Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

slinxy said:
You have to hold them for 5 years for them to be income and NI tax free and if they stay in a plan, they are capital gains tax free.

We are allowed buy up to £1800 of shares per year, but I only buy £600 as the company will share match the first £600 of the year. I just pay £50 per month.. and 6 years later sell them as a lump along with my SAYE share plan. Transfer the cash to my personal investment account and buy shares in a tracker/ETF.
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That was the same as my scheme. I just didn't realise when GE sold us the shares came out of SIP and into a vested account which is subject to capital gains. That'll teach me for not reading properly / self teaching.

I plan on doing the same. I have said on here before I have a lot of eggs in the GE basket so I am selling up to put into a Vanguard tracker/ETF, more than likely VWRP.
 
mid_gen said:
All stocks are operating in the same context and react to the same external events. I don't know why you continue to be confused by this.
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all traded by algorithms as well.

It's like the institutions are the dealers in a casino.

If they want to buy something they try to crush it first with fud and shorting stocks.
you think there's no manipulation and corruption involved? its just the will of the market?

Retail traders should own a different type of share institutions are forbidden from interfering with.

they also have loads of stock brokers selling them retail trade info in real time.

then you get people like that guy from IB on TV telling the news they had to freeze tickers or we would have gone bankrupt ...

how did he ever get away wtih that one?

people stick to trackers because they can't be manipulated by institutional pumps and dumps so easily.


No inside trading in the US senate as well no doubt, it couldn't possibly happen
 
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arknor said:
all traded by algorithms as well.

It's like the institutions are the dealers in a casino.

If they want to buy something they try to crush it first with fud and shorting stocks.
you think there's no manipulation and corruption involved? its just the will of the market?

Retail traders should own a different type of share institutions are forbidden from interfering with.

they also have loads of stock brokers selling them retail trade info in real time.

then you get people like that guy from IB on TV telling the news they had to freeze tickers or we would have gone bankrupt ...

how did he ever get away wtih that one?

people stick to trackers because they can't be manipulated by institutional pumps and dumps so easily.


No inside trading in the US senate as well no doubt, it couldn't possibly happen
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This is why if you are someone who is trading short term you will get ****** because you are competing against people with insider information, insane algo's and people who can manipulate the market.

But if you are a long term investor you bypass all of it, unless you pretend to be a long term investor and spook like those horses when something happens.
 
platinum87 said:
But if you are a long term investor you bypass all of it, unless you pretend to be a long term investor and spook like those horses when something happens.
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True I guess.


Intel released earnings and the stocks down about 10%
Earnings Flash (INTC) INTEL CORPORATION Posts Q1 EPS $0.18, vs. Street Est of $0.14
Earnings Flash (INTC) INTEL CORPORATION Reports Q1 Revenue $12.72B, vs. Street Est of $12.78B

Projected outlook for q2 down 0.5-0.13b compared to analyst estimates.


Might grab if it drops to around 25$, its currently 32 so might get close after market close tomorrow
 
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eerily quiet in here recently given some big stocks were reporting earnings :O

PLTR was today

Jack_green said:
Another company Darktrace, British cyber security company, using subsets of A.l
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Most AI is BS Microsoft have been using AI to identifying viruses for decades now...
 
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My punts on cheap UK stocks in the gambling pile are doing well anyway and of course the bulk of my main investments are just in basic trackers which have done very well. I keep thinking something has to break (in the US) but it just keeps climbing.
 
selling off my individual company shares in my standard trading account and moving cash to my S&S isa, then buying DW, EM trackers with a REIT.
only five companies left, 4 of them are in the red so they may never get sold off until I need them to take a loss for capital gains tax reasons.
 
after putting my pension up to 10% , works only matches upto 7.5% , im now looking towards investing a little money each month, you you lot research what you are investing in or just pick companys that are huge or what? whats a dummys guide
 
ozaudio said:
as much as my reply was going to be great guide lol , is that a legit reply in terms of whats a good place to start?
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Generally speaking it's not a good idea to pick individual stocks as even people with inside information tend not to beat passive index funds. Many go for an s&p500 fund, all worlds devolved world, global all cap etc. And it depends on your time horizon appetite for risk, local bias etc.

The cookie cutter advice is pick a global fund, feed whatever you're comfortable with each month and play the long game.
 
so i logged into my pension account and my current pension is invested in this below which i have no idea what its about, im sure i can change some or all of what my money is invested in

L&G PMC 2050 - 2055 Target Date Fund 3​




i have options


 
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ozaudio said:
so i logged into my pension account and my current pension is invested in this below which i have no idea what its about, im sure i can change some or all of what my money is invested in

L&G PMC 2050 - 2055 Target Date Fund 3​




i have options


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L&G MT Global developed equity or for increased exposure to the US mag 7, L&G HSBC Islamic Global equity.

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ive taken some of that advice and split the investments over all 3 now. will it pay of ? who knows... but they way i see it is i have many many years before i can even reach the money so its nothing i even think about or worry over as i get 7.5% free money from work
 
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