Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

thebandit said:
I have (as most people have ) done very well with long term investments this year, buoyed by my success I thought I would allocate £400 to a bit of day trading fun last week..... after a comical week of predicting almost without fail the opposite of what the market did, this week the remaining £245 got invested in VWRP.
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What did you buy?

Just keep the amounts low if you want to have fun.
 
Google (Alphabet) up 10% since yesterday, when it reported results:

"The Q3 2025 results marked a major milestone: Alphabet surpassed $100 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, driven by strong performance across Search, Cloud, YouTube, and subscriptions. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted that AI is now delivering tangible business results, with their Gemini models processing 7 billion tokens per minute and over 650 million monthly active users on the Gemini app".

One for the long term.
 
radderfire said:
Google (Alphabet) up 10% since yesterday, when it reported results:

"The Q3 2025 results marked a major milestone: Alphabet surpassed $100 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, driven by strong performance across Search, Cloud, YouTube, and subscriptions. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted that AI is now delivering tangible business results, with their Gemini models processing 7 billion tokens per minute and over 650 million monthly active users on the Gemini app".

One for the long term.
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Their current P/E is 27 or so, but this is one of the reasons why there is no strong red flag for the SM because the tech companies that are the S&500 P/E and CAPE higher are reporting strong profits and growth (or are expected to). Sure the market is quite expensive now as we are few years into a bull run, but we should not be overly worried about arbitrary P/E thresholds etc. anymore than one should normally worry about SM volatility and correction risks.
 
radderfire said:
What did you buy?

Just keep the amounts low if you want to have fun.
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All sorts, anything that had volatility, by the end I was literally laughing at how bad I was at judging the timing. My saving grace was that by the end of the week I was getting better at bailing out of failed positions rather than holding for a non existent bounce.

Just checked my history, it was:

Newegg Commerce,
Ernexa Therapeutics
New Era Energy and Digital
Rigetti Computing
D-wave Quantum
Defence Holdings
Beyond Meat

I'm definitely a firm believer now in the age old adage "time in the market is better than timing the market" !
 
thebandit said:
All sorts, anything that had volatility, by the end I was literally laughing at how bad I was at judging the timing. My saving grace was that by the end of the week I was getting better at bailing out of failed positions rather than holding for a non existent bounce.

Just checked my history, it was:

Newegg Commerce,
Ernexa Therapeutics
New Era Energy and Digital
Rigetti Computing
D-wave Quantum
Defence Holdings
Beyond Meat

I'm definitely a firm believer now in the age old adage "time in the market is better than timing the market" !
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In essence, you will most likely loose money doing day trading, and it is claled day trading because you really need to be trading all day, not just logging in on the evenings.
 
D.P. said:
In essence, you will most likely loose money doing day trading, and it is claled day trading because you really need to be trading all day, not just logging in on the evenings.
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The 'success rates' will be including 'pros', too, squewing the figures upwards for individual 'armchair' traders - most banks have whole trading floors/offices/buildings full of people who live and breath this stuff doing constant analysis, all day, every day.
 
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Nothing much to add here.
I'm gradually selling out as I still believe we are at the peak and the crash is starting.

No stocks are good for me at the moment. Basically all in the red overall for last 2 weeks. Grateful of the gains. But the hype seems to be over
 
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On a more serious note, I did set up the Trading 212 debit card the other week. They're paying 4.05% on the cash balance, and 1.5% cash back (until November 30th) up to £15. Might as well for the sake of pressing a few buttons and using a different Apple Pay card for my day-to-day spends.

Not in an ISA wrapper unfortunately, but I've just got the cash back + some roundup going into a pie which I'll just not look at for years.
 
thebandit said:
I'm definitely a firm believer now in the age old adage "time in the market is better than timing the market" !
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Yes. Good. But make sure you arent holding junk, thats another issue with holding individual stocks. You have to pick the right ones, IMO far better in a tracker long term.
 
thebandit said:
All sorts, anything that had volatility, by the end I was literally laughing at how bad I was at judging the timing. My saving grace was that by the end of the week I was getting better at bailing out of failed positions rather than holding for a non existent bounce.

Just checked my history, it was:

Newegg Commerce,
Ernexa Therapeutics
New Era Energy and Digital
Rigetti Computing
D-wave Quantum
Defence Holdings
Beyond Meat

I'm definitely a firm believer now in the age old adage "time in the market is better than timing the market" !
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I would have kept defense holdings. But then that's easy for me to say as I got in quite early.
 
radderfire said:
If you practice day trading with stocks you wouldn't mind holding, then you can just hold them if it goes against you.

The above two I would have held. Both have a good chart for the last year.
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I do already have these along with IonQ and Quantum Computing in an equal weighted pie in T212 for long term hold.
 
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