ADrunkenMarcus wrote:The lesson here is 'Don't sell Renishaw!' I suppose the rise was just awkward timing with the tax year. I tend to give an instruction to Bed & ISA, then normally it's done the same day and you have a reasonable match between the sell and buy price, except you have fewer shares bought back after fees: so I use cash to top up the holdings back to their prior quantity and/or make any adjustments needed.
Indeed!
Unfortunately it was in my old HSBC account and I needed to move it to my current ISA with TDDirect, so I couldn't do a simple Bed & Isa. (HSBC are crap at them anyway even if I could have used them.)
ADrunkenMarcus wrote:I know someone else who sold Unilever because it was looking 'toppy' or 'expensive' (how did they phrase it?) back in February. A day or so later and it started a rise which has taken it up 40% in a few months.
Ouch!
Must admit I was thinking of buying some more Unilever around that time myself but there were too many alternatives at the time and a lump sum hadn't arrived by then. Would have been way better than some I've bought since!
cheers
Spiderbill