Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

Russinating · 6 Nov 2013 at 16:22

Cheers for the update ss.

doodah · 6 Nov 2013 at 16:43

Probably a silly question. If I had a spare £50 to play with, could I have dabble? Not necessarily to make money but to get a feel.

Russinating · 6 Nov 2013 at 16:54

Yes, no reason why not, depending on the broker's margin rules. Tradefair simply close trades if you're down =< your available cash. A £1 stake would leave you with £49 so your trade would only get closed/all your money taken if your trade went to -£49.

Don't stake on any stocks above about 250p and that's relatively 'safe' (would need a 20% swing to close).

And don't forget to look at the spread, especially with such a small margin.

doodah · 6 Nov 2013 at 16:58

Cool - thanks. Time to get on some reading!

Russinating · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:14

xibinim said:
Cool - thanks. Time to get on some reading!

Just remembered, if you can stretch then Tradefair are doing a £100 bonus but you need to deposit £100 and place 5 trades: www.plus.tradefair.com

aaron333 · 6 Nov 2013 at 20:28

xibinim said:
A paper claimed it might be worth buying shares in ITV as they may be sitting on £100m pre tax profits if the Government change a law about rebroadcasting fees. Any truth in it?

I'm curious, which newspaper was that in? Saw something on III today which suggested quite an uptake in their shares.

In the last year they're up nearly 120%.

MaX_PoWah · 6 Nov 2013 at 23:57

I am buying infinis IPO shares, is anybody else ?

PAz · 7 Nov 2013 at 08:41

Yep I put an application in with my HL account.

Russinating · 7 Nov 2013 at 09:38

Halfords up 10%/+46 on good results this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24847814

doodah · 7 Nov 2013 at 09:48

aaron333 said:
I'm curious, which newspaper was that in? Saw something on III today which suggested quite an uptake in their shares.

In the last year they're up nearly 120%.

Evening Standard two days ago, literally a two inch column.

BombayMix · 7 Nov 2013 at 10:37

MaX_PoWah said:
I am buying infinis IPO shares, is anybody else ?

No, couldn't find much out about them. Not an area I know about. Bought Merlin though.

MaX_PoWah · 7 Nov 2013 at 11:16

Hmm i dont like Merlin financial's but good luck! bought IPO infinis shares this morning, some interesting stuff in there balance sheet but i think they have more potential than the merlin shares.

I cant make my mind up if buy some twtr shares or not when the us market opens

BombayMix · 7 Nov 2013 at 11:24

MaX_PoWah said:
Hmm i dont like Merlin financial's but good luck! bought IPO infinis shares this morning, some interesting stuff in there balance sheet but i think they have more potential than the merlin shares.

I cant make my mind up if buy some twtr shares or not when the us market opens

Energy generation a difficult area. People don't want nuclear/oil/gas/coal power stations but they don't want wind farms on their door steps either. One of those area that make you think what do people want?! :confused:

Raumarik · 7 Nov 2013 at 11:40

So Twitter, who's going to be a Twit?

I'm not, just curious how people think about it.

MaX_PoWah · 7 Nov 2013 at 11:51

The other big area Infinis is in is Gas Generation from landfill which i know quite a bit about as we do the drilling on landfill sites for the peizometers they extract the gas from.

Guy hands is a character though, he wanted his dividend from the company so he made them raise debt to pay it... not sure what that says about the management direction.

413x · 7 Nov 2013 at 11:58

If it wasn't going to market so high I may well have done, Tbh I don't know what to do with it.

This is twtr btw

uniQ · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:26

My third LLOY buy triggered today. 3 buys in the last 3 days. Holding for med-long term.

Russinating · 7 Nov 2013 at 12:45

Russinating said:
Halfords up 10%/+46 on good results this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24847814

Now up to +13%/+62. I always think a stock has topped out and then it continues and visa versa :mad:

. Hindsight is a ***** and something I need to get better at for SBing!

BennyC · 7 Nov 2013 at 13:44

uniQ said:
My third LLOY buy triggered today. 3 buys in the last 3 days. Holding for med-long term.

TCG's rating has jumped a fairbit lately and have been on the fence about increasing my holding...

BombayMix · 7 Nov 2013 at 14:44

BennyC said:
TCG's rating has jumped a fairbit lately and have been on the fence about increasing my holding...

They (Lloyds) are slowing going down but with large profits and a possible a dividend they a good long term bet.