As I posted yesterday, there are some fat dividends up for grabs this week, as long as you buy in before the shares in question go ex-dividend on Wednesday.
So today’s first share purchase was prompted by the list of shares going ex-dividend this week.
Today started off with more purchases of companies I’ve already taken positions in this week, but with the market continuing to fall I’ve taken advantage of picking up “cheaper” shares.
Is this a good idea? I’m reminded of the phrase “catching a falling knife”. Continue reading
Some pound cost averaging of AstraZeneca (AZN) kicked off today’s share purchases, followed by purchased of Cookson (CKSN), Devro (DVO) and Umeco (UMC) on the back of share tips in The Independent this morning.
Lots more pound cost averaging (i.e. trying to make the average price I’ve bought various share at cheaper as the price has been dropping) of PUB, OCDO, BPTY, XMCX, HSX, HSBA, BPI, HWDN, LOG and SGP.
I hope the term “pound cost averaging” doesn’t haunt me.
For the next few days my posts will probably consist of a summary post at the end of the trading day. I’m going to be making A LOT of trades this week, and I don’t really have time to detail them all (and you probably don’t have time to read about them all).
So today I made 12 trades in the likes of St James’s Place (STJ), AstraZeneca (AZN), Halfords (HFD), HSBC (HSBA), Pennon (PNN) and Cineworld (CINE).
More to come tomorrow, no doubt.