Trading the stockmarket (NO Referrals)

Yes - travel has to have a bounce at some point, whether it's this year or the next year, people aren't going to replace going on holiday with a trip to the cinema. It's just a matter of time.
 
Jono8 said:
I imagine some funds/big players managed to make a fortune off the chumps too with some well times day trading.
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Oh hell yeah...when the WSB con artists were pointing at the short positions saying "look look, you need to hold"....those short positions were the big boys that piled into shorts at 300+ and are as we speak, raking in the money from the newbie investors people that fell for the scam.

Tbh if I was setup on a platform with short-selling instruments I would have had a punt myself.
 
muttclugg said:
Yes - travel has to have a bounce at some point, whether it's this year or the next year, people aren't going to replace going on holiday with a trip to the cinema. It's just a matter of time.
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Here is one I am looking at - OTB - On The Beach. Trading statement due tomorrow which won't be great news but the price was resilient when the end 2020 results were touted in December. There was decent growth trajectory pre-pandemic and fundamentals don't look bad in terms of historic margin.
 
muttclugg said:
Yes - travel has to have a bounce at some point, whether it's this year or the next year, people aren't going to replace going on holiday with a trip to the cinema. It's just a matter of time.
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Yeh, holidays are one thing that are basically guaranteed to bounce back BIG once this virus stuff is over.
 
mid_gen said:
Oh hell yeah...when the WSB con artists were pointing at the short positions saying "look look, you need to hold"....those short positions were the big boys that piled into shorts at 300+ and are as we speak, raking in the money from the newbie investors people that fell for the scam.

Tbh if I was setup on a platform with short-selling instruments I would have had a punt myself.
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Shorts weren't allowed on IG Index's spread betting platform, I tried to place one at 400.
 
Trig said:
Clearly, missed the sarcasm there, SEC are more than happy to check out WBS for market manipulation yet all that WBS has done is looked at some accessible information and chosen to buy a stock based on that information, which is exactly the same as the hedge funds do no?
So, if the SEC is looking at WBS they should use the same rules to look at the hedge funds no? Especially if it does turn out that the hedge funds have used out of the market tactics to manipulate the price back into their favour, be it talking to friends in the media, government etc and trading out fo hours, again to manipulate stock prices...
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They will be looking at both sides.

But your view of hedgefunds is warped. The big bad hedgefunds are destroying us, its mental.

If you want to point your finger at someone for wage stagnation over the last 30 years, look at government, look at central banks, they are the ones pulling strings
 
I want to start buying a few shares, what's the difference between the likes of Hargreaves lansdown and trading 212 / etoro? Benefits or negatives to any or these?
 
Rexxar said:
I want to start buying a few shares, what's the difference between the likes of Hargreaves lansdown and trading 212 / etoro? Benefits or negatives to any or these?
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HL charge about £12 per trade. This figure goes down the more you trade but if you're only doing small trades, those fees can quickly eat into any profits. If you're just starting out, it sounds like Trading 212 or Freetrade are the ones to look at although I don't personally have experience with either of those.
 
Rexxar said:
I want to start buying a few shares, what's the difference between the likes of Hargreaves lansdown and trading 212 / etoro? Benefits or negatives to any or these?
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HL have a slightly nicer platform but will charge £10 per trade (Maybe £11.95), so factor that in, and if you're not buying much then any gains are quickly lost to those.

Trading 212 seems decent so far and has a good range of stocks including US ones.

Personally i use Fidelity for my long term stuff and T212 for smaller trades where the trade fees matter more.
 
Martynt74 said:
HL have a slightly nicer platform but will charge £10 per trade (Maybe £11.95), so factor that in, and if you're not buying much then any gains are quickly lost to those.

Trading 212 seems decent so far and has a good range of stocks including US ones.

Personally i use Fidelity for my long term stuff and T212 for smaller trades where the trade fees matter more.
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^^ This

Have a proper investment account and then T212 as a play account.

Edit: Although increasingly T212 is bridging the gap with its Pie feature.
 
Basher said:
Surely if you do this, you can't wrap it all into an ISA?
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Yeah, that's the risk, but realistically if T212 is a "play" account then the chance of making enough to be paying CGT in a single year is minimal.

Although i do have the T212 in my wifes name to get around that.
 
Trusty said:
They will be looking at both sides.

But your view of hedgefunds is warped. The big bad hedgefunds are destroying us, its mental.
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Never said they were big bad and destroying us, as I've been pretty consistent in saying, I'm in GME for the lolz, the fact that they have been shorted isn't illegal, and while morally dubious its just one part of playing the game..
 
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