 with a 160 strike.

IAG is on LSE and share price is in pence, not pounds.

I ordered with a limit price of 14.6 and purchased 10 x call options.

The order has filled with an average price of 14.59. So I assumed I would pay 100 x 14.59 (pence) x 10 (contracts) = £145.90.

However the cost basis is £2360.00, and no matter how I hammer my calculator I can't make 14.59 x 10 = £2360.....

I've purchased options for US listed equities and the maths worked. What am I missing?

Grateful for some advice!

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There's zero reason to be in the funds and ETFs. BP is OK but it's probably too early to buy. I hold them but probably will get out of oil entirely if forced out (covered calls).

You're over diversified for no good reason.

WTAN seems average isn't going anywhere.

AMRN is a loser cut it. You don't know anything anyone else doesn't so it's not going to turn around on you and blow up big.

Is UK in a fycking recession or something? ABF looks like total trash too. How is it projected to gain 100% in 1 yr when its down 25% already?

BA is a tough one. They can't get their spacecraft off the ground and ran into problems with their backorders on their planes. It probably can do well with a successful flight to the space station and if they get their house in order. But I wouldn't buy it. I'll inherit some few hundred shares of it. Not sure if I'll sell it.

BATS - not the best of breed in US but it's a good stock. You'd probably be better off just selling everything and dumping it into BATS.

CNA. Not a particularly strong stock. Probably your better financial. Not a lot of reason to diversify in same sector. UK/commonwealth firms are looking very lethargic compared to American markets so probably want to go higher dividends for cashflow.

BATS and CNA.

EZJ seems good. Not going to look deeper in it's fundamentals just going to assume it's not meme-ing.

GSK. Better cash flow but can probably get better returns from BATS.

MTRO looks terrible dunno what's happened to it.

UKW. Decent dividend. Offers some diversification into power sector.

IAG - gold is a sell. Sell when gold is high and buy when gold is low. Probably find a better best of breed though. NEM if want gold play. Stay out till inflation is Low and gold is in the dumps.

RR. Don't know. Strong company. Stock isn't too hot. UK overall doesn't seem to have the same kind of recovery. Again I think dividend cash flow makes more sense in UK stocks.

RDSA. BP is the stronger oil play for UK. Consider consolidating this if you want oil.

Overall. I'm glad I have access to American markets. Seems UK is a tough playground. I'd say reevaluate looking for growth in cash flow and hold cash for limited buying opportunities. Seems you have to buy in sideways growth rather than a higher uptrend and this largely comes from mature markets. So dividends are more expected.

Rolls-Royce and IAG for days…….

IAG is NYSE IMG is TSE

I like IAMGold a lot!

The ticker is IMG tho not IAG

IAG’s Cote mine is actually in Ontario.

I have 10k shares of IAG (iamgold corporation)

Damn IAG did not drop to 2€ so my order did not go through.

If you want to discuss all those things, you have to also discuss the consequences of doing away with insurance.

The healthcare insurance market is one of the biggest employers in the US. There is close to 3million health insurance workers. If you do away with them, you might be benefiting productivity of peopel now on public healthcare, but then kicking everyone else employed in that industry out.

https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag524.htm#workforce

Interesting. I too do not see the spike on other charts. Only here: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DIS:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWy5Gs4s_xAhUJip4KHT8IAgEQ3ecFMAB6BAgZEBo

Thanks for the feedback.

Bought IAG for a swing trade last week and up 10%. sell or hold?

It's getting very tempting to go further in on IAMGold (already 0.5% of my portfolio, which is the most I give to a small cap).

Saw some footage recently of Justin Trudeau at the opening ceremony for the Cote mine. Folks don't realize that if gold ever hits $3000, it's going to be a pain in the ass to get it out of a 3rd world country without paying people off. IAG is trading like they are a banana republic miner, yet they have zero debt and they have Cote. The fact that Cote is in Canada and has head of state backing is a huge deal.