Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

danielanthony · 18 Jul 2016 at 09:59

So, goodbye ARM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806.

You've been good to me since May, bought at 933.9786, now selling at 1700. Potentially more as there could be a counter offer...

But now that the best UK tech company has been sold to the Japanese, finding the next investment rocket ship is looking tricky. Potentially Taylor Wimpey, were at 200 1m ago, now 150 and recovering - thoughts?

gord · 18 Jul 2016 at 10:02

danielanthony said:
So, goodbye ARM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806.

You've been good to me since May, bought at 933.9786, now selling at 1700. Potentially more as there could be a counter offer...

But now that the best UK tech company has been sold to the Japanese, finding the next investment rocket ship is looking tricky. Potentially Taylor Wimpey, were at 200 1m ago, now 150 and recovering - thoughts?

I've been riding them from 900 to 1100 for a while now. Been a great stock for me. Guess what, not currently holding..

Wimpey should recover but article 50 risk will hit the builders again. I don't know how far off article 50 we are.

Simon · 18 Jul 2016 at 10:07

That's a nice result for any ARM holders.

When will Nintendo stop? Up another 10% today, nearly doubled in a week

danielanthony · 18 Jul 2016 at 10:25

Sage (SGE) seem to be doing ok, 631 to 651 this month alone.

Might be somewhere to put my ARM money

Annoyingly, the price jumped to 1740 when the market opened this morning, but is back to the 1700 price now. Shouldn't moan!

MoRT489 · 18 Jul 2016 at 11:44

Simon said:
That's a nice result for any ARM holders.

When will Nintendo stop? Up another 10% today, nearly doubled in a week

When people start suing them for getting lost in caves and walking off cliffs

silversurfer · 18 Jul 2016 at 16:51

gord said:
I've been riding them from 900 to 1100 for a while now. Been a great stock for me. Guess what, not currently holding..

Wimpey should recover but article 50 risk will hit the builders again. I don't know how far off article 50 we are.

I dont get why is brexit a big thing for house building. UK has a growing population, thats the bottom line. Places like USA the whole country in majority is still very open, even cities can transition elsewhere but in UK theres tons of demand for decades to come

I last looked at ARM at 200 and thought it was reasonable but fully priced

Ok I got that wrong, its a tech company and harder to judge as its royalties. opps

Think I owned it via a tech fund tracker at some point though not currently. Again tech is an in demand industry.

You can always buy Apple, in theory its cheap (relatively). Not sure they can stay on top or not

Japan buying after a sterling fall is no coincidence as everything is cheaper for foreigners
http://citywire.co.uk/money/investo...ry&utm_campaign=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary

BT long trends - http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/341720/how-bt-shares-could-fall-over-20

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...y-games-workshop-as-company-leverages-fantas/

dowie · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:46

Howardg said:
Hello, guys! Nice and interesting thread here, I have to say. What do you think about binary options? I want to try it soon, and I need some recommendations or binary options strategy for it. Is it a good way of earning some additional income?

generally a rip off or scam

you can trade binary options on the CME... but the fact you're asking for recommendations for strategies means you really shouldn't, it would be a good way for you to quite likely blow up your account

Diddums · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:46

No. It's gambling.

Russinating · 29 Jul 2016 at 15:59

Missed the boat on Alphabet. Wasn't sure whether to spread on it last night or not as it's such a swinger that any initial down would've wiped me out. Up 3600 points now :eek:

PhysicsMan94 · 30 Jul 2016 at 23:52

Anyone here use or has used XTB Trading? Thinking of opening an account with them, one of the few whom are actually regulated in the UK and not by Cyprus SEC (would never open with any firm who "regulates" with the latter).

dowie · 31 Jul 2016 at 00:08

Just looks like a bucket shop, any reason why you were looking at them over the more established UK bucket shops like IG, CMC etc... ?

PhysicsMan94 · 31 Jul 2016 at 00:28

I sent a few emails to IG at some point (back when I traded using a demo-account with them) and didn't get any responses, I'll look into CMC though - thought they were another Cyprus regulated firm but I guess not.

MatTheCat · 5 Aug 2016 at 18:15

Lazy b'stard post here.....

I have just come from trading Bitcoin, which after the recent Kraken, and then the huge Bitfinex hacks, I have decided to steer well clear off, for good (no point in sitting building up a ball of capital when the exchanges can just vanish with ur funds and tell u to f-off, with impunity).

After the usual story of making thousands through beginners luck, but then going on to lose thousands more, I have educated myself in TA up to the point where I am slightly better than a scratch trader......

......I want to continue my trading education process, but like I said, I am finished with Bitcoin. That leaves Forex and/or Stocks. Forex charts to me, look very very hard to trade, with FU moves being the norm, not the exception. Stocks on the otherhand, actually look easier than Bitcoin is (I keep my eye on the odd stocks and paper trader them for practice).

Anyone got any recommendations for good online brokers for small day/swing traders?

dowie · 5 Aug 2016 at 18:32

www.interactivebrokers.com is probably the best all round solution for active retail traders

there are better options out there if you were focusing on say trading futures or only trading US equities etc.. but IB covers pretty much everything

MatTheCat · 5 Aug 2016 at 19:00

dowie said:
www.interactivebrokers.com is probably the best all round solution for active retail traders

there are better options out there if you were focusing on say trading futures or only trading US equities etc.. but IB covers pretty much everything

Cheers...seems US based though....prefer UK brokerage, focusing on UK stocks I think.

dowie · 5 Aug 2016 at 19:04

they have a UK subsidiary and offer CFDs on UK equities

silversurfer · 7 Aug 2016 at 22:11

MatTheCat said:
(no point in sitting building up a ball of capital when the exchanges can just vanish with ur funds

Those websites are outside the bitcoin standard, much like capitalism and central banking actually being opposing principles.
Exchanges become targets unfortunately
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...lism-odey-warns-moving-politics-fast-extremes
http://uk.businessinsider.com/36-souths-jerry-haworth-expects-extreme-volatility-2016-8?r=US&IR=T

IB Ive heard recommended a few times but not sure about for beginners. Unit trusts is more normal route as its less risk probably less cost, gold funds did great this year.

Anyone stay in Fresnillo, up 170% Just a FTSE 100 stock, so anyone tracking that has some luckily. Purely a Mexican business but its related to central bank policy imo so a good hedge

Super long history of markets and extremes -

englishpremier · 7 Aug 2016 at 22:19

danielanthony said:
So, goodbye ARM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806.

You've been good to me since May, bought at 933.9786, now selling at 1700. Potentially more as there could be a counter offer...

But now that the best UK tech company has been sold to the Japanese, finding the next investment rocket ship is looking tricky. Potentially Taylor Wimpey, were at 200 1m ago, now 150 and recovering - thoughts?

How does that work then. I own ARM shares, once the deal goes through will I just log into to my portfolio and find a heap of cash that used to be my shares? And will it be at the agreed take over price?

Doogles · 7 Aug 2016 at 22:20

How did you guys get into this to start with? Also been interested in trying this out myself and have some funds I could play with.

peterwalkley · 7 Aug 2016 at 22:33

englishpremier said:
How does that work then. I own ARM shares, once the deal goes through will I just log into to my portfolio and find a heap of cash that used to be my shares? And will it be at the agreed take over price?

Yes basically - and you won't have had to pay any dealing charges either.