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niko_cee
16-03-2022, 04:44 PM
I could definitely go for a ton into Baz Scrape Technologies, see how it benchmarks against Mellinvest Inc.
What platform do you fellas use for Australian shares?
Lofty
22-03-2022, 09:51 AM
I like my beer cold, my tv loud and my free money bots Brummie.
Just sent the bot to all who requested it.
https://i.imgur.com/qVDvmDt.png
I've made £233 in 9 days. :huhu:
Don’t know if this true in a larger scale, but it seems to me that my shares tend to go up earlier in the week and always come down a bit on Fridays. Has anyone noticed similar things? And if so, is it some well known thing everyone knows and there’s a reason for it.
Buy on Friday, sell on Monday, see you in the yacht club.
I knew it was easy. Thank you for cracking the market for me 👍
Although with the amounts I invest I might need to tag along in a rowboat.
Spikey M
25-03-2022, 01:23 PM
Don’t know if this true in a larger scale, but it seems to me that my shares tend to go up earlier in the week and always come down a bit on Fridays. Has anyone noticed similar things? And if so, is it some well known thing everyone knows and there’s a reason for it.
I think it's because day / swing traders don't generally leave their money in the market over the weekend, so there's always a sell off at the end of the week.
Thanks. Got a similar reply from somewhere else too, so going to assume it’s that.
Finally started doing something with this.
Sold about £7k worth of my companies shares, and currently got some in Smith and Nephew, Rolls Royce (:moop:) and Legal and General.
Did have some persimmon for about a week but binned them for a 5% gain after realising I’d missed the dividend.
My shares are worth less than what I paid for them. :cool:
Winning is losing, right?
Spikey M
16-04-2022, 10:13 PM
I've just been talking to one of my friends that is absolutely convinced that Crypto and NFT's are the future. Where possible he uses Crypto for everything but was complaining about the Etherium gas fee's and how expensive it is.
Luckily, he's cracked it lads. He needed to send £50 of Eth to a mate, but - to get around the gas fees - he sold £50 worth, then did a bank transfer and his friend is going to buy £50 of Eth when it arrives.
I have sent 7 WhatsApp messages containing nothing but long strings of fullstops but he doesn't seem to be grasping the problem. Bless.
-james-
16-04-2022, 10:25 PM
I've been using some Solana network stuff for betting, the fees are basically zero, everything is instant and the tech for swapping/moving stuff about is impressive. I'm still slightly terrified I'm going to vanish my money into nothing whenever I do anything, but I'm not sure why Eth seems to still be the bigger deal in crypto.
Spikey M
16-04-2022, 10:35 PM
He bought Eth when it was still reasonably cheap and made a shit load trading in the last bull market, all of which he converted to Eth. He is just blindly hanging on for Eth 2.0 I think. No idea why.
I’ve got quite a bit of Ethereum from when it was sub $200 but I’m in no way convinced by it and just plan to cash it out some time in the future. It’s just another investment avenue.
Depends how successful the merge will be. If they can go proof of stake, reduce the energy needs and improve transaction capacity and it remains important.
It's all about terra anyway.
Would anyone be interested in a bot that you leave running constantly and it autotrades and makes you money? People seem to pay serious dollar for it but I’m happy to share it for free, on the proviso you use my referral to sign up to the broker of course.
For transparency, it uses a free programme called MetaTrader 4 (I’ll supply the plugins that make the magic happen) and you need an ICMarkets (https://icmarkets.com/?camp=63373) account.
It requires initial investment of any size - soz I don’t know the minimum investment but Google sez $200 :sorry: .You need to deposit at least £500 for it to work safely. I set it up last night with 1k and made £6.54 in 9 hours. You literally just leave it running. :) You can even do it with a Remote Desktop if you don’t have a dedicated machine.
The maths I’ve seen is if you put 5k in, in 2 years you should have 300k, so not quite as profitable as Mellin but not bad for no effort
PM if you want.
Wrote this for someone, it includes the link if anyone wants it.
I have been using this bot for for over a month with great success, nearly doubling my initial investment.
Full disclosure: you will need to deposit at least £500 but you’ll make it back and can withdraw it within a month, to make pure profit from after you’ve withdrawn your initial investment.
This works by running some software constantly that trades stocks automatically, using a script/bot. You will need to either leave it running all day/night on your computer/a dedicated Windows machine, or you can buy a virtual desktop server. I personally use the £15 a month Starter Desktop from UKHost4U: https://www.ukhost4u.com/hosted-desktop/ I purchased the annual plan for £140.40 and got £28.08 back by paying via Quidco: https://www.quidco.com/raf/702783/ However it is fine to just run it on a computer. Please not the bot will not work if you don’t leave MT4 running.
I’d recommend reading all of this guide before proceeding.
First you’ll need to register an account on https://www.icmarkets.com/global/en/open-trading-account/live?camp=63373
During registration make sure ‘I was referred by a Broker’ is ticked in the tell us more about yourself section. If it’s not ticked, tick it and enter 63373 as the refer ID. This will mean your account is unrestricted from the start and don’t need to wait for it to be manually reviewed.
Next you need to download MetaTrader 4 (MT4) from the downloads section of the website or visiting this link: https://www.icmarkets.com/global/en/forex-trading-platform-metatrader/metatrader-4?camp=63373
Once downloaded you will need a Live account to use with it. Create one in the Accounts section, or by visiting this link: https://secure.icmarkets.com/Finance/Accounts?camp=63373
Leave everything as default but change the currency to GBP. Once you have created your account you will need to deposit some money to trade with. A minimum of £500 is recommended. People have tested with £200 and it did not work. If you don’t have £500, don’t use the bot.
Now it’s time to run the MT4 software. Check your email and you will have received details of your Live account to login with, and which server to use. For example if the email says your username is 1200111234 and on the server ICMarketsSC-Live12, these are the details you need to log in on MT4.
On MT4, right click on Accounts and choose Login to Trade Account. Enter the details from the email, making sure to select the correct Server.
You can then close all of the default displayed charts by clicking the crosses to close them, within MT4.
Now you need to download the bot that does all the work and makes your money. You can grab it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lk7msVp7Y28saDsHor8jnF11Xbn6WLA3/view?usp=sharing
Extract the three files - EA install Guide Euro Scalper_v1.1.pdf, EUR Scalper V1 - Copy.set and Euro_Scalper_fix.ex4 – to a folder you will remember. (The pdf is a more detailed version of this post, including pictures to help you setup your trading bot.)
On MT4, right-click on EURUSD and click chart window. You can then maximise this chart window as it will be the only chart you have open.
Along the top of MT4 you will see timescales, eg M1 M5 M30 H1 etc. Select M5.
Then click file > Open data folder > MQL4 > experts
This will open a new window on your computer. In a different window, locate the folder you extracted the Trading Bot files to. Copy and paste Euro_Scalper_fix.ex4 from the extracted folder to the Experts folder.
Go back to MT4 and refresh the terminal by right clicking Expert Advisors and select refresh. Euro_Scalper_fix should now appear.
Right click on Euro_Scalper_fix and select Attach to a chart. A new window will appear. Click the Common tab and tick both ‘Allow Live Trading’ and ‘Allow DLL imports.’ Then on the Inputs tab, click Load and locate the EUR Scalper V1 - Copy.set file in the extracted folder. Now click OK to close this window and it will import the bot settings.
In MT4, above the timescale buttons where you selected M5, there is a button that says Autotrading. Click that button and a tiny smiley face should appear in the top right of the chart window. This means you have done everything correctly.
Disclaimer: Trading Derivatives carries a high level of risk to your capital and you should only trade with money you can afford to lose. Trading Derivatives may not be suitable for all investors, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved and seek independent advice if necessary. I am not responsible for your money; you are.
If you can afford it, I would recommend starting with £1000. If you start with such a large initial deposit, you can change the settings of the bot to be a bit more active. To do this, right click on the chart window and select Expert Advisors > Properties. In the new window, change Lot from 0.01 to 0.016. Then on MT4, change the timescale to M1. But only do this if you deposit at least £1000.
I deposited £1000 on 15/3/22 and on 19/4/22 my balance was £1944.24 (Proof: https://i.imgur.com/delQzDH.png)
Please note the trading markets are closed at weekends so you won’t make any trades (and therefore your balance won’t increase) on Saturdays or Sundays.
If you need help or have any questions just reply here and I’ll respond when I can. If you’re wanting to go down the virtual desktop route, it’s a lot easier than you think. Windows has a program called Remote Desktop Connection where you just input the details provided by ukhost4u (or your VPS provider) and it will connect. You then follow this guide on the virtual system to set up MT4 to autotrade.
I've just withdrawn my initial £1000. :huhu:
Spikey M
20-04-2022, 10:39 PM
I've had a mental couple of weeks. Increased my account by 60% by going 3x short on Tesla last week and doubled my account (103%) by going 3x short on NetFlix yesterday. It's Earnings Season and every cunt is missing their targets. Just short anything ahead of their results and you win. This is incredible.
Mellberg
21-04-2022, 08:26 AM
Well done, Spikes. Whilst you're shorting, just check the daily, weekly and monthly indicies' MACDs against a low (5, 8, 13) moving average. Daily and weekly trying to turn. They might try and turn the monthly next week before month's close, which would take a very strong week.
Apart from the FTSE. That's flying solo and should be taken on its own.
Mellberg
21-04-2022, 08:26 AM
Watching that bot with interest, Baz. Keep us updated.
Re: the bot. Kamatera do a virtual server 30 days free so if you wanted to trial the bot 24/7 for a month tied to a IG demo account, you can get a server free for the month too so it won't cost a penny and you can see its true potential.
Mellberg
21-04-2022, 07:31 PM
Well done, Spikes. Whilst you're shorting, just check the daily, weekly and monthly indicies' MACDs against a low (5, 8, 13) moving average. Daily and weekly trying to turn. They might try and turn the monthly next week before month's close, which would take a very strong week.
Apart from the FTSE. That's flying solo and should be taken on its own.
Nope. Not the US anyway. Europe still has a chance. Gold getting very interesting on the monthly.
Watching that bot with interest, Baz. Keep us updated.Honestly my only niggle was 'what if I can't withdraw?' but woke up this morning to £1k in my Paypal.
So yeah if you've got £500 startup capital + £140 for the VPS (totalling £640) there's no reason not to plug it in and watch the money roll in. :rasta:
Sold my smith and newphew for an 8% gain. Trying to seal in some profits to offset inevitable future losses.
Might buy it again if it dips back down.
Mellberg
23-04-2022, 06:08 PM
Is the right answer. Gold off 1890-1900 if it gets there. Take loss at 1875. Hold for life if a winner.
How does one buy gold/silver etc?
I’ve a HL account for shares and funds and stuff. Is it possible through there?
My gaff (energy company) are making money hand over fist at the moment but the share price seems to have hit a wall. Hoping the results in a few weeks time will highlight how profitable it currently is and send it skyward so I can sell sell sell. Currently I just keep dribbling out shares, but I’m buying £375 of the fuckers a month through a share scheme so I’m barely breaking the cycle.
Hopefully S&N dips back to the £11.50-12.25 range so I can buy back in.
Also fancy me a piece of stryker in America as it took a 7% dive on Friday and I need to pick another car manufacturer who’s going deep in EVs. BMW is too exposed to pootin.
Set Mike up with Bazbot today. :cool:
Let's see how big his erection is by the end of May.
nickfootie5
23-04-2022, 08:07 PM
Set Mike up with Bazbot today. :cool:
Let's see how big his erection is by the end of May.
I’m going get this set up tomorrow/Monday. If it goes tits up, I’m coming for you.
I’m going get this set up tomorrow/Monday. If it goes tits up, I’m coming for you.It won't.
How much do you plan to put in as your initial deposit?
nickfootie5
23-04-2022, 10:01 PM
It won't.
How much do you plan to put in as your initial deposit?
£1,000 like you suggested. I assume if things started going wrong I can cut my loses and pull that out?
£1,000 like you suggested. I assume if things started going wrong I can cut my loses and pull that out?Of course.
Looking forward to the updates.
-james-
11-05-2022, 11:59 AM
Oh dear Luna.
Appears to be that time of the year where the crypto people I follow on Twitter are posting Samaritans numbers.
Major major collapse. Do got played by the bigger hedge fund brains.
Mellberg
12-05-2022, 05:50 AM
Need to watch the dollar. On the brink of a breakout above 20 year highs (as in a few pips). If that rips...
In theory it's a good time to buy, as should hit resistance, but yesterday's CPI data and the reaction to it, plus the monthly and weekly momentum are just terrifying.
Mellberg
12-05-2022, 06:30 AM
Dollar broke highs. Climbed for 30 minutes. Sold down aggressively back through level in 3 mins. Buy stuff for a bit.
Mellberg
12-05-2022, 07:21 AM
Strong recovery (dollar). Maybe not.
Re bought my smith and nephew this morning for less than I originally paid. So watch it continue to crumble from here.
Got tomorrow off, and bar playing GTA 3 I think I’m going to spunk my residual funds into a few shares that are down. Maybe RELX or more of a car maker with EV upside.
Spikey M
12-05-2022, 05:36 PM
Re bought my smith and nephew this morning for less than I originally paid. So watch it continue to crumble from here.
Got tomorrow off, and bar playing GTA 3 I think I’m going to spunk my residual funds into a few shares that are down. Maybe RELX or more of a car maker with EV upside.
I don't think the bear is anywhere near do lne with the market. I wouldn't buy anything right now if you don't want short term losses.
Yevrah
12-05-2022, 05:54 PM
Yeah, I'd guess there's a lot more arse to fall out of things yet.
Everything is flying today. Set a sell for S&M to see whether I can flip it for another 8% gain.
Assume that’s a reasonable tactic - identify a company you like and just buy/sell as it fluctuates, as long as you’re willing to hold it for whatever you paid.
Should’ve been more rigorous with the other efforts.
Are you remembering to declare your gains?
Spikey M
13-05-2022, 09:56 AM
Trade in an ISA account, no need to worry then.
Lewis
13-05-2022, 06:42 PM
1525150731321257985
Absolute goldmine at the minute (ironically).
randomlegend
24-05-2022, 07:32 PM
Wife's sister is pregnant. When I turned 18 I got some money from a Children's Bond which my grandparents had invested into when I was born. Helped me pay for my first car and was really nice.
Children's bonds don't exist any more. I am utterly clueless on any sort of investing. Is putting say a grand into something like a Junior Stock's and Shares ISA, for when the kid turns 18, worthwhile?
No I'm not giving it to Mellin.
Lewis
24-05-2022, 07:35 PM
Two goes on the Baz Bot.
Luke Emia
24-05-2022, 07:36 PM
Wife's sister is pregnant. When I turned 18 I got some money from a Children's Bond which my grandparents had invested into when I was born. Helped me pay for my first car and was really nice.
Children's bonds don't exist any more. I am utterly clueless on any sort of investing. Is putting say a grand into something like a Junior Stock's and Shares ISA, for when the kid turns 18, worthwhile?
No I'm not giving it to Mellin.
Yes. The parents need to set it up though if I remember correctly. But then anyone can pay into it for the kid moving forwards as well.
Spikey M
24-05-2022, 07:44 PM
Wife's sister is pregnant. When I turned 18 I got some money from a Children's Bond which my grandparents had invested into when I was born. Helped me pay for my first car and was really nice.
Children's bonds don't exist any more. I am utterly clueless on any sort of investing. Is putting say a grand into something like a Junior Stock's and Shares ISA, for when the kid turns 18, worthwhile?
No I'm not giving it to Mellin.
Stocks and Shares ISA, yes. Bonds, no. Bonds are dead these days, you'd be lucky to track inflation.
randomlegend
24-05-2022, 07:55 PM
Yeah stocks and shares ISA is what I was looking at. Thanks guys.
Yevrah
24-05-2022, 08:02 PM
Anyone ever dabbled with VCTs?
Yeah stocks and shares ISA is what I was looking at. Thanks guys.
Maybe try Vanguard? They don't have a referral scheme, sadly.
https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 07:27 PM
BTC puking its way to sub 18k right now.
This is our generation's dotcom bubble burst. Gonna be fucking brutal. First time its ever gone below a previous cycle's ATH, that's usually support. First time it'll have been through what will be a recession. First time without fucking bang on sweet inflation.
Crumble time.
Spikey M
18-06-2022, 07:37 PM
:drool:
The vertical line drop really is something.
Shindig
18-06-2022, 07:43 PM
I sure hope non of our local councils invested heavily in this.
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 07:48 PM
The vertical line drop really is something.
Its just chewing through 2-5k buy walls at every level like its nothing. No liquidty in the market to buy, retail have fuck all money, institutions getting margin called and liquidated by the day. Feels very different to a regular bear market. Not even any substantial bounces, just death.
Spikey M
18-06-2022, 07:59 PM
I'm still 3x short on Coinbase, which is going pretty well, but had Binance not stopped me from shorting Bitcoin I would have made tens of thousands here (or been margin called early doors).
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 08:01 PM
I wanna know if that dude who shorted on 50x at 68k or so still has it open.
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 08:09 PM
Lol 17k. 4000 BTC buywall chewed through in 1 minute.
Spikey M
18-06-2022, 08:12 PM
Glorious. Ideally it needs to go low enough to bankrupt Coinbase, then I might still be on for retirement.
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 08:14 PM
Its gonna claim a big exchange imo. My bet would be Coinbase, given the news about staff this week, and their CEO gloating about what he buys all the time. Plus the shit they list weekly, and investigations about insider trading.
Spikey M
18-06-2022, 08:24 PM
Its gonna claim a big exchange imo. My bet would be Coinbase, given the news about staff this week, and their CEO gloating about what he buys all the time. Plus the shit they list weekly, and investigations about insider trading.
I have always had Coinbase down as the exchange for people that aren't particularly interested in Crypto, but want to buy some because of FOMO. Coinbase is hugely user friendly for them, despite the fees, but surely most of them fled the market ages ago. The diehards aren't fucking about on Coinbase. Maybe some on Pro.
Yeah, I think (hope) they're fucked unless something changes. I don't think they survive this if it goes on for as long as a recession normally does.
Dark Soldier
18-06-2022, 08:26 PM
Yeah out of the big 3 its definitely the most susceptible. Binance is just massive, is known (but not proven) to dump on users, open shorts etc. Shit load of backing, basically most of Asia.
FTX has Sam, worth about 30bil, and he's the golden boy. No way that is going under.
Anyone still got GME? :D
They’re doing a 4-to-1 stock split. My 10 shares are now 40. :cool:
Spikey M
07-07-2022, 12:05 PM
Normally the stock price would drop to a quarter of the current price in line with that, but it's GME so no doubt it'll double in price instead.
All aboard the BenBot.
It was up 5% last I checked.
My current holdings
Rolls Royce - still a dud, full HODL
RELX - hoping to sell this relatively soon if it gets back above £23/share
Smith and Nephew - I’ve got two blocks of this, I bought in at £12 and then when it dropped to £11 added a bit more. Would like to bin these off if it gets back to £13, but it seems the floor fell out at £12 so could be another HODL
Admiral - probably a dud, will just hold long term and collect dividend
Legal and general - as per admiral
BMW - I debated binning this off a month ago when it was >80euro but seemingly selling foreign shares isn’t possible with a limit order and my concern of Russian exposure has come true, so stuck holding this one too.
Rio tinto - not sure what I was thinking here. Must’ve been pissed.
Shell - energy companies surely be the big winner of Russia does turn off the gas? Also not entirely sure why the share prices are down 15-20% over the last month or so for companies that are generatinf such enormous returns. Would’ve gone total given their gas portfolio but foreign shares are an arse.
I also did some totting of my company shares and turns out I’ve sold a heck of a lot more than I thought I had over the last 8 months, but interestingly I’m buying about £700/month via share schemes and dividends so I’ve only actually “sold” about half of that number.
It’s quite fun when you just accept your might end up holding them long term. I’m technically down probably a couple of hundred at the moment but could’ve been a lot worse.
Been trying to work out which companies are going to thrive in the chaos of gas meltdowns. Maybe there are no winners?
GameStop is genuinely my best asset at the moment. Everything is going south. Apart from BazBot of course.
Yeah, if we do tip into recession and the stock market tanks (further) I think I’m going to double my portfolio.
No risk it, no biscuit.
Although, no chance I’m going into GameStop.
I’ve been in since the “beginning” of the craze. I bought at $30. It was and still is a bit of a laugh but it’ll be my only profitable investment before long. :D
Woof - just checked the stock price. You said you’d 4x your holding with the split too?
How difficult is it to fill in that form to enable you to buy American shares? I’ve been meaning to do that for a while to take advantage of the impending doom in us financial markets.
For what it’s worth, my rolls Royce shares have been oscillating between 20-40% down as my biggest loser.
But my (previous) S&N and persimmon adventures both returned >10% gains after a couple of buy and sells.
I just have GME and other US stocks through UK companies.
phonics
12-07-2022, 12:40 PM
Got 40k from liquidating my Swiss pension. Now got to decide what to do with it. Parents want me to stick it all in a private pension.
Shindig
12-07-2022, 01:09 PM
Maybe not.
phonics
12-07-2022, 01:36 PM
Have a weekend.
Been there. Done that.
Spikey M
12-07-2022, 01:40 PM
Buy Dogecoin
Give it to Bazbot should be the default option by now.
Offshore Toon
12-07-2022, 02:13 PM
You should probably give it to charity tbh.
Jimmy Floyd
12-07-2022, 02:15 PM
The most expensive seat at Arsenal is just shy of £13,000, so you can get that for three years.
My current holdings
Rolls Royce - still a dud, full HODL
RELX - hoping to sell this relatively soon if it gets back above £23/share
Smith and Nephew - I’ve got two blocks of this, I bought in at £12 and then when it dropped to £11 added a bit more. Would like to bin these off if it gets back to £13, but it seems the floor fell out at £12 so could be another HODL
Admiral - probably a dud, will just hold long term and collect dividend
Legal and general - as per admiral
BMW - I debated binning this off a month ago when it was >80euro but seemingly selling foreign shares isn’t possible with a limit order and my concern of Russian exposure has come true, so stuck holding this one too.
Rio tinto - not sure what I was thinking here. Must’ve been pissed.
Shell - energy companies surely be the big winner of Russia does turn off the gas? Also not entirely sure why the share prices are down 15-20% over the last month or so for companies that are generatinf such enormous returns. Would’ve gone total given their gas portfolio but foreign shares are an arse.
I also did some totting of my company shares and turns out I’ve sold a heck of a lot more than I thought I had over the last 8 months, but interestingly I’m buying about £700/month via share schemes and dividends so I’ve only actually “sold” about half of that number.
It’s quite fun when you just accept your might end up holding them long term. I’m technically down probably a couple of hundred at the moment but could’ve been a lot worse.
Been trying to work out which companies are going to thrive in the chaos of gas meltdowns. Maybe there are no winners?
Binned off relx this week just shy of £23/share and then S&M small lot gone as it approached £12 again.
BMW and Shell next :yn:
Tesla have sold their Bitcoin after Musk proclaimed last year when he bought it that he'd never sell it. Just the $500m loss then.
Shindig
21-07-2022, 06:52 AM
Is Elon Musk just wealthy Yevrah?
Spikey M
21-07-2022, 08:11 AM
I'm trying to think of a person who he is less like than Yev.
That said, I don't think we actually know who he is. The "I'm just a Twitter Meme Bro" stuff is just an act from what is clearly a very astute business man.
Although he did pretty much buy the peak of Bitcoin and shit the bed, and he's had a 'mare with his plans to acquire Twitter so fuck knows.
Let's just hope he goes bankrupt and kills himself. Hate the cunt.
Offshore Toon
21-07-2022, 11:05 AM
Formerly astute, now deluded.
Yevrah
21-07-2022, 11:49 AM
He's definitely a very bright man, but agree with Spikey, no clue what he's actually like as a person.
As for this and Twitter, you win some, you lose some.
Yevrah
21-07-2022, 11:53 AM
Formerly astute, now deluded.
He still has more down the back of his sofa than we could all club together in our lifetimes and I'm including BazBot continuing to run wild in that.
Shindig
21-07-2022, 07:28 PM
I'm not even sure he's that bright. None of his early stuff was a solo venture and he's probably funded the rest from the paypal sale. At least Bill Gates and Steve Jobs coded shit and said occasionally clever things.
niko_cee
11-08-2022, 03:27 PM
Had a tip on Bay Capital Plc today from someone who has been reliable in the past. I've no idea about it personally so punt at your own risk.
Give me a good access point (minimal admin, maximum UI) to buying them and let's ride.
niko_cee
11-08-2022, 04:09 PM
Market's closed now and I don't have any advice on how to buy it.
Up 5% from when the tip came in around 2pm. Not actually bought any myself yet. :face:
I thought we were talking potential GME gains, if it's bazbot as run by TTH chickens then no worries.
Lofty
11-08-2022, 09:45 PM
How is your BTC short going, iron bollocks?
I asked how I could go about it during the pandemic. If you want to compare balls, I'm gonna need a couple weeks notice to arrange for the required hire of heavy lifting machinery to get mine out.
Spikey M
12-08-2022, 06:15 AM
How's your buy to let going, forklift bollocks?
Spikey M
12-08-2022, 11:17 AM
Had a tip on Bay Capital Plc today from someone who has been reliable in the past. I've no idea about it personally so punt at your own risk.
4 hours and my buy order is still pending.
More tips please.
All the shares im in currently are down, so I need to chase buys to even it out right?
niko_cee
12-08-2022, 12:43 PM
4 hours and my buy order is still pending.
The FSA are probably trying to work out why there is a sudden spike of interest in what looks like a low volume stock.
AMC flying. Great hold from the GME days. :cool:
Spikey M
20-08-2022, 08:52 AM
Had a tip on Bay Capital Plc today from someone who has been reliable in the past. I've no idea about it personally so punt at your own risk.
Currently 13% down. Can you punch your mate in the throat for me please?
What’s going on with bed bath and beyond. The guys on r/wallstreetbets appear to be going bankrupt over it.
Lofty
20-08-2022, 09:29 AM
https://i.imgur.com/Z2xwKem.png
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62607998
Boydy
20-08-2022, 09:39 AM
Now's the time to buy!
US student who’s family had $25m of disposable riskable capital available makes a shit load.
What an intentionally misleading title.
My S&N punt is looking poor, I’m hoping for a dip to about £10 so I can buy another bunch so my average entry price is about £11 but it’s fortunate I’ve been trading in and out to at least have some buffer profit.
If rolls Royce could avoid going bankrupt that would be good too.
niko_cee
22-08-2022, 02:29 PM
Currently 13% down. Can you punch your mate in the throat for me please?
I haven't had the full story yet so we'll see, there seems to be no liquidity in this thing at all.
niko_cee
08-09-2022, 08:19 AM
So I finally got round to speaking to the tipster about Bay Capital.
The abridged version is it is essentially a punt on this guy (https://www.aggbusiness.com/feature/peter-tom-locking-aggregates-hat-trick) who has a pretty good track record of building businesses and selling them for a fortune.
The direct tip came from another super rich guy [called Guy, although not Hands] who backed my mates' IT business. Reckons he made about £9m on the last thing he invested in with this Toms person. Obviously he probably stuck a lot in to get that, but, you know, that's the story. Buy and keep buying remains the tip, but only buy what you can afford to lose, natch.
Spikey M
08-09-2022, 08:27 AM
Is him being about 104 not a bit worrying?
niko_cee
08-09-2022, 08:36 AM
Yeah, you could take that view.
https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Buffett-evergreen-AP.jpg
Offshore Toon
08-09-2022, 08:38 AM
We have our third venture, boys. :cool:
PM your bank details, Niko.
Spikey M
08-09-2022, 09:26 AM
Yeah, you could take that view.
https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Buffett-evergreen-AP.jpg
Buffett isn't exactly running start ups. But fuck it, I'm in already anyway. Might buy some more on pay day.
Spikey M
27-10-2022, 09:22 AM
Alphabet (Google) down 9% yesterday, worse earnings since 2013.
Meta (Facebook) down 20% in premarket today after their revenues fell by $24 billion.
It's coming. :drool:
Boydy
04-11-2022, 05:39 PM
Thought: with Elon Musk currently in the process of destroying Twitter and Meta shares quite low, given they own Instagram and where you'd presume a lot of Twitter people will migrate (I know they probably already have it but they'll use it more), would Meta be a decent punt right now?
AyDee
04-11-2022, 06:06 PM
Wouldn't touch Meta with a barge pole. And Instagram isn't really a direct alternative to Twitter, more likely to be somewhere like Mastodon etc.
Thought: with Elon Musk currently in the process of destroying Twitter and Meta shares quite low, given they own Instagram and where you'd presume a lot of Twitter people will migrate (I know they probably already have it but they'll use it more), would Meta be a decent punt right now?
I was reading the latest Private Eye yesterday and it stated Meta have invested $15bn in this Metaverse shite since 2021 for a return of $30m a quarter and only 200k users, so no I wouldn't bother.
Spikey M
04-11-2022, 06:38 PM
Thirded.
If I had to buy a tech stock it would be Google.
Today was mental, which was a shame as I didn’t actually have a lot to sell.
Was trying to punt my Rio tinto shares I bought a while back, and came so close.
Might’ve lost the bottom of S&M too, should’ve bought some to hold rather than just trading them repeatedly.
On the plus side, £5 breached. :cool:
Offshore Toon
04-11-2022, 06:44 PM
What has Elon done? He's a populist twat so I'd probably buy shares in Twitter out of everything mentioned.
Spikey M
04-11-2022, 06:50 PM
What has Elon done? He's a populist twat so I'd probably buy shares in Twitter out of everything mentioned.
Twitter is delisted on Tuesday.
Lewis
04-11-2022, 09:19 PM
Making people pay for their verified status seems like a no brainer. They will piss and moan about not paying it, but half of them lose their entire relevance without Twitter verification, so it's actually a small price to pay.
Do you still have to be semi-famous to qualify or can any nugget with $8 get it?
Yevrah
04-11-2022, 10:42 PM
The latter is the plan I think.
I've had a fun week of trying to get my broker to accept my shares from an ESOP into an ISA. I've been brought into the "PLEASE ACCEPT THIS SETTLEMENT DATE" chain which is a nice blast to my old working past.
Spikey M
06-11-2022, 10:29 PM
Just had a look at Meta and Boydy was right. It's insanely undervalued even with their bullshit Metaverse project. Zero debt. Plenty of cash. Only concern is ad revenue during the recession. I'm buying a few shares tomorrow and will probably keep going.
Lofty
07-11-2022, 07:02 AM
Making people pay for their verified status seems like a no brainer. They will piss and moan about not paying it, but half of them lose their entire relevance without Twitter verification, so it's actually a small price to pay.
I think it will go the other way personally. If you are a grifter or professional mouth piece with a big following it is in your interest to pay. However Elon admitted in clips if you don't pay you are effectively shadow banned and I can't see that many people happy to pay just so they can post arse licking comments in the hope their idol picks them with a like or a retweet. More likely an exodus will happen I think.
Giggles
07-11-2022, 07:26 AM
I looked at that Mastadon thing the other day and only got as far as all this server bullshite before backing away forever.
Jimmy Floyd
07-11-2022, 08:44 AM
I don't understand why someone with a net worth of $200 billion is wasting his time on this shit.
I firmly believe he didn't want it. He was running his mouth as usual, and decided to make a play to show he was serious (but not really) and wasn't aware that by a certain point you can't just back out of these things with publicly traded companies after tanking the share price.
Shindig
07-11-2022, 09:05 AM
It's because he's autistic. And also what Ben says. He backed out but at a point of no return.
Boydy
07-11-2022, 09:27 AM
1589360545890566144
Lol
Spikey M
07-11-2022, 10:58 AM
I don't understand why someone with a net worth of $200 billion is wasting his time on this shit.
His success is what I find baffling. He has all the hallmarks of being a retard surrounded by brilliant people.
His performance during the Thai Cave Rescue was his peak. When he tried to invent a mini submarine in 20 minutes and called the lead diver a paedophile when he explained why it wouldn't work.
Lofty
07-11-2022, 12:18 PM
He is successful because his family owned an emerald mine in an apartheid state. There are accusations he stole some of his college roommate's ideas regarding X and Paypal etc but I suppose we'll never know. For some reason people think he is a genius for doing stuff like electric cars but he is just the money man. I could have a billion quid and tell my R&D department 'make me a flying electric car', doesn't make me Einstein.
Tesla are already being donned by the big car manufacturers, unable to meet their production targets and the cars they are shipping are comically bad build quality.
Shindig
07-11-2022, 06:13 PM
Bodes well for the Vegas loop. Turn that place into a Centralia.
Lewis
07-11-2022, 06:56 PM
There is a degree of cope around what he is and has 'only' done, like anyone could have made the same returns etc. with the same backing, but he is clearly a complete flange, and that ultimately explains all of this stuff. Big Jeff Bezos has used his wealth to get jacked, have an affair, go to space, and buy a great big fucking boat. Elon Musk wants to be popular online, but he isn't funny or particularly interesting (he should post here lol), and 'Grimes' looks like a femboy.
Shindig
07-11-2022, 07:01 PM
She divorced him to shag Bradley Manning.
The fact people who like Musk basically amount to a cult in their validation and defence of him tell you all you need to know about what a weapon he is, successful businesses or not.
Just in case my opinion is needed to swing the balance, for clarification, I think musk is an absolute weapon.
Yevrah
07-11-2022, 07:40 PM
He's clearly very gifted at something(s) to be worth that sort of money, but is also clearly a massive wazzock.
Offshore Toon
07-11-2022, 07:48 PM
He's just like Bill Gates. Anyone with a brain can see it for what it is, but disableds and children will fawn over them and give them mega status.
Lewis
07-11-2022, 08:13 PM
Bill Gates was much more instrumental in actually making the product[s] that built his fortune. Steve Jobs would be a better comparison, but with Reddit instead of actual AIDS.
-james-
08-11-2022, 01:20 PM
Thought I'd move stuff out of FTX with all of the panic. Put a SOL withdrawal in last night and it's still not moved lol.
-james-
08-11-2022, 02:15 PM
And they've stopped processing withdrawals :violin:
Dark Soldier
08-11-2022, 02:21 PM
Sam was the guy last year. Class to see this.
Spikey M
08-11-2022, 02:32 PM
And they've stopped processing withdrawals :violin:
Can you transfer to another exchange? Or have they stopped that too?
-james-
08-11-2022, 02:37 PM
Can you transfer to another exchange? Or have they stopped that too?
It's all withdrawals, crypto and fiat.
I almost never have funds in FTX but just moved some stuff in over the weekend. :moop:
niko_cee
08-11-2022, 03:29 PM
Whenever I see the word fiat (sorry Italy) I'm always thinking crackpot.
Dark Soldier
08-11-2022, 04:06 PM
It's all withdrawals, crypto and fiat.
I almost never have funds in FTX but just moved some stuff in over the weekend. :moop:
Tweeted just now that they're working with Binance to sort it. They're fucked.
-james-
08-11-2022, 04:15 PM
Bloody hell. Must have been toast.
Dark Soldier
08-11-2022, 04:19 PM
Binance acquiring FTX.com but not .us so yes, absolutely fucked. CZ wins again.
Raoul Duke
08-11-2022, 06:07 PM
I was reading the big drop in ad revenue for Facebook/Google is Apple forcing people to explicitly opt in to being tracked by their shitty spyware, so it's lead to a massive drop off in their ability to target people accurately, which has cratered their (ad) business.
Also, the Metaverse has fewer active users than MySpace has, today
-james-
08-11-2022, 06:26 PM
Apparently in a $6b hole which would put the Binance deal in doubt. Either way crypto is surely an absolute wasteland after this.
Dark Soldier
08-11-2022, 07:48 PM
Apparently in a $6b hole which would put the Binance deal in doubt. Either way crypto is surely an absolute wasteland after this.
Yeah its fucked. Sam was valued at 20bil this time last year and was the hope and saviour of crypto. You basically have Binance left as a major player, and there's a lot of rumours about them too that if proven would crumble the whole thing.
Dark Soldier
08-11-2022, 07:57 PM
And BTC tanks to just over 17k, this shit is going down hard.
Outside of the odd dabble in Ethereum and the like, I can't say I know anything about crypto. But I am shocked that they've turned out to be a bit of a racket.
Spikey M
09-11-2022, 10:45 AM
How's you rainbow nonce NFT going Barrington?
A lad at my work has dumped £20k in one of those syndicates that trades Forex. Basically Bazbot come to life. :eyemouth:
Meta to shed 11k jobs. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/09/mark-zuckerberg-meta-to-sack-11000-workers-after-revenue-collapse-facebook-instagram?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Jimmy Floyd
09-11-2022, 11:51 AM
A lot of industries have absolutely fucked themselves by believing that a once in a lifetime pandemic was going to fundamentally change all human behaviour forever, rather than just being a once in a lifetime pandemic.
Spikey M
09-11-2022, 11:58 AM
I don't know, Jim. what's MonkeyPox up to now? And isn't Polio having a little walk around London at the moment? There's plenty more scope for insanity and misery or the horizon yet.
phonics
09-11-2022, 12:48 PM
Nothing more satisfying than watching another crypto racket crash and burn.
-james-
09-11-2022, 09:13 PM
It's over for FTX. SBF is probably looking at 150 years. Crazy.
Dark Soldier
09-11-2022, 11:18 PM
And BTC is probably gonna go back to pre-covid high of 6k. Documentary on that bubble will be good.
Been dabbling a bit in the ‘buy the dip mentality’ which has resulted in me owning shares in a company called DCC which I know nothing about. Something to do with paper, or marketing or something. It dropped a good 7% or something in a day and seemed to have reasonably positive results so I thought fuck it, dividend in a week or so. Hasn’t rebounded as quickly as I wanted though. Hopefully it rises a 1% or 2 tomorrow so I can unload.
There’s quite a lot of intra day movement on a lot of shares so can totally get the whole if you’ve got money, it’s easy to make money philosophy.
Anyone fancy some shares in a paper (or marketing) company?
Spikey M
11-11-2022, 10:57 AM
We're on the brink of recession, so Marketing companies are taking a bit of a hammering at the moment. It's often the first thing companies cut back on.
I've been buying housing stocks which are on their knees at the moment. Superb dividends (which could well be cut) and should recover well in the long term.
Can't wait to see how badly i've misread the situation :cool:
Yeah I’ve been debating persimmon for a while. I bought it last year for like £20 a share and punted it pre dividends for a 5% gain. It’s near 60% of that now.. which is tempting but surely tougher times to come. The dividend is going to be pennies this time around for these companies, otherwise they’ll bankrupt themselves.
Up about £260 this week from sales. Basically just trying to continually flip for small rewards. Could’ve had more given the market has continued to rise, but keen to avoid missing an opportunity to cash in.
BAE systems is back to near February/March levels which is interesting.
Dark Soldier
11-11-2022, 02:38 PM
FTX filed for bankruptcy lol
Spikey M
11-11-2022, 02:46 PM
Do you need me to sort you some food vouchers from work James?
-james-
11-11-2022, 04:04 PM
I'll be fine. I've converted my imaginary FTX USD into ETH so maybe that'll be a nice wee windfall in about two decades time.
I’ve got loads of Ethereum so fuck it off mate.
-james-
17-11-2022, 01:36 PM
https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1593222595390107649
Some early findings from the investigation into FTX's finances. Absolutely comical stuff.
Cryptocurrency in being a fraud shocker.
They'll all get found out eventually. I'm invested in a few (of the more reputable ones - mostly ETH - but that isn't saying much) and I absolutely could not have any grounds for complaint if they disappeared into thin air tomorrow.
Matt Levine's newsletter is great on this. Definite magic beans accounting in ftx
Lofty
17-11-2022, 05:21 PM
Capital gains tax free amount reduced from 12k to 6k and then 3k the following year :moop:
Spikey M
17-11-2022, 05:28 PM
Are ISA's still immune upto 20k a year?
Capital gains tax free amount reduced from 12k to 6k and then 3k the following year :moop:
Worry about making 6k first.
Worry about making 6k first.
Exactly this.
My chance to unload DCC and GSK pre dividend didn’t materialise so I’m now a HODLer. Also bought (the first) dip of an energy company (harbour) which have tanked further today. So probably going to have to go balls deep tomorrow or next week if it drops further in the hope there’s an uptick and I can cost average my way out.
Managed to dump GSK for fuck all profit (£28 :cool: ) and DCC recovering.
Smith and Nephew back at £11 which is annoying as I didn’t hold the shares I had at £10. Lesson learned, buy some to hold and some to trade. Still though it brings my middle bunch back in play and reduces my loss.
Probably “up” about £1500 all things considered, which isn’t bad given I’ve no idea what I’m doing.
Decided I’m going to sell a big chunk of my gaff and try and trade them. If you’re staking £7-10k you really don’t need that big a swing to siphon off money, and can probably do it with intra day 2% swings. If they keep going up, no worries as happy to have sold them for original price. If they go down, buy them back and bank the “profit”.
Trying to unload some of the shares I bought a few years ago before the capital gains rules change too. The shares im selling are up 85%. Seems sensible to take some of that profit.
If rolls Royce could not throw a fit when it approched £1 that would be nice also. Would like to cut my losses on that mistake.
Some updates…
I sold about £6500 of my company shares, bought them back the next day for 2% less and have them watched them dwindle below that. They briefly approached profit today, and I debated the sell but held out for an another couple of pence only to see them tumble.
I’ve been buying and selling harbour energy (£3.01 buy, £3.10) sell to try and mitigate the fact I bought a bunch at £3.40odd.
I’m still trading smith and nephew semi frequently, again only seeking small repeating swings.
I delved into Taylor wimpey when it was just above £1 (and then sold it later that day when it inexplicably rose 4%) so I’ve just repeated the same trick.
I’ve set myself a £60/week profit target, which would be £3000/year as a side hustle.
Today was a good start, with TW, S&N and Harbour sales getting me about £170 of the way there for January. December was £400, and November a bumper £850. Quite enjoyable, but it’ll all fall apart at some point.
I have little to no faith in the long term share price of my company so I’ve also been purging shares of them whilst they’re still trading (what I think is) relatively high. Ditched £700worth today which takes me to £27k in the last 12 months.
Bought some fizzy lucozade to celebrate.
Definitely want to buy some TW to hold long term though, and the next time it dips down towards £1 I’m going to double up my buy for exactly that reason.
I’m copying you Spikey, so if your ship sinks, we can drown together.
What flavour? Tropical always seem to be out of stock so I end up with Caribbean Crush.
Lewis
03-01-2023, 07:23 PM
Foe, can't you just pay your house off or buy a rental property?
I paid off my 2 bed flat a few years ago and have debated buying a house for a while, but I don’t really need any more space. I quite like living where I do so I think I’ll just stay until I can buy a (modest) house close to mortgage free.
What flavour? Tropical always seem to be out of stock so I end up with Caribbean Crush.
Orange. Always fizzy orange. :drool:
Hold fuck that went wrong quickly. :D
Lofty
04-01-2023, 01:20 PM
Although fairly high on the back of Covid I think Games Workshop could rocket in about 18 months when Henry Cavill rolls out his megabucks live action Warhammer stuff for Amazon.
niko_cee
04-01-2023, 02:01 PM
Didn't their last boom come off the back of licensing/total war etc (which CA have now sort of fucked)? Not sure I'd bet the farm on the 40th anniversary of WHFB or this new Old World thing they have planned which I suspect will be released this year.
Lofty
04-01-2023, 05:36 PM
They made a fortune during covid and were quite the success story even paying out sizeable bonuses to all employees. Yeah I don't think any of that stuff will move the needle much outside their fanbase but if they pull off a decent series they could pull in tens of thousands of virgins in one fell swoop.
Harbour dropped from £3.15 yesterday to £2.70 today.
A 15% drop in about 36 hours.
Obviously I bought at £3 and then £2.85 so max exposure to me if it continues to plummet. It settled back up around £2.85 so hopefully it kicks back tomorrow.
I suspect energy markets are going to extremely volatile over the next 1-2 months, particularly in and around 5th Feb.
Russian oil products ban kicks in does it’s not?
Oil was 5th December. Apparently petroleum products is 5th February but from the article I just read it seems to be only the UK doing this one so hopefully any market effects are minimal.
Yeah, maybe.
I was reading an article about Saudi Arabia dropping price of their oil to Asian markets, which I suspect is going to be the start of a new power struggle for market share.
Russian crude needs to go somewhere so if they try to muscle in on Asia, will be interesting to see how the other players respond.
Fucking everything was up today basically, so slim buying opportunities aside from glencore or Anglo American, but they’re just dipping from highs so a bit more risky.
Hopefully tomorrow is a bit more red so I can sneak back into a few players.
Binned some S&N I’d be holding for months and legal and general, each only for about £40 profit. But small and regular is the aim.
Lewis
04-01-2023, 08:04 PM
Russia sells it to India for cheap, and then they slap a Premier mark-up on it and sell it on.
Harbour dropped from £3.15 yesterday to £2.70 today.
A 15% drop in about 36 hours.
Obviously I bought at £3 and then £2.85 so max exposure to me if it continues to plummet. It settled back up around £2.85 so hopefully it kicks back tomorrow.
I suspect energy markets are going to extremely volatile over the next 1-2 months, particularly in and around 5th Feb.
I’ve got no fucking idea what’s going on. It basically undid all of yesterdays damage is back trading just under £3. Sold my £2.85 shares for £2.92ish for £60 profit in about a day. Presumably tomorrow it’s going to plummet again, so I’ve set a buy at £2.75 this time.
Volatility, max risk, no knowledge - that’s my sweet spot.
Also delved back into GSK today as it was down slightly. They de-risked their cancer drug problem late last year, spiked massively and have just been drifting down since.
Taylor wimpey has shot up though so my take small wins strategy fails that one. Have to wait for it to “settle” before I think about jumping back in.
What sort of % of available equity are people using for shares?
I’ve got about 45% of my available money in my trading account, of which about 70% is invested and the other 30% used with buy orders for dips.
10%, maybe even less. I’ve got no time to focus on frequent trading and I’m not clued up enough to dabble in sleepers.
Had some reasonable news that 4D will be listed again (albeit a pretty strong reduction) so the stock moves from worthless to maybe it can return something at a point in time.
hfswjyr
06-01-2023, 12:23 AM
Also delved back into GSK today as it was down slightly. They de-risked their cancer drug problem late last year, spiked massively and have just been drifting down since.
Taylor wimpey has shot up though so my take small wins strategy fails that one. Have to wait for it to “settle” before I think about jumping back in.
What sort of % of available equity are people using for shares?
I’ve got about 45% of my available money in my trading account, of which about 70% is invested and the other 30% used with buy orders for dips.
What are you doing with the other 55% of your money?
I've got 70% in shares, and similarly to you, far too much of that is in the company I work for. Other than that, I have the complete polar opposite trading style to you. I buy and hold for years, if not decades. How are you managing all the brokerage fees from trading all the time?
What are you doing with the other 55% of your money?
I've got 70% in shares, and similarly to you, far too much of that is in the company I work for. Other than that, I have the complete polar opposite trading style to you. I buy and hold for years, if not decades. How are you managing all the brokerage fees from trading all the time?
I do a mix - I still have a lot of shares in my company (that I wasn’t counting in that figure). Over the next two or three years there’s an absolute shit load more coming, which is why I’ve been dumping the tax free ones over the last 12 months and more recently dumping some that have a pretty high capital gain whilst I’m miles from the allowance threshold this tax year.
The brokerage fees aren’t too bad, it’s £12 a trade or something, £9 if you’re more active (which I’ve become it seems) and no fee for holding the shares longer term, so realistically for the amounts I’m putting in about a 1% share price rise is net neutral and I’m cashing out when the share price is 2-3% up. That seems to happen intra day on some shares, or over the course of a few days.
I have a mix of shares I’ve held a long time (which are red) and I’ve been more active just turning over shares more recently. I’ve this afternoon I bought/sold Taylor wimpey right at the end of the day - bought at 107, sold at 108.75 or something. The reward, after fees, is fuck all (£27) but you do it often and it’ll add up. If the share price drops I just hold the shares and then buy more if it dips by 7-10% and rinse/repeat.
I’m miles from the tax allowance for this year and I keep a record of my “gains”.
I’m paying into a fund and that will just grow with time. I’ve also got some shares that I’ll probably just hold and let return dividends over time.
To be clear. I’ve no idea what I’m doing and at the moment I’m trying to “bank” some profit so when the strategy inevitably fails I’m not down loads. I don’t need access to the money, nor are likely to any time soon, so it’s just a bit of interest and if you’re not greedy, a small passive income (all be it putting a fair financial risk on the table to get it each time). I’ve set myself a £60/week target to see if it’s achievable to get £3k/year in this way.
Mellin, give him his account back.
Realised I could fill in that form to allow me to buy American shares so bought a little bit of meta and Toyota.
Missed the spikey boat a bit on meta, but hopefully there’s still room to grow. Toyota a complete punt.
Fancy some amazon now they are chopping jobs and the share price is basically back pre covid gains, but it’s up 3.5% today so I can’t bring myself to buy into that.
Sold the leftover harbour shares I had from buying that dip for another £30 or so, so made £90ish on the mental dip.
Think I’ll hold fire buying more unless it drops under £2.90. It’s a wild ride.
niko_cee
09-01-2023, 06:05 PM
Was that the old w8ben?
Something like that aye.
It saved me in the past when I tried to buy into palantir about a year ago. That would’ve been a disaster. Might buy some if drops towards $5 though. Round numbers, might bounce enough to cash out.
Binned my amazon already for £115 profit. Definitely should’ve double bought some to hold.
I caught the direct line downswing (-27%!) yesterday with admiral and legal and general too, so papped the off since for £165 profit combined.
Sitting at £725 profit for the month. Going well.
Bastarding TW keeps rising though, I’ve been in and out a few times but the fucker is rocketing. What was your buy price spikey?
Spikey M
12-01-2023, 06:30 PM
105.05p.
I think I'm getting out soon though. It's broken resistance on the yearly but I'd be very surprised if it didn't come back down to test it.
Yeah, I thought it would bumbled between 1.0 and 1.1 for a while. Surprised it’s broken through.
Hopefully tomorrow is a red day so I can gobble some buys.
Spikey M
13-01-2023, 09:46 PM
Foe are you aware the Direct Line dump is because they cut their dividend? And purely off the back of frozen pipes... in a not particularly cold December. They're looking like a bit of a shambles to me. Careful.
Yeah, I did a little reading briefly. I had no intention of holding it and punted it immediately (and won’t be going back). I just took a punt that a 27% drop would see a short term kick, as it did.
I work almost exclusively in the ftse100 because below that seems like the Wild West.
Dumped amazon too early, they’re still going so going to hold meta longer than originally planned in the hope something similar happens. Also bought a double load of apple shares today for similar reasons.
Anyone ever transferred a cash isa to a share broker? I’ve got a cash isa with my bank that I basically don’t touch and I’ve realised I’d be better off just turning it into a stock and shares isa and using that as my share dealing primary account and withdrawing some cash form my fund account back to a regular bank account. Would be very handy for future capital gains issues too.
Current holdings:
Have held Long term - admiral, smith and nephew, legal and general, rolls Royce ( :yn: hopefully nearly ready to punt)
Short term plans - GSK, harbour (nightmare as bought too early on the downswing), smith and nephew, apple, Toyota, meta, DCC
Spikey M
13-01-2023, 10:04 PM
I'm currently 3x short on Apple. I reckon it's coming down to $100. Let's be having you Foe. :drool:
Can't help with the account stuff as I already do most of mine inside an ISA. I only use 212 for the odd Yank micro-cap that Hargreaves Lansdown don't have.
That’s not encouraging given your strategy is based on knowledge and mine is based on boredom. :D
Thus far, buying things because they seem cheap has been surprisingly effective.
I guess I’ll plan to double my holding again in apple if it does crash to $100.
You’re a braver man than me actually trading short/long. I’m a share owner on the basis that if I can take profit I will, and if I can’t then I’ll hold or buy back in again to dollar cost average. Eventually I’ll run out of capital for that strategy though. But not yet…
Spikey M
13-01-2023, 10:38 PM
To be fair, it's nothing against Apple, it's purely because I think America are heading for a recession the same as we are. In fact, they're already in a recession had they not pre-emptively changed the definition of what a recession is.
Amazon and Meta have already shat the bed. Tesla eventually caught up. I have Microsoft and Apple as the next to go. It's a gamble and I have staggered stop losses and sell orders in place.
You are essentially Value Investing, just intuitively. You should have a little read up on the proper strategy behind it because you could make a tidy sum.
My long term holds are far less exciting. Generally ETF's and Dividend Aristocrats. I'm not really watching them at them moment. They'll be fine.
Spikey M
19-01-2023, 03:30 PM
Neonode have apparently proved that they hold a live patent on touch screen technology and they are gearing up to sue Apple, Samsung, Google, etc.
I've chucked £100 at it today. Already 11% up.
Obviously no guarantees and I have literally no idea how long it's likely to take, how likely they are to win or... well, basically anything, but it feels like this could blow up.
Spikey M
19-01-2023, 04:03 PM
Just be mindful that I have done exactly the same as you have, so if it shits the bed it's not my fault, it's Reddits.
Well you never mentioned Reddit. Fuck sake. :D
Actually fuck it, it's a great risk.
Lofty
19-01-2023, 04:10 PM
r/TinyHeadBets
This has r/WSB all over it. But they are good at running up a price in the short-term. I'll be out by the end of the month one way or another.
Followed with £200 just to make my TTH losses to an even £500.
Market took a nice dip today so bought back into legal and general and into the Taylor wimp ‘dip’. Need to sell something soon, or plough my bonus in when it arrives in March.
It’s monumental how much I’ve fucked up my company trading share plan. If I’d held the fort on the initial buy back I’d have been swing trading it exactly as intended. As it is they’re stuck. I might even up having to sell them at break even or so just for a chance to reset the opportunity.
Am I too late?
https://i.imgur.io/mx9sldl_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
:eyemouth:
Well we can all be late together.
Spikey M
19-01-2023, 07:28 PM
We're either all going to be rich or we've bought the top and we're about to quarter our money. There's no in between. :cool:
Looking forward to writing off my first loss.
Not looking good, is it?
What was your buy on meta spikey? It’s flying. I was in at 130-something, going to hold until 180-190 I think which would be taking it back to a semi normal share price for it.
Caught the diageo swing today almost perfectly by complete luck. Logged in, saw it was down 6% despite good results, bought some, went to a meeting. Came out the meeting and checked again, up 3% on my buy so cashed out. £50 for absolutely fuck all. Complete fluke too. :drool:
Having a stormer in January. £1,085 up. Need a big correction to buy some shit.
Rolls Royce also broke even for my buy price for the first time in about 9 months too. Going to sell that as soon as I can get £10 profit. Horrid buy, an absolutely beautiful learning for me for future.
Spikey M
26-01-2023, 07:31 PM
I'm keeping Neonode. We got done by the WallStreet bets pump, but the patent claim remains. Still worthy of a gamble for me.
I got Meta at $96.84 Foe. Still holding.
I would keep some Rolls Royce. At some point Governments are going to have to chill out on Nuclear Energy if they want to get anywhere near their carbon promises. RR are well positioned when they do.
Oh baby! That’s a big winner. 50% up! :flex: what’s your out number?
Yeah, I’m going to just hold it. Not worth the hassle selling if there’s even the slightest chance of it multiplying.
Yeah, RR seems to be compact nuclear units. It’s just got so much debt. I couldn’t hack it if it collapsed again and I was so close to have an out. I don’t have a big holding of it, relative to my others, but I just don’t trust it.
Similarly I ditched DCC today for a nominal profit because I just don’t trust it or know enough about it.
I have about 10-15 companies now that I keep an eye on and want to/will trade or hold.
Might rebut diageo tomorrow if it drops that little bit back to my original buy price.
Also saw that chevron announced buybacks that would buy pretty much the European oil firms. Absolutely mental.
Hopefully that works well for my gaff, or I’m going to end up an Exxon Mobil employee.
Boydy
26-01-2023, 09:45 PM
Think you owe me commission for that Meta investment, Spikey.
After hours trading of meta
:wub:
Will see how it opens today…
Binned them for £1500 profit.
Celebratory packet of prawn cocktail crisps.
Amazon announcing their results after hours seems a bad omen, but think I’ll let it ride and see if I get a pleasant surprise tomorrow.
In on FORD motor company.
Dropped by 7-8% based on poor results. So Foe logic says worth a punt. Dividend in, I think, 4 or 5 days basically pays the buy fee. Will double down if there’s another 7-8% drop.
Should’ve binned amazon pre results. Results were shit and my potential profit wiped.
Mellin should be a millionaire with this bullish market. Expect a return. :yn:
Anyone got any experience transferring company shares into a stocks and shares isa?
I’ve got a company share plan maturing in September which has absolutely rocketed in value, to the point where I can’t sell the fucking thing without exceeding the capital gains allowance for the year.
Apparently you can transfer direct into a stocks and shares isa within 90 days of it maturing. Anyone done anything similar? Is it an arse, or a simple form clicking exercise? Yevrah ?
Four posts in a row. :moop:
I'll break your streak.
Anyone use Vanguard for SIPP (or other things)? Recommended? If not, who? Ta.
I set it up, dumped a pot of money in and haven’t checked it since. Would recommend.
niko_cee
15-02-2023, 03:59 PM
Think Rolls Royce and IAG might finally have their heads above water from when Mellin tipped them ages ago.
I set it up, dumped a pot of money in and haven’t checked it since. Would recommend.
Looked into it a bit more and I can set up an automated regular partial transfer from my workplace pension which sounds great. Partial because if I empty it then it will fuck up payroll apparently.
I'm getting old. My pensions contributions are about 10% (incl. employer) and I'm wondering if that's enough.
Spikey M
15-02-2023, 04:20 PM
Is your employment pension maxed out? My employer will match up to 8% (so 16% in total). If you have scope to increase it then you're far better off doing that then opening a SIPP.
I get 5% lol, wankers.
I'm with TPP and their fees are shit and apparently their investment strategies are also shit. Vanguard cheaper fees and better strategies. So the workplace pension stays open because I don't completely empty it and do like a quarterly transfer to Vanguard.
Think Rolls Royce and IAG might finally have their heads above water from when Mellin tipped them ages ago.
I bought them at 113 9 months ago and it’s finally Tilting back. Got a decision to make soon whether to unload or not.
I bought into palantir at $7.50 a few days ago. Going well. Shame I didn’t go with my usual stake so it’s not a lot of profit, but still.
American markets seem to be boom or bust.
On the pension front I’m shoving in 20% after years of 9-11% and panicking. So you’ve all given me some relief. :wub:
When we get the house move out of the way I definitely need to jack it up to 15%. Then 20% when my student loan is cleared in a few years.
Shindig
15-02-2023, 06:59 PM
Mine's limited to 10% but the company matches contributions.
All but 5% will be from me. :(
Shindig
15-02-2023, 07:18 PM
I've not maxed it out yet because it keeps bumping up against minimum wage. I think the boost I got a couple of months back will get me over the threshold.
On the plus side, I sold my rolls Royce shares and didn’t take a loss as looked so likely for so long.
On the downside I gained about 5% and left a further 10 or so % on the table with my limit sell price set before the results.
Glad they’re gone tbf.
Been slowly buying into amazon and Ford as their share prices slip. Will keep going out of nothing much other than curiosity.
I pay 6.5% of my monthly salary into my pension. Ideally I'd pay 15% based on some quick maths but apparently I can't up it like that. I've been sent the following:
Members can increase their pension benefits via one of the two options below:
Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs)
Members are able to invest up to 100% of their monthly salary into an AVC, excluding any other dedications taken before tax such as NI or PAYE. This is the flexible option allowing you to start, stop, re-start, increase and decrease the monthly amount. We suggest for members to research both providers to see which one and which investment is best suited to you. Prudential (http://www.pru.co.uk/localgov) and Standard Life (http://www.standardlifepensions.com/lgps) are the two in-house providers we use for AVCs. If you choose to continue with Prudential the initial application is set up direct with Prudential either online or via telephone, they will then send us a notification that you wish to start contributing to AVCs and we will amend your record accordingly and send this instruction to your employer to make the relevant changes to you payroll for the next available pay period.
If you wish to continue with Standard Life, then you will need to request an application form and an investment pack from us via email, we send this via email as the investment information pack is over 40 pages. You will require to complete the application form and send this back to the fund. Once this has been received we will then make an AVC fund via the Standard Life Portal on your behalf and send the instruction to your employer to deduct your chosen amount from the next available pay period. If you wish to change the amount that you pay, we ask if members can send a letter of notification including your original "wet" signature. We are unable to make any changes if your original signature is missing.
*when contacting either Prudential or Standard Life, you will be asked to quote a scheme number. These numbers can be found on the attached document*
Additional Pension Contributions (APCs)
Members are able to purchase an additional pension by choosing Additional Pension Contributions, this is a contractual agreement between yourself and Merseyside Pension Fund. Members are able to pay a maximum amount of £7,352.00 annually to APCs. However this will require to be in monthly instalments, you confirm the amount you wish to pay and the term length ie, £100.00 over 10 years. We will complete a calculation and send this to you via post along with the Additional Pension Contribution information letter and medical form. As this is a contractual agreement, you will require to arrange a doctor’s appointment as the medical form needs to be complete by your doctor and return to the fund - to ensure that you are fit and healthy to continue with this option. We do not accept cover letters, the medical form is an official document and requires to be completed.
Similar to your normal pension contributions all AVC and APCs will require to be processed through your payroll for tax purposes, you will receive tax relief on these contributions.
I don't want to do APC cos from what I understand, if I die before taking my pension, nobody gets it.
So just stick 8.5% into an AVC and hope it grows massive? Prudential or Standard Life? The former sounds like less hassle.
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