Defensive Buying - Week Ending 24 March 2017

Tuesday, 28th March 2017 09:56 - by Moosh

The number of shares in a defensive buy is dictated primarily by the asking price and the buy/sell commission that you pay – for simplification I will assume that the buy and sell commissions are the same value and will provide a maximum number of shares to buy for a single commission of £5.25, £7.50, £10.00, and £12.00.

If your commission is not shown here, then round up to the nearest commission level and use that as a potential maximum number of shares to buy, assuming you are happy with the fundamentals at the latest time and price given. I will be adding more companies to the Defensive Buy list when they are ready to appear on it and NOT before!

Another defensive buy from PLUS500 this week:

Bought: 170 shares PLUS (1 tranche)

Total cost of purchase: £736.46

Return after selling cost: £724.97

Return on investment: 1.58%

Incubation time: day trade

Total profit from defensive buys (rounded down to nearest pound):

£8 (GSK) +£7 (BT.A) +£50 (ARS) +£4 (OMI) +£81 (ARS) +£20 (OXP) +£6 (ARS) +£118 (PLUS) +£7(DLG) +£14 (MTR) +£24 (7DIG) +£30 (MTR) +£21 (CPI) +£15 (MTR) +£58 (PLUS) +£11 (PLUS) = £474

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