Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

DJMK4 said:
I work in IT networking

I tried to use the trading 212 practise account to buy some.stocks on some tech companies a few months back , thought I was buying on a downturn but in reality I wasn't really making any money back when I put say £200 down or.£500 down

I have no idea

I want to have a play around with investing maybe £100-200 first then when I feel confident I'm.not going to lose that I'll put more


This is why I was looking at s&p 500 so it spreads it across companies
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so IT, that covers a wide range of individual stocks, and a fw ETFs. from help desk (servicenow), to network equipment (cisco), Servers (Dell), Cloud (microsoft), CPUs (Intel/AMD), Graphics (Nvidia/AMD), Chip (tsmc), Social/vr (Meta), shoping (amazon)
as examples and to name just a few, these are areas your likely be more familar with and understand events and were the tech is going.

example 1 im interested in AMD at the moment they just release the AMD 9070XT which by all accounts is selling and received well, that will look good (i hope) on quarterly reporting. given predicted market value in 12months, and how much it had dropped i might invest more. its a gamble as a single stock but could double what i put in.

example 2 other areas of growth to consider are space stocks were there is expected future growth. Rocket labs being one of them as a single stock.
were they are waiting for Neutron (their reusable rocket to be released).
i found this stock via internet were theres lots of hype and discussion in places like reddit.
Arc investment have an etf for Space but space is relatively new and unpredictable. its maybe a 20-30year minimum investment period to get a big return.

wathcing news for things like air plan crashs for stock drops i.e. BAA

scandals in new paper : Meta and the cambrage data scanal back 4 years (stock dropped to £100 and now up to over 500)

but im just playing, learning and dabbling at moment.

you just need to work out if your happy to game the system and play at single stocks for a bit for short term bigger gains, long term "stable" gains (deities know whats going to happen), or a combo of both.

imand idiot, and thats my bad 2cents, and im sure others will correct me.


i wrote this ver an hour ago...
 
ShivP said:
I find it highly unlikely the tarrifs will kick in again, after the 90 days.
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I agree, it was a bluff that didn't go to plan. He should have held Liberation Day on April fools day after all. 2 months is a long time and I guess we will get a much more watered-down version in that time.

CPI and Unemployment Claims data out today, lets see how that goes
 
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LostCorpse said:
so IT, that covers a wide range of individual stocks, and a fw ETFs. from help desk (servicenow), to network equipment (cisco), Servers (Dell), Cloud (microsoft), CPUs (Intel/AMD), Graphics (Nvidia/AMD), Chip (tsmc), Social/vr (Meta), shoping (amazon)
as examples and to name just a few, these are areas your likely be more familar with and understand events and were the tech is going.

example 1 im interested in AMD at the moment they just release the AMD 9070XT which by all accounts is selling and received well, that will look good (i hope) on quarterly reporting. given predicted market value in 12months, and how much it had dropped i might invest more. its a gamble as a single stock but could double what i put in.

example 2 other areas of growth to consider are space stocks were there is expected future growth. Rocket labs being one of them as a single stock.
were they are waiting for Neutron (their reusable rocket to be released).
i found this stock via internet were theres lots of hype and discussion in places like reddit.
Arc investment have an etf for Space but space is relatively new and unpredictable. its maybe a 20-30year minimum investment period to get a big return.

wathcing news for things like air plan crashs for stock drops i.e. BAA

scandals in new paper : Meta and the cambrage data scanal back 4 years (stock dropped to £100 and now up to over 500)

but im just playing, learning and dabbling at moment.

you just need to work out if your happy to game the system and play at single stocks for a bit for short term bigger gains, long term "stable" gains (deities know whats going to happen), or a combo of both.

imand idiot, and thats my bad 2cents, and im sure others will correct me.


i wrote this ver an hour ago...
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This is why i have tried to use the trading 212 practise account to buy stocks on Cisco, F5, Juniper Networks, etc

I noticed when cisco had their yearly cisco live events the stocks went up , so yes i could notice something like that

Although i have logged back in to my practise account and i have not made anything on these in the past 2 months, really, they have gone up, and they have gone down and up,


This is why i find it only works best with individual companies if your day trading ?
 
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DJMK4 said:
I work in IT networking

I tried to use the trading 212 practise account to buy some.stocks on some tech companies a few months back , thought I was buying on a downturn but in reality I wasn't really making any money back when I put say £200 down or.£500 down

I have no idea

I want to have a play around with investing maybe £100-200 first then when I feel confident I'm.not going to lose that I'll put more


This is why I was looking at s&p 500 so it spreads it across companies
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I work as a server/platform engineer for one of the worlds biggest banks... apart from work shares, which I get at a heavy discount. I try to stay away from the IT and banking selector, yes I know the companies well but "familiarity breeds contempt", also I'm subject to blackouts so I don't want to risk getting done for insider trading.

There's plenty of other companies that I know about... but for investing I tend to stick to market trackers as it's safer in the long term. For swing trading, which is a small percentage of holdings I just use a normal trading account and have a play with some companies that I know about... sometimes I do "research" sometimes it's just a gamble, but the aim is to buy low and sell high.. it's just a bit of fun. I was thinking of becoming a full/part time trader once I retire.. but really; I CBA with the stress. lol
 
I did ok , just ok (see my intel post) but am totally disappointed I didn't do better last night, really sulking with myself :p
Edit wonder what the gap up was for the ETFs this morning
 
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moon man said:
I did ok , just ok (see my intel post) but am totally disappointed I didn't do better last night, really sulking with myself :p
Edit wonder what the gap up was for the ETFs this morning
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It's pretty easy to beast yourself over what could have been. I'm pretty depressed at the loss on paper and what could have been but no future in those types of thoughts. I'm pretty much going to try and switch off for a few weeks nay months and write this year off and leave everything where it is, including the MMF shift. I'm a good few years away from my SIPP so eh.

Now to sit on my hands till AC:shadows drops to 40 quid for the PS5 (:
 
ShivP said:
He has sold his newly purchased BMW 4 series, to invest in the markets
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nooooo i'd be sad...took us/him a year to get to the stage of getting a new ride!

jest aside, @DJMK4 if the money you want to invest isn't needed then just stick it into an index fund and forget about it for the next 5+ years
 
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darkgen said:
It's pretty easy to beast yourself over what could have been. I'm pretty depressed at the loss on paper and what could have been but no future in those types of thoughts. I'm pretty much going to try and switch off for a few weeks nay months and write this year off and leave everything where it is, including the MMF shift. I'm a good few years away from my SIPP so eh.

Now to sit on my hands till AC:shadows drops to 40 quid for the PS5 (:
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Yeah I've been getting too obsessed hitting t212 as soon as I get home , trading on the toilet , trading if I wake up early hours (24/5) think I need a break ,leave my long terms to fester (err I mean grow)
 
ShivP said:
I find it highly unlikely the tarrifs will kick in again, after the 90 days.
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Even if they kick in after 90 days the tariffs will supposedly be only 10% for most of the world which certainly won't move any manufacturing to the US. At best you will see a few companies spread manufacturing between china and say India. At 10% the impacts will be less and are easier to counter with smaller specific trade changes targeted at certain industries, or export/import bans etc. It is also a much easier place to simply scrap the tariffs as they are useless .

China-US trade war will continue, China will win and the US will cave.


Just the simple fact that Trump caved so quickly meant that there are no real threats.
 
D.P. said:
Even if they kick in after 90 days the tariffs will supposedly be only 10% for most of the world which certainly won't move any manufacturing to the US. At best you will see a few companies spread manufacturing between china and say India. At 10% the impacts will be less and are easier to counter with smaller specific trade changes targeted at certain industries, or export/import bans etc. It is also a much easier place to simply scrap the tariffs as they are useless .

China-US trade war will continue, China will win and the US will cave.


Just the simple fact that Trump caved so quickly meant that there are no real threats.
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The 10% tariff for everywhere is still in effect. Plus the China extras, and 25% on cars, and 25% on Canada and Mexico.

Unless this has changed since yesterday....
 
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Nasher said:
He didn't cave in. This all looks planned to manipulate the stock market for his own gain.
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Actually think the moves in the bond market were very worrying and he had to act. But he sold it to his supporters as buying time to negotiate and of course he informed his goons of what he was doing so they could trade it just before.
 
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