Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

Iirc he (Trump) said the USA tariffs on the rest of the world start on April 2. So markets are in the calm before the storm atm?

The markets try to predict what’s going to happen business wise, people selling once the **** hits the fan, it be too late.

TBH if I wasn’t close to my ISA limit for the year, I would buy another large chuck of the S&P 500 now… roll on April the 5th, and I’ll see what the price and trend is like, before buying.

The recent drops has basically wiped the last 3 months of my gains for the tax year, but I’m not sure how much of those gains were caused by the orange one in the first place.
 
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exactly, so you can never know when to buy or sell, only how long you need to positions
Personally I'd rather stay out of a market whose weekly peaks and troughs have been replaced with hourly ones, all on the basis of what one guy says. Market feels a bit like crypto at the moment.
 
Yep. I'm writing this year off. As always my urge to cash out was right yet I never moved on it and it's too late now. Just gonna let it all ride and be hopeful of something positive happening in the latter half of the year.
 
Yep. I'm writing this year off. As always my urge to cash out was right yet I never moved on it and it's too late now. Just gonna let it all ride and be hopeful of something positive happening in the latter half of the year.
I sold everything a week before trump ... Very good short terms , Lol then got itchy and now I scratched so hard I'm bleeding to death :p
If I don't laugh I'll cry, every 100k krona milestone I lose I salute the commander and chief. Could be a new salute tonight....
 
I sold everything a week before trump ... Very good short terms , Lol then got itchy and now I scratched so hard I'm bleeding to death :p
If I don't laugh I'll cry, every 100k krona milestone I lose I salute the commander and chief. Could be a new salute tonight....
Aye. It feels wasteful holding so much in cash but I think it was certainly the right move to cash in for at least the short term (please god let it be short term). Good on you!

I managed a similar move during the covid fiasco and maxed up, so I'm not all doom and gloom. Can't win them all!
 
As an early retiree I'm glad I have two years in cash (well, money market funds) and I can just ignore (yeah right...) my stock fund portfolio until hopefully some sanity prevails. Maybe.
 
As an early retiree I'm glad I have two years in cash (well, money market funds) and I can just ignore (yeah right...) my stock fund portfolio until hopefully some sanity prevails. Maybe.
Aye. I have several cash ISA pots for these types of events and sceneries. I recognise I'm fortunate to be in such a position but I'm sure there are a lot of folk potentially short-term panicking but ultimately cooler heads _eventually_ prevail.
 
As an early retiree I'm glad I have two years in cash (well, money market funds) and I can just ignore (yeah right...) my stock fund portfolio until hopefully some sanity prevails. Maybe.

for future research, how are you holding this two years worth of cash?
 
Question in regards capital gains tax on company share purchases… this is going to be long winded bear with me.. lol..

How is it worked out? I get double partnership shares…
So say I brought 1,000 shares at £1.00, in 3 years time I get an extra 1,000 shares… two years after that all 2,000 shares are tax and ni free.

When I sell the shares, say they 4x and trading at £4.00. If a sold all 2,000 shares I would get £8,000

£8,000 minus my original cost of £1,000
=£7,000 minus CGT allowance of £3,000
=£4,000

Does that mean I have to buy CGT on that £4,000?

Or are partnership shares valued at time of offer or time of reward?

Also how does dividend shares work, capital tax wise?
Say that I got £100 pounds per year in dividends which are converted into the market value of shares?

Are the cost of the shares added to my original cost therefore an average cost per share is used to work out my cost? Or are they calculated as pure gain? So I will be selling 2,500 shares at £4.00
£10,000 minus my original cost of £1,000
=£9,000 minus CGT allowance of £3,000
= £6,000 CGT amount.

Trying to work out the most tax efficient way I’m cashing out work shares.

Edit: I think if I hold them for over 5 years and I sell them within the same platform, they are capital gains tax free
 
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Once I can sell my stocks (if they very get green again!) I'm tempted to dump everything in to bitcoin tbh. They are only on the up and less government interference/regulation. Then in years from now, go on a 6 month holiday and cash it out :P
 
Another red start to the day. Yesterday's rally wiped out. Not even healthcare or con. Staples are holding ground or green which might indicate money being withdrawn and sat on. can't even see any evidence of treasuries benefiting.
 
Yep. I'm writing this year off. As always my urge to cash out was right yet I never moved on it and it's too late now. Just gonna let it all ride and be hopeful of something positive happening in the latter half of the year.
This happens to me a lot.
I would have been right to cash all of it out when I first thought of it. Cashed a bit out but it was already on the way down.

Trump is such a loose cannon. It changes day by day.

He could double down on his crazy and tank the SnP massively.
He could change his mind tomorrow.



What a loon. Unless he has some chums and he's basically insider trading the SnP. Wouldn't be surprised.
 
Once I can sell my stocks (if they very get green again!) I'm tempted to dump everything in to bitcoin tbh. They are only on the up and less government interference/regulation. Then in years from now, go on a 6 month holiday and cash it out :P

I've bought a lot of coinbase inside my isa at 200usd.
It basically acts as a crypto Etf.
Obviously it is one company and could have a scandal. But it means I don't have to worry about tax and ****.
 
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