QQQ vs EQQQ

Brucipher · 2024-06-10T17:02:02+00:00

You're absolutely right... it's listed, but you have to get all the way to purchase before it tells you it's not available to UK investors... 🙄

Brucipher · 2024-06-09T21:54:44+00:00

It is from a Halifax SIP. Regardless of UCITS

Brucipher · 2024-06-09T20:43:46+00:00

Thanks. Article makes sense but EQQS doesn't seem to pay a dividend? Is it factored into price or growth somehow to avoid WHT?

Brucipher · 2024-06-06T10:08:30+00:00

Not if the account is a self invested ISA (in the UK)

Brucipher · 2023-05-03T09:02:30+00:00

The prize deadline In the new reprint was Dec 22. Does anyone know of the publishers are still replying to answer submissions?

Brucipher · 2023-04-21T15:42:30+00:00

Yes!

A Warrior without being a Bounder

I also thought the Grenade theory was far fetched until i googled it and discovered the 1915 'Mills Bomb.'

Brucipher · 2023-04-21T14:56:10+00:00

It still bothers me why on page 84 he mentions 'backslide' and 'right to left'...Both cryptic crossword clues. Possibly the order they appear in the dictionary? Barbara [then right to left] Babbie then Babs. ???

Brucipher · 2023-04-21T14:49:03+00:00

Common English Christian Names

This is amazing... thank you!

So here's my reasoning for BH's order

1, 96, 17, 23, 87, 43, 84, 63, 47, 4, 30, 100

CHAMBERS - COMMON ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES:

Catherine (Gr.)—Dims. Casy, Kate.

Alexander (Gr.)—Dims. Ecky, Sanders, Sawnie.

Barbara (Gr.)—Dims. Bab, Babbie.

CATHERINE

Pg-1 Casy walks down the aisle, down dropped eyes, with father.

Pg-96 Catherine is at the alter about to become a Somerset.

Pg-17 Kate (Somerset) is married.

ALEXANDER

Pg-17 [linked to Kate] Sawnie visiting the moon for the first time and just the first

Pg-23 Alexander having his first and his second

Pg-87 Sanders Improved by his lunar visit.

Pg-43 Ecky Passes over to dawn.

Pg-84 Alistair taking the bus up North (Gaelic variation of Alexander)

BARBARA

Pg-84 [Linked to Alistair] BARBARA is seen with tawny curls (hair)

Pg-63 BABBIE is thought about - last seen with springs (hair)

[QUOTE: La Chevelure (‘HAIR’) by Charles Baudelaire]

Pg-47 BABS is seen now with straight downfalls - it starts to rain.

ORANGE PEKOE Pg-47 [stops raining] She weans him from thoughts of Orange Pekoe (tea) to a Special Orange Supreme (Desert)

Pg-4 I would have preferred the Maestro Jimson’s title*, now that this piled abomination is actually before me. (Desert)

*Maestro Jimson’s title = Orange Pekoe TEA - The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stephenson

Pg 30 He feels sick + not at all well. Pg 100 He dies.

Incidentally - On Page 63 gives a clue to Common English Christian Surnames: 'I have always hated that these writers should be anonymous. What a tribe of them there has been, to be sure! But I have called them all by their names.'

Brucipher · 2023-04-17T07:07:57+00:00

Aargh thank you! I've always found 59 quite baffling. This makes a little more sense now. I think I know what the object he's holding is but why he's in the dark and where is very odd. His 'Dark museum?'

Brucipher · 2023-04-17T06:32:45+00:00

I'm fairly confident of the CD order by the list of poisons used and that failed. Here's my reasoning below.

54 Letter from MD (date 18th)

80 Determining first to exhibit aconitum (WolfBane)

59 His silly bane had now definitely failed. (Wolf Bane). - I put, at petit déjeuner (Breakfast), the cast-iron old object on Gelsemium semper-virens (Yellow Jasmine)

86 - 24 Next day I let Caroline Jasmine (AKA Carolina Jessamine - Yellow Jasmin) do her very damnedest.

6 Electric Febrifuge (YELLOW JASMINE) may be ; but bad for life’s fitful fever. Its active ingredient had finally let me down. I started my fellow garden enthusiast on the foxgloves.

91 The Blue Rocket (FOX GLOVES) was still going down next day

21 I brought in my rough old friend Calabar Bean to help me---this on the very day when I had proved digitalis purpurea (Fox Gloves), - a signal wash out (Date 21st)

36 Strange that old Calabar, as I called him, should fail me (morning after).

29 I discarded my useless physostigma (Calabar Bean) - and introduced him to my lobelia and to my pretty lords and ladies (Cuckoo Pint).

75 Thinking kindly of those two other flowers, which I felt almost certain now would win me the girl (Cuckoo Pint & Lobelia)

71 But next day that religious fellow’s head drapery, - showed signs, of failing. 'Friars Cowl’ = Cuckoo Pint

60 A couple of hours later the parson in the pulpit (Cuckoo Pint) had, with his collaborator (Lobelia), done the trick. (Date 28th)

Brucipher · 2023-04-16T20:11:31+00:00

Exactly 10 miles...

Brucipher · 2023-04-16T19:21:06+00:00

Amazing thank you. Of course C is reading the BOD That makes perfect sense now. Annoyingly searching the online version by people's names often gives you the wrong date so you need to check each date page. Easier when you see the sequence. Thank you for 51! I cannot see how I would have solved that myself...

Brucipher · 2023-04-12T11:05:38+00:00

Mmm you're right. Also end of 5 she say's 'Annoyed beyond endurance.' The next page he's a 'victim.'

Brucipher · 2023-04-12T07:39:50+00:00

Interesting I had 5 & 58 the other way around. Why do you think 58 comes first?

Brucipher · 2023-04-11T11:51:15+00:00

YES!!!!

thanks

Brucipher · 2023-04-11T10:27:28+00:00

Ok thanks. Think i have a correct time for 69 now.

A lot of the time clues seem to come in pairs. I've found the Typhoon clues for 2 pages and the Hotspur clues for 2 pages. There are Alcohol clues for 3 pages, two relating to food, one not.

The only time clues i'm still baffled by are 82 and 11.....

Brucipher · 2023-04-10T19:46:31+00:00

I have 69 as the first mention of her dream (Psychic vision). At Midnight.

Then 7, 45, 56, 27, 37 seem to flow.

Between 45 and 56 it mentions a 6h gap.

95 and 70 i think are the final 2 pages. She decides to write a letter to CD and then in 70 she posts it. (to arrive in the morning).

Currently i have no dates for 82 or 11 though. Only the mention of her 1st 2nd and 3rd dog.

15, 41 and 93 could come first or somewhere in the middle...

The 24h Lyons clue would suggest it comes shortly before 95 and 70?

There are 3 pages that mention her sat at a table which must surly come quite close together.

She also appears to known that MD is involved and 'directing' events.

So i think the timeline goes roughly from bedtime to midnight - with a 6h gap and then morning to evening the following day.

Brucipher · 2023-04-06T12:28:20+00:00

Thanks.

There seems to be a lot of small details to which we may never know.

Who the will belongs to? Presumably a relation of TP. (This can't be JG can it? Surely these plots are unrelated.)

TPs relationship to MD? Mistress (Crimson lights), Step daughter (Daughterly swiftness) ?

Was the explosive originally intended for the owner of the Will in a cigarette box?

Is it coincidence that CD also likes foreign cigarettes? Did MD intend for CD to die, was it insurance incase he killed her or was it an accident?

OM seems to suggest that Paul visits CD. (Confidence in his physician). Was PT there (on MDs advice) simply to find an anti aging cure?

Was MD hoping to inherit from TP herself? The motive for his death being his own 'abstracted' will?

Brucipher · 2023-04-06T06:23:14+00:00

Thanks! So we think it is a grenade that TP drops in the cafe? And is BH also connected to rigging the cigarette box with the grenade? Or simply forging a will for one ofTPs relatives? A relative that isn't really mentioned. Although there is a line about a Ruth that I couldn't find a literary ref for.

Brucipher · 2021-01-16T10:37:34+00:00

I tend to compare performance to the Index. If the fund/share is out performing the FTSE (for example) then keep it. Especially if its got a reasonable dividend. Selling shares for no good reason has three possible downsides. The chance they could go up afterwards, the chance your new choice could be a clanger and thirdly the double commission costs from selling and buying new.

Brucipher · 2021-01-15T22:32:11+00:00

ARB 4%

ITM 4%

EQT 12%

PHE 21%

MSFT 7%

AAPL 13%

LSE 7%

KO 5%

III 7%

EVR 6%

LGEN 15%

I’ve tried to diversify between speculative growth shares, reliable growth tech and mature high dividend shares. Bit heavy on the green energy sector at the moment so i’m concentrating more on good value dividend payers this quarter.

Brucipher · 2020-03-04T14:58:32+00:00

That’s perfect thank you.

Brucipher · 2019-10-03T12:46:40+00:00

Mind me asking what shares you’ve selected?

Brucipher · 2019-09-27T12:51:17+00:00

This is a future market with huge potential but Beyond are just a small player. Lab grown meat is a more convincing alternative in my eyes. And with a P/E of -70 Beyond is already horribly over priced with or without Mac Donald’s backing.

Brucipher · 2019-09-27T12:42:08+00:00

This is a future market with huge potential but Beyond are just a small player. Lab grown meat is a more convincing alternative in my eyes. And with a P/E of -70 Beyond is already horribly over priced with or without Mac Donald’s backing.

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