Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

[John J Sheridan]

Dipped my toe last week with some RR shares and BAE - long term (5yr+ investment)

 

[Efour]

Can't wait to hemorrhage today with all the weekends politician fun.

 

[moon man]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...manufacturing-process-sources-say-2025-03-03/
Intel popping edit / obviously pre market but 6 percent

 

[Samueltastic]

If you don't have much to invest the absolute last thing you should do is pick a couple of tech companies and hope it works out.

If you are not a professional doing this full time (and have a portfolio of stocks) then picking stocks is just gambling and should be done for fun. Yes you can try and pick companies based on fundamentals or expectations of the next boom technology, but you have to accept losses.

e.g., Nvidia is down 15% in the last 5 days


If you actually want to invest and grow and not risk loosing significant money you need to be diversified

Oh no I've got a few things not just Nvidia but yes you are right don't want all your eggs in one basket

 

[smokedog]

Can't wait to hemorrhage today with all the weekends politician fun.

False move Monday, everything will be pumping today

 

[D.P.]

Oh no I've got a few things not just Nvidia but yes you are right don't want all your eggs in one basket

You shouldn't even be investing in just a few companies. This is a quick way to make a loss.

VT covers about 10,000 of the largest company by market cap - this directly gives you a well diversified portfolio for passive investing

 

[kai]

Phone lit up yesterday with alerts; that price points had been hit. ADA, XRP being mentioned by Trump allowed me to cash out at a decent profit. As soon as ADA hit like 50% increase i dipped out. Appears to dropped today.

 

[slinxy]

Anyone looked in dimensional funds?

Dimensional Investing | Dimensional

Since 1981, Dimensional has been applying financial science to investing—and supporting financial professionals with time-tested solutions they can count on.

www.dimensional.com

Saw a the ben felix video and it seems interesting but can seem to be able to find a platform in the uk that allows me to buy into them.

 

[Samueltastic]

You shouldn't even be investing in just a few companies. This is a quick way to make a loss.

VT covers about 10,000 of the largest company by market cap - this directly gives you a well diversified portfolio for passive investing

Is that vanguard total after a quick Google? What's the best way to invest into it?

Don't want to keep going down the rabbit hole if I'm already doing it wrong.

Thanks for pointing out it to me

 

[booyaka]

Anyone looked in dimensional funds?

Dimensional Investing | Dimensional

Since 1981, Dimensional has been applying financial science to investing—and supporting financial professionals with time-tested solutions they can count on.

www.dimensional.com

Saw a the ben felix video and it seems interesting but can seem to be able to find a platform in the uk that allows me to buy into them.

Only sold/marketed via IFA's etc

Not available to the public directly. Looking for institutional money, not retail investor.

 

[Minstadave]

Dipped my toe last week with some RR shares and BAE - long term (5yr+ investment)

Also rotated a chunk of my US shares into RR, missed the 10% earnings jump but today is almost there again.

 

[D.P.]

Is that vanguard total after a quick Google? What's the best way to invest into it?

Don't want to keep going down the rabbit hole if I'm already doing it wrong.

Thanks for pointing out it to me

yes, vanguard total world.

There are other similar all world trackers. The main characteristic is you are not making any bets on particular countries or industries so the volatility and risks are lower. It is still heavily weighted to the US, just based on market cap of companies. The good thing is it automatically adjusts


ETFs like this are basically your 1 stock portfolio for passive investing where you need minimal input.

Just buy it from your stoke broker. No magic to it. Set a buy limit half way between buy and ask prices and purchase during trading hours. You can never predict stock market timing so there are literally no tricks, otherwise the market would already leverage any such advantage.

 

[slinxy]

Only sold/marketed via IFA's etc

Not available to the public directly. Looking for institutional money, not retail investor.

apparently they been made avaible for US retails since last year

 

[D.P.]

Only sold/marketed via IFA's etc

Not available to the public directly. Looking for institutional money, not retail investor.

There ETFs appear on my InteractiveBrokers account but the spread is insane (80%) so i have no idea what ia going on there. And they are not very transparent on their website