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I have a relative who bought Barc about 70 and my rough advice was to allow layered options to be written on the shares above 300. They would retain ownership so long as the share stayed in the 300's but could earn some money from holding so much at the top while agreeing to forgo all gains 400 or higher. Instead I think they just had a plain hold and kept until maybe near 200 range. They worked for the bank, I dont think people can easily do this normally or own enough but literally they had poured like housing deposit type levels into one share because of over confidence of happening to work for that Bank. These options are ways of laying off risk while staying in the share, shorting itself is not a negative but naked shorting is probably wrong.

QPP inflated revenue I think was the problem, I watched a video on Crispy creme stock and how they had gone through extremes from not the best accounting (but it looked good at the time for that CEO)
 
macuser said:
Put some money into Alliance Pharma PLC beginning of December, now up 12%. Strong buy if you can stomach the FTSE AIM.

Edit: up 14%.
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I have a bit (chump change really though) in Alliance Pharma - was doing alright for awhile but I'm not sure on the long term - I reckon it might be stabilising about where it is with a slight gradual drop over the long term (stupidly I just bought a bit more without thinking about it hence why posting - was kind of out of habit hah - so overall might not do quite so well out of it).

I only dabble with money I can afford to lose though - though so far I've done OK largely due to having atleast 50% in cautious trackers.
 
Read a few funds shorting Tesla as an obvious target from being a loss making company. Since the best case scenario here is the company does get taken off the market is that a reasonable sell from greater downside vs capped upside.
Its not exactly the same but reminds me of VW shorts and how it became the largest company in the world briefly, shorting is dangerous. I guess its possible there is enough dollar sloshing round loose from all the QE still not wound up that TSLA is very possibly funded for as long as it needs to be and enough to make shorts foolish and wrong basically however precarious the share valuation appears.

Is China involved in this private venture, China is very often blocked from large purchases and usage of dollar foreign reserves, they want to use up their excess bonds etc. I think.
With such large holdings to some extent China defines the worth of dollar (and as a command economy), while TSLA could appear over valued now, a share is an estimate of future cost vs value. China can also predict a lower dollar worth in future should that be that be their policy destination

Is TSLA going private yay or nay ?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA?p=TSLA&.tsrc=fin-srch
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-free-fall-jp-morgan-174138982.html
So JPM say he broke securities law then, not a great image though his mistake if true was impulsive not corrupt
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Seems the best thread for this. I have £10k in my Current Account that isn't earning any interest (also have money in a Tesco Current account that'll give me £900 in interest after 3 years that I'll then be looking to put somewhere). Want to grow my money - happy with some risk (just not uneccesary risk!).

Reading around it seems the best thing to do is a stocks and shares ISA and something like the Vanguard LS60 or 80, HSBC Global Strategy Dynamic Portfolio etc and leave it for 5 years minimum? All this stuff is somewhat new to me but need to grow up a bit and get more serious with having my money actually do something rather than sit about idly.
 
Somnambulist said:
Seems the best thread for this. I have £10k in my Current Account that isn't earning any interest (also have money in a Tesco Current account that'll give me £900 in interest after 3 years that I'll then be looking to put somewhere). Want to grow my money - happy with some risk (just not uneccesary risk!).

Reading around it seems the best thing to do is a stocks and shares ISA and something like the Vanguard LS60 or 80, HSBC Global Strategy Dynamic Portfolio etc and leave it for 5 years minimum? All this stuff is somewhat new to me but need to grow up a bit and get more serious with having my money actually do something rather than sit about idly.
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Check these out
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpersonalfinance/wiki/lumpsuminvestment
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/wiki/globaltracker
 
Somnambulist said:
Seems the best thread for this. I have £10k in my Current Account that isn't earning any interest (also have money in a Tesco Current account that'll give me £900 in interest after 3 years that I'll then be looking to put somewhere). Want to grow my money - happy with some risk (just not uneccesary risk!).

Reading around it seems the best thing to do is a stocks and shares ISA and something like the Vanguard LS60 or 80, HSBC Global Strategy Dynamic Portfolio etc and leave it for 5 years minimum? All this stuff is somewhat new to me but need to grow up a bit and get more serious with having my money actually do something rather than sit about idly.
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I'd stick what you can in the best (LOL) cash ISA you can find first and max that out then dabble a bit with smaller amounts on stocks and shares - if you don't have your head around it you can easily incur fees that will wipe out any gains for years and years and TBH I'm not confident now is a good time to put a lot of money (casually) into stocks and shares ISAs (obviously these are always long term things but meh I've just got a bad feeling right now).

billysielu said:
Check these out
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpersonalfinance/wiki/lumpsuminvestment
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/wiki/globaltracker
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Some pretty good advice there especially about looking at employer share schemes, etc. (though they seem to focus more on pensions) I get pretty favourable terms from mine and don't have to worry about any fees, etc.
 
Any lucky person have investments in Whitbread Plc? Not a bad daily gain with Costa being sold. Be interested if you held or sold your holdings
 
There’s a lot of talk of the next financial crisis and the expectation is it will come from rising interests rates. While it is easy to get over focused on one thing and get blindsided by another. Are there other threats we should be watching out for? If we were to be hit by rising interest rates going to banks, insurance and industrial stocks seems to be the go to. However if that turns into a crisis this doesn’t seem like the best plan.
 
delta0 said:
There’s a lot of talk of the next financial crisis and the expectation is it will come from rising interests rates. While it is easy to get over focused on one thing and get blindsided by another. Are there other threats we should be watching out for? If we were to be hit by rising interest rates going to banks, insurance and industrial stocks seems to be the go to. However if that turns into a crisis this doesn’t seem like the best plan.
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Developing economy credit crunch.
 
I'm coming up to my first year as an 'investor' in index funds and I'm up 17% in a mixture of funds. Not bad considering I'm only hoping for 5-6%. Been a bit patchy the last couple of weeks but overall quite pleased. 8 more years of this and I could be looking at throwing in my hat and walking away. Have a very large term deposit coming free in January (>100k) that I had earmarked for a rental property investment but I've since gone off that plan and toying with the idea of throwing that into the market too. Kinda hoping for a correction soonish before I have to make that decision :p
 
BongoHunter said:
Any one got any thoughts in what the Sky UK buyout might achieve price wise? Been announced today its going to auction process over weekend with a max of 3 rounds, starts Friday night: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45587233

Share price currently £15.81 - which is about a £1 over the current best offer
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Im intrested in this too. I have shares with sky. Current best offer pales to what the actual price is. Can any of you wise folks offer any advice?
 
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