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Also refusing to look at my pension, its just not worth the stress of seeing the number / loss.
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Are you all really concentrated in US equities or even sectors or something?
I have a very diversified portfolio and risk adverse and i'm look a few hundred to 1k a day. Trump is destroy the US stock market
not really, no one should be all in on US stocks.
The problem is market capitalization of US companies means it is difficult to avoid over weighting to the US.And then there is the indirect weighting. And large cap European company had a heavy dependence on how bad Trump ****s up the global economy
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After holding Vodafone for about three years, I finally sold; I had a selling limit order on it that I forgot about. 100 shares at 72p, lost £10 odd in shares value but when calculating dividends payment I made a whopping £1.90. Watch them sky rocket now lol
I think most people have US stocks as that is usually where the money is.
My pensions are various worldwide funds and things, and I never look at them. My ISA that I actually look at is mostly US and European equities.
Well, actually it's mostly cash right now, the Trump meltdown is exactly what I was expecting.
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Its worth it so that you can adjust to it and become desensitised.
Yea I'm going to start building up premium bonds for a while instead this year now.
Markets spend most of their time at or near all time highs. Big falls that last multiple years are pretty rare.
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actually, most people should never touch single stocks..Even most experts do worse than simple tracker ETF. This forum is not a good basis for setting expectations - most posters are gambling instead of making informed quantitative choices with decent alpha
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For the better or worse i think i'm going to be investing in UK and EU stocks till Trump goes or US policy direction changes, i can't support what America seems to be turning into, i'd rather support the UK and EU and if that means reduced returns then so be it.
On the 90 companies invested in the vast majority are in the US, question is to get out now or not.
On the 90 companies invested in the vast majority are in the US, question is to get out now or not.
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most experts are probably working at places like blackrock.
you can't win if its manipulated, you can only try to catch the wave.
trump told them to buy 2 ports near panama? so hes probably in their pocket now.
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10k down this week but as they say I’m not down if I don’t sell. This is my 15 year fund. If it doesn’t go back to where it should be in the next 15 years we are all screwed.
Tempted to delete the Vanguard app though as it’s depressing what that orange nut is doing.
Tempted to delete the Vanguard app though as it’s depressing what that orange nut is doing.
No **** Sherlock. If we/i wanted real investment information id either pay professional advisors or buy off the shelf products lol.
I dunno if any of you are really qualified or properly experienced? But i thought this thread was trading not long term pension planning etc?
Is there another more yolo gambling thread?
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Who said anything about pensions? There can be many reasons why people want to invest in the stock market, e.g. generating passive income. Just because it isn't a pension doesn't mean people shouldn't care about risks and returns.
Need i remind you this discussion was based on a comment
I simply generalized that. Gambling on a few stock picks with play money is fine, bit if you want to leverage the stock market to achieve certain financial goals then almost no one on this forum should be putting significant relative amounts in stock picks.
Probably the biggest issue i see is this stock picking is based purely on feels or jumping on a bandwagon. I never see any fundamental analysis indicating that a stock is incorrectly valued by the market. I wouldn't expect a deep synopsis, but there is never in the slightest hint that someone has done any homework. In this regard, these stock purchases probably would fit better in a generic gambling thread IMO.
I guess i am just disappointed in the lack of content on Trading the Stock market compared to say some of the Reddit groups or dedicated forums i browse, as at least in these places it is interesting to see people's estimates of instinct value (or reasons for growth)