"pamela" wrote in message
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On 22:16 24 Oct 2016, Rod Speed wrote:



"pamela" wrote in message
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On 18:00 24 Oct 2016, Simon Mason wrote:

On Monday, 24 October 2016 16:14:59 UTC+1, Andrew wrote:
On 24/10/2016 14:13, Simon Mason wrote:
On Monday, 24 October 2016 11:38:54 UTC+1, Rod Speed
wrote:

Not a high risk if you believe BP is a viable operation
and presumably
he
does.

Sure, there is SOME risk of BP being involved in something
very stupid like that deep sea drilling rig blowout
preventer ****up, but the risk isnt really all that great.

I sold every BP share I possessed on 22APR10 for £6-22 and
made £40000 - a few weeks later they were £2-96.

Made another bomb buying a shedload back at £3-00 and
selling them
later at £5-00.

But if you had put half into the Fundsmith fund it would be
worth 2.5 times now what you paid in 2010.

When Google came out in 2004, I could see that it would wipe
the floor with Alta Vista et al and could have been a
millionaire by now, but I stuck with the oil business as it is
my own speciality.

What could you see in Google back then that told you it would
beat Alta Vista?

Did a much better job of ending up with the most useful hits on
the first page with most searches.

I remember Alta Vista had poorer response times.

Sure, but that wasn’t the reason so many of us chose to change to google.