Soldato
Yes it's great fun losing money, I've been doing it for years!!!
If you want a gamble, just for for cheap "AI" company, that's where all the hype is and who knows they might stonk to the moon....
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If you want a gamble, just for for cheap "AI" company, that's where all the hype is and who knows they might stonk to the moon....
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To invest. I'll look to check out business backgrounds when at work through basic means, as it'll just be something to do which might be fun.
T212 did seem like the go to, i did look at their ISA, but wasn't sure if their cheap trading rates was too good to be true?
Such is life
I'm not sold on AI to be honest, feels rather dramatic.
dont buy google
www.bloomberg.com
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
www.bloomberg.com
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I've been very lucky, stacked up on Amazon a couple of years ago when it was cheap. Nice recent profits from Macdonalds. nVidia a solid earner obviously. Tesla has been pretty meh. Pfizer pays nice dividends but has been weak.anyone doing individual stocks any worst than this
up 12.5% in total cos INTC, I don't know why I didn't just sell it during the talk of their chips voltage problems.
Nio been flapping around on land for ages now it seems, can't be much longer till it jumps back in the water surely...
Thankfully I kept adding mooe Kraken robotics over time and usually added more during Palantir dips
Rocket labs up 45% in the last week grats to anyone who caught that dip.
Soldato
dont buy google
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
No this is good news for google, they are paying apple to be default, but that was a mistake, no need to pay to be default, google will be the vast majority either way, and they would save around $15-20billion.
Bad news for apple though, as that revenue from google is pure profit as there are no costs associated with it, simply change default to google, get 15-20billion per year.
I also cannot see how you'd split up google search exactly, its not really possible.
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Yes kind of, half are up while half are down effectively giving me a barely profit of 0.5%anyone doing individual stocks any worst than this
My worst performer is Virgin Galactic at 95% loss
But it's so cheap now, I'm going to buy more to average it outI always thought it sounded like a Disney Ride, it's basically a flight to nowhere..My worst performer is Virgin Galactic at 95% loss
it doesn't even reach space it's just a high flying plane
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Soldato
Just seen that traders at my place has the possibility of earning 10x their salary in bonuses per year since the last government has removed the bankers bonus cap.
Obvs I can say which firm I work for, due to NDA, the bonus is public knowledge as it’s gone to the share holders to vote.. but I believe this is the market rate for trader’s salaries now.
Now those are the people who are getting paid to give you market advice and invest your pensions etc.. no wonder why they take risks.
Obvs I can say which firm I work for, due to NDA, the bonus is public knowledge as it’s gone to the share holders to vote.. but I believe this is the market rate for trader’s salaries now.
Now those are the people who are getting paid to give you market advice and invest your pensions etc.. no wonder why they take risks.
Watched this for a long time. But you only need one disaster flight to destroy it. It's too much risk for me.Yes kind of, half are up while half are down effectively giving me a barely profit of 0.5%
My worst performer is Virgin Galactic at 95% loss
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I look at Boeing and it's only managing 1 way tickets into space, so as long as SPCE can manage a return trip they should be fine
I've been tempted as a small high risk play as its one of those all our nothing shares.
"I'm sticking to ETFs"
Almost all my current investment is in etfs. Talking 90 percent going forward. But there are less risky options than that.
Soldato
You read my mind.
@413x you've got fomo, observe that you have it, admit there's no particular reason why you'd outperform an index, then have an easy life with 100% etfs.
Soldato
@413x forget the haters! I have faith in you.. YOLO everything to the moon!
@everyone else, any interest in an anti 413x etf? lol
@everyone else, any interest in an anti 413x etf? lol
Pension: 100 percent invested in virgin galactic!
Soldato
it does make me suss why a large company like Virgin needs that much financial backing to spin of another new company to hold one of their companies. Surely if they had that much faith in it, they could have made it a part of another one of their companies/divisions. The fact that they sold down to less that 10% now doesn't bode well but it does have a lot of backing from other investment companies.
For me it's one of those that has to constantly be at its best to get anywhere. It could be rising for years. But you only need one disaster for it to tank at any point. It's also so long until (if) profitable.
Much much more risk than reward imo
Soldato
one of the lads i work with (and most likely quite a few of my collegues) are 100% in on the company shares, it's not his pension but he doesn't play the market in any other way and never sold a share as he says it's for his daughter to go to uni and buy a semi detach house out right.
it's been working here for over 15 years, if he has been investing the max on both SAYE and SIPP that's £2400 of shares per year worth of discounted shares with enhancement schemes, that's been though share splits etc.
The issue is that he doesn't have an exit plan to take the shares out tax efficiently, so the tax man will be waiting and rubbing his hands till that time comes.
it's been working here for over 15 years, if he has been investing the max on both SAYE and SIPP that's £2400 of shares per year worth of discounted shares with enhancement schemes, that's been though share splits etc.
The issue is that he doesn't have an exit plan to take the shares out tax efficiently, so the tax man will be waiting and rubbing his hands till that time comes.