Tech was massively overvalued. It was very hard to pick the top though as it just kept going beyond expectation as you point out. I dumped all of my tech stock in November but that was because I needed the cash, turns out that was when the market was showing the first signs of peaking, but we can only see that now with hindsight. Nasdaq is about 15% down from peak so it is close to a bear market rather than just a correction. A few more days of these kinds of falls and that will be the bear.Tech grew so much in the past few years it always felt like a bubble ready to pop, but it just kept growing!
I always made sure that I diversified across sectors and market cap sizes, but I'm finally feeling a bit smug as opposed to the usual FOMO while staying the course on my investment plan.
I'll be using up to 20% margin (DCA not lump sum) soon to increase my holdings as the market declines. IBKR interest rates are stupidly low for margin.
their website is just a blank page, so seems sketchy to me.My son and I have Mous phone cases and really rate them. As a customer I've been getting emails inviting me to buy into their company. I'm tempted but no nothing about investing like this.
https://eu.mous.co/ ??? seems fine to me. Bloody rip off though.
Azure.So how can MS keep the dollars rolling in if it's seemingly cutting revenue streams.
CDkeys for it are like £5-10 or something.
So how can MS keep the dollars rolling in if it's seemingly cutting revenue streams.
how MSFT supposed to keep growing the revenues? and the activision buy out seems way too high and such a waste of money. lets face it all your really buying is the copyright, history and IPS the companies own, the dev studio will probably be gone in a few years or downsized
they are pretty much buying activision blizzard at an inflated price as the market crashes, I guess MSFT has a lot of cash they don't want during this inflation though and have no idea what to do with it.
did what i was told by various sources not to do and cashed out on a falling mutual fund ,in the end i could buy back in at a much better price but i hate not knowing my buy or sell price ,topped up to 10k last week on my etf but have a little over 50k to spend ,so all at once or drip feed ,i have no idea (well all at once is supposedly better on average but timing ?) ,my etf is mainly s&p 500 ,so volatile at the moment ,are the fed interest rate rises built in now ?
just thinking out loud ,well in text
Microsoft is heavily pushing their subscription-based products because they don't want on-off payments for games, they want recurring predictable monthly revenues from users. Activision has been doing this for years and years and they have several very successful titles that are subscription-based. Microsoft buying them significantly enhances Microsoft's portfolio.
Microsoft didn't make anything on PC games. All the sales went to Valve.
Having PC gamers paying a few quid for a GPU sub and teasing them into the Xbox ecosystem is a much better proposition!
Everythings gone to ****, shares, crypto, the lot, a lot of countries saying they're going to ban it, is that them manipulating the market and buying the crash and then changing their minds, or are we actually looking at the death of crypto?
Edit: T212 was showing it down nearly 7% on open! It's actually just over 3%. Not great, but not quite as bad...