Made my decision last night after a bit of thinking.
I will keep all my Lonmin shares for the forseeable future or at least till mid/end 2016.
I want to see how this thing plays out since I used money that I do not need to buy milk with. So no jumping ship for me.
Reasons for staying in :
1.) Platinum will rise. The same thing happened to Oil in the 90's.(do some research if you do not believe me)
2.) Lonmin has a plan to turn the business around. Part of this plan is letting 6000 people in SA go. Why jump ship before I see if they actually gets it done or not?
3.) Thor made a mention of a movie "Too big to fall". Since our state pension fund decided to up their stake in Lonmin, they need to be kept alive. If Nene did not kill the ANC then the loss of state pension funds could widen the wound a bit.
4.) According to what I have read before. The rights issue will at least extend the life of Lonmin to 3 years. (Yes I know, thats only if the rights issue is not a fail)
5.) I have heard a lot of talk of people who are certain that Lonmin will close operations by the end of this month. Any inside news? If not, you probably are not right. (if you are, well done for guessing). Same with the share price tanking or going up. At this moment, everyone is only guessing and I am not going to pull out because someone guessed and made it sound certain.
If my reasons for not staying in goes bust, well like I said. Its not my milk money.