Some of you lot must have had some big deposits to have mortgages that small in England.
Some of you lot must have had some big deposits to have mortgages that small in England.
Jesus, some profit on that.
It is, but it means basically nothing. It's probably great for landlords knowing they could sell and make a mint, but when you're living in it it doesn't really mean much.
I suppose we could sell and become one of those weirdo Van Life families, but I don't think I'd get it past the Mrs.
350k mortgage remaining but house is allegedly worth double that figure.
Today was a good day, lots of blue.
Did realise that I’ve clearly fucked up somewhere and accidentally sold more shares of something than I meant to. Solid way to lose £1k.
Trading 212 are doing a Cash ISA @ 5.2%
I keep getting like £12 of Microsoft shares for any referrals. Quite underwhelming ha
Had another great day today. Rivian soaring wiping away my paper losses so I’m in pretty good shape.
Trading212 really is brilliant. In the process of selling pretty much everything I have elsewhere to get it done in there.
Gone absolutely balls deep into Ford on this most recent plunge.
Also starting doing some adult sums trying to work out the optimum thing to do with investing/trading capital vs. Mortgage.
So much interest to pay each month on a like £200k mortgage - like £600-800/month. Late to the party but fuck me.
All my would-be overpayments are currently making >5% in Trading212.
Talk to me about Ford.
I’ve lobbed about 8% of my portfolio in on this slide and I just keep topping it up each day. We must be near bottom, right?
Also bought about a grand of shares in Wendy’s after watching that American office episode where Kevin finds Michael a date.
Guess you’ll mature the account and Chuck it in the mortgage as and when the savings interest rate is lower than the mortgage rate?
Hopefully a correction not a full scale crash.
Balls deep. And going deeper next week if it sustains.
Investment choices remain poor, but the number keeps going up.
Intel by the way, fucking hell
Now have a lot of legal and general and Ford - which makes me an investor, rather than a gambler.
But I did buy snap on the hoof due to the juicy volatility.
Black Monday lads.
Japanese market obliterated in 24 hours. Worst crash since 1987. Defence stocks flying. Crypto dying. South Korea halted all sell markets.
https://x.com/patrickbetdavid/status...OfmPqqYhw&s=08
Buckle up.
I wouldn't call it a crash yet. We're not even back to start-of-year levels. The recent growth has been insane so any correction will be very severe.
The US market hasn't even opened yet.
BTC bout to smash right back under 50k. Who was the lol merchant in here saying 100k and I sell. Love it.
100k by Christmas
I did some seriously guesswork based reshuffling of my portfolio today.
Binned off the things that were steady/profit to buy into stuff I like that had been severely hit.
Now that might sound mental, but it seemed a good way to bin off some lowly diageo shares I have in the hope something else bounces back better than it will.
Some serious recovering this afternoon though. Palantir results tonight I think too.
Staying the heck away from crypto still though.
And out of nowhere palantir pulls a big win out and I’m remarkably up for the day.
We roll.
Hit a milestone of total ‘profit’* since I started actually trying to buy and sell more regularly the last 18 months.
*profit means I want you all to ignore my paper losses and pretend they don’t exist, please thanks.
Japan bounced back, so today in America could be interesting.
FTSE bounced back a little.
Took some profit from some things and rebought some things I’d sold, lower.
This could explain why Japan shit itself.
Hope that plays out because I’ve not got much appetite to keep buying the dip.
Rockets galore.
Roller's on a roll again.
Enjoy your island Mellin.
So what do we think is happening in the budget?
A lot of rumours kicking about of various options.
No capital gains allowance?
Capitals gains tax raised to the same as income tax?
Reduced isa allowance annually?
Capped isa amount?
I’m hopefully they just try to close off some of the loopholes of people using capital gains/dividends and leave the average punters relatively alone.
However I think we are heading towards a zero capital gains allowance and higher tax on profits scenario. Hopefully they leave isa allowances as an outlet.
Still though, I’m debating selling off some company shares I have before the capital gains rises(?) happen. Also have a bunch that are “tax free” and debating selling them too in case they basically void that allowance (company shares, own them five years in scheme they become tax free).