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Uther said:
I can only put it down to positive news on inflation. I'm sure they'll fall back a bit but 2024 is looking quite promising imo.
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My own pick shares are all picks on shares that are battered by covid and or rates. I mean upstart is kind of a new age credit reference agency. So if people aren't taking out loans.. Its not gonna do well.
Then I have reits, and travel stocks are still bombed out, persimmon too.

Plan was to ride this until rates drop and assess.

Travel stocks are Doing well now and more these rates look like they are coming down I expect the rate sensitive stocks will bounce.

That was the plan. I got in waaaay to early. But fruit is forming now
 
Oh. I've taken a real gamble and bought some PFC.

If anyone is interested.. Its a big all or nothing play. So I haven't put much in.

In my view it's a *4 or to 0 share.
 
Yep Lucid are all over the place, kicked out the Nasdag 100

They have a good product though, quickest thing on wheels aside planes I have been in. Overall made a fair quid from them. Still hold a few shares as the Saudi backers dont build car plants for no reason.

Its just so expensive, only so many people with that kind of dosh for a car.
 
SPG said:
Yep Lucid are all over the place, kicked out the Nasdag 100

They have a good product though, quickest thing on wheels aside planes I have been in. Overall made a fair quid from them. Still hold a few shares as the Saudi backers dont build car plants for no reason.

Its just so expensive, only so many people with that kind of dosh for a car.
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Tbh my expectations for Lucid aren't high, got a feeling the Saudi PIF will just take it private at ~7-8 and I can pocket a small profit. Saying that it was so only a year ago it hit 18 dollars on that talk which would be a big profit as I've bought in the lows a few times.

Rivian on the other hand has been great, I've skimmed off profits a few times from recent highs, but not been buying back in on the lows. Trying to rebalance more into index trackers.
 
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Well I'm 2.69% richer today in stocks and shares than I was on Tuesday after all the market movement... and it's payday tomorrow
 
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Must say its been a pretty good month for me day trading, been volatile but nothing where stocks would keep on dropping like 2022. I'm now on a stock market holiday to refresh my mind and pick it up in the new year
 
200sols said:
You must be up though.


Of course, majority in trackers and smaller pot for punts + individual shares. Works for me.
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I've started doing a 50:50 tracker vs individual shares. And a small part of that 50 for individual shares goes into risks.

Yeah persimmon is up now. Reits are all up.

Actually only downs are IONQ, MPW and DEC really. MPW only big down. Oh got caught out by PREM too.

Coinbase, upstart, duolingo, carnival, easyjet, target healthcare reit, warehouse reit, healthcare realty persimmon, rio tinto, bank of Georgia, amedeo air are all up.
And of course my big aviva holding continues to be reliable.
 
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slinxy said:
Does anyone care to share their process of what they do/how they decide to buy shares in a company or not?
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My biggest gain was from wildly following a less well endorsed members proposals. Think I made a grand or two.

Basically, it is a random number generator with lots of pseudo science. If you don't have insider info, you are basically gambling on news, timing, weather etc. Best to just buy a fund and forget about it, unless you want to play around in Trading 212.
 
dlockers said:
My biggest gain was from wildly following a less well endorsed members proposals. Think I made a grand or two.

Basically, it is a random number generator with lots of pseudo science. If you don't have insider info, you are basically gambling on news, timing, weather etc. Best to just buy a fund and forget about it, unless you want to play around in Trading 212.
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Passive though right, otherwise you're just passing on the stock picking to someone else to under perform the benchmark. Dont worry though, im sure some smart dude who always returns 50% per annum will be along to tell us we're all talking nonsense.
 
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I'd say my only real not total luck gems are buying a company that's been battered. But over battered.

An example is like when a plane crashes, or an oil rig goes up in flames, or Nigel gets his bank account closed.

The market overreacts. But the fundemntals of a company haven't changed.

It'll probably recover.


Recent success for me has been picking up stocks slammed by high interest rates/covid. But not ones hammered due to debt.

Ezj is a classic. I believe it has no debt. And has plenty of fuel hedged too. It felt like a no brainier post covid buy. It actually took much longer to rise than I expected. I often jump in too early with these but this round only now seems to be paying off. I basically caught a falling knife.. But it had some way to go.

Ie persimmon I bought at 1200. But it continued to 1000. I don't regret it.. I just got in too early.


Flip side.. Almost all my gambles have failed. Mainly from holding too long!

Also.. CCL. Same as EZJ. Battered by covid. But I believe demand is there for tourism.
 
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that pray to the gods of random generator..
I don't have the cash that is required to buy shares to change a companies forecast like Warren Buffett or Carl Icahn nor do I have the skills or time to sit there and do fundamentals.

a random company just pops into my head after something triggers it, then I just take a quick look at their numbers and have a think/google about them... i.e. Hasbro as I was looking at getting Hero Quest... Royal Mail as I had to go to the post office to pick up a parcel, etc..

If I've never heard of the company, then I wonder how many other people would know about the company let alone consider buying shares in a company. I won't know what they do/their line of business.. therefore I won't invest in them.

If their numbers look ok, i.e. not at the market peak, P/E compared to other companies in the same selector, that they are not got a shed load of debts then I chuck in a small amount and start to dollar average into the company.

That will get me interested to actually follow the company and look into their details more closely as I have an vested interest.

Once I've had the shares for a while, I see how a feel about it, some I will start to invest more per month, some will just get a bulk investment, some I will stop investing after a period and hold to see what happens, some I will just sell off with either profit or lost.

It's not about if they shares went up or not, I had Tui at 25% increase, but it was like a rollercoster lol... so I ditched it.
 
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