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caff said:
The golden ticket question is when to invest.

I'm hoping there will be a tipping point soon, so long as world governments can get control of the situation.
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..as long as you've got your cash out and are sitting on a nice pile, anywhere near the bottom is great timing, just dollar cost average your buys. This thing has just kicked off so hold onto your cash, i would be personally waiting until we have a vaccine, that as well as the elections in America, we need to wait to see what the chances of Trump/Bernie winning will be, and its too early to tell.

If you are bored and want to stick your money in something, government bonds and precious metals will give decent returns compared to equities.

The dollar is gonna become weaker over the next couple of years, so it's worth looking at emerging markets.
 
el_dazza said:
Quite a shock to see my stocks and shares ISA go from a 6.9% gain to a 1.4% loss in 5 days, brutal.
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Yep mine has gone from 12% to 3% :o

Ended up selling my Tesla shares at 800 (having bought at 300) so made a tidy bit of profit. Won't be touching them again for a while if at all though I think I've had my one lucky run.

Put some of the money into gold when all the markets started tanking which hasn't worked out well at all so far :eek:
 
Delta3D said:
Just getting into trading CFD's currently. I've seen so many contradictions about signal services. Has anyone had experience with trading CFD's through signals from say a £100 account? Would appreciate any suggestions for signal services if positive outcomes. :)
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Didn't see this post until @silversurfer quoted it a few posts back.

Think of a signal service as being equivalent to those people at the dog/horse racing track selling betting tips... Do you really think they have anything of value to offer you?

If you want someone to manage your money for you then stick it in an established fund with a track record... or just buy a tracker.
 
I don't really trust myself to try and time anything, it may be boring but I'm just going to stick to paying in a constant amount into a few different funds each month... it's all slowly siphoning out of a cash ISA that's been doing nothing for me for years and I don't need it in the short term at all so I'm happy to just keep putting in and trusting that eventually it'll come back up
 
Any advice on stocks to pick up cheap and hold for 5+ years with good divi payments would be welcome.

From my research and very limited knowledge; Shell, BP, SSE, Aviva, Legal and General, Barclays and Lloyd’s.

Seems a good spread of sectors. All seem like good divi payers...
 
Today is a better entry point than a week ago if you have cash and want to invest.

But the chances of there being much, much better buying opportunities in the next few weeks/months are very, very good right now.

A vaccine is months away minimum, containment has failed. There is no short term upside.
 
Vaccine might be months away but fear is very high in the markets at the moment. I won't be surprised if the market bottoms out well before the virus peaks and a vaccine is found.
Bottom picking is down to luck. As long as people are focused on the long term, buying on the way down is a decent strategy while maintaining some investable cash in case it drops further.
I woun't even be surprised if the market turns around from here. Unlikely but not impossible.

For the long term, buy companies you can see yourself still owning in 10 years and 10 years from now you probably won't care that you could have bought another 10% or whatever lower. Just remember that when bottom picking :). Oh and the worse thing can be to have no position at all and it quickly turns around.
Right now I'd say the probability of more swift market pain is high.
 
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mid_gen said:
Today is a better entry point than a week ago if you have cash and want to invest.

But the chances of there being much, much better buying opportunities in the next few weeks/months are very, very good right now.

A vaccine is months away minimum, containment has failed. There is no short term upside.
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This.

Also believe the bottom will come waaay before the vaccine or burn out.

Id consider entering at ftse = 6000, but right now it's impossible to say.
 
413x said:
This.

Also believe the bottom will come waaay before the vaccine or burn out.

Id consider entering at ftse = 6000, but right now it's impossible to say.
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Elections are end of this year, vaccine is going to be start of next year, so in between those 2 will probably a good time. It just depends what the market does, whether they start to bake in a Bernie win, or bake in a Trump win. If Bernie is front runner close to election time and Trump wins, there will be a massive rally before the vaccine comes. If Trump is front runner and Bernie wins, it will dump and then rally after the vaccine. Just my opinion of course.

Worth keeping an eye on the price multiple average of the S&P500 through the year.
 
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I'm a good chunk down.I was quite tempted to bail but that will as they say 'lock in the losses' so I'm thinking more of riding it out in the expectation of an eventual recovery.
It's dropped a long way though and probably has futher to fall.
 
Azza said:
There isn't a vaccine for MERS or even SARS still, there won't be a vaccine for this any time soon.
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That conclusion doesn't follow... are either of those a major concern at the moment? did they stop the spread of those regardless?

Now why ignore H1N1? Was there a vaccine for that?
 
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