nine lives, page-7

Tallmantim,

believe it or not I was a professional singer/entertainer for 15 years. During the course of last year I lost my singing voice. It got worse and worse through last year. By xmas last I had no choice but to stop altogether. Trading full time is something I would never have had the nerve to do but I started as a stop measure till the voice came good. The voice hasn't returned and I have surprised even myself as to how well I have done trading.

Don't get me wrong, I am no T4P and do not live the life of the rich and famous yet. As timeto suggests I did really well up to Aug17. since then I have been a bit up and down but still going forward.

I owe a lot to the likes of T4P and Raks for some really good input and I would be a lot better off than I already am if not for a huge bundle of mistakes along the way for which I take full credit.

I must say though when I started most of our kids were off our hands and I owned my own home. Also we were lucky to get into residential rental property (all on borrowed money) in the early 2000's. But the ratios between debt/rents/current property value gives me the confidence to go hard in some of these T4P type speccies.

If CVI goes the way it should in the 12-24 months it will be game over for me. I will buy myself a bag of div paying blue chips and retire to a waterfront home.

that's the plan anyway....